Istanbul Pride Week 2018 Event Schedule

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1 Istanbul Pride Week 2018 Event Schedule Event Schedule

For venue addresses, see below.

1.1 Monday, June 25

1.1.1 Deadline for Preregistration for the Queer Bondage Workshop (to be held on June 26th)

This entry is for the deadline for pre-registration for the workshop. The workshop itself will be held on June 26 (see below).

The participants will be selected from people who register at [email protected].

The workshop will explore bondage techniques for beginners and for those who are curious about BDSM practices.

1.1.2 Workshop: Feminist Methods of Defense

  • Time: 13:00-16:30
  • Venue: Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

From head to toe and beyond… It’s my body. A method to express and
defend ourselves when necessary, to develop individual and collective
strategies against the challenges we are experiencing. We meet to have
solidarity, to strengthen together and to embark on a voyage together…
and so much more when we can redefine ourselves.

Workshop is limited to 25 participants. Closed to the participation of
men. To register, please e-mail: [email protected]

1.1.3 Workshop: DJing Workshop

  • Time: 16:00-20:00
  • Venue: Ziba

We have been marching for 26 years. In this long march we stumbled,
got back up, ran, loved, were loved, made love, couldn’t make love,
sometimes became hopeless, sometimes got too hopeful but we always
danced! We never gave up the magic of the dance which liberated us and
brought us closer to each other. We will not give up! To have fun
completely being ourselves and to dance freely has become a part of
our struggle. We sustained our means and venues of our
entertainment… and our own DJs 🙂 Some of us said “make way, I’ll
play”, they played, we danced. We didn’t stop, we couldn’t have
enough. Isn’t it time for you to say “make way, I’ll play”? If you are
wondering “Oh my, how do they do that?”, “ What are all those buttons
on the screen for?”, “What do you do with those weird gadget?”, this
DJ workshop is right up your alley. Bring your laptops with you and
join us! If you don’t have a laptop, no worries, we’ll manage with
what we have. We will have a professional set up at the workshop,
which will end with a party. Maybe you’d like to play a few songs
there to practise what you learned, why not?

If you say “I’ll play, love”, we are waiting for you love! You play
gurl!

Notes:

  • To make sure we have a productive workshop, participation is limited to 10 people. To register and information on time and venue, please e-mail: [email protected]
  • The participants are recommended to download free versions of Virtual DJ and Rekordbox software.
  • You can bring the songs you want to work on and to play at the end of the workshop, in mp3 format. (Please make sure the sound quality is 320 Kbps)

1.1.4 Panel and Discussion: Crossing Boundaries: Discrimination and Right Violations Against LGBTI+ Refugees

  • Time: 17:00-19:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

The Syrian Civil War has been one of the biggest crises the world has
experienced since the Second World War and has forced millions of
people to migrate to various countries around the world, especially to
Turkey. Refugees are facing many problems as the migration routes are
dangerous and as they are going to unsafe countries. LGBTI+ refugees
are subjected to a multi-layered discrimination, within their
community as well as the host countries. Deprived of their fundamental
rights such as right to work, to accommodation, to health and to
education; LGBTI+ refugees have to deal with homophobia, transphobia
and xenophobia, leading to their isolation and further deprivation
from rights. Thus, not only do the LGBTI+ refugees have to pass beyond
geographical boundaries but also face invisible boundaries within
society paved with discrimination. In our panel, following the theme
of this year’s Pride Week, “Boundary“, we will talk about
discrimination and rights violations refugees experience while going
beyond boundaries, with experts and activists working in the field.

Moderator: Özlem Çolak (Independent LGBTİ+ Activist)

Speakers:

  • Açelya Sungur (SPoD, Key Refugee Project Coordinator, will talk about the experiences on the field)
  • Hayriye Kaya (Kaos GL, Legal framework in Turkey regarding the refugees, Law on Foreigners and International Protection, temporary protection regime, laws and regulations… How does the legal framework on paper in Turkey change in practice and how does this affect LGBTI refugees?)
  • Anahita Shamsaei (Key Refugee Project Field Worker, will talk about her own experiences and that from the project)
  • Tuğkan Gündoğdu (SPoD, will share the problems LGBTI+ refugees stuck on Greek islands are facing and about the EU-Turkey Agreement)

1.1.5 Talk/Workshop: Polyamorous Talks and Workshops 02: Being The Third, Paramours

  • Time: 17:00-19:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

Last year, the first talk from the series “Polyamorous Talks and
Workshops” was carried out on “Long-term Relationships” within
NakkaLGBTI+. During the talks, it was confirmed that the
being-the-third experience which touches long-term relationships
slightly, corrodes or strengthens their boundaries, revives or ruins
them, never finds its place and is overlooked within the concept of
long-term relationships. Hence, those amongst the LGBTI+ community who
experienced being third wheels or paramours and those who are in
stable or sustainably adaptable relationships are going to talk about
their experiences. We are going to listen to their dating stories, the
changes between the early practices and later ones in the
relationship, how they surpassed the issues that could be problems,
how boundaries were drawn and what forms of relationships were
experienced, their thoughts on notions of family, polyamory and we are
going to ask questions to them.

