the NEIGHBORHOOD of CINE VOLOS | festival
The Center of Performing Arts MITOS presents the first edition of the festival the NEIGHBORHOOD of CINE VOLOS on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of October in Limassol. The festival is a platform that tests interdisciplinary practices of social gathering and engagement, that empowers the creation of ‘meeting places’ through art and culture.
This year’s primary goal is to record and collect oral stories, photographs and other information related to the neighborhood. This material will contribute to the creation of an archive, the first Archive of Neighborhood Stories. MITOS, designing a sustainable strategy for the festival, has invited an interdisciplinary and inter-artistic network of partners to implement the pre-festival activities, the three-day festival and the post-festival activities.
The three-day festival THE NEIGHBORHOOD of CINE VOLOS is open to local residents and other visitors, includes free entertaining and participatory events, activates and connects the existing infrastructures such as: the park of Cine Volos, the Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center, the yard of Limassol’s Municipality Food Bank, the parking space of Sklavenitis supermarket.
This particular district was named after the cinema Cine Volos, built by the businessman Antonis Volos, (having as the architect Fotis Kolakidis), and operated with a winter and summer theater from 1950 to 1985. The first residents came mainly from Paphos and Limassol’s province and their arrival is linked to the industrial development of the Tsiflikoudia area. Later on the subsequent population arrivals had a refugee and immigrant origin, while today the regeneration of the western areas of the city and urban planning changes have brought new dynamics to the neighborhood and even more narratives.
The curator of the festival is Elena Agathokleous in co-design with Constantina Peter, Thodoris Kouros and Eleni Pashia. It is implemented in collaboration with the Department of Communication and Media Studies of CUT.
Partners: CUT Department of Communication and Media Studies, Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center, Limassol Film Club, Euro-Arab Youth Music Center
Sponsors: OPAP, Municipality of Limassol, Lemesos 2030, the Copy shop, Forest park, Sklavenitis, Loel
Media Sponsors: RIK, Limassol Today
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY October 25
16:00 – 18:00
start: “Ploutis Servas” municipal apartment buildings
registration required
Architectural tour at the quartier of Cine Volos walk
the architect Phidias Pavlides reveals historical, sociological and architectural information about the neighborhood.
Ιn collaboration with Lemesos 2030
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19:00 – 21:00
Sclavenitis parking space
Revival of the summer cinema Cine Volos screenings
Peace is… (4′)
video clip of students of the multicultural 18th Elementary School of Agios Antonios
My Daughter the Socialist (94′)
Screening of the musical, romantic, comedy film by Alekos Sakellarios starring Aliki Vougiouklaki. Language Greek, with English subtitles.
In collaboration with Limassol Film Club
SATURDAY October 26
11:00 – 13:00
Start: Anagennisis park
registration required
At Tourkomahallas walk
guided by Maro Georgiou and accompanied by the poet Gürgenç Korkmazel we walk through Ismet Pasha.
Recollections of the Past from the Turkish Quarter of Limassol meeting
discussion and coffee with the professor of Turkish Studies of the University of Cyprus, Ahmet Yikik.
With the support of Lemesos 2030
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15:00 – 17:00
Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center
registration required
“The Glove” shadow theater performance and workshop
Angela Stavrou and Maria Markou present the dramatized version of the folk tale (+3) and then they are offering a shadow theater workshop for children (+5).
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17:30-18:15
Limassol’s Municipality Food Bank
open mic, stories from the archive
the performers Nektarios Theodorou and Loukia Pieridou curate and read some of the first stories recorded in the Neighborhood Archive.
In collaboration with Euro – Arab Youth Music Center in the frame of “ Enhancing Structures for Intercultural Integration in Cyprus” project funded by the Council of Europe and EU.
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19:00-20:30
park Cine Volos
(across Filellinon Street)
tombola
the actress Yiolanda Christodoulou is inviting all of us to join her in two games of bingo with prices.
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Parallel Event
Vinegar Factory
18:00 – 21:00
LIQUID HOT MESS performance / installation
Nicola Mitropoulou, Antonia Kattou, Clara Zinecker & more create a visual interactive space for the waterscapes of Limassol. As part of the artistic residency programme theYard.Residency.24
SUNDAY
October 27
11:00 – 15:00
Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center
a peculiar symposium, intergenerational meeting places
11:00 – 12:30
The neighborhood kids presentation
students of the multicultural 18th Elementary School (Agios Antonios) present how they interact with their neighborhood and the city through their various projects.
“Fonias” reading
the writer Marios Agathokleous, local resident of the area, reads a story he wrote for his grandchildren.
Discussion
networks and experiences from the neighborhood. With the teacher Maria Isabella Achilleos and the social worker Chrystalla Hatziantoni
13:00-15:00
Participatory meal
Don’t stay home for Sunday’s lunch. Take your food and join us to eat together with the sound of music.
15:00 – 15:45
park Cine Volos
(across Filellinon Street)
Mormolis children’s show
the theater group KOUKLO istories presents the work of Rainer Hachfeld directed by Loukia Antoniou.
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16:00 – 17:30
park cine volos
(across Filellinon Street)
Interactive pottery workshop
Ioannis Nestoras leads us to create a cup or another vessel with clay.
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16:00 – 18:00
Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center
Ηow’s Claire? documentary (80′)
Vaya’s immersion in dementia turns the relationship with her daughter into a daily ritual of care.. Directed by Chrysa Tselepi. Language Greek, with English subtitles.
Discussion
coordinated by clinical psychologist – gerontologist Zoi Mitrouska.
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18:00 – 19:00
park Cine Volos
(across Filellinon Street)
Ethno Cyprus 2024 jam session music gathering
twenty-five young men and women from Cyprus, Belgium, Croatia, Lebanon and Jordan exchange musical experiences and traditions.
In collaboration with Euro – Arab Youth Music Center in the frame of “ Enhancing Structures for Intercultural Integration in Cyprus” project funded by the Council of Europe and EU.
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All days
park Cine Volos
(across Filellinon Street)
16:00 – 19:00
1st station: collection of photos and stories
an invitation to new and former residents of the area to contribute in the neighborhood’s archive with a story or a photo.
2nd station: “Are you a woman? Come and vote!”
are you a woman Come and vote for your favorite ideas of what you would like an empowering space for the women of our neighborhood to look like. Don’t like any? Write us yours!!
16:00 – 21:00
3rd station: neighborhood’s evidence exhibition
students of the Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Communication and Media Studies share a sample from their collection of stories and material from the neighborhood’s archive.
19:00-21:00
4th station: Intercom (Thirotilephono) installation
the festival adopts the artist Maria Kyriakou, who creates a video collage with images of exterior – interior spaces and personal objects.
Free Entrance
registration where needed at 99 962686
team of the festival
curator, design: Elena Agathokleous
co-designers: Constantina Peter, Thodoris Kouros, Eleni Pashia
project manager: Constantina Peter
production assistant: Vangelis Koniotis
technical support: Martinos Thalassetis
graphic design: Christos Georgiou
production center of performing arts MITOS