As the winter rolls in at unprecedented speed, İstanbul’s historical Galata quarter is preparing itself for a final open-air hurrah with the upcoming seventh edition of the Galata “Görünürlük Projesi” (Visibility Project), an annual celebration of experimental art set to take place this weekend.
Amy Winehouse
A packed two-day event presented under the slogan “Sahneden Çık!” (Get off the stage!), one of the highlights of the program is “Requiem to Amy Winehouse,” an elegy and gesture of respect to the late singer directed by young Turkish dramatist Ceren Ercan. Featuring a cast of Fehime Seven, Nazlı Bulum, Albina Özden, Ayris Alptekin and Sefa Tokgöz, the group will be performing a surprise concert in the Tünel area at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening.
A weekend event it may be but preparation for the project has been anything but short-lived, with an extensive series of screenwriting and theater workshops for young amateur writers and actors having been under way for the past six weeks. A series organized by the project’s general art director, Yeşim Özsoy Gülan, the colorful project will showcase the fruits of the workshops’ labors amongst a string of surprise theatrical displays and exhibitions to take place across a number of unorthodox theatrical locations, including local shops and grocers, a synagogue, the Galata Mevlevihanesi (dervish lodge), an old matzo bakery and a number of surrounding streets.
Other events over the weekend are to include a theater performance of Sibel Torunoğlu’s cult novel “Transvestite Pinocchio,” as part of the event “A meeting of Three Litterateurs,” also featuring the works of acclaimed Turkish poet Lale Müldür and author Ece Erdoğuş as well as photo exhibitions, concerts and video installations at the old matzo bakery.
via Galata Visibility Project’s requiem to Winehouse.