Inter. Advertising CUP

Istanbul Intercontinental Advertising Cup (IICAC) consists of two parts as Competition and Creativity Summit. The first day of the IICAC Creativity Summit opens with the special screening of the best advertising works from 4 continents that are also the IICAC 2011 entries. The Gunn Report, the world’s most important guide to the best creative work and who’s doing it – including agencies, advertisers, production companies and directors makes its world premiere for the first time in Istanbul.


The Istanbul Intercontinental Advertising Cup Creativity Summit takes place for one and a half day on 11-12 March 2011. The Summit gathers the global advertising gurus together for the first time in Istanbul. This most important annual meeting of the global creative industries sets the ground to put finger on the pulse of the advertising creativity and to share insights of the future. The non-advertiser honor guest of the Creativity Summit is Prof. Dr. John Ellis, who runs the most advanced science experiment of the century at CERN. 


Istanbul Intercontinental Advertising Cup Award Ceremony announces ‘the best of the best’ among winners of the biggest regional advertising festivals of four continents that compete to be the ‘global winner’. The silver cup goes to 38 categories and one of them takes The Great Cup home. The Ceremony and Gala Dinner proceeds with an after party.




Date : 11.03.2011 09:00:00 
Venue : Conrad Otel 
Ticket Prices: 860 tl.


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Gotan Project

Anticipated tango masters, combines tango and Latin America sound with ambient electronica, Gotan Project is revisiting Istanbul as part of their new album "Tango 3.0".

Date : 23.06.2010 20:00:00
Venue : Küçükçiftlik Park

Front Stage: 135,00 TL
Normal: 89,00 TL

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38th International Istanbul Music Festival

The International İstanbul Music Festival will take place between June 3-30. Including stars Arvo Pärt, Lang Lang and one of the most important orchestras of classical music, Vienna Philharmonic, The International İstanbul Music Festival will welcome over 500 local and foreign artists in its 38th year and will announce the arrival of summer with a prestigious programme.

In this year's İstanbul Music Festival, there will be 21 events including, symphony and chamber orchestras, vocal concerts, chamber music, recitals and jazz improvisations. As an addition to the classic venues of the festival such as the Hagia Eirene Museum, Archeology Museum, Tiled Kiosk, and Süreyya Opera House, Haliç Convention Centre also participates in the festival this year.

The programme of the 38th International İstanbul Music Festival is announced in a press conference at Four Seasons Hotel İstanbul at the Bosphorus. IKSV Chairman of Board of Directors Bülent Eczacıbaşı, Borusan Culture and Arts Chair of the Board of Directors Zeynep Hamedi and İstanbul Music Festival Director Yeşim Gürer Oymak spoke at the press conference.

At the press conference, İKSV Chairman Bülent Eczacıbaşı said that "in 1973, the International Istanbul Music Festival became a major player in Istanbul's culture and artistic life, and has been presenting the very best in classical music since then. This established festival will rejoin music lovers for the 38th time between June 3 and June 30. This year's festival programme is rich with the maturity, innovative approach and ever-present enthusiasm of its experience of almost 40 years. As the festival benefits tradition, it makes way for up-and-coming talents and young musicians, artists from Turkey and abroad rub shoulders in inventive projects, presents preeminent classical music artists to the Istanbulite audience."

Chairperson for Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Zeynep Hamedi stated that "it is our fifth year that we have been sponsoring the International Istanbul Music Festival, and we are more than happy to be supporting the festival and İKSV which are perhaps most influential and essential in promoting classical music to great masses, because we believe that the power of art is the foremost factor that would establish the appropriate environment of sustainable communication and understanding in making people come together. 2010 is significant in it that İstanbul is designated as the European Capital of Culture. At this special time, when all eyes turned to İstanbul thanks to the numerous activities of the European Capital of Culture, of which Borusan is one of the corporate sponsors, the Festival will be opening with the concert of the Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, the first of a very rich programme, worthy of  2010."

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A Story of The City: Constantinople Istanbul

Date : 18.06.2010 21:00:00
Venue : Cemil Topuzlu Açıkhava Sahnesi

OUTSTANDING MUSICOLOGISTS AND MUSICANS OF AMERICA ARE PREPARING FOR THE PROJECT “ A STORY OF THE CITY, CONSTANTINOPLE, ISTANBUL “ .

THE CONCERT EVENT THAT WILL BE SUPPORTED BY A MULTIMEDIA SHOW WILL BE HELD AT HARBIYE CEMILTOPUZLU OPEN – AIR THEATRE ON 18 TH. JULY 2010 .

"A story of the city, Constantinople, Istanbul" is an original music project which is realized by taking into consideration basic criteria prescribed by the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency. Taking the motto “Music is the witness of history” as its main theme, “A Story of the City, Constantinople – Istanbul” concert is about the cross-cultural interactions among civilizations and turning points, undergone by Istanbul through the course of its relations with European civilizations.

In the event, categorical schools (genres such as imperial, military, ethnic, religious music and Eastern and Arabic sounds, which the city imported from the Anatolian immigrants) will be presented to the
audience in a chronological order and in their original sounds.

