Catégorie : Cultural events

7 September – 22 October 2012

Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki

Jane Evelyn Atwood (US), Bruno Barbey (MA), Samuel Bollendorff (FR), Eric Bouvet (FR), Kathryn Cook (US), Claudine Doury (FR), Carolyn Drake (US), Nikos Economopoulos (GR), Rena Effendi (AZ), George Georgiou (CY), Harry Gruyaert (BE), Guillaume Herbaut (FR), Ed Kashi (US), Massimo Mastrorillo (IT), Steve McCurry (US), Davide Monteleone (IT), Christopher Morris (US), Paolo Pellegrin (IT), Anders Petersen (SE), Reza (AZ), Anthony Suau (US), Gaël Turine (BE), Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt (BE), Ami Vitale (US), Vanessa Winship (GB)

Co-organization: Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki / Zaman Publishing Group / Thessaloniki Port Authority
With the financial support: Zaman Publishing Group / OPAP
As part of the Parallel Program of the PhotoBiennale and of the program "Thessaloniki-Cultural Crossroads"
With the cooperation: Turkish Consulate General in Thessaloniki
Under the auspices: Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace

The opening of the exhibition will be held the Minister of Macedonia and Thrace, Mr. Theodoros Karaoglou (Thursday, 13 September 2012, 20.00).

The Turkish daily newspaper, Zaman, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, invited 25 internationally renowned photographers to Turkey as part of the newspaper’s Time in Turkey photography project (www.timeinturkey.org). Each one of them has worked around the globe under difficult conditions and often facing dangerous situations.

By accepting the invitation of Zaman to travel throughout the multicultural Anatolia, the photographers encountered stories of Turkey; stories which are witnessed every day but rarely noticed. Using their skills and expertise they managed to encompass all aspects and views of contemporary Turkey, creating a visual journey of the country.

Thessaloniki is the second stop in the exhibition’s journey to Europe. Time in Turkey was shown in London and has already traveled to 11 cities in Turkey, included Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.

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Turkey from a Global Perspective

The Zaman daily is crowning its 25-year journey with a project that is the most comprehensive work of photography ever launched in Turkey. Within the project, titled Türkiye’de Zaman / Time in Turkey, our newspaper invited 25 world renowned photographers to tell stories in photos that reflect life and issues unique to Turkey from their particular points of view. These masters of photography came together for the big “photo of Turkey” for Zaman. The photographers travelled throughout Anatolia, the cradle of many civilizations.

Experienced professionals and journalists from Steve McCurry to Paolo Pellegrin and from Eric Bouvet to Anders Petersen showed us stories from our country that we had not seen, although we had looked. While Jane Evelyn Atwood descended into a coal mine in Zonguldak, Bruno Barbey worked in places that reflected the historical background of İstanbul. Samuel Bollendorff searched the lives that changed due to “water” in the Southeast. Eric Bouvet covered night shift police officers in İstanbul. While Kathryn Cook pursued the traces of 4,000-year-old civilizations in the Ahlat district of Bitlis province, Claudine Doury chronicled young women who are textile workers. Carolyn Drake focused on football culture. Nikos Economopoulos compiled road trip stories from the East and Southeast to the depths of Anatolia. Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt was the guest of Turkish nomads living in Mersin. Rena Effendi worked in the labyrinth-like streets of Tarlabaşı, a neighborhood very close to İstiklal Street in İstanbul, while George Georgiou showed how Anatolia has changed. Harry Gruyaert reflected the colors of İstanbul. Guillaume Herbaut spent time in the highlands of Rize to depict tea culture. Ed Kashi took photos depicting economic development in the country, while Massimo Mastrorillo looked into the new Turkey that is being rebuilt on the margins of urban transformation. Steve McCurry included the whirling dervishes in Bursa province in his portfolio. Davide Monteleone was around the Marmara Sea to capture the importance of the Bosporus and Çanakkale straits. Christopher Morris photographed President Abdullah Gül with the people around him at the Tarabya presidential residence. Paolo Pellegrin took photos of the Kırkpınar oil wrestling in Edirne. Anders Petersen shot minority groups, and Reza photographed an Ashura ceremony in İstanbul. Anthony Suau focused on the concepts of wealth and prosperity, as Gaël Turine looked at the TV industry by examining the series “Valley of the Wolves.” Vanessa Winship presented portraits of children who attended the Turkish Olympiads from all over the world, while Ami Vitale portrayed the other side of Kapadokya (Cappadocia).

