An Alternative View on Art and Children
February 2–5, 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” - 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 On the Borderline of Normal and Abnormal: Madness
25 February 2026 - In this talk, Dr. Cengiz Arca and Ezgi Emel invite you to walk the fine line between the diagnostic power of psychiatry and philosophy’s quest for freedom.
Conversation On the Borderline of Representation and Uncertainty: Criticism
11 March 2026 - In this talk, we will discuss the ways cinema constructs its own reality, the illusions it draws the viewer into, and the intellectual pleasure of questioning these illusions.
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 On the Borderline of Order and Chaos: Art
8 April 2026 - In this talk, from the way psychedelic experiences dissolve consciousness to Michael Pollan’s existential discoveries, we examine how art and expanded consciousness blur the boundaries of the "self".
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 On the Borderline of Submission and Freedom: Love
6 May 2026 - In this talk, we examine the fragility of modern relationships through Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of Liquid Love. Is committing to someone a form of submission or the end of freedom?
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 Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “Five Cities” - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
16 June 2026 - In this gathering, together with Burçak Bingöl, we turn our focus particularly to Istanbul, taking Tanpınar’s Five Cities as our point of departure.
Conversation On the Borderline of Pleasure and Pain: Dopamine
14 January 2026 - In this talk, starting from the paradox in Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation, we will discuss why the instant gratification we seek in every notification, purchase, and scroll eventually turns into a massive burnout.
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.
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Seminar The Birth Of the Language Of Criticism, Its Limits and Dilemmas
18:30
Minoa Pera
Seminar Inside a Global Gallery: How Lisson Shapes Artistic Narratives Across Markets
13:30
Children Workshop Exploring Distance: What’s Out There? (Ages 7-11)
Nilüfer Pancar Deposu, BURSA
14:00
Children's Theatre Akbank Children’s Theatre "What Am I Going To Be?"
İBB Arnavutköy Life Center
15:00
Children Workshop Bursa Landscapes Inspired by Hale Asaf (Ages 6-9)
Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (January - Group 2)
Basımhane İstanbul
19:00
Learning Program Material: Improvisation
Frankeştayn Kitabevi
Seminar Strategic Planning & Project Development - I
12:00
Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Sculpture Workshop (Ages 4-8)
Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Mosaic Workshop (Ages 4-8)
Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Creativity
17:00
Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (January - Group 1)
Seminar Strategic Planning & Project Development - II
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