International 31st Muğla Culture and Art Festival

07 Oct International 31st Muğla Culture and Art Festival

31st Muğla Culture and Art Festival hosted famous names for three days. Famous music groups Yeni Türkü and Pinhani played at the 31st Mugla Culture and Art Festival, which started with the lighting of the bonfire.

During the Culture and Art Festival, workshops were organized for children at the City Square for two days. Children and their families had fun with many activities such as sand painting, face painting, balloon carrying, parachute game, traditional Muğla motifs. Slow-Food and Geographically Signed Products Market was set up and people had the opportunity to shop in the Human Rights Park. The Culture and Art Festival, where the famous painter Devrim Erbil Painting Exhibition, Chaos and Tranquility Two Painters Exhibition, Muğla Photographs from Muğla to Menteşe Erdinç Özal Exhibition, Marbling Exhibition and Theater Plays were also exhibited, also hosted the 79th Yunus Nadi Award Ceremony of Cumhuriyet Newspaper. The awards given in the name of Yunus Nadi, born in Muğla and Atatürk’s companion, were organized in Muğla for the first time other than Istanbul.

At the 31st Muğla Culture and Art Festival, the director Yüksel Aksu from Muğla met with his fellow people in an event titled World Cinema City Muğla. Ertuğrul Aladağ and Kerem Ekinci informed the participants with the Urban Cultural Heritage conversation. Prof. Dr. Fuzuli Bayat organized an conversation and signing day on the Remains of Ancient Beliefs Living in Muğla Region. In the Culture and Art Festival, a Trekking Tour was organized in Değirmendere Canyon, enabling the participants to get to know the natural beauties of the region. For three days, the participants of the festival had the opportunity to have fun and enjoy themselves with full programs and to know Muğla closely.

Mayor Aras; “ Muğla will continue to be a center of attraction in culture and arts as it is in tourism.”

Muğla Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ahmet Aras said that they want to present Muğla, which has been preserved with its culture and history, to the world with Culture and Art festivals on the way they set out with the World City Muğla vision and stated that the 31st Muğla Culture and Art Festival, which lasted for three days, served exactly this purpose.  Mayor Aras; “Muğla is a world brand city with its natural beauties, culture, art and tourism. With its historical structure preserved until today and its world heritage wealth, Muğla is a city that needs to be explained and introduced to local and foreign guests. With the 31st Muğla Culture and Art Festival, we wanted to tell the participants about Muğla’s historical texture, culture, fellow people who contributed to the history of the Republic, cinema, geographically marked products, hiking trails in a single festival. We spent three days full of culture and art with the intense participation of our people. I would like to thank all the stakeholders who contributed to the festival, our participating artists, our fellow citizens and the Mayor of Menteşe, Gonca Köksal, for their cooperation. We will continue to explain and keep alive the culture, which is one of the most important steps of our vision of Muğla as a World City, with such organizations. Muğla will continue to be a center of attraction in culture and arts as it is in tourism.”