Program Basel
Sürü (The Herd) (Cinema)
SAT 01.11.08 15:00h Stadtkino Basel
SUN 02.11.08 17:30h Stadtkino Basel
MON 03.11.08 21:00h Stadtkino Basel
Zeki Ökten, Turkey 1978; 129' OV/df (35 mm, Color)
With Tarık Akan, Melike Demirağ, Erol Demiröz, Levent İnanir, Şener Kökkaya
A highlight in Turkish cinema: The film symbolizes humanity’s struggle for self determination and solidarity.
Sürü, the Herd, is an unusual love story told within a mentally disturbing context with feudal values and social inequalities in Turkish Society in 70's.
Further Dates:
THU 06. 11.08 21:15h Xenix Zürich
FRI 07. 11.08 21:15h Xenix Zürich
SON 09. 11.08 21:15h Xenix Zürich
FROM BELGRAD TO ISTANBUL. ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON URBAN DEVELOPEMENT (Lecture)
SAT 01.11. 10:30–16:30h Theater Basel
Symposium of the S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum Basel in cooperation with Culturescapes
The symposium serves as a conceptual bridge between the S AM exhibition ‘Balkanology’ and Culturescapes 2008 ‘Turkey’. Representatives of individual urban initiatives and urban experts discuss informal building and unregulated urban planning such as the Turkish ‘Gecekondu’ and similar urban phenomena in South Eastern Europe.
With: Orhan Esen, Urbanist (Istanbul), Dritan Shutina, Co-PLAN (Tirana), Vedran Mimica, Berlage Institute (Rotterdam), Kai Vöckler, Gastkurator S AM (Berlin), Milica Topalovic, ETH Zürich/Studio Basel (Basel), Dietmar Steiner, Direktor Az W Architekturzentrum Wien (Wien).
Filmscreening „X Daireler / X Apartments“ (Tarlabaşı 2008)
MIGRATION (Lecture)
Prof. Dirk Baecker
SAT 01.11. 17:00h Theater Basel
Prof. Dirk Baecker, teaching at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, discusses his theories on the topic of migration as a significant and substantial part of Europe’s unified diversity and in its possible role as a potential model with regard to current global society.
Dirk Baecker teaches Cultural Theory and Analysis at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen at the Lake of Constance and lives in Basel.
Opening(Music)
SAT 01.11. 19h Theater Basel
Doğuş Kindersinfonieorchester & Trio Nota Bene
Burhan Öçal & Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
DJ İpek
In their first collaboration the Doğuş Children’s Orchestra and the Swiss Trio Nota Bene will give a rare performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, which combines collective precision and individual brilliance. The percussionist Burhan Öçal and his Istanbul Oriental Ensemble conjure up the manifold sounds of Istanbul’s grand bazaar Kapalı Çarşı. DJ İpek İpekçioğlu mixes an eclectic blend of musical traditions and modern influences. Doğuş Çocuk Senfoni Orkestrası ile İsviçreli Nota BeneTrio’su ilk kez gerçekleştirecekleri ortak çalışmalarında Beethoven’in üçlü konçertosunu seslendirecekler. Perküsyon ustası Burhan Öçal bizi, Istanbul Oriental Ensemble’le birlikte İstanbul Kapalı çarşısı’nın tını dünyasının renkli yelpazeleri arasında bir yolculuğa çıkartacakdır. Berlinli DJ İpek İpekçioğlu müzikal geleneklerle İstanbul metropolünün modern akımlarını harmanlamaktadır.
İklimler (Climates) (Cinema)
SAT 01.11.08 22:15h Stadtkino Basel
FRI 07.11.08 17:30h Stadtkino Basel
MON 10.11.08 21h Stadtkino Basel
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 2006; 101' OV / d (35 mm, color)
With: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kırılmıs, Mehmet Eryılmaz, Arif Asçı, Can Özbatur, Ufuk Bayraktar, Fatma Ceylan
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
A fascinating study about a couple in a crisis and the human incapacity to achieve happiness played by the director and his wife Ebru Ceylan themselves.
