by Umay Homespace | Jan 29, 2025 | News
We hope that you all welcomed the year 2025 in peace and good health. When we look at the world events, the political arena, election results, and natural disasters, a bleak picture arises, inevitably. Maybe changing the focus and investing more time and energy in our...
by Umay Homespace | Sep 12, 2024 | News
Dear UmAy Donors, Friends, Volunteers and Supporters, Happy Fall/Autumn! We hope that you had a nice summer. We are almost fully done with our transition over the summer (even Mia, the famous cat-survivor) and we are back to our original mission. But there is a twist...
by Umay Homespace | Jun 20, 2024 | News
In college, we never missed Ken Loach’s films, and they were always included in one festival or another, and would continue to be shown for weeks on both sides of Istanbul. I admire the power and the consistency in his filmography but I confess that it’s been a while...
by Umay Homespace | Jun 2, 2024 | Events, News
I came across the Dutch novelist and academic Eva Meijer’s name 4 years ago, when my exploration of environmental humanities overlapped with Covid and ITEF’s interview with her via Zoom (like all festivals in 2020). I was very intrigued by the...
by Umay Homespace | Apr 22, 2024 | News
Happy Earth Day everyone! There are many ways to celebrate the Earth’s gifts and warn against the “gifts” that the human beings are causing to harm the planet (‘gift’ in German means poison). I will share the associations of my Earth Day below and pose the question...
by Umay Homespace | Jan 22, 2024 | News
Dear 2024, As the owners, the co-founders and the residents of the UmAy House, we had a challenging year in 2023 as you can imagine. However, we managed to bring together a lively crowd on the Noel/Christmas Day and Night so allow me to summarize it for you (hopefully...
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