This project also featured a continuous and open workshop throughout the year. Each photographer we invited was accompanied by a photojournalist from Zaman. We did not limit the workshop to Zaman as colleagues working for other media outlets as well as freelance photographers were involved in the process by attending meetings and presentations made in the context of the workshop. The Time in Turkey project is an important contribution enabling photography in Turkey to achieve universal standards as well as positively impacting the development of photography as a business.

Now is the time to look at Turkey from a global perspective.

Selahattin Sevi
Photo Editor of Zaman Daily

Museum of Photography Thessaloniki

Theatre of Ideas

Based on dialogues between intellectuals, the Theatre of Ideas helps clarify certain questions raised by the programming and build a critical space in the spirit of the themes approached by the Festival’s artistic proposals.

conception and moderation Nicolas Truong

GYMNASE DU LYCÉE SAINT-JOSEPH
estimated running time 2h
free entry

15th july 2012

In praise of the theatre

with Alain Badiou philosopher

Ever since Plato, we have known that the relationship between philosophy and theatre is not simple. One of the philosopher’s desires is to discern the real below the game of appearances, a game that the theatre, a place of masks and shams, seems to devote itself to. How can theatre be thought of philosophically based on this initial paradox? Four years after his In Praise of Love, a philosopher-playwright who wanted to be an actor, comes back to the art and central question of performance.

18 July 2012

Thinking about difference

with Françoise Héritier anthropologist
and Éric Fassin sociologist

At this moment in time marked by the globalization of identities, how can we think about the differences in cultures, individuals, genders, sexuality? Today, women’s freedom and equality of the sexes are sometimes enlisted in the rhetoric of the conflict of civilizations. How can we resist these themes being turned into political instruments without renouncing critical thinking on male domination? And if the barbarian is someone who believes in the barbarity of others, how can we think about the geopolitics of gender and differences?

20 July 2012

A new ecological era?

with Alain Gras socio-anthropologist of technologies
Stéphane Lavignotte pastor and director of the Maison verte

It is said that ecology has broken down. The economic crisis seems to have relegated it to the rang of subsidiary concerns. Biodiversity, however, is more than ever threatened and the effects of pollution on health is continuously demonstrated. From the drying up of fossil fuels to global warming, human activity modifies the geophysics of the planet. Must we escape from the mirage of a certain idea of techno-scientific growth?

21 July 2012

How can we think of and perform the crisis?

with Frédéric Lordon economist and philosopher
and André Orléan economist

The financial crisis is food for thought as it has surprised economists, experts and most opinion leaders. But it is also food for performance. It solicits artists, documentary film-makers, plastic artists and directors alike whose responsibility it is to find the expressive forms likely to hasten the transformation of our mindsets. A dialogue between two heterodox economists sensitive to the question of theatre performance.

22 July 2012

Is time going by too quickly?

with Élie During philosopher
and Étienne Klein physicist

We often contrast the “time of consciences” and the “time of clocks”, time perceived in the subjectivity of time measured by science. Other times however characterize our modernity: time brought back, fabricated and tooled by art, the real time of the permanent “live” of our new technologies, or historic time that permits us to think about our relationship to the period. Between science and philosophy, an encounter to give time some time.