Moderator: Burak

Speakers: Oğulcan, Beren, Canservi, Meriç

1.1.6 Panel: What does the annulment of the mandatory sterilization requirement mean?

  • Time: 19:30-21:30
  • Venue: Cezayir

The mandatory sterilization process, which was a legal regulation
requirement that people “be deprived of fertility” as part of the
transition process as defined under Article 40 of the Turkish Civil
Code, had been legally annulled. But what does this change mean? Is
this an achievement or does it come with disadvantages? What do the
ECHR rulings on the matter tell us?

Moderator: Rukan Açkani

Speakers:

  • Hatice Demir, Lawyer
  • Hayriye Kara, Lawyer

1.1.7 Opening Party

  • Time: 22:00-04:00
  • Venue: Arsen Lüpen

1.2 Tuesday, June 26

1.2.1 Workshop: Video Activism, Nonviolent Education and Research Center

(Three-day workshop: day 1 of 3)

  • Time: 10:00-13:00
  • Venue: Şiddetsizlik Merkezi (Nonviolent Education and Research Center)

As Seyr-i Sokak Video-Activism Workshop, we aim to make an actual
video record of human rights and freedoms violations, social
movements, civil society actions and street marches; make these
records public via online means; record the police brutality towards
protesters and the public and facilitate the use of these records as
evidence in the judicial processes; register all the social movements
and struggles and their dates visually in order to engender a
collective memory and in order to be the witness and the presenter of
the reality. With these workshops, we share our experiences with the
volunteer participants, inform them about the necessary technical and
theoretical knowledge about video activism and aim to increase the
amount of cameras in the street and to propagate awareness towards the
public’s right to be informed.

Facilitator: Sibel Tekin

Note: This is a 3 days workshop. The participants should bring their laptops and send an email to [email protected] to register. The event is limited to 25 people.

1.2.2 Workshop: Clown Workshop, Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

(Three-day workshop: day 1 of 3)

  • Time: 11:00-13:30
  • Venue: Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

This is about finding your inner ‘clown’ but not with the use of
reason, since our motto is that reason has its limits but not
foolishness!

Yes, it is hard to breathe, our space is restricted and in fact it is
about to vanish… and we, being close to madness and folly, try to
breathe, and catch our breath with straws in our hands!

We still exist! We always will do! Let’s clown around then and extend
the scope of our voice! In this workshop, aimed to be a 3-day acting
workshop covered with red noses, we will be using circus disciplines
such as acrobatics, juggling and balance, and make use of the physical
theatre techniques and the motto ‘everything is a mask and everything
moves’. Bring water, and costumes, as we will be creating your clown
characters!

Workshop Moderator: Rüya Nesrin

Note: This is a 3-day workshop. Event is limited to 12 people. To register, please e-mail: [email protected].

1.2.3 Workshop: Conflict Resolution Workshop

  • Time: 14:00- 18:00
  • Venue: Nonviolent Education and Research Center

In our attempt to change the world in order to co-exist with our
differences, are we really able to be together with our differences?

Is it possible to run away from conflicts? Do interpersonal conflicts
make us weak or do we happen to gain strength by trying to resolve our
conflicts?

It is possible that it is hard to resolve our own conflicts even under
the rainbow considering all those heteronormative, binary,
internalized, normalized malices that are imposed by the patriarchal
and capitalist world. Is there a saved queer anyway?

Let’s gain strength and work together by looking at what our own
conflicts might tell us. Let’s get to this conflict resolution
practice ourselves with games and exercises.

Note: Language of instruction is Turkish. Event limited to 20 people. To register, please e-mail: [email protected]

1.2.4 Panel: Affirmative Therapy against Reparative/Conversion Therapy

  • Time: 17.00-19.00
  • Venue: Cezayir

It is not enough to be against reparative therapy, or be an LGBTI+
friendly therapist or be an LGBTI+ as therapist these days. LGBTI+
individuals now ask for affirmative therapy. They require affirmative
therapy to understand the effects of LGBTI+ phobia, to overcome
internalized LGBTI+ phobia. If a client doesn’t ask for it, therapists
do not have to focus on the clients’ sexual orientation. During this
panel we want to discuss and discover LGBTI+ reparative therapy and
possible the damages it may create, and ethical problems during this
therapy processes and how affirmative therapy may create an
alternative for psychological analysis.

Speakers:

  • Psychiatrist Dr. Seven Kaptan
  • Enes Ka

1.2.5 Panel: The Psychopolitics of Boundaries

  • Time: 17:00-19:00
  • Venue: Cezayir Meeting Room

In this panel, where we focus on the concept of “boundary,” we will
enhance our understanding together with what you will make us think
and feel. From anthropology to sociology, from etymology to
psychoanalysis, we will go beyond boundaries, pause over the rainbow
and ponder on sexual diversity.

