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This Weekend:
Friday/Saturday: New Year Weekend @ GLOW – Plenty of DJs on hand to keep you dancing til the morning.
Friday:
Ayhan Sicimoğlu & Latin All-Stars @ Babylon Bomonti – Treat yourself to one last 2016 performance from this group of local talent.
Iranian Food Night @ Komşu Kafe Collective – “We’re excited to announce our last food event this year: Iranian Food Night. Let’s wave our good byes to this horrible year together with our stomachs full and in a splendid company.”
Ending: “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.”
Circuit Room Showcase @ Clique – An opportunity for local electronic acts to show what they’re made of.
Adamlar @ Dorock XL – A bit of local music to start things off right.
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.”
VUE New Year Party @ VUE Lounge & Bar – VUE Lounge & Bar will host their New Year Party on Saturday 31 December. DJ Erkan Şen will be on deck to keep the music flowing. The fun kicks off at 21:00, with entry set at 99 TL (includes a domestic drink). For VIP reservations or additional info, please contact +90 212 463 1333.
Istanbul&I New Year’s Eve @ Arada Cafe – “Come and join your favorite social impact community in starting the new year at Arada Cafe!” *This event is in an alcohol-free space.
BaBa Zula @ KadıköySahne – Ring in the new year with live music and local psychedelic legends.
Ending: “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.”
Ending: “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.”
Ending: “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.”
Ending:”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.”
Ending: Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpting In Time @ Pera Museum A few screenings remain to finish off this tribute to the famous Soviet director.
Legendary Erasmus Boat Party by The Best Party Life – Over 700 students on a boat with the festivities put on by one of the city’s most popular student groups.
New Year’s Eve Boat Party by ESN Turkey – “So now; are you ready to celebrate 2017 on a boat, in the middle of the Bosphorus, between two continents; Asia and Europe, under the spell of the stars?”
Madness 2017 New Year House Party by Istanbul Erasmus Party Point – Private house party, featuring a heated pool, games, fireworks, 12 hours of music and more… seems like a solid choice for international students.
Scarlet: New Year’s Eve Boat Party by Best Yildiz – ” “I’m basically trying to say that we will party all night which is composed by approximetly 25 different countries NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY in the middle of the Bosphorus on a boat.”
New Year’s Eve 2017 @ Clique – You know the drill. Dance your way into 2017.
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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