Highlights of 2004 AnARt Activities

April
Organized a micro-enterprise management and entrepreneurship training in Nusaybin/Mardin in April’04 in cooperation with the GAP Administration. 12 community center managers qualified to teach their members basic business skills.

July
Invited to Santa Fe Folk Art Market Sponsored a ceramic artist from Kutahya – Gunhan Dayioglu

November
Invited to organize a Turkish Week at the University of Buffalo.

Activities included:

• lecture by art historian Dr. Nurhan Atasoy on Ottoman art traditions in 16th century Turkey.
  
• lecture by writer/scholar Elif Safak on Turkish literature and a reading from her recent book The Saint of Incipient Insanities.
  
• Turkish Folk dances by members of the Turkish Student Association at UB
  
• Turkish films

December
Took part in a cultural fair at the Meridian Int. Center in Washington