Creative guide to a GREAT city
The inaugural GREAT Festival of Creativity rolls into Istanbul next week (20-22 May at SEED ), showcasing innovative ideas in a wide range of fields -- from fashion and design to technology and education to food and drink. The festival, which travels next to Hong Kong and Shanghai, is part of the British Prime Ministry's GREAT campaign, an ongoing drive to promote Britain abroad as a place to visit and do business. To further inspire the "cross-section of creative and commercial Britain" visiting Istanbul for the event, I contributed pithy write-ups of galleries, restaurants, shops and other spots across the city to the GREAT Festival Guide to Creative Istanbul , an online "directory of all that's creative and unusual in one of the world's GREAT cities."