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Live music, folk dancing performances, cultural events, fortune telling, and more. Enjoy authentic Turkish cuisine. Join us on October 3rd from 11am-7pm on District Pier for the free Turkish Festival at The Wharf. This year’s festival theme is Turkaegean: Coast of Happiness.

Organized by American Turkish Association of Washington DC – ATADC.

Turkish-American Television is a proud media sponsor of the Turkish Festival at The Wharf!

For more information please visit https://www.turkishfestival.org

Video location: The Wharf Torch, “Branch Twist Fire Sculpture”, located at the end of Recreation Pier.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TATV Staff Picked 2020 Teens Dream Young Producers

Fairfax, Va., April 24, 2021 — Turkish American TV (TATV) staff selected fresh video productions from Teens Dream Collaborative 2020 Annual Video Competition, which provided teens a forum to share their solutions to problems facing humanity. Teens shared their dreams of change in areas ranging from plastic pollution to responsible consumption. 

Over 150 teens globally submitted short videos related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Global Co Lab Network and its collaborator this year, the Smithsonian Institution, selected 10 videos and awarded $500 grants to each teen changemaker. The Global Co Lab Network and Smithsonian honored additional 10 videos with certificates of recognition.

TATV staff selected videos with outstanding production quality and positive universal messages. The young producers were among the finalists and semi-finalists of the 2020 Teens Dream Video Competition. 

Outstanding video productions are:

“Food Equity Through Kindness” by José Pablo Álvarez Preinfalk, Costa Rica

“Clean Water and Sanitation” by Dilara Nur Kahraman, Antalya, Turkey

“Quality Education” by Ecem Bahar, Izmir, Turkey

“Clean Schools for a Clean Planet” by Isabella Shady, Madelyn Stochaj, Haley Jansons, Mass., U.S.

“Reducing Plastic Pollution in Oceans” by Sumya Abida, N.Y., U.S.

‘Gender Equality – We Will Not Be Tamed” by Jibeh Fatty, N.Y., U.S.

2020 TATV Staff Picks are showcased at https://vimeo.com/showcase/8398251

Talking to the young producers in a meet and greet session, Özge Övün-Sert, TATV program host, said, “I am impressed with your visions for the future of the world we live in… You have the opinion about the issues and offer solutions to overcome these problems. This gives me a big hope for the future.”

Madelyn Stochaj from Massachusetts expressed her Teens Dream Challenge experience as “an amazing opportunity.” She was happy for being recognized for the work she has been doing.

“It has been super educational. It is definitely something new but it is really cool,” she said.

Teens Dream, a project of the Global Co Lab Network, partners with organizations across the world to educate, inspire, connect, and helps teens act on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. TATV is a partner and a sponsor of Teens Dream Collaborative.

TATV congratulates all the teens who shared their uplifting dreams by submitting a video to the Teens Dream Collaborative 2020 Annual Competition. 

Contact: [email protected]

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Turkish American TV (TATV), the award winning voice of the Turkish-American community, was founded in September 2005 with the mission of delivering educational, engaging, and entertaining programs on art, culture, lifestyles, music, dance, health, wellbeing, science, and technology.

Sit back for a few minutes and enjoy the great music played by our young musicians, Alptuğ H. Kaynar, piano and Andrew Kıvrak, viola.

Coached by Dr. Osman Kıvrak, musician in residence at the American University in Washington D.C., the young musicians have been meeting to practice via Zoom meetings since November 2019.

This is the first of the series “Young Musicians” produced by the dedicated volunteers of the Turkish-American Television (TATV), which is the longest running community television platform of the Turkish-American community in the U.S.

Find below what our young musicians said about their online experience.

Alptuğ H. Kaynar, Piano (Pittsburgh, Philadelphia)

“I really enjoyed the two months I spent working with Dr. Kıvrak. Every piece and practice session brought some new joy and difficulty with it. The process was one that I was wholly unfamiliar with, namely the concept of making recordings that would end up being synced on a computer, but the end product is something that I am proud of. I am glad I participated, as the whole process was a very fun and informative one, in which I learned a lot about the more technological side of music and recording. Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to everyone involved in this production for making this possible.”

Andrew Kıvrak, Viola (Maryland)

“The experience I had with Turkish American TV was exciting and enjoyable. One of the difficulties rehearsing on Zoom was that I had to use a metronome to sync up with my partner. The recording took a lot of tries to get both parts exactly in sync but it was satisfying when it finally worked. Being able to play music with another person, especially during the pandemic, was very rewarding. Thank you to everyone who made this happen.”