Gratis Zaterdagworkshops bij Kunstinstituut Melly

Education & Participation Space

Since the opening of our Education & Participation Space , Kunstinstituut Melly has become a vibrant place for workshops, lectures, and collective learning experiences. Every Saturday, we organize free workshops, open to everyone, focusing on creativity, connection, and personal expression.

The Saturday workshops offer space for experimentation and connection. Participants explore storytelling, visual art, color, drawing, writing, and movement, contributing to a collective story archive, a living work of art where everyone's presence and voice are preserved. Each session also provides an opportunity to create a small personal memento: a symbolic key that invites reflection on one's own experience.

The Education & Participation Space serves as a place for learning, exchange, and collective imagination, where participants meet, share ideas, and explore new forms of creation together.

Workshop series — Nurdan Ariöz

In January 2026, the Saturday programming will feature a special series led by Nurdan Ariöz . This workshop series builds on her project Key Stories , in which she explores the in-between space, the place where meaning emerges through encounters.

Participants bring personal memories: a sound, a smell, a conversation, a passing moment. These are visualized through collage, drawing, color, writing, and intuitive movement, and brought together in a collective story archive. This creates a growing whole in which individual voices combine to form a living work of art.

In addition to the shared archive, participants also create a small personal object to take home, a tangible reminder of what has been shared and created.

The workshops are open to all ages (ages 4–8 welcome) and to participants with limited language skills. Facilitators provide oral support, visual translation, and adapted activities.

Workshop #4 — A New Key Story

In this workshop, your story meets another. You'll explore the archive and select two contributions to combine into a new, short, key narrative. By bringing stories together, new meanings emerge and voices intertwine.

You'll reflect on how stories change when they're exchanged, passed on, and retold. The new story becomes part of the collective archive. As a keepsake, you'll create a small paper key with a phrase from the shared story: a symbol of encounter and connection.

Next workshop in this series

Workshop #5 — Story to Yourself

Close the series with reflection, tea and a card to yourself.