| 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_once: ethnic music, Ottoman, Turkish/Greek, Turkish/Armenian,
Turkish/Gypsie, Turkish-Pop, Jews 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. |
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.
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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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