An ambitious agenda is planned for the three-day symposium ending with a forum discussion during the course of which a prognosis for the next 20-30 years of growth of the Bodrum peninsula will be attempted. The sessions of the symposium will be held at the Azka Hotel in Bardakci Bay and the Forum will take place in the Bodrum Municipality NUROL Cultural Center in the OASIS Mall; all events are open to the public. Among the subject headings of the sessions are such interesting items like Land Sales to Foreigner; The State of the Cultural and Natural Resources of Bodrum; How Planning for the Bodrum Peninsula Should Be Done; Alternative Development Proposals for the Peninsula; Underwater Cultural Heritage of Bodrum, etc., etc. Participating in these sessions will be faculty members of the Mugla University as well as members of various Bodrum NGOs and professional associations. Reading the subjects to be examined during the 10 sessions of the symposium one can’t help but recall the very similar previously held events of this nature (even some of the terminology is the same, remember “sustainable development”?), the best known were: Bodrum Development Scenarios (1995) and Bodrum Habitat (1996). One is also apt to ask what happened to all the resolutions, plans and identified problem areas arrived at during these exercises, and the answer to this is not very encouraging. But then, maybe this time…
Pianist Cemila Cabbarova is no stranger to Bodrum as she has previously played on the very same stage of the Halicarnassus Cultural Center of Marmara Koleji, so it will be a pleasure to have her help us celebrate World Women’s Day with a piano recital beginning at 19:00 hrs. Ms. Cabbarova is a pianist with the Izmir State Opera and Ballet.
On Sunday, 9 March, at 21:00 hrs. there will be a performance of a play A Woman Alone from a cycle of works written jointly by Nobel laureate Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame. Among their plays are Sex? Thanks, Don’t Mind if I Do!, All Home, Bed, and Church (1977), The Open Couple (1983), Female Parts (1986), A Woman Alone and Other Plays (1989), and Seventh Commandment: Steal a Little Less (1992). The couple has a worldwide reputation for the political, humanist, feminist and satirical content of their works. Sumru Yavrucak, a very capable actress of the Turkish stage, is just the right person to perform this play.