Speakers:

  • Özlem Çolak
  • Selçuk Çelik
  • Umut Özen
  • Umut Şah

1.2.6 Workshop: What does the “+” stand for in LGBTI+?

  • Time: 19:00-21:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

In the struggle for LGBTI+ rights, various practices and forms of
existence become norms. It is vital to discuss how gender identities,
gender expressions, and sexuaul orientations turn into identifiable
patterns. In this workshop, we will discuss gender identities and
forms of existence that are not visible within gender binaries, as
well as sexual practices and romanticisms that are excluded from this
system. We will explore asexual and aromantic experiences and thereby
the sexuality and the romanticism of the +.

Workshop Lead: Meriç

1.2.7 Workshop: Queer Bondage

  • Time: 19:00-21:00
  • Venue: Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

This workshop explores bondage techniques for beginners and for those
who are curious about BDSM practices. The participants will be
selected from people who register at [email protected]. Deadline
for pre-registration is June 25th.

1.3 Wednesday, June 27

1.3.1 Workshop: Video Activism, Nonviolent Education and Research Center

(Three-day workshop: day 2 of 3)

  • Saat: 10:00-13:00
  • Venue: Şiddetsizlik Merkezi (Nonviolent Education and Research Center)

As Seyr-i Sokak Video-Activism Workshop, we aim to make an actual
video record of human rights and freedoms violations, social
movements, civil society actions and street marches; make these
records public via online means; record the police brutality towards
protesters and the public and facilitate the use of these records as
evidence in the judicial processes; register all the social movements
and struggles and their dates visually in order to engender a
collective memory and in order to be the witness and the presenter of
the reality. With these workshops, we share our experiences with the
volunteer participants, inform them about the necessary technical and
theoretical knowledge about video activism and aim to increase the
amount of cameras in the street and to propagate awareness towards the
public’s right to be informed.

Facilitator: Sibel Tekin

Note: This is a 3 days workshop. The participants should bring their laptops and send an email to [email protected] to register. The event is limited to 25 people.

1.3.2 Workshop: Clown Workshop, Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

(Three-day workshop: day 2 of 3)

  • Time: 11:00-13:30
  • Venue: Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

This is about finding your inner ‘clown’ but not with the use of
reason, since our motto is that reason has its limits but not
foolishness!

Yes, it is hard to breathe, our space is restricted and in fact it is
about to vanish… and we, being close to madness and folly, try to
breathe, and catch our breath with straws in our hands!

We still exist! We always will do! Let’s clown around then and extend
the scope of our voice! In this workshop, aimed to be a 3-day acting
workshop covered with red noses, we will be using circus disciplines
such as acrobatics, juggling and balance, and make use of the physical
theatre techniques and the motto ‘everything is a mask and everything
moves’. Bring water, and costumes, as we will be creating your clown
characters!

Workshop Moderator: Rüya Nesrin

Note: This is a 3-day workshop. Event is limited to 12 people. To register, please e-mail: [email protected].

1.3.3 Panel: Pink Discharge Papers in Mandatory Military Service

  • Time: 15:00-17:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

In Turkey, those of us [deemed to be men] are summoned by the army when
it’s time for their mandatory military service. In fact, for us, not to
carry out military service is a right! There is a legal procedure to
get “pink discharge papers” [Gay men in Turkey are held exempt from
mandatory military service if they obtain “pink discharge papers”.]

Can I get a pink discharge paper? What path shall I follow when
getting a discharge paper? What are the things I should watch out for?
How would pink discharge papers affect my social and my professional
life? Come join us in thinking about these issues together!

Speakers: S. Ali, Ozan, Cihan, Alican

1.3.4 Collective HIV Test

  • Time: 18:00
  • Venue: Pangaltı Metro

We invite everyone to get a free and anonymous test with us. We will
meet at 18:00 in front of Pangaltı exit of Osmanbey Metro station to
get a test at the Şişli Municipality Healthcare Directorate
[Şişli Belediyesi Sağlık İşleri Müdürlüğü] building.

1.3.5 Panel and Workshop: Being LGBTI+ in Prison, Discussion and Letter Reading

  • Time: 17:00- 19:00
  • Venue: Cezayir Meeting Room

The panel will focus on the recent rights violations, discrimination and isolation LGBTI+ inmates have been subjected to. The speakers will discuss the ongoing construction of the Pink Prison by the Ministry of Justice as well and seek to present solutions to the current issues. In order to break through the boundaries between the prison and the outside, we will read out the letters of our friends in prison and write them letters.

