 Environment of opportunities and peaceful coexistence:

Basement mission is not exclusive for the arts-community only but it rather encourages the communication with the culture-community which obviously seems to be complicated as there is a great gap between public youth groups and authors and writers due to the lack of contact among those groups. Basement aims at bringing all those various youth groups and culture community together to bridge the gap and improve the quality of arts-performance and promote the peaceful coexistence. To achieve this goal, Basement has shared several success stories and arts-experience of great and famous artists as well as some other beginner-artists to promote the ideas-exchange and the discussions. It has also shared the culture of some of the minorities in Yemen in order to raise awareness of those isolated communities and their culture among the Yemeni public and thus minimize the Xenophobia.

Basement and women

Basement has been facilitating Yemeni women without conditions or restricts to play a big rule in Basement’s activities. Basement supports women by showing women’s artworks and introducing them to a great number of audiences. We are helping women to publish their artistic products and give her artwork good opportunities to spread on and be known for people. Also, Basement discovers some women talents which were hidden. This helps average of women to go ahead and be success. There are some arts that cause a big argues to be practiced by women such as sing, acting, paly music. However, Basement has changed gradually this society’s view toward women artist.        

Spaces

Basement aims through its strategy to create a free platform for youths by its different activities. This project considers as one of the most important activity which represents our goal. Space includes three main phases (writing articles, produce short movies, implement debate’s event). Till now we have implemented tow activities under this project that discussed tow interested topics; Internet and tolerant, Art and priority. In these two topic the participants had two different attitudes; with and against. This activity interacts youths to use unique and attractive ways to express their view. 

Workshop Idea 1 – Painting workshop

On 28 March 2017, Basement started it’s free training course in drawing. This training is a part of Idea workshop activity which aims to improve youths skills in different field. This course consider as the first course of idea workshop. The trainer of this course is Mohammed Abduljalil Al-Hashidi. The course has been ongoing for one month. There were 13 participants have trained in this course. Basement will show up the outlets of this course, which is 16 paintings, in public exhibition on 18 May   2017.