Logistic and operative questions:

Accommodation: Hostel Chill Out, Istikla Street Istanbul.

Food: breakfast in hostel; lunch and dinner in the tow

Places for meetings, internal projections, editing, etc:  Bilgi University and some place near Hostel for operational meeting

Equipment: the groups have to bring their cameras, equipment for sounds and lap-tops / notebooks with option for editing (PC and MAC).  We have to prepare a equipment for 4-5 crews to working on the field, and 2 or 3  laptops for editing (at list 3 PC-s and some Macs)

Presentations, lectures, debates:  Bilgi University

Number of participating persons and financing: TOG will cover the expanses for accommodation and breakfast, 70% of travel expanses, 5TL daily for city travel, 5TL for the lunch, 5TL for dinner, for:

• 4 person from Ljubljana / Slovenia
• 2 person + mentor Želimir Žilnik from Novi Sad//Serbia
• 2 person from Berlin/Germany
• 2 person from Mostar Bosnia and Hercegovina

BILGI will contribute the logistical support /places for presentation, lectures, debates.

Content:

Lectures and discussions:

Intruductionary – informative lectures by Volkan Pirincii

Yrd.Doç.Dr: Ferhat Kentel: Wearing the scarfs in turkish scholl sistem

Yrd.Doç.Dr Kenan Çayır Lecture: “Islamic Movements and Changing Identities in Turkey"

Video workshop, video work – research on the field  and filming, post-production

The video workshop will be realized in the frame of “learning by doing process”. The participants and crews will be instructed from the main mentor of the video workshop Zelimir Zilnik on one hand about the realization of the ideas for concrete work on the field. On the other hand they will receive also the critical comments and advises about the filmed material and suggestions for further work.

During the exchange some of the filmed material (short productions) concerning the Istanbul  topics will be edited, for some bigger productions (continuation of already filmed production on the summer exchanges, etc) will be done in rough cuts (editing)

Topics for Istanbul:

The exchange and video research will happen inside or beside (connected with) Gepgenc Festival (organized by TOG). Participants of the festival will be the young people allover the Turkey and also from abroad (mostly from Europe). This will give us the opportunity to have contact with different young people from different part of Turkey and wider, with different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.

Some of possible topics:

- Questions of wearing the scarf’s

- School system in Turkey wit emphasis on the religious education

- Research of different religious communities in Istanbul, they positions and open Questions

- Question of the Women position in Turkish community

Provisional program and budget:

Project Budget

Report made by:
Volkan Pirincci
Drago Pintarič

(VISIT PHOTO GALLERY)