THIS MONTH PROGRAM IN AKBANK ART APRIL AGENDA

 

Ticket Information:   
Adult: 200 TL
Student: 180 TL 
https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro-bilet/ne-olacagim-ben

Written by: Onur Demircan
Lyrics: Zeynep Anacan
Music: Tuluğ Tırpan
Cast: Ayşe Köksal, Gamze Çelik, Müge Gülgün, Tuğra Can
Director: Mehmet Ergen
Decor: Laura McEwen
Costume: Gül Sağer
Lighting: Yakup Çartık
Choreography: Gürdeniz Bursalı
Director Assistant: Zeynep Tuğçe Koşucu
Rehearsal Pianist: Onur Ermez

The musical, staged in cooperation with Talimhane Theater and Akbank Children's Theatre, is suitable for children aged 5 and above.

• Why Should you attend?

To provide a fun and inspiring theater experience while supporting children to develop their creativity and imagination. 

Mini Mosaic WorkshopDate: 
5 April 2026, Sunday – 18 April 2026, Saturday 
Time:12.30 – 13.45         15.45 – 17.00
Venue: Edirne Hasan Ali Yücel Children's Museum – Küçükçekmece Cennet Culture and Art Center
Age Group: 5-9 years
Workshop Facilitator:Barış KarayazganIn this workshop, children will discover how colorful small pieces come together to form a meaningful whole. After a short conversation on the basic principles of the mosaic technique, they will create their own designs with beads and different color combinations. They will plan shapes based on their imagination, try color harmonies, and patiently put the pieces together to produce their original mini mosaics.While experiencing learning by designing and experimenting in this process; They will also improve attention, focus and creative problem-solving skills.

• Why Should You Participate? 

Children learn by experiencing the relationship between color, form and composition; To support them in producing their own designs while improving their patience, attention and creativity.The event is free. 

Colorful Arm PuppetsDate: 
5 April 2026, Sunday – 18 April 2026, Saturday
Time:14.15 – 15.30         14.00 – 15.15
Place:Edirne Hasan Ali Yücel Children's Museum – Küçükçekmece Cennet Culture and Art Center
Age Group: 6-10 years
Workshop Conducted by:Barış Karayazgan In this workshop, children will turn their own arms into puppets designed with colorful materials. He will create his characters by combining different materials. After the design process, children will create a story for their characters based on their imagination and animate them with short scenes. In this process where play, design and narrative are intertwined, children will develop both their creative thinking and expression skills. 

• Why Should You Participate? 

To support children to develop their design and story-making skills, express themselves through play and reveal their creativity freely.The event is free. 

For detailed information:https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/rengarenk-kol-kuklalari-6-10-yas-05-04-26?date=4940  

On the Trail of Migratory Birds: Bird's Nest Design Workshop
Date:Saturday, April 11, 2026
Time:12.00 – 13.30
Place:Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM)
Age Group:6-10 years old
Workshop Facilitator: City Detective – Gizem Kıygı & Elif Ertekin

In this workshop, children will go on an adventure full of maps and riddles while exploring Istanbul's historical birdhouses and the migration routes of birds. He will listen to the journey stories of migratory birds and learn how they contribute to their ecosystem by placing them in the natural areas of Istanbul. 

• Why Should You Participate?

For children to have fun exploring Istanbul's history, nature and the journeys of migratory birds while designing bird houses with recycled materials.

Entrance to the event is ticketed. 

Symbols and Dreams Workshop
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026
Time: 14.00 – 15.30
Place: Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM)
Age Group: 10-13 years old
Workshop Facilitator: Berna Kılıçoğlu

In this workshop, children will go on a creative exploration among symbols and stories. While recognizing the archetypes we encounter in fairy tales, mythologies and different cultures; They will create their own stories based on their imagination.By making these stories visible through symbols and objects, they will experience different ways of transforming their thoughts into design.

• Why Should You Participate? 
   For children to produce their own stories using their imagination, express them through symbols, and develop their creative thinking skills by exploring common narrative forms in different cultures.

Entrance to the event is ticketed. 

My Transformation Story
Date: 11 April 2026, Saturday – 18 April 2026, Saturday
Time: 12.00 – 13.00         13.30 – 14.30
Venue: Eskişehir Vecihi Hürkuş Aviation and Technology Park – Bursa Merinos Textile Industry Museum
Age Group: 9-12 age
Workshop Facilitator: Merve Kireçtepe Salihoğlu

In this workshop, children will explore the concept of "transformation", inspired by Franz Kafka's novel Transformation. "What would you be if you turned into a different creature one day? How would that make you feel?" After asking questions that stimulate their imagination, such as, they will examine insects and small creatures through macro photographs and look closely at details such as color, pattern and form. Children, who move on to the design stage with the inspiration they receive from their observations, will create their own imaginary insects with natural materials such as leaves, branches and stones.