Moderator: Beyza Bilal (KADAV, hapistelgbti+ network)

Speakers:

  • Hilal Başak Demirbaş: (CİSST/TCPS, hapistelgbti+ network)
  • Former Inmate Loren Elva: (Dersim Roştîya Asmê LGBTİ founder activist, Keskesor Diyarbakır LGBTİ volunteer)
  • Former Inmate Coşkun Yanat: (LADEG – LGBTİQ+ Family and Friends Support Group)

1.3.6 Workshop: BDSM might not be what we thought it was

  • Time: 17:00-19:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

Why does one immediately think about leather gloves, whips, chains,
cages, and the like when we talk about BDSM? These accessories are
indeed part of BDSM practices but is BDSM all about them? What are the
other forms in this practice? Could affection, love, compassion, and
peace be part of BDSM as much as pain, violence, blood, shame, fear
are?

No, this workshop does not aim to help you unearth the hidden parts of
your sexuality and desires. Instead, it invites you to speak about
what is obvious and part of daily life. Join us to talk about the
practice of desire and affection without fetishizing it.

Workshop Lead: Meriç

1.3.7 Panel: Queer Methodologies

  • Time: 19:00-21:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

The homogenizing world of academic knowledge, stuck within the limits
of the binary gender regime, has been long questioned through queer and
post-colonial studies. Social sciences is a dynamic field where new
ways of thinking and conceiving evolve constantly. In this event,
graduate students who applied the methodological and theoretical
frameworks founded by gender and queer studies will speak about their
recent experiences in the field. The graduate students who are about
to defend their thesis will discuss their subjects, their intervention
in the field, and the challenges of thinking beyond heteronormativity.

1.3.8 Panel: Are You Sick, My Love?

  • Time: 19:00-21:00
  • Venue: Cezayir Meeting Room

According to research done with LGBTI+ individuals and to our own
experience, we face difficulties in accessing health services and we
are subjected to LGBTI+ phobia by healthcare workers. The doctors are
not knowledgeable enough regarding the special healthcare needs of
LGBTI+ individuals either.

In this panel organized by lgbtisagligi.org, we will talk about not
only our experiences but also about the efforts to transcend these
challenges and what can be done.

Moderator: İlksen Gürsoy (Transfeminist activist)

Speakers:

  • Dr. Filiz Ak (Ankara University Department of Family Healthcare Practice)
  • Dr. Yeşim Yasin (Acıbadem University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health)
  • Yeşim Selçuk (SPoD Psychosocial Support Field Coordinator, Clinical Psychologist)

1.3.9 Film Screening: “Out & About: 3 Countries, 3 Families, Same Dilemma” (2016)

  • Time: 20:00 – 21:00
  • Venue: SPOD
  • Languages: Russian, English, Arabic and Farsi

Out & About is a documentary made in 2016, focusing on the lives of
three different families living in Russia, Kenya and Indonesia where
being LGBTI+ is a crime or is stigmatized. Even when the boundaries
change, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, hatred and prejudice do not
change. There will be subtitles in four languages and the duration is
30 minutes.

For more information and the trailer, see: https://koensuidgeest.com/current-and-past-projects/out-about/

1.4 Thursday, June 28

1.4.1 Workshop: Video Activism, Nonviolent Education and Research Center

(Three-day workshop: day 3 of 3)

  • Saat: 10:00-13:00
  • Venue: Şiddetsizlik Merkezi (Nonviolent Education and Research Center)

As Seyr-i Sokak Video-Activism Workshop, we aim to make an actual
video record of human rights and freedoms violations, social
movements, civil society actions and street marches; make these
records public via online means; record the police brutality towards
protesters and the public and facilitate the use of these records as
evidence in the judicial processes; register all the social movements
and struggles and their dates visually in order to engender a
collective memory and in order to be the witness and the presenter of
the reality. With these workshops, we share our experiences with the
volunteer participants, inform them about the necessary technical and
theoretical knowledge about video activism and aim to increase the
amount of cameras in the street and to propagate awareness towards the
public’s right to be informed.

Facilitator: Sibel Tekin

Note: This is a 3 days workshop. The participants should bring their laptops and send an email to [email protected] to register. The event is limited to 25 people.

1.4.2 Workshop: Clown Workshop, Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

(Three-day workshop: day 3 of 3)

  • Time: 11:00-13:30
  • Venue: Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

This is about finding your inner ‘clown’ but not with the use of
reason, since our motto is that reason has its limits but not
foolishness!

Yes, it is hard to breathe, our space is restricted and in fact it is
about to vanish… and we, being close to madness and folly, try to
breathe, and catch our breath with straws in our hands!

We still exist! We always will do! Let’s clown around then and extend
the scope of our voice! In this workshop, aimed to be a 3-day acting
workshop covered with red noses, we will be using circus disciplines
such as acrobatics, juggling and balance, and make use of the physical
theatre techniques and the motto ‘everything is a mask and everything
moves’. Bring water, and costumes, as we will be creating your clown
characters!

Workshop Moderator: Rüya Nesrin

Note: This is a 3-day workshop. Event is limited to 12 people. To register, please e-mail: [email protected].

