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Dear Crafts Enthusiasts,
It has been such a delight working with Lloyd and our partners in Turkey to prepare this exceptional itinerary. We are very pleased to invite you to join our exclusive group of no more than twenty honored guests.
Before you read through the itinerary, I’d like to share with you some comments from one who knows Turkey thoroughly.
Dear Gwen,
Thank you very much for informing me about your kind efforts in putting together this wonderful art and craft tour to Turkey. I am very much impressed with itinerary that covers many art workshops in Turkey. I have always had full confidence in A-level Travel’s expertise and contacts in making arrangements for these kinds of special interest tours. I was thinking that this group should visit a glasswork place in Istanbul as I started reading the itinerary. To my surprise, it was already included. The towns and hotels you will be visiting all sound interesting. The Dibekli Han in Bodrum is our favorite place that we discovered last summer. I believe your group will have a great time in Turkey.
Sincerely, John Gokcen, Hon. Consul General of Turkey, Seattle
You will have no better leaders than Lloyd and our thoroughly qualified guide:
Çimen is the only guide that Turkish Cultural Foundation hires for their Turkish Culture Promotion tours that they organize for their guests made of journalists, artists, and politicians. She works and focuses on the theme of the reflections/effects of Turkish history, culture and folklore on traditional and contemporary arts and crafts. Recently she has been offered by TRT (Turkish Radio and Television-state channel) the opportunity to create a program that will show a reflection of the history of Turkish culture and its constituents; Turkish handicraft, performing, visual and fine arts, music, food, etc… to the present. She is one of our partners and a tour guide for over 20 years.
Ali Pasa, Managing Director
So all is prepared. Now all we need are the crafts enthusiasts who will appreciate and thoroughly enjoy this outstanding program, and I sincerely hope one of them will be YOU!
Gwen Erwood
President, Travel Concepts International, Inc.
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Lloyd Herman was the founding Director of our national craft museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. Retiring after 20 years at the Smithsonian, he moved back to the Northwest where he was raised to plan and direct the Canadian Craft Museum in Vancouver. Though he has written and lectured widely about contemporary American art in clay, glass, wood and metal, he was decorated by the Queen of Denmark and the King of Belgium for organizing craft exhibitions from their countries. His extensive international travels made him want to share the crafts of other nations with American friends, and he has accompanied TCI groups to India (three times), Bhutan, Iran, Morocco and Vietnam.