Head of the Musicology-Music History Department at America's first Conservatory, world-famous New England Conservatory and; the founder and Chairman of the "Intercultural Institute" Prof. Dr. Robert Labaree regained the Middle Eastern harp called "Cheng” which Ottoman-Turkish music tradition has lost about 350 years ago. Prof. Labaree modified and improved the instrument by using “kanun” latches, thus it gets to fit to the current performance standards of Turkish music. Audience will get to chance to see the instrument “cheng” and enjoy the “cheng” performance by Labaree in this event.


“ A STORY OF THE CITY, CONSTANTINOPLE, ISTANBUL “

Musical Director : Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
Diploma, Berklee College Of Music, Jazz Composition and Film Scoring
Masters Degree, New England Conservatory, Jazz Composition
Doktora, New England Conservatory, Composition

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol resides in Boston and is the Founder President of Dünya Foundation ( Boston, USA ) and is a faculty member in Emerson College.

CD’ s : For You The World, For Us The Roses, The Language of the Birds
Psalms of Ali Ufki, The Tulip and the Sword, Music Of Cyrprus, Come See What Love Has Done To Me
DVD ‘ s : Wisdom and Turkish Humor
Albums : With Audiofact, Black Spot, Asitane

Dr. Sanlıkol is doing ecletic studies about Byzantine psalms, Separdic Jewesh Songs, Armenian Composers, Classical Turkish Music and Sufistic Music with musicians who come from those diciplines.

Ensembles :Schola Cantorum ( Director: Nektarios Antoniou ), Ensemble
Trinitas ( Director : Thomas Zajac ), The New England Drum and Winds Mehterhane, Dünya İnce Saz Ensemble, Dünya Anatolian Folk Ensemble, Dünya Fasıl Ensemble, Dünya Arabesk Ensemble, Ney Artist Ercan Irmak. 36 Musicians.

Presentation :

The city of Istanbul has been the capital of two long-lasting empires—for its first ten centuries Roman (Byzantine) and, beginning in 1453, for the next five centuries Ottoman Turkish. With the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, the city lost its status as a capital, though it remains the cultural centerpiece of a modern Turkish republic. Memories of the city’s past—often different, frequently overlapping, sometimes conflicting—persist in the minds and in the music of its current inhabitants, most of them with deep ties to different regions, cultures and histories of the Middle East, East, Europe and the Balkans. They have inherited the memories of fifteen centuries of merchants and soldiers from many regions, of Ottoman Arabs, Turks, Armenians, Slavs, Kurds and Greeks, of Jews exiled from Spain, and of European diplomats, soldiers and missionaries. To the nostalgic yearning for the imperial glory of the past has been added a layer of memories of more recent changes in the city’s self-image: the slow decline and dismemberment of the Ottoman empire during the 19th century, the shift of political power to Ankara in the 1920s and the continued relocation to Istanbul of large numbers of people from the countryside of eastern and central Anatolia.

The many layers of communal memory in this program proceed through Greek Orthodox music, secular Greek music, Crusader songs, music of the Ottoman ceremonial and military ensembles, Ottoman court music, Sufi ceremonial music, Turkish folk music, Sephardic Jewish songs, urban music of the Armenians and Turks, and finally contemporary urban popular music full of longing and protest. On its own, each piece may communicate celebration, love, devotion or military might, but taken together, the mood of melancholy is unmistakable, which by now has been permanently woven into the fabric of this thriving cosmopolitan city.

PROLOG

Byzantium Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (d. 1974)
Part I: KONSTANTiNiYYE Byzantine Music

Soson Kyrie ton laon sou
Anonim
Kyrie ekekraksa pros se eisakouson mou (Psalm 140, 1-3)
Petros Peloponesios (c. 1730-1778), düzenleme Protopsaltis Thrasivoulos Stanitsas (1910-1987)

The Byzantine Palace

Fos ilaron
Ioannis Sakellarides (1853-1938)
Kontakion
Romanos the Melodist (6. yy.)

Crusaders

Redit etas aurea
12. yy. conductus
A vous amant, plus qu’a nul autre gent
Châtelain de Coucy (c. 1165-1203)
Li nouviauz tanz et mais et violette
Chatelain de Coucy
Chanterai pour mon courage
Guiot de Dijon (13. yy.)

The 14th and the 15th Centuries

Akritis kastro ehtise
Anonymous
Mandilatos
Anonymous
Kyrie soson tous euseveis
Anonymous
Dynamis, trisagion
Xenos Koronis (14. yy.)
Kratima
Xenos Koronis
Mon stilte ghrama stin Frankia
Anonymous
Kyrie eleison
Petros Peloponesios (c. 1730-1778)
Lamentatio Sanctae Matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae
Guillaume Du Fay (1397-1474)
Çeng-i harbi
Anonymous, transkripsiyon: Ali Ufki (c.1610-1675)


Part II: İSTANBUL

The Arrival of the Turks: Yörükler, Bektaşiler

Dirmilcik’ten gelir
Anonymous
Ardıç arasında biten naneler
Anonymous
Uşşak nefes
Music: Anonymous, Text: Hacı Bayram Veli (1352-1430)

The Ottoman Palace

Çeng taksim (improvisation)
Buselik Aşiran peşrev
Anonymous, transcribed by Ali Ufki
Buselik Aşiran beste
Zaharya (18th c.)

