Find your courage and your voice
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| free admission |
| Exhibition space "Living Room", ground floor |
| children (6-9 years), Kinder (6-10 Jahre) |
| German |
| Belongs to: Nouruz, Newroz, Nauroz |
An inspiring creative workshop based on the important children’s book JINA. The Girl Called Life – the story of a strong Kurdish woman and her deep desire for freedom. What does freedom feel like? How does it sound, smell or look? Together with author Zilan Sarah Kößler, illustrator Clara Gilod and the editorial team at Blue Boat Books, the children first immerse themselves in the story. Then they get creative themselves: using various artistic media, they discover and design their own images, colours and forms of freedom. A workshop that encourages courage, opens up perspectives and gives children space to express their thoughts and feelings artistically.
Jina loved to sing and dance. She loved colourful clothes and letting her long hair blow in the wind. Jina loved her Kurdish name because it means ‘life’. But Jina lived in a place where she was not allowed to do any of these things because she was a girl.
JINA is a picture book for readers aged 6 to 11. The story is inspired by the courageous young Kurdish-Iranian woman, Jina Amini, who fought against injustice and sparked a global movement for freedom and women’s rights. People around the world chanted ‘Jin, Jiyan Azadî’ – ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’.
Children aged 6 to 11 can take part in this workshop, with or without adult supervision.
No registration is required. As space is limited, we recommend arriving early.
Participants: Zilan S. Kößler, Clara Gilod, Sofia Burchardi, Claudia Frickemeier
Zilan Sarah Kößler lives and works in Berlin. She is a psychologist, child and adolescent psychotherapist in training, artist, and political children’s book author. Her work combines art, therapy, language, and bodywork into transformative and empowering practices.
As a Kurdish women’s activist, she brings together networks worldwide and works in community outreach across cultural and geographical boundaries. Her commitment is non-partisan and based on solidarity and transnational cooperation.
She develops artistic performances, leads workshops and awareness-raising formats for European professionals on feminism, empowerment, critical whiteness, diversity, and trauma, working with language, acoustics,
and psychosocial methods.
She currently works at the Spore Initiative Berlin and has been running a transcultural family center at Yekmal e.V. since 2025. At the same time, she writes political children’s books that translate complex social issues into poetic and child-friendly language.