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film festival

Film Ekimi is back!

in it's 20th year
October 8, 2021 – October 17, 2021
Contemporary Istanbul
October 5, 2021 – October 10, 2021
The Golden Horn, Istanbul
Webinar

British Association for Turkish Area Studies

Intercultural Encounters among the Millets in the Late Ottoman Empire
October 1, 2021 5:30pm - 7:00pm
auction

Material Culture

Ethnographic, Asian, Ancient & Textile Arts Auction
September 29, 2021
Online talk by Ian Lyster

The Lyster family in Constantinople–Istanbul 1884–1980

Online talk presented by the Levantine Heritage Foundation
September 28, 2021 Tuesday at 6pm (UK time)
Online

Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East
September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021
Online Auction

Nazmiyal Auctions

Rug Auction Videos
September 26, 2021
performance

Piano trio concert

Hellen Weiss, Gabriel Schwabe and Caspar Frantz
September 26, 2021 8:30pm
Film Festival

Queer Borders Film Festival 2021

Towermill Cinema, Heart of Hawick and Cornucopia Unit Four
September 25, 2021 Saturday all day from 11am – in person event
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Book launch

An Ark in the Flood of Time

Book launch with Christopher Ryan
September 24, 2021 Friday 3.30 to 5.30pm
The Damascus Drum, Scotland
Performance

Cello and Piano Recital

Gary Hoffman and David Selig
September 23, 2021 8:30pm
performance

Four Hands Piano Recital

Lucas and Arthur Jussen
September 21, 2021 8:30pm
exhibition

Towards a Storm

Fahrelnissa Zeid
September 21, 2021 – October 3, 2021 10:00am - 5:30pm
exhibition

Ahu Launches at the London Design Festival

The Meyhane Collection
September 20, 2021 – September 26, 2021
Performance

Istanbul Rooftop Festival 2021
September 18, 2021
online cinema

Love Again

Istanbul Modern Cinema Launches a new season of films
September 16, 2021 – September 30, 2021
Exhibition

The Single Records | Aegean Memories

JOCHEN PROEHL
September 16, 2021 – October 16, 2021 4-8.30 PM
Remembering Belmondo
September 16, 2021 18.00 and 20.30
Institut français İstanbul
Virtual Seminar

The British Institute at Ankara presents, Breaking Continuity?

Site Formation and Temporal Depth at Çatalhöyük and Tell Sabi Abyad
September 14, 2021 17:00-18:30 (London UTC+1) | 19:00-20:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
exhibition

Zamandan Kalan
September 12, 2021 – October 12, 2021
Arts of the Islamic
September 10, 2021
exhibition

Canavar in Beyoğlu

Versus Art Project
September 9, 2021 – October 9, 2021 3pm
Arts Festival

Mahallah Festival

Murmuration
September 8, 2021 – September 26, 2021
exhibition

Galeri Nev Istanbul at Artweeks
September 8, 2021 – September 19, 2021 10 am - 6.30 pm
Film

Kadikoy Cinema

Nuri Bilge Ceylan September Series
September 1, 2021 – September 30, 2021
Exhibition

Rahima Kenner

Monoprint paintings and etchings
September 1, 2021 – September 22, 2021 Monday to Friday 11am – 4pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
performance

Istanbul Jazz Festival 2021
September 1, 2021 – September 24, 2021
exhibition

Ahmet Öğüt: It Can and Has Been

Dirimart
September 1, 2021 – October 3, 2021
Performance

“Petite Mécanique Humaine” Contaminated Theater Group

Institut français Izmir supports Bergama Theater Festival this year
August 28, 2021 – August 28, 2021
Izmir
Art Fair

Versus Art Project at the Enter Art Fair
August 28, 2021 – August 31, 2021
Conversation

Scotland’s Oldest Cycling Club

Denis Devlin, in conversation
August 27, 2021 Friday at 6pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Remote Istanbul
August 19, 2021 – August 31, 2021
Performance

