CINE VOLOS | MITOS Centre of Performing Arts

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.

TIME & DATE

DAY	TIME	LOCATION	PROGRAME


FRIDAY October 25	16:00 – 17:30	park Cine Volos	Interactive pottery workshop

	13:00-15:00		Participatory meal
	19:00 – 21:00		Peace is… (4′)
	19:00 – 21:00		My Daughter the Socialist (94′)
25/10/2024	16:00 – 18:00	park Cine Volos	“Ploutis Servas” municipal apartment buildings
25/10/2024	19:00 – 21:00	Sclavenitis parking space	Revival of the summer cinema Cine Volos screenings
25/10/2024			Peace is… (4′)
25/10/2024			My Daughter the Socialist (94′)
26/10/2024	11:00 – 13:00	Anagennisis park	Tourkomahallas walk
26/10/2024	11:00 – 13:00	Anagennisis park	Recollections of the Past from the Turkish Quarter of Limassol meeting
26/10/2024	15:00 – 17:00	Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center	“The Glove” shadow theater performance and workshop
26/10/2024	17:30-18:15	Limassol’s Municipality Food Bank	open mic, stories from the archive
26/10/2024	19:00-20:30	park Cine Volos	tombola
26/10/2024	18:00 – 21:00	Vinegar Factory	LIQUID HOT MESS performance / installation
27/10/2024	11:00 – 15:00	Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center	A peculiar symposium, intergenerational meeting places
27/10/2024	11:00 – 12:30		The neighborhood kids presentation
27/10/2024	11:00 – 12:30		“Fonias” reading
27/10/2024	15:00 – 15:45	park Cine Volos	Mormolis children’s show
27/10/2024	11:00 – 12:30		Participatory meal
27/10/2024	16:00 – 17:30	park Cine Volos	Interactive pottery workshop
27/10/2024	16:00 – 18:00	Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center	Ηow’s Claire? documentary (80′) Discussion coordinated by clinical psychologist – gerontologist Zoi Mitrouska.
27/10/2024	16:00 – 18:00	Pattichio Αdults Day Care Center	Discussion coordinated by Zoi Mitrouska.

27/10/2024	18:00 – 19:00	park Cine Volos	Ethno Cyprus 2024 jam session music gathering

INFORMATION

RUNNING TIME

16:00 – 19:00, until Sunday, October 27.

ACCESIBILITY

On Saturday, October 5, from 20:00 until 22:00, the performance will be presented with simultaneous interpretation in Greek Sign Language.
To reserve tickets for this service, please contact infotickets@onassis.org or call 2130178036.

LANGUAGE

The performance is in Greek without English surtitles.

LOCATION

park Cine Volos

(across Filellinon Street)

STATIONS

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.

Celebrating memory, community, and creativity, the Neighborhood of Cine Volos festival transforms shared spaces into meeting places—gathering voices, images, and stories to build the first Archive of Neighborhood Stories. Through art and collaboration, we reconnect with the past and imagine the future of our neighborhood together.

Old Vinegar Factory is the base of the Centre and the main point of the Theater group MITOS activities. In addition of the annual artistic activities established by the Centre, the Old Vinegar Factory is connected with the actions of MITOS group, as most theater productions were born and developed inside the space.

DIRECTORS' NOTE

The ground floor building with the number 34, on Genethliou Mitella pedestrian road, is the official house for the Center of Performing Arts MITOS. It belongs to the historical area of Limassol, near the Medieval Castle and is surrounded by the traditional neighborhood. The building’s architecture is of interest as it is stone built with big arches in its interior, enlisting it in the conservation buildings of the area.

During the whole almost of the 20th century it was a traditional factory for manufacturing brandy at first, and later of vinegar, known in Lemesos as “Argyride’s Vinegars”. Today the space is limited to 120sqm, though in the past to serve the needs of the factory it communicated with chambers of the neighboring buildings.

In 2007 it becomes the official house of MITOS and in memory of its past it is named in Greek as Palio Ksidadiko, meaning the old vinegar factory. It is then gradually restored to turn into a contemporary art space bearing its own equipment and holding onto its traditional aesthetic. Its architecture, the energy, the amazing acoustics and the function of the empty space turn the Old Vinegar Factory into a land field of unlimited artistic choices and potentials.Theater and dance performances, live music, projections, readings, art installations and exhibitions, seminars, workshops, symposiums and many other activities have found their “home” inside the space. Old Vinegar Factory as a residency space is open to various artists and groups from all art disciplines, to organizations and institutions of Cyprus and abroad.