Narrative

A newly opened exhibition called "Towards the City" at Istanbul's newest culture and arts center, the historical Hasanpaşa Gazhanesi (gashouse), is centered around the issues of urbanization, urban and rural transformation and ecology.

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Organized in collaboration with Germany's long-standing art establishment the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations and with the support of the Goethe-Institut Istanbul, the exhibition "The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives in Textiles" features works by international artists who use textile to create aesthetic and cultural narratives through painting, photography, archive materials, obje

Some words seem to grow in usage all of a sudden, like weeds, even in intellectual fields where they have no business. "Narrative" is one such word. Regardless of its meaning, what matters in its prevalence in public discourse now is the style and quality that its users believe it lends their proclamations.

Karakutu (Black Box) is a recent initiative hoping to foster alternative narratives, offer ways of remembering and introduce different perspectives about the past to society, especially to young people.

The book tour will starts on October 15th at the London School of Economics, LSE, with a conversation between Lubonja and his translator, and later move to other cities including the Welsh capital, Cardiff, ending at the Ilkey Literature Festival.