Istanbul 2010. European Capital of Culture
To mark the celebration of Istanbul 2010, European Capital of Culture, Casa Árabe organizes during the month several activities related to Turkey, to get to know the multiple realities of the country. This activities includes the concert of the Turkish group BaBa ZuLa, the cinema season Tales from the Bosphorus. Istanbul within the new Turkish cinema and the tribune The cost of no European Union-Turkey.
October 26, 2010
THURSDAY OCTOBER 28 and SUNDAY OCTOBER 31: Scenic Arts: Decisions-habits
Ayse Orhon, a Turkish choreographer and interpreter, will present one of her contemporary dance works performed within the frame of “Art is Action: action is production”, a programme organized by the Ministry of Culture to which Casa Árabe has contributed with this artist's show. On Thursday, the artist will speak with the public and on Sunday she will present her spectacle.
Place: Antigua Tabacalera de Lavapiés (Former Cigarette Factory) in Madrid (c/ Embajadores, 53).
Time: Thursday at 19.30 and Sunday at 12.30. Free entrance.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20: A night in Istanbul with BaBa ZuLa
BaBa ZuLa, whose show is included within the framework of the Madrid Jazz Festival, was created in 1996 in Istanbul by Levent Akman (percussions, rhythm machines), Murat Ertel (saz and string instruments, vocals) and Emre Onel (darbuka and sampler).Place: Sala Guirau. Teatro Fernán Gómez de Madrid (Plaza del Descubrimiento, s/n).
Time: 21.00.
Tickets: Available at the theatre ticket office and at www.telentrada.com.
FROM NOVEMBER 5 to 29: Cinema season: Tales from the Bosphorus. Istanbul within the new Turkish cinema
This cinema season, coordinated by Javier H. Estrada, shows four films where the changes experimented by this great metropolis are seen from different points of view: from the existential drama (Distant) to a comedy inspired in Cervantes (Derivation), passing by the eternal discussion on the old and the new (10 to 11) and the musical and cultural mosaic that this city embodies (Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul).
Distant, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey, 2002, 110 min.).
A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his life and his ideals is growing finds himself obligated to put up in his apartment a young relative who has left behind his village looking for a job aboard a ship in Istanbul to go abroad.10 to 11, by Pelin Esmer (Turkey, France and Germany, 2009, 110 min.).
The film is the story of Mithat Bey, a passionate collector, and of Ali, the concierge of the building they both live in. For Mithat, Istanbul is as vast as his collections and for Ali it is nothing more than a few blocks around the building. Both characters react against the threat of the demolition of the building.
Derivation, by Ulaş İnaç (Turkey, 2005, 91 min.).
This film, based on one of Cervantes' stories from Don Quixote, compiles the adventures of a young woman that pushes her best friend, a very attractive woman, to seduce her boyfriend in order to test his fidelity.
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, by Fatih Akin (Germany, 2005, 92 min.).The musician Alexander Hacke dives into a fantasy city searching for musical sources, influences and different views. From the point of view of a Westerner, the film reflects a complex, tense, erotic, dangerous and tempting city.
| Friday November 5 | Distant |
| Monday November 8 | 10 to 11 |
| Friday November 12 | Derivation |
| Friday November 19 (4:30 p.m.) | Distant |
| Friday November 19 (7:30 p.m.) | Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istambul |
| Monday 22 November | Derivation |
| Friday November 26 | 10 to 11 |
| Monday November 29 | Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istambul |
At Casa Árabe’s Auditorium in Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62) at 19.30, except on November 19, that there will also be a show at 16.30. Free entrance. Original Version with Spanish subtitles.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 16: Tribune: The cost of no European Union-Turkey
Within the frame of the events of Istanbul 2010. European Capital of Culture, on December 16th Casa Árabe organizes in Madrid the Tribune The cost of no European Union-Turkey.
The participants in this conference are Gema Martín Muñoz, Casa Árabe's Director General; Javier de Lucas, professor of Philosophy of the Law and Political Philosophy in the University of Valencia and director of the College of Spain in Paris; Yasar Yakis, member of parliament for the AKP, president of the Committee for the harmonization with the EU in the Great National Turkish Assembly, ex-Secretary of State and former ambassador before the NATO, Egypt and Saudi Arabia; and William Chislett, Journalist and analyst, specialist in Turkey and Spain.
Whenever dealing with the possibility of the integration of Turkey in the European Union, there have been mainly two stances: either Brussels' and member states' requirements to the integration or the significance it would have on the modernization, the economical development and the democratization of Turkey.
The long negotiation process and the new requirements established (more strict than the 1993 Copenhagen criteria) due to the heated and extended European “turk-scepticism”, have created at the same time “euro-scepticism” in Turkey, not only in ultra-nationalists spheres but also within the modernizing sectors.
The lecture aims to introduce a different approach to the analysis on the relation prospects between the EU and Turkey: Europe risks a lot not integrating Turkey. This loss in benefits will have an impact on different areas; in the economic domain, but also in the demographic, the political, the social or the cultural factors. It will also weaken European external action towards the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Both sides will suffer the loss.
The tribune will take place at 19.30h at Casa Árabe's Auditorium in Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). Free entrance.