1.4.3 Meeting: Pride March Trial

  • Time: 09:00
  • Venue: Çağlayan Courthouse

The fourth hearing of our friends who were detained and subjected to
police violence and abuse during last year’s June 19th Trans Pride
March is taking place on Thursday, June 28, at Çağlayan Courthouse. We
are meeting and marching in front of the courthouse to support our
friends during this court hearing when a ruling is expected.

1.4.4 Gay Honor Killing: “We meet for the Ahmet Yıldız Case”

  • Time: 09:00
  • Venue: Kartal Courthouse 5th Criminal Court [Kartal Anadolu Adliyesi, 5. Ağır Ceza Mahkemesi]

We are attending the 28th hearing of the Ahmet Yıldız case to own it
and to ensure that no other friend is killed. Gather your things, we
are going to hold them accountable. The killers are still among us.

1.4.5 Workshop: Apple Clove Delight, Sêva Mêxekrêj

  • Time: 13:00- 16:00
  • Venue: TAK

Apple with clove delight is a traditional way to invite the person
you’re in love with to love. It’s the symbolic way to say in Kurdish:
“I’m in love with you.” A small red apple is embellished with dense
rows of cloves. When that process is completed, the scent of dried
cardamom meets the scent of apple, creating a beautiful smell. This
“Sêva Mêxekrêj” in Kurdish created by the combination of apple and
cardamom can last a long time. According to legend, the scent lasts
for a hundred years.

The most aesthetic part of it is preparing the cloves. For this the
round buds at the tip of the cardamom are taken out and the
star-shaped cloves readied. Then the prepared cloves are stabbed into
the red apple individually. Your fingertips might ache in the painful
process.

Lovers, who’ll be separated for years due to work, war or other
reasons, gift each other the Seva Mexekreş before they leave. It means
“until we meet again, let this scent be yours and stay with you.”

Our goal in this workshop is to similarly put together our labor and
love to explain to our LGBTI+ friends abroad that we cross boundaries
and that we are with them through the scent of Sêva Mêxekrêj until we
meet again.

Facilitators: Süleyman, Burak (Keskesor Amed LGBTI initiative)

Note: Event is limited to 20 people. To register, please email: [email protected]

1.4.6 Workshop: Legal Self-Defense

  • Time: 15:00-17:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

The government’s most effective strategy to neutralize
social opposition in recent years: “fear”

Especially after the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, pressure on
oppositional groups has increased through criminal complaints, smear
campaigns on social and pro-government media, home searches,
detentions and arrests, imposing self-censorship, and attempts to
silence.

We will search for answers in this workshop covering:

  • What rights do we have when we are giving press statements, protesting, opening booths, distributing flyers (by hand and air)?
  • When can police stop us? What can they demand from us in airports, streets and during identification checks?
  • How should we act and who should we call if we or a friend is detained or has thier home searched?
  • Who can we apply to if we are ill-treated?

Facilitator: Rozerin Seda Kip

1.4.7 Workshop: Wall Painting

  • Time: 15:00-18:00
  • Venue: To Be Determined

What is a boundary? What is it that determines boundaries? The most
common physical boundary: walls… Now you are on this side of the wall,
then there on the other side…

The Berlin Wall represents two different forms of existence, but it is
also a space which allows people to think of other possibilities. Is
it when the boundaries are transformed that the world becomes
colorful, or is it when the world gets more colorful that the
boundaries are transformed?

Let’s paint the wall in colors.

1.4.8 Panel: Trans Experiences on Campus

  • Time: 17:30-19:30
  • Venue: Cezayir

We are going to discuss what it means to be a trans university student
in Turkey and the rights violations that they experience on campus.
In the panel, a trans women and a trans man, who are currently
university students, and a trans woman who was expelled from formal
education will talk about their personal experiences.

Participants:

  • Kardelen Yazıcı
  • Orkun Aras Coşkun
  • Arjin Deniz

1.4.9 Panel: “An Honour Killing: The Case of Ahmet Yıldız” (Hêvî LGBTI Association)

  • Time: 19:00- 20:00
  • Venue: Cezayir Meeting Room

Ahmet Yıldız was murdered by his father in 2008, the incident came to
be known as “the first gay honour killing” in Turkey. As the father
went “missing” and the case remained unresolved, each day another one
of our friends is killed in hate murders. We come together on this day
to mark the 28th hearing of the case of Ahmet Yıldız. In this panel,
we will discuss hate murders, the Turkish “legal” system, good
behavior sentence reductions, and impunity.

Moderator: Can Kaya (Hêvî LGBTİ Association, Social Services Expert)

Speakers:

  • Lawyer Fırat Söyle (Lawyer for the case of Ahmet Yıldız)
  • Dr. Ahmet Kaya (Hêvî LGBTİ Association, Monitor for the Ahmet Yıldız trial)

1.4.10 Workshop: Queer Zumba

  • Time: 19:00-20:30
  • Venue: SPOD

While the 26. Istanbul Pride Week is being held, come join us in
getting rid of our bad energy with Queer Zumba!