Supporting Film in Xenix Zürich: World Cinema, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, France 2007; OV/d (DVD, color)
Further Dates:
MON 01.12. – WED 03.12. 19:15h Xenix Zürich
CATCHING BREATH (Art)
SUN 02.11. 11–12:30h Stadtkino
Kunsthalle Basel presents an eventin two parts: Catching Breath, a videoprogramme curated by NovemberPaynter followed by a talk betweenthe curator and Ahmet Öğüt. This video programme includes works byÖğüt as well as by other artists thatappreciate and elaborate the manynuances of this feeling.
AHMET OĞÜT & NOVEMBER PAYNTER UNDER DISCUSSION
SUN 02.11. 14-15h Kunsthalle Basel
KLEINASIEN – BRÜCKE ZWISCHEN ZWEI WELTEN (Lecture)
04., 11., 18. & 25.11. 19h Unternehmen Mitte
This series of lectures concernsitself with the development of AsiaMinor into modern-day Turkey.
with Joachim Daniel
JAZZ VOM ORIENT BIS ZUM OKZIDENT – Integration von türkisch-kurdischen Einflüssen in der Jazzmusik (Music/Workshop)
04./05./11./12.11. 20:30h LEVİN - MEDITERRANEAN SEXTET the bird’s eye jazz club
25./26.11. 20:30h ULAŞ NESİL – MELODIYA RUHEN ME the bird’s eye jazz club
Ulaş Nesil and Levin Deger look for ways of integrating their own traditional music in Western improvisational music.
Workshops and concerts:
Levin Değer 04./05./11./12. Nov, Ulaş Nesil 24./25. Nov
More information: www.birdseye.ch, the bird's
eye jazz club, Tel 061 263 33 41.
MOMENT OF AGENCY (Art/Cinema)
TUE 04.11. 20h Stadtkino Basel
Moment of Agency aims to discuss and reflect on the norms of agency and artist as a mediator of imagery and as a catalyst of meaning production. The content that is evoked in the title reflects the positioning of a certain artistic stance of the Turkish artists living and working in various cities such as Istanbul, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main or Amsterdam.
Further Dates:
SUN 02.11. 16h, Kino Kunstmuseum, Bern
Fazıl Say & Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Music)
WED 05.11. 20h Martinskirche, Basel
Fazıl Say and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, directed by conductor Muhai Tang, join forces to present a concert ‘alla Turca’. Fazıl Say entwines different styles and cultures in his compositions.
Further Dates:
TUE 04.11. 19:30h Tonhalle, Zürich
MILITÄR & POLITIK IN DER TÜRKEI (Lecture)
Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski
WED 05.11. 20h Universität Basel
Prof. Reinkowski’s research focuses on the history of the Middle East with an emphasis on the Ottoman Empire.
Vorpremiere: Üç Maymun (Three Monkeys) (Movie)
WED 05.11.08 21h Stadtkino Basel
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 2008; 109' OV / df
With Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Rıfat Sungar, Ercan Kesal, Cafer Köse
As in the fable of the three monkeys who refuse to see, hear and speak the truth, the figures in the latest film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan enmesh themselves in a web of lies.
Further Dates:
SUN 08.11.08 21.15h Xenix Zürich
Sema – Derwische aus Konya (Music/Dance)
THU 6.11. 20h & FR 7.11. 21h Offene Kirche Elisabethen, Basel
The National Ensemble for Classical Turkish Music cultivates the rich heritage of classical Sufi music. Songs of the Dscherrahi Order are accompanied by the traditional ceremonies of the Mevlevi Order’s whirling dervishes.
