That any musician, old cat, young lion, or apprentice anywhere, endeavors in jazz is amazing enough, given the elusiveness of "success." That is even more true in Istanbul, Turkey: not a conventional ...

It would be easy to get breathless, even giddy, about the range and schedule of cultural events organized by İKSV, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (in Turkish: İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı ...

Project team and musicians of Turkey’s first “Music Village” found in Yanıklar village of Fethiye District are going to be in İstanbul until December 4. Series of activities conducted in various ...

The 52nd İstanbul Music Festival, organized by İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is set to take place from May 21 to June 12. Featuring 25 concerts, the festival will bring together ...

Not so starrily cast but hardly less engaging in situ is the adapted offering from Istanbul, mixing local and international artists, chamber and orchestral concerts with a flair that belies its ...

Cats have been living alongside humans for thousands of years. Many believe they are not so much domesticated as co-evolved to live in harmony with us, primarily due to our habit of stockpiling grain ...

The festival theme – "Siradişi", meaning "Unusual" – covers a multitude of quirks and combos, as such tags do. But the slice of weekend life I chose had a neat symmetry in its otherness. After the ...