Vintage pop-up experience coming to Nicosia

How about a walk down memory lane? A blast from the past to remember bygone eras? A pop-up experience coming to old Nicosia this Saturday is to open a door to the past and through music, clothes, high tea and a vintage atmosphere take visitors on a trip to decades long since past. All smack-bang in the centre of the city.

Vintage Days is a new event by Gardens of the Future and April 9 will be the first Saturday it will take place. Then, three more Saturday Vintage Days will take place, inviting curious guests to explore both the place and the project and its quirky, vintage set-up.

From 11am to 5pm, visitors will be welcomed into the establishment and the yard of Gardens of the Future to try on classic vintage accessories and clothing pieces that will be up for sale, have them tailored if need be in a velvety changing room and enjoy a high tea with cakes, coffee and other snacks in the garden. Think Alice in Wonderland with a fortune-telling set-up but in an unassuming old house at first glance, down a quiet Nicosia street.

The event aims to be one of many pop-up experiences the Gardens of the Future will host to get the public more engaged in their work and help raise funds to grow the project. Vintage Days hopes to revive vintage cultures and at the same time bring the community together by inviting local traditional professionals of the neighbourhood and the island in general to be a part of it. The tailors for example are women who have been doing the job in old Nicosia for decades.

“Vintage Days is our pop experience you cannot miss,” says Gardens of the Future. “Our experience will take you back to the past and unveil your future!”

Vintage Days

Pop-up experience with vintage clothing, fancy tea in the garden and more. April 9. Gardens of the Future, old Nicosia. 11am-5pm. www.gardensofthefuture.com. Facebook page @enterthegardens