SPRING OF EVENTS We are leaving the winter behind and welcoming spring. In these mild spring nights, the events which will warm us inside cheer the people living in Istanbul. İŞ SANAT 2013 - 2014 SEASON Its new season, İş Sanat once again hosts world-famous artists with its “year-long arts, year-long festival” approach. Colouring our cultural and art life with music from classical to jazz and traditional to world music and with different events and exhibitions from dance to poetry reading, İş Sanat welcomes once again worldwide known musicians, orchestras and groups in its 14th season. As with previous years, art-lovers can create their own concert series, choosing from İş Sanat's beautiful events, and catch all the classical music and jazz concerts as well as the dance performances. MARCO BRAMBILLA: MEGAPLEX TRILOGY Borusan Contemporary presents 3D video collages of the artist Marco Brambilla with the exhibition Megaplex Triology. 3D technology was used for the exhibition which includes the artworks named Creation (Megaplex-2012), Evolution (Megaplex-2010) and Civilization (Megaplex-2008). These artworks are like sliding and mobile paintings gathering more than 400 movies from cinema history. TRACES OF ANCIENT AGES Consisting of approximately 7000 artworks, the collection of Sadberk Hanım Museum Archeology Department which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, enables seeing the material culture in chronological order, belonging to the Anatolian Civilizations that lived from Late Neolithic Age to the Byzantine Period. A total of 150 artworks which take part in the exhibition were chosen to ideally reflect the chronological integrity of the collection of Sadberk Hanım Museum Archeology Department. The catalogue where the artworks are introduced in detail was prepared by curators Senem Özden Gerçekler and Deniz Uygun. Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake is coming to Istanbul as part of his world tour. Meeting with his fans in ITU Stadium, the artist will perform his first solo performance in Turkey. Bringing 3 awards home from The America Music Awards including favorite pop/male rock artist, Timberlake was also chosen by GQ as the man of the year. His album which lends its name to the 20/20 Experience tour is this year's best seller with 4 million sold. Timberlake was named best newcomer male artist of the last five years in America, and his album is the best digital newcomer of the last five years. ISTANBUL RED Ferzan Ozpetek has been observing Istanbul, the city has been born and grew up in, from a distance for many years. Istanbul Red bears the traces of the artist’s life in Istanbul until he left for Italy for his cinema education. It shows that the space that can be measured with distance can not withold a person from belonging to a city and that what is important is not so much to live in a city but to perpetuate that city. DREAM Ayse Kulin places the colorful events and interesting anecdotes from her life since 1983 in her new book “Hayal” following her previous book “Return”. In this book, the colorful scenes of a life that has started with the dream of becoming a writer are placed. Supported by original drawings, Dream is also a story of Kulin’s adventure of authorship till today. Dream ends with a hope of Kulin: “As long as I exist in this world, I will not give up on dreaming. So long to meet my readers in many a dreams!” A THUMB OF HONEY Having been number one at the best sellers list in England for a long time and published by Yapi Kredi Publishing in Turkey, A Thumb of Honey tells a story that toches several points from the Cold War Politics and spying to love and the world of liteature and which is read breathlessly also being full of surprizes. REALLY, WHY IS INNOVATION SO FAR? We like to keep demand ing without having a grasp of the infrastructure, patience and human resources of developing technology and without paying the price. In order to train the human resource which is the basic keystone of innovation, we have to insist on developing a consciousness of “valuing our own people and culture” This book, which is a first work that interprets the term “Innovation” in the lines of R&D and design and brings it together with our country’s realities, shows that in fact the solution is not so difficult as long as we face the realities and perform the patience and belief and trust our own people. NOTES FROM MY INNER WORLD After reflecting all the images in his memory where the feelings of the sense of touch and his favorite movie scenes also turn up with a flowing expression, Paul Auster combines his stories with photgraphs in the album section at the end of the book. Notes from my Inner World is a unique autobiographic work.