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Ⓒ 2026 Beykoz Kundura

Thrift, Investment and Domestic Goods Week

13 December 2025 Saturday, 12:00

Drawing inspiration from the legacy of the Sümerbank Deri ve Kundura Sanayi Müessesesi (Sümerbank Leather and Shoe Industry Establishment), one of the most important symbols of production in the history of the Republic, Beykoz Kundura continues to rethink the cultural meanings of production through art and memory.

Celebrated every December since 2022, Domestic Goods Week takes place for the fourth time this year. In previous years, the program focused on domestic production and creativity in fields ranging from local jazz to contemporary dance and from theater to gastronomy; this time, it also turns its attention to Anatolia’s abundant heritage of production.

At the events taking place on December 13–14, 2025, visitors can look forward to two special panels and tasting workshops on the place of olives and grapes in our cultural heritage, how they are produced and what they mean in our collective memory, as well as a Domestic Goods Market, Children’s Workshops, Adult Workshops, Exhibition Tours, Film Screenings and Concerts.

On this weekend, which promises participants of all ages an experience full of making, creativity and sharing, we at Beykoz Kundura invite you to remember our local resources, to understand the roots of production, and to carry this accumulated knowledge into the future.

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Venue Use

By presenting your ticket, you may enter Beykoz Kundura 2 hours before the screening, enjoy the food and drink areas, and visit the exhibition Kundura’s Memory: A World Fit into a Factory with a free reservation. Bringing outside food and/or drinks is prohibited.

 

Please note that your event ticket or reservation does not grant access to the film sets on the Beykoz Kundura grounds, and we kindly ask that you do not leave the designated areas.

 

Please be aware that filming or photographing with a professional camera is not permitted without written permission. We kindly ask that you leave your recording devices at the security checkpoint at the Beykoz Kundura entrance.

December 13-14, 2025

Chocolate Making Workshop

Domestic Goods Are Our Nation’s Goods, and They Simply Must Meet Chocolate!

Chocolate is a magnificent companion to the most delicious products of the rich land we live in. From nuts to spices, from fresh fruit to dried varieties, you can choose from a wide range of products to suit your own taste, combine them with chocolate and create wonders. All we need are a few simple techniques and a little curiosity.

At the Chocolate Workshop with Domestic Goods, we will bring it all together to make delicious chocolates.

Workshop Leader: Gamze Baş Workshop Time: 14.00 - 16.00 (2 hours) Number of Participants: 10 people

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SAATLİ MAARİF CALENDAR WORKSHOP

One Page, One Story, A Shared Memory

One page, one story: touch the past with the Saatli Maarif Calendar, write your story, share your memory!

The Saatli Maarif Calendar, which has adorned our walls for as long as we can remember, carried not only time but also the rhythm of life and the stories of our culture. Each page whispered of the cycles of nature, the sounds of home and the scent of memories. Inspired by that silent storyteller, we are now turning calendar pages back into stories. Each page becomes an invitation to a new beginning. In this three-hour creative gathering:

• We will awaken our personal memories through storytelling and creative writing practices, • We will turn our emotions into narrative through words, images and the body, • We will create a space of shared memory and exchange with the stories that emerge.

This workshop is open to anyone who wants to bring the past and present together and share the joy of telling and creating.

Come, tear off a page, and let’s start your story together.

Workshop Leader: Seiba Storytelling Center Workshop Facilitator: Nazlı Çevik Azazi Workshop Time: 14.00 - 17.00 (3 hours) Number of Participants: 16 people

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Human beings are the only living creatures on earth that need to create their own culture and must build it. On this journey, our experiences have been the fundamental ways of expressing ourselves: food in order to exist, and art in order to pass things on. Through art and food, humans have learned to express themselves to their own age and to carry their existence into the future.

Silüet Atölye’s mission is to bring together these seemingly separate phenomena and to remind us that they form a single whole. By building connections through intergenerational interaction, it aims to offer an experience that helps people mirror their own lives.

Batik is a technique of dyeing fabric using a resist method. Introduced from India to Europe in the 4th century BC, the technique spread throughout Asia as migration and trade increased.

In wax batik, this resist is made with a mixture of beeswax and paraffin. In this technique, which keeps the colors from bleeding into one another, each color or tone is covered with the beeswax and paraffin mixture after it is applied. Finally, the darkest color is applied, which brings out the contour lines.