Greeks, Armenians and Jews

Bu gece çamlarda kalsak ne olur/Apopse
Artaki Candan (1885-1948)
Turkish text: Avram Naum (20. yy.), Greek text: Dimitris Semsis ve Agapios Tomboulis (20. yy.)
Kara kız
Dramalı Hasan Hasgüler (1896-1984)
San pas sta ksena
Anonymous
La rosa enfloresse
Anonymous

Mevleviler

Ney taksim
Yeheme levavi
Music: Neyzen Yusuf Paşa (1820-1884)
Salat-ı ümmiye
Buhurizade Itri (1640?-1711)
Niyaz ayini
Music from the Segah Ayin of Buhurizade Itri, Müstear Ayin by Zekaizade Hafız Ahmet Irsoy (1869-1943) and an anonymous yürük semai

Fasıl

Segah şarkı
Text: Namık Kemal (1840-1888), Music: Hacı Arif Bey (1831-1885)
Suznak saz semaisi
Kemençeci Nikolaki Efendi (ö. 1915)

EPILOGUE

Dergah senden (vocal improvisation)
Text: Anonymous
Felekten beter vurdu
Orhan Gencebay (d.1944)

The owner of the project keeps the right to make partial changes in the program.

Ticket Prices:
Category 1: 185,00 TL
Category 2: 165,00 TL
Category 3: 112,00 TL
Category 4: 100,00 TL
Category 5: 78,00 TL
Category 6: 67,00 TL
Category 7: 56,00 TL

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The Cranberries, 22 JULY İSTANBUL

Irish indie rock band The Cranberries will perform two concerts in Istanbul and Çeşme in July 2010.

The group was one of the most successful rock acts of the '90s and sold over 14.5 million albums in the United States alone. The band has achieved four top 20 albums on the Billboard 200 chart (Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?; No Need To Argue; To the Faithful Departed and Bury the Hatchet) and eight top 20 singles on the Modern Rock Tracks chart ("Linger", "Dreams", "Zombie", "Ode to My Family", "Ridiculous Thoughts", "Salvation", "Free To Decide" and "Promises").

Since 2004 Dolores O'Riordan has been collaborating on a number of musical projects, before launching her solo career with the album Are You Listening? in 2007.

On August 25, 2009 in anticipation of the release of Dolores' second solo album, No Baggage, Dolores O'Riordan announced that the Cranberries would be reuniting for a North American tour to begin in November 2009, followed by dates in Europe in early 2010. O'Riordan indicated that the band would be playing songs from her solo albums and a lot of The Cranberries classic hits as well as some new group compositions.

Ticket prices:

Front Stage: 165,00 TL

Normal: 78,00 TL


The Cranberries
date : 22.07.2010 20:00:00
venue : Küçükçiftlik Park

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Lord of The Dance

Michael Flatley is committed to his art and to giving his audiences "The World's Greatest Dance Show" on June 11-12-13 2010 in Istanbul by UNILIFE Organization.

Irish dance lovers and music fans alike will get a chance to experience the engaging, rhythmic adventure that has helped catapult Celtic dance mania and Irish dancing into the global spotlight. No wonder Lord of the Dance has jettisoned its ticket sales to more than $800 million worldwide. During its rewarding five-year residency in Las Vegas, an estimated two million people danced along in their seats.

Fresh off the dancing heels of its 12th anniversary tour, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance has announced tour dates for the ensuing year, with more than 115 cities in 10 different Countries around the world included in the journey.

Michael Flatley, creator and director of this award-winning international dance phenomenon, has proven his vision that hearts and minds, united through music and dance, cross all traditional boundaries. His Lord of the Dance continues to shatter box office records all over the world, leaving audiences breathless and clamoring for more.

Described by the New York Post as "fascinating, rewarding and above all, entertaining," and by the Los Angeles Times as "a showpiece extravaganza," Lord of the Dance is a magical adventure of sight and sound that transports its audience to a mythical time and place, lifting the spirits and capturing the hearts of all who experience it. “Thrilled audiences and standing ovations are frequent reactions worldwide which speak directly to the quality of dancers who I have had the privilege to bring to the stage,” Flatley says.

The dancers’ average age is 24, and each one has achieved individual recognition as a national dance champion. “Each one is a superstar,” Flatley adds.

More than 50 million people worldwide have seen Lord of the Dance - the international Irish dancing extravaganza that has performed sold out shows in theaters, arenas and stadiums in over 67 countries. From the moment the lights go down to the last encore, audiences are spellbound by a masterfully orchestrated combination of precision dancing, flawless lighting and an intricately composed score, complimented by chiseled dancers in fantastic costumes.

