NO New Nuclear Weapons - NO Star Wars - EVERYTHING SHOULD BE UNDER THE SUN - NO New Nuclear Targets...
NO Weapons In Space
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NO New Pretexts For Nuclear War - NO Nuclear Testing - NO All Types Of Weapons & War & War Culture...
We have only one WORLD yet! If we destroy it, where else will we go?
YES For The Global Peace Movement, YES Loving & Caring Each Other, YES Greatness in Humanity, YES Saving Our Unique Mother Earth,
YES Great Dreams For Better Tomorrows, YES Emerging Positive Global Energy, YES National and Global Transparency, and YES Lighting Our Souls & Minds.
Bircan ÜNVER
Photo by:
Rohan De Silva (December 2006)

Experience

Web Producer
- Since August 1999, The Light Millennium <http://www.lightmillennium.org>
- The first 9 Issue of the Isik Binyili <http://www.isikbinyili.org>

- Turkish & Greek Synergy <http://www.turkishgreeksynergy.net>.

Independent Video Producer, Director and Editor

- Since 1992, Queens Public Television, NY
More than 50 original television programs both in English and Turkish.
For Videography> http://www.lightmillennium.org/bu_videography.html

Freelance Correspondent
- 1999-Present; Light Millennium, Isik Binyili, Turkish Times, SanatHaber.Net, dPaper, Euroturks.com, Portreler...
- 1990-1993; NY Hurriyet Newspaper and Hurriyet-Gosteri Art Magazine
Freelance Correspondent/Art Journalist
- 1984-1990, For various publications in Istanbul, Turkey. Including; Nokta, Sanat Olayi, Soz, Kadin, Sanat Cevresi, Hurriyet-Gosteri magazines and Cumhuriyet Newspaper.

Bureau Chief Assistant
- 1976-1983, Former Istanbul Bank, at the headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey

Education

MA in Media Studies
- 1999, New School University, New York City, New York.
Thesis project: "All Ideas: Freedom of Expression in Turkey.", a video documentary.

BA in Fine Arts
- 1988, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey

Publications

"En Kutsali Yaratmak" (To create is most sacred),
By Bircan Unver, Say Publishing Company, Istanbul, Turkey. Interviews with artists, commentary on art exhibitions, and essays, in Turkish.

Accomplishments

The Light Millennium, Inc.

Created, designed and introduced The Light Millennium e-magazine in August 1999, and incorporated under The Light Millennium, Inc.; as an "alternative multi-media global platform" and "public interest/charitable" organization with the status# 501 (c) (3), effective on July 17, 2001 based in New York. So far, e-published 20th issue in English with global participations as The Light Millennium global e-platform and organized several EVENTS since 2000.

Turkish & Greek Synergy

www.turkishgreeksynergy.net (English & Turkish) As a contribution for the Global Peace Movement.
Launched since October 2000. Published 2 issue in English and Turkish.

Isik Binyili
Launched since August 1999 within the Light Millennium web site as its Introductory issue. The First issue was published in January 2000. So far, e-published 14 issue in Turkish (first 9 issues were under the Light Millennium's web site), and since October 2005, under the isikbinyili.org.

The Light Millennium TV Series
Launched since January 2000, monthly, in English. Each program highlights an independent issue such as art, artist profiles, UNNGO profiles, culture, freedom of speech and peace (videography).

The Light Millennium has associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations effective as of December 12, 2005.

Member of the UN/DPI-NGO Annual 59th & 60th Conference Planning Committees, and member of the Multi-Generational(2006), Media,and Events & Fundraising subcommittes in 2006 & 2007.

Awards

Distingueshed Woman Award in New York
November 10, 2004
Awarded by: Daughters of Atatürk Organization, CA


First Place in "Ethnic" Category
Awarded by: CAPA Video Festival, November 2004, Flushing, New York

"Crescent & Star"

First Place in "Visual Arts"
Awarded by: CAPA Video Festival,
November 2004, Flushing, New York

Matisse & Picasso at the MoMA

Golden Web Award, 2001-2002
- "Excellence achieved in Web Design, Content and Creativity."

"The Light Millennium Internet Magazine"


First Place in "Arts"
- 1998 NorthEast Video Festival
Special Juri Award
- 1999 Hometown Video Festival
"The Walls of the World"
Produced, directed, written and edited.
Based on Turkish artist Burhan DOGANÇAY's photographic archive from walls of the World, in English.


