FESTIVALS REFLECT US AS MIRRORS.

LET'S SEE THEM FROM STUDENTS' EYE.

FESTIVALS REFLECT US AS MIRRORS.

LET'S SEE THEM FROM STUDENTS' EYE.

FESTIVALS IN İZMİR, TURKEY

Izmir has got so many big or small; regional, national and international festivals which are celebrated in its differerent villages, towns or regions of the city in different progress. They are the festivals which are not only regional products festivals, handicrafts festivals, plant festivals, vegetable festivals, fruit festivals, camel wrestling festivals, folk dance festival, theatre festival, poem festival, story festival, Culture and Art Festival, spring festivals as Novruz or Hıdırellez but also Izmir International Fair, International Puppet Festival, European Jazz Music Festival, International Short Film Festival,...

FESTIVALS IN İZMİR

PUPPET FESTIVAL

11th Izmir International Puppet Days

This year 40 puppet theatre companies from 20 countries performed 42 shows 176 times at 45 indoor and outdoor venues. The festival would welcome art enthusiasts with a colloquy alongside 3 exhibitions. A total of four workshops two of which for professional performance artists and two of which for children, would enrich the festival program. There were exciting hours at the puppet show contest amongst elementary schools. For the eleventh time, World’s one of the most recognized puppet festival was in Izmir.

The Camel Wrestling Festival is in Selcuk, on the Aegean coast of Turkey. At the beginning of each year, dating back over 2400 years ago, a female camel is paraded in front of the male participants to get the festival blooming. This is rather unique and odd tradition. Throughout the event, bets are placed on camels who will try to wrestle each other to the ground with their long necks. At each match, depending on attendance, there are usually extra activities such as a village band or food stalls.

CAMEL WRESTLING FESTIVAL

HERB (PLANT) FESTIVAL

Wild edible plants take centre stage in Alaçatı(İzmir) plant and food festival

The colours, smells and tastes of wild food diversity dominated the stalls of vegetable and wild herb sellers from all over the Aegean Region at the Alaçatı Herb Festival in Western Turkey.The festival represents a first-rate opportunity for the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative (BFN)* which is coordinated by Bioversity International, and firmly embedded in our vision that agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and sustains the planet.

A Cherry Festival has been organized in the village of Balcılar since 2011. The Agriculture – 0900, Napoleon and Burlat cherries produced by 1,100 producers on 850 hectares in the Balcılar, Osmanlar, Alankıyı, Çınardibi, Dernekli, Çamlıbel, Sögütören, Kızıloba, Sarıyurt, Hisarlık, Kızılkeçili, Alanköy and Lütuflar neighborhoods are mostly exported as there is no agricultural pesticide residue on them. The Balcılar Cherry Festival includes competitions, concerts and local foods.

CHERRY FESTIVAL

It consists of over 30 different branches of Turkish traditional handicraft such as kilims, taling, fabric weaving, udder baby, waiving, pottery, ceramics, applique, ebru, wooden handicrafts and others. Their artists from Izmir and different cities come together to make a fascinating exhibition and teach Turkish traditional handicrafts to the younger generations.

HANDICRAFT FESTIVAL