Columns & Conversation

From the organizer: ATÖLYE hosts four powerful and inspiring women community leaders to start a conversation and collaboration between modern communities. Four different community leaders...

Since I moved to Izmir for work, my visits to Istanbul have become more dedicated, more concentrated. Now, every time I return I feel...

Marshmello has come a long way since first jumping into the music scene in 2015, by immediately turning heads as an anonymous producer with...

This musical season has been the year of ultimates. Concert halls and performance centers have hosted the greatest names of their genre: From Murray...

Every year when Salon IKSV announce their season's program, I inevitably find myself discovering a new artist I want to catch live and thus...

Meet Melanie Mehrer, an artist who is gearing up for an exhibition in April. She has traveled all over Turkey, including to Hasankeyf, where...

From the organizer: Join us in the fourth episode of ATÖLYE Academy’s Future Tense series taking place on September 25, at 5:00 PM (GMT +3). Register here. The...

“I see myself as world citizen. The whole world is my home but I have to say, Istanbul is the place where I see...

As to be expected, the past four years I've spent in Istanbul has seen a transition from new restaurants, new neighborhoods and the constant...

Democracy: A political system defined by the vote of the people and the service of elected representatives whose main duty is to meet the...

Connect for Creativity’s second networking conference will take place in Kayseri, Turkey between 5 to 6 December 2019 at Abdullah Gül University. The conference will...

Author’s note: Last week, I wrote about the stories behind some of Istanbul’s street names, and the week before that I traced some of...

Istanbul is a city of countless sights and activities, which makes getting locked up in a room for an hour seem like a strange...

April 11 at 19:00 - Festival Talk w/ Lynne Ramsay @ Boğaziçi Üniversitesi South Campus, the Gates Hall From the organizer: Her latest film You Were Never...

One of the most intriguing programs of the IKSV Istanbul Music Festival was without a doubt the evening that featured the renowned Russian composer...

I plodded down the hill to Olivia Cummings’s Tophane studio on a rare snowy day in Istanbul, and was happy to shake the snow...

Effectively communicating the individuality of one’s business can be quite formidable. A marketing consultancy may sound a tad impersonal at first; how can a...

Around every corner, down every alley, and through every doorway Istanbul reveals a surprise. If you walk far enough and long enough the city...

This piece is a follow-up to Turkish Films: Four Istanbuls and a Golden Fleece. “You Can’t Win Them All” (aka “Soldiers of Fortune”), starring Charles...

Traffic is a daily grind for some 14 million Istanbullus. That’s not even counting the outskirts, which include several million more. You get used to...

The Water Diviner, or Son Umut in Turkish, is a film about a father traveling from Australia to find his sons lost in the...

A collaboration of Yabangee and ATÖLYE - we proudly continue with the latest season of Expat Spotlight - a monthly series showcasing the freshest,...

The Zorlu Center PSM has done it again. Building on last season's Cats and Notre Dame de Paris, they have kicked off the 2014-2015 season...

Anyone who has visited a kahvehane in Turkey has heard the sound of plastic dice dance across a wooden backgammon board. Though the game...