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This Weekend:
Friday/Saturday: Holiday Bazaar @ CIRCUIT – “Join CIRCUIT for their take on the Christmas Market as they support local artists and celebrate the winter holiday season with festive cookies, mulled wine, apple cider, and holiday tunes. And don’t miss the performance by Martina Pavone and the Istanbul A Cappella Choir on Friday 10.12.2015!”
Saturday/Sunday: Speech Bubbles Presents: Dick Whittington and his Cat @ Şişli Terakki Theatre – “Hearing that the streets are paved with gold, our down-on-his-luck hero Dick Whittington sets off to London in search of fame, fortune, adventure… and true love! But the dastardly King Rat and his band of evil ratlings will let nothing stand in the way of world domination and soon the streets of the capital are overrun with rats causing chaos and mayhem across the City…”
Friday/Saturday: Act to Impact! – Istanbul’s Social Impact Summit – “Istanbul&I, in partnership with various mentors, will lead workshops to help the participants cultivate and clarify their personal purpose; building a community of co-creators and lifelong collaborators, and help further develop their social impact ideas.”
Friday:
Lara Fabian @ Zorlu Center PSM – “Shattering the music charts with songs like ‘I Will Love Again’ and ‘Je’Taime’ and having sold over 20 million records around the world, the famous pop star Lara Fabian, will meet music lovers in Istanbul and offer her unique sound to the fans at the Zorlu Performing Arts Center.”
Kerem Görsev Trio @ Salon IKSV – “The trio most recently recorded Kerem Görsev’s album Emirgan in 2014, together with Grammy-awarded saxophonist Ernie Watts. Kerem Görsev Trio will greet the Salon audience with a concert to make redbuds bloom in the middle of winter.”
Francesco Tristano @ Zorlu PSM – “Continuing with his work in classical music along with electronic, Tristano proved his competence in both areas with his deep house band Aufgang, which consists of two pianos and drums. Having released 6 albums and 4 maxi singles throughout his solo career as well as 7 albums with Aufgang, his tracks were featured in the two compilation albums by Infiné records.”
Sacred Spaces & Urban Networks @ Anamed – “The 11th annual symposium of ANAMED aims to remove some of the disciplinary boundaries by bringing together archeologists, historians, art historians, historians of architecture and landscape in order to examine the material in more detail from a broader and different perspective. It also endeavors to understand other spaces deemed ‘sacred’ that have attracted less scholarly attention and their relationship to the city.”
Ilhan Erşahin’s Wonderland @ Babylon Bomonti – “In Wonderland, an observant and genuine expression of Ersahin’s relationship with Istanbul, essential elements of jazz – sax, bass, drums and guitar – digitally blend with vital instruments of Turkish music, the clarinet and darbuka. The performance combines arabesque, dub, trip-hop, electronic jazz, drum’n’bass, Balkan and Roma beats in a musical wave.”
Starting: “It’s Time To Paint Flowers Again” @ Gallery Ilayda – “März dedicates his works to known figures including Nietzsche, Bruno, Benjamin, Bataille, Sloterdijk, Arendt and features prominent characters such as Joseph Beuys, Pina Bausch, Franz Kafka in alternative scenarios. Positioning himself on the intersection of art and philosophy, he criticizes the current human condition, comparing it to the past by means of an ironic, humorous and entertaining language.”
Burn Energy Drink presents: Joris Voorn x Kidnap Kid – “Creating his own school with his seamless transitions between trance – techno and techno – minimal, as well as leading a change in electronic music that overflows way beyond his generation, Joris Voorn is already considered as one of the living legends of electronic music.”
NewSpeak presents: Rodriguez Jr. @ indigo – “Now an integral part of the mobilee records family, Olivier will continue to channel his vision, passion, and love of music into all that he does, and all that will come.”
Saturday:
Ending: “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.”
Noir @ Babylon Bomonti – “Pursuing his passion for musical expression from a young age, René ‘Noir’ Kristensen built further on his success with the release of his first album in 2015. Noir builds on original beats with inspiration he draws from several names ranging from Timbaland to Dave Gahan.”
Weval “Live” @ Zorlu PSM – “It would not be correct to simply label Weval’s genre as electronic. The duo’s success lies in regularly using elements of jazz, hip-hop, krautrock, pop and funk in songs, organically combining them and creating a whole.”
Garanti Jazz Green: El Perro del Mar / Sin Fang @ Salon IKSV – “Perro del Mar: A tiny-in-size, yet huge-in-taste delight from Sweden. Sin Fang: An experimental indie musician from Iceland.”
Starting: Negative Ecstasy @ Dirimart Dolapdere – “The concept for the exhibition is based on French philosopher Georges Bataille’s assertion that consequential art involves a rupture between the boundary of life and death; the mixing of the sacred and the profane; or put another way, a communion between the bounded self and the immeasurable void.”
Kolektif Jammin’ @ Kolektif House – “At Kolektif House’s Jam Sessions, the stage belongs to us, to all of us! Pick up whichever instrument grabs your fancy, and let’s create the music together. Don’t feel like playing? Then come and dance the night away!”
Country for Syria @ CreAtolye – “The band blends traditional Middle Eastern music with American Country music. The band’s earnings contribute aid to Syrian refugees and those affected by conflict around the world. They recently returned from their first US tour, sponsored by the Giving Hunger the Blues Festival.”
Syria meets India: Street Food Pop-Up – “The event is to raise funds for Syrian children in the neighborhood. All proceeds from the evening will go to Yusra Community Center’s food and education programs for Syrian children.”
Reptilians From Andromeda & The Young Shaven @ Karga Bar – “REPTILIANS FROM ANDROMEDA is a No Wave / Garage Punk band from Istanbul…” / “THE YOUNG SHAVEN describe themselves as ‘equal parts guitar jangle, bass jump, spit lyrics, rolling tongues, clap-tastic beats with the odd cover thrown in to keep your gran warm.'”
Limits Off: Âme + Alican @ indigo – “Âme are German duo Kristian Beyer & Frank Wiedemann. Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, WestEnd Rec, Transmat, Weather Report and Herbie Hancock they describe they make Detroit-influenced deep house and music with soul.”
Sunday:
Tom Waits Tribute Night by JazzMatiz – Pazar Pazar Babylon – Nothing nicer to conclude a weekend than indulging in a Tom Waits tribute.
Ongoing:
“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.”
“Ugly” @ x-ist – “Rendering contemporary problems ponderable and maybe laughable by expressing them through humour, this time the caricature artists meet the audience with their works as a reply to how outside the form of caricature they can address the uglinesses of the world in which we are living.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Fractum Regnum” @ Art On Istanbul – “Centered on experimental media and digital arts with a focus on generative computer arts in his works and visuals, Ozan Türkkan presents his works featuring virtual reality installations, as well as those relying on light frequency, such as holograms through which he plays with spectators` perceptions; generative videos from his researches in fractal geometry and 3D Lenticular prints.”
“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.”
“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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