Based on Irish folklore, this classic tale of Good vs. Evil, expressed through the universal language of dance, has catapulted Irish dance to a new dimension and unprecedented worldwide acclaim. As the story unfolds, the Little Spirit travels through time to help the Lord of the Dance protect his people from the challenge of Don Dorcha, the Dark Lord. Battle lines are drawn, passions ignite and a love story fueled by the dramatic leaps and turns of dancers’ bodies begins to build against a backdrop of Celtic rhythm.

The action is played out over 21 scenes on a grand scale of award-winning dancing, dramatic music, colorful and exquisite costumes and state-of-the-art staging, lighting and pyrotechnic effects.Flatley, who originated the role of the Lord, is the company’s Artistic Director, a position he has held since the troupe’s stunning 1996 debut in Dublin. Twelve years later, his influence continues to resonate throughout every aspect of the production.

Ticket Prices:

Category 1: 165,00 TL
Category 2: 122,00 TL
Category 3: 100,00 TL
Category 4: 78,00 TL

*Doors open at 20:00pm.
*Show starts at 21:00pm.

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AHIRKAPI HIDRELLEZ TRADITIONAL SPRING FESTIVAL

WHAT IS "HIDRELLEZ"?

It is said that whatever you wish for on that night, will come true!

"Hıdrellez", is one of the seasonal festivals of all Turkish world which is celebrated as the first day of the "early summer". It is also "day of Hızır", the day on which prophets Hızır and Ilyas met with each other on earth. The words Hızır and İlyas have since fused together pronounced as Hıdrellez. Hıdrellez Day falls on May 5-6. There are various theories about the origin of Hızır and Hıdrellez. Various ceremonies and rituals have been performed for various gods with the arrival of spring or summer in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, Greece and in fact all eastern Mediterranean countries since ancient times. One widespread belief suggests that Hızır is a prophet who has attained immortality by drinking the water of life (ab-ı hayat), and who has reached God, and wanders around among people from time to time, especially in the spring, and helps people in difficulty and distributes plenty and health. The identity of Hızır, the place and the time he lived in are not certain. Hızır is the symbol of spring, and the new life which emerges with it. In Turkey, where belief in Hızır is widespread, the characteristics attributed to him are as follows:

• Hızır rushes to the aid of people in difficulty and grants peoples’ wishes.
• He always helps well-meaning, benevolent people.
• He brings plenty and wealth wherever he stops.
• He brings remedies to those who are troubled and health to the sick.
• He helps plants to grow, animals to reproduce, and human beings to grow strong
• He helps improve peoples’ fortune.
• He is the symbol of good omens.
• He has the God-given power of working miracles.

Hıdrellez Festival, which is still celebrated with grand ceremonies in Anatolia, has been celebrated since ancient times. Although it is celebrated under different names and in different times, it is possible to see the motifs of Hıdrellez in many places. The arrival of spring and awakening of nature have been perceived by mankind as a phenomenon to be celebrated. In fact, Hıdrellez, as a spring festival, has a universal character.

"The Hıdrellez at Ahırkapı" Rituals

The Armada Hotel has first started to organize a semi-contemporary “Hidrellez” at Ahırkapı streets and invited all of Istanbul’s citizens to come and participate in 1997. For the last couple of years “The Hıdrellez at Ahırkapı Streets” event has been turned to a collective civil community activity. Each year the activities begin on Ahirkapi Street and spread to the adjacent streets on 5th of May. Towards midnight the traditional fires will be jumped over and the wishes will be attached on the traditional Nahils. -The individual wishes are written on a piece of paper and attached on the Nahil´s that you will find in front of the Armada Garage.-Nahil is a symbolic "wish-tree" and an ornament from Ottoman culture. The ones at the Ahirkapi Street were first designed and used during an "Earth Day" celebration on April 22, 2002. Since then they are being used as the "wish tree" of the Hıdrellez spring festivals which is organized by "The Association of Ahırkapi Hidrellez Festivals" and supported by local Eminönü Municipality as well as by Istanbul Governorship. In 2009, the activity was credited and supported by "Istanbul 2010, European Capital of Culture" project.

Until 2009, all the traditional spring foods and drinks (both the traditional ones and the brewery) used to be sold through the street-buffets, while the local musicians perform gypsy and Balkan music. In order to get food and drink at Ahırkapı Street one should have bought the coupons for food (the white ones) and brewery (the red ones) first. Those coupons were treated like cash money! The Ahirkapi Roman Orchestra, which is consisting of the neighboring musician groups of Ahirkapi community, performed street concerts along with the guest performers... Küçük Hasan from Lüleburgaz a zurna genius and the drum master Tamer Kum and his group came every year. In 2007, The Ahirkapı Junior Orchestra (the children of the “Great Roman Orchestra” members), The "Macedon Koçani Orkestar", Buzuki Orhan, Yannis and Gorkem Saulis; Semaver Theatre Company, Goksenin Ileri Istanbul Songs Group joined and and DJ Shantel performed along with the others during whole evening.

The number of the participants significantly increased and reached 50.000 in 2007 and over 70.000 in 2008. So that the venue had to be carried to a larger venue in 2009: The Ahırkapı Park!

