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12.05.2012 Muranooo - A Story Of Ghosts And Ghost Whisperers - Warsaw

DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu is working on a Isreali-Polish-German theater production "Muranooo" , she is doing the sound-design and music-production of the show.

This production will have it's premiere in Poland in Warsaw, premiere on the 12th May 2012 and Israeli premiere in Tel Aviv on the 26th or 27th June.

**Below some information**

Muranooo - A Story Of Ghosts And Ghost Whisperers.

Israeli - Polish – German Co-production 2012

A black comedy brewed by young and promising Polish writer Sylwia Chutnik, director Lilach Dekel-Avneri and designer Iris Mualem & DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu, offers an innovative alternative to examine stereotypes, stigmata, and ignorance and ways of coping with an uncomfortable mutual past.

The story of a Polish grandmother, unrestrained and consumed with guilt, who lives in the Muranow quarter, built on the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. In unusual and controversial ways, the granny seduces her grandchildren to go down to the cellar and dig into the past, where in the depths await them “Jewish treasures”.

A multidisciplinary event, combining Artists from Israel, Warsaw and Berlin, that also opens a crack into Ka.Tzetnik's attempt to assemble the fractions of the moment in the wake of Poland's occupation in 1939.

"Muranoo0” will premiere on May 12th in Poland at Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw, and on June in Israel at Ensemble Itim on Nachmani St, Tel-Aviv.

http://teatrdramatyczny.pl/spektakle/muranooo/view

27.05.2012 Soli Party for Istanbul LGBT Association and the 3rd İstanbul Trans Pride @ Südblock - Berlin

27.5. | 21:00 | Südblock | Dünya Yerinden Oynar!

Soli Party for Istanbul LGBT Association and the 3rd İstanbul Trans Pride
İstanbul LGBT Derneği ve 3. İstanbul Trans Pride için Dayanışma Partisi

Spoken Word Performances by
Melike Çınar, Skyler Braeden Fox, Tamás Jules Fuetty, Emy Femme, Anna Peak and more...
&
DJ-set by
DJ AmIrani, Lisalotta P. and DJ İpek İpekçioğlu

Lab: Politicizing Trans/Trans_forming Politics:
http://transformingpolitics.blogsport.de/


27.5. | 17:00 | Südblock | Presentation and Discussion: Şevval Kılıç: Trans-Sexwork and police repression in Istanbul

Turkey has a very high rate of trans murders (25 have been reported since 2008). Although homo/transsexuality is not technically criminalized by law, systematic violence against LGBT people is widespread. Police officials get extra credit when they fine trans ipeople; the law/criminal justice system doesn’t work for but against trans people by making them targets instead of taking the violence and murders of trans people seriously. Nevertheless, LGBT movement in Turkey gains power and visibility against oppression each year. As police and state repression increases in tandem with conservative neo-liberal goverment, the trans movement also grows and gets stronger.

This presentation interconnects forms of violence against trans people, focusing on the situation of trans-sexworkers in İstanbul and the ways they organize against current and ongoing police repression.
Şevval Kılıç is an activist of İstanbul LGBT Association and one of the main organizers of İstanbul Trans Pride.
The event will be in English with Turkish and German whisper translation.

01.05.2012 MyFest 2012 ImPort ExPort Stage at Heinrichplatz - Berlin

MyFEST 2012 : ImPort ExPort Stage @ Heinrichplatz

 If you are around Berlin, you are invited to visit us at Ipek’s ImPort ExPort stage @ MyFest on the famous May 1st 2012 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. She will have 10 great Bands from all over, i.e. Analogik Band / Denmark, Mesut Ali & Band/France, Sultan Tunc / Berlin_Istanbul, Klub East’an Bul / Stockholm – Istanbul. www.myfest36.de

30.04.2012 Hakan Vreskala concert at Südblock - Berlin

KONZERT: Sound of Resistance – Turkish-Kurdish-Folkstep-Protest-Punk 

Hakan Vreskala „Her Köyde Bir Deli Var“

at Südblock 30.4.2011 afterparty DJ Ipek – Eklektik BerlinIstan

Bei seinem vor zehn Jahren begonnenem Skandinavien Abenteuer spielte und wirkte Hakan Vreskala mit Şivan Perwer, Sabahat Akkiraz, Eisen Mustafov, Steffan Sundstrom, Natascha Atlas, Lars Demian, Norrda, Akasha Crew, The Ark, und unzähligen anderen Künstlern auf unzähligen Tourneen und Projekten.

