Under the title Midas Touch, the Mahalla Festival 2025 was calling for a confrontation with the dystopian reality of a growth-based global economy that ignores the threats of climate change, increasing international armed conflicts and forced migration.
In the frame of parallel events of the 18th Istanbul Art Biennial, the Istanbul based cultural association diyalog was organizing the festival program in the categories of fine arts, performance, film, video, music and poetry at the Büyük Valide Han in Istanbul supported by International Media Support – IMS -, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Austrian Cultural Forum and others;in cooperation with the MagiC Carpets platform, a Creative Europe program supported by the European Union.
