Anna Lindh Foundation

garajistanbul

National Network

Türkiye

Address

TomTom Mah. Yeni Carsi Cad. kaymakam Resat Bey Sok. 11/A Galatasaray Beyoglu Istanbul/ Turkey

Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Street address 2

TomTom Mah. Yeni Carsi Cad. kaymakam Resat Bey Sok. 11/A Galatasaray Beyoglu

Mobile Phone

0090 533 336 40 64

Telephone

0090 212 244 44 99

E-Mail

banu@garajistanbul.org

E-Mail (2)

aytunc@garajistanbul.org

E-Mail (3)

info@garajistanbul.org

Year of Establishment

2002

Contact Person1

Aytunc Demirkaya

Contact Person 2

Banu Cetin (international projects)

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

Arts

General Information

garajistanbul is a contemporary performing arts space that was opened in January 2007 with the leadership of Övül Avkıran and Mustafa Avkıran. Located in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, under Galatasaray garage, it is 600m2 empty space which was once a carpark, and designed so that it can be re-designed by each artist who comes to produce work inside. To realize its mission and objectives, garajistanbul has been structured as an art cooperative non-governmental organization. It has been organized from bottom to top by widening its supporters stage by stage from artists to members, individual and institutional supporters, and finally state and international networks. It has transformed from “an only artistic entrepreneurship” to the “cultural transformation project” in which around 200 performing arts professionals are included, through the contributions of 54 individual supporters, 36 institutional supporters, and of local government and state ministries.

Mission and Objectives

The mission of garajistanbul is to be a local formation of the universal contemporary performing arts and develop cultural transformation model with its multiple, democratic and independent structure. The objectives are: a) to create an innovative, provocative, comfortable and dynamic center for the presentation of local and international contemporary performing arts productions. b) to create an independent and umbrella center that brings together “accumulated” productions that have been performed abroad so that they could stand united in their country and enables the sustainability and continuity of productions of the independent performing groups/artists. c) to create a new design, performance and audience culture through its multi-purpose architectural design, dynamic infrastructure and high quality of technical equipments and empty space. d) to be a meeting point for artists from different disciplines, for audiences from different cultures, languages and regions. e) to create a meeting and interaction space from Anatolia to garajistanbul, from garajistanbul to Europe; from Europe to garajistanbul, from garajistanbul to Anatolia. f) to encourage Turkish and European contemporary performing arts professionals for international co-productions, collaborations and for establishing sustainable networks between them. g) to be one of the main actors in the project of “Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture.”

Main Projects / Activities

Regular programming of theater,dance and music, prodicng its own productions for theater, music and dance, publishing contemporary arts magazine called as "gist",managing international and local projects with many partners