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You’ve heard of yoga, meditation and chakras but have you heard of QiGong? It is an ancient, traditional exercise originating from China to maintain health and fitness, working from ...

The words ‘risk’ and ‘crisis’ sound all too familiar now, even to non-business or finance people. An upcoming online event by Hellenic Bank in association with Global Training and the ...

How and why does botanical carnivory – the eating of meat – keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need aren’t there… some ...

Do you even remember the last time you went to the theatre or an exhibition? It has probably been a while as cultural institutions have been shut for most of ...

The annual event that celebrates short films will return as the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC) is getting ready for its 11th edition in October. Organisers, the ministry ...

NASA and SpaceX, two very different companies, have come head to head in recent years, but what does this mean for the future of space travel? And more importantly, are ...

It’s what the A.G. Leventis Gallery always aims to do, engage people with art, and they have continued on the journey since even during lockdown. On February 8 museums ...

A new call for applications has been launched for artists and creatives that looks at the struggles and opportunities industry professionals face. Voices of Culture is the structured dialogue between ...

A group of students in Limassol have undertaken to organise a TEDx event on Saturday called TEDxYouth@AgiouAndreou. TED is an organisation that arranges events of back-to-back speakers, each talking ...

Mexico City was built on an ancient lake and gets more rain than London… and yet it’s running out of water. For millions of its poorest residents, getting enough ...

Rhythm, tempo, emotion, passion, all wonderful things produced by music and even more so when you are involved in it somehow. Wanting to bring the delightful world of music closer ...

With intense wildfires and deforestation rapidly increasing, fewer trees are available to absorb carbon dioxide, which cleans the air and reduces the harmful effects of CO2. Some scientists believe genetically-modified ...

Aiming to bridge the gap between separating audience and artists and staging cultural events, the Rialto Theatre will operate a series of live streams in February. In these times of ...

Joe Wells is a practising Catholic who believes his work as a shepherd gives him something of a window into the divine, with each day exposing him to cycles of ...

It is often said that life’s hardships can be a great inspiration for artistic work that expresses and documents difficult situations. Many of the great painters, writers and creatives ...

Hawkmoths are hovering specialists, able to recover remarkably quickly if they are knocked off balance midair. To learn what allows them to be so resilient, scientists have been using high-speed ...

The past year has been hard for the cultural world and the artists, with cancelled or postponed events and artists left jobless for months. In many ways, the arts scene ...

With all the cancelled events and online action there is one physical event that is promising us something to look forward to: Kypria International Festival 2021, scheduled to take place in ...

We have all seen images of bird life affected by spills, how they struggle and try to clear themselves from the contamination. Saving a bird that has been in an ...

“When the dust settles… we all have a story, a song, a poem, a truth in our hearts we want to articulate to the outside world,” says performing arts association ...

Every January well-liked Nicosia beer and burger joint Moondog’s Bar & Grill organises the Nicosia Whiskey Experience, bringing dozens of select whiskeys for enthusiasts to taste. It is usually ...

This video peers down the microscope for a glimpse at how gene-editing could change the world – for better, or worse. Today, a revolution is taking place in science – one that ...

A global annual Polish charity event is being held in Cyprus for the fourth time to raise funds for good causes. The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP) is ...

“As a designer, it was very nerve-wracking to design this thin building. For a 600m building, earthquakes and wind are the toughest weather conditions.” With Japan’s perennial susceptibility to ...