Kurdish valentine

  • sold-out
  • Californiëdreef 16-18 3565 BL Utrecht
  • 16/02/2024 (17:00 - 01:00)

Kurdish valentine - Clove apple -Studded, symbol of love and peace

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  • Location:
    Partycentre Luxury - Californiëdreef 16-18 3565 BL Utrecht
  • Date:
    16/02/2024
  • Time:
    17:00 - 01:00

VIP table (10 person)

  • With food and drinks
  • With energy drinks
  • 1 Whisky and 1 Vodka
  • Board of Baghlava
  • Board of Fruit
  • Board of Maze

Clove apple -Studded, symbol of love and peace

Clove apple-Studded are the same natural apples that last at least a hundred years and their fragrance never fades.
This apple is an authentic Kurdish tradition and a symbol of peace and love. It has been used mainly for two purposes:
First, when a person was in love and could not express his love in words, he would sent clove apple and sent it to his lover as a symbol of love.
Second, when two lovers or two close people were cross, they used the apple to reconcile.
Since 2004, Kurdish artist Saywan Saedian has been trying to revive and globalize this Kurdish tradition within the framework of a number of artistic projects at the national and international levels.
So far, projects related to clove apples have been held in many countries and in 2023 will be held in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Canada, France, Turkey and Kurdistan.
In 2013, Vinsev company was established to produce clove apples.
A special package was prepared for it and it was produced as a Kurdish brand in the Kurdistan Region.
In 2013, this product was officially recognized and registered as a Kurdish symbol and gift by the General Board of Tourism of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
In support
of the Zhina Revolution and the continuation of the fight for women, life and freedom, this year everyone will make clove apples and offer them to political prisoners and families of martyrs.
Saywan Saedian
He was born in 1972 in Rojhalat (kurdistan, Iran).
He has lived as a refugee in Bashur (Kurdistan, Iraq) and Bamur (Kurdistan, Turkey) for eighteen years and has come to Sweden as an artist of the free city since 2018.
He is a professional artist and has been actively involved in various art disciplines for more than twenty years.
Saywan started his artistic career with painting and has held many exhibitions in different countries. He has been working as a graphic designer for long time and has designed hundreds of book covers, CD albums, posters and logos.
In recent years, he has started photography and held several exhibitions in different countries.
Since 2004, Saywan has been working on the revival and internationalization of the "Sêva Mêxekrêj / Clove apple" project, and this project has been held in Kurdistan and various countries.
He also writes short stories and poems. He has published a collection of his poems and also writes short stories. His first children's book called "Hedgehog" was published in Kurdish, Swedish and English languages.
Saywan also made a short film named "That Apple" and a documentary "Soft as Metal". In the last five years, he has mostly focused on sculpturing and cinema.
He has built four large statues. The "Anfal" statue, which is a symbol of the Kurdish genocide, is in the city of Erbil, Kurdistan, and is two meters high.
In the city of Gävle, Sweden, he made four-meter-high metal sculpture with the name "I sing for freedom".
The sculptures he made using metal scraps have attracted a lot of interest.
Saywan strongly believes in direct and unmediated relationship between art and people, and therefore prefers to hold most of his exhibitions outdoors so that more people can see his works.
He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden and continues to work in various fields of art.