Cansu Karabiyik is a Kurdish comedian. She’ll be recording her first comedy special at the New York Comedy Club in Gramercy on September 21, 2025. In her hourlong stand-up show,
I will dance with those oak trees as long as is a performance piece inspired by the poetry of Kajal Ahmad and the ancient Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh. The piece interprets
Diane Edgecombe collects myths and folktales and performs them. She has published a book of Kurdish folktales.
Mem û Zîn (Mem and Zin) is foundational text of Kurdish literature. An epic tale, it likely originated around 1450 and was handed down over the generations by dengbêj, or traditional
Mîrza Metîn, born in Kars in 1980, is an actor, dramaturg, and playwright. He grew up in Istanbul and studied acting at the Mezopotamya Culture Center and at Seyrî Mesel