Durch die Theaterversion von Fatih Akıns Film “Gegen die Wand” für das schwedische Staatstheater, bei dem er die Regie führte und die Musik komponierte, begann er seine Gesangskarriere.

Auf seinem frisch veröffentlichtem Debütalbum „Her Köyde Bir Deli Var“ - zu Deutsch - "In jedem Dorf gibt es einen Verrückten", bringt der auf Türkisch und Kurdisch singende Hakan Vreskala nicht nur seine musikalische Vielseitigkeit sowie seine sozial-politisch querulante Haltung durch Punk, Rock, Balkan, Rap und Ska, vermengt mit traditioneller Musik, zum Ausdruck. Nein, die Musik, die man auch als „Sound of Resistance“ bezeichnen kann, bringt die Menge durch ihre extremen Tanzbarkeit, u.a. mit Halay & kurdischem Tanz zum toben.

Mit seinem Track "Dağılın Lan!“ (auf dt. “Verpisst euch! “) fordert er das System heraus. Bei “Kurdî Nizanım” bezieht er Stellung zur kurdisch-türkische Beziehung. Mit diesen Worten begann er die Promo-Konzerte für sein Album im Ghetto Istanbul und füllte die Konzerte ebenso in Izmir und Ankara.

Hakan Vreskala wird begleitet vom Gitarristen Jonas Jurström aus Stockholmder am Königlichen Konservatorium in Kopenhagen studierende Trompetist Ruhi Erdoğan, welcher zu den gefragtesten Talenten Skandinaviens gehört, sowie am Saxophon der in Berlin lebende Free-Jazz-Musiker Otis Sjöberg.

www.hakanvreskala.com

Hakan Vreskala, „Her Köyde Bir Deli Var“ at Südblock 30.4.2011

Hakan Vreskala, 10 yıl önce başlayan İskandinavya macerasında Şivan Perwer, Sabahat Akkiraz, Ferrus Mustafov, Steffan Sundström, Natascha Atlas, Lars Demian, Norrda, Akasha Crew, The ARK ve sayısız diğer sanatçıyla turneler ve projelere imza attı.

Sokak müzisyenliğiyle başlayan kariyeri Fatih Akın'ın 'Duvara Karşı' adlı filminin İsveç Devlet Tiyatrosu için yapılan tiyatro uyarlamasında yönetmen olarak görev yapmıştı. Eser için yaptığı ve kendi seslendirdiği müziklerle Hakan Vreskala’nın yolu şarkıcılığa doğru evrildi.

Fırından yeni çıkmış taptaze „Her Köyde Bir Deli Var“ albümüyle Türkçe ve Kürtçe seslendirdiği bestelerinde Hakan Vreskala’nın deli doluluğunu, müzikal çok yönlülüğünü, sosyo-politik tutumunu, punk, rock, balkan, rap ve ska stilleriyle harmanladığı ‘Sound of Resistance’ olarak da tanımlayabileceğimiz müziğine çılgınca dans edebilir. hatta halay bile çekebilirsiniz.

‘Dağılın Lan!’ diye haykırarak sisteme meydan okuyan, ‘Kurdî Nizanım’ parçasında „Türk Kürt kardeş falan değil, ayan beyan sevgilidir, ayıran kalleş değil ancak hayatın tam da kendisidir“ sözleriyle de tavır alan Hakan Vreskala’nın albüm tanıtım konserleri Ghetto İstanbul’da başlayıp, İzmir ve Ankara’ya kadar dolup taşmıştır.

Hakan Vreskala'ya sahnede Stockholm‘den gitarist Jonas Jurström, trompette Kopenhag Kraliyet Konservatuarı’nda okuyan İskandinavya’nın son dönem en çok aranan yeteneklerinden Ruhi Erdoğan ve saksofonda Berlin'de yaşayan Balkan müziği ve free-Jazz’ın en yetenekli isimlerinden Otis Sjöberg eşlik ediyor.

www.hakanvreskala.com

great classical-club-breakdance

DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu had a very creative 2011, such as a great classical-club-breakdance show with the ethnic-jazz-classic Ensemble Olivinn at the deLIGHTed Music festival in Berlin, One week at the 4. Deutsch-Israelische Literaturdays in Tel Aviv and Jaffa presenting the Eklektik BerlinIstan Sound supported by Goethe Inst. Tel Aviv and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, performing and giving DJ-Workshops at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (SHMF), one of the biggest classical music festivals.  These were just a few of the festivals she was invited to as an artist. Organising concerts for the 50th anniversary german-turkish relations at the Ballhaus Naunynstr. and  Beyond Istanbul concerts as well as Import Export Stage with 11 international Bands at the MyFest Festival in Berlin were also on her scedule.

