News & Events

Saturday October 26 – Sunday November 3,
The Animattikon Project 2019 – Third Edition
“Attikon” Cultural Centre

The Kimonos Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the Municipality of Pafos, is presenting the third edition of the Animattikon Project, the international animation festival of Pafos.
After two successful events, and with the completion of its Summer Edition, the Animattikon Project returns to its home space, the “Attikon” Cultural Centre and proposes a series of actions related to the art of animation.
The program includes animation workshops for children and adults, lectures on the history of animation, presentations by professionals and many screenings, both at the festival’s main venue (Attikon) and other venues in Pafos.

The festival starts on October 26, 2019 and runs until November 3. The syllabus will be available on the festival’s official website at animattikon.com and on social media, both the Animattikon Project and the Kimonos Arts Center.

The event is under the auspices of ASIFA Cyprus and is organized in cooperation with the Municipality of Pafos. Supporters are the Almira Hotel and the French Institute of Cyprus. Our partners are the Animasyros and Viborg Animation Festival international animation festivals, the animation schools The Animation Workshop in Denmark and the FilmAkademie in Germany and the Neapolis University of Pafos.

Organizers: Kimonos Arts Center, Municipality of Pafos

The Pafos Youth Information Centre of the Youth Board of Cyprus in collaboration with Demetra Socratous organise the workshop ‘Children’s cancer: challenges and empowerment’ on Monday 4th November 2019 at 16:00-19:00 at the Pafos Youth Multicentre & Youth Information Centre.

The Workshop is based on Demetra Socratous’ children book “Mary and the White Pea” and promotes participants to:
a) initiate themselves in young cancer patients’ experience, needs, realities and challenges
b) to represent physically abstract notions and complex meaning through drama strategies in order to build, re-build and powerfully interpret ideas, thoughts and emotions
c) to develop their empathy, their emotional awareness and expression and their emotional resilience
d) to empower themselves in order to deal with cancer issues and other life challenges

The workshop is addressed to Primary and Secondary Education teachers, psychologists, parents and other people interested in the topic of cancer (age: +18).

Demetra Socratous (teacher, drama pedagogist, children’s writer) is coordinating and facilitating the workshop.

For reservations/ more information please contact: 77 77 27 57 (time: everyday 10:00 – 19:00).

Participation is FREE – reservation is required (limited number of participants).

Participants are invited to wear comfortable cloths/ shoes and be at the workshop’s space at 15:45 latest. No prior theatre experience is required.

A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that’s how she feels about it) and soon she’ll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.

Cast:
Mia Kasalo (Amelie)
Samuel Girardi (Bart)
Susanne Bormann (Sarah)
Denis Moschitto (Jost)

Director: Tobias Wiemann
Runtime: 97 min
Genre: Family, Adventure
Language: German
Production Year: 2017

The screening is part of the programme of the Weeks of the German Language.

Event: 10k and 5k Cyprus Run in the Dark
Date: 13th November 2019
Time: 7pm

As darkness sweeps around the globe in mid-November, 25,000 people in 50 cities worldwide will get up from their armchairs, slip on their red flashing armbands and pull on their running shoes to complete a 5k or 10k run.

Together, from Sydney to San Francisco, they will light up the night as they hit the road to Run in the Dark.

Join hundreds of fellow runners in Cyprus to Run in the Dark on 13th November 2019. The run will take place on Kato Paphos coastal promenade at 6pm.

You can choose between running 5k or 10k… and if your running shoes are a little dusty, you can even walk the 5k route.

Through Run in the Dark, Mark Pollock aims to inspire people to build resilience and collaborate with others so that, together, they achieve more than they thought possible. For some that means gathering a group of friends or colleagues to train hard and get fit with a 5k or 10k run. For others it means building a team of experts to perform better. For us, at the Mark Pollock Trust, it means supporting Mark to deal with the ongoing physical, psychological and financial impact of his catastrophic spinal cord injury, while also allowing him to pursue his personal mission to cure paralysis in our lifetime.

A group photo will be taken with all participants in advance of the run so please arrive at 5.30pm.

Registration will close at 4pm sharp on Tuesday 12th November.

For any queries relating to this event please contact team@mokapotproductions.com

Saturday 16th of November

OlympusMan O3 is a one of its kind in Cyprus triathlon and one of those events every hardcore triathlete must have in his/her “bucket list”!

The course runs point-to-point, from Paphos coast, through the beautiful Diarizos valley, the vineyards region and thick coniferous forests to, finally, finish on the top of the island, the Olympus peak. OlympusMan is a long day’s challenge through some of Cyprus’s most spectacular scenery.

At the beginning of November the climate of Cyprus offers excellent conditions for such an endeavor! The Mediterranean