Music and theatre around Nicosia
The Summer Nights 2021 series of events has been providing weekly theatre, music and art performances in the capital for yet another summer thanks to the Nicosia municipality. And we all ...
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Amathus – Old Limassol exhibition travels to Ayia Napa
Andreas Efesopoulos’ exhibition titled Amathus – Old Limassol has been travelling around the island finding temporary homes in various galleries since the beginning of the summer. It is now on the ...
Worldwide read for pandemic losses
The International Literature Festival Berlin has been organising an annual international Worldwide read for a few years. This year, the reading has reached Cyprus too and is intended to commemorate ...
New month of live music starts at Technopolis 20
The live music evenings continue at Technopolis 20 in September as more established, local musicians perform in the charming garden of the Paphos venue.
Opening the events on Friday is a ...
Third edition of Cyprus Accordion Festival to be held in September
Concerts, seminars and workshops are coming up in the 3rd Cyprus Accordion Festival, set to take place in Ayios Theodoros, Larnaca this September. Music lovers, accordion enthusiasts, professionals and amateurs, ...
Dionysis Savvopoulos in concert this October
Prominent Greek singer and songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos is coming to Cyprus this October for two free concerts celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution.
Titled Oh, Greece I Love ...
Piano concert presents Autumn sounds
It may not be autumn yet, it certainly doesn’t feel like it with these sizzling temperatures, yet a piano recital that arrives in mid-September will bring Autumn Sounds. Young ...
The Animattikon Project 2021 arrives this September
The fourth edition of the international animation festival the Animattikon Project will bring Paphos to life next week with a series of activities and events dedicated to the art of ...
Upcoming reggae, jazz and soul performances
Keeping the island’s live music scene going, three tuneful evenings are coming up. On Saturday on the outskirts of Nicosia, DJ Haji Mike will bring his Reggae World to ...
Getting to know the People of Phaneromeni
Each neighbourhood has its characters that make up the life and the tales of the area. There might be a man who feeds the stray cats, the coffee shop owner, ...
Two Tenors at The Knight’s Courtyard
The upcoming concert on Friday at the Knight’s Courtyard at the Cyprus Wine Museum is set to be a unique event. Surrounded by trees and the stone-built museum as ...
Connection through a drum circle in nature
The djembe, one of West Africa’s best-known instruments, has become popular across the world and Cyprus doesn’t fall far behind. At many of the corners of the island, ...
Upcoming workshop teaches all about beeswax ointment
It may not be a bee’s life but it’s certainly a bee’s world that we are living in as thanks to these insects we can enjoy honey, ...
Rumba, jazz and rock live music this weekend
As many of us return home from vacation, musicians too return to the stage after a brief break during the August holidays. Now, that’s not to say that the ...
Indian festival celebrates Lord Ganesh
One of the most important festivals celebrated throughout India is arriving in Cyprus this September as Sanskriti, a Cyprus-based non-profit organisation that celebrates Indian culture and heritage, brings the Ganeshotsav ...
Upcoming performance brings disruption in dance
The non-profit dance company DanceCyprus has been supporting professional choreographers and dancers for the last 15 years and through productions and performances it has contributed greatly to the island’s cultural ...
Performance portrays local identity
Understanding identity can be a complex thing as it is influenced by so many factors: history, expression, folklore tales, language and culture are but a few and seeking to understand ...
An evening of dirty comedy
It’s time for some good ol’ spicy comedy, and when Australian comedian Elena Gabrielle comes to the island, you can be sure of that. Two fun evenings filled with ...
Festival defies the virus gloom
Kypria International Festival 2021 returns dedicated to its founder, the later education minister Claire Angelidou
“The arts are an inexhaustible wellspring that makes the world a better place,” says Andy Bargilly, ...
Xarkis Festival 2021 calls for volunteers
Xarkis Festival returns this year though not during the summer months like its previous editions but in the autumn. The 2021 festival will take place on October 15, 16 and 17, with a Multi-Residency ...
Crude Iron: world premiere of Andy Skordis’ opera
Andy Skordis’ opera Crude Iron will have its world premiere at the upcoming Kypria Festival 2021 this September in a highly anticipated performance that is a co-production of the international festival ...
Antiskino open-air theatre festival is back
“The pandemic didn’t come to teach us about vaccines, viruses, transmissions and to alienate us,” says the Antiskino festival team. “It arrived and brought us closer, amplified our love ...
Poems for peace
Over the years, we have developed many symbols for peace – the olive branch, a white dove, the index and middle finger held up together and the list goes on. When ...
Talking about spaces of reconciliation
The documentary film Spaces of Reconciliation: Youth Interaction through Art in the City, by Mete Hatay of PRIO Cyprus Centre and independent director Orhan Eskiköy, follows Cypriot artists as ...