Festivals

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DJ Fen, Mr Jones, Texsta, MC Sel, Durty Tango…the alternative guide to The Mid Summer Ball stage

This weekend, The Mid Summer Ball takes over a brand new stage at the Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival, taking place in Enfield, North London. Now in its third year, the one-day, family-friendly community event is seeking to broaden its appeal to the younger generation by extending an invite to lea...

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Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival 2019: “Bigger and better”

On Sunday, 30 June 2019, the third annual celebration of Turkish Cypriot culture will take place on Enfield Playing Fields, located on the aptly named Donkey Lane (Karpaz’s wild donkeys are the national animal of North Cyprus). Weather permitting, some 30,000 people are expected to pass through the...

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All-star DJ line-up set to perform on the Mid Summer Ball stage at Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival

This year’s Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival will see the addition of a second stage: The Mid Summer Ball, featuring a who’s who of DJs and artists from the community performing a perfect mix of urban dance music. The stellar line-up includes UK Garage pioneers Ramsey and Fen, House DJ Eren (who...

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Savour the taste of Anatolia at Laburnum Street Food Fair

If you love Turkish food and are in London, get yourselves to Hackney this week, so you can sample all your favourite flavours in one place. On Thursday, 13 June, a five-day food festival opens by Suleymaniye Mosque in Haggerston, East London. Semi-covered street stalls will be selling a wide ran...

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Week-long Alevi Festival culminates with free outdoor event at Hackney Downs Park

The sun is out, and summer is truly here, so if you’re in North London and looking for an authentic outdoor experience on Sunday, head to Hackney for the annual Alevi Festival. The ninth event of its kind in London, this community festival celebrates one of Anatolia’s biggest mystical faiths thro...

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See a ‘feast of films’ at 2nd London Turkish Film Week, starts 24 April

Following its debut in December 2018, the 2nd London Turkish Film Week (LTFW) springs back to life at the end of April. Organised by the Yunus Emre Institute in Fitzrovia, the film festival takes place from 24 to 30 April 2019. Twenty new features, shorts and documentaries, representing a feas...

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Festival date clash ‘disaster’ averted as row exposes rifts within Turkish Cypriot UK community

Competing plans to hold separate June festivals celebrating Turkish Cypriot culture on the same day in north London have been averted after one of the camps decided to postpone its event by a week. In a surprise move, the UK-based Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations (CTCA), an umbrella organi...

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Turquazz: a Jazz and roots festival for all the senses

Turquazz is “Anatolian jazz without limits! Next month, it makes its global debut in London with fourteen events in 10 different venues over 17 days. Running from 13 to 30 March 2019, this brand new festival celebrates contemporary Anatolian culture, encompassing music, film, food, dance and spok...

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Enfield’s Donkey Lane to host 3rd Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival in June 2019

The Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations in Britain (CTCA UK) have announced details of the third edition of the Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival. The  event returns to the spacious Donkey Lane playing fields in North London, which will take place on Sunday 30 June 2019. The family-orientated...

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New London film festival to screen Turkish box office hits

Seven new and recent Turkish big screen successes are to be shown in the heart of London next week as part of a special film festival. Turkish Film Week will feature a “rich panorama”of “box office hits, festival award winners and Oscar candidates” from Wednesday, 12 December to Sunday, 16 Decemb...

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