Workshop Leader: Ceydâ Candaş - Silüet Atölye Workshop Time: 14.00 - 16.00 (2 hours) Number of Participants: 10 people

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At the Leather Wallet Workshop, held at the historic Beykoz Kundura Factory, we make our own hand-stitched leather piece step by step. At this special event, organized as part of the Domestic Goods Workshops, we will learn and experience the joy of making things by hand!

Workshop Leader: Cem Akbulut Workshop Time: 14.00 - 16.00 (2 hours) Number of Participants: 10 people

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LIVING ARCHIVE WORKSHOP One object… many stories… a collective web of memory…

The “Living Archive Workshop” is a space of discovery that follows the traces of the objects we carefully keep and collect, with the aim of connecting with the past and turning our stories into a living web of memory woven together.

In this workshop, we will approach the concept of the “archive” not merely as a practice of “collecting,” but as a tool for making connections, discovering layers of meaning and weaving stories. Starting from objects that are meaningful to them, participants will experience the steps of building an archive while creating a web of memory that is both personal and collective.

We welcome everyone who wishes to connect deeply with their own story, to experience how their story meets other stories, and to create a web of memory woven together.

Workshop Leader: Seiba Anlatı Merkezi Workshop Facilitator: Roza Erdem Workshop Time: 14.00 - 17.00 (3 hours) Number of Participants: 16 people

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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Olives: Anatolia’s Golden Heritage

Olives and grapes are two indispensable and highly precious agricultural products for all the civilizations that have lived on Anatolian soil. As part of the Domestic Goods Week events, we hear from experts about these two unique agricultural treasures and discuss topics that can strengthen their public perception, production and marketing. Is the momentum that olives and olive growing have gained in recent years enough? How are public subsidies for olive growing shaping agricultural activity? Which are Türkiye’s most precious olive trees? What are the common misconceptions in the olive oil sector, and what steps need to be taken to strengthen Turkish olive oil in the global market?

Following our panel on the olive, which has been Anatolia’s bounty for millennia, a wonderful olive oil tasting workshop awaits our guests.

Panel time: 16.00 - 17.00 Moderator: Volkan Torun (founder of T-Olive) Speakers:

Zeynep Delen Nircan (Academic, olive growing expert, author of the book “The Story of Olive Oil from Grove to Table”)

Nazlı Pişkin (Food culture writer, Mediterranean historian)

Dr. Mücahit Kıvrak (BAÜN Edremit Vocational School, olive growing and soap-making educator, farmer, sustainable olive growing expert)

Ali & Ayşegül Hayta (Masmana Olive Oil producers, Kilis)

Olive and Olive Oil Tasting Workshop Time: 17.00 - 18.00 Led by: Çiğdem Torun

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Türkiye is a grape country with the world’s 5th largest vineyard area. Yet it differs significantly from the other leading grape-producing countries: in Türkiye, grape culture comes to life and gains visibility not so much through winemaking as through fresh fruit, raisin exports, vine leaves, verjuice, pestil (fruit leather), cevizli sucuk (walnut-filled grape molasses sweet), pekmez (grape molasses) and many other by-products. The lands of Anatolia, which love to use and enjoy grapes in every form, are also the world’s largest grapevine gene pool. More than 1,400 grape varieties originated on these lands and form an important part of our country’s agricultural and cultural wealth and heritage.

An enjoyable panel awaits you, crowned with eye-opening insights, in which experts and academics will discuss the value of the grape in this region, as well as the distinctive qualities and economic potential that can introduce Türkiye’s agricultural importance to the world. After the panel, you can join a special tasting with the participants, featuring a variety of grape products.

Panel time: 16.00 - 17.00 Moderator: Sabriye Tanem Yersel (Wine professional and brand development director of Kızılgöl Bağcılık) Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sabit Ağaoğlu (Agricultural Engineer, academic specializing in the Kalecik Karası grape)

Dr. Göknur Gündoğan (Author, viticulture and communications specialist)

Sabiha Apaydın Gönenli (Wine professional, founder of Kök Köken Toprak, founding member of Heritage Vines Of Türkiye)

Bestami Gün (Agricultural Engineer, M.Sc., specialist in the Horos Karası grape)

Yusuf Can İndibay (Academic, content creator of the Şarap Tarihi (Wine History) social media account)

Grape and Grape Products Tasting: Time: 17.00 - 18.00 Led by: Sabriye Tanem Yersel

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Saturday, December 13

Şenkop

"Şenkop" is a music ensemble that blends folk songs gathered from Anatolia and its neighboring regions with joyful, modern sounds, combining the improvisational style of jazz with the authentic spirit of Anatolia. The band takes its name from a “şen” (cheerful) take on “senkop” (syncopation), which means stepping outside the usual flow of musical time. Formed in the first half of 2024, the group gave its first concert in May at Art İstanbul Feshane with the support of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB). In addition to boutique venues such as Moda Sahnesi, Kadıköy Sessions and Minoa Pera, they have performed at special venues including Büyükada Taş Mektep and the Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı). They opened the +1 Night Tour (+1’li Gece Gezmesi) at the 32nd Istanbul Jazz Festival. Their debut album “Evde” (At Home) was released on digital platforms following its launch concert at Moda Sahnesi.

