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Meetings
Ms Suhandan Özay Demirkan, Professor and Head of the Textile, Fashion
and Accessories' Department
of the Fine Arts Faculty, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, was our
event co-ordinator in Turkey. Some Details of the EventThe conference had 137 participants from 27 foreign countries (32 participants came from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Peru and North Amerika) and many Turkish participants who were not registered because their entry was free. Europeans were represented mainly by British (18 participants), Germans (16), Spanish (13), Dutch (9), Georgians (8) and, in lower numbers, people from 15 other European countries. Trips and tours were made to Konya by 12 persons; the Izmir city trip had 53 participants; the Woven Legend Restoration Workshop in Izmir saw 42 people, the trip to craft villages and towns like Tire 54; on the Yuntdag & Bergama trip were 21 persons and 70 of the Izmir conference participants had joint the long tour to Bursa and Istanbul. The 9 courses in Izmir and Konya took place with enough and in some cases even too many participants of whom we did not know their final number because there were many Turkish participants among them. The international exhibition had 357 applicants from 42 countries;
132 works of 111 artists from 31 countries were displayed, among them
29
Turkish and 23 artists from 8 non-European countries. Among the foreigners
the British and US artists dominated in numbers, with 9 artists each. Some information on places and activities of the Turkish textile-cultural sector is published in three issues of Textile Forum magazine TF 1 + 2 + 3/2005, available at Euro 11,- plus postage each from Textile Forum Service, e-mail: tfs@ETN-net.org; fax +49-511/813108 The exhibition catalogue with more than 200 pages, colour
illustrations
and detailed information on all works and artists, including their
addresses, is available at Euro 29,- plus postage from Textile Forum
Library, e-mail:
tfs@ETN-net.org; fax: +49-511/813108 Useful linksGeneral, tourist and cultural information Textile collections and others Textile industry | |
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