Further Dates:
SO 9.11. 18h Stadthofsaal, Uster
DIE TÜRKEI – DAS NÄCHSTE EU-MITGLIED? BEDINGUNGEN HÜBEN WIE DRÜBEN (LECTURE)
THU 6.11. 18.15 20h Universität Basel
KULTURTAG SUFISMUS – DIE INNENSEITE DES ISLAM (Lecture)
SAT 8.11. 10–18h Goetheanum Dornach
The cultural day ‘Sufism – the Inside of Islam’ with prominent artists and researchers from the Islamic cultural sphere sets out in search of the kinship between the two religions Islam and Christianity.
with: Prof. Dr. Mahmud Erol Kılıç, Prof. Georg Schmid, Christine Gruvez, Joachim Daniel
Sufi & Bach (Music)
SAT 8.11. 20h Goetheanum Dornach
The ‘Sufi & Bach’ concert is a unique encounter between Orient and Occident on a musical level. Sufi chants meet whirling dervishes meet Bach cantatas, underlined by texts from Christian and Sufi mysticism.
Yol (Die Reise) (Cinema)
SAT 08.11.08 19:30h Stadtkino Basel
SUN 09.11.08 15:15h Stadtkino Basel
WED 12.11.08 18:30h Stadtkino Basel
Şerif Gören, Yılmaz Güney, CH 1982; 114' OV / df
Five befriended inmates set out on a prison leave with different hopes. However, the holiday turns into a tragic ‘adventure’.
Further Dates:
MON 17.11. – WED 19.11. 19h Uhr Xenix Zürich
Kasaba (Die Kleinstadt) (Cinema)
SAT 08.11.08 22:15h / MO 17.11.08 18:30h Stadtkino Basel
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 1997; 85' OV / d (35 mm, s/w)
With Cihat Bütün, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Havva, Sağlam, Emin Toprak
A family portrait from the perspective of two siblings who have to learn sympathy, friendliness, forgiveness and other human feelings.
Further Dates:
MON 24.11. – WED 26.11. 19:15h Xenix Zürich
Taksim Trio (Musik)
SUN 9.11. 20h Burghof Lörrach
Taksim Trio are among the most prominent figures in the Turkish music scene. They create tantalising sounds between oriental traditions, jazz, ambient and avant-garde – tingling arabesques!
Further Dates:
TUE 11.11. 20.30h Moods, Zürich
SUN 16.11. 20.30h bee-flat Bern
VORTRAGSREIHE: TÜRKEI – ZWISCHEN GESCHICHTE, TRADITION UND MODERNE (Lecture)
10./17./24.11. & 1.12. 18.30 h Universität Basel
Presenter: VHS beider Basel
This series of lectures illuminates Turkey’s history, its societal interplay between tradition and modernity, migration, its relations to Switzerland and to the European Union.
with:
Christiane Schlötzer: Türkei – Aufbruch wohin? Die türkische Demokratie historisch betrachtet (10.11.)
Amalia van Gent: Leben auf Bruchlinien zwischen Tradition & Moderne (17.11.)
Annemarie Sancar: Türkei – Schweiz: Migration als bindender Faktor (24.11.)
Werner van Gent: Türkei & Europa: eine lange & mühsame Annäherung (1.12.)
Vielfältige Identitaten: Wer bin ich? (Art/Videoinstallation)
TUE 11.11. – THU 27.11. Offene Kirche Elisabethen, Basel
This video installation of the dialogue group of SAD contains individual stories of migrants from today’s Turkey.
EBRU (photos from Attila Durak) (Art)
TUE 11.11. – THU 27.11. Offene Kirche Elisabethen
Over seven years in the making, Ebru is a sweeping and poignant photographic journey that illuminates, through the faces of its people, the rich cultural diversity of Turkey.
Arif Erdebil (Music/Workshop)
TUE 11.11. 17h EBRU vernissage Elisabethenkirche
WED 12.11. 20h concert Kleiner Saal, Musik-Akademie
THU 13.11. 20h workshop Zi. 5-021, Musik-Akademie
The Ney is a traditional reed flute with a long history. Arif Erdebil plays selected pieces from the Ney’s rich repertoire.
Aylin Aykan: Klavierrezital: „Türkische Komponisten im Spiegel der Zeiten“ (Music)
THU 13.11. 20h Gare du Nord
With her family hailing from Istanbul, but born and raised in Munich, Aylin Aykan places emphasis on creating musical connections that transgress cultural and temporal borders. Her search leads us through Turkey’s diverse landscape of composers, presenting and narrating works by Cemal Reşit Rey and others.