Zumba is a type of cardiovascular dance/fitness which aims to build
self confidence and give happiness through repetitive and symmetrical
dance moves as well as fitness exercises. It accelerates the
metabolism and increases the oxygen capacity of the body. It is
important that the participants choose comfortable clothes and
sneakers. As Zumba is an intense type of dance, they should also bring
their own towels and some water.

The event is limited to 15 people. To register, please e-mail: [email protected]

Trainer: Nilüfer Çelebi

1.4.11 Workshop/Talk: LGBTI+ in Literature (The books of Baki Koşar)

  • Time: 20:00-22:00
  • Venue: Üzüm Bar & Pub

Baki Koşar was an award-winning journalist/writer who was writing his
last novel when he was exposed to hate crime and died in 2006. He left
hundreds of reports, interviews, a novel and two story books. In this
event, we aim to present and discuss his novel, and story books to
make his work more and more visible. The event will be open to
everyone, no-one needs to read the books. His boks will be available
in second hand bookstores rather than regular bookstores.

This event is organized by the co-operation of Nakkalgbti+ and
Lambdaİstanbul LGBTI+ as a part of the LGBTI+ in Literature Talks.

The event’s language will be in Turkish.

1.4.12 Speed Dating

  • Time: 21:00-22:00
  • Venue: Will be announced via email

We are taking you out for a date with 15 different people. There will
be 4 minutes of meeting time for each. After these, if both parties liked
each other, we will give you each other’s contact information and
leave the floor to you 🙂

The event is limited to 30 people. To register, please email: [email protected].

1.4.13 Boutique Party

  • Time: 22:00-04:00
  • Venue: Üzüm Bar &Pub

1.5 Friday, June 29

1.5.1 Forum: University Students’ Gathering

  • Time: 13:00-16:00
  • Venue: SALT Galata

Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week calls for LGBTI+ students and student clubs
to increase communication and solidarity among the students and/or
student clubs by talking about the problems we face in our
universities and about the ways of dealing with them.

1.5.2 Panel: Beyond the Boundary, “A Precarious Wait”

  • Time: 16:00-18:00
  • Venue: SALT Galata

Once again we would like to delve into the LGBTI+ refugee/migrant
issues since the 2011 outbreak of the the civil war in Syria. As well
as discussing Syrian LGBTI+ refugee issues, we will also be including
İranian and Afghan refugees issues as well. The main topics will be
about their transitions to safer countries, right violations they
encounter in Turkey and long periods of waiting. We would like to
discuss what we can do about these issues collectively.

Moderation: Can Kaya (Hêvî LGBTİ Derneği Social Worker)

Panelists:

  • Müzeyyen Araç: (Hêvî LGBTİ Association, Migrant LGBTİ’s Work Group Coordinator)
  • Ramtin Zigorat: (Hevi LGBTİ Association, İranian Migrants Work Group Coordinator)

1.5.3 Panel: We Have to Stop Somewhere: On the Boundary Between Animal Rights and Human Interests

  • Time: 17.00-19.00
  • Venue: Cezayir

How do we draw a boundary between ourselves and other animals? Where
is the boundary between our and their bodies?

Just as we regard some human beings as more important than others, we
consider some animals important, and others, insignificant.

We see the body of a cow as a map of functions; we treat their organs,
muscles, bones, udders, and skins as a resource for satisfying human
needs. We classify them according to this treatment.

We carry this sort of classification to other animal species as well.
We place both the cat we pet and the lamb we eat on the table under
different categories; one is “loveable” and the other “edible”.

Would you like to re-assess the role of animals, whose dead and living
bodies we have grown so desensitized towards the suffering of? Would
you like to reconsider those rights and inviolability that we ask for
ourselves, for others, but not for other species?

As this week’s activities are focusing on the theme of boundaries, we
are discussing the boundaries that put animals in the category of
significant things. For it is us, who make animals reproduce, kills
them, and sets a limit on their lives.

We have to stop somewhere. But not here.

Moderator: Can Servi

Speakers:

  • Gülce Özen Gürkan
  • Can Servi
  • Buğra Giritlioğlu

1.5.4 Panel: The LGBTI+ Movement and Current HIV/AIDS Politics

  • Time: 17:00-19:00
  • Venue: Cezayir Meeting Room

How inclusive is mainstream HIV/AIDS politics, education on sexual and
reproductive health and HIV/AIDS experience sharing? With this
question, we will evaluate the need for HIV/AIDS policies which
centres LGBTI+ individuals as the subject. We will also be assessing
HIV/AIDS policies, elderly and youth issues as well as sexual and
emotional relations for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Moderator: Burak

Speakers:

  • Emre Özyetiş (Keskesor Amed LGBTİ)
  • Hasan Atik (Hevi LGBTİ)
  • Yunus Emre Demir (26. İstanbul LGBTİ+ Onur Haftası Komitesi)

*With support from the Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation (TAPV)

1.5.5 Workshop: Violence in Lesbian Relationships

  • Time: 19:00-21:00
  • Venue: Cezayir

Feminine relations in a spiral of violence

Violence is independent of sex, gender and gender identities.
Pre-assumptions of men as a source of violence can lead to violence
and abuse in lesbian and bisexual relationships to be rendered
invisible, preventing discussions of these topics. We want to talk
about these processes, where you could be a perpetrator, victim, or
witness.

