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Christies Islamic Sale Spring 2020

NOW RESCHEDULED
FOR THURSDAY 25 JUNE
June 25, 2020
Christie’s King Street, London
Exhibition

Osman Hamdi Bey: Beyond Vision

RE-OPENING ON JUNE 16
June 16, 2020
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul
Auction, Connoisseur

Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art, Spring 2020

NOW RESCHEDULED FOR 11 JUNE
June 11, 2020
Bonhams New Bond Street, London
Auction

Sotheby’s: Arts of the Islamic World & India, including Fine Rugs & Carpet, April 2020

NOW RESCHEDULED FOR 10 JUNE
June 10, 2020
Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London
Performance

Istanbul Music Festival 2020

EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020
June 2, 2020 – June 25, 2020
Greater Istanbul, Istanbul
Performance

Christian Blackshaw

Istanbul Recitals 2020
May 16, 2020 20.00
The Seed (Sakıp Sabancı Museum), Emirgan, Istanbul
Online Lecture

FARIT Lecture: Byzantine Art and Thessaloniki
May 14, 2020 6pm

Dr. Ivana Jevtić from Koç University will give an online lecture on "Byzantine Art and Thessaloniki" on May 14th at 6 pm via ZOOM.
Group Exhibition

14th Printemps des Artistes: Istanbul, City of Contrasts

14th Printemps Des Artistes
May 8, 2020 – May 15, 2020
Od’A-Ouvroir d’Art, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Talks and Lectures

Aleppo: from World City to Catastrophe

A talk by Philip Mansel
POSTPONED
May 7, 2020 Thursday at 6 pm
Edinburgh
Online auction

Material Culture

Oriental Rugs from American Estates
April 29, 2020 Wednesday 10am ET
North America
Symposium

Mapping the Ottoman Realm

Travellers, Cartographers and Archaeologists
April 21, 2020 – April 23, 2020
Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Performance

sa.ne.na / Michael Gordon’s Timber

Turkey's outstanding contemporary percussion group
April 17, 2020 EVENT CANCELLED
Gala

Colors of Turkey Gala

Turkish Philanthropy Funds
POSTPONED
April 16, 2020 18.30
The Metropolitan Museum, North America
Talks and Lectures

From Lord Elgin to Gertrude Bell

A local perspective on British archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
April 15, 2020 18.00 – 19.00 GMT
British Museum, London
Online Courses

Yunus Emre Institute, London

Short Courses Online
April 15, 2020 – June 27, 2020
Yunus Emre Institute in London, London
Connoisseur

Nilüfer Yıldırım: In the Arms of Morpheus
April 11, 2020 – April 28, 2020
Galeri Diani & Atelye Südor, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

Barry Douglas

Istanbul Recitals 2020
April 10, 2020 20.00
The Seed (Sakıp Sabancı Museum), Emirgan, Istanbul
Talk

The life of Martha Riggs as a Missionary wife and mother in the 19th Century Ottoman

Talk by Melisa Korkmaz
April 6, 2020 6pm
ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

Diksant

İlhan Usmanbaş
April 4, 2020 20.30
Borusan Music House, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Performance

Shakespeare and Music
April 3, 2020 20.30
Borusan Music House, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Talks and tours

Jitka Malečková: Traveling Outside the Colonial Framework. Czech Travelers to Istanbul, 1860s-1923
April 1, 2020 7pm
Cezayir Building, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

Turkish Waltzes

Cihat Aşkın, violin
April 1, 2020 Wednesday at 7:30 pm GMT
Cadogan Hall, London
Scholarship

Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive

The Arif Mardin Music Fellowship
April 1, 2020
North America
Scholarship

SVA Summer Artist Residency

Scholarship from the American Turkish Society
April 1, 2020
North America
Performance

Turkish Music Concerts: Alâeddin Yavaşca
March 29, 2020 3.30pm
The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

The Broken Band

EVENT CANCELLED
March 28, 2020 – March 29, 2020 Saturday at 2.30pm, Sunday at 2pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Julia Sterland, portrait painter

Reivers Festival event
March 28, 2020 – March 29, 2020
United Kingdom
symposium

Nature and the Environment: The 53rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

EVENT POSTPONED (27th-29th March 2021)
March 28, 2020 – March 30, 2020 Saturday from 9am–Monday 6pm
United Kingdom
Connoisseur

Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Art

RE-OPENING ON JUNE 16
March 26, 2020 – June 28, 2020
The Pera Museum, Tepebaşı, Istanbul
Talks and tours

Archaeologists at the Trojan walls, meddling between myth and reality?

