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1.       si++
3785 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 09:51 am

* We are now getting used to seeing non-Turkish directors winning
awards with Turkish films, reports Emrah Guler of the Hurriyet. That
is, if you can put a nationality on a film. British director Ben
Hopkins surprised Turkish moviegoers two years ago when his "The
Market: A Tale of Trade", won four Golden Oranges, including "Best
Film" and "Screenplay."
  Recently, an American director´s film won "Best Film," "Screenplay"
and "Actor" awards in the 4th Bursa Silk Road Film Festival. "Dark
Cloud" is directed and written by Theron Patterson, an American living
in Turkey for almost a decade now. Similar to Hopkins´ movie, "Dark
Cloud", tells stories that are unique to this country with characters
that are distinctively from Turkey.
  Patterson said: "In Turkish films you do not see Turkish people you
come across on the street. The films are not true to Turkey and its
people. So in my film I really focused on shaping my characters to the
types of people and environments I was being exposed to on a daily
basis."
  Full story: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/

* Turkey needs a museum to display musical instruments from around the
Turkic world, according to the head of a cultural association who has
collected or produced more than 500 of the region´s musical
instruments over the past 30 years.
  "Our primary goal is to establish a museum displaying musical
instruments played throughout the whole Turkic world," Ali Ozaydin,
chairman of the Turkic World Culture and Arts Association told the
Anatolia News Agency.
  Ozaydin brought his instruments to Erdemli, in the Mediterranean
province of Mersin, for this past weekend´s Great Turkish Convention.
The event drew over 250 artists.
  The chairman, who is also the former director of the Culture
Ministry Turkic World Music Ensemble, participated in the TuRKSOY
event to display his instruments and talk about the Turkic instruments
that began drawing his interest in the 1980s. "Through our
association, we display these instruments and bring them together with
their admirers and the Turkish people," he said.
  According to drawings etched on rocks, the origin of Turkic musical
instruments dates back 6,000 years, he said. "The 6,000 year-old
painting of an instrument, the ‘dombra,´ which is similar to the saz
[a stringed instrument], was found on a rock in Kazakhstan. This is a
very important finding for archaeologists."
  Full article: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/

* Turkey´s Restaurants and Suppliers Association will attempt to enter
the Guinness Book of World Records with a project titled "2010 Types
of Dishes in 2010" in September. Guests who attend the Istanbul 2010
European Capital of Culture, will be offered 2010 types of dishes in a
day, reports the Anatolia News Agency.
  The association´s chairman Ramazan Bingol said the goal was to
introduce Turkish cuisine to wider masses, adding that as part of the
preparation process for the project, they offered 400 types of dishes
to people at the Feshane International Congress and Culture Center in
one day in 2007.
  Full article: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/

* Speaking to the Anatolia News Agency, the curator of Hagia Sophia
Museum, Haluk Dursun said Thursday that the Hagia Sophia Tombs of
Sultans were opened to visitors at the end of 2009 after going through
enormous restoration.
  We have found many art items during the restoration of the tombs and
decided to put them on display for visitors as of May 29, Dursun
said.
  The tombs themselves, ceramics dating from the 16th century, and
special covers were a source of surprise for visitors in 2010, Dursun
also said.
  Hagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a
mosque and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its
dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the cathedral of
Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was the
cathedral of the Latin empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May
1453 until 1934, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on
1 February 1935.

2.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 11:19 am

ohhh, 2010 dishes... guests, does that include me if I just happen to be wondering around in Istanbul then?

 

I also think a museum for musical instruments sounds very nice! I always enjoyed looking at the instruments in my local "world cultures" museum. We even got to play a few sometimes!

3.       si++
3785 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 01:38 pm

 

Quoting barba_mama

ohhh, 2010 dishes... guests, does that include me if I just happen to be wondering around in Istanbul then?

 

 

 

Yep. Be there!

 

Source: 2010 types of dishes in 2010

4.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 09:35 pm

Ah, there is not date in there!

5.       si++
3785 posts
 06 Jun 2010 Sun 11:46 am

 

Quoting barba_mama

Ah, there is not date in there!

 

Sometime in September (probably first or second week) but no exact date yet.

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