Facilitators:

  • Hande İmbat
  • Nihan Zeynep
  • Aylime Aslı Demir
  • Esma Akyel

Note: Workshop has a limit of 25 people. If you would like to join us in our discussions, please register at [email protected]

1.5.6 Theme Forum: Boundary!

  • Time: 18:00-20:00
  • Venue: Salt GALATA

Each year we meet for the Pride Week Theme Forum and this year we
gather to think and widen the meaning of “boundary” and how it touches
our lives.

We say we don’t accept the boundaries imposed on our identities,
orientations and ways of existence. What do we do to get out of the
spaces we’re pushed into by those who want to isolate us from the
public space?

What are the ways to say “get used to it, we are here” in reaction to
the boundaries imposed by the binary gender system? Are there times
when we reproduce these boundaries?

How can we go beyond the boundaries imposed by nationalist, racist,
colonialist states? How can we make possible the boundless celebration
of our identities for migrants, ethnic minorities and our comrades in
other nations?

We converse about the boundaries existing for the benefit of the
powerful, stand against these boundaries and make visible invisible
boundaries.

1.5.7 Workshop: Dating Stories

  • Time: 20:00- 22:00
  • Venue: Orta Teras

The things we do to meet someone; Hornet, Wapa, Tinder, dating
sites… blind dates arranged by our friends… Come join us in sharing
our best, worst, funniest and the most stressful dating stories.

All participants are expected to bring at least one dating story, so
you better start thinking about it!

1.5.8 Movie Screenings (Queer Fest)

  • Time: 20:00-22:00
  • Venue: Mecra
  1. Movie Screening: Boundary Shorts Selection (77’)

    A selection of short films, selected by Pink Life Queer Fest
    especially for the 26th Istanbul Pride Week and its theme “Boundary”,
    will explore and open up for discussion topics such as the boundaries
    of the body, boundaries of institutions and boundaries in almost every
    realm of life.

  2. Movie Screening: Wonders Wander (60’)

    Director: Shu Lea Cheang

    Wonders Wander is a location based mobi-web-serial with 4 fictional
    episodes set in the city of Madrid. Set in Madrid’s Malasaña
    neighbourhood, known as Maravillas (Wonders) during the La Movida
    Madrileña countercultural movement (1980s), WONDERS WANDER takes the
    wonder out of Malasaña to explore the nouveau queer generation that
    included refugees, migrants, functional diversity, transfeminista,
    transfeminism, open families, subversive motherhoods, sustainable
    living, and the rise of auto-defense practices for self-empowerment.
    Wonders Wander with its gps guided city-walks tracks sites of
    homo-trans-phobic attacks that extends to peripheral Madrid. Along the
    way, Wonders Wander’s fantasia film episodes recount tales of
    current-day people’s resistance with relentless defiance, seductive
    sensuality and vigorous passion.

1.5.9 Genetically Modified Tomato LGBTI+ Phobia Award Ceremony and Party

  • Time: 22:00
  • Venue: ROXY

First we squeeze some ketchup on the LGBTI+phobics of the year with
the award ceremony at 22:00, then we dance through the night on ROXY’s
dance floor.

1.6 Saturday, June 30

1.6.1 Workshop: Vegan Rainbow Cake

  • Time: 14:00- 16:00
  • Venue: Community Kitchen

Let’s make the best cake in the world. We will make it with all the
colors of rainbow and be fair to everyone. Then we’ll answer questions
about veganism while we eat our cakes. See you soon!

1.6.2 Panel: Being an Intersex Individual in the Shadow of a Medieval Mentality

  • Time: 15:00-17:00
  • Venue: Mecra

The speakers of this panel say “We are against doctors’ and families’
gender assignments, we are against surgeries for the sake of
society and ‘morality’ that completely ignore our body rights”. The
panel will focus on the medical interventions against the bodies of
intersex children without their consent, the dilemmas they go through
in their teenage years, the increasing awareness around the world
towards intersex individuals and its reflections in Turkey.

Speakers: Şerife, Caner

1.6.3 LGBTI+ Memory Walk

  • Time: 15:00-18:00
  • Venue: To Be Announced

LGBTI+ history is a field which has very few written sources. We want
to reveal a collective history by remembering and walking through the
city which has been home, work place and battlefield to LGBTI+
subjects. In order to do so, we add a LGBTI+ memory history walk to
the already existing memory walks focusing on gender and collective
memory. Why is Taksim still so important for the LGBTI+ activism? What
kind of struggles had taken place in Ülker Street or Gezi Park, what
is going on now? With this memory walk, we will seek answers while
focusing on the unwritten history of LGBTI+ history.

