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Playground Company - The Head in the Clouds
PLAYGROUND is a method of working and researching in the world of the object, giving it new meanings in surprising contexts. It expands the role of the puppet making it the protagonist on stage, enveloping ideas and symbolising a human being, but more importantly reversing the role between the puppet and the actor/manipulator. Head in the Clouds was rewarded the Premi FAD Sebastià Gasch 2005–2006. It is a visual show that is about adults, told through the soul of a child, reflected by objects which are related to children and are the protagonists of the performance: Toys.
http://www.playgroundvisual.com/
Murat Meriç
Having started his early “music carrier” by listening to records as a child, Murat Meriç presented numerous radio and TV programmes, and presented singles parties. He collects listens, makes researches on records, writes about them and enjoys making people listen to them.
His book "Pop Dedik – Türkce Sözlü Hafif Bati Müzigi" on Turkish Pop Music was published in 2006 by Iletisim Publications. In his special edition for Gülpinar "Türk-is Funk" party, he will play the most enjoyable songs of Turkish funk, psychedelic rock and pop from the 60s and 70s. His spectrum will include names from Mogollar to Haramiler, from unexplored records to Altin Mikrofon Music Competition from Nese Karaböcek to Ajda Pekkan and it will also include international names singing in Turkish as Adamo, Peppino Di Capri, Mina, Juanito and many others.
Çanakkale Caz Kent@
Having had individual musical experiences before, the band members came together with the leadership of Tamer Bektas, instructor at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Music Education to form Çanakkale Caz Kent@. In addition to Latin and jazz standards, they interpret some Turkish numbers with a jazz approach. The members of the band are Özgür Bektas in vocals, Tamer Bektas at piano and keyboards, Süleyman Seker at trumpet, Kerem Güvenç at bass and Kadir Güvenç at drums.
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Öykü Özsoy
Öykü Özsoy works as an assistant curator and programme coordinator at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. She is one of the initiator of Alti Aylik which was an independent art project space located in Istanbul.
