Istanbul Cultural Agenda Summer 2010

The 17th İstanbul International Theater Festival will open tomorrow with a performance of the play “Hecate’s Song” by Turkey’s Krater Productions at the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall. Tickets can be purchased at Biletix sales points.

    FESTIVALS

The 17th İstanbul International Theater Festival will open tomorrow with a performance of the play “Hecate’s Song” by Turkey’s Krater Productions at the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall. Tickets can be purchased at Biletix sales points.

For the full program, visit www.iksv.org/tiyatro/english/program.asp

The İstanbul International Poetry Festival 2010 will run from May 11-15 with activities in around 20 venues across the city, featuring Irish poetry as its main theme. For the program: www.istanbulsiirfestivali.org/en

The 13th annual Uçan Süpürge (Flying Broom) International Women’s Film Festival runs until May 13 in Ankara, offering around 100 films in screenings at the Kızılırmak Movie Theater and the Goethe Institut. For full the program: http://festival.ucansupurge.org/

The 11th Trabzon International Theater Festival continues through May 15 in the eastern Black Sea city, featuring performances by 14 foreign and two Turkish State Theater companies.

The Second Kurye International Video and Digital Arts Festival runs until May 16 with events at İstanbul’s Bahcesehir University Beşiktas campus and İstanbul Modern. For a detailed festival program, visit www.kuryevideo.org

The inaugural Antalya International Theater Festival will take place May 16-29 in the Mediterranean city, with performances at the Haşim İşcan Cultural Center and the Atatürk Cultural Center.

PERFORMING ARTS The Ankara State Opera and Ballet will present “Cakircali Efe,” a dance theater production based on Yaşar Kemal’s novel of the same name, on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Opera House. “The Three Musketeers,” a ballet in two acts featuring music by Verdi, will be staged on Thursday at 8 p.m.

Turkish dance company Anadolu Ateşi is staging its show “Anadolu Ateşi -- Evolution” throughout the summer at the Gloria Aspendos Arena near Antalya. Tickets can be purchased at Biletix sales points.

EXHIBITIONS

A selection of works by world-renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero is on display until July 18 at İstanbul’s Pera Museum.

The İstanbul Museum of Modern Art’s photography gallery is hosting an international photography exhibition titled “Time Within Us” until next Sunday, featuring the work of 15 photographers from Turkey, Greece and Russia. The museum is closed on Mondays.

“From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art,” an exhibition featuring works by modern and contemporary artists from Turkey, continues until May 23 at İstanbul Modern.

A collection of artifacts dating from the 16th and 17th centuries from Moscow’s Kremlin Palace Museum is on display at the “Treasures of the Moscow Kremlin at Topkapı Palace” exhibition until June 7 at the palace’s Imperial Stables section.

“Transcending Borders with Brush and Pen,” a sampling of calligraphy from Ottoman, Far Eastern and Latin lands, runs until June 20 at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in İstanbul.

Cer Modern, a new modern art museum in Ankara, hosts “+Infinity,” a selection of contemporary artwork from the private collection of Ebru Ozdemir, until July 5.

FILM SCREENINGS

Today is the last day of the Yeni Sinema Günleri (New Cinema Days) film program at the Feriye Theater in İstanbul’s Ortaköy, offering recent, award-winning Turkish movies. www.yenisinemahareketi.com

Istanbul’s Pera Museum is hosting a film program titled “Journey to the Moon -- 40th Year!” from May 7- June 13, celebrating the anniversary of the historical landing on the moon through narrative and documentary films. Full program: http://en.peramuzesi.org.tr/

The Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center in Istanbul’s Kadıkoy is screening films by American filmmaker Joseph Losey every Thursday at 8:15 p.m. in its May schedule .

Source: www.todayszaman.com

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