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2010 FIBA World Championship

DESTINATION TURKEY 2010 FOR THE WORLD's GREATEST BASKETBALL EVENT 28 AUG. TO 12 SEP.2010

THE GIANTS OF ALL CONTINENTS ARE IN OUR COUNTRY

As the Local Organizing Committee, we are giving our strongest effort to host the World’s Basketball Giants in the best way possible in this beautiful country where the continents and path of civilizations meet and several different beliefs have been living together in harmony throughout history.

The World Championship will be organized the fourth time in Europe after 12 years since it was organized first time in 1950. Turkey will have the proud and excitement of hosting the biggest and most prestigious basketball event in 2010.

Setting the goal as becoming the reference country for the following World Championships by taking the previously hosted organizations up to another level, Turkey is working with the utmost energy to host 24 countries from 5 continents to bid farewell with joyous memories in their minds between 28th of August to 12th of September 2010 in the cities of Ankara, Kayseri, İzmir and İstanbul. Taking over the flag from two economical super powers, USA and Japan respectively, leads us to work much harder to reach our goals as the host country. In this sense, it becomes a must that the full support of Turkish public is required to make this event a prominent issue of the country as the sources and opportunities can be directed to the needs of such big and important organization.

The basketball fans travelling to our country to be a part of the World Championship will be watching the basketball stars live as well as they will blend with the basketball fans who will gather around from other countries. Our guests will taste all the gorgeousness of basketball and have the opportunity to experience the famous natural beauties and historical wonders in place at the same time.

Our efforts through achieving the goal of reaching the excellence in the organization of the 2010 FIBA World Championship, we are aware that this will have marvelous benefits to the promotion, economy and sports of the country without any doubt. Five magnificent arenas specially built or renovated for the World Championship will stand as the biggest heritage of the event for the next generations at the same time. On the other hand, the international authorities are keeping a close eye on the developed projects and evaluating the World Championship as the biggest reference for Turkey’s ultimate dream of hosting the Olympic Games which proves the significance of the event for the country.

The Local Organizing Committee is fully aware of this huge responsibility as giving its complete efforts to the preparations of this biggest and most important sport event which will ever be hosted in Turkey. The works and plans are continuing 7/24 basis to reach the target of hosting the Championship worthy of Turkey and Turkish public’s reputation for this amazing organization which will be hosted in 4 cities where 80 games will be played and followed from all around the world.

We are welcoming you to this joyous and exciting event where the greatest of the world basketball will be determined.
2010 FIBA World Championship Local Organizing Committee

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Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood 13 June 2010/ SantralIstanbul

19 Grammy Award winner guitar legend Eric Clapton will be performing with Steve Winwood in Istanbul as part of their European Tour.

Eric Clapton's solo career has seen him become, arguably, the UK's most influential and commercially successful guitarist after his formative years as a member of classic groups The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith.

His touring band always includes some of the most highly respected and sought after musicians in the world. His hit singles include original songs such as Tears in Heaven (for which he won six Grammies), Wonderful Tonight and Layla together with classic versions of tracks such as, I Shot the Sheriff, Knockin on Heaven's Door and Cocaine.

Date : 13.06.2010 21:00:00
Venue : SantralIstanbul

Prices:
Categori 1: 370,00 TL (Front of Stage)
Category 2: 265,00 TL (VIP 1 - VIP 3)
Category 3: 215,00 TL (VIP 2 - VIP 4)
Category 4: 99,00 TL (General Admission - Early Bird)

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U2 360° TOUR in İSTANBUL

U2 360° TOUR in İSTANBUL

Tickets will be available as of November 2.

One of the most anticipated rock bands of all time, U2 will perform a concert in İstanbul, on September 6, 2010, as part of its 360° TOUR. A production of Live Nation, the concert is realised within the framework of İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture events, in collaboration with Pozitif and İKSV. Concert tickets will be available as of November 2.

“…Stadium rock is the final frontier, U2 has boldly gone where no rock band has gone before.”

The Globe & Mail, Toronto.

Following the massive success of the tour in 2009, U2 have confirmed that their acclaimed 360° Tour will continue in 2010. Following the release of No Line On The Horizon, the band’s 12th studio album, the 2010 tour will once again be sponsored by BlackBerry.

With a cylindrical video system of interlocking LED panels, and a steel structure rising 150 feet from the floor over a massive stage with rotating bridges, the band has truly created a intimate 360º experience for concert goers. And now, European fans who missed out will have a new opportunity to experience the U2 360° Tour extravaganza next year with stops in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Brussels, Spain and Portugal.

Tickets will be available on November 2, Monday at 11.00!

Tickets can be purchased through:

Biletix sales channels (http://www.biletix.com/, Biletix Call Centre 0212 556 98 00 and Biletix retail outlets) and

Garanti Bank ATMs
In line with the design of the stage, there will be 7 different categories for the tickets, with prices ranging from 50 TL to 375 TL.

Tickets that will be purchased as of November 2 will be sent to the owners via postal service, beginning June 2010.

