Dear Friends,
We are sending this message with the hope that you and your loved ones are healthy and safe.
As we mark the eleventh week of shelter-in-place in the Bay Area, we have been connecting with our friends and families virtually to cope with our isolation. Collectively we are experiencing our own resiliency and our ability to adapt to our new normal. During this unprecedented time, we have also witnessed the importance of citizenship, and what it means to hold ourselves accountable to be better world citizens.
The COVID crisis has reminded us that we all have to work together to overcome global challenges, and has shown us that our interconnectedness as a human race stretches beyond borders. In this incredible but delicate world we live in, leaving a better, clean, and equitable future for generations means we need to make the change within ourselves, and collaborate with joy.
In honor of the commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, we would like to share with you our Harmandalı Project that Bay Area Turkish Society Folk Dance Team members collaborated virtually on. This is a traditional Western Anatolian dance and is performed by Zeybeks. We hope watching it brings you as much joy as it has brought to us making it.
Warmly,
Bay Area Turkish Society, Board Members
Başak Altan, Başak Çakıcı, Yeşim Erim, Alpay Soyoğuz and Erol Çobanoğlu