• Why Should You Participate? 
   For children to think together, produce and turn their imagination into design with the small clues they collect from nature.

The workshop is free of charge. 

For detailed information: https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/donusum-hikayem-9-12-yas-11-04-26?date=4941 

What's Far Away?
Date: 11 April 2026, Saturday – 18 April 2026, Saturday
Time: 13.30 – 14.30         12.00 – 13.00
Location:Eskişehir Vecihi Hürkuş Aviation and Technology Park – Bursa Merinos Textile Industry Museum
Age Group:7-11 years
Workshop Conducted by: Merve Kireçtepe Salihoğlu In this workshop, children will discover together that what is called “distant” can have a completely different meaning for everyone. Start the conversation with “What could distant mean?” It will start with the question, and examples from daily life, dreams and fairy tales will be shared. Then, each child will draw their own “distant” idea using the doodle technique. 

• Why Should You Participate?

For children to make an abstract concept visible through their own stories using their imagination, to experience the joy of thinking with lines and to redefine "far" together.

For detailed information: https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/uzakta-ne-var-7-11-yas-11-04-26?date=4942 

Eskisehir in My Sketchbook
Date: 11 April 2026, Saturday
Time:15.00 – 16.30
Place:Eskişehir Vecihi Hürkuş Aviation and Technology Park
Age Group:6-9 years old
Workshop Facilitator:Merve Kireçtepe Salihoğlu

In this workshop, children will be introduced to the geometric way of thinking of cubism and will be introduced to the space at once. will experience looking from more perspectives. He will create surfaces with geometric shapes, create compositions and explore the "cubic perception" with applications.Then, it will reinterpret the city with a cubic perspective, based on Eskişehir's Porsuk Stream, Odunpazarı Houses, historical bridges, trams, parks and streets. During the application phase, they will transform cityscapes into their own artworks by using the printing technique.

• Why Should You Participate?

Rediscovering Eskişehir with art, turning looking at different perspectives into a fun production process and for children to design their own cityscape. 

Bursa Landscapes Inspired by Hale Asaf
Date: 18 April 2026, Saturday 
Time:15.00 – 16.30
Place:Bursa Merinos Textile Industry Museum
Age Group: 6-9 years
Workshop Facilitator:Merve Kireçtepe Salihoğlu

This In the workshop, children will first meet Hale Asaf's life and understanding of art, and then they will examine together the artist's works from different periods. We will explore the artist's perspective by chatting about his use of color, his approach to forms, and especially his works with cubic influences. After this discovery process, participants will associate the inspiration they received from Hale Asaf with today's Bursa. He will create original works by taking into consideration Bursa's architecture, streets, nature and daily life.

• Why Should You Participate? 

To enable children to rethink the city they live in from an artistic perspective and produce their own original works. 

Acoustic Discoveries
Date: 18 April 2026, Saturday
Time: 16.00 – 17.30
Place: Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM)
Age Group: 6-10 years old
Workshop Facilitator:Doğa Ünyaylar

In this workshop, children will not only hear the sound but also discover how it is shaped with different materials. They will experience the relationship of sound with different surfaces through listening boxes and simple mechanisms created with recycled materials. Children who design their own listening boxes will examine environmental and electronic sounds and observe how different materials affect the sound.

• Why Should You Participate? 

For children to discover the relationship between sound, materials and technology, to learn through experience and to experience a creative process in which they can share their own productions. 

For detailed information:https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/akustik-kesifler-6-10-yas-18-04-26?date=4895 

 

 #SEMINAR 
CONTEMPORARY ART AND CURATORY SEMINAR PROGRAM
Risk Management: Exhibition Planning and Artifact Insurance 

Date:Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Time:18.00 – 19.30
Place:Zoom
Speaker:Erdem Altın In this seminar, the exhibition planning process Safe transportation and exhibition of works, which is one of the critical topics, will be focused on.While the precautions, risk factors and insurance processes to be taken to prevent the works from being damaged during the transportation and exhibition process will be examined, the curator's responsibilities towards both the institution and the artist will be comprehensively evaluated. The role of insurance in the protection of works of art will be examined within the framework of the All Risk Art Insurance approach.

• Why Should You Participate?

To holistically evaluate the risks affecting the safety of works in exhibition processes, to understand how insurance and risk management processes should be designed, and to gain a practical perspective in line with international standards. 

CONTEMPORARY ART AND CURATORY SEMINAR PROGRAMThe Dead Can Dance: The Afterlife of Art Life
Date:Monday, April 13, 2026
Time:18.00 – 19.30
Place:Zoom
Speakers:Mari Spirito 

In this seminar, it will be discussed how art can be redefined by going beyond its own boundaries and how its function can be transformed. How art reconstructs itself in changing contexts and moves to a broader field of meaning will be discussed. Focusing on commissioning and curatorial processes, the parallelism between artist production and life is examined; A space for thinking about the "after" of art will be opened through Protocinema's exhibition practice and the proposal "The Dead Can Dance: The Afterlife of Art." 

