The Passengers of Pera

by Charlotte Roux Antoine Auger and Anne Kropotkine

2023

The Passengers of Pera

by Charlotte Roux Antoine Auger and Anne Kropotkine

2023

Sound creation

Digital art

Cultural outreach and education

Sound experience

Native podcast

Installation

Stage performance

Architecture and design

History and heritage

Lifestyle

Sound creation

Digital art

Cultural outreach and education

Sound experience

Native podcast

Installation

Stage performance

Architecture and design

History and heritage

Lifestyle

Launched in 2022, Les Passagers de Péra is a collection of sound tours that explore the main sites of Istanbul’s Franco-Turkish cultural heritage. The first two seasons can be discovered on the website of the French Institute of Turkey. For each route, an orientation plan allows visitor-listeners to follow the different stages of the route. Simply scan the QR code with your smartphone. Equipped with headphones or earphones, listening can begin... The route can also be experienced remotely, like a podcast.

Computer, Smartphone, Tablet

Suitable for all audiences

from 3 to 270 minute(s)

French

Update : 11/12/2023

Sound documentary maker Charlotte Roux recording the soundscapes of Istanbul (Anne Kropotkine)

Documentary soundmaker Anne Kropotkine interviewing writer and translator Yigit Bener, October 30, 2023 at the French Institute in Istanbul (Solène Permanne / Consulat général de France à Istanbul)

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The voices of the French-speaking world in Istanbul

These journeys combine the stories and insights of diplomats, historians, geographers, architects, urban planners, the impressions of writers, the testimonies of all those who bring French culture to life in Istanbul.

All these voices are woven into the soundscapes of the city. Nearly a hundred French-speaking, Turkish and French personalities were interviewed to share their knowledge, their experience and their sensitivity, thus testifying to the vitality of Franco-Turkish cultural dialogue in Istanbul.

The choral story of a common heritage

The first season focuses on historical relations between France and Turkey, through emblematic places in the Beyoğlu district, such as the Palais de France. The second season is launched on the occasion of the centenary of the Republic of Turkey in 2023. It discusses the relations between Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and France. It also commemorates the hundred years since the death of Pierre Loti, by exploring the places dear to the travel writer.

The second season opens to the districts of Istanbul. From Beyoğlu to Tarabya, she invites visitor-listeners to go up the Camondo stairs, to meet the teachers and students of the Lycée français Pierre Loti or to delve into the history of the former Summer Residence of the Ambassadors of France. Throughout the neighborhoods, it gives voice to French-speaking institutions and associations, to their projects and initiatives which keep exchanges between our two countries alive.

A sensitive map of the city

From Moda to Etiler, via Galata, visitor-listeners discover the childhood, youth or heart neighborhoods of several French-speakers in Istanbul, whether Turkish or French, in their intimate history, their daily lives, their atmospheres and their living spaces. Like so many sensitive facets of a city where stories and imaginations intersect.

Over the two seasons, nearly a hundred French-speaking, Turkish and French personalities were interviewed to share their knowledge, their experience and their sensitivity, thus testifying to the vitality of the Franco-Turkish cultural dialogue in Istanbul. A third season is currently in preparation.