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Arada Interdisciplinary Art Festival
National Network
Türkiye
Address
Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No:22-1 Beyoğlu İStanbul İstanbul/ TurkeyCountry
TurkeyCity
İstanbulStreet address 2
Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No:22-1 Beyoğlu İStanbulMobile Phone
0532 320 90 37Telephone
0532 320 90 37Telephone (other)
0554 347 78 68E-Mail (2)
evrim@aradafest.comE-Mail (3)
info@aradafest.comE-Mail (4)
reginapicker@yahoo.comWebsite
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2011Contact Person1
Serkan BozkurtContact Person 2
Evrim DoğanOrganisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit FoundationFields of Activity
International/Cultural relationsGeneral Information
www.aradafest.com Arada Culture and Art Organization arAda is an institution which is established in 2011 in the purpose of gathering different art disciplines, to show interactions between these and to arrange organizations in these fields and continues to develop. arAda undertake to include awareness, searching process and social topics while producing projects that come together different art disciplines. arAda is an institution which organize different art projects beside producing own projects. arAda Interdiciplinary Art Festival is the first project of arAda Culture and Art Organisation. SerkanBozkurt (Founder - Art Manager) Evrim Doğan (General Coordinator) Regina Picker (International Relations) Saime Bozkurt (Visual Designer) Alja Piry (concept director) Ömer uzun (visual Director) Festival is sponsored by some performances or culturel office which is shown in website. We still look for partnerships,collobrations and sponsors which bring together institutions art centers like Anna Lindh Foundation.Mission and Objectives
InBetween (ARADA) Cultures and Art Disciplines Arada will took place in Istanbul between 25th-28th May 2011 for five days and the second part of the festival was on in Vienna between 25th-28th November.Third festival will be in İstanbul again between 31th May and 3th June. in 2012 we will start to make festival between Amsterdam and İstanbul also. And in 2013 our aim to spread festival to mediterrenean cities which are Chario and Beirut. This 2013 project includes six cities. Three European cities (Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna) and three mediterrenean cities (Istanbul, Chario, Beirut). The main aim of the festival is bringing the young artists together from different art disciplines and from different cultures. Between cultures and different art disciplines Arada is a festival that have been founded with young artists from different countries and different disciplines (visual arts, dance, writing, drama…) and young participants who work in these fields. The second part of festival will take place in Vienna, so the festival aims to be a bridge between these two cities. Looking For The festival aims to bring together young artists who are in process and searching for new perspectives on their art. arAda doesn’t present a viewpoint which stick between things or undecided between things but presents a supplemental viewpoint which combines and includes everything Goals Of arAda To catch the young artists who couldn’t get the chance for exhibiting their works, work in process and to present an opportunity to show their works. Arada To create a platform that provides a transition and relationship between different art disciplines. To create an environment for sharing ideas by gathering young artists from different countries. To ensoul the areas which lose their function and have historic and industrial value, with art. To provide a meeting point and an interactive environment for young artists.Main Projects / Activities
International Festivals and artists partnerships from different cultures, and residencies are our main projects in interdisciplinary platforms. We use all kind of art disciplines(dance, theater, visual arts,paintings,performances etc.) to meet with communities. And this year we take a fashion part in Arada to reach more people. To make festival between fashion and art will be good experience for us as an interdisciplinarity.How can you contribute to the Network in your country?
Arada brings together different art disciplines and artists. This make possible to meet new people and projects all the time. We can contribute to spreading of this network and to provide a place for artists and art managhers to share their ideas and performances in an interdisciplinary area. The collobration wit ALS can be seen our webpage of festival and also our school webpage and the internet areas(facebook,twitter etc.) which we use for our advertisement. Then it can be also visible for our another connections(partnerships,collobration,art centers and sponsors)Why do you want to join the ALF Network?
Our main aim to reach young artists from different cultures and bring them together to work and create and discuss about art. Istanbul is a center of festival will be connected to different cities in the world. We started from Vienna we go on with Amsterdam and next year we would like to go on with Mediterrenean cities like Beirut and Chairo. So we would like to join ALF network to establish partnerships, to reach artists and art managers in these countries. We would like to share our experiences, our ideas and activities.