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Yabangee’s Weekend Picks:
(Ending Sunday) 16th !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival – “Started in 2002 and currently in its 16th year, local cinemas will play host to some of the best contemporary films from Turkey and around the world, including everything from award-winning independent dramas to far more obscure outings. This year, films will be shown in 14 different categories, including ‘Love&Change,’ ‘!nspired,’ and ‘Shorts from Turkey.’”
(Saturday) Wardrobe to Wardrobe Second Hand Bazaar @ Circuit Istanbul – “Circuit has selected 10 participants, each responsible for their table/rack of clothing. Items will include clothing, accessories, jewellery and shoes, and will be sold at a range of prices. While participants have the chance to earn back money from clothing they no longer want, those attending have the opportunity to find affordable deals and unique and fashionable finds. Come celebrate second-hand with us, buy some great things, or just come to check out Circuit. We will be selling drinks, light food, homemade cookies. See you there! **Please note: this is not an open bazaar. If you wish to sell clothing, we invite you to apply ahead of time for the next bazaar.”
(Saturday) Istanbul Qawali Night by Eat Out Istanbul – “Eat Out Istanbul is pleased to announce our first event “Istanbul Qawali Night” Coming straight from the Heart of U.K London, “KHAN BROTHERS” will be performing! Known for their pure entertainment of pleasing and involving the crowd for a night to remember! Join us while we sing along to the Khan Brothers and have delicious pakistani/Indian cuisine at the Grand Star Hotel Taksim in a fun filled night.”
(Friday) !f Rainbow Party @ Babylon Bomonti – “Each and every color on the rainbow heals. So we meet under the rainbow once again. We wish to love, be inspired by each other, find connection and enjoy one another.”
(Friday/Saturday) Amadeus Live @ Zorlu PSM – “Prepare for yet another night full of music in Zorlu PSM with an unforgettable live performance featuring music from one of the most iconic movies ever. On 24 and 25 February 2017, Movies In Concert: Amadeus will be ready to marvel the Zorlu PSM audience with the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the amazing live performance that does justice to the legendary composer. “>
(Saturday) Bring a Book to Bed Day – “A little bit rushed and a little bit late. C’mon, friends, and save the date! Bring a Book to Bed Day! is on Saturday, February 25th this year! Get ready to unplug, relax, and curl up with a good book! Please feel free to invite friends, join our Bring a Book to Bed Day! Facebook group and read a book in bed anytime (but with all of us on February 25th).”
Friday:
4-Letter Word & Fat N’ Wet @ Pendor Corner – “Come hang and drink some much-needed Friday beers with us!”
“Believe Me I’m an Artist” from Adrian Paci @ Pera Museum – “Join artist Adrian Paci to discuss his work in relation to Pera Museum’s exhibition Cold Front from the Balkans. Paci will show his video Piktori (included in the exhibition) as well as his other videos. The talk will focus on various themes in Paci’s works such as mobility, displacement, nostalgia and the artist’s place within the system.”
Saturday:
“Oldies but Goldies” @ Babylon Bomonti – “Get ready for an all-night dance party at “Oldies But Goldies”, which will take you on a long journey with Depeche Mode, The Cure, Madonna, A-Ha, Chic, Duran Duran, Snap, Cyndi Lauper, ABBA, Donna Summer, James Brown, The Smiths, Wham!, Frankie Goes To Hollywood,Michael Jackson, and many others.”
Goran Bregovic & Bijelo Dugme @ Volkswagen Arena – “The hugely successful musician/composer GORAN BREGOVIC will make his Turkey concert debut on February 25th when he presents an evening of his own work with his legendary rock band Bijelo Dugme.”
(Ending) “f r a g m e n t e d f r a g m e n t f r a g m e n t s” @ Pi Artworks Istanbul – “The installation by London based fibre artist Carys Briggs incorporates empirical methods of analysis, laying them over abstract representations in a constructed world of fragments. By reducing familiar forms to vague representations on layers of fabrics, whose textures are both surface and structure, she positions the viewer as a foreigner searching for associations -wandering through an environment that is between memory and discovery.”
(Ending)“Anatomy of Things” @ Pg Art Gallery – “Yonca Karakaş focuses on improvement of the human mind and dogmatic ideas at her first solo exhibition titled ‘Anatomy of Things’. The show that she re-defines the perception of ‘reality’ will be on view between January 21 – February 25, 2017 at Pg Art Gallery. Karakaş builds a new universe by the objects she uses, the spaces and characters she creates.”
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The Art of Teaching English “Jazz Up Your Style” – “As Albert Einstein once said, “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge,” teaching is not didactic but it requires some application of art in order to intensify our teaching and jazz up our style.”
Sunday:
(Ending) Music Bazaar (Record Fair) @ Tepe Nautilus – “Select CDs, records, cassettes, DVDs, accessories and hi-fi equipment will be on sale. Artist exhibitions, signing sessions and more are also set to be announced shortly. We’ll do our best to keep you updated regarding a full schedule of events within the fair.”
