Culture and Art Center Opening December 18, 2012
The Culture and Art Center of Marmaris is a wonderful thing! The Center is dedicated to the arts offering a gallery for exhibitions and classrooms for teaching.
Nothing like it exists here and it was a noticeable absence. This afternoon was the opening ceremony and several of us from the marina went to take part.
My inability to communicate with anyone was really sad because it would have been so nice to ask questions about the paintings and classes and who
had pushed for the Center. I’ll go another day and see if I can find someone to talk with. Thankfully paintings speak for themselves; there were several I really liked.
I only took very little time in the gallery because it was too crowded with the celebration of the opening: but I did notice the absence of watercolor paintings.
The scenery of Marmaris screams to be painted in watercolor so it’s surprising no one has. (Actually, I returned the next day when no one was there except Mary and me and I found
three lovely watercolor paintings and used my bit of Turkish and my small dictionary to read the paintings’ titles.)
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Lee, Rick, Mary, Joanne, and Zehra |
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Rick, Zehra, Mary, Joanne, Gwen and Collin It took me two tries to get everyone; Randal took a pass so I should have gotten him to take one photo of all the rest of us. |
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The ceremonies were slated to begin at 2 pm. We arrived about 2:05pm. Everyone else got there before us! |
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Before the crowd was allowed inside, there were lots of “official” speeches. This woman made good use of her time waiting. Our group had no knitting so we went off for coffee… |
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By the time we returned from our coffee folks had already been allowed inside so I suppose we actually missed the “official opening.” |
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I quite like this by Kaysu Biber |
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Painting on the left by GὒNFER ERAKALIN : on the right by ZὒLFὒKAR AYTUḠ (Ken…you know I included the cello player for you!) |
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I can’t wait to go back and really take the time to look at the paintings. |
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I think the tall smiling fellow with the badge might be the gallery director. |
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There was food and drink! |
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There were lots of people! But funny enough I caught another cruiser, Davy in the blue shirt who I spoke to, but hadn’t realized I’d caught him in a photo. |
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It was wonderful seeing everyone there supporting art! Had our North Cypriot friend Heidi been here she probably would have known half the people attending and would have arranged to interview the other half! |
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Classroom projects were exhibited in the upstairs classrooms. |
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Very bright and colorful and fun |
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An author was signing his book |
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And Sara, And Karl, And Sami is the title but that’s all I know. |
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Before this building was renovated into the Culture and Art Center, it was the Old Fish House and Wet Market. We had visited it during our first stay in Marmaris so we can especially appreciate the difference. |
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On my way back to the boat I couldn’t resist taking a photo of this fellow who even sort of posed. |