Kalami Summer Festival Collective Istanbul Concert
August 17, 2021 – August 17, 2021
Voronoi
August 16, 2021 – August 31, 2021
exhibition

Interactions

Istanbul Modern
August 14, 2021 – August 30, 2021
Performance

Istanbul Music Festival 2021
August 12, 2021 – September 15, 2021
ISTANBUL
music festival

Bachçede Yaz Festivali

Summer in the Garden Festival
August 12, 2021 – September 10, 2021
Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul
Online

Opposition in Exile: Namık Kemal in London (1867-1870)

Anglo-Turkish Society online lecture by Alp Eren Topal
July 27, 2021 Tuesday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
Exhibition

Rose Hughes: Paintings and prints
July 26, 2021 – August 26, 2021 Monday to Friday 11am – 4pm
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Online Conference

ASTENE Summer Conference

Online
July 24, 2021 – July 25, 2021 From Saturday 10.30am to Sunday 5pm
Online

Editing & Interpreting the Liston Papers: Explorations in the Turkish Embassy Archives

12th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Valerie Kennedy, Patrick Hart, Dora Petherbridge
July 22, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
Online

The Rock Inscriptions, Graffiti and Crosses from Quarry GO3C at Göktepe, Muğla District/Ancient Cari

A BIAA Online Lecture by Paweł Nowakowski and Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino
July 20, 2021 Tuesday, 19:00 – 20:30 +03
A Midsummer’s Night Festival

Bir Yaz Gecesi Festivali’

Film, music and Arts festival
July 16, 2021 – September 12, 2021
Online talk

Storytelling in the Great Mongol Shahnama

with Professor Robert Hilllenbrand
July 13, 2021 Tuesday 12 noon EDT
Online

Prinkipo Regattas as Urban-Social Activity in 19th century İstanbul

11th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Bengi Su Ertürkmen Aksoy
July 13, 2021 Tuesday, 18:00 GMT
Performance

Ritmo Zeytino X Dirimart
July 8, 2021 – September 18, 2021
Online lecture

Phanariots, Ottoman governance and the Greek Revolution

New perspectives on life before the Tanzimat reforms
July 8, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
sale

James Wyness

Electroacoustics
July 7, 2021 – August 31, 2021
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Art Fair

Bodrum Art and Antique Fair (BAAF)
July 7, 2021 – July 11, 2021
Bodrum
online workshop

Online Modern and Contemporary Art Program for Kids

Çocuklara Çevrimiçi Modern ve Çağdaş Sanat Programı
July 1, 2021 – August 31, 2021
Yavuz Köse: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna

A unique source for the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire
June 24, 2021 16.30 (UK time)
Online

Revisiting Mihri Hanım (1885-1954): A Woman Painter in the late Ottoman Empire

A BIAA Online Lecture by Gizem Tongo
June 24, 2021 Thursday, 19:00 – 21:00 (Ankara UTC+3)
Online

The Characters of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures

10th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Mehmet Kentel & Özge Ertem
June 23, 2021 Wednesday, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT +3
exhibition

A Day in Silence II

Group exhibition Paintings and Sculpture
June 22, 2021 – August 1, 2021
Galeri Selvin
Performance

Fête de la Musique

Summer Solstice with music
June 21, 2021
exhibition

The Seventh Valley

Group exhibition Alev Ebüzziya, Füsun Onur and many more
June 18, 2021 – August 28, 2021
Galeri Nev Istanbul

Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 18:30
Architecture & Design

Alpaslan Ataman’s Drawing of Spacial Typology of Ottoman Architecture
18.00 BST, 20.00 Turkish time
Online

Becoming Bursa: The First Ottoman Capital Revisited

ANAMED Talk by Suna Çağaptay
June 17, 2021 Thursday, 18:30 GMT +3
Online, Performance

Film Mor Womens’ Film Festival 2021
June 16, 2021 – June 29, 2021
Online

Ottomans and their ‘Others’: Uses of soft power

Columbia Global Centers: Voices of Emerging Scholars webinar series
June 16, 2021 6pm Istanbul time, 11am NYC
Exhibition

