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December 2014 Contents CyprusTODAY Volume LII, No 4, October - December 2014 Contents Editorial ..........................................................................................2 Axiothea Festival ...........................................................................3 KYPRIA .......................................................................................18 Goddess Aphrodite ......................................................................24 Stelios Votsis ................................................................................28 Perfume of Cyprus ......................................................................29 Treasure Island .............................................................................30 Cyprus at the turn of the 20th ......................................................35 Glyn Hughes ................................................................................37 Digital Corpus ..............................................................................38 Unknown history .........................................................................40 Europa Nostra ..............................................................................50 Arshak Sarkissian ........................................................................51 I am not the cancer ......................................................................54 Soprano Tereza Gevorgyan ........................................................58 This is Italy ...................................................................................59 Short Matters ...............................................................................60 Volume LII, No 4, October-December 2014 A quarterly cultural review of the Ministry of Education and Editorial Assistance: Culture published and distributed by the Press and Information Natassa Haratsis-Avraamides Office (PIO), Ministry of Interior, Nicosia, Cyprus. [email protected] Press and Information Office Address: Michaela Mobley Ministry of Education and Culture [email protected] Kimonos & Thoukydides Corner, 1434 Nicosia, Cyprus Website: http://www.moec.gov.cy Design: GNORA COMMUNICATION CONSULTANTS Press and Information Office Printed by: Printco Ltd Apellis Street, 1456 Nicosia, Cyprus Website: http://www.moi.gov.cy/pio Front cover: Scene from Homer’s Iliad, directed by EDITORIAL BOARD Stathis Livathinos, which was performed at KYPRIA 2014 Chairperson: International Festival Pavlos Paraskevas, Back cover: Exhibit from the photography exhibition Cyprus Director of Cultural Services, at the turn of the 20th century by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Ministry of Education and Culture Foundation and the Historical and Ethnological Society of Chief Editor: Greece Jacqueline Agathocleous [email protected] GNORA COMMUNICATION CONSULTANTS PIO 238/2014 - 7.000 (website: www.gnora.com) ISSN (print) 0045-9429 Tel: +357 22441922 Fax: +357 22519743 ISSN (online) 1986-2547 Subscription Note: For free subscriptions please contact: [email protected]. Cyprus Today is also available in electronic form and can be sent to you if you provide your e-mail. If you no longer wish to receive the magazine, in either print or electronic form, or if you have changed your address, please let us know at the above e-mail address. Please include your current address for easy reference. Editor’s Note: Articles in this magazine may be freely quoted or reproduced provided that proper acknowledgement and credit is given to Cyprus Today and the authors (for signed articles). The sale or other commercial exploitation of this publication or part of it is strictly prohibited. Disclaimer: Views expressed in the signed articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the publishers. The magazine can also be found on the Press and Information Office website at www.pio.gov.cy. Editorial his issue of Cyprus Today starts off with the University of Cyprus’ annual Cultural TFestival, which took place in September and October at the beautiful Axiothea Mansion. Audiences got the chance to enjoy a multitude of performances, concerts and workshops – to name but a few items – all under the theme of the day, which was poetry! Following on is KYPRIA 2014 International Festival, with its performances based on older and newer texts or musical works which certainly did not disappoint. Festival-goers were spoilt for choice, with options including Homer’s Iliad, the CTO’s Constellations and the very popular comedy Oi fonisses tis Papadiamanti – among others. Cyprus Today was saddened to hear of the untimely death of visual artist Glyn Hughes on 23 October 2014. Our issue takes a look back at this important artist’s work. Another great Treasure Island artist who left us suddenly in 