Acting Workshop Directoral Explorations in Modern Turkish Theatre

February 22, 2025 - This workshop explores new trends in directing, stage approaches, and text-interpretation relationships in contemporary Turkish theatre.

Conversation Literature and Jazz A Journey into the History of Turkish Jazz with Murat Meriç

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: “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.

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?

Program Book Club: Books That Spark Thinking on Production

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.

Seminar The Story of Curating - II

13 November 2025 - In this seminar, the definition, function of the curator and the evolution of the curatorial practice will be looked at in a historical context.

Seminar The Story of Curating - I

10 November 2025 - In this seminar, the definition, function of the curator and the evolution of the curatorial practice will be looked at in a historical context.

Workshop Video-Essay Workshop: Women in Cinema

1 November 2025 - In this workshop, we will bring together our political imagination with creative montage techniques, using the video-essay form as an act of criticism, resistance, and solidarity.

35th Akbank Jazz Festival

Leaving an unforgettable mark on the city's musical memory for 35 years, the Akbank Jazz Festival will meet with music lovers from September 27 to October 12, 2025.

Program Curating Contemporary Art Seminar Program