The 100th Anniversary of the Population Exchange is Commemorated in İzmir

Celebrating the Third Anniversary of the Exchange in Izmir
The 100th Anniversary of the Population Exchange is Commemorated in İzmir

A series of events were organized by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality to commemorate the nude. The events, which started with a photo-documentary exhibition called "One Way Ticket", will continue until March with talks, concerts and theater.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality is hosting a series of events on the 100th anniversary of the exchange agreement between Turkey and Greece. Until March, many events, from theater plays to interviews, from photography exhibitions to concerts, will meet with the people of Izmir.

Focuses on the results of exchange

On Saturday, January 28, theater lovers will meet at İzmir Art Center with the play Einstein Company, written by Devrim Pınar Gürbüzoğlu and directed by Hasan Demirci. The play, which will start at 20.00:1930, presents the results of the population exchange that caused millions of people to leave their homes in the XNUMXs, in a Turkish science-fiction style.

Concert and talk at Bıçakçı Han

On January 29, Bıçakçı Han will host three important events. Dr. Under the moderation of Nuri Adıyeke, Prof. Dr. Ayşe Nükhet Adıyeke's talk “Experience of Living Together in Crete on the Road to Exchange” will be held at 18.00. In the "Healthy Cretan Cuisine" interview, Dr. There is Eren Akçiçek. With a Salut De Smyrne concert at 19.30, Bıçakçı Han will host a music group of five people pursuing world folk songs based on the multi-colored and multi-cultural music culture of the Mediterranean. The event will end with Cretan Folk Dance.

Walk and “Corridor” installation

İzmir Metropolitan Municipality City Archive, Museums and Libraries Branch Office is organizing the “I Remember” march and the “Corridor” installation activities on Monday, January 30th. The “I Remember” march will start at 17.00 from the Passport Pier and end at the Ahmet Piriştina City Archive and Museum (APİKAM). After the walk, the “Corridor” installation will be inaugurated in the APIKAM garden. The installation can be visited until 10 February. In the installation, visuals, various music, sounds and images will be the subject of the exchange process.

Attention is drawn to the stories of families

The photo-documentary exhibition titled “One Way Ticket”, which was opened on January 24 at Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center, will be open to visitors until January 30. The exhibition will meet with its visitors at Izmir Art Center on February 2-19. In the "One Way Ticket" photo-documentary project, signed by Aylin Telef, Ayşegül Çetinkalp and Mert Rüstem, the stories of exchanged families, whose lands were changed against their will by their neighbors on January 30, 1923, and whose hopes for their return were exhausted with tickets bought "one way", are told. . The Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Exchange Choir concert will be held on Monday, January 30 at 20.00:XNUMX at the Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center.

Symposium, concert, dance, mural

On Tuesday, January 31, the “Exchange and Women” symposium will start at 13.00 at the Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center. Assoc. Dr. In the first session chaired by Olcay Pullukçuoğlu, Assoc. Dr. Mehmet Emin Elmaci, Assoc. Dr. Tuncay Ercan Sepetçioğlu and Dr. Gurbet Gökgöz Bilen. prof. Dr. In the second session chaired by Dilşen İnce Erdoğan, writer Semra Yeşil, Dr. Ahmet Mehmetefendioğlu and expert Yasin Özdemir. The documentary “Shattered” will be screened at 19.00, while the Lausanne Emigrants Foundation dance and choir show will be held at 20.00.

On February 7, there is a mural opening at 14.00 at the Buca Migration and Exchange Memorial House. On Thursday, March 9, the event called “This is why the Dance Show” will meet with art lovers at the Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center at 20.00.

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