Announcements
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Our new sub-projects have started looking for funding. The next two projects are Wiki Marathon to Aphrodite and Entrusted Treasures of Datça. Wiki Marathon will turn the invisible values of Datça and Knidos into an open source of information with a focus on Aphrodite in Wikipedia resources. Datça's Entrusted Treasures, on the other hand, aims to bring together the artefacts that have been found in Datça but do not exist there.
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The Symposia Dadia book, produced thanks to our sub-project, was launched with an event held at the Datça Democracy House on 8 November 2024. More than 100 people attended the event
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The Revisibility team, together with Muğla Archaeologists' Association and Knidos Excavations, visited Muğla Governor's Office, Muğla Metropolitan Municipality, Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, Marmaris Museum, Datça District Governor's Office and Datça Municipality on 7-8 November 2024 and informed them about Revisibility and cultural heritage in Muğla and presented them with the Symposia Dadia book.
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The book of our sub-project Symposia Dadia has been printed. The book will reach its readers with a promotional event on 8 November 2024 at the Datça Democracy House.
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Preparations for a new sub-project have been accelerated: 'Wiki Marathon on Aphrodite'. The marathon will complete the knowledge of the invisible values of Datça and Knidos with a focus on Aphrodite in the Turkish Wikipedia sources.
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The 3 symposia organised during the sub-project Symposia Dadia are being prepared to be published in Turkish, English and German.
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Elbruz has largely finalised the designs for her exhibition on the cult of Aphrodite. The search for resources continues.
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18 May 2024. Symposium Aphrodite Knidia took place. The subject of this session, attended by Prof. Dr. Christine Özgan-Bruns, Lecturer at Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts, and Sculptor Elbruz Denge, owner of the Revisibility Project, was the Aphrodite of Knidos sculpture itself.
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Since the start of the Symposia Dadia Project on 15 October, we have visited 10 neighbourhoods, institutions and organisations. The aim of these visits is to establish a ground that can revive the spirit of the Knidos Festivals held in the 1970s. Until 15 June, it is hoped to establish a mechanism that will enable the formation of such a ground as a result of the meetings to be held with the communication network formed.
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20 April 2024. Symposium Aphrodite took place. Dr Deniz Pastutmaz Sevmen, from the Selçuk University, and Dr Britta Özen-Kleine from the Saarland University, spoke about the cult of Aphrodite and its relation to maritime life. The event started with a special concert programme of Datça Flute Ensemble and ended with a special set of refreshments.
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9 March 2024. Symposia Knidia session took place. Knidos Excavation Head Prof. Dr. Ertekin Doksanaltı and Excavation team member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Güray Ünver made a speech and the Symposium continued with special treats. It was the Datça Flute Ensemble that made Symposium Knidia festive. Prof. Dr. Ertekin Doksanaltı, Lecturer at Selçuk University, Department of Archaeology, is the content advisor for the symposia.
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9 February 2024. We held our promotional event. Elbruz, who made the sculpture "The Ubiquity of Aphrodite" (19 cm, marble), explained that he saw a "male problem", that he set out to make female sculptures for this, and that this sculpture will be sent to Mars to make love visible again. After the event, Elbruz received the relevant shipping documents from Marmaris Museum Directorate and sent the sculpture on its journey to California, SpaceX to take "The Ubiquity of Aphrodite" to Mars.
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29 January-28 February 2024. The campaign we launched on the crowdfunding tool called Kickstarter did not meet our financial resources. It helped us to create a broad ground for our work.
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November 2023. The social media of Symposia Dadia was activated.
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15 October 2023. We signed our first grant contract. Symposia Dadia is on the move. The EU-funded CultureCIVIC: Culture-Art Programme deemed this work worthy of a grant.
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In December, we prepared 3 lectures. On 6 December 2023, we talked with art historian Aslı Karadağlı about the image of Aphrodite and art. On 16 December 2023, we had a conversation with writer Ayşe Başak Kaban about women in literature and life through her novel Pinana. The interview was conducted by another writer, Özgür Mutlu. Finally, Deniz Kırımsoy Denge, coordinator of the Revisibility Project, which conducts studies on the meanings, concepts and history of turkish words, hold a speech on the historical meanings and forms of the word 'woman' on 26 December 2023. All our events took place at the Hızırşah Culture House of Datça Municipality.
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September 2022. we started the project. We hold regular meetings every day. Our preliminary work lasted until June 2023. In September 2023, we took to the field with our teams.