EVENT CANCELLED
March 26, 2020 16.15
UCL Institute of Archaeology, London
Talks and tours

Ottoman Culture in Europe: 1453 – 1699

EVENT POSTPONED
March 25, 2020 Wednesday at 6pm GMT
United Kingdom
Muhsin Kut: Paintings
March 24, 2020 – March 18, 2020
Galeri Selvin, ISTANBUL
Performance

CRR Jazz Orchestra and Cansu Nihal Akarsu
March 23, 2020 EVENT CANCELLED
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Talks and Lectures

Ottoman Gardens & Europe

EVENT POSTPONED
March 23, 2020 Monday at 19:00 – 20:30 GMT
Yunus Emre Institute in London, London
exhibition

Echoes from the Deep: Wrecks of the Dardanelles Campaign

EVENT POSTPONED
March 20, 2020 – April 9, 2020
Yunus Emre Institute in London
Performance

Gallipoli Memorial Concert

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra
March 20, 2020 EVENT CANCELLED
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Performance

‘From the Sistine Chapel’: the Tallis Scholars
March 19, 2020 EVENT CANCELLED
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul

EVENT CANCELLED
seminar and book launch

Diagnosing and Treating Disease in Byzantine Hospitals

EVENT CANCELLED
March 17, 2020 Tuesday 5.30–7pm
King’s College London, London
Performance

Cabaret: French chansons

EVENT CANCELLED
March 17, 2020 8.30pm
Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum, Ankara
Lecture

Great Goddesses of the East: Matriarchal theories and historiographic models

Talk by Frederika Tevebring
March 17, 2020 7pm
Swedish Research Institute in Turkey, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Talks and tours

Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age until the End of Antiquity

A BIAA-ARIT Lecture by Nick Cahill
March 17, 2020 EVENT CANCELLED
British Institute at Ankara, Ankara
Open Mic

Borders Writers’ Forum

Open Mic
March 14, 2020 Saturday 2–4pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Concert

Fantastic Heroes: Bilkent Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Roozeman

EVENT CANCELLED
March 14, 2020 20.00
Bilkent Concert Hall, Ankara
Piano recital

Istanbul Recitals 2020: Imogen Cooper
March 14, 2020 20.00 This concert is due to go ahead as planned
The Seed (Sakıp Sabancı Museum), Emirgan, Istanbul
exhibition

İnci Eviner: What Remains, What Returns and Implications
March 13, 2020 – April 11, 2020
Galeri Nev Istanbul, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Istanbul Film Festival 2020
March 13, 2020
Fazıl Say in concert March 2020
March 12, 2020 – March 29, 2020
Europe
Talks and tours

The Urban Janissary in Eighteenth Century Istanbul

Speaker: Dr Gemma Masson
March 12, 2020 Thursday at 6pm
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London
open studio

Özge Topçu: Terranean
March 12, 2020 – March 15, 2020
Lisbon
Performance

Kremerata Baltica on Tour with Lucas Debargue
March 12, 2020 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Talks and tours

Byzantine-Turkish Diplomacy and the Loss of Western Asia Minor

A talk by Alexander Beihammer
March 11, 2020 14.30
Ankara
Lecture

Ilustrating Manuscripts in mid-16th Century Bukhara

Lecture by Dr Karin Rührdanz
March 11, 2020 7–9pm
London Middle East Institute at SOAS, London
Talks and tours

Gábor Fodor: Hungarian Memoirs from the Ottoman Empire, 1848–1918
March 11, 2020 7pm
Cezayir Building, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Talks and tours

The Rise of Obscene Masters: a talk by Slavoj Žižek
March 11, 2020 4pm
The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

Beethoven 250: İdil Biret and the Avrasya Philharmonic Orchestra
March 11, 2020 20.30
Zorlu Performing Arts Centre, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Jazz

