The arts diary

Online, Talks and tours

Dr Robert Schild:  ‘Burgazada: A living ethnographic museum’

London May 13, 2025 20.00 (Turkey) 18.00 (UK)

Chamber music

Istanbul Baroque Ensemble

Barok Tutkular (‘Baroque Passions’)

Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul May 14, 2025 20.00

Chamber music

Bozok Quartet, Ayşegül Kirmanoğlu (clarinet), İris Şentürker (piano)

Brahms Romanticism

Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul May 14, 2025 20.00

Online, Talks and tours

Alev Berberoğlu: Camera and Female Empowerment

Italian Photographer Elisa Zonaro in Ottoman Istanbul

London May 14, 2025 18.00 (UK) 20.00 (Turkey)

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Ziyu He (violin)

Yüzyılın Yankıları (‘The Century’s Echoes’)

Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul May 15, 2025 20.00

Performance

Emir Ersoy

Cuban Classics

Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul May 15, 2025

Göksu, Demirer, Deniz

Jazz Wind

Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul May 16, 2025 20.00

Orchestral Concert

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, various young soloists

Solo exhibition

Belkıs Balpınar: Through Woven Times

A retrospective

Anna Laudel, Beyoğlu, Istanbul March 6, 2025 – May 18, 2025

Retrospective

Belkıs Balpınar: Through Woven Times

Anna Laudel, Beyoğlu, Istanbul March 6, 2025 – May 18, 2025

Art, Contemporary art

Mustafa Hulusi: Breathing in the World

Dirimart Pera, Beyoğlu, Istanbul May 23, 2025 – May 22, 2025

Art, Auction

Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art

Bonhams New Bond Street, London May 23, 2025

Hyrbid talk (online and in person)

Andrew Finkel: Constantinople in Olympia

How the nineteenth century Eastern Question was transformed by spectacle, song and dance

Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London May 27, 2025 18.00 (UK) 20.00 (Turkey)