WORKSHOPS
Pottery workshop
Pottery Workshop | Louiza Konstantinou (CY)
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕗 10:00 – 13:00
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕗 10:00 – 13:00
📍 Pottery workshop ‘gyristari’
This is an experimental introductory pottery workshop. You will have the opportunity to create something of your own with the red traditional clay of Kornos. The workshop will begin with an introduction to the foot-driven wheel (gyristari) and an introduction to traditional Kornos pottery, and then you will be able to experiment and make your own creations.
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I was born in Galata in 1963. I come from a family of potters of Lapithos origin. I have been involved in the pottery of Kornos since 2004 and I have a workshop called “gyristari”.
Participation form (required)
Golden dirt
Golden dirt. | Artemis Theodorou (CY) and Alejandro Villacís (EC)
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕗 10:30-12:30, 14:30-16:00
📍 Kafenion Yiasemi
Through discussions and hands-on activities, we will explore the possibilities and limitations of earth as a building material and come into contact with its tangible and intangible qualities.
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Artemis
I’m an architect interested in putting degrowth into practice. I specialise in earth construction as I see earth as a building material carrying a range of compelling social-ecological remedial possibilities.
Alejandro
I’m a researcher and artisan, working with traditional craft practices. With expertise in natural building, my work unites clay material research and earth-building applications, emphasising on heritage, innovation, and sustainability.
Participation form (required)
“From Kitchens to Bedrooms”: The Domestic Writing Workshop
“From Kitchens to Bedrooms”: The Domestic Writing Workshop | Marilena Zackheos (CY) and Eleni Skarpari (CY/UK)
🗓️ Saturday, 14/10 🕖 11:00-13:00, 14:30-16:30
📍 Kornos Medical Centre
Beginning and experienced prose and poetry writers are called to explore the micro worlds of the everyday and the mundane in their chosen medium in English.
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Eleni Skarpari
I have licensed songs for films, and published short stories and poems in the UK, Spain, France and Cyprus. I currently coach writers online and edit fiction and non-fiction.
Marilena Zackheos
My poems have been translated into Greek, Turkish, Serbian, Albanian, Spanish, and German. I am the author of the full-length book of poetry Carmine Lullabies (A Bookworm Publication 2016).
Participation form (required)
Pottery Workshop
Pottery workshop | Loukia Kaourani and Vasoula Loizou
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕖 09:00-12:00
📍 Potters coop (potters street)
This is an experimental introductory pottery workshop. You will have the opportunity to create something of your own with the red traditional clay of Kornos. The workshop will begin with an introduction to the foot-powered wheel (gyristari) and then you will be able to experiment and make your own creations.
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I am Loukia Kaourani, born in 1959 and I am Vasoula Loizou, born in 1952. We were born in Kornos and we are two of the three remaining potters left in Kornos. We have been making pottery since 2007 and we sustain the tradition and cooperate with the Potters’ Cooperative of Kornos.
Participation form (required)
Upcycling Workshop
Upcycling Workshop | Fashion Heritage Network (FHNC) (CY/UK)
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕖 12:30-14:00, 16:00-17:30
📍 Kafenion Yiasemi
Join us for an interactive upcycling workshop blending Cypriot culture and creativity. Bring an old white t-shirt or tote bag, and our fashion designers will provide Cypriot laces and textiles. Imprint cultural symbols using heat transfer techniques and stencils.
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We are a new pioneering platform that strives to celebrate Cypriot fashion heritage through contemporary sustainable fashion.
Participation form (required)
Cooking Plastic Workshop
Cooking Plastic Workshop | Patricia Harsány (HU)
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕖 15:30-17:30
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 14:30-16:30
📍 TBA
The festival offers 2 types of workshops. The first is a material preparation workshop where the bioplastic material will be cooked by each participant using local waste. The second is an object-making workshop, where participants can make small items, accessories from pre-made bioplastic materials.
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As a contemporary artist based in Budapest, I am strongly interested in the reinterpretation of objects, the topic of sustainability, and the boundaries between art and design.
Participation form (required)
Cultural Heritage and/in the Archive: How, Why, Who, and for Whom?
Cultural Heritage and/in the Archive: How, Why, Who, and for Whom? | bαhçές histories* of Cyprus (CY)
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 11:00-15:00
📍 Kornos Medical Centre
What is lost and silenced when documenting the production of cultural heritage? The bαhçές team will bring together festival participants and local craftswomen for an interactive history workshop. Languages: Greek and English.
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We are an independent public history project, showcasing fresh and exciting perspectives on Cyprus’ past, through webinars and live events, by bringing the audience, scholars, and practitioners together.
Participation form (required)
Threading Kornos Workshop
Threading Kornos Workshop | Saša Nemec (SI)
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 12:30-14:30
📍 Kafeneio Yiasemi
In the workshop we will repair, mend or up-cycle broken pottery, clothing, or anything that might be special to you. We will do it together.
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My artistic practice spans between the exploration of new technologies and the use of age-old techniques, with the aim to observe, preserve and reinterpret cultural heritage.
Participation form (required)
Herb Distillation Workshop
Herb Distillation workshop | Lumina Botanical Gardens (CY)
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 14:00-16:00
📍 Lumina Botanical gardens
Laboratory for distilling herbs and testing essential oils and spirits. It includes a tour and discussion about the herbs, a visit to the distillery where we will see live how the spirit and essence of each herb is created, followed by a test and discussion-information about the uses and properties of the spirits and essential oils. The workshop will offer small gifts for each participant and iced tea.
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We are a small, family-owned business cultivating aromatic and medicinal herbs in Kornos village. Careful care, perseverance, continuous training, passion, love, is our way to transfer the best possible product, not as the final stage of our work but as a start to “share” this experience and “transport “from our land, to your home, inscrutable taste, aromas and fragrances. We cultivate more than 20 different types of herbs, we have our own distillery producing our own essential oils and distillation waters.
Participation form (required)