Mayis sikintisi (Clouds of May) (Cinema)
FRI 14.11.08 15:15 Stadtkino Basel
MON 24.11.08 21:00 Stadtkino Basel
FRI 28.11.08 17:30 Stadtkino Basel
A young director returns to his home village in Anatolia. He wants to film a comedy but everybody prefers to get on with their ‘real’ lives.
Further Dates:
MON 10. 11. – WED 12. 11. 21.15 h Xenix Zürich
Turkish literature on the Buch.08 & at Literaturhaus Basel (Literature)
YUSUF YEŞİLÖZ
FRI 14.11. 15h NT-Areal Basel
Yusuf Yeşilöz came to Switzerland in 1987, where he currently resides as a freelance writer.
ESMAHAN AYKOL
FRI 14.11. 16h NT-Areal Basel
Esmahan Aykol landed on the bestseller lists in Turkey with her detective stories ‘Bakschisch’ and ‘Hotel Bosporus’. Her new novel is ‘Goodbye Istanbul’
YADÉ KARA
FRI 14.11. 17h NT-Areal Basel
Yadé Kara lives in Berlin. For her first novel ‘Selam Berlin’ (2003) she received the 2004 German Book Prize.
OYA BAYDAR
FRI 14.11. 19h Literaturhaus Basel
Oya Baydar became active in left wing politics at an early age. Her most recent novel ‘Kayıp Söz’ tells of a family in present-day Istanbul. Each member of the family leads a different way of life representing one of the themes of modern Turkish society.
HASAN ALİ TOPTAŞ (Literature)
SAT 15.11. 17h Literaturhaus Basel
Hasan Ali Toptaş’s current novel ‘The Shadowless’ reveals his magical relation to the Turkish language.
MURAT UYURKULAK (Literature)
SAT 15.11. 17h Literaturhaus Basel
Uyurkulak’s first book ‘Anger’ takes the reader along with the novel’s protagonists on a journey through Turkey and its unofficial history from the 1950s through today.
Further Dates:
THU 13.11. 19.30h Rote Fabrik, Zürich
FRI 14.11. 19.30h Qbus, Uster
SUN 16.11. 20h Theater Chur
MON 17.11. 20.30h Schlachthaus, Bern
WED 19.11. 20h Stadtbibliothek Winterthur
Ensemble Phoenix Basel with Neva Özgen (Kemençe) & Didem Dermen (Kanun) (Music)
Dirigent: Jürg Henneberger
SAT 15.11. 20h Gare du Nord (IGNM-Concert)
The Ensemble Phoenix Basel, specifically advocates contemporary music. In the Gare du Nord they will play with Didem Dermen ‘On the Back Streets of Old Istanbul’ by Hasan Uçarsu. With Neva Özgen they will premiere Evrim Demirel’s commissioned piece ‘Darb-i dugah’ for Kemençe, Kanun and Ensemble.
PREISTRÄGERKONZERT (KOMPOSITION) (Music)
FRI 14.11. 21h Gare du Nord
Culturescapes has arranged a competition for composers under the age of 35 in Turkey and Switzerland. The prize-winning pieces will be performed by the students of the concert classes of the Musical Academy.
Camerata Variabile: Ruf der Ferne (Music)
SUN 16.11. 20h Gare du Nord
Highlights of the programme, in addition to the recitals of works by Turkish composers, will certainly be the premiere of a work by the young Turkish composer Emre Sihan as well as the first Swiss performance of a Rumi setting for a string quartet and flute by Helena Winkelman.
