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This Weekend:
Friday/Saturday: International Women and Justice Summit – “… will organize the first ‘International Women and Justice Summit’ in cooperation with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies, between November 25-26, 2016, on ‘Women and Justice’ within the scope of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, based on gender mainstreaming, violence affecting women incommersurably in all spheres in theory and practice.”
“Swan Lake” by Moscow Classical Ballet @ TIM Show Center – “The State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre is known world-wide as the ‘Moscow Classical Ballet’ will perform Tchaikovsky’s famous masterpiece Swan Lake on the stage of the TİM Show Center. The Classical Ballet Company is often nick-named as the ‘Ballet Star Factory’. In Istanbul Diana Kosyreva, one of the world renowned ballet dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet, will be main dancer.”
Saturday/Sunday: Fashion Film Fest Istanbul 2016 – While it does appear that it’ll mostly be in Turkish, it could still be good fun for any fashion enthusiasts out there.
Natural Festival 2016 – Focusing on the mind and mental health, this festival spans a weekend filled with shopping, workshops and speakers.
Friday:
Brodinski @ Babylon Bomonti – “Following the quick take off his career at a young age, Brodinski founded his own record label Bromance in 2011. Focusing on rhythms instead of melodies, Brodinski’s brave venture into a dark yet thrilling sound has been received well by the audiences. The artist, who has been lauded as one of the most talented in recent history, makes ample use of vocal samples and loops in his compositions…”
Dorian Concept @ Salon IKSV – “Collaborated with Cinematic Orchestra and toured with Flying Lotus on the keyboards. The Micro Korg videos that he shared on YouTube got millions of hits. Pioneered the ‘bedroom producers’. Became one of the artists of Red Bull Music Academy. Often described as a genre on his own…”
Actress DJ set @ Zorlu PSM – “Actress has been in the music business for 12 years and has released countless EPs and singles, along with 4 studio albums. His music is mostly defined as electronic; however, a deeper look shows the harmony of different styles. The English musician has been influenced by ambient, experimental, R&B and house music, adding Detroit techno and rap to the list with his latest album Ghettoville.”
Freaky Friday @ KULP – Oldies, funk, soul and groove until 3AM, followed by some serious deep-tech house and progressive for the after party.
Saturday:
Gevende @ Salon IKSV – “Participated in major festivals across Turkey and in many cities throughout the world. Mesmerised everyone with their live performance at St. Antuan Church and the live record album that followed. Composed music for the video game ‘Monochrama’. They are currently recording their new studio album.”
Guts @ Babylon Bomonti – ‘Guts was always fond of hip-hop music and making a choice between school and music, he decided to continue with music. Being influenced by concerts that he attended in London and New York, Guts decided that he wanted to become a DJ and, in 2007, he released his first solo album “Le Bienheureux’. Then, Guts released…”
Ending: “Home” @ x-ist – “This time [Engin Konuklu will] focus on past memories and on “Home”, the concept which brings to mind these memories most intensely.”
Miss Kittin @ Zorlu PSM – “Having worked with musicians such as Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy throughout her career, Miss Kittin released her latest album titled Calling From The Stars, which featured a cover of R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts, in 2013. While sharing her admiration for artists such as Madonna, Rush, Prince, Stanley Kubrick, Depeche Mode, Kiss and David Bowie through liner notes, she became an artist to be admired in the electronic music scene with her iconic persona and unique musical style.”
Athena @ Zorlu PSM – Juggernauts of the Turkish music scene return to Zorlu for another show guaranteed to be a crowd-pleaser.
Limits Off: Christian Löffler LIVE + Murat Uncuoglu @ indigo – “Being asked to describe his own music, Christian Loeffler states that he tries to combine melancholy with euphoria. ‘All my music is connected by a gloomy spirit, which is minted by a warm sincerity. I try to merge all kinds of different acoustic colors to obtain this feeling in my music.'”
Nótt #007 @ Secret Location – Another secret party that promises to keep you up well past sunrise. Check their Facebook for details on perhaps wrangling an invite.
