The 5th Barbaros Hollow Festival started yesterday to support agricultural development and create employment for young people in the village. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor attended the opening ceremony of the festival. Tunç SoyerNilay Kökkılınç, Member of the Assembly of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, who joined by proxy. Kökkılınç said, “In today's world where the food crisis is being spoken more and more loudly, it is necessary to protect agriculture. Barbaros also shows us what a village can achieve, if it wishes, by collaborative work," he said. The festival, which is the scene of colorful images, will last until August 21.
The 5th Barbaros Hollow Festival started yesterday, with the bride-groom costumed scarecrows on horseback, accompanied by drums and zurnas, to the village square. İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Councilors Nilay Kökkılınç and Bülent Köklü, Urla Municipality Councilor Deniz Ulçay, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Peninsula Branch Manager Yener Kırmızı, İzmir deputies, representatives of non-governmental organizations, villagers from Urla attended the opening ceremony of the festival.
President Tunç SoyerNilay Kökkılınç, who stated that they became companions with the producers of Barbaros village in the agricultural development journey they embarked on within the framework of the vision of "Another Agriculture is Possible", said, "In today's world, where the food crisis is being spoken more loudly and it is getting harder to reach natural products, it is necessary not to leave the field scarecrows unemployed and to protect agriculture. Barbaros also shows us what a village can achieve, if it wishes, by collaborative work. As the Metropolitan Municipality, we are always with you.”
In addition to art and production
In the festival, where many workshops for adults and children will be held for three days, the “Portraits” exhibition of Ayten Öğütçü, one of the important puppet-making artists of Turkey, and the “Traces of Nature” mix of Izmir University of Economics faculty members, which makes nature-friendly, sustainable fashion visible against fast and consumption-oriented fashion. exhibition and Belkis Ersan Yaka's “Field Hats” exhibition. The "Barbaros Water Culture Heritage Exhibition", which reveals the creativity of people in the storage and use of spring water in case of need, is also within the scope of the festival. The most beautiful door, window front and courtyard competition, the most beautiful scarecrow competition, interviews on important issues such as health and nutrition, activities for children such as “Field of Thought” and “Yoga Workshop” are among the rich content of the festival.
In the village, the field scarecrows are called “hollows”. The purpose of the festival is to support agricultural development and create employment for the youth in the village.
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