A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival’s main theme revolved around the topic of food as a socio-cultural, artistic and placemaking activity. Overall the festival*, initiated two, two-month long workshops, three theatrical performances, two film screenings, …
Within the framework of A Delicious Place activity and the celebration of different notions of food, Urban Gorillas have collaborated with the local cultural space in Kaimakli, Thalami for the organisation of food workshops. Two tagliatelle workshops were organised and led by Gaia Zaccagni with assorted music and film screenings related to food. The two events which …
. Pop-up cinema is one of the A-Delicious Place* actions that took place during the timeframe of the Pame Kaimakli festival. During the festival we have presented two movies that looked into the relationships of place, communities and food: “The Lunchbox” and “Arrangiarsi (pizza…and the art of living”. The Lunchbox was screened on the 9th of …
In the framework of the neighbourhood festival “Pame Kaimakli 2020”, Urban Gorillas is carrying out community workshops through an open call. We Circle Collective is one of the selected projects. The heterogeneous collective is undertaking social action through art projects, performances, workshops, community leisure and awareness events. Their passion is to tackle socio-political and ecological issues …
In the framework of “Pame Kaimakli 2020” neighbourhood festival, Urban Gorillas is carrying out community workshops through an open call. Jasmine (Γιασεμίν) group is one of the selected projects. Its activities give space and time to people who are marginalised by society and to whom Art would not have reached otherwise. Through a series of …
“Activating the Publicscape. The case of Urban Gorillas” is a journal article under the “Art and Activism in Public Space” issue of The Journal of Public Space. It describes the story of Urban Gorillas following the aftermath of the 2013 socio-economic crisis in Cyprus, where the notion of publicness was deeply shaken. Urban Gorillas has …
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Urban Gorillas is pleased to announce the launch of our new project A-Place, co-financed by the Creative Europe programme, dedicated to strengthening the bonds between people and places. Over the next four years, a series of actions (i.e. performances, installations, debates, video and photography productions) will be carried out in six European cities: Barcelona, Bologna, …
The ‘Urban Glenti’ installation took place at the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival of 2019 in the Buffer Zone of Nicosia next to the Home of Cooperation. Urban Gorillas invited the wider public to rethink issues and activities related to the Buffer Zone. They looked into this liminal zone not merely as a negative repercussion …
Urban Gorillas has received the annual honorary award (Outstanding Contribution Award) by the University of Nicosia in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the betterment of society. The award was given at the graduation ceremony for the master program of the University of Nicosia.
Our office welcomed twenty women from Georgia and Abkhazia on Saturday November 4th 2017, as part of their study visit in the island to meeting women in pioneering positions and NGOs active in bi-communal actions. Kindly approached we prepared a morning of getting to know Kaimakli (our work neighbourhood) and a short presentation of our …
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