After the selection of the four finalists of the Swiss-Turkish Startup Program in June 2021 - Khenda, Rebus Labs, SmartHelio and Tarabios - the two winners were announced on October 5 during a festive award ceremony at the residence of the Swiss Consul General in Istanbul.
The Swiss Consulate General in Istanbul organized on the 1 and 2 October 2021 an international Conference on the Swiss architects Gaspare and Guiseppe Fossati. The two brothers lived and worked in the 19th century in Istanbul.
The largest human chain in the world links Europe and Asia. Istanbul is the eighth step of the global "Beyond Walls" project that Saype initiated in June 2019 in Paris. It was born from fortuitous encounters and a will of the people to bring the largest human chain in the world to Istanbul. It is therefore a real collaborative and multilateral project. For a painter whose monumental works want to be bridges thrown between cultures, the city of Istanbul constitutes an essential stage, at the crossroads of the worlds of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Every year, March is an opportunity to celebrate the Francophonie. The Consulate General of Switzerland in Istanbul collaborate with the French High School Notre-Dame de Sion and Saint-Joseph High School in Izmir and offers an evening of French songs performed by Swiss soprano Maria Gessler accompanied by Turkish pianist Baris Büyükyildirim.
The Swiss jazz band Nu-Bass will perform in Istanbul on the occasion of the Francophonie at Lycée Français Saint Benoît and in Izmir for the Izmir Jazz Festival at the AASSM concert hall (Ahmet Adnan Saygun Sanat Merkezi).
In cooperation with the Consulate General of Switzerland, Istanbul Modern will show the Swiss film Eldorado nominated for this years’s Oscar Academy Awards.
The first and only film festival in Turkey dedicated to the early decades of filmmaking, the International Istanbul Silent Cinema Days is celebrating its fifth year. The festival takes place from December 5 to 9 2018 at the following venues: Akbank Sanat Merkezi, French Institute, Bomontiada ALT, and Kadiköy Film Theatre.
Mario Batkovic will perform on November 17th, 2018 at Salon IKSV, Istanbul. You will be surprised to see how experimental, unusual and captivating accordion can be.
On the occasion of the 7th Human Rights Film Festival, the Embassy of Switzerland will participate with the film “Trading Paradise” by Daniel Schweizer.
The film will be screened on 14th December at 17.00 hrs at Büyülü Fener Cinema Complex (Meşrutiyet Cad., Hatay Sokak).
23rd Festival on Wheels
On the occasion of the 23rd Festival on Wheels, Swiss producer Mr. Donat Keusch will be guest to present the restored version of the film “YOL” by Yılmaz Güney which is a Swiss-Turkish co-production.
The screening of the film will be on 1st December at 12.00 hrs and on 2nd December at 14.00 hrs at Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi (Kennedy Cad. No 4)
