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This Weekend:
Demonation Festival 7 – Taking place all weekend at various venues (including Babylon Bomonti, Arkaoda and Kargart), the festival is put on by Bant Mag. and offers an excellent opportunity to catch some local talents including Yabangee favorites Foton Kuşağı.
GLOW Weekend – The 2017 season starts strong for the late-night crowd, featuring an open-mic on Friday to open up the festivities and followed by plenty of local DJs.
Weekend at Clique – Features Cure-Shot, 7-Erhan, Clique Residents, TANGUN and Just D.
Weekend at Morgue – Sertaç Kazan, Pakten, Resident Morticians, The Craftsmen ft. Merv, Fatih Koşar and Danny Wabbit are on deck.
Friday:
Barış Manço Birthday Celebration @ Babylon Bomonti – “Mete Avunduk and Mehmet Aslan will bring their own styles, with some appropriate tributes to the man himself.”
Maquerade Ball @ Renaissance Istanbul Polat Bosphorus Hotel – “Welcome to our first party of 2017. There will be great 2 prizes to give away with a draw of a raffle on the night of the 6th January 2017 including many surprises. Are you ready for DJ Tuncay Işgel’s most exciting music and entertainment?”
Utopia and Man – Utopia and Society Workshop @ Akbank Sanat – The first of four seminars: “The seminar on utopias will consist of 4 classes, historical and individual texts in light of historical and philosophical context, unique visuals, and debates. Participants will be provided with pre-reading material if they wish.”
Saturday:
Aysu Çöğür ‘Experimistän’ & Zeytin @ TheMekan Beyoğlu – ‘Experimistän’ features funk, ethno-neo-soul and rock influence, while Zeytin brings their quality brand of reggae that we know and love.
Adım Adım Costume Run @ Belgrad Forest – The details are in Turkish, but interested participants can venture to www.aakosu.org and do the one-time registration. Print our your number and don it to make sure you’re included in the post-run results.
Bolu People’s Kitchen Night @ Komşu Kafe Collective – “Bolu is a town in Turkey well known by it’s prominent cooks that usually worked in royal kitchens. We’ll introduce you to vegan and vegetarian food of this town that will be made in accordance with slow food standards and with the original ingredients from rich and fertile land of of Bolu.”
What Da Funk? @ Nardis Jazz Club – “Anıl Şallıel and Batu Şallıel are the latest shining stars of the jazz and pop scene in Turkey who are energetic performers. Led by the young brothers, What Da Funk features some of Turkey’s most talented instrumentalists. The band plays their arrangements of funk, jazz and soul classics.”
Children’s Workshops @ Akbank Sanat – Four workshops including Watercolor in Water, DIY Workshop for Magical Art Necklace, I’m Drawing A Selfie and Family Mosaic.
Book Launch and Conversation: Between Places @ SALT Galata – ““Between Places” is an anthology compiling reflections on how identity is made and performed through the movement of the self and/or experiences of places under transformation. Edited by Naz Cuguoğlu and Susanne Ewerlöf, and designed by Erik Månsson, the book brings essays and artistic contributions by Fikret Atay, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Ferhat Özgür, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Liv Strand, Can Sungu and Lisa Torell together…”
Sunday:
Improv Jam @ Böcek – “Jams are short form improv games pulled out of a hat to be performed by… the audience! It’s a great chance to dip your toes into performing and to watch your friends act ridiculous on stage!”
David Bowie Is: @ Zorlu PSM Sky Lounge – A tribute to celebrate the icon’s 70th birthday which features the screening of the corresponding documentary and more.
Performistanbul’s 1 Year Anniversary: Ekin Bernay – Mother and I @ Polonezköy – “To show our appreciation, we want to celebrate our first anniversary and invite you to join us for a new experience. Performistanbul’s very first performance, Ekin Bernay’s ‘Mother and I’ curated by Simge Burhanoğlu will be re-performed and this time we will be away from the city, performing outdoors in the coziness of nature. We are aware that this is an unconventional invitation, the road will be long and the weather will be chilly. Yet, we consider all these aspects as the important parts of the performance and would like to invite you to share this experience with us.”
Ongoing:
“When Did We Stop Playing?” @ Anna Laudel Contemporary – “Through framing the question ‘When did we stop playing?’, the exhibition aims to explore the great, universal game of life in our shared, contemporary existence.”
“Creations / Creatures of the Mind” @ Bozlu Art Project – “In his exhibition, the artist who calls the audiences to reconsider and imagine through their daily lives focuses the people who will wake up their sleeps of mind and will recreate themselves in a marginalized, alienated society.”
“Library for Memory and Eternity (Twin)” @ Ariel Sanat – “Sharing in his nomadic nature, Sarkis’ work, shifting back and forth through time, invites the viewer to embark on journeys amid layers of memory. For memory is always plural, both thin stream and gushing river, each with its different sound, flow and channel. Sarkis listens to and records these sounds and movements as attentively as a seismographer, feeling them with his hands.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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