Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Yaşar Kemal’s Novel 'The Sea-Crossed Fisherman'

This creative reading workshop, organized in collaboration with Yapı Kredi Culture Arts and Publishing, the main supporter of the Urban Library, invites participants to engage with texts through creative reading methods informed by different disciplines. Does the sea really take offense? In the workshop, Yaşar Kemal’s novel The Sea-Crossed Fisherman will be approached not only as a literary text, but also as a mirror reflecting our relationship with the sea. By experiencing the text from different perspectives, participants will raise their own questions and interpretations on the climate crisis and the connection between cities and nature. This creative reading process will not be limited to literature; it will open discussions on the right to life, justice, care, and the future of cities through the lenses of ecology, sociology, philosophy, and art. Supported by the touches of expressionist art and object-based thinking techniques, the workshop offers participants an interdisciplinary and experimental journey of reading.