Welcome, to the Tolkien-verse!
After the success of Rings of Power, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at what the future could hold for Tolkien fans
Rings of Power, Amazon Studios’ ambitious series both in scope and ...
Short film screenings mark International Animation Day
Big or short, the art of films is mesmerising and a day after the world celebrates International Animation Day, a series of short film screenings will take place around the ...
Walks in Limassol aim to acquaint public with art in the town
The first annual Limassol Art Walks will take place in the heart of the old city next weekend, inviting the public to engage with the town’s art spaces and ...
The city becomes the island
There must be something in the autumnal air that calls out to art exhibitions as dozens are opening around the island this season. Limassol art space The Edit Gallery is ...
Art therapy pilot programme for the elderly at Nicosia gallery
The AG Leventis Gallery is piloting an innovative programme on art psychotherapy for the elderly. Running until mid-November, the programme will be carried out encouraging the older generation to come ...
Book sale and coffee at Leventis Museum
October’s third weekend is looking to be a rainy one as autumn begins to make its appearance. Fear not though culture lovers, lots of events are still being planned ...
Harry Potter actor Robbie Coltrane dies aged 72
Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish-born actor who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 72, his agent said on Friday.
Coltrane’s more than four-decade-long ...
Welcoming the United Street Festival
Do we need more events happening in public, open spaces? Always. A new initiative brings the first edition of a festival that aims to fill the streets with creativity and ...
TV Shows We Love: Hollywood
There’s no business like showbusiness, right? TV series Hollywood knows all about that as it follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in a post-World War II Hollywood ...
Parisian women artists exhibiting in Limassol
“Being Parisian is not being born in Paris, it’s being reborn there,” French film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre Sacha Guitry once said, and his ...
Performance takes interactive look at the history of Nicosia building
ReInHerit in Performance: The Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Mansion, coming up at the end of the month, will look at the people who have inhabited the house through the course of history.
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Third Cyprus Cocktail Festival coming up
Party lights, street food and signature cocktails. That is what is in store on Monday as the 3rd Cyprus Cocktail Festival takes over the Nicosia Municipal Gardens. For one night ...
The largest boat show in the Eastern Mediterranean in Limassol
With more than 35,000 local and international visitors expected and over 120 exhibitors from Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Italy, Sweden and the UK, the Limassol Boat Show is set to impress visitors. ...
Restaurant review: Stou Nikola
Usually visitors from abroad will ask where the best places are to go. I’m happy to help but always worry whether or not they will like it. However, this ...
Local film Clementine in cinemas
The 2018 Cypriot film Clementine, directed by Longinos Panagi, is coming to local cinemas this month for a few evenings only. Having won the Best Film Award at the Florence Film ...
All-Armenian piano recital presents Anahit Chaushyan
More live music is coming up this month as the Pharos Arts Foundation presents the compelling Anahit Chaushyan in an enchanting all-Armenian piano recital. Her performance on October 26 aims to ...
Spyros Anastasiou’s debut exhibition at Art Seen
Nicosia gallery Art Seen welcomes a new exhibition at its space this October by hosting Spyros Anastasiou’s first solo show titled The Alchemy of Story Telling. Curated by Maria ...
Nicosia Book Fest returns this week
It is time for the world of literature to take over Acropolis Park and fill it with books and illustrations. Returning for another year, the Nicosia Book Fest is ready ...
‘Murder, She Wrote’ Actress Angela Lansbury dead at age 96
Angela Lansbury, the British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades and produced indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villainesses to sleuths and light comic roles in movies, ...
A weekend full of live music
So what if the summer is almost over? The autumn season in Cyprus seems to be just as busy. With a return to routine and slightly cooler temperatures, the island’...
Secret dinners bring strangers together
Events allow participants to sign up without knowing details. ELENI PHILIPPOU treks out to Vouni to share a taste of the island and conversation with a bunch of international strangers
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Sessions: A programme of queer happenings
A three-month public programme of queer events from live music, poetry, theatre and dance performances to talks, workshops, parties and screenings is arriving this autumn. Over the course of October ...
Book review: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Open Water is a book heavily punctuated by question marks. Over and over again, the unnamed narrator asks ‘… what is a joint? What is a fracture? What is a break?’; ‘...
Poems look at worldwide refugee crisis
The Pharos Arts Foundation presents the Cyprus launch of Anton Floyd’s Depositions – a book of poems themed on the worldwide refugee crisis and population displacement. The event on October 20, ...