Suna'nın Kızları organizes awareness-raising workshops with communication professionals who play a highly strategic role in transforming and managing childism, aged-based prejudice and discrimination against children.
After realizing one of the major obstacles to attaining child outcomes is the current perception of children by adults, Suna's Daughters started working on a campaing that focuses on transforming adults’s perception of children ignores child’s ageny and their rights.The first phase aims to raise awareness among professionals in communications sector, who play a highly strategic role in transforming and managing perception. A series of workshops were organized to encourage professionals working in various fields of the communication sector. In the first workshop hosted by the Pera Museum in June, the Child-Focused Communication Guide published by Suna'nın Kızları was shared with the participants. Examples of positive and negative communication were shared and feedback was received for future revisions. Suna'nın Kızları's communication workshops on childism and social perception of children will commence again at the end of the summer.
As part of the Chamber Talks programme by the Istanbul Research Institute, the talk titled The Cultivated Eye: From Arif Hikmet’s Lens to Architectural Practice brought together M. Baha Tanman and Müjde Dila Gümüş to examine Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu’s photography archive and architectural work, offering new perspectives on the exhibition The Photography Studio of an Adventurous Architect.
Pera Museum is hosting guided tours for Feelings in Common, led by curator Ulya Soley. The Guided Exhibition Tour with Curator will take place at Pera Museum on December 24, 2025 at 18:00 and December 27, 2025 at 15:00. The tour will be conducted in Turkish. Capacity is limited; tickets are available via Biletix or at the Pera Museum reception desk on the day of the event.
At the 9th Major Community Gathering, the Suna’nın Kızları communities came together to review the past year’s outcomes and align on project plans for 2026. Participants explored new ideas and collaboration opportunities on how the model and programs co-developed with 33 civil society organizations over the past four years can further support and reinforce one another.