Culture and arts season to open in September

Culture and Tourism Deputy Minister Özgül Özkan Yavuz has said the art season that was shut down early due to the COVID-19 pandemic will open one month earlier this year.

Speaking to the state-run Anadolu Agency, Yavuz provided information about the details of 2020-2021 culture and arts season.

Reminding that the theater, opera and ballet and symphony orchestras of the ministry drew their curtains in March due to the new type of coronavirus, Yavuz stated that the worst thing for the artists was not being able to meet the audience. Yavuz said that they want to evaluate outdoor spaces effectively with the normalization period.

Stating that they have been working on the "truck theater" project carried out by the State Theaters for eight months, Yavuz said that they made a truck that turns into a huge theater stage when opened, and completed the project's investment and production process.

"With the truck theater, we will go to 57 districts in 25 provinces in eastern and southeastern Turkey for 50 days between July 1 and Aug. 20. Children in the most remote corners and districts will see four children's plays. We will realize this in open air in cooperation with governors' offices and district governor's offices. We made the truck a stage. It turns into a professional stage, not a simple thing. There will be an activity series where children can watch the theater in the open air."

Explaining that they will start the truck theater project in Ankara and they chose two neighborhoods from the two disadvantaged districts of the capital, Yavuz said that the Konya State Theater will carry out another special project to be held in the open air and will stage children's plays in provinces, districts and villages in the central Anatolian...