The project of the Galimi Çınarlı Rural Development and Tourism Association aims to support the establishment of a participatory, inclusive, and democratic structure for the local culture-art ecosystem formed by municipalities, civil society organizations, and individual actors in Marmara, Avşa, and Ekinlik Islands. Resource limitations, distance to the mainland, and transportation difficulties are defined as disadvantages for public, private, and civil society organizations in providing culture-art services. The project aims to eliminate the disadvantaged status at the island scale by reducing inequalities in access to culture-art services, increasing local people’s participation in culture-art policy, and creating a sustainable culture-art ecosystem on the islands. While developing cooperation between civil society organizations and local government, it is planned to create environments where culture-art actors working in these fields can meet, collaborate, plan, and implement. The aim is to sustain the dynamism created by the establishment of the Çınarlı Culture and Arts Campus, the increase in the capacity of the Marmara Islands Museum, cultural policy training, and the Island Cultures Festival.
It is planned to improve and repurpose the physical and material capacity of the area allocated to the Çınarlı Culture and Arts Lovers Association between 2000-2023, located in Çınarlı Neighborhood, Marmara Island. In this context:
Repair, renovation, furnishing, reception, and management** works will be carried out.
The area will be made available for use with facilities such as **meeting room, children’s room, workshop, storage, office, and garden.
The goal is to complete the deficiencies of the Avni-Jale Özken Marmara Islands Museum, which opened in 2023, and to strengthen its management. In this regard:
Monthly events will be organised at the museum to increase the **number of visitors and the museum’s visibility
The aim is to meet the fundamental deficiencies of the museum and to strengthen its management. In this context:
Training and visits** are planned for museum staff.
The goal is to increase the **number of visitors and the museum’s visibility.
A festival reflecting the cultural diversity, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, archaeological richness, and marine cultural landscape values of Marmara, Avşa, and Ekinlik Islands will be planned and organized with the participation of relevant actors, and it will be held annually.
A two-day Cultural Policy Training will be organised with the participation of cultural professionals working in public institutions on Marmara, Avşa, and Ekinlik islands, volunteers from civil society organisations, and those responding to the call. The outputs of the training will be presented to the Marmara Islands Municipality, and a Rights-Based Local Cultural Policy Workshop will be held with the participation of cultural and artistic actors.
A Collaborative Event Agenda will be created to regularly announce the location, time, and content information of cultural and artistic events to be held by the municipality, private institutions, and civil society organisations on Marmara, Avşa, and Ekinlik islands.
In 2021, as part of the project “Marmara Cultures Network” led by the Islands Foundation, the association participated among the stakeholders. In 2022, it took part in organising the Marmara Island Literature
Days (MAEG). In 2023, It took upon the coordinator role of the Adadayız Project. The association started to work on memorial days such as Unripe Grape Juice Day, Tin Boat Day, and Memorial of Marine Losses Day and also works as a secretariat at the Marmara Island Slow Food Community and organises events within Çınarlı Child Club.
Marmara İslands Municipal Art
Proje kapsamında yeni oluşturulacak ve güçlendirilecek mekânların finanslanını üstlenip hizmete devamını sağlarken, Çınarlı Kültür ve Sanat Yerleşkesi, belediyenin hizmet birimi olarak kullanılacak. Müze etkinlikleri ve Ada Kültürleri Festivali’ne finansman desteği verirken Ortaklaşa Etkinlik Ajandası’nın tutulmasından ve duyurulmasından sorumlu olacak.
Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality
The organisation will support the events within the scope of the project and continuous maintenance of the garden of the Çınarlı Culture and Arts Premises and renovate the child playground.
ÇEKÜL
The Foundation for the Protection and Promotion of Environmental and Cultural Values, ÇEKÜL, was established as a foundation in 1990 to protect Türkiye’s natural, historical, and cultural assets. Since its inception, the foundation has advocated for the vital harmony between nature, culture, and humanity through projects and programmes that embrace an approach spanning from the smallest settlement to the national level. Collaboration will be established in cultural heritage events to be carried out within the scope of the project.
Child and Youth Publications Association
Plan to contribute to the Marmara Islands Festival’s organizations.
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Child and Youth Publications Association
It is a non-profit civil society organisation established to encourage the production of high-quality publications for children and youth, to promote them both domestically and internationally, and to ensure that children encounter books rich in linguistic and aesthetic features. As part of the Marmara AKS project, a library of marine-themed children’s and youth books will be established at the Çınarlı Culture Center, contributing to the selection and procurement of the books. At least one children’s and one literature event will be planned in the museum and festival activities program
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