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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As part of the Independent project, a research project focusing on the identification and promotion of independent spaces and thinking, MAXXI museum publishes the online journal, Garibaldi, that investigates a range of perspectives, different themes and geographical contexts. The third issue focuses on the notion of the island. Topos of independence, the Island is investigated as in its terrestrial …
19th Feb – 26th Feb A series of workshops looking at alternative and creative ways to approach the subject of human rights took place in the last week of February 2017. Organized by Serbian NGO Balkan Urban Movement, the training invited young participants aged 18-35, representing NGOs and youth groups from 12 different countries to come together. …
Off the Studio Project 15 November 2016 in old town Nicosia, as part of the Urban Spectacle Series – read here In a world where one can no longer distinguish fiction from reality, Arthropod in collaboration with Urban Gorillas propose an installation performance situated in the in-between state of these two notions. Artistic group, Arthropod collective, craft …
