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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.
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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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