PERFORMANCES
Performative walking tour: Telltales – Marjolein Guldentops
Friday 13/9, 17:30 – 18:20,
Saturday 14/9, 17:00 – 18:00
Starting point: 📍Laiki Geitonia, Kamares, Aristokyprou street, Nicosia
Ending point: Faneromenis square
Marjolein Guldentops (BE) is a visual artist and performer who explores the materiality of language through writing and orality, focusing on communication systems and how people interact with their spatial environment.
Tell Tales is a research project exploring the cultural, historical, and emotional impact of names in old Nicosia, uncovering stories to deepen understanding of identity and place.
Performance: Cordial Encounters – Charlene Galea
Friday 13/9, 18:20 – 18:50
Starting point: 📍Faneromenis square
Ending point: MERES, Pentadaktylou street, Nicosia, 1016
Charlene Galea (MT) is a movement artist who explores physical experiences through wandering and wondering and having conversations with the human and the non-human, blending humour and the knowledge of the now. She is passionate about sharing her adventures in community projects, often presented through live art/photo storytelling.
Cordial Encounters is a collaborative project that exchanges conversations with the locals
about meaningful spaces that they consider to be nurturing or that require to be cared for more. These conversations eventually map Galea’s journey of discovery and reflection. The route starts with her as a solo explorer and intends for her to encounter others along the way.
Choir performance (combined with a sound walk): Chor Choir Choeur – Siedl/Cao
Friday 13/9, 18:50-19:50,
Saturday 14/9, 18:30
📍Melissa confectionery, 82 Aischylou street, Nicosia
Siedl/Cao (AT/VT) is a Vienna-based artist group who work in the field of sound art, transdisciplinary art and contemporary music. They aspire to engage a broad audience, through an inclusive approach. By encouraging participation in a choir, they aim to foster hands-on engagement with art, as they believe that understanding comes from direct experience.
The project, Chor Choir Choeur is an exploration of choir as a process-based and artistic practice that extends beyond its traditional music-making facet. It comprises a collection of new compositions by Siedl/Cao for multiple voices in specific local contexts and media combinations. These compositions are mostly verbal instructions outlining simple concepts, allowing individuals without prior knowledge of music theory or experience in music-making to participate. The overarching aim of Chor Choir Choeur is to construct an architecture that enables the natural unfolding of human expression.
Performance: Chicks in Dialogue – Lindertje Mans
Friday 13/9, 19:50 – 20:30,
Xalamantouro stage
📍MERES, Pentadaktylou street, Nicosia, 1016 (at the car park)
Saturday 14/9, 16:30-17:30
Laiki Geitonia, Kafeneio,
📍Aristokyprou street, shop number 4 Nicosia,
Lindertje Mans (NL) is a performance artist, actress and singer. In her work she tries to embody the more-than-human: to create intimacy with our surroundings and feel less lonely as a human.
Chicks in Dialogue is a personal attempt to connect to a sister-species: the chicken. Lindertje Mans shares what she has learned about chicken language and offers a collective sound practice.
Intervention + gathering (glenti): Nicosia Çiftetellisi – Elli Vassalou
Friday 13/9 20:30
Xalamantouro stage
📍MERES, Pentadaktylou street, Nicosia, 1016 (at the car park)
Elli Vassalou is a Brussels-based transdisciplinary artist, architect and activist. She designs platforms for co-creation, collective knowledge production, and social change.
Nicosia Çiftetellisi is a research project on Çiftetelli as a cross-cultural practice and a tool for collective healing, feminist place-making and queer joy. The project aims to bring together Greek and Turkish Cypriots and diasporas from the east Mediterranean and the SWANA region to share stories, tunes and dances reimagining a common ground. It is an invitation for women and queer people, from all communities of the city, to join a circle of personal storytelling and dance.
It seeks to ask and answer questions such as what is our connection with our bodies and our femininity as displaced/diasporic people? How can we create a brave space for embodied memory, joy, vulnerability, and empathy through the practice of Çiftetelli and other oriental dances? Can a dance contribute to our sense of belonging and cultivate a cross-cultural Cypriotness?
Performance: Tahini Molasses
Friday 13/9, 23:00
Xalamantouro stage
📍MERES, Pentadaktylou street, Nicosia, 1016 (at the car park)
Tahini Molasses is a Cypriot performer, artist and musician whose work engages with themes of history, nostalgia and queerness. By reinterpreting traditional songs and symbolism from a queer perspective and blending electronic music with makam sounds, they aim to expand representation within the region’s cultural memory and imagination.
Performance: Whatever: collective practices of indiscriminate care – Zachary Schoenhut
Saturday 14/9, 18:00-19:00
Laiki Geitonia, Kafeneio
📍Aristokyprou street, shop number 4 Nicosia
Zachary Schoenhut (US/BE) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose creative practice stems from an interest in group dynamics, collaborative processes, and unlearning.
Whatever: collective practices of indiscriminate care is a social project interested in considering micro-moments of generosity and entanglement in everyday life that complicate societal categories of difference.
Performance: T.C. (Take Care) – Arianna Marcoulides
Sunday 15/9, 19:30 – 20:15, 20:45 – 21:30
Tailor shop Marios
📍Taylor LTD, Aischylou 57Β, Nicosia
T.C. is a handcraft inspired solo dance performance created by Arianna Marcoulides. She learned her skills from her mother and will be reminiscing, processing and transmitting those memories of learning through movement, storytelling and interactions with the audience.
Arianna Marcoulides is a performer and maker of both performative works based on dance, improvisation and singing as well as fabrication work such as sewing, embroidery and crochet.
Participatory performance: The Healing Garden – Xinyi Zhang
Sunday 15/9, 14:00-16:00
*The SPA of the Century
Point 5
📍Pentadaktylou street, 16, Nicosia
Xinyi Zhang (US) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with painting, new media and digital technologies. She creates visual and sensory works that channel nature’s energies to inspire personal and collective healing.
Her project, The Healing Garden, explores the potential for community-activated sacred spaces to foster positive change through creative imagination, aided by technology.
Sound performance: Healscapes of Forgotten Sounds – Dimitris Savva
Sunday 15/9, 16:00
*The SPA of the Century
Point 5
📍Pentadaktylou street, 16, Nicosia
Dimitris Savva (CY) is an electroacoustic music composer and live-electronics performer based in Limassol. Healscapes of Forgotten Sounds is a live-electronics performance that merges sounds from various objects with electronic processing to create contemporary and unconventional healing soundscapes.
Participatory performance: Karma Accelerator – Alice Consigli
Sunday 15/9, 21:30
*The SPA of the Century
Point 5
📍Pentadaktylou street, 16, Nicosia
Alice Consigli (IT) is a dancer and researcher; her work focuses on relations among people, places and parts of ourselves. She uses tools from dance, anthropology and writing to understand collective dynamics and initiate possibilities of change.
The project Karma Accelerator dives into the city’s lives, listening to their whispers and
reading the notes they fold into our palms. It invites them to share their
sorrows and witness their transformation into something new.