The 6th Izmir International Humor Festival starts on Tuesday, December 20. The opening ceremony of the festival organized by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will take place with the presentation of Metin Uca. At the ceremony, Feridun Andaç Aziz Nesin and Zeynep Oral will give short speeches about Haldun Taner, episodes from the plays "Azizname" and "Vatan Kurtaran Şaban" will be presented, then this year's '2022 Aziz Nesin Humor Awards' winners of the theater Ahmet Gülhan, cartoonist Eray Özbek and Nezih Danyal's awards will be presented by Ali Nesin.
On the second day of the festival, which was organized by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality City Archive, Museums and Libraries Branch Directorate, İZBB Department of Culture and Arts, İZELMAN, Intercultural Art Association, İzmir Chamber of Architects, Doğan Kitap, Institut français and Liszt Institute, directed by Vecdi Sayar. The cartoon exhibition 'Political Lines by Nezih Danyal and Eray Özbek' will be opened at the Çetin Emeç Art Gallery. On the same evening, the '21st December Longest Night' event will take place at the French Cultural Center at 19:XNUMX with the screening of three films. In the night, Ernst Lubitsch's “To be or not to be”, Stanley Kubrick's “Dr. Strangelove” (Doctor Garipask) and Bertrand Tavernier's “Foreign Affairs” will be screened.
The December 22 program will take place at APİKAM Book Cafe. In the program that will start at 18, Assoc. Dr. Fevzi Cakmak and Dr. Asil Kaya will participate, and will be moderated by journalist Muzaffer Ayhan Kara, "Political Humor in the Press from the Constitutional Monarchy to the Republic" and "Politics and Humor", moderated by Raşit Çavaş, with the participation of Turgut Çeviker and Zeki Coşkun.
In the 23 December program at Kültürpark İzmir Sanat, the opening of the “Hey... Oğuzhan Tercan's “There is a Thief!” There is a screening of the movie.
In the program that will start at 24:15 on Saturday, December XNUMX at Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Cihan Demirci's interview on Oğuz Aral, the creator of the legendary humor magazine 'Gırgır', Eren Aysan's 'Haldun Taner documentary', Eren Aysan, Haluk Işık, Prof. . Dr. Semih Çelenk will participate in the 'Political Humor in the Theatre' panel, moderated by Vecdi Sayar, and the play "Vatan Kurtaran Şaban" will be presented by Balıklıova Village Theatre.
Within the framework of the events that will take place on December 25 at 16.30 at the Izmir Chamber of Architects Architecture Center, political humor examples and short sketches of master artists, Ferhan Şensoy, Levent Kırca, Turgay Yıldız, will be watched, followed by Prof. Dr. Oğuz Makal will give a speech titled “Political Humor in Cinema” and the film “Witness” by Peter Bacso, one of the masters of Hungarian cinema, will be screened. The program of the last day of the festival is at the Architecture Center. On 26 December at 18:XNUMX Ahmet Önel, Dr. Efdal Sevinçli, with the participation of Lütfü Dağtaş, moderated by Bekir Yurdakul, after the panel titled "Literature and Humor in İzmir from Poet Eşref to Muzaffer İzgü", the artist's last film in memory of Kemal Sunal, Metin Akpınar, Rafet El Roman, Meltem Cumbul "Propaganda," directed by Sinan Çetin, will be screened. The program of the festival, all events of which are free of charge, can be accessed on kultursanat.izmir.bel.tr, Izmir Art websites and izmirmizahfest social media accounts.
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