Ha za vu zu, Istanbul (Music/Art)
THU 18.11. – FR 28.11. „artists in residence“ Kaserne Basel
SAT 22.11. Stadtintervention
FRI 28.11. 20h Performance-Abend mit Konzert
Ha za vu zu will develop a variety of artistic activities, in the venues and throughout the cities. These will include, among other things, photo-karaoke performances, intervention in the city, actions and a
Further Dates:
MON 10.11. – SAT 15.11. „artists in residence“ Rote Fabrik, Zürich
SAT 15.11. 20h Performance-Abend mit Konzert
SAT 29.11. 22:00h Performance-Abend mit Konzert Dampfzentrale, Bern
Gitmek (My Marlon & Brando) (Cinema)
WED 19.11. 21.00 h Stadtkino Basel
WED 26.11. 18.30 h Stadtkino Basel
A dramatic road movie, based on the true story of a Turkish woman, Ayça Damgacı. After losing touch with her Kurdish darling, due to the outbreak of the war in northern Iraq, she sets out in search of him.
At 19./20./22.11. in presence of Ayca Damgaci and Hüseyin Karabey
Further Dates:
THU 20. & FRI 21.11. 19.15 h Xenix Zürich
SAT 22.11. 20.30 h & SUN 23.11. 16 h Kino Kunstmuseum, Bern
AYDIN TEKER: harS (Dance)
TUE 18.11. & DO 20.11. 20:30h Kaserne
In the dance ‘harS’, a female dancer investigates the relationship between the human body and an instrument invented by human beings – the harp. Ayşe Orhon, who studied both the harp and dance, investigates the instrument’s spatial and kinetic possibilities and thus arrives at some surprising results: body and object encounter each other in previously unknown terrain, appear to merge with each
Further Dates:
SUN 16.11. 18:30h Rote Fabrik, Zürich
SAT 22.11. 20h Theater Chur
SAT 29.11. 20h Dampfzentrale, Bern
TALDANS: ‹GRAF› (Dance)
THU 20.11. 19:30h Kaserne
In the theory of graphs, the term ‘Graph’ denotes a mathematical structure of nodes and angles. Both these elements play a role for the two dancers in this piece, both in the design of the stage setting and in the vocabulary of the movements performed by Filiz Sızanlı and Mustafa Kaplan. In Erki De Vries’s abstract scenography, the room is repeatedly divided, with threads and knots, into new cells, in which the two bodies orientate and adapt – even in the face of obvious physical resistance.
Further Dates:
DI 18.11. 20:30h L’Usine, Genf
DO 27.11. 20h, Dampfzentrale, Bern
Interdisziplinärer Workshop (Dance/Workshop)
FRI 21.11. 10–17h Kaserne
Taldans will work together with the workshop participants for a day on the subject of their new piece, which is about systems.
Registration: buero(at)kaserne-basel(dot)ch
In co-operation with IG Tanz
PODIUM DISCUSSION: TÜRKEI IM UMBRUCH - ZWISCHEN ISLAMISIERUNG UND LAIZISMUS (Lecture)
FRI 21.11. 18h Aula, Universität Basel
The podium discussion ‘Turkey in Up-heaval’, with specialists from Turkey and Europe, will address the role of Turkey between the poles of Islam and laicism, taking into account the latest proceedings to ban the AKP.
Erkan Oğur - Telvin (Music)
FRI 21.11. & SAT 22.11. at the time 20:30h & 21:45h the bird’s eye jazz club
World-class jazz with subtle interpretations and cheerful experimental excursions into freer climes. The renowned guitarist Erkan Oğur and his band know how to integrate various styles of music and cultural influences with great virtuosity.
Further Dates:
TUE 18.11. 20:30h Moods, Zürich
SUN 23.11. 20h Theater Chur
Uzak (Weit) (Cinema)
SAT 22.11.08 22h Stadtkino Basel
THU 27.11.08 18:30h Stadtkino Basel
SAT 29.11.08 15h Stadtkino Basel
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 2002; 110' OV / df
With Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kırılmış, Feridun Koc, Fatma Ceylan
‘Uzak’ is a minimalist masterpiece, which dares to explore the abysses of modern man with a touch of tragicomedy.
