How many of your favourite creatives – actors, dancers, composers, directors, authors – escaped oppressive lands before they produced their masterpiece? How many millions before and after them had their identities, unique skills and talents denied or forgotten due to the hardships of displacement or the dehumanising experience of incarceration? Rebloom Festival (5 – 7 December 2024) in Istanbul was a celebration of these artistic identities; a space for them to re-exist and, therefore, to Rebloom.
The following items belong to artists who, at the time of Rebloom Festival, were living in Istanbul, and who had experienced displacement in the past.