Twelfth Traditional Eastern Mediterranean University Spring Fest

  Eastern Mediterranean University contributes to the socio-cultural development of the students

XII th EMU SPRING FEST

Eastern Mediterranean University contributes to the development of the students by organizing socio-cultural activities. The Spring Fest is annually organized during the second half of May where students grab the opportunity to have fun. The XIIth Spring Fest at EMU was on May 17 th through 21 st . This year's festival for the first time in its history had a festival theme and many fun activities took place on the festival grounds. The aim of the Spring Fest is to organize activities where student clubs have the chance to demonstrate their performances or display their year long projects in the many booths lined up in the festival area. Thus students, faculty members and the community have the opportunity to have a pleasant time.

Local and foreign music bands participated in the Fest as well; Direnen Mizikacilar was on May 18 th , Cengiz Baysal and Okan Ersan Band on May 19 th and on May 21 st it was the Levent Yüksel concert.

Apart from the activities of almost 50 student clubs on campus, there was a talk with Levent Yüksel on “Bass” in the Faculty of Education Activity Hall.

During the Spring Fest, there were a variety of cultural, art and dance activities, 5 K run, the domestic animal beauty contest, as well as booths where handicraft, food and beverages were sold. The two big stages for the performers, recreation area, open-air cinema, and the funfair were visited by around 50.000 people during the four day long festivities.

The festival parade and float started touring the town of Gazimagusa from the Main Entrance of the University on Salamis Road and following the Salamis Road-Victory Monument route ended at the Namik Kemal Square in the old town.

“Lost City Atlantis”

  This year the festival was for the first time based on a theme. EMU authorities said they had decided the festival theme to be “Lost City Atlantis” basing their judgment on the fact that Cyprus is an island and that many civilizations form the historical past of the island.

It has also been declared that the Atlantis theme would help with the promotion of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the international arena under the leadership of EMU. Atlantis which is believed to be a mythological and a sunken city, and assumed by Plato to have existed in the past, is still claimed by the American archaeologist Robert Sarmast to be close to the southern coastal line of Cyprus .