{"id":4774,"date":"2012-06-25T18:05:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:59:27","slug":"intl-antalya-sand-sculpture-fest-4774","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/intl-antalya-sand-sculpture-fest-4774\/","title":{"rendered":"Int&#8217;l Antalya Sand Sculpture Fest to open on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/antalya-sand-sculpture-fest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4775\" title=\"Int&#039;l Antalya Sand Sculpture Fest to open on Saturday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/antalya-sand-sculpture-fest-280x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"200\"><\/a>The opening ceremony for the 6th International Antalya Sand Sculpture Festival, which has been postponed twice due to heavy rains, is due to take place on Saturday, hosting 25 sculptors from 12 countries.<\/h1>\n<p>Under this year&#8217;s theme of \u201cHollywood 2,\u201d the festival is organized by Global Design Art Works and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, the Antalya Journalists Association and the Muratpa\u015fa Municipality. The festival, to be held at the 7,000-square-meter Lara Beach Park, will showcase over 100 sculptures created by 20 sand artists from eight countries. The sculptures depict characters from 35 Hollywood movies, including \u201cDracula,\u201d \u201cConan the Barbarian,\u201d \u201cIndiana Jones,\u201d \u201cShrek,\u201d \u201cThe Fifth Element\u201d and \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d Created over the span of two months using 10,000 tons of sand, the sculptures are being displayed with special lighting and sound effects. The festival, which is expected to draw over 200,000 visitors, will run through Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting international awareness of the event, festival coordinator Cem Karaca is both surprised and pleased to see that members of the media from China, Japan, South Korea and Australia &#8212; countries that could be described as the furthest places from Turkey &#8212; as well as from other Western countries are showing interest in the festival. \u201cThis event, which is among the greatest sculpture events of the world, with the amount of sand used for the festival, the broadness of the field it is set up on and the number of sculptors attending the event, contributes to Turkey&#8217;s popularity around the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony was originally planned to take place on May 13, but heavy rain caused the event to be postponed to a later date in May. Yet again the ceremony had to be postponed due to rain.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening ceremony for the 6th International Antalya Sand Sculpture Festival, which has been postponed twice due to heavy rains, is due to take place on Saturday, hosting 25 sculptors from 12 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7997,5201,137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far-east","category-media-news","category-sectoral","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}