Richard Bona and Alfredo Rodriguez
March 11, 2020 20.30
İş Sanat Culture Center, Levent, Istanbul
Performance

Camerata Royal Concertgebouw with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
March 10, 2020 20.30
İş Sanat Culture Center, Levent, Istanbul
Jazz festival

27th Izmir European Jazz Festival

EVENT CANCELLED
March 10, 2020 – March 19, 2020 20.00
Izmir
Nardis Jazz Club March 2020
March 10, 2020 – March 31, 2020
Nardis Jazz Club, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Talk

25 Years of Research at Göbekli Tepe

A Summary of Past and Recent Results
March 9, 2020 – March 13, 2020
USA
Performance

Hans Graf and Basque National Orchestra
March 9, 2020 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
concert

Ags Connolly + George Borowski

String Theory Live
March 9, 2020 Doors open 7pm
Music starts 7.30pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Film screening

Feminista Film Festival

2020 UK Tour
March 8, 2020 Sunday at 2pm.
Doors open 1.30pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Talks and Lectures

Extraordinary Women: Gertrude Bell

The Female Lawrence of Arabia
March 8, 2020 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Canada
chamber music

Opus Amadeus Chamber Music Festival
March 7, 2020 – April 22, 2020 ALL REMAINING EVENTS CANCELLED
ISTANBUL
Solo Exhibition

Yusuf Aygeç: Genius Loci (Mekanın Ruhu)

Yusuf Aygeç
March 7, 2020 – April 5, 2020
C.A.M. Galeri, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
he life of Martha Riggs as a Missionary wife and mother in the 19th Century Ottoman

Talk by Melisa Korkmaz: t
March 7, 2020
Performance

Trio Lacertae
March 7, 2020 5.30
Şerefiye Sarnıcı, Sultanahmet, Istanbul
Gábor Fodor: Hungarian Memoirs from the Ottoman Empire, 1848–1918
March 7, 2020 7pm
Turkish Pazar Festival
March 7, 2020 – March 8, 2020 Sat: 9am – 4pm Sun: 9am – 4pm
Melbourne
Performance

The Fog

The first in a series of films, 'There's Somthing in the Fog'
March 6, 2020 19.00
The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Connoisseur

Fragile Surface – Fluid Mass

CLOSED UNTIL MARCH 24
March 6, 2020 – April 5, 2020
Martch Art Project, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Connoisseur

Seval Şener: Eros and Psyche
March 6, 2020 – April 4, 2020
Galeri Nev Ankara, Ankara
Talks and tours

Travellers to and from the Middle East
March 6, 2020 – April 3, 2020
Performance

Bilkent Music Days V

EVENT CANCELLED
March 5, 2020 – March 25, 2020 20.00
Bilkent Concert Hall, Ankara
Book Talk

Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire

Book talk with Lâle Can
March 5, 2020
North America
Connoisseur

VOLTA New York’20

Ansen
March 4, 2020 – March 8, 2020
Metropolitan West, New York
Connoisseur

Utku Varlık: Illusion (Sanrı)
March 3, 2020 – April 8, 2020
Bozlu Art Project Şişli, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Talks and tours

An “Ottoman Moment” in Egypt: The Young Turk Revolution of 1908

ARIT lecture by Doğa Öztürk
March 2, 2020 6pm
ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, İstiklâl Caddesi, Istanbul
Workshop

Deep Adaptations

Day workshop
February 29, 2020 Saturday 10am – 4pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition

Jpeg Archipelago

Antonio Cosentino
February 28, 2020 – May 5, 2020
Zilberman Gallery and Project Space, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Solo Exhibition

Plants, Animals and Buildings

Emin Mete Erdoğan
February 27, 2020 – April 4, 2020
x-ist, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Performance

The Well

Audio-visual performance by Başak Günak
February 27, 2020 – March 1, 2020 Performances: 28 February–1 March 12:00, 15:00 and 18:00
, Dolapdere
Talks and tours

Byzantium at Ankara Spring 2020 Lecture Series
February 27, 2020 – May 8, 2020
Ankara
Talks and tours

Antique Sagalassos: Revealing Turkey’s Secret Cultural Heritage

Archaeological lecture by Prof Jeroen Poblome
February 26, 2020 6.30pm
Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, İstiklâl Caddesi, Istanbul
Exhibition

