MAJOR preparations for the Meandros Festival, which aims to create ‘historic holidays’ in Didim, is moving at full speed.
The festival, which runs from June 27 to July 27, will host events such as a sculpture symposium, a photography camp, concerts at ancient sites, culture trips and village dinners.
The Didim Council press office announced the final participants for the sculpture symposium.
A total of 150 artists from 27 countries, including England, Italy, France, India, Poland, Spain, Armenia, Israel, Brazil, Japan and Egypt, have applied for the 1st Didyma International Stone Sculpture Symposium.
The jury chose five of the 150 artists for the symposium, which is supported also by the distinguished Turkish university, Mimar Sinan Art History Department.
The participants for the 1st Didyma Stone Sculpture Symposium are: Gerardo Arribas Perez-Diaz (Spain), Taro Kitagawa (Japan), Roland Romedius Steger (Italy), Ciumacu Valeriu (Ukraine) and Songül Telek (Turkey).
The sculptors will work next to the Apollon Temple for a month and their sculptures of 1.5 by 2 metres dimensions will be left to Didim at the end of the symposium.
The coordinators of the Meandros Festival, Ömhur Kaynak and Başak Kamacı said the sculptures, which will be bestowed at the end of the festival, would establish an open-air museum in Didim.
They said that the sculpture symposium would continue in the coming years with the aim of earning Didim modern art works of fine quality.
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