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A Tasty “Damat Paçası” Experience

Finally after couple of days, the sun showed its lovely face from behind the clouds today. Organizing most of our works in the morning, we decided to take walk around Galata, where almost half of our apartments are located, and have lunch. Enjoying the lovely weather, people and the sight (beleive us, you barely find time to enjoy this city between everyday work, therefore it was more than valuable to us to have the chance), we ran into our everyday route down to Galata Tower. Luckily, it didn’t take us long to spot this lovely, cosy restaurant which we already spotted weeks ago but didn’t find a chance to give it a try.

“Damat Paçası” is one of those little, cosy restaurants with a staff who welcomes you with a hearty smile, offering a variety of delicious food made by local women and a “not so expensive” price-list. Click to read the rest of this article

“ON STRIKE” / Exhibition / Bayram Candan / 31 Jan - 1 March / Galeri Apel

“ON STRIKE” / Exhibition / Bayram Candan / 31 Jan - 1 March / Galeri Apel 

“ON STRIKE” / Exhibition / Bayram Candan / 31 Jan - 1 March / Galeri Apel

Galeri Apel http://www.galleryapel.com/go.php?page=sergi&lan=TR&sergiid=87

Bayram Candan http://www.bayramcandan.com/

“ON STRIKE”  This exhibition does not correspond to any serious, complicated artistic manifest. The paintings and sculptures do not attempt to make any significant contribution in terms of form and content to the spectators’ daily lives. The works in this exhibition resulted from a productive process that promotes entertaining rather than exhibiting. Read the whole story

GÖÇEBE ŞARKILAR IS STARTING TO PERFORM IN BEYOGLU, CLOSE UP

Göçebe Şarkılar

20.October ve 3.November.2007 Saturday  at 23.00

After 17.November each Saturday at 23.00′da…

Close-Up address: Istiklal Caddesi İmam Adnan sok. No:8 Kat:2 Beyoğlu ( Upper floor of Yeşilçam Sineması)

Close-Up tel: (212) 252 16 12

Göçebe Şarkılar (The Nomadic Songs) take their listeners on a trip into the sounds of the people who spend their lives migrating from landscape to landscape, not always by choice. Their songs reflect the lives, loves, joys and sorrows of those cultures.

Göçebe Şarkılar draw on a repertoire of songs from Romania, Hungary, old Yugoslavian gipsy lands, Macedonia, Albania , Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Andalucía, Mexico, Italy, Anatolia, Armenia and Thrace as well as from Sephardic culture. They interpret these pieces in their authentic languages with the accompaniment of guitar, violins, accordion, and percussion; thriving to present the listener with a dynamic and different aural experience at each concert.

Let’s embark together on this journey of song, dance, happiness and melancholy…

GÖÇEBE ŞARKILAR:

Ahmet Tirgil - violin

Ayça Damgacı - vocal

Hakan Milli - vocal İnci Sunar - guitar

Levent Güzel - percussion Özge Metin - violin, accordeon

Dj Can at Barbahce on every Saturday night

Some of our guests who stay in our  gay friendly Istanbul apartments sometimes ask me for a recommendation for a good gay bar in Taksim area. I don’t know which one is recently better than the other but I know that it is always very fun and lively when my friend, Dj Can plays in a venue…Nowadays he is a resident Dj at Barbahce on every Saturday night and Barbahce is very close to some of  our  apartments in Cihangir area.

For more info:

Dj Can http://www.djcan-online.com/

Barbahce http://www.barbahce.com/

Metehan

DANSEVİ, Dance Studio

Dansevi

I have been taking aero-stretching courses from Ms. Ayse Sun since 1997. She also teaches classical ballet, which is actually her own field, both to children and adults.

Our aero-stretching classes are composed of set movements from yoga, aerobics and stretching that she designs and we come together every Monday and Wednesday at 20:00, Friday at 18:00 at her own studio in Mis St., No:12, Floor:4, Beyoglu.

I strongly recommend her classes to my guests who are here in Istanbul for a short while and want to do some physical training even it is for a couple of times…

You may contact her e-mail address  ayseaygor@hotmail.com for more info in Turkish or mine info@istanbulsweethome.com in English.