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İki yıl sonra İstanbul’da ‘Boiler Room’ gecesi
Club kültürünü dünya çapında daha geniş kitleye taşıyan bağımsız bir müzik platformu Boiler Room, The Moment ortaklığında bir başka ‘Contemporary Scenes’ etkinliği için iki yıl aradan sonra yeniden İstanbul’a geri geliyor. 15 Haziran Perşembe günü Salon İKSV’de düzenlenecek Boiler Room & The Moment Sunar ‘Contemporary Scenes’, Türk yeteneklerinden oluşan seçkin bir DJ grubunu da bir araya getirecek. Dünyaca ünlü Berghain/Panorama Bar’ın yakın zamanda resident DJ’leri arasında yer alan Sedef Adası, Türk mirasını kutlayacağı bu etkinlik için İstanbul’a gelecek.
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Last but not least event at iDANS
ISTANBUL - iDANS Istanbul International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival, presented by the Bimeras Cultural Foundation, completes its marathon month-long program today with a fascinating performance that combines visual and cinematographic arts with choreography and performance.
Quo vadis?
Professor Türkan Saylan was a special person; there is no doubt about that. Even if you didn’t know her personally or closely, this is obvious. Her short life story is enough to explain how special she was. Saylan was 74, and we knew that it was time for her to go after long years of battling cancer. So it was not surprising to see such a crowd attending her funeral ceremony.
Dance wind blows in Istanbul at international festival
ISTANBUL - Starting from today, Istanbul will be hosting a multi-disciplinary artistic event, including dance, performance, film screening, video installations, for one month: the iDANS International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival. The festival is the first of its kind in Turkey.
A story of Hasankeyf’s abandonment, defeat
ISTANBUL - ’Benim ve Roz’un Sonbaharı’ (Roz’s and My Autumn) is based on a story of a journalist who publishes a local newspaper with the support of a few acquaintances to save Hasankeyf, a 10,000 year old settlement, from being flooded to accommodate a dam that is being planned in the area.
Adıyaman daily sets lawsuit record
ISTANBUL - Hacı Boğatekin, the owner of Gerger Fırat, a local newspaper in the eastern city of Adıyaman, has had 113 lawsuits filed against him. He has been put in prison three times and suffered health problems as a result. But he said he has never thought of giving up journalism.
Fazıl Say music to to depict Anatolia
ANKARA - As part of the preparations for the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture, world-renowned Turkish pianist Fazıl Say is working on his first symphony named 'Istanbul Symphony.' Say will also compose a sonata and he will depict Istanbul and four Anatolian cities in this work
Falling in love on silver screen
Three love stories, three contemporary Turkish movies. Pick your choice for Valentine’s Day among these heart-wrenching stories of love, holding on to love, and possible heartbreak. ’Issız Adam’ (Isolated Man), ’Gitmek’ (My Marlon and Brando) and ’Mutluluk’ (Bliss), shaping trends in contemporary Turkish cinema, are not for the faint of heart
Istanbul impressions of a German on display
BERLIN - German photographer Ingo Mittelstaedt, who stayed in Turkey with a Turkish family in high school, collected objects of interest that he found in the street of Istanbul and later used them in arrangments for his photographs. Now these photographs are on display at an aexhibition in Berlin.