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Summer course: Urban Entrepreneurship – Opportunities in times of uncertainty

by urbangorillasWorkshops July 15, 2021June 9, 2022No Comments

Within the framework of the Summer course: Urban Entrepreneurship – Opportunities in times of uncertainty, organised by the Centre for Entrepreneurship – C4E, University of Cyprus and the Urban Gorillas and powered by PwC Cyprus – 1st and 2nd year students of different disciplines from the University of Cyprus came together in order to tackle …

Vertical Garden

by urbangorillasActivating the |Public_Scape|, News, Our Work November 16, 2020September 30, 2022No Comments

Vertical Gardens was an action of the A-Delicious Place* project and was the launch event of Pame Kaimakli Festival 2020. It took place in the form of a community-garden planting event. Urban Gorillas envisioned and constructed a structure to activate the main church square of the neighbourhood through the active participation of the community concerned. …

Urban Glenti

by urbangorillasExhibitions, News October 30, 2019June 2, 2022No Comments

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 …

Into Street Art: a research project

by urbangorillasResearch & Publications November 23, 2017June 9, 2022No Comments

Street art is not for eternity and for the museum but reacts to the now-ness of the given moment and a given constellation in the urban life of a specific city. Street art has mostly a poetic-political import. If we concede that street art advances our aesthetic sensibility, then we can argue that street art …

In-Communicado urban workshops

by urbangorillasWorkshops November 23, 2017June 2, 2022No Comments

The In-Communicado project took form as a one-week event that included interactive workshops, open air screenings, urban actions and researches conducted on both sides of Nicosia. Urban Gorillas, in collaboration with Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC), invited the multi-award winning Italian director Alessandro Negrini to screen his latest movie ‘TIDES’ and hold a two-day workshop …

Women NGOs active in peace-building presentation: A Georgian-Abkhazian study visit

by urbangorillasNews, Uncategorized November 23, 2017June 2, 2022No Comments

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 …

The Independent project – MAXXI Museum, Rome

by urbangorillasExhibitions February 13, 2017June 2, 2022No Comments

Within the context of Maxxi museum’s The Independent project, Urban Gorillas and co. are presenting Urban Spectacle, a series of public interventions exploring basic human activities in urban spaces, starting out from the relationship that is established between observer, player and spatial context and attempting to spark a new dialogue between them. The project is designed to encourage …

The Independent project – MAXXI Museum, Rome

by urbangorillasΜη κατηγοριοποιημένο February 13, 2017June 2, 2022One Comment

Off the Studio – Urban Spectacle Series

by urbangorillasActivating the |Public_Scape|, News, Our Work January 30, 2017June 3, 2022No Comments

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 …

Baffle Zone – Urban Spectacle Series

by urbangorillasActivating the |Public_Scape|, Our Work January 30, 2017June 2, 2022No Comments

The Baffle Zone Project January 11th 2017 as part of the Urban Spectacle Series – read here Nicosia: a divided capital of Europe, a vibrant platform for local and international discussion and an urban case study with a visual attentiveness. Urban Gorillas in collaboration with local street artist, Twenty Three, brought to life a project displayed …