Performative Journey on the Via Eurasia Cultural Route

As MitOst we joined our hands with several Tandem Turkey and Tandem Western Balkans alumni organisation and artists to collaborate on a 1-year project Performative Journey on the Via Eurasia Cultural Route. 

When we have been implementing the Tandem programme open for cultural managers and their organisation for collaborations between Turkey and Europe, it was always our dream to walk one of the routes Culture Routes Society is managing. Finally our dream becomes true! 

Our partners in this journey Culture Routes Society (Turkey) and Tirana Ekspres (Albania), as well as our Greek representative KOINSEP Paths of Greece are also in the consortium, who are committed in the development of Via Eurasia – a long-distance cultural route and walking trail running from Rome, across Italy and the Balkans, through western Turkey to Demre on the Lycian coast of Turkey’s southwest and beyond. Whereas we have Art Society Open Studio (Poland) with us that mediates the artistic team from Croatia (Iva Korbar), Poland (Paweł Korbus) and Turkey (Emrah Gökdemir). 

Funded by the European Union under the Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and dialogue between Turkey and the EU-II (CCH-II), the objective is to contribute to the sustainable management of the Via Eurasia led by civil society and promoting a diversity of cultural expressions. By setting up an international dialogue between performing artists and cultural route managers, we will work on contributing the cultural diversity and shared heritage value along the route. Moreover we will develop new methodologies for creating contemporary arts events in line with rural life on a cross-border cultural route.

Throughout the year, field trips, participatory workshops, showcasing performances and creation of soundscapes in cultural heritage sites in the surrounding villages of Antalya, Thessaloniki and Tirana as well as a presentation to a wider audience will take place in Berlin.

Stay tuned for upcoming news including call for participation in the workshops. 

For any queries on MitOst and their programmes e-mail Serra. 

Serra Özhan-Hocaoğlu

Head of Turkey Programmes

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