Category 1 375 TL
Category 2 300 TL
Category 3 225 TL
Category 4 175 TL
Category 5 125 TL
Category 6 75 TL
Category 7 50 TL
On-field 100 TL

Private box (12, 14 or 16 persons) 750 TL
Red Zone Packages (Special zone right in front of the stage) 550 TL
U2.com subscribers will be able to buy tickets for the show in an exclusive presale between October 27-29, 2009 ahead of the public on-sale. In addition, renewing subscribers - and first-time subscribers - will also receive a limited edition U2 remix CD. Full details at: http://www.u2.com/

The U2 360° Tour is produced by Live Nation Global Touring and sponsored by BlackBerry. The İstanbul concert is realised in collaboration with Pozitif and İKSV as Live Nation’s chosen local organisers, with the support of İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency.

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ISTANBUL 2010 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE PROGRAM

2010 Istanbul special activities agenda

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FESTIVALS & EVENTS - 2010

Local / International Culture & Art Festivals in Turkey
(Organizing Every Year)

JANUARY
Aydin  Karacasu Afrodisias Culture and Art Festival
Tokat Culture and Art Festival
Ankara Wrestling Festival
Agri Bards Festival
Aydin International Camel Wrestling Festival
Izmir Camel Wrestling Festival
Japanese Films Festival, Istanbul
International 1001Documentary Film Festival

FEBRUARY
!f istanbul AFM International Independent Film Festival
Aydin Camel Wrestling Festival
Nigde Darbogaz Cherry Festival
Rotary Short Film Festival
International 2nd Hand Film Festival, Ankara

MARCH
Istanbul Turkish Theater Festival
Ankara Single Play Festival

APRIL
International Children Festival
Ankara International Music Festival
International Istanbul Film Festival
Izmir April 24 Menemen International Feast Festival
Istanbul International CRR Child's Festival
Kocaeli April 24 Children's Festival
Aydin 32th International Sultanhisar-Nysa Culture and Art Festival
Manisa Traditional Manisa Mesir Festival
Istanbul International Istanbul Film Festival
Ankara International 24 April Children Festivity
Ankara International Ankara Film Festival
Ankara International Ankara Music Festival

MAY
Youth and Sports Day (19 May 2010)
Mardin Cherry Festival
Burdur Tobacco Festival and Art Activities
Isparta Rose, Carpet, Culture and Tourism Festival
Usak Esme, Touristic Kilim, Culture and Art Festival
Usak Sivasli Strawberry Festival
Mardin Antep Hazelnut Trees Vaccination Festival
Ankara Tulip Festival
Bingol Culture Spring Festival (Hidirellez)
Aydin Strawberry, Agriculture, Culture and Art Festival
Ankara Sumer Festivals
Kayseri Sumer Festivals
Yozgat Sumer Festivals Culture Feast
Antalya Beymelek, Bahar (Spring) Festival
Eskisehir Yunus Emre Culture and Art Week
Izmir Strawberry Festival
Marmaris-Mugla Marmaris Yacht Festival Week
Sanliurfa Hermit ibis Festival
Ankara International Ankara Cartoon Festival
Mus Tulip Festival
Izmir Narlidere Youths and and Flower Festival
Istanbul International Istanbul Theatre Festival
Icel International Silifke Culture Week Music and Folklore Festival
Giresun International Aksu, (Black Sea) Festival
Kayseri Akkisla - Gomurgen Yogurt Festival
Artvin Murgul and Environs Traditional "Bullfight Festival
Izmir Cherry Festival
Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Ankara

JUNE
Bolu Mengen, Traditional Cooks & Cookery and Tourism Festival
Ardahan Ardahan Honey Festival
Sivas - Gurun Trout Festival
Isparta Seyyid Veli Baba Sultan Bards Night and Rice Festival
Tokat Zile Cherry Festival
Ardahan Gole National Cheese Festival
Ankara Gudul Cherry Festival
Mugla Mentese Municipality Yerkupe, Bespinar Wrestling - Culture and Tourism Festival
Tekirdag Culture and Art Festival, Circumcision Feast.
Artvin Kafkasor Culture Tourism Art Festival
Antalya Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival
Ankara Bicycle Festival
Icel Mut, Apricot Festival
Rize Rize cay (Tea) and Tourism Festival
Izmir Cherry and Sapling Festival
Balikesir International Birdparadise Culture and Tourism Festival
Bartin Strawberry Festival and Culture Tourism Activities
Edirne Enez, Fish Festival
Eregli-International Blacksea Ottoman Strawberry Culture Festival
Istanbul International Istanbul Music Festival
Ankara Flying Broom Women Film Festival
Adana Sumer festivale
Cankiri Haci Murad-I Veli's Commemoration Week, Cherry Festival and Traditional Wrestling
Ankara Haymana International Spa and Culture Festival
Duzce - Bolu International Folk Dances and Tourism Festival
Bursa International Bursa Festival
Afyon Mermer (Marble)and Culture Festival
Ankara Bilkent International Theatre Meeting
Istanbul International Bogazici Festival
Izmir International Selcuk-Efes Culture Art and Tourism Festival
Izmir International Izmir Festival
Elaziğ Gezin Strawberry Festival
Malatya Yesilyurt Cherry Festival
Corum corum Hittite Fair and Festival
Isparta Traditional Wrestling and Cherry Festival
Cankiri Maruf Village Wrestling Festival
Ankara Picture Festival
Adana Cherry Festival
Ankara Kutludugun Pancake, Ayran, Culture and Art Festival
Adiyaman International (Nemrud) Commagene Festival
Ankara Egriova Highland (Yayla) Festival
Afyon Sandikli-Termal-Culture-Art-Sports and Tourism Festival
Kutahya Pazarlar Golden Cherry and Black Cherry Festival
Finike - Antalya Finike Festival
Kas - Antalya International Kas¸-Likya Culture and Art Festival
Izmir Alacati International Child and Youth Theatres Festival
Ordu Hazelnut Festival
Sivas Kangal Shepherd's Dog Sheep Culture and Art Festival
Mugla Dalyan Tourism Caretta Caretta Festival
Hopa - Artvin Hopa Culture and Art - Sea Festival
Kocaeli Zuhtu Muridog'lu Wooden Sculpture Symposium and Hazelnut, Culture Art Festival
Konya (Lake) Dudengolu Culture and Art Festival
Tunceli Cemisgezek Mulberry and Cheese Festival
Bitlis Tatvan East Anatolia Festival
Ayas - Ankara Traditional Ayas¸ Mulberry Festival
Dikili - Izmir Blue Sea Green Dikili Culture and Art Festival
Manisa Melon-Watermelon Festival
Yalova Golden Plane Tree Festival
Yalova International Folk Dances Festival and International Yalova Golden Carnation Folk Dances Competition