• Why Should You Participate?

To evaluate the function of art, production styles and curatorial approaches from a broader perspective; to rethink themes such as transience, loss and existence through art. 

PHILOSOPHY SEMINARS-DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, CRITICISM AND SOCIETY II
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Date: 18 April 2026, Saturday
Time:15.00 – 16.30
Place: Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM)
Speaker:Arif Koşar
Moderator: Emre Şan

In this seminar, artificial intelligence The discussions around it will be discussed through the techno-fetishist way of thinking and the new type of mysticism that has emerged. How artificial intelligence turns into utopian or dystopian expectations when considered disconnected from the social context; On the other hand, it will be discussed how it sits on a more realistic basis when considered as a part of human activity.In this context, the "future of work" issue, which has come to the fore again with artificial intelligence; It will be evaluated through social relations, power dynamics and inequalities.

• Why Should You Participate? 

To understand the effects of artificial intelligence on workforce, inequality and power relations in a more critical and holistic framework.
The event is free. 

CONTEMPORARY ART AND CURATORY SEMINAR PROGRAM
Stylelessness and Monography Solution
Date:22 April 2026, Wednesday
Time:18.00 – 19.30
Place:Zoom
Speaker:Ferhat Özgür

In this seminar, based on the phenomenon of stylization that comes to the fore with modernism; Based on different production practices and examples of working outside of style in contemporary art, the anxiety arising from change and the dissolution of style will be discussed. How the diversity in production is reflected in the exhibition and monograph formation will be discussed. 

• Why Should You Participate?

To rethink the concept of style in art, to evaluate the transformation in production processes through different examples, and to understand more closely the relationship between exhibition and narrative forms. 

For detailed information: https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/uslupsuz-ve-monografinin-cozulusu-22-04-26?date=4954 

#ATÖLYE 
Dialogues @ Bova
Date:Sunday, April 5, 2026
Time:14.00
Place: Bova
Guest:Luis Bonilla
Moderator:Tamer Temel

Dialogues @ Bova, which takes place within the scope of Akbank Art Everywhere program, invites the participants to think and produce music together. It does. At the meeting moderated by Tamer Temel and hosted by trombonist Luis Bonilla, music will be discussed through improvisations, conversations and encounters. Bonilla, one of the important names of the world jazz scene, has worked with artists such as McCoy Tyner, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and Dave Douglas; He has a strong place in the international jazz world as both a performer, composer and educator.

• Why Should You Participate? 

To witness the dialogues on music and to listen to different musical approaches together.The event is free. 

Contemporary Art and Ecological Essays Material: Fermentation
Date:14-16 April 2026
Time:19.00 – 21.00
Place: Zoom
Workshop Facilitator:Ekin Kano

In this workshop, fermentation will be discussed as a conceptual tool that opens artistic production to rethinking through transformation, care and relationships with non-human agents.It will be examined how fermentation, as a primitive metabolic energy strategy, works as a method of information production.

Program Flow:
Tuesday, April 14On Production and Materials
Wednesday, April 15th Possibilities of Materials
Thursday, April 16th Sharing and Thinking Together 

• Why Participate? 

Artistic production in transformation, maintenance and To rethink through relationships established with non-human actors and evaluate your production practice in a different framework. 

Dialogues @ Bova
Date: 19 April 2026, Sunday
Time:14.00
Place: Bova
Guest:Moncef Genoud
Moderator:Tamer Temel

The guest of the workshop moderated by Tamer Temel within the scope of Akbank Art Everywhere program will be pianist Moncef Genoud. Swiss jazz pianist and composer Genoud has worked with important names such as Michael Brecker, Bill Stewart and Seamus Blake throughout his career; As one of the respected musicians of the European jazz scene, he has taken part in many festivals and projects.

• Why Should You Participate?

To witness the dialogues on music and listen to different musical approaches together.The event is free. 

A Different Approach on Art and Children View
Date: 6-9 April 2026
Time: 20.00 – 22.30
Place: Zoom
Instructor: Barış Karayazgan 
“What do you think is art?” Based on the questions "Why do children make art?", "What is talent and is it necessary?", "Can everyone be an artist?" This four-day trainer training, which covers questions, will offer teachers and teacher candidates a creative discussion environment. N., the founder of PACE Children's Art Center, who has been working with children and young people for 25 years.In this applied learning program conducted by Barış Karayazgan, the points to be considered in communication and the methods that can be used while doing art works with children will be discussed.  
Program Flow:
6 April Monday What do you think about Art and Talent?
7 April Tuesday Children, Education and Art
8 April Wednesday Art Projects for Children
9 April Thursday Practical Example Activities

This seminar series, which examines the works of different disciplines and artists, is designed for teachers, teacher candidates, workshop facilitators and facilitators who want to share about the skills that children can acquire through art.  

