Les Arts Turcs
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Ten years ago (1997) Les
Arts Turcs was founded by a collection of painters,
photographers, artists, singers, journalists, professional
guides and entrepreneurs. The aim of Les Arts Turcs is to meet
people here internationally and explore little traveled routes
of communication between cultures that rarely and often
communicate, to bridge artistic and cultural gaps that have
formed over centuries in an attempt to take responsibilty for
international humanistic heritage.
Les
Arts Turcs makes a
point where all of the people all over the world can come here -
all ethnicities and all types of artists - in a
denationalization of art - discovering and sharing culture and
artistic differences. Les Arts Turcs of Istanbul aspires toward
the state of an international cultural center. Having achieved
this to a small degree, having many friends, from New York
to New Zealand, who come here in the form of artists
and adventurers and students - people who have, through time,
grown the ideas presented here.
Les
Arts Turcs wishes to
help a foriegner appreciate Ancient and Modern Turkey and
Turkish culture. This could, while educating a traveller, also
make a local more conscious of this exquisite, metropolitan
environment's history, difference, and future possibilities. It
could be an example for other cities that have nearly been wiped-out
by a culturally unsympathetic kind of tourism, which
dissassociates, frustrates, and generally gives the wrong idea
to locals about the type of people that come as visitors to
their countries - here is the difference between a 'traveller'
and a 'tourist'. And this is the difference between Les Arts
Turcs and industrial tourism. |
| Activities worked by
Les Arts Turcs include: ethnic music --Turkish/Greek, Turkish/Armenian,
Turkish/Gypsie, Turkish-Pop and Folk, and Sufi music. There is
also full guidance as to the process of the Whirling Dervish
ceremony, and Sufi community in Turkey. Les Arts Turcs gives
painting, henna, paper-marblizing and calligraphy classes (has a
permanent exhibition of paintings, statuettes, and art at its
Sultanahmet address). It is a meeting place for local and
international artists -- journalists, writers, painters,
photographers, professional guides, and others. |
(Egyptian Obelisk of Sultanahmet - Blue Mosque) |
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Les
Arts Turcs makes
the webpage about and for Turkish culture in Istanbul and Turkey
and its hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, travel agencies
- on the other hand, they give logistic help for travel guide
books. On these pages is a photographic tour like others that
can be found on the internet, one which Les Arts Turcs and its
innovators have designed to carry out around Istanbul into the
unknown, physically and virtually,by organizing the exhibition
which is already there.Art and history are everywhere.
The following
competition in which Les Arts Turcs claimed first prize was one
of the events that engendered their current popularity in France.
Competition
to find the best Mediterranean artistic and cultural sites.
The
aim of the competition is to reward the best internet sites
promoting Mediterranean Art and Culture.
The
competition is aimed at professionals and amateurs (webmasters,
graphic designers, artists and cultural workers) resident in the
Mediterranean region.
The
following countries may participate: Algeria, Cyprus, France,
Egypt, Spain, Greece, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta,
Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia or Turkey.
Candidates
must complete the registration form by September 15th,
2000.
68
candidates have registered to participate to Net'Expo 2000
Competition.
Competition
Results
Special
Prize
Nurdogan Sengüler, Turkey for his project: Turkish Arts
Web: http://www.lesartsturcs.com
1st Prize - Artistic innovation
Grégory Royer, Marseille for his project : "Art et
Toile"
Web: http://www.art-et-toile.com
2nd Prize - Artistic innovation
Hervé St Macary, Marseille for his project : Souvenirs
of Marseille
Web: http://souvenirdemarseille.free.fr
1st Prize - Cultural Heritage Enhancing
Raoul Choquell, Marseille for his project : Trip on the
Nil
Web: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/r.choquell/egypte2000
2nd Prize - Cultural Heritage Enhancing
Idriss Farhat, Corenc for his project : Tourism in
Tunisia
Web: http://www.itunisie.com/tourisme
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