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What's on: Doc Days are here again, Music Festival kicks off, June gallery shows, and more

2 weeks ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

Founded by a group of documentary filmmakers, Documentarist has been bringing artful, diverse, and impactful real-life stories to cinema screens in Turkey since 2008. Their latest Istanbul Documentary Days festival, which kicks off tomorrow, is no exception, with timely selections of films on Palestine (this yearÔÇÖs focus country) and on historical student uprisings in Mexico, Lebanon, Brazil, and the USA.
Herkese İyi Bayramlar!

3 weeks ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

It’s just a mini newsletter this week to wish a good Kurban Bayramı holiday to all my readers. For those getting out of town, stay safe on the highways and bring plenty of snacks and good music for those inevitable traffic jams. For those staycationing in Istanbul, here’s a quick rundown of which museums, galleries, etc. are going to be open when.
What's on: Globetrotting photos, shows to hit the road for, and more

1 month ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

Looking to infuse some color into this grey and rainy Istanbul weekend? Photographer İzzet Keribar’s solo exhibition provides a transporting fix. His early black-and-white works from 1950s Istanbul strike a lot of Ara Güler-like chords but are enriched by being paired with contemporaneous color work from South Korea, with Keribar capturing both countries at a time when they were poised on the brink of rapid urbanization. The rest of the globe-trotting exhibition pops with bold color.
What's on: May Day movies, artistic freedom under attack, and more

1 month ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

After a May Day dampened by rain as well as the usual lockdowns of central neighborhoods and police arrests of demonstrators, the International Labor Film Festival officially opens this evening at Atlas Cinema in Beyoğlu with a screening of Cycle, an award-winning drama about domestic workers in a wealthy household in Istanbul. With parallel programs in İzmir and Ankara, the festival showcases fiction and documentary films about the lives of working people.
An Enduring Quest for Remembrance and Reconciliation

2 months ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

Dear readers, I hope all of my fellow İstanbullular have recovered from the jolts of this week’s earthquake. And I hope the scare has prodded you – if you haven’t already – to get together an earthquake kit and make some emergency plans with friends, family, and neighbors.
What's on: Art of impermanence, photographers on film, and more

2 months ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

A poignant sense of impermanence suffuses, and unites, the visually bold and diverse new works by artist Itamar Gov in this solo exhibition, from the neon piece “You & I Are Earth” to the sand-sculpted “43 Tools for the Revolution” and the light and sound installation “When Small Men Start to Cast Big Shadows It Means The Sun is About to Set.” Alluding to the challenges of the present political moment they also create space to imagine its transformation, if only through the inevitable march...
Protests, Culture, and Power

Mar 30, 2025 | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

Swept up in the masses of people pushing their way down a broad city street toward the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) headquarters, part of the largest wave of protests in Turkey since the Gezi Park resistance in 2013, the cultural legacy of those earlier demonstrations was impossible to miss.
What's on: Snow day diversions and early algorithmic art

Feb 21, 2025 | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

The promised snowpocalypse hasn’t (yet) fully materialized in Istanbul, but many events in the city have been cancelled or postponed in anticipation of a weekend whiteout and some venues are closing or limiting their opening hours over the next few days. The New and Newest Music Festival at ARTER, a Michael Snow film series at Istanbul Modern, and concerts at the Pera Museum are just a few of the events that are not happening this weekend.
Remembering 6 February 2023

Feb 15, 2025 | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

On the second anniversary earlier this month of the devastating 6 February 2023 earthquakes, 30 artists from Antakya, one of the hardest-hit cities, hung their paintings on the exposed interior walls of one of the many buildings still lying in ruins.
What's On: Into The Void, musical moods, Urban Artifacts, and more

Feb 8, 2025 | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

Perched on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus north of the second bridge, a cluster of large, weathered metal cylinders makes for an incongruous sight amidst the green hills and fine wooden mansions more commonly associated with the famous strait.