A different Tatlısu every season, a different story every season.
We will change the very idea of festivals in Tatlısu.
Instead of events that set up a stage one evening, pack everything away the next day and leave nothing behind but expenses, we will organise festivals that bring visitors, encourage overnight stays, and reward our producers and shopkeepers.
Our goal;
To make Tatlısu a place that lives and welcomes visitors twelve months a year.
Every season will offer its own reason to come.
Nature and production in spring.
Sea and music in summer.
Flavour and culture in autumn.
Cinema, art and nostalgia in winter.
Four Seasons • Four Experiences • One Tatlısu
1Tatlısu Music and Culture Festival
GRAB YOUR TENT AND COME!
Don't come to Tatlısu just to hear a concert and head home;
Come to live Tatlısu.
We will create an overnight Music and Culture Festival bringing together the sea, nature, music and camping culture.
Grab your tent.
Bring your friends.
Bring your family.
Come to Tatlısu.
Enjoy the sea by day.
Join the music in the evening.
Sleep under the stars at night.
Wake up in Tatlısu in the morning.
With concerts, acoustic performances, young musicians, arts and culture events, local flavours and producers' stands, Tatlısu will be alive all day long.
Visitors Will Stay, Tatlısu Will Prosper
The music is here.
The sea is here.
Nature is here.
Be here too.
Festival Slogan
GRAB YOUR TENT AND COME!
2Tatlısu Short Film & Nostalgia Film Festival
Grab your tent and come to the cinema under the stars.
In Tatlısu we will take cinema out of the theatres and bring it into nature, under the stars.
At this festival, which we will make a tradition;
- short film competitions,
- nostalgia film screenings,
- open-air cinema,
- meetings with directors,
- talks with actors,
- young filmmaker events
will all come together in Tatlısu.
Cinema Under the Stars
Evening will fall.
The screen will go up.
The stars will come out.
And the film will begin in Tatlısu.
We will bring the unforgettable films of the past back to audiences, and whenever possible we will host their actors, their directors and names from the world of cinema here in Tatlısu.
We will also open a space for young filmmakers to tell their own stories.
And once again;
Grab Your Tent and Come!
Watch your film.
Meet the artists.
Spend the night in Tatlısu.
Start the day with the sea and nature in the morning.
Come not just to watch a film, but to live Tatlısu.
Festival Slogan
Grab your tent and come; tonight there's cinema under the stars.
3Tatlısu Water Sports and Sea Flavours Festival
There is life along our 22 kilometres of coastline.
We will not merely gaze at our sea.
We will bring it together with sport, gastronomy and tourism.
Where conditions allow;
- water sports,
- competitions,
- beach events,
- amateur sporting activities,
- children's and youth events
will all be organised.
We will bring these together with seafood and local gastronomy.
Our fishermen will share the culture of the sea.
Our local businesses will serve their flavours.
Athletes will compete.
Families will spend time on the beach.
The Sea Will Come Alive, the Coast Will Thrive, Local Businesses Will Prosper
Festival Slogan
Live the sea, taste the flavour, stay in Tatlısu.
4Tatlısu Production and Local Flavours Festival
The star of this festival is our producer.
Our olives.
Our carobs.
Our vegetables.
Our local dishes.
Our natural and aromatic products.
The creations of our women.
Our handiwork.
We will bring together at one festival all the treasures that spring from Tatlısu's soil and its people.
But our producers will not merely set up stands.
They Will Tell the Story of Their Products
Offer Tastings
Make Sales
Meet New Customers
With gastronomy events, tastings, producer meet-ups, local dishes and sales areas, we will draw up Tatlısu's map of flavours.
Festival Slogan
Our soil will produce, our table will share, our producers will prosper.
5Tatlısu Culture, Memory and Nostalgia Days
We will remember our past and carry it into the future together.
We will bring Tatlısu's human stories together with culture and art.
QR Memory Homes...
The Culture and Memory Museum...
Old photographs of Tatlısu...
Oral history recordings...
Documentaries...
Traditional music...
Stories of life in times past...
Photography and art exhibitions...
The Tatlısu our elders describe and the Tatlısu our children imagine will meet at the same event.
Our Elders Will Tell
Our Children Will Listen
Tatlısu Will Remember
Festival Slogan
We will share our memories and keep our story alive together.
6Tatlısu Nature and Hiking Festival
From the sea to the mountains, discover Tatlısu.
We will bring nature lovers together with our unique landscape stretching between the Beşparmak Mountains and the Mediterranean.
- Nature hikes,
- cycling routes,
- photography events,
- nature watching,
- open-air activities
— with these, we will reveal a different face of Tatlısu.
We will add our local products and town life to this experience too.
Hikers will see our nature.
Explorers will get to know our town centre.
Visitors will meet our local products.
Festival Slogan
Step by step Tatlısu, breath by breath nature.
Not Just a Festival — an Economic Cycle
For us, a festival's success will not be measured only by how many people came to the concert.
We will ask:
How many people stayed in Tatlısu?
How many of our producers made sales?
How much new business did our shopkeepers see?
How many new people discovered Tatlısu?
How many wanted to come back?
Because when the event ends, we want value to remain.
Our accommodation providers will prosper.
Our restaurants will prosper.
Our markets will prosper.
Our producers will prosper.
Our women entrepreneurs will prosper.
Our shopkeepers will prosper.
Tatlısu Will Prosper
Not with the Municipality's Money, but with Shared Strength
We will not place the entire festival budget on the municipality's shoulders.
We will develop partnerships with sponsors, institutions, federations, universities, arts and culture organisations, the private sector and other project partners.
The municipality will build the organisation.
Partners will add their strength.
Tatlısu will gain value.
Four Seasons Tatlısu
Discover in spring.
Come for the sea and music in summer.
Taste the harvest and its flavours in autumn.
Meet cinema and culture in winter.
But whichever season you come;
Stay in Tatlısu
Events in every season.
Visitors in every season.
Production in every season.
Economic activity in every season.
Come to Tatlısu not for a day, but for all four seasons.
Four Seasons Tatlısu
Every season will have its own story, and every story will leave its own value for Tatlısu.
