Starting from January, in addition to the focus meetings held at MAHAL, field visits were made to the districts of Bayramiç, Çan, Ezine and Ayvacık, as well as neighbourhoods and villages in the centre of Çanakkale. In addition to the cultural actors who settled there, interviews were also conducted with mukhtars, local people, and others who could relate the current population mobility to the local cultural and historical context. Representatives of cultural institutions and spaces in the city centre, such as Korfmann Library and Bordo Building, also participated in these explorations and field visits.

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Cultural actors contacted within the scope of the New Neighbours project came together at MAHAL on 9 June. Project manager Seyhan Boztepe made a presentation on CABININ activities at the meeting where approximately 75 cultural actors from Çanakkale provincial centre as well as districts such as Bayramiç, Ezine, Ayvacık, Gelibolu, Bozcaada and Ayvacık came together. In the meeting facilitated by Deniz Erbaş, architect İsmail Erten gave general information about Çanakkale settlement culture. Following the presentations and the acquaintance circle, within the scope of the city tour designed by Erdal Sezer to introduce different cultural actors in Çanakkale city centre, Bordo Bina, Mekor Hayim Synagogue, Korfmann Library, art workshops in Fevzipaşa, including Ceyhun Demir and Sanatsever were visited.

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