(doors open 20:30). Price: 650TL. Bookings: focan@nardisjazz.com. Nardis Jazz Club, Bereketzade Mah., Galata Kulesi Sok. No 8, Beyoğlu, 34421 İstanbul Dilek Sert Erdoğan, known as Turkey’s most ...

Pianist Emir Ersoy is accompanied by Eylem Pelit, Volkan Öktem, Aleiksi Contreras and Sercan Kerpiççiler. Their programme at Touché by N Kolaywill consist of Latin American and Cuban jazz compositions ...

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

The Beginning of Memory at Ark Kültür celebrates Galeri Nev Ankara’s four-decade history showcasing the work of 40 artists who have shaped its legacy. Since its founding in 1984, Galeri Nev has been ...

In medias res, the curtain rising on the action in full flow, might seem an odd eulogy to recite over the memory of a dear friend, but Robert Chenciner was someone in perpetual motion and even now it ...

The 2024 İKSV Istanbul Music Festival – the 52nd in the series – opened with a concert at the Atatürk Cultural Centre on May 21. As usual, the proceedings began with speeches by administrators ...

It was with great sadness that I heard the news that my beautiful, intelligent, rebellious friend Philippa Scott had died. Her delicate Pre-Raphaelite looks belied a determined, fearless and ...

Organised by Kadıköy Municipality for the third time this year, Kalamış Summer Festival started on 7 July. 43 concerts and 17 film screenings will continue until 10 September.

The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...

Tenor Berk Dalkılıç, a soloist with the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet company, will be accompanied on the piano by Gizem Dalkılıç in a selection of songs that evoke spring. This is one of the ...

This one-day workshop, commemorating Turkey’s Republic centenary, reexamines Turkish secularism from its inception to contemporary discussions about desecularisation under the Justice and Development ...

Necla Rüzgar’s finely painted watercolours and sculpture hint at ancient tales of suffering and the oppression of women as human figures metamorphose into fantastic hybrid creatures. Her simple images ...