Finalist

- 1997 Hometown Video Festival - Erol AKYAVAS: The Mark of the East
"Erol AKYAVAS"
Produced, directed, written, and edited.
"Erol Akyavas", a narrative documentary, which profiles Turkish artist Erol Akyavas's arts and his Easthern philosophy, in Turkish.
- 1994 Hometown Video Festival - 20th Century Latin American Arts, MoMA (Based on the exhibition)

Selected Activities (Organized, co-organized, presented and participated events and programs)
- For ALL the EVENTS (from 2000 - 2007):

* “Turkish Medieval Humanist Mystic: Yunus Emre” by Prof. Talat HALMAN & Defne HALMAN, Actress; organized, Stevens Institute of Techonlogy in Hoboken, February 23, 2005

* "Rumi: Soaring to Ecstasy" A Presentation by Prof. Talat HALMAN & Defne HALMAN, Actress, organized; November 18, 2004, Turkish House, NYC.
* ACIK SINIF - Okuma Aksamlari: Ahmet H. TANPINAR'in BES SEHIR kitabi (Reading Nights: The Five Cities, by Ahmet H. TANPINAR, in Turkish), Türkçe, proje sahibi, 18 Ekim - 13 Aralik 2004; 8 hafta, Türk Evi, NYC.
* "Journey in the Music World"
, A Presentation by Arif MARDIN, organized, The Marmara Manhattan, NY, October 6, 2004.
* "When Peace Comes" A poetry project in English and Turkish created and organized in partipations with Ataturk Elementary School, Amity School and Pioneer Acedemy of Science.
* "The Fourth Emerging Power in the Middle East: Redefining the Turkish Media"; A Conference & Power Point Presentation by Nuri M. ÇOLAKOGLU; organized, incorporation with the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, April 2, 2004.
* "Camera or Gun: How to produce your own television programs?" with guest speaker Clifford JACOBS, organized, February 25, 2004, NYC.
* "Crescent & Star" & "On Peace & Woman"; a special video screening, organized, December 16, 2003, NYC.

* "Timeless City Istanbul",
a watercolor exhibition by Omer MUZ; curator, November 04 to 19, 2003, NYC
* "On Peace & Woman"
, poetry reading event; organized April 24, 2003, Turkish Center, NY.
* 3rd Anniversary of The Light Millennium;
presented & organized, NYC, April 5, 2003
* “To Many More Millennia Dear Nazim"
, poetry reading event; organized, May 2 2002, Turkish Center, NY.
* “A Poetry Breeze Shores of Turkey", poetry reading event; organized, May 2, 2001, Turkish Center, NY.
* 2nd Anniversary of The Light Millennium; presented & organized, NYC, April 6, 2002
* A Presentation of the Light Millennium Global Platfrom; presented, organized by ITSS, NYU, March 8, 2002
* "The World Women Days"; panelist, presented theme, "Alternative Media & Light Millennium", Turkish Center, March 7, 2004, NY
* "The World Women Days"; panelist, presented theme,"The Essence of Internet and Public TV", Turkish Center, March 3, 2001, NY.
* A Support Campaign For Fugen GÜLERTEKIN; organized; panel discussion & signature campaing, Turkish Center, March 17, 2001
* A Support Campaign For Fugen GÜLERTEKIN, Committee President of the Federation of Turkish American Associations; organized a video screening and panel discussion, May 18, 2000, NYC
* A Video Presentation; produced and organized, May 4, 2000, Turkish Center, NYC.
* MayFest2000 - NYC; In charge for public relations committee & editor
* "On The Twentieth Century
"; video documentary special screening;
produced & organized, Jan. 13, 2000, Queens Public Television, Flashing, Queens, New York.


-- Born on May 2, 1959, mother of two children and lives in Queens, New York since 1996.

For Turkish Biography of Bircan Ünver>

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Videography of Bircan Ünver

Light Millennium E-Magazine Convenes A Global Community
by Keach HAGEY - Queens Chronicle Reporter
March 25, 2004

Producer Profile – Queens Public Television
http://www.qptv.org/qptvorg/producer_profiles1.htm

"Light Millennium" (LM) Project Celebrates its 2nd Anniversary
Turkish Times, April 15, 2002
http://www.theturkishtimes.com/archive/02/04_15/culture.html

LIGHT MILLENNIUM
.ORG

ISIKBINYILI.ORG

Atom Karinca Bircan Ünver (Roportaj)
FORUM Newspaper - Weekly
http://www.forum-newspaper.com/51th.%20Issue%20of%20FORUM%20Newspaper.pdf


Introductory Issue
of the Light Millennium
1998 NorthEast Video Festival
http://www.igc.org/acm/acmnefest98.htm

E-Mail Addresses:
contact@lightmillennium.org
bircanunver@lightmillennium.org


-- Last updated in July 2007.


©Bircan Unver, The Light Millennium, New York, July 1999.

Dedicated to:
For Unity within self, within country, within the globe.
7th Anniversary - Spring 2007

LIGHTMILLENNIUM.ORG #20th Issue
LM - HOME PAGE
7th Anniversary Spring 2007, #20
2007 RUMI & CLARKE INSPIRATIONAL WRITING AWARDS
WHEN PEACE COMES
Poetry Writing Event
April 2004
ISIK BINYILI (Türkçe)
External Link
Fugen GULERTEKIN
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