JULY
Buldan - Denizli Buldan Yenicekent Sultaniye Seedless Grape Festival
Ardahan cildir-cildir Lake Festival
Cide - Kastamonu Cide Rifat Ilgaz Culture and Art Festival
Rize Agriculture - Stockbreeding and Milk Festival
Konya Nasrettin Hodja Festivities
Hatay Iskenderun Culture and Tourism Festival
Afyon Cherry Festival
Edirne Traditional Kirkpinar Oil-Wrestling Festivities
Isparta Mulberry Grape Molasses Festival
Istanbul International Istanbul Jazz Festival
Karabuk Music and Wrestling Festival
Alucra - Giresun Alucra Ekin Festival
Afyon Black Cherry Festival
Izmir Plum and Okra Festival
Kars Apricot Festival
Yalvac - Isparta Antiocheia Culture, Tourism and Art Festival
Kutahya Kutahya International Culture and Tourism Festival
Duzce - Bolu International Akcakoca Tourism, Culture and Hazelnut Festival
Kuyucak - Tokat Kuyucak Culture and Handicrafts Festival
Aksaray Aksaray Ihlara Tourism and Culture Festival
Siirt Karakucak Wrestling Kebap and Entertainment Festival
Devrek - Zonguldak Devrek Walking Stick and Culture Festival
Denizli Yes, ilyuva Shoemakers and Friendship Festival
Samsun Culture - Art Festival
Adiyaman Mulberry Culture and Art Festival
Hatay Antakya Tourism and Culture Festival
Kayseri Sariz Kilim Festival
Fatsa - Ordu International Cinar Culture, Art - Music - Mt. Jeep Safari and Tourism Festival
Unye - Ordu unye Un festival
Arhavi - Artvin Arhavi Culture and Art Festival
Izmir candarli Kaleici Culture and Art Festival
Cesme - Izmir Cesme - Sea Festivity and International Song Contest.
Artvin Aros Festival
Amasya Kaba-Oguz Villages' Highland Festivals
Yozgat Kazankaya Canyon Culture and Tourism Festival
Elazig Baskil Apricot Festival
Artvin Highland (Yayla) Festival
Siirt Traditional Ayancik Culture - Art and Linen Festival
Balikesir Film Festival
Balikesir Altinova Golden Beach Blue Sea Clean Environment Festival
Ulubey - Ordu Ulubey Culture and Art Festival
Tunceli - Munzur Munzur Culture and Nature Festival
Canakkale Sardine Festival
Adana, Beyaz Yunus (White-Dolphin) Culture-Art-Music and Sports Festival
Aydin, International Milet - Apollon Science Festival
Balikesir, Kucukkoy- Sarimsakli Sand Festival
Aksaray, Saratli Culture and Art Festival