Line-up: Cem Mazlum (Percussion) Rûbar Dindar (Keyboard-Vocals) Ruşen Can Acet (Kabak Kemane-Vocals)

Doors Open: 20.00 Concert: 21.00 - 22.15

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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Kundura Piggy Bank: Domestic Treasures Workshop

During Domestic Goods, Thrift and Investment Week, we ask: What is TM, what does a barcode mean, and why is a piggy bank important? While looking for answers to these questions, we make piggy banks of our own design.

Workshop Leader: Şule Sevecen Workshop Time: 14.00 - 15.00 (1 hour) Number of Participants: 20 people Age Group: Ages 6-8 Materials: Flannel (divitin) fabric, glue, scissors, paper, leather cord, coloring pencils

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We come together to get to know the industrial heritage of Beykoz Kundura. Using old maps, we explore the factory’s Sümerbank era and its transformation into today’s arts and culture center. Then, using recycled materials, we build our own mini Beykoz Kundura models and bring our dreams to life in them. Are you ready to learn about the colorful history of Beykoz Kundura?

Workshop Leader: Rezzan Tüzün Workshop Time: 15.30 - 17.00 (1.5 hours) Number of Participants: 20 people Age Group: Young explorers aged 9-12 Materials: Colored paper, colored card stock, glue, felt-tip markers, scissors, colored string

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Little artists discover the past of Beykoz Kundura! Children explore the story of Beykoz Kundura’s journey from a shoe factory to today’s arts and culture center, make their own characters and stage sets from recyclable materials, and then take to the stage to tell their own stories about Beykoz Kundura’s past and present.

Workshop Leader: Rezzan Tüzün Workshop Time: 15.30 - 17.00 (1.5 hours) Number of Participants: 20 people Age Group: Ages 6-8 Materials: Colored paper, colored card stock, glue, felt-tip markers, scissors, colored string

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Why does Domestic Goods, Thrift and Investment Week matter, and what are our country’s barcodes? We make pencil holders using leather produced at Beykoz Kundura and Sümerbank fabrics.

Workshop Leader: Şule Sevecen Workshop Time: 14.00 - 15.00 (1 hour) Number of Participants: 20 people Age Group: Ages 10-12 Materials: Flannel (divitin) fabric, glue, scissors, paper, leather cord, coloring pencils

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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Oh, Beautiful Istanbul

Haşmet, an Istanbulite from a well-to-do family, has sold the waterside mansion he inherited from his father and squandered his inheritance. Unwilling to take an ordinary job, he becomes a street photographer. Ayşe, meanwhile, has come to Istanbul from the provinces dreaming of becoming famous. In pursuit of her dream, she sits in front of Haşmet’s lens for a photograph she plans to send to a contest. After this chance meeting on the street, Haşmet opens his home and his life to her.

Telling the love story of Haşmet, who cannot keep up with the times, and Ayşe, who chases the false promises of a changing Istanbul, this black comedy focuses on the social structure and cultural conflicts of its era.

Director: Atıf Yılmaz Screenplay: Safa Önal, Ayşe Şasa Cast: Sadri Alışık, Ayla Algan, Feridun Çölgeçen, Diclehan Baban, Danyal Topatan, İhsan Yüce, Handan Adalı Türkiye / 1966 / Black & White

Language: Turkish Running Time: 97 minutes Doors Open: 13.30 Screening Starts: 14.00 Click here to register.

Aygül is an unhappy woman trying to raise her four children without any help from her idle, good-for-nothing husband. Deciding that it is up to her, she starts working at a factory, and this sparks her awakening. She leaves her useless husband, takes her children and moves into another house, and, paying no mind to the gossip, does not shy away from growing close to the man who helped her find the factory job.

