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MITOS presents The Neighborhood of Cine Volos Festival
4-9 November 2025
The Center of Performing Arts MITOS presents the second edition of The Neighborhood of Cine Volos Festival, a socially engaged initiative that aspires to create a model of participatory practice and social cohesion.
Its central theme, “The neighbourhood as a living archive,” is explored through the lenses of intergenerational relations, multiculturalism, gender identity, and the absence of Turkish Cypriot voices. By activating collaborations with local residents and organisations, MITOS presents an interdisciplinary programme that highlights the collective memory and vibrant cultural energy of the Cine Volos neighbourhood. Through workshops, hybrid events and partnerships with local bodies, schools and artists, the festival cultivates a sense of belonging, care and collective creation, transforming everyday neighbourhood spaces into places of artistic exchange and shared experience.
Curated by: Elena Agathokleous (Artistic Director, MITOS)
Co-designed by: Constantina Peter (Creative Director, MITOS), Theodoros Kouros (Social Anthropologist), Eleni Pashia (Architect)
In collaboration with: Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology (CUT).
The detailed festival programme:
TUESDAY 4 NOVEMBER
- Workshop: Little Gardeners
With Friends of the Earth at the Antonis & Ino Chatzipavlou Nursery School.
WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER
- 09:30–11:30 | Discussing at kafeneion 1: Small Places, Big Issues
Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
In collaboration with the Department of Communication & Internet Studies, CUT (TEPAK).
- Workshop: Intergenerational Meeting Spaces 1
Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
With Eleni Pashia and the 18th Primary School of Agios Antonios (Antreas Zemenidis, Christina Christophidou, Sotiroula Ierodikonou, Maria Izambella Achilleos, Deha Özkemal, Yianna Rodiki) - 18:30–20:00 | Documentary screening: Anamonés
By Michalis Charalambous, Andri Tsiouti, Giorgos Stylianou, Stefanos Papadas.
Followed by a discussion with Thodoris Kouros, Giorgos Servetas and Giorgos Stylianou in the courtyard of the Social Market of Limassol Municipality.
THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER
- 10:00–11:30 | Roundtable: Experiences from community projects — good practices and challenges
Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
A collaboration between the Association of the Earth, Famagusta Walled City Association MASDER, and MITOS. - 11:30–13:00 | Cooking Workshop “Leymosun Dadlısı (Snails)” with Kiymet Alibey
Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
To register: 97648394. - 19:00–21:00 | Documentary screening: In the Name of the Fatherland by Soula Hadjikyriakou
Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
Moderator: Theodoros Kouros.
Interventions: Loukia Dimitriou and Ioulita Toumazi.
FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER
- Workshop: Intergenerational Meeting Spaces 2
Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
With Eleni Pashia and the 18th Primary School of Agios Antonios (Antreas Zemenidis, Christina Christophidou, Sotiroula Ierodikonou, Maria Izambella Achilleos, Deha Özkemal, Yianna Rodiki).
- 19:00–20:00 | screenings
Cine Volos Park (Filhellinon Square)
Pame Kaimakli @ Cine Volos
By Urban Gorillas in collaboration with People of Cyprus.
Cooking and personal stories
By Interwoven Narratives, directed by Joy of Origins, within Shifting Shores.
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER
- 11:00–12:30 | Discussing at kafeneion 2: “Arkontis & Kiazim”
Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
With Adamos Kombos and Yiannis Pegiotis curated by Ianthi Papadima, with the collaboration of the Limassol Historical Archive. - 16:00–17:30 | Walk “Topographies: The Coffeehouses”
Departure from Cine Volos Park (Filhellinon Square)
With writers Eleni Xenou, Konstantinos Makris, Michalis Papadopoulos, Bambis Anayiotos, and architect Pheidias Pavlidis.
A collaboration between MITOS and Vivliotropio.
To register: 97648394. - 18:00–19:00 | Open Mic — Stories by neighbourhood residents
Social Market of Limassol Municipality Courtyard
SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER
- 10:30–12:30 | Audio documentary & ceramics “The Cinema”
Anagennisi Refugee Association
A collaboration between MITOS and Fosaki.
To register: 97648394.
15:00 – 21:00 acitivities at Cine Volos Park (Philellinon Square)
15:00 – 16:00
Children’s performance I Love the Clouds, by the group KoukloIstories.
16:00 – 18:00
Ceramics workshop for children by Fosaki.
Texture hunting workshop for children with Christos Loizou.
18:00 – 19:30
Songs of Cinema by children of the neighbourhood — 18th Primary School of Agios Antonios, Limassol.
Community Music in Action
By Mousiki Polychromia of the Municipality of Limassol.
Traditional dances
By Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre
The heart of the neighbourhood beats to Roma rhythms
Roma and Friends Association
20:00-21:00
Tombola
with Yolanda Christodoulou
15:00 – 21:00 | stations at Cine Volos Park (Philellinon Square)
- Open Vote: “Generations Speak – share your voice!” coordinated by Eleni Pasia
- Visual intervention: Bad Things Come in Threes by Danae Laou
- Neighbourhood Bazaar
- Screenings of “The Neighbourhood of Cine Volos” by the Department of Communication & Internet Studies, CUT (TEPAK
- Screening “The Story of our Field — and more — from a poet to the children,” and “Neighbourhood of Peace — A Photographic Mission, by the 18th Primary School Agios Antonios
- ‘Laundry’ in the Park — ‘Imprint’ Exhibitions”
by CUT (TEPAK), the 18th Primary School and the Antonis & Ino Chatzipavlou Nursery School.
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Technical Support: Vangelis Koniotis, Sound and Beyond
Production Assistant: Ioanna Lambrou
With the support of
Deputy Ministry of Culture, Limassol Municipality, Program Erasmus +, Program VAHA, The Copy Shop
In collaboration with
Department of Communication & Internet Studies, CUT (TEPAK), Pattihio Multi-Purpose Adult Centre, Friends of the Earth, 18th Primary School of Agios Antonios, Antonis & Ino Chatzipavlou Nursery School, Anagennisi Refugee Association, Roma and Friends Association, Vivliotropio, Urban Gorillas, Multi – Colored Music of Limassol Municipality
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