March 17, 2016•Update: April 22, 2016
Sleep Party People to perform in Istanbul
Danish dream-pop band Sleep Party People will perform at Istanbul’s IKSV music hall tomorrow, March 18.
Formed in 2008 by multi-instrumentalist Brain Batz, with inspiration from the works of David Lynch, band members wear rabbit masks during their performances.
Although Sleep Party People is a band, Batz is the only actual member. As Batz explained in an interview, “It is a bunch of good friends that’s playing with me. So, it’s not a band, it’s just me and my bunnies, in a way.”
http://www.saloniksv.com
Three exhibits at Istanbul’s Arter Gallery
Istanbul’s contemporary arts center Arter will host three solo exhibits by Turkish artists between March 24 and April 15.
The first will be Bahar Yurukoglu’s Flow Through, which focuses on the artist’s time during the Arctic Circle Residency program that she joined in the summer of 2015.
The second is Murat Akagunduz’s Vertigo, which “features a new series of white-on-white oil paintings where the artist depicts some of the world’s highest mountain peaks as seen on Google Earth,” according to Arter’s website.
The last is Sener Ozmen’s Unfiltered. The display focuses on the concept of “recognition,” said Arter.
http://www.arter.org.tr/W3/?
Istanbul Film Festival to start in April
The 35th Istanbul Film Festival will take place on April 7-17.
This year’s festival will feature 221 films by 223 directors from 62 counties, said the organizer, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.
The festival will also host talks with guest filmmakers, panel discussions, and concerts.
Some of the films debuting in Turkey include the Coen Brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!” and French filmmaker Claude Lelouch’s “Un + une.”
This year will also see the first screening in 38 years of “The Herd,” a film by renowned Turkish director Zeki Okten.
Some of the festival theaters this year are Atlas, Beyoglu, Fitas, Feriye, Rexx, and Istanbul Modern, as well as Akbank Sanat and Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
The festival also gives movie lovers the chance to meet film directors. Some of the guests this year are Argentine filmmaker Pablo Trapero, Greek pop star Sakis Rouvas, and Tunisian director/singer Ghalia Benali.
Festival tickets go on sale on March 26.
http://film.iksv.org/tr