Director: Atıf Yılmaz Screenplay: Fehmi Yaşar, Atıf Yılmaz, Latife Tekin Cast: Kadir İnanır, Hale Soygazi, Macit Koper, Meral Çetinkaya, Füsun Demirel, Madelet Tibet, Serra Yılmaz, Dursun Sağıroğlu, Tuncay Akça, Ülkü Ülker, Osman Alyanak, Cihat Tamer, Ayşegül Uyguner Türkiye / 1984 / Color

Language: Turkish Running Time: 100 minutes Doors Open: 17.00 Screening Starts: 17.30

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Nermin, a manicurist, and Mehmet, a welder, are in love. Preparing to marry, the couple cannot find a home they can afford. Deeply upset by this, Nermin loses hope of ever getting married. Meanwhile, she meets Ender, the son of a wealthy family. Ender’s marriage proposal leaves Nermin torn. Tired of life in the gecekondu (shantytown) and dreaming of a wealthy life, she accepts the proposal. Ender’s family, however, opposes the union. Nermin regrets leaving Mehmet and wants to go back to him. But Mehmet, his pride wounded, will plot his revenge.

Director: Metin Erksan Screenplay: Metin Erksan Cast: Ayhan Işık, Türkan Şoray, Ekrem Bora, Nebahat Çehre Türkiye / 1962 / Black & White Language: Turkish Running Time: 96 minutes Doors Open: 13.30 Screening Starts: 14.00 Click here to register.

Kara Bayram is a poor villager who makes his living farming his small plot of land with his elderly mother Irazca, his wife Hatçe and their three children. When the village headman sells the land in front of Bayram’s house to Haceli, a member of the village council, Bayram’s peace is shattered. Is it right to build a house right in front of someone else’s house? A major conflict thus erupts between the two families. Left with no other choice, Mother Irazca gathers the whole family and they set off for the provincial capital to seek justice. (From Agah Özgüç’s book 100 Filmde Türk Sineması [Turkish Cinema in 100 Films])

Adapted for the screen and filmed by Metin Erksan from Fakir Baykurt’s novel of the same name, Revenge of the Serpents is a social realist film dealing with the theme of “village realities,” which resonated on the political scene of its time.

Director: Metin Erksan Screenplay: Metin Erksan Cast: Fikret Hakan, Nurhan Nur, Aliye Rona, Sadiye Arcıman, Kadir Savun, Erol Taş, Ali Şen Türkiye / 1962 / Black & White Language: Turkish Running Time: 108 minutes Doors Open: 17.00 Screening Starts: 17.30 Click here to register.

December 13 - 14, 2025

Guided Exhibition Tour

Accompanied by our expert guide, we tour the Kundura’s Memory: A World Fit into a Factory exhibition and the Factory’s buildings from the Ottoman and Republican periods. Click here to register.
December 13 - 14, 2025

Domestic Goods Market

As part of this year’s Domestic Goods Week, taking place on December 13-14, a Domestic Goods Market bringing together local producers is being set up at Beykoz Kundura! At the market, with producers from different regions of Türkiye taking part, you can find the finest examples of natural, authentic, locally made products.

Producers at the Domestic Goods Market: - Gemedere Artizanal Peynirleri - Assos - Kızılgöl Tarım - Kilis “High-polyphenol olive oil, dried Horos Karası grapes as a source of healing, grape molasses, wine, bread with dried Horos Karası raisins” - T Olive & Olive Oil Co - Köprübaşı / Manisa “Olives, olive oil” - Kekliktepe Urla - Urla “Early-harvest olive oil from Urla, olive oil soaps, olive wood serving boards, natural candles and marble serving pieces” - Ayetar Dış Ticaret - Antalya “Natural, controlled, pesticide-residue-free vegetables and fruits from local seeds” - BALWAX - İzmir “A natural touch for the new year! Celebrate the spirit of the new year with a nature-friendly gift! Don’t throw it away—reuse it!” - Gıda Ormanı - Seferihisar / İzmir “Real, clean and restorative olive oils, naturally fermented olives, vinegars and pickles, dried fruits, vegetables and spices, 100% fruit jams and skin nourishers” - Miralem Peynirleri - Menemen / İzmir “Artisanal cheeses made with traditional methods and without additives” - UrlaKuru - Urla “Pure, refined-sugar-free, delightful, healthy, crunchy and crispy dried fruit and vegetable treats from Urla” - Portakalbahcem.com - Finike / Antalya “Citrus and exotic varieties, fresh fruit, dried fruits, pomegranate molasses, spreadable jams, freshly squeezed pomegranate juice” - Ovacık Doğal Ürünler “Natural agricultural products”

We look forward to welcoming you to Beykoz Kundura to celebrate the abundance of local production with the power of solidarity!

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