A Three-Character Play

Fahrelnissa Zeid
February 26, 2020 – April 5, 2020
Dirimart Dolapdere, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Film

Moving Image Makers Collective (MIMC)

February meeting
February 24, 2020 Monday at 6.30pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
concert

Laura Sergeant & Christopher Baxter

Hawick Music Club concert
February 23, 2020 Sunday at 2.30pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Performance

Hakan Ali Toker

Urban Life
February 22, 2020 20.30
Borusan Music House, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Fair

Istanbul Art & Antique Fair 2020
February 20, 2020 – February 23, 2020
Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Exhibition

Nancy Atakan and Kalliopi Lemos: It still is as it always was
February 20, 2020 – March 28, 2020 6 PM GMT
Pi Artworks London, London
meeting

Green Gathering

February meeting
February 19, 2020 Wednesday at 6pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
exhibition

A Sultan in Paris, an Empress in Istanbul
February 19, 2020 – March 14, 2020
Notre-Dame de Sion Fransız Lisesi and the Church of St Esprit, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Exhibition

Furusiyya

The Art of Chivalry Between East and West
CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
February 19, 2020 – May 30, 2020
Kent DuChaine

Delta Bluesman
February 17, 2020 Doors 7pm for 7.30pm prompt
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Talks and tours

The Journey to Mount Kailash

A talk by Robert Leach
February 16, 2020 Sunday at 6pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
Lecture

ANAMED Short-Term Fellowships

Spring 2020
February 15, 2020 – February 15, 2020
ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Performance

Istanbul Recitals

Soyoung Yoon & Mario Haring
February 14, 2020 20.00
The Seed (Sakıp Sabancı Museum), Emirgan, Istanbul
Lecture

Klaros: The Oracular Sanctuary of Apollo in Ionia

Lecture by Dr Gülşah Günata
February 13, 2020 17.00–18.00
United Kingdom
Talks and tours

From Foe to Friend

Many Faces of the Turk in Early Modern Games (1500–1750)
February 12, 2020 18.30–20.00
Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul

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Auction, Connoisseur

NOW RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY 25 JUNE

Christie’s King Street, London

Exhibition

RE-OPENING ON JUNE 16

Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul

Auction, Connoisseur

NOW RESCHEDULED FOR 11 JUNE

Bonhams New Bond Street, London

Auction

NOW RESCHEDULED FOR 10 JUNE

Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London

Performance

EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020

Greater Istanbul, Istanbul

Performance

Istanbul Recitals 2020

The Seed (Sakıp Sabancı Museum), Emirgan, Istanbul

Online Lecture

Group Exhibition

14th Printemps Des Artistes

Od’A-Ouvroir d’Art, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul

Talks and Lectures

A talk by Philip Mansel POSTPONED

Edinburgh

Online auction

Oriental Rugs from American Estates

North America

Symposium

Travellers, Cartographers and Archaeologists

Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul

Performance

Turkey's outstanding contemporary percussion group

Gala

Turkish Philanthropy FundsPOSTPONED

The Metropolitan Museum, North America

Talks and Lectures

A local perspective on British archaeology in the Ottoman Empire

British Museum, London

Online Courses

Short Courses Online

Yunus Emre Institute in London, London

Connoisseur

Galeri Diani & Atelye Südor, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Performance

Istanbul Recitals 2020

The Seed (Sakıp Sabancı Museum), Emirgan, Istanbul

Talk

Talk by Melisa Korkmaz

ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Performance

İlhan Usmanbaş

Borusan Music House, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul

Performance

Borusan Music House, Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul

Talks and tours

Cezayir Building, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Performance

Cihat Aşkın, violin

Cadogan Hall, London

Scholarship

The Arif Mardin Music Fellowship

North America

Scholarship

Scholarship from the American Turkish Society

North America

Performance

The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Performance

EVENT CANCELLED

Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom

Reivers Festival event

United Kingdom

symposium

EVENT POSTPONED (27th-29th March 2021)

United Kingdom

Connoisseur

NOW RESCHEDULED
FOR THURSDAY 25 JUNE

A talk by Philip Mansel
POSTPONED

Turkish Philanthropy Funds
POSTPONED