Further Dates:
THU 13.11. – SUN 16.11. 19h Uhr Xenix Zürich
MEHMET LIEBT FRIEDEN / MEHMET LIEBT BARIŞ
MEHMET BARIŞ’I SEVİYOR (Theater)
SUN 23.11. 18h Kaserne Basel
‘Mehmet Barış’ı Seviyor’ means, on the one hand, that Mehmet loves peace; on the other hand, it alludes to a homosexual relationship. Mehmet is a homosexual Kurd, who refused to enter military service in Turkey and was imprisoned for it. In rapidly changing scenes the dancers / performers work with a hand-held camera, invoke computer war games, and deploy aircraft noises.
HÄSSLICHES MENSCHLEIN / ÇİRKİN İNSAN YAVRUSU (Theater)
SUN 23.11. 19:30h Kaserne Basel
Three women – a Kurd, a lesbian and a religious woman tell about their lives in Turkey. They have one thing in common: all of them are confronted by society's prejudices and interventions. Three cleverly cut, subjective views presented in monologues, which lead to the question they all have in common: how it is possible to be
Further Dates:
SAT 08.11. 20:30h & SUN 09.11. 19:00h Schlachthaus, Bern
THU 13. & FRI 14.11. 21:15h Rote Fabrik, Zürich
Mercan Dede & Stimmhorn (Music)
THU 27.11. 20h Kaserne
The Swiss duo Stimmhorn is known as border-crossers within the Helvetian topography of sound. Christian Zehnder is the voice, Balthasar Streiff the alphorn. Voice and alphorn now meet turntable and Ney flute: Mercan Dede is a traveller. As a musician, producer and DJ he commutes between his adopted home Montreal and his roots in the Bosporus, between modern electronic sound vaults and mystical Sufi spirituality.
Further Dates:
FRI 28.11. 20h Theater Chur
SAT 29.11. 20:30h Theater Chiasso
SUN 30.11. 20:30h Dampfzentrale, Bern
TUE 02.12. 20h Rote Fabrik, Zürich
WED 03.12. 20:30h BFM Genf
THU 04.12. 20h Südpol Luzern
Önder Focan - Swing a la turc (Music)
FRI 28.11. 16h Museum Tinguely
FRI 28. & SA 29.11. jew. 20:30h & 21:45h the bird’s eye jazz club
A band which delivers what its name promises, sophisticated swing and mainstream music with Turkish influences.
DER SCHREI DER EURYDIKE / EVRİDİKE’NİN ÇIĞLIĞI (Theater)
SUN 30.11. 18h Kaserne (im Anschluss Publikumsgespräch)
TUE 02.12. 20h Kaserne Basel
Şahika Tekand / Studio Oyuncuları, Istanbul
In her interpretations of the Antigone theme Şahika Tekand, the artistic director of the Istanbul theatre group Studio Oyuncuları, is particularly interested in the concepts of the rights of others, of freedom of expression, belief and opinion as well as in the just exercise of the law. The performance shows, very impressively, how this ancient drama, about the irreconcilability of reasons of state and divine right, can still develop an incredible pull on us today.
HIP HOP – WORKSHOP WITH MAKALE „MUNDART VERSUS TÜRKISCH“ (Music/Workshop)
MON 01.12. – MI 4.12. 18-20h Kaserne
The objective of the workshop is to create a hip-hop song. Turkish and the local Swiss dialect will be used to show how young people in Basel with Turkish backgrounds use the languages of their cultural roots and that of their place of residence (Basel dialect), to describe and deal with their
CONCERT: MAKALE & FRIENDS (Music)
SAT 05.12. 21:00h Kaserne
BOXEO 14 „1001 Nacht“
Presenter: Boxclub Basel, Lesegesellschaft, Kaserne und Culturescapes
WED 3.12. 20.30h Lesegesellschaft Basel
Reading: Andrea Bettini aus „Teestunden am Ring“ (von Güney Dal)
SAT 6.12. 20.30h Kaserne Basel
Presentation: Andrea „Primo“ Bettini
Belly dancers, fire eaters, fakirs and genies will take your breath away. Amateur and professional fighters from Switzerland and Turkey will put their courage on display. The Kurdish-German actress Berivan Kaya accompany the fights with ‘Erotic Tales from 1001 Nights’, while a DJ provides for an atmospheric finale.