Turkish Cultural Center Queens

Turkish-Islamic Arts Presentation and Live Performances

You are cordially invited to our Ebru Classes graduation ceremony. 

 

Ebru (Turkish paper marbling) is one of the most unique and beautiful forms of Turkish art.Marbling art; is an art that has differences from the other visual ones in the ways such as equipments while making,performing style and traditional aspect. Roughly marbling, the art, is sprinkled on solified water with raising consistency substances like tragacanth having fluidity and transferring the pattern that is made by shaping dye drops on water with a tool called 'stick' without interferring to pattern made by dye which doesn't melt in water.

 

 

Ney is an instrument of the breath and the soul of the dervish. 

 

Tune in from what, to say that something 

Separation of the complaint to the 

Ney says, since they cut me from the forest, 

My wailing women - men everyone was crying. 

Let my body full of holes separation action, 

Thus love can explain the problem.

Kobyz Live Concert      

 

 

The kobyz is very special to the Kazakh people in sacred terms. According to V.

Bachman, one of the reputed European ethno-musicologists there can hardly be found a bowed instrument in the world as old as the kobyz. There is a claim among researchers that kobyz is the prototype not only of the bowed instruments of Central Asia but also of the European violin and cello as well.