Mixer Sessions V
June 15, 2021 – August 4, 2021 Monday – Friday, 11:00 – 18:00
Mixer, ISTANBUL
Online, Talks and tours

Frankish Gravestones in the Eastern Aegean from the Medieval Period
June 15, 2021
Bazaar

Ottoman Silks at The Silk Road Bazaar
June 11, 2021 – June 13, 2021
Sergi 9. Sanata Yolculuk
June 10, 2021 – September 26, 2021
International Conference

Musical Sources and Theories

From Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period
June 10, 2021 – June 12, 2021
Germany
Online, Talks and tours

Public Perceptions of the Other’s Heritage: Ottoman Heritage in Greece

A BIAA Online Lecture with Hakan Tarhan (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca)
June 8, 2021
Online

The cemetery at Haidar Pasha with reference to those providing medical care during the Crimean War

An online lecture by Dr Mike Hinton
June 3, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT +3
Exhibition

Eye on Nature

Douglas McBride: Photography
June 3, 2021 – June 26, 2021 11am – 4pm Monday to Saturday
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Group Exhibition

Let It Be
June 3, 2021 – July 25, 2021 Monday – Friday, 11:00 – 18:00
C.A.M. Gallery, ISTANBUL
Online talk

Etel Adnan: Her Life, Her Work, Her Cities
June 2, 2021 Wednesday, 18:30
Online

Subterranean Hagia Sophia: Revealing the Waters below Hagia Sophia

A BIAA Online Lecture by Dr Çiğdem Özkan Aygün and Professor James Crow
June 1, 2021 Tuesday, 19:00 – 21:00 GMT +3
exhibition

Deniz Pasha - Blood Memory

Last days
May 27, 2021 – July 3, 2021
Online

Unlikely Diaologues in Art

Voices of Emerging Scholars 5th Workshop
May 26, 2021 Wednesday, 18:00 GMT +3
Online Symposium

Perceptions of the Other:

The Ottoman Empire / Turkey and the West
May 22, 2021 Saturday 17.30 – 19.30 BST
Online

In conversation: Melih Fereli and Laura Kuhn
May 20, 2021 Thursday, 19:00 GMT +3
Connoisseur

Fatoş Irwen: Exceptional Times
May 20, 2021 – June 27, 2021
DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul
Connoisseur

Raziye Kubat: Night Flight
May 20, 2021 – June 27, 2021
DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul
Online

Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire

9th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Dr Malte Fuhrmann
May 20, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT+3
Exhibition

The Romance of Ruins

The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764
May 19, 2021 – September 5, 2021 10:00 – 17:00 GMT
London
Connoisseur

Istanbul Art and Antique Fair
May 18, 2021 – May 23, 2021
Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Maçka, Istanbul
Online Conference

Travel and Archaeology in Ottoman Greece in the Age of Revolution c.1800–1832

Organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
May 17, 2021 – May 18, 2021
Athens, Greece
Connoisseur

Necla Rüzgar: My Name was Written on Every Page
May 16, 2021 – June 27, 2021
Galeri Nev Ankara, Ankara
Kemal Seyhan
May 13, 2021 – June 30, 2021
Pi Artworks London, London
Online, Talks and tours

The Martyrdom of Konon of Bidana:

How the Patron of the Isaurians was Made
May 11, 2021 Tuesday 17:00-18:30 (London UTC+1) | 19:00-20:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
Live Exhibition

Boundaries II

Recent paintings by Ewen Macdonald
May 6, 2021 – May 29, 2021 Monday to Saturday 11am to 4pm or by appointment. Closed Sundays
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Online talk

Aleppo: from World City to Civil War

A talk by Philip Mansel
May 6, 2021 Thursday at 6pm
Online festival

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021
April 29, 2021 – May 3, 2021
Scotland
Online lecture

Bodies, Bronze, and Başur:

What the dead have to say about it
April 26, 2021 Monday 5 – 7.30pm (London)
Roundtable webinar