Burn Energy Drink presents: Viken Arman @ ROXY CLUB – “… a night presented by Burn Energy Drink and powered by Beat The Night, Arman, as the sole star of the night, will perform his most exclusive Istanbul performance to date at ROXY. Murathan Özbek and Can Balta will join the night for warmup and after hours.”
Starting: “Is This Our Last Chance?” @ SALT Galata – “Composed to offer a framework in which to question the responsibilities of museums and cultural institutions in the face of devastating effects of climate change, the program Is this our last chance? was initiated at SALT in 2015 to coincide with the COP21, 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference…”
Screening: “Black Gold” @ SALT Galata – “Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate an industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. Meanwhile the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields…”
Lambert @ Borusan Music House – ” Lambert’s piano is moving from Satie-esque moments over modal jazz towards grand, romantic pop moments. Touring his debut album, we saw him play stages from small clubs to big jazz festivals, from Berlin to Paris and with the likes of Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, José González and others.”
Sunday:
Ending: Fuerza Bruta @ Volkswagen Arena – “You know those theatre performances that you go to and are so blown away that you struggle to comprehend what you have just seen? Where you end up bugging your friends for days digesting, gushing, and reminiscing about it? Fuerza Bruta is an extreme example of all of this…”
Kubilay QB Tunçer @ Zorlu PSM – “…has also been interested in magic for a long time. He studied with Metin And, a highly esteemed figure in the Turkish theater, and performed in various cities throughout the world including Las Vegas, receiving a Merlin Award in 2009, which indicated that he was the best cabaret magician of the world. The TV program called Hokus Pokus Şov regularly featured world-renowned magicians and led QB to publish two books called Herkes Sihirbaz Olacak and Sihirbaz Lider.”
Ongoing:
“Who Throws Whom Overboard?” @ SALT Galata – “The exhibition brings together photographic works, wall texts, films and installations addressing migration, borders, citizenship, capital and alternative economics. It does not suggest that these “issues” are related in terms of policy, but rather that they can be read as the conjoined faces of an ongoing, global crisis.”
“Constructed” @ Zilberman Gallery – “Zeynep Kayan’s works reflect on the urge to escape the two-dimensional surface of photographs through chance and experiments again with the surface. Her process revolves around capturing and modifying the same scene again and again, looking for infinite possibilities in line with the artist’s wish to escape, letting the imagery stay in one and only state.”
“Lifesaving” @ Zilberman Gallery – “The metaphor of water is omnipresent in Janet Bellotto’s work and is a comment on submersion and reflection. Bellotto’s art tries to capture the in-between states that are always in flux. She is interested in oral histories, headlines and legends; and how they are reflected in daily life.”
Antique Romance @ Pi Artworks Istanbul – “Antique Romance consists of a considered and minimal selection of paintings and sculptures that showcase the two main sides of Maris’ practice. These new semi-abstract compositions combine in unusual ways references to objects and architecture from both ancient cultures and contemporary civilizations.”
“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.”
“Obstacles” @ Space Debris – “Channeling negative emotions and reactions into an artistic creation rather than destructive emotion, self-harm, or harm inflicted upon others. That is the challenge. It’s where artist Zeynep Birced excels.”
“Hellion Equilibrium” @ Dirimart Dolapdere – “Sarah Morris’ films and paintings explore the cultural, economic, and social typologies of mega-cities like Beijing and Rio.”
“EU 48/6/N” @ Elgiz Museum – “Rahmi Aksungur is a highly influential sculptor and academician whose body of work has made a significant contribution to contemporary sculpture in Turkey.”
“Ceratonia” @ Leica Gallery Istanbul – Another new venue in Bomontiada with an impressive photography exhibition kicking things off.
“Magical Realism” @ ECNP Gallery – “The installation takes the relation of nature and human from a design perspective, constructs it like a novel in the form of poetry.”
“Home” @ x-ist – “This time [Engin Konuklu will] focus on past memories and on “Home”, the concept which brings to mind these memories most intensely.”
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