We are super proud and delighted to be the first organisation in Cyprus to receive the prestigious Commonwealth Foundation grant! Our project proposal for MAPS: Mobile ‘Agora’ for Participatory Spaces has been one of the 17 projects accepted for funding -out of over 780 applications- and a new project is about to begin! A few …
As part of a new initiative, we started collecting information about visions of the citizens regarding living in urban environments in Cyprus. We are excited to examine and analyse the needs of the citizens, and create a database which we consider as vital information for the shaping of our cities. *The first data collection took …
We are inviting you to join our upcoming ‘Peace Lab’ event which will be organised with the support of UNFICYP – United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus and the artist Nurtane Karagil The event will take place on November 6th 2022 in Famagusta. Transportation will be offered from our organisation and will be free of …
Veronika Antoniou and Yiorgos Hadjichristou presented their ongoing research on Urban gorillas at the 5th Shukuma Mzansi! SA-EU Dialogue Democracy in Culture II Conference hosted by theSibikwa Arts Centre in partnership with the SA-EU Strategic Partnership – and other African associations. The presentation and discussion was in the panel Cultural Policy and Practise Case studies, from an all-society perspective presenting case …
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Veronika Antoniou has presented her ongoing research based on the work of Urban Gorillas entitled “Activating Neighborhoods through Ephemeral Actions” at the APRU Sustainable Cities & Landscapes Hub 5th Conference/ University of Hawai’i at Manoa held in September 7-9, 2002. The work was placed under the working group Civic Engagement and Community Design led by Jeffrey Hou. …
The Urban Gorillas team is in Finland within the framework of the Erasmus project ‘Creative placemaking – the path to active European Citizenship’. With us is the local Finnish partner Suomen Kulttuuriperintökasvatusken Seura (Finish Association of Cultural Heritage) and the coordinating team is KA-MATRIX from Croatia. Together we are planning to build a common participatory …
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‘Travel Dairies’ is a new project which will consist of a series of narratives: urban and rural landscapes which will take place in Kaimakli. The first travel diary event is scheduled for next Sunday, September 11, where the Christoforou/Hatzichristou family, following their trip to Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, will share with the attendees thoughts and …
Pame Kaimakli Festival is an annual community event that aims to explore ideas of publicness, co-creation and community engagement through creative interventions with the collaboration of residents and artists. This year’s festival took place in Kaimakli, Nicosia between the 4th and the 13th of July 2022 and preparatory workshops throughout the month of June 2022. …
#tomboλα – Interactive Performance by the Theatre Group ‘Yasemin’ Within the framework of the festival, the ‘Yasemin’ group invited the residents of Kaimakli, those who love Kaimakli or those who want to discover it, to participate in the interactive performance #tomboλα which was held at the coffee shop ‘I plateia’ that is located in the …
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Theatre performance ‘The last of the days’ Within the framework of the festival, the ‘Eidekanou Theatre group’ presented the documentary performance ‘The last of the days’ (in greek; ‘Οι τελευταίες των ημερών’). The documentary performance “The Last of the Days” revolves around the biographies of the two actors’ grandmothers in an attempt to revive parts …