Teaching the ‘long’ 18th century

Roundtable organized by Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia, and Dipti Khera, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York
April 23, 2021 16.00–18.00 Turkish time
Exhibition

Intersection VI

Burak Dak, Gökhan Gökseven and Metin Alper Kurt
April 22, 2021 – July 3, 2021 Monday – Friday, 12:00 –18:00
x-ist, ISTANBUL
ONLINE TALK

Ruyer and Embryogenesis

Online Interpretation Event
April 22, 2021
Online lecture

The Alexianos: A transnational Greek family

7th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Giampaolo Salice
April 22, 2021 Thursday, 18:00 – 20:00 BST
Connoisseur

Single Channel -

Nermin Er, Hale Tenger and Inci Eviner
April 15, 2021 – May 14, 2021
Connoisseur

Site-specific virtual light installation

Installation by Özge Topçu
April 15, 2021 – May 15, 2021
Online class

Languages and Writing Systems of Anatolia

(Oriental Institute, 5 weeks)
April 15, 2021 – May 20, 2021 Zoom: Thursdays 17.00–19.00 CST (recorded for participants)
The Oriental Institute, USA
Online Zoom talk

Tales from the Turkish newsroom:

Why Newspapers Sometimes Lie
by Andrew Finkel
April 15, 2021 Thursday at 6pm (GMT)
Exhibition

The Garden of (not) Forgetting

Dilşad Aladağ and Eda Aslan
April 14, 2021 – May 30, 2021 Tuesday – Friday, 11:00 – 19:00
DEPO, ISTANBUL
Conceptual art

Deniz Gül: Scratch and Surface

Seqential II
April 13, 2021 – June 28, 2021
SALT Galata, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

The Turkish contemporary artist Deniz Gül speculates on the nature of words and translation.
Online, Talks and tours

Cooking Sections
April 11, 2021 19.00 Istanbul time
SALT Beyoğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Online

Istanbul Unbound

Environmental Approaches to the City
April 8, 2021 – April 11, 2021
ISTANBUL

Events » Past Events

The arts diary

Past events

film festival

in it's 20th year

The Golden Horn, Istanbul

Webinar

Intercultural Encounters among the Millets in the Late Ottoman Empire

auction

Ethnographic, Asian, Ancient & Textile Arts Auction

Online talk by Ian Lyster

Online talk presented by the Levantine Heritage Foundation

Online

Online Auction

Rug Auction Videos

performance

Hellen Weiss, Gabriel Schwabe and Caspar Frantz

Film Festival

Towermill Cinema, Heart of Hawick and Cornucopia Unit Four

Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland

Book launch

Book launch with Christopher Ryan

The Damascus Drum, Scotland

Performance

Gary Hoffman and David Selig

performance

Lucas and Arthur Jussen

exhibition

Fahrelnissa Zeid

exhibition

The Meyhane Collection

Performance

online cinema

Istanbul Modern Cinema Launches a new season of films

Exhibition

JOCHEN PROEHL

Institut français İstanbul

Virtual Seminar

Site Formation and Temporal Depth at Çatalhöyük and Tell Sabi Abyad

exhibition

exhibition

Versus Art Project

Arts Festival

Murmuration

exhibition

Film

Nuri Bilge Ceylan September Series

Exhibition

Monoprint paintings and etchings

Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland

performance

exhibition

Dirimart

Performance

Institut français Izmir supports Bergama Theater Festival this year

Izmir

Art Fair

Conversation

Denis Devlin, in conversation

Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland

Performance

exhibition

Istanbul Modern

Performance

ISTANBUL

music festival

Summer in the Garden Festival

Downtown Istanbul (the European side), Istanbul

Online

Anglo-Turkish Society online lecture by Alp Eren Topal

Exhibition

Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland

Online Conference

Online

Online

12th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Valerie Kennedy, Patrick Hart, Dora Petherbridge

Online

A BIAA Online Lecture by Paweł Nowakowski and Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino

A Midsummer’s Night Festival

Film, music and Arts festival