Foundations of Improv Workshop @ Böcek – “Asian Side Improv is hosting a Foundations Of Improvisation workshop, covering the basics like, how to connect to your scene partner and how to create a shared and temporary reality… out of nothing!”
(Ending) “Born with a Silver Spoon in Mouth” @ Gaia Gallery – “Özmenoğlu faces the male-dominant society codes as a female artist in her first individual exhibition in 2017, ’Babam Sağolsun’. She says ‘’Just like in my previous works, (Senin Annen Bir Melekti, Cumaya Gittim Gelicem, Seni Sevmeyen Ölsün) I was inspired by a local idiom again. This time, I reveal a situation analysis.’’ And adds ‘’With this popular expression to which I assign the meanings of not only an opposition also a confrontation, I wanted the audience to think and ask themselves again and again in the society they live in.”
(Ending) “Not Seeing Anything” @ Alt Art Space – “Alt Art Spaces presents Not Seeing Anything, a group show of emerging artists with Özgür Atlagan, Luna Ece Bal, Berk Çakmakçı, Alexandra Howland, Burak Kabadayı and Serra Tansel. Not Seeing Anything investigates the personal, cultural and political impulse to cover-up or conceal, as well as the position of the witness. The exhibition space will function as a shared studio-workspace, part-time residency, for several of the artists during the four weeks leading up to the exhibition. Not Seeing Anything will be accompanied by a zine.”
(Ending) “Common Field” @ Gallery Ilayda – “In his paintings , in an unnamed time , which are standing in the middle of the void, the core families, intervening people and loneliness themes are being processed intensively. The new paintings, prepared for the ”common field”, are built on the spine of pattern and created on top of intense layers of paint. Large-scale portraits and crowded compositions are mostly on display in the exhibition.”
“Alâeddin Yavaşca” Turkish Music Concert @ Pera Museum – “Pera Museum’s Turkish Music Concerts series continues with a program celebrating “Alâeddin Yavaşca”. Programmed by consultant Prof. Dr. Alâeddin Yavaşca and coordinated by Sinan Sipahi, the Turkish Music Concerts highlight great composers and their works, underlining the different periods of Turkish music from the historical, cultural, traditional, sociological, anthropological, philosophical, and literary aspects.”
Multi-Day Events:
(Saturday/Sunday) Kat Frankie @ Salon IKSV – “Started composing at the age of 6 on the footsteps of Simon & Garfunkel. Later she was also acquainted with contrabass and the piano. Her bumpy and high-key drums with ebs and flows and violent vocals are known to put butterflies with broken wings in the listeners’ stomachs. She is found charismatic by many of her fans for her masculine style and bitter attitude.”
Ongoing:
Esoteric Illusions in the Wind of the Hammer @ Anna Laudel Contemporary – “Esoteric Illusions in the Wind of the Hammer marks the return of Mehmet Aksoy, following five years of seclusion, with his remarkable, unique aesthetic. This show can be regarded as a programme highlight for Anna Laudel Contemporary, which opened recently in the old finance district of the late Ottoman Empire in Karaköy, within a historic building comprising a vast exhibition space spanning five floors.”
“The First Dream” @ Bozlu Art Project Nişantaşı – “Artist, who prefers light pastel colours especially blue and pale pink symbolising innocence, in his productions, thinks about boundaries of sex-oriented categorization and creates mixed figures which belong to neither of two sexes by reconsidering these concepts. Some of these portraits attract the attention with their sharpness, and some of these make a reference to unconscious different identities as blurred images.”
“And yet my mask is powerful” @ Alt Art Space – “Alt Art Space presents Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s most recent installation, And yet my mask is powerful, 2016, which addresses the relationship between mythology, ecology and the resistance to colonial time, imagining new possible incomplete narratives.”
“300 Issues / 27 Years / 1 Magazine / Arredamento” @ SALT Galata – “One of the longest living design and architecture magazines in Turkey, the 27-year life of Arredamento is visualized as an exhibition at SALT Galata. Installed in the Open Archive on the third floor, the exhibition brings together 300 issues of the magazine. Originally published as a popular design journal, over time Arredamento transformed itself into an architectural magazine with a theoretical slant, and managed to subsist without sponsorship or institutional support.”
“Observed Truths” @ Mixer – “Our systems of perception is programmed to render what is unperceivable to the perceivable. Considering that the concepts concerning measures and units are made up of self-referential realities, humans position themselves in between a thin line separating the relativity and the necessity of the concept of reality.”
“After the 20th” @ Mixer – “The Project, coming out of the recording of the production process of biologic coal in a forest village located in Istanbul’s northwest, is based on a single tree. The artist, in his analogy fictionalized from the story of a single tree, reveals the stages of representation.”
“Cold Front from the Balkans” @ Pera Museum – “The exhibition focuses on different generations of artists and art groups from the Balkan region. The exhibition avoids the usual unflattering political connotations the region’s name inevitably brings up but instead focuses on a natural phenomenon — the wind.”
“Wanderer on the Sea of Light” @ Pera Museum – “French artist Félix Ziem is one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined.”
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