{"id":45774,"date":"2011-10-21T20:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=45774"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:24:48","slug":"galata-visibility-projects-requiem-to-winehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/21\/galata-visibility-projects-requiem-to-winehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Galata Visibility Project\u2019s requiem to Winehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter rolls in at unprecedented speed, \u0130stanbul\u2019s historical Galata quarter is preparing itself for a final open-air hurrah with the upcoming seventh edition of the Galata \u201cG\u00f6r\u00fcn\u00fcrl\u00fck Projesi\u201d (Visibility Project), an annual celebration of experimental art set to take place this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45776\" title=\"art\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/art.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/art-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amy Winehouse<\/p>\n<p>A packed two-day event presented under the slogan \u201cSahneden \u00c7\u0131k!\u201d (Get off the stage!), one of the highlights of the program is \u201cRequiem to Amy Winehouse,\u201d an elegy and gesture of respect to the late singer directed by young Turkish dramatist Ceren Ercan. Featuring a cast of Fehime Seven, Nazl\u0131 Bulum, Albina \u00d6zden, Ayris Alptekin and Sefa Tokg\u00f6z, the group will be performing a surprise concert in the T\u00fcnel area at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A weekend event it may be but preparation for the project has been anything but short-lived, with an extensive series of screenwriting and theater workshops for young amateur writers and actors having been under way for the past six weeks. A series organized by the project\u2019s general art director, Ye\u015fim \u00d6zsoy G\u00fclan, the colorful project will showcase the fruits of the workshops\u2019 labors amongst a string of surprise theatrical displays and exhibitions to take place across a number of unorthodox theatrical locations, including local shops and grocers, a synagogue, the Galata Mevlevihanesi (dervish lodge), an old matzo bakery and a number of surrounding streets.<\/p>\n<p>Other events over the weekend are to include a theater performance of Sibel Toruno\u011flu\u2019s cult novel \u201cTransvestite Pinocchio,\u201d as part of the event \u201cA meeting of Three Litterateurs,\u201d also featuring the works of acclaimed Turkish poet Lale M\u00fcld\u00fcr and author Ece Erdo\u011fu\u015f as well as photo exhibitions, concerts and video installations at the old matzo bakery.<\/p>\n<p>via Galata Visibility Project\u2019s requiem to Winehouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter rolls in at unprecedented speed, \u0130stanbul\u2019s historical Galata quarter is preparing itself for a final open-air hurrah with the upcoming seventh edition of the Galata \u201cG\u00f6r\u00fcn\u00fcrl\u00fck Projesi\u201d (Visibility Project), an annual celebration of experimental art set to take place this weekend. Amy Winehouse A packed two-day event presented under the slogan \u201cSahneden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":45776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[5946,7367,7368,7366],"class_list":["post-45774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-amy-winehouse","tag-dervish-lodge","tag-galata-mevlevihanesi","tag-visibility-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}