Mandarin Festival returns to Arakapas
The start of the year is a place of in-betweens. The festive days are behind us, and the spring celebrations and carnival fiestas are yet to come. Thankfully, there is ...
TV shows we love: Death Note
Few non-Western shows have become as iconic as Death Note. Some 20 years after its release, it has numerous adaptations, from live-action films to spinoffs and video games. It is certainly ...
Ayia Napa’s Thursday nights fill with dance and music
This January, Ayia Napa’s Winter Cultural Events Programme Cultural Winter 2025–2026 returns to fill Thursday nights with live entertainment. Dance performances and live music nights bring evenings of jazz, tradition ...
What’s on this weekend
What does this weekend behold? Winter swimming, cabaret shows, carboot sales, live music, children’s theatre, cinema nights that place the spotlight on Cypriot films, exhibitions and events that ditch ...
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Saturday events to celebrate Cyprus Museum cancelled
Nicosia’s beloved and acclaimed Cyprus Museum has cancelled a planned day of celebrations for its antiquity collections and on the occasion of Cyprus assuming the Presidency of the Council ...
Restaurant review: Great spot for artisanal breakfast
We were staying in Lefkara village and had deliberately decided not to set alarms or rush ourselves in the morning. No early breakfast, no hotel buffet, just a proper lie-in ...
music
New venue welcomes live music
Aradippou has a new venue for art and music: Gallery Sessions. In a space surrounded by paintings and art, a new series of live music nights has been bringing together ...
music
The Gipsy Kings in Cyprus this summer
It may be months ahead, yet an exciting summer concert is coming to Cyprus in 2026. The world-renowned band The Gipsy Kings will perform live in Limassol this July, as part ...
art
What If exhibition opens in Larnaca
Larnaca cultural centre Obiimy is getting ready to host the opening of the solo exhibition What If, by artist Ilan Vigo. The organisers first became acquainted with Vigo’s work ...
music
Renowned pianist Vitaly Pisarenko returns to Cyprus
World-acclaimed pianist Vitaly Pisarenko returns to Cyprus to mark the opening of the Pharos Arts Foundation 2026 season with a special recital for Nicosia’s music scene. Masterpieces from composers Schubert, ...
Book review: Where is AI leading us?
By Philippa Tracy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) entered the zeitgeist a while ago. And while Bruce Holsinger’s Culpability plays out as a family drama, it is essentially about the ethics ...
art
New Nicosia exhibition explores memory
What’s in a memory? Two artists seek to find out as they present a new Nicosia exhibition exploring memory as a living, fragile, and constantly shifting experience. Stephanos Philippou ...
music
Two acclaimed artists join CySO for next concerts
Mid-January, and yes, that’s next week already, brings two classical music evenings to Limassol and Nicosia. Behind them is, of course, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, which welcomes two internationally-acclaimed ...
The most unfairly hated TV characters
We love television for many reasons, but the biggest one is escapism and comfort. TV is a controlled environment, whereas real life is chaos. Anything can happen at any moment, ...
art
The promise that remains
Four women artists who are part of the Beauty Line Art Foundation’s inaugural residency programme are getting ready to present the Foundation’s first exhibition, titled The Promise that ...
‘One Battle,’ ‘Hamnet’ claim top trophies at Hollywood’s Golden Globes ceremony
Dark comedy “One Battle After Another” and “Hamnet,” a story about William Shakespeare’s grief over the death of his son, claimed the top prizes on Sunday at the Golden ...
Cultural events thrive as Cyprus assumes EU Presidency
For the next six months, Cyprus leads the Council of the European Union, and it is the perfect opportunity to showcase the country’s local talents, traditions and contemporary art ...
F*ck the Small Talk: a new social experience in Cyprus
No, this is not another networking event, speed dating soiree or game night. It is a one-of-a-kind social experience that brings together strangers through a curiosity to engage in meaningful ...
theatre
Children’s performance brings 3D holograms to Larnaca
An exciting family performance by Theatro Piccolo is coming to Larnaca for one night only, bringing a 3D hologram to the stage for the first time. The Once Upon…a ...
Behind-the-scenes exhibition wraps up International Nicosia Festival
What happens in the few minutes before an artist steps onto the stage? And what remains on their face and body immediately after the final bow, when the performance has ...
film
Five Cypriot films to be screened
It is not so often that we get to report on suburban movie nights in Cyprus, yet the Fridays of this January bring something special. The Akropol Lympia Cinema-Theatre collaborates ...
TV shows we love: 1670
The Polish Netflix series 1670 is a mockumentary-style satire that follows the feuds and misadventures of a noble family in the 17th-century village of Adamczycha, in what was then the Polish-Lithuanian ...
What’s on this weekend
This weekend, get ready for Broadway musicals, tributes to Michael Jackson, choir performances, bazaars and exhibitions. Events are happening all around the island, and we have collected some of the ...
music
Three live jazz evenings this week in downtown Nicosia
Celebrating its new location in downtown Nicosia (Phaneromenis Street), Sarah’s Jazz & Blues Club has a packed month this January. Starting this Thursday, the Marios Toumbas Trio will perform ...
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