Performative Journey – Press release
MitOst (Germany) with Culture Routes Society (Turkey), Tirana Ekspres (Albania) and Art Society Open Studio (Poland) have developed a 1-year project Performative Journey on the Via Eurasia Cultural Route (Performative…
Performative Art in Lycia
In July several artists who will participate in workshops and performances on the Via Eurasia visited Turkey. The two coordinators of the Performative Journey project, Hüseyin (CRS) and Serra (Mitöst)…
Finding the Via Egnatia
Having spent a few days in Albania working on the Performative Journey project, Kate and Hüseyin set off to follow the Via Egnatia (VE). Walking from the village of Mirake,…
World Trails G7 summit
As the whole world knows, the G7 summit of leaders of the world’s 7 capitalist countries took place in Cornwall, in the UK in June. To complement this, and remind…
East of Istanbul – Şile to Izmit
In June 2021, Nick Hobbs and a small team (Oytun, Tasha, Fatemah) from Hiking Istanbul explored a route crossing the area between Şile and Yağcılar (north-south) in order to find…
The Sultans Trail: A cultural adventure
Max Smits (from the Sultans Trail Foundation and Cultural Association of Via Eurasia) writes about trekking the Sultans’ Trail for the World Trails Network magazine. Part of the Sultans Trail…
Council of Europe – New Cultural Routes
At their annual meeting in April, the Governing Board of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes have announced that they have adopted five new routes, bringing the total number…
Trekking the Via Eurasia – a solo initiative
In March, a long-distance walker started from the Lycian Way to walk northwards on the Via Eurasia to Istanbul and then to Europe. Using the app, and taking photographs and…
Performative Journey on the Via Eurasia Cultural Route
As MitOst we joined our hands with several Tandem Turkey and Tandem Western Balkans alumni organisation and artists to collaborate on a 1-year project Performative Journey on the Via Eurasia…