An Alternative View on Art and Children
January 5–8, 2025
Online Platform - Zoom
Children’s Workshops
November 2025 – May 2026
Akbank Children’s Theatre“What Am I Going To Be?”
Contemporary Art and Ecological Experiments
January – December 2025
Online Platform – Zoom
Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “Yellowface” - R.F.Kuang
20 January 2026 - In this talk, we will explore the dynamics of being an author in today’s literary world through R. F. Kuang’s novel Yellowface and we will discuss how social media–driven competitiveness shapes a writer’s creative process and how these pressures can gradually pull an author into a more shadowed inner landscape.
Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London” - Lauren Elkin
17 February 2026 - In this talk, we will meet with actress Manolya Maya to discuss Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, a key work at the intersection of feminism and the city.
Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “On Connection” - Kae Tempest
17 March 2026 - In this gathering, we will meet with actress Nezaket Erden and, starting from On Connection, discuss how our need for attachment and togetherness can be met through creativity.
Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” - Haruki Murakami
21 April 2026 - In this gathering, we will meet with writer Melisa Kesmez and, drawing on Murakami’s personal essay book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" we will discuss how bodily movement transforms mental production.
Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “How I Failed to Meet Agnès Varda” - Ece Ger
12 May 2026 - In this session of the series, we are hosting writer Ece Ger, the author of How I Failed to Meet Agnès Varda and also the director of the film Meeting Jim.
Conversation Where Do Production Department Stand on the Line
29 November 2025 - In this talk, we will explore whether production itself has a gender, discussing power dynamics on set as well as the past and future of hierarchical structures. Together with our speaker Alara Hamamcıoğlu, we will also touch on practices of team building and management within the film industry.
Panel Where Do You Draw the Line: Suggestions for Transformation
13 December 2025 - How can women of all ages and backgrounds — whether experienced or new to the field, from different professions or communities — who have contributed to cinema or wish to work and continue working in the industry, see, recognize, learn from, and create with one another?
Conversation Where Do Camera Departments Stand on the Line?
6 December 2025 - In this discussion, where we will focus on the power of a camera regardless of gender to explore the new discoveries, stories, relationships, and interactions that arise when the “seeing and showing” dynamic is approached from a female perspective.
Conversation Where Do Sound/Foley Stand on the Line?
22 November 2025 - In this talk, featuring Zeynep Çelen and Bukle Naz Acar as speakers, we will discuss the creative processes of sound in cinema and the working conditions in this field, inspired by their own professional journeys.
Conversation Where Do Directing Teams Stand on the Line?
15 November 2025 - In this talk, we will be joined by Beril Ateşoğlu and Gamze Öğüt to discuss how a film set is collectively constructed, the role of the directing team within the production process, and the responsibilities, collaborations, and forms of solidarity among the different professions that make up this team.
Conversation Where Do Art Department Stand on the Line?
8 November 2025 - In this talk, we will discuss to what extent the labor of art department workers — who are responsible for the entire visual world represented on screen — is acknowledged within this broader space of representation in cinema.
Conversation Where Does Editing Stand on the Line?
1 November 2025 - We talk with Ayris Alptekin, who has worked as an editor for many years, about the dynamics of this creative process, her experiences within production workflows, and the changing conditions of the profession.
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Seminar An Analysis of Exhibition Models - II
Seminar The Birth Of the Language Of Criticism, Its Limits and Dilemmas
14:00
Children's Theatre Akbank Children’s Theatre "What Am I Going To Be?"
Caddebostan Cultural Center
12:00
Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Sculpture Workshop (Ages 4-8)
Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Mosaic Workshop (Ages 4-8)
15:00
Seminar From the Image of the World to the World of the Image: Cinematic Images and World-Building
19:00
Learning Program Material: Land
18:30
Seminar Ground-Level Memory
Postane İstanbul
Children Workshop Colorful New Year’s Ornaments Workshop (Ages 5-9)
Children Workshop Beaded New Year’s Ornament Workshop (Ages 5-9)
Children Workshop Following Migratory Birds: Birdhouse Design Workshop(Ages 6-10)
Children Workshop This Is Our Table (5-9 Yaş)
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