Standing at the gateway between Europe and Asia, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilisations around the world are currently facing. In and around its crumbling Byzantine-era fortifications […]
North of England fans of Cem Adrian won’t have as far to travel as the Turkish indie pop star has added an extra date to his UK tour later this month, performing in Manchester on Sunday 28 April. The acclaimed singer-songwriter will take to the stage at The Stoller Hall, a contemporary purpose-built music venue […]
Musical storytelling is central to the Alevi faith, with mystical poems and musical ballads (deyisler, nefesler) being orally passed down from generation to generation over many centuries. These traditional folk songs, which can be heard all across Anatolia (modern Turkiye), pay homage to the core philosophy of Alevism, which is based on love, tolerance and […]
Singer-songwriter Olcay Bayır is one of the UK’s foremost artists of Alevi and Kurdish origin. Her the Anatolian songbook is inspired with the rich musical tapestry that spans Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Greek, fused with the sounds of the Mediterranean and Balkans, including flamenco and rebetiko. Live at Paddington’s Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s […]
Lefkoşa born singer-songwriter Buray has rarely been out of the Turkish charts since releasing his critically acclaimed debut album 1 Şişe Aşk [1 Bottle of Love] in 2015, which scored him two number hits “İstersen” and “Sen Sevda Mısın”, and won him multiple awards and a legion of fans. Buray has gone on to release […]
April will see the UK’s first ever Turkish Fashion and Arts Festival, where designers of Turkish descent and those incorporating Turkish elements into their collections will showcase their diverse creations on the runway at this one day event. The shows will take place at The Engine Room in Tottenham, North London, in the evening, followed […]
Life is a journey but what exactly do we discover on this road and more importantly, how well do we know ourselves? Actor Fırat Tanış brings to life this intriguing story about love, life, brotherhood, separation, and reunion, narrated from mountaintops, watersides, and fields. It is a tale for all time, inspired by Sufi mystic […]
Saban Kazim is half English, half Turkish Cypriot, and 100% Lewisham. The South Londoner has been gigging since 2010, performing at venues including The Comedy Store, The Comedy Cafe, Top Secret Comedy, Downstairs At The Kings Head and The Backyard Comedy Club to name a few. He has picked up a fair few accolades and […]
Chroma – from Greek khrōma – measures the intensity of colour, meaning that the most chromatically intense colours are completely free from white and grey. Colours, in their pure form, have a potential to communicate extremes of thought and emotion. From Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism, artists have been obsessed with the mysteries of colour for […]
One of Turkiye’s biggest musical exports in recent years is dance music producer Mahmut Orhan. The Turkish star hit the big time with his 2016 global smash hit Feel, featuring Sena Sener, with the striking video filmed in Istanbul. The uplifting song has amassed over half a billion streams on YouTube and Spotify, becoming the […]
