MOVIE - BEYAZ MELEK

on Thursday, April 2nd
at 8:00PM

Director:Mahsun Kirmizigül
Writer:Mahsun Kirmizigül
Genre:Drama

The movie is about the changing culture in Turkey with the adaptation of the Western civilisation into the metropolitan cities. It depicts the great harmony that exists between all cultures within the Turkish Republic and to name them specifically, Turkic, Kurdish and Greek. The main concentration is on the family values that are common to all Anatolians and that have inevitably shifted with the western way of life overpowering those cultural values that once were.

The story revolves around an elderly home where people from all walks of life cross paths as they wait for their eventual end (death). The joy and cruelty that exists within the walls of this sanctuary are based on true events that made headlines in Turkey when caught on camera by a national current affairs program in the 90s.

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CONCERT - ERTUGRUL ERKISI

on Friday, April 3rd
at 8:00PM

Ertugrul Erkisi (born 1972, Corum, Turkey), is a Turkish composer, Turkish Sufi Music and Turkish Classical Music singer. He is a virtuoso of classical turkish music instrument "Tanbur".

Discography

Muhabbet Bagi (2000)
Gullerin Efendisi (2002)
Efkar (2004)
Gonul Sizim (2006)
Ummanlar Gibi (2008)
 

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CONCERT - OMAR FARUK TEKBILEK

on Saturday, April 4th
at 8:00PM

Ömer Faruk Tekbilek (born 1951, Adana, Turkey), also known as Omar Faruk Tekbilek, is a Turkish virtuoso flautist. He is known for his performances with the ney in a Sufi style.

Omar Faruk is the recipient of the "Best Artist of the Turkish Music Award 2003" from the "Turkish Writers Association". He is a nominee for the BBC World Music Award 2003 in the category of the Middle East. He is also the recipient of the US Golden Belly Musician-Of-The-Year-Award, for 1998 and again, for 1999.

Discography
 

• Suleyman The Magnificent (1988), with Brian Keane

• Fire Dance (1990), with Brian Keane

• Beyond The Sky (1992), with Brian Keane

• Fata Morgana (1994)

• Whirling (1994)

• Mystical Gardens (1996)

• Crescent Moon (1998)

• One Truth (1999)

• Dance into Eternity (2000)

• Alif (2002)

• Tree Of Patience (2006)

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SEMA RITUAL BY WHIRLING DERVISHES

on Sunday, April 5th
at 8:00PM

The Mevlevi was founded in 1273 by Rumi's followers after his death, particularly by his successor Hüsamettin Çelebi who decided to build a mausoleum for Mevlâna, and then Mevlâna's son, Sultan Veled Celebi (or Çelebi, Chelebi, meaning "fully initiated"). He was an accomplished Sufi mystic with great organizing talents. His personal efforts were continued by his successor Ulu Arif Çelebi.

The Mevlevi believe in performing their dhikr in the form of a "dance" and music ceremony called the Sema, which involves the whirling from which the order acquired its nickname. The Sema represents a mystical journey of man's spiritual ascent through mind and love to "Perfect". Turning towards the truth, the follower grows through love, deserts his ego, finds the truth and arrives at the "Perfect". He then returns from this spiritual journey as a man who has reached maturity and a greater perfection, so as to love and to be of service to the whole of creation.

The Sema was practised in the semahane (ritual hall) according to a precisely prescribed symbolic ritual with the dervishes whirling in a circle around their sheikh, who is the only one circling around his axis. The dervishes wear a white gown (symbol of death), a wide black cloak (hirka) (symbol of the grave) and a high brown cap (kûlah), symbol of the tombstone.

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