TOUR IN INDIA

My next tour goes to a wonderfull country, which inspired me musicwise a lot, when the turkish diaspora in Germany was very into Indian movies.... i have to admit, i also was addicted...especially to the female filmstar Rekha ;) to India.

Goethe Institute Pune & Madras/Chennai and the German Embassy In India invited me to perform at Germany and India 2011-2012 events.

18.01.2012 10th PIFF / India
10th Pune International Film Festival India - Country Focus Germany

19.01.2012 Saarang – Saarang – World Cultur Festival Chennai/India

21.01.2012 Grime Riot Club - Mumbai / India

ALMANCI!

50^th Anniversary of the recruitment agreement with Turkey

50 years ago the story of migrants from Turkey started in Germany.  ‘ALMANCI! This is name of the turkish immigrants in Germany.

Have a look to the TV-interview at Euromaxx 

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TV-Interviews

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Musikfestival deLIGHTed - Ensemble Olivinn

By the end of 2011 Ipek Ipekcioglu took part at the Delighted Festival a project together with the Ensemble Olivinn at Atze Musiktheater, in which opera is combined with hip-hop music. OpeRap has shown how Romantic opera arias slowly deviate from classical patterns when DJ Ipek infixes her beats and loops. The Streetdance-formation FOOTWORK deluxe incorporates these contrasting impulses and encloses another layer to this artistic fusion live on stage in Berlin.

OpeRap - Quando Men Vo - deLIGHTed Musikfestival - DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu, Sinem Altan,  FOOTWORK

Have a look to some of our work:

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Efes Pilsen Promotion

Ipek has compiled a list of songs for the new Efes Pilsen promotion in Germany. Under each bottle of Efes Pilsen you can find a download-code with which you can support great artists and also get music for free!!! Check it out!

Beyond Istanbul Live Issues

The Concert Series 'Beyond Istanbul' under the curation of Dj Ipek Ipekcioglu takes place since 2010 in the lovely venue of Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin/Kreuzberg. It introduces artists with a special relationship to Istanbul to a broader and interested audience in Berlin. Ipek has invited artists such as Fairuz Derin Bulut, Brenna McCrimmon & Band, Kanto.Berlin and Tatavla Keyfi which all represent the diversity of Istanbul-Sounds.

Ipek’s ImPort ExPort stage @ MyFest

If you are around Berlin, you are invited to visit us at Ipek’s ImPort ExPort stage @ MyFest on the famous May 1st 2011 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. She will have 10 great Bands from all over, i.e. Ziveli Band / France, Klub East’an Bul / Stockholm – Istanbul. www.myfest36.de

Read more: Ipek’s ImPort ExPort stage @ MyFest

Klezmophobia for the Rhythm & Roots

She also performed with the wonderfull Band Klezmophobia for the Rhythm & Roots - Musikalske møder på Spil Dansk dagen in Sønderborg and in Copenhagen in Christiania as an Off-Womex showcase. Listen to the "sexy arab in da beat" version on www.mysopace.com/djipek. Of course you can book them as a dj-band combo by www.agents4music.de

İstanbul-Berlin & Crew & Klezmophobia/Copenhagen

Ipek made great experiences touring with two bands Sultan Tunc Istanbul-Berlin & Crew and Klezmophobia / Copenhagen. With Sultan Tunc, they performed with hip hop, dj-sound and traditional Kurdish music www.musicfromaround.dk

Colours of Diversity - Kültürel Farklılığın Renkleri

Ipek also produced the soundtrack for the great documentary "Colours of Diversity - Kültürel Farklılığın Renkleri" in Istanbul - İstanbul 2010 - European Capital of Culture www.sanatvesehir.com. At www.soundcloud.com/djipek you can listen to some of her works, such as Selim Sesler’s "Deniz Mavisi" Remix.

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