Istancool, also known as the Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival and IST. Festival, is an annual international cultural celebration in Istanbul, created by Liberatum and first held in 2010 to celebrate the city's 2010 European Capital of Culture status.
The festival was created and founded by the famed creative director Pablo Ganguli. [1] Film director Alphan Eşeli and his wife Demet Muftuoglu, and Dazed & Confused editor Jefferson Hack were producers.[2][3] Ganguli described the aims as "to bring both local and international creative minds to Turkish audiences for a programme that does not understand citizenship, passport, themes, race, gender or visa".[4] It was the first venture of Liberatum in Turkey. Istancool was sponsored by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Güler Sabancı, W Istanbul and Vakko. Guests have included global creative icons V. S. Naipaul, Zaha Hadid, Terence Koh, Haluk Akakçe, Gareth Pugh,[5] Lily Cole,[6] Tilda Swinton, Kirsten Dunst, Sophie Calle, Reha Erdem, Serra Yilmaz, Courtney Love, Terry Gilliam, Michael Stipe,[3] Gore Vidal, Daphne Guinness, Philip Treacy, Michael Nyman, Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears.
The festival took place for the fourth time in June 2014.[7][8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 'Istancool Diary', 'Nowness'
- ^ Bagley, Christopher (September 2012). "Turkish Delight". W Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- ^ a b Ganguli, Pablo (16 June 2011). "Inside Istancool". GQ. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ Ganguli, Pablo (6 June 2011). "The Mission of Istancool". Huffington Post.
- ^ Ballard, Sam (2 July 2010). "'Istancool' cultural festival to open in Istanbul". Wallpaper.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ Alexander, Ella (12 July 2010). "Memories Of Istancool". Vogue.
- ^ "IstanCool Festival Opens to Turkey and the World". Aydınlık. 12 June 2014.
- ^ Donoghue, Katy (18 June 2014). "The Fourth Edition of IST. Festival: ISTANCOOL". Whitewall Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 June 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
External links
edit- "Istancool". Liberatum. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010.
- Official 2010 European Capital of Culture Press Conference about Istancool: "Istancool Festivali başlıyor!" (in Turkish). İstanbul 2010 Avrupa Kültür Başkenti. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010.
- "ISTANCOOL Festival 2010". Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Archived from the original on 3 July 2010.