Event is limited to 15 people. To register, please email:
[email protected]. The meeting point is to be announced later.

1.6.4 Don Quixote Pedals

  • Time: 16:00- 18:00
  • Venue: Beşiktaş-Kadıköy Ferry Terminal (in Beşiktaş)

So much has been written on love throughout history, battles were
fought, epics were written. When it came to “how” to love, lessons of
“morality” were taught. Such morality became a social movement. Yet
the only immorality was to love. We dress up in rainbow colors and get
on two wheels, with songs of riot and love. We come together with
those who really know how to love, shoulder to shoulder, pedal to
pedal.

Summer’s here, our tents are ready. We are a crowd that does not fit
Istanbul’s small bicycle lanes. Wipe the dust off your bike and join
us! We are meeting at Kadıköy Ferry Port in Beşiktaş to ride together
in the 26th Istanbul Pride Walk.

Get used to it! We have always been here and we will always be here!

1.6.5 Vegan Picnic

  • Time: 17:00- 20:00
  • Venue: Maçka Park

Just like we do every year, we are going to set up our picnic table,
share our food and have a nice chat. We want our picnic to be cheerful
as much as we want it to be fair towards animals, we want it to be
vegan. This can be a great opportunity for most of us to discover
vegan foods, both during the picnic and while we are preparing it.
Don’t just say “I don’t know how to make vegan food,” most of the food
we eat is already vegan. Come together to eat veggies and to have a
great conversation!

1.6.6 Movie Screening (Queer Fest): Feminista (60’)

  • Saat: 20:00-21:00
  • Yer: Mecra

Director: Myriam Fougère

Feminista is a feminist road movie, a journey to the heart of global
feminism. In 2015, Myriam Fougère joined a group of young activists
who had formed a caravan to travel across twenty European countries –
from Turkey to Portugal, by the way of the Balkans, to Italy and
Spain. As a breath of solidarity, Feminista provides a rare glimpse
into a widespread feminist groundswell movement, possibly one of the
largest, least understood and unrecognized mass political movements
that is very much alive throughout the world today.

1.6.7 Party

  • Time: 22:00-04:00
  • Venue: Citizen

1.7 Sunday, July 1

1.7.1 Pride March

  • Time: 18:00
  • Venue: Istiklal Avenue

1.7.2 Closing Party

  • Time: 22:00-04:00
  • Venue: ROXY

2 Venue Addresses

2.1 Adalet Sarayı

Çağlayan Mahallesi Vatan Caddesi No:1/B, Çağlayan, Kağıthane, İstanbul

2.2 Anadolu Adalet Sarayı

Esentepe Mahallesi, E-5 Güney Yan Yol Caddesi, No 39, Kartal, İstanbul

2.3 Arsen Lüpen

Şehit Muhtar Mahallesi İstiklal Caddesi Mis Sokak No:15, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

2.4 Beşiktaş’taki Kadıköy Vapur İskelesi (Beşiktaş-Kadıköy Ferry Terminal)

İskele Cad. Beşiktaş/İstanbul

2.5 Cezayir/Cezayir Meeting Room

Hayriye Cad. 12 Galatasaray Beyoğlu/İstanbul

2.6 Citizen

Asmalı Mescit Mahallesi, Korsan Çıkmazı, No 2, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

2.7 Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyosu (Stüdyosu)

Firuzağa mah. Çukurcuma cad. No: 6/ 3 Beyoğlu/İstanbul

2.8 Community Kitchen

Şahkulu Mahallesi, Kumbaracı Yokuşu, No 57, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

2.9 Mecra

Caferağa Mahallesi, 5, Dumlupınar Sokak, 34710 Kadıköy/İstanbul

2.10 Orta Teras

Şehit Muhtar, Mis Sokak, No:5, Teras Kat, 34435 Beyoğlu/İstanbul

2.11 ROXY

Sıraselviler Cad. Aslanyatağı Sok. No:1-3 Taksim

2.12 SALT Galata:

Bankalar Caddesi No:11 Beyoğlu/İstanbul

2.13 SPOD Ofis

Katip Mustafa Çelebi Mahallesi İpek Sokak, Ateşler Binası No:2 D:4, Taksim, Beyoğlu

2.14 Şiddetsizlik Merkezi (Nonviolent Education and Research Center)

Kuloğlu Mah. Güllabici Sokak No: 16 D: 2/2 34433 Beyoğlu İstanbul

2.15 Şişli Belediyesi Merkez Poliklinik

Merkez, Abide-i Hürriyet Cd No:5 Şişli/İstanbul

2.16 TAK

Rasimpaşa Mah. Duatepe Sokak No: 61 Yeldeğirmeni Kadıköy

2.17 Üzüm

Şehit Muhtar, Mis Sokak, No:6, 3. Kat, 34435 Beyoğlu/İstanbul

2.18 ZİBA

Tomtom Mahallesi, Akarsu Sokak, No 10, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

 


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