The Day-Mer 37th Culture and Arts Festival, which kicks off with a picnic on May 31, features a five-week program once again this year.

The Day-Mer Youth Commission will organise three separate events as part of the festival this year. The first of these will be a guided tour on June 7. The tour, designed to shed light on the history of struggle in Tottenham—one of London’s poorest neighbourhood and home to large Turkish, Kurdish, and Alevi communities—is open to everyone. Young people will also host a discussion on the same theme. The discussion is scheduled for Friday, July 1. The Day-Mer Youth Commission is also organising a football tournament as part of the festival this year. The tournament, to be held on June 28, will be hosted by Powerleague in Tottenham.

Aydın Çubukçu, a journalist and writer living in the UK, will also host one of his “Colorful Illustrated” talks—which he holds at regular intervals—as part of the festival. Titled “Living Mesopotamia: History, Culture, and Politics,” the talk will be presented by Çubukçu alongside writer Ahmet Güven.

Day-Mer’s erbane group will also be featured in the festival program with a performance. Sara Fotros, Eka I Bandura, Anna Ayyıldız, Zagros Daf, Zanyar Hesami, and Evrim Erdoğan will join the Erbane group’s performance.

The traditional art exhibition by Day-Mer’s Rainbow Women’s Art Group will take place this year from June 16–30 at the London Community Center. Palestine, which has become a bleeding wound for the entire world, will be featured in the festival program with the film Palestine 36, directed by Annemarie Jacir. A discussion will follow the film screening on the evening of Friday, June 19.

Day-Mer has also included the “International Conference Against War,” organized by the UK Anti-War Coalition—of which Day-Mer is a co-organizer alongside the SPOT Campaign for Solidarity with the Peoples of Turkey—in the festival program. The conference will take place on Saturday, June 20, at Central Hall Westminster, right next to Parliament Square.

The Journey to Poetry Group, which operates under Day-Mer, will also hold a poetry reading as part of the festival. The reading, scheduled for June 23, will feature poems by Orhan Veli.

The closing event of the 37th Day-Mer Culture and Arts Festival will be the Children’s Festival, scheduled for July 4 this year. Hosted by the London Community Center, the Children’s Festival will run all day.