AUGUST
Mugla Datca Culture-Art Festival
Burdur Carrot-Agriculture and Culture Festival
Artvin - Sidere Festival
Kahramanmaras Red Pepper, Tarhana and Ice cream Festival
Tokat - Resadiye-Bereketli Golden Ram Festival
Kirikkale Delice Grape Festival
Izmir Mordogan Summer Festival
Kutahya Black Cherry and Cherry Festival
Tekirdag Wine Festival
Bursa International Folklor Festival
Mugla Yatagan Traditional Knife Festival
Mugla Kavaklidere Culture, Art and Sports Festival
Cankiri - Kizilirmak Melon Festival
Kirklareli - Babaeski Agriculture Festival
Icel - Tasucu Nature Festival
Artvin - Macahel Kafkas Bee and Honey Festival
Ankara - Bilkent International Anatolia Music Festival
Icel Culture, Tourism, Banana, Strawberry Festival
Nevsehir International Haci Bektas Veli Memorial Celebrations
Canakkale - Truva, (Troy) Festival
Rize - cayeli Culture and Art Festival
Ardesen - Rize - Ardesen Atmaca (Hawk) Festival
Balikesir - Erdemit - Akcay Oilland Festival
Erzincan Cheese, Honey, Tourism and Culture Festival
Rize cagirankaya Highland (Yayla) Festival
Rize - Pazar Culture Art and Sports Festival
Kilis Anniversary Celebrations of Mercidabik Victory Kilis Grape and Culture Festival
Istanbul - Kartal International Culture and Art Festival
Adiyaman Honey Culture and Art Festival
Sivas - Zara and Villages Honey and Culture Festival
Trabzon Yilantas¸ Culture Tourism and Art Activities Festival
Afyon Victory (Zafer) Festival
Balikesir Altinoluk Antandros Culture and Art Festival
Kocaeli Yogurt Circumcision-Bicycle Festival
Denizli - Acipayam Culture Festival
Cankiri - cerkes¸ Culture and Stockbreeding Festival

SEPTEMBER
Kocaeli Fair International Street Theater Festival
Diyarbakir International Watermelon and Culture Festival
Kirikkale Sulakyurt Melon-Watermelon Festival
Gumushane Kusburnu Pestil Tourism Festival
Ordu Golden Column Honey and Culture-Art Tourism Festival
Pamukkale - Denizli International Pamukkale Music and Culture Festival
Tokat - Turhal Culture Festival
Ankara Anatolian Days Festival
Kocaeli Yesil Ihsaniye Apple Festival
Bursa Fig Festival
Tunceli Pulumur Honey Festival
Ordu Gelinkaya Culture, Art and Tourism Festival
Giresun Tirebolu Hazelnut Festival
Manisa, Liberty Celebrations and Javeline Festival
Izmir Fair International Folk Dances Festival
Istanbul International Istanbul Biennial
Kahramanmaras Afsin District Karakucak Wrestling Festival
Zonguldak - Alapli Hazelnut, Culture, Art and Sports Festival
Sivas Traditional Akincilar Melon Festival
Mugla Turkbuku Culture and Art Festival
Denizli - Akalan Melon - Watermelon Festival
Denizli - Soke Festival
Edirne - Ipsala celtik (Rice) Festival
Manisa Alasehir's Independence day - Alasehir Congres Anniversary week, Grape Festival
 Balikesir - Gonen Embroidery Festival
Aydin Traditional Golden Fig Festival
Nevsehir Avanos International Tourism and Handicrafts Festival
Izmir Liberty Celebrations and Fig Festival
Kayseri Grape Festival
Ankara Traditional Melon Festival and Culture Ceremonies
Siirt Hazelnut Pormotion Competition and Honey Festival
Izmir - Karsiyaka Festival
Erzurum Honey, Apple and Wrestling Festival
Isparta Miryakefalon Victory Fest and Apple Festival
Erzincan - Refahiye Culture and Honey Festival
Erzincan Oglanaga Grape Festival
Denizli - civril Culture and Apple Festival
Karabuk Golden Saffron Film Festival
Adiyaman Besni Education and Culture Festival
Kayseri Yemliha Aubergine Festival
Kahramanmaras Goksun District Karakucak Wrestling Festival
Nigde Ulukisla Grape and Culture Festival
Karaman - Konya Apple Festival
Corum Aycicegi (Sunflower) Festival
Yozgat-Aydincik Onion, Culture and Art Festival
Rock'n Coke

OCTOBER
Antalya 38th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
Kirsehir Kaman Walnut Festival
Bolu Koroglu Culture,Art and Tourism Festival
Kirikkale Hasandede Culture Festival
Sanliurfa International Ataturk Dam Water Sports Feast.
Alanya - Antalya, Alanya International Culture and Art Festival
Corum - Bayat, Culture and Walnut Festival
Corum, Oguzlar Culture Art And Walnut Festival
Kastamonu International Taskopru Culture and Garlic Festival
Bitlis Culture Feast and Walnut Festival
Eskisehir, International Eskisehir Festival
Nevsehir, Grape Harvest Festival
Corum, Demirseyh Traditional Cabbage Festival and Karakucak Wrestling
Izmir, Sirince Grape Harvest and Wine Festival
Sanliurfa, Sanliurfa International Culture and Art Week
Bilecik Pomegranate and Fig Festival
Kahramanmaras¸ Karakucak Wrestling Festival
Ardahan Goose Festival

NOVEMBER
Istanbul, International CRR (Cemal Resit Rey) Mystical Music Festival
Ankara, Ankara Theater Festival

DECEMBER
Istanbul, International CRR (Cemal Resit Rey) Piano Festival
Demre - Antalya, Demre International St. Nicholas Memorial Celebrations
Karabuk Hindi (turkey) Festival
Konya, Mevlana Memorial Celebrations
Aydin, Traditional Camel Wrestling Festival

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