You can send your own critical text about theses topics and theatre
to the email: contact@theatre-cultures.com

TURGUT PURA ART PRIZE  &  Call for Artists

31.st Turgut Pura Art Prize will be the first international one. The prize which gets its name from the acclaimed sculptor Turut PURA will award prizes this year for painting, sculpture and life time achievement in art.

This year the organization commitee decided to award Burhan Dogancay for life time achievement. Dogancay will accept this award this month in Bodrum but artists still have time to apply for painting and sculpture prizes till 2012-04-26.

The winners will recieve 5000.TL each (approximately 2500 USD) and all selected art will be exhibited as a grand exhibition. The show will be between May 25th and June 3rd at Izmir Painting and Sculpture Museum.

The foundation is established by Gungor PURA in 1981. The organization comitee is led by Kayhan Kirmizigul and the concultants are; Genco GULAN and Marcus GRAF.

Jury for painting: Burcu PELVANOGLU, Greg WOLFF, Marcus GRAF and Turan AKSOY.

Jury for sculpture: Genco GULAN, Gunnur OZSOY, Mike BERG and Seckin PiRiM.

This year for the first time the applications can be made online through:

http://turgutpura.com/basvuru/basvuru_eng.php

OR by sending an image of your art together with your bio to:

info@turgutpura.comand/or festivalconceptint@gmail.com

For more info please contact:

Neslihan KiRMiZiGUL

neslihan.kirmizigul@gmail.com

Tel: + 90 232 422 3286

LINK:

http://www.turgutpura.com/

ADDRESS:

iZMiR Painting and Sculpture MUSEUM

Mithatpasa Caddesi No: 94

Turkey

أُمسية موسيقية لمجموعة مَيَال (موسيقى من عَصْر النهضة العربيّة) ويضم الحفل ٣ وصلات مقاميّة:

وصلة في مقام البياتي

وصلة في مقام العشاق

وصلة في مقام الرَست

الاربعاء ٧ كانون الاول، ٨:٣٠ مساءً

مسرح دوار الشمس - الطيّونة، بيروت

أسعار البطاقات ١٥،٠٠٠ ل.ل و٢٥،٠٠٠ ل.ل

دالين جبُّور (إنشاد وتفريد)

أحمد شبُّو (كمان)

عماد حشيشو (عود)

عبد قبيسي (بُزُق)

بلال بيطار (قانون)

علي الحوت (رِقّ)

للحجز: ٣٨١٢٩٠-٠١

للإستعلام: ٦٢١٤٩٠-٧٠

Ensemble Mayal will give a concert of music from the Nahda Repertoire, presenting 3 modal suites

Suite in Maqam Bayati
Suite in Maqam 'Ushaq
Suite in Maqam Rast

Wednesday 7th of December 2011
8:30pm
Theatre Le Tournesol
Tayyouneh, Beirut

Ensemble Mayal

Daline Jabbour - Vocals
Ahmad Shebbo - Violin
Abed Kobeissy - Buzuq
Imad Hashisho - Oud
Bilal Bitar - Qanun
Ali Hout - Riqq

For Reservation: 01-381290

For more information: 70-621490

ًWe hope to see you there

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30TH INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BOOK FAIR
HONORED GUEST EGYPT

The International Istanbul Book Fair is ready to welcome thirtieth anniversary and the Honored Guest Egypt this year

The 30th International Istanbul Book Fair to be held on November 12-20, 2011 at Tuyap Fair Convention and Congress Center Buyukcekmece by collaboration of TÜYAP Tüm Fuarcılık Yapım A.Ş. and Turkish Publishers Association, is going to host Egyptian literature and culture as Honored guest. The state-booth and events for Honored Guest: Egypt shall take place on November 12-15, 2011 at International Hall.

The theme for Istanbul Book Fair this year is declared as Hope: Dream or Reality?, where Ferit Edgü, the dignified writer and art-critic will be the Writer of Honor. The 30th Istanbul Book Fair is ready to appeal to Hope and to host precious foreign writers.