2012, Stelios Votsis, was honoured by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture in cooperation with his family with a retrospective exhibition of his work, entitled Remembering Stelios Votsis – An Artistic Overview. Our issue also features the documentary The Great Goddess of Cyprus, Cypriot director Stavros Papageorghiou’s film about the Greek Goddess Aphrodite. Unknown History In other interesting topics covered in this issue, the Cyprus Institute presented its Ancient Cypriot Literature Digital Corpus, a digitised record of the island’s ancient history, while the Cypriot Home of Cooperation won the Europa Nostra Award for cultural heritage. And of course, there is a variety of exhibitions to choose from: The moving I am not the cancer installation, which toured several countries and arrived in Cyprus for two days in November, attempting to sensitise viewers to the inner struggles of advanced breast cancer th sufferers. Readers will also be touched by the Unknown History exhibition held at the Short Matters 17 University of Cyprus Cultural Festival Pancyprian Gymnasium Museums, which tells the story of the Jewish Holocaust survivors’ final stop in Cyprus on their way to the land of Israel. Other proceedings reviewed include the exhibition project Treasure Island featuring visual works, performances, public debates and events selected through an Open Call; the photography exhibition Cyprus at the turn of the 20th century; and Armenian artist Arshak Sarkissian’s art exhibition The Week of Madness. Kypria 2 3 17th University of Cyprus Cultural Festival he beautiful Axiothea Mansion in Old Nicosia only in our small province but also elsewhere. So Tonce again hosted the University of Cyprus’ are great poems, which in one way or another have annual Cultural Festival from 6 September to 12 determined the character of a “poetic territory”. October 2014. Our “poetic territory”, the territory of Modern Greek poetry is small in its geographic scope Of Love and Death (compared to the “poetic territories” of the major languages). However, it is vast in its genre diversity By Michalis Pieris (16 May, 2014) and depth. Its origins date back to the 12th-15th Of Love and Death is the title and theme of an century, it reaches its Renaissance peak in the 16th anthology of Modern Greek poetry, proven in time, and 17th century (the Anonymous Cypriot poet, which the Theatrical Workshop of the University Georgios Chortatsis, Vitsentzos Kornaros), while of Cyprus presented in Kastelliotissa in April this in the 19th and 20th century it achieves international year, partly as a reaction to the conventional global recognition, culminating in two Nobel prizes day of poetry. An “Anniversary” established by government decree that gives any aspiring poet (George Seferis, Odysseas Elytis) and many the opportunity to assume that it is time for him other important distinctions: International interest to be honoured by poetry rather than to honour in the revival of the Delphic Festival, inspired poetry. This explains why major poets who are and spurred by Angelos Sikelianos; Lenin Peace considered milestones on the evolutionary path Prize for Ritsos; international acknowledgment of a national poetic tradition are often absent from of modern Greek literature thanks to Kazantzakis most of the events organised on this occasion, not and Cavafy. Cavafis by THEPAK A Strange World 4 5 different schools, are not just musicians. Because Menelaou (violin) and Nikolas Alessandro Dante Production manager, assistant director: Stamatia they do not bring to stage already-established (violin), accompanied by Jana Drhova on the Laoumtzi forms of art, either their own or created by others, piano, contribute with their talent, expertise and Cast: The Chorus of Old Men and the Chorus of but are true artists who toil on the threshing field love for classical music as teachers at the Music Women features all the members of THEPAK, of genuine creation as if they begin from scratch Talent Development Programme of the Ministry while the major roles in this year’s performances are each and every time. As if they seek recognition of Education and Culture. They prepared this played by: Lysistrata: Christina Pieri Magistrate: and relive the experiences that form the essence of unique programme especially for the audience of Dimitris Pitsilis, Myrrhine: Myria Hadjimatthaiou, their art over and over again. Axiothea to give a taste of their high art, but also Cinesias: Stavros Aroditis, Coryphaeus of Old That is why they are not just musicians but poets in to “pave the way” for their students, the talented Men: Michalis Yangou, Coryphaeus of Women: the original Ancient Greek sense of the word, i.e. children of the Cyprus Young Strings Soloists Eftychia Georgiou, Lampito:
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