[ Events and Art Works ]
Opening of Mahalla Memento
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
Friday 15.11.2024 – 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
We are pleased to invite you to the opening ceremony of the Memento Festival at the Ioakimion Girls High School in Balat.
Phoenix
Mural by Kabir Mokamel (Artlords)
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
Artist Kabir Mokamel (ArtLords) will create a Mural in between November 15th and 30th of November at Ioakimion Girls High School. The motive was developed in cooperation with artists in different countries on the Kite Runner Platform since August.
ArtLords will create their Mural for Istanbul between November 15th and 30th with participants from Afghanistan at the Ioakimion Girls High School.
Program Mahalla Memento
15.11. – 30.11.24
Mahalla Memento Exhibition & Special Events
Opening: 15.11.24, 18:00-21:00
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EDUCATION IS POWER!
Photo-Installation by Lida Hamid
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
These photos taking in Afghanistan and presented in the former Greek School in Fener show the need of education for girls or boys.
Sanchi | 2018 – 2020
3D computer animation by Franz Schubert
HD, colour, sound, 10:30 min, looped
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
The work by Franz Schubert attempts to reconstruct a tanker accident: After a collision with a freight ship in the East China Sea on January 6, 2018, the tanker Sanchi caught fire and sank nine days later. All the crew died.
Close to the Village – Kasabaya Yakın
Site specific Charcoal Drawing by Larissa Araz
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
For Mahalla Memento, Larissa Araz draws parts of a landscape on a blackboard from the Ioakimion School. The motifs look like a composition of the vulnerable and abandoned. A forest clearing, as if devastated by a storm, what happened?
in stein und aus holz – in stone made out of wood
Photo Installation by Margarita Wenzel
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
Photograph of the “Arab Memorial Stone” in Wünsdorf, dedicated to the Muslim prisoners of war who died during World War I and were interned in the so-called “Halbmondlager” (crescent camp). The memorial stone was erected in 1916 and bears both an Arabic and a German inscription.
Journalists in Exile
Panel
Location: Postane, Galata
16.11.2024
12:00 pm – 15:00 pm
Moderator: Fariba Nawa
Turkey is often the first stop for many journalists who no longer work in their home countries because of authoritarian governments or war. Media organizations and foreign journalists have built a base in Istanbul to work from exile. Hear from journalists in person and the challenges they face reporting about their homelands.
17 KM
Film installation by Harald Hund
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
The film installation 17 km builds on architectural remnants of the Nazi era and draws a parallel to the recent right-wing populism in Austria, which, as in other countries, paved the way for authoritarian tendencies.
Love
Animation Film by Şevket Akıncı and İlhami Tunç Gençer
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
A human being has many souls and consciousnesses throughout his/her life.
La Malle-Mobile – The Caftan from Trousseau#1
Installation by Mathilde Melek An
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
The Malle-Mobile project of artist Mathilde Melek An is a collection of interactive travel trunks.
AY KASH / ای کاش / IF ONLY / Keşke
Theater Performance by Under the Starry Afghan Sky
The theatre collective Under the Starry Afghan Sky will present AY KASH
Location: Tatavla Stage
Saturday, November 26th at 8:30 pm
“Museum of Monologues” and “Carmen”
Theatre Performances
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
30.11.2024
Closing Events of Mahalla Memento. Museum of Monologues and Carmen. Tales of the City and a reflection of the traces of times and discourses.
Traces of the Earthquake – Memory Spaces in Antakya
Installation by Talin Gülen Schenk
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
Each work is a breath, a pulse of life emerging from the rubble of Antakya to remember and reflect on the complex layers of human resilience in the face of loss.
Maryam Mazrooei, Our revolution is a woman
Sculpture by Maryam Mazrooei
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
It is our revolution. Women, Life Freedom, we rebel against the system. The revolution is a woman.
Shira Badakshi, Progressive Royals
Graphic-novel episode by Shira Badakshi
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
A quarrel between Past and Present
Photos by Abdul Naser Sahebzada
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Il-hadid
Monoprints by Nora Byrne
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
Capturing the process of iron dissipating into seawater, collected in a forgotten remnant of wartime, tracks the passage of time, evidence of the effects of forgotten infrastructure.
Sufism in Afghanistan
Film Screening and Discussion
with Sayed Rohullah Rizwani, Dr. Omar Sharifi, Mohammad Qasem Rahmani, Idrees Elham
Location: Postane
16.11.2024, 16:00-18:00
Phonix by ArtLords
Artist Kabir Mokamel (ArtLords) createed a Mural for the Memento Festival at Ioakimion Girls High School. The motive was developed in cooperation with artists in different countries on the Kite Runner Platform since August.
Glitter is joy, glitter sparkles
Photography Workshop
By artist and curator Katharina Swoboda
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
23.11.24, 14:00-17:00
Based on her work with glitter, Katharina Swoboda is offering a photography workshop.
Opening Ceremony for “Phoenix”, Latest Mural by Artlords in Istanbul
The Mural “Phoenix” by Afghan artist Kabir Mokamel – Artlords – was designed during a workshop of the Mahalla Festival in cooperation with our partner Kite Runner in an Online-workshop during summer and painted collectively.
New Voices from Afghanistan: Film, Performance and Poetry
with Omid Ahmad Adrak, Vega Moqarabi, Huda Hashimi, Uranus Mosamen and others
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
29.11.2024, 5 pm – 7 pm
Film screening of the short fiction “Mirror”, the short documentary “Dera”, Performance “Me and My Burqa, Contemporary Poetry Reading
Journey Through Time
Short Story by Zohal Faizi, Translation to English and Visuals by Shahzad Mudasır
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024
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