EMAA Capital Art Centre, the first and only art centre of Northern part of Cyprus, which opened with the aim of organizing contemporary art activities, will present the outcomes of its first programmes and workshops with an exhibition called "The First Step". The exhibition will be opened on October 4, Monday, at 18:30 pm by Alessandra Viezzer, EU Commission Head of Programme and it will include the works created in the first period of the contemporary art courses organized by EMAA within the framework of the EU grant program to strengthen the civil society.
A selection of works created in 5 different summer courses and 3 workshops which took place under the instruction of Nicolas Panayi, Serhat Selışık, Sinem Ertaner, Münevver Özakalın, Eser Keçeci, and Barış Karayazgan from Turkey will be exhibited. Courses for children, young people, adults, and the physically handicapped are also supported by Deniz Plaza.
Zehra Şonya, the project coordinator, said that the exhibition was titled "The First Step" because not only many participants experienced contemporary art through the EMAA Capital Art Centre for the first time, but also this was a system tried by EMAA for the first time. Şonya stated that, in the light of this title, after a critical evaluation of the whole process, the second and third steps will also be taken.
The names of the participants of who will also receive participation certificates during the event are as follows:
Tülay Kanlı, Derviş Barışel, Hürmüs Atakanlı,Figen İnan , Dize Kükrer, Leman Ahmetoğlu, Bedia Kale, Mehtap Önem, Aydan Lisaniler, Panayiotis Kyriakou, Charis Papadopoulou, Niki Christofi, Ioannis Macheriotis, Nermin Anıl, Emine Başaranel, Nazenin Taşcıoğlu, Zehra Çelik, Safiye Çağansel, Kemal Haşim, Kadriye Ardağlı, Hüseyin Hoca, Cankut Fındık, Seval Başaranel, İzzet Öztemiz, Cemal Başaranel Azra Tuzcu, Dilara Şekeroğlu, Arzu Alp, Arda Türker, Areş Türker, İnes Razi Da Silva Aguiar, Kadir Paulo Da Silva Aguiar, Sinem Soyel, İzem Civisilli, Hülya Gürdür, Haris Metehan Altunbaş, Bora Şekeroğlu, Selin Atagül, Yasmin Nalçokanoğlu, Aysel Kansu, Uras Can, Şermin İyigün, Mehmet Doğan.
The exhibition will be opened on October 4, Monday, at the Capital Art Centre (the old Nicosia Turkish Municipality building) and continue until October 15, Friday according to the following timeline: Monday 14:00-20:00, Tuesday-Friday 10:00-13:00/14:00-20:00 and Saturday 10:00-14:00.