Istanbul Book Fair celebrates 30th Anniversary and International

Since November 1982, when the first book fair was held with the participation of 28 publishers, TÜYAP has proudly brought together millions of readers, writers, publishers, poets, editors, scholars, translators, academics and other stakeholders of the industry, weaving a truly multicolored fabric.In its 30th year, the Istanbul Book Fair has deserved to become the international specialist fair of Turkey.

An International Hall, that will be available for visiting at the 30th International Istanbul Book Fair from November 12 to November 15, will host publishers, rights management companies and national pavilions of more than 30 countries. During this time, 35 professional and sectoral events will be held at the International Hall.

Springtide Winds for Literature Blows at TÜYAP: Egypt the Honored Guest

The outstanding writers and publishers from Egypt shall meet with Turkish readers from November 12 to November 15, 2011 at International Hall. One of the most interesting events of the fair shall be the commemoration of Naguib Mahfouz, a leading Egyptian writer, in his hundredth birthday, under the scope of guest state events. Alaa Al Aswany, who reached indefinite number of readers in Turkey particularly by Yakupyan Apartmanı, Gamal Gitani, characterized as adopted son of Necip Mahfuz, and also Youssef Ziedan are the Writers of Honor. The writers will participate into interviews on Egyptian literature and sign their books.

Another attractive event under Egypt scope is the film projections of the motion pictures adapted from Egyptian literature.

The Professionals Day, to be held on November 14th 2011 Monday, where sectoral events shall take place, will be the stage for meeting of Egyptian publishers and Turkish publishers and discuss on cooperation and translation opportunities.

Change in Visiting Hours

In order to enable students and school groups to visit the fair with more ease, the 30th International Istanbul Book Fair will open one hour earlier on weekdays. The visiting hours of the fair will be between 10.00am and 7.00pm on weekdays, whereas between 11.00am and 8.00pm on weekends. On the closing day (Sunday, November 20th), the Istanbul Book Fair will end at 7.00pm.

The International Hall, where Honored Guest Egypt shall be presented, is available from 11.00 am to 06.00 pm between November 12 and 15, 2011.

The 30th International Istanbul Book Fair will bring together approximately 600 domestic and foreign publishers and non-governmental organizations, and will be held concurrently with ARTIST 2011 – the 21st Istanbul Art Fair.

“TRAVELLING WITH PANAIT ISTRATI”

ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTER ATHENS

Greek Song Cycle | Unknown Hellenism
December 22, 2010 20:30 Main Stage

The “Greek Song” cycle is one of a number of cultural interventions spearheaded by the Friends of the Greek Song, a coalition of Greek artists and intellectuals intent on bringing about a renaissance in Greek song by reviving its lost Centre, proving its ability to evolve and redefining its terms (entechno, laiko, poiotiko).

Music is an autonomous art-form: it can move you as a purely acoustic, tonal event. Song, however, imparts an emotional impact which has less to do with its musical element per se than with the artistry with which it combines its music and lyrics—which is to say with the canvas painted by the words.

This marriage of words and music is stimulating: it allows us to see and hear a text differently, to notice and be moved by aspects of a literary text which might otherwise have passed us by, but also to appreciate the music more fully as a rational reflection of the text.

This dialectical, interactive relationship between music and words becomes more interesting still in the case of a text like this one by Panait Istrati (1884-1935) from Brăila, a friend of Nikos Kazantzakis and a writer Romain Rolland described as the “Maxim Gorky of the Balkans”. The opening event of the Cycle centred on Unknown Hellenism is dedicated to this great Greek-Romanian writer.

Texts: Panait Istrati
Directed and acted by: Demos Avdeliodis
Literary consultation, dramaturgy & translation: Bouboulina Nikaki
Set oversight: Maria Pasali
Lights: Demos Avdeliodis
Musical co-ordination: Giorgos Evstathiou
Cycle co-ordinator: Dimitris Papadimitriou

HELLENIC PLAN
http://www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/49