• Why Should You Participate? 

To learn new methods in artistic communication with children, develop creative projects and gain different perspectives on art education. 

BORDER SITUATIONS INTERVIEW SERIESOn the Border of Order and Chaos: Art 
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Time: 18.30 – 20.00
Place: Minoa Pera, Stage
Speakers: Dr. Cengiz Arca – Ezgi Emel
In this interview, the relationship between the ordering rationality of the mind and the creative potential of chaos will be discussed through art. Perception and meaning production processes will be discussed within a framework ranging from how psychedelic experiences transform the perception of consciousness to how different intellectual approaches question the concept of "self". Focusing on how the border between order and chaos stretches, the conversation will examine how art creates a space of expression between these two extremes.

• Why Should You Participate?

To question the relationship between perception, consciousness and creativity, to discover different ways of thinking and to experience new ways of producing meaning through art.
For detailed information:https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/duzen-ve-kaosun-sinirinda-sanat-08-04-26?date=4874

 

CLUB OF BOOKS THAT MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT PRODUCTION

If I Didn't Run, I Couldn't Write (Haruki Murakami)
Date:21 April 2026, Tuesday
Time:18.30 – 19.45
Place:Frankenstein Bookstore
Speaker:Ayşe Burçak
Moderator:Esra Ece Kuleci

In this meeting, author Ayşe Burçak and Haruki Murakami's bookIf I Didn't Run, I Couldn't Write, the relationship between writing practice and running will be discussed.How the body's movement transforms mental production; The areas that rhythm, repetition and loneliness open to the writing process will be discussed. 

• Why Should You Participate?

To explore the relationship between writing practice and movement, to look at production processes from a different perspective and to think together how mental flow can be re-established. 
For detailed information:https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/kitap-kosmasadım-yazamazdim-haruki-murakami-uretim-uzerine-dusunduren-kitaplar-kulubu-21-04-26?date=4865 

Architecture Seminars- SEK SEK / One Beyoğlu Tab Recess
Date: 28 April 2026, Tuesday
Time: 18.30 – 21.00
Place: Post Office
Guest: Turgay Tuna
Prepared and Presented by:Cem Sorguç

In this interview, the role of educational structures in the development of Galata and Beyoğlu will be discussed. In this region, which has become the intersection of different cultures since the 19th century, schools stand out not only as educational institutions, but also as structures that shape the identity of the neighborhood and the belonging of generations. These structures, which left their mark on the social fabric of Beyoğlu, will be examined with the narration of Turgay Tuna, who knows the region closely.

• Why Should You Participate?

To see the relationship established by the educational buildings that have left their mark in the memory of Beyoğlu with the city, and to re-read the continuity between the past and the present, with the narration of Turgay Tuna.

Detailed information for: https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/teneffus-mimarlik-seminerleri-28-04-26?date=4958 

Mother, I am an Artist Am I?
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Time: 20.00 – 21.30
Place: Bant Mag. Pool / Building
Guest: Tansu Biçer
Moderator:Mine Özgüle 
Sometimes we watch a movie, read a book, come across a song... and something moves inside us. It's like something has started. In this interview series, which pursues exactly these initial moments, we will talk about how one work triggers another work, how an artist is fed by another artist, and what changes what we see, hear and read in us.

• Why Should You Participate?

Sharing that state of inspiration that is sometimes a "burden until you produce", opening new doors to our own creative curiosity. for.

 

#CONCERT 

Jazz Meets Rap
Date:29 April 2026, Wednesday
Time:21.00
Place: Babylon

Jazz Meets Rap premiered at the 35th Akbank Jazz Festival. meeting will meet with the audience again within the scope of Akbank Sanat Everywhere program.Bringing together different musical disciplines, the project will create a unique encounter on stage by combining the improvisational structure of jazz with the powerful verbal world of rap.

Ticket Price:500 TL

https://www.biletix.com/performance/5POG8/001/TURKIYE/tr

 
Trumpet: Barış Doğukan Yazıcı
Tenor saxophone: Engin Recepoğulları
Trombone: Bulut Gülen
Keyboard:Gökhan Sürer 
Keyboard:Adem Gülşen
Bass guitar:Orhan Deniz
Drums:Ediz Hafızoğlu
Turntable, vocals:Da Poet 
Vocals:Ayben
Vocals:Melis Karaduman
Vocals:Camouflage
Vocals, guitar:3pillie 
Vocal:Spade 427

• Why Should You Join?

To experience this dynamic project live, which brings together the improvisational spirit of jazz and the powerful lyrical world of rap.
For detailed information: https://www.akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/jazz-meets-rap-29-04-26?date=4951