I can’t remember when it really started, but the Christmas and New Years Fusion in Istanbul got a rather accepted reality. We went to Nışantaşı and Teşvikiye, dropped by at a present fair at the military museum in Harbiye. All this Kitsch got adopted. Father Christmas is Noel Baba…..
http://youtu.be/Cn3NXlEMyAk
The Thomas-School was founded 1212 in Leipzig under the reign of King Otto IV. The Choir of young boys was part of the monastry St. Thomas.
The choir got worldfamous through the hundreds of years of its existence. Famous composers like Johann Sebastian Bach were among the musicians guiding and training the singers.
The Thomaner are around 100 boys in the age between 9 and 18. They are visiting the Thomas-School, a high school with a special education for musicians.
Şirin Soysal sings Kurt Weil from InEnArt on Vimeo.
Concert at Borusan Müzik Evi in Istanbul, 14.12.12
Şirin Soysal grew up in Vienna, Bern and Ankara. She studied Theatre and Film in Dublin.
The third performance of “Expeditions in Sound and Music,” a collaborative series between SALT and Undomondo, will feature Nude on Sand. The program will take place in the Walk-in Cinema at SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, on Wednesday December 19 at 19.00 and is open to all.
The Taksim Square is a crazy mass since November 2012. It is hard to believe, that a commercial building in the shape of a Caserne in historism style is planned to replace Gezi Park. The Atatürk Cultural center shall get demolished. The government wishes to get applause for this plans from lots of their voters. To disregard the protests of so many people is a sign of an authoritarian government and a support of many followers as undemocratic as their leaders.
Mack the spook
And the spook, it has visions,
And it spreads them all around.
And it breeds all this creatures,
From a crowd of blind Believers
There are some hiding in darkness
while others are searching for light
And you see the ones in brightness
Those in darkness drop from sight.
The Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM/Atatürk Cultural Center) was planned and build between 1946 and 1977 as a cultural hall to influence the direction for modern and contemporary culture in the country. Today competing interests struggle to shape AKM towards ideological lines based on their own visions. The reconstruction of the whole Taksim square is a partof the transformation of cultural symbolism.
Amazing that no one made the suggestion until now to build a memorial for the victims of bloody 1st of May 1977.
Also have a look at this post about an exhibition on the topic Atatürk Kültür merkezi:
also related topic:
occupy Gezi Park: http://senseoftime.inenart.eu/?p=4108
Transformation of Pierre Loti: http://senseoftime.inenart.eu/?p=3135
Second Life in Ayvansaray: http://senseoftime.inenart.eu/?p=3414
Urban icons in Ayvansaray: http://senseoftime.inenart.eu/?p=3452
A bullet was found in the courtyard
Of a cozy iron barred Dollhouse
Who left it there?
Who does care?
About bricks and bones In the garden?
Ma Baker’s been there
Do you know where?
The bullets tended the Sandbox?
The skull has gone
No roars went wrong
Through cozy iron barred Wallcracks
