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İçel Sanat Kulübü

İçel Sanat Kulübü
İçel Sanat Kulübü, Mersin Province.jpg
Top: Müfide İlhan-Ayşe Uğural Gallery. Middle: Clubhouse. Bottom: Teoman Ünüsan Gallery
Legal status NGO
Purpose Art and outdoor recreation
Location
Region served
Mersin Province, Turkey
Official language
Turkish
Leader Fatih Alkar (2012)
Website www.icelsanatkulubu.com

Art Club of İçel (Turkish: İçel Sanat Kulübü) is a nonprofit cultural organization in Mersin, Turkey. İçel is the former name of Mersin Province. Founded in 1989, the club plays an important role in culturel life of Mersin.

The club organises weekend hikings, and in some cases backpacking. Non members are also invited. The track and the level of hiking difficulty is announced in advance by the group leaders. The groups are transported to an appropriate starting point, where they start hiking. The average hiking time is about seven or eight hours, excluding lunch time.

During hiking, the hikers enjoy picturesque Mediterranean scenery and sometimes explore archaeological wealth that is quite widespread around Mersin. In past several times, the hikers informed the academic authorities about their findings like caves, ruins etc. Some antiques had been found during hikings and bestowed to Mersin Museum.

The club publishes a monthly magazine. The essays are usually written by club members, and organized by the editorial board of the club. The emphasis is on the club activities, historical anecdotes about Mersin, examples of poetry and sometimes drawings.

The club has an internet website, at which all club activities are published. The club also distributes free e-mail addresses to members with club domain name.

The club sometimes participates in mutual projects with the art lovers of German city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, which is a partner city of Yenişehir, a municipality of Mersin.

The club uses three old Mersin houses in the downtown that are aged more than a century and are situated is Sanat Sokağı (English: Art Street). The street is a pedestrian zone and hosts street performances, handicraft displays and painting exhibitions.

The 100 seat conference hall in the ground floor is named after Prof. Nevit Kodallı, a well-known classical music composer, who was a citizen of Mersin. Minor concerts are also held in this hall. The top floor on the other hand is reserved for drama and music courses.


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