På svenska tack!
(Page updated August 3, 1999)
Read the declaration of the participants, see some photos and
visit the Art Exhibition and look at a videoclip from the Theatre Performance.
News from the first day: Opening message from UNESCO | Snapshots
Participants | Contact
During the last week of July (26 July to 1 August) a historic meeting was hold on Gotland, the Swedish Island in the middle of the Baltic Sea. 17 Greek Cypriot professionals in different cultural fields was blend together with 12 Turkish Cypriot colleagues on Gotland for a week of joint creative expression in various workshops. Due to the current situation in Cyprus, Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Artists met in Gotland in the service of peace and friendship.
Satisfied with the successful meeting on Gotland the three poets Neshe Yashin, Peter Curman (chairman of KLYS) and Niki Marangou pose in front of Muramaris at the closing party July 31, 1999.
Niki and Neshe took the initiative to the unique cultural meeting hosted by KLYS and the University College of Gotland.
Photo: Mart Marend / Mare Balticum
But culture knows no borders. Thanks to Internet, the creative forces of both parts of the island can communicate with each other. When KLYS, the Umbrella Organisation of the Swedish Artistic Unions, hosted a parallel conference to the big Ministers of Culture Conference entitled "Power of Culture", UNESCO’s Director General Federico Mayor chose to give the opening address at the KLYS Conference. The theme was "The Role of Culture in Areas of Conflict". One example of important cultural efforts given were the two international writer and translator centres on Rhodes and Gotland islands. At the same time the situation on Cyprus was also illuminated as an example of a region where culture plays a fundamental role in identity.
At the KLYS conference both the female poets Niki Marangou - a well-known Greek Cypriot author from Nicosia – and Neshe Yashin - much talked-about Turkish Cypriot poet from northern part of Cyprus - took the scene. They told about a Greek-Turkish magazine that they had created on the Internet, which the authorities could not stop, "Hade" (meaning "Beginning"). It is also Niki and Neshe that are behind the unique cultural meeting that took place in Visby on Gotland during the last week of July. The objective was not to hold a conference or to discuss culture in general. The objective was to work together and thereafter take the result home to Cyprus and exhibit what has been accomplished together in both parts of the island. Of course there was also a number of meetings with Swedish professionals in the arts in connection with the various workshops. It is our hope that this meeting will lay the foundation for a deepening cultural exchange between Swedish and Cypriot professionals in the arts and culture.
The project has gained great respect and sympathy from many corners. UNESCO’s Assistant Director General, cultural sector, Mr. Hernán Crespo-Toral, an art historian from Ecuador, was present for the Cyprus meeting in Visby as well as UNESCO’s Deputy Head of Proceed, Mr. Genc Seiti. UNESCO has also opened a special account for donations and advanced the basic funds necessary to make the meeting possible.
Front Page of the Cypriot Artists meeting
Timetable | Programme | Participants | Portraits | Contact
The Gotland Declaration
Art exhibition | Video from the theatre
First day of meeting - Message from UNESCO | snapshots
Moore photos
http://www.klys.se/cyprus/index.htm
Organisers are KLYS and Gotland University College, Visby
Other contributors: UNESCO, PROCEED, Municipality of Gotland, County Administration of Gotland, Mare Balticum
The Art Exhibition
(Page updated August 2, 1999)
At the end of the week the result of the painters workshops was presented at the Art School of Gotland. Below you find all the artists presented.
artists participating :Emin Cizenel, Andreas Charalambous, Niki Marangou, Doros Heracleous, Andreas Karayan, Asik Mene, Ruzen Atakan, Efithymia Andrianou
http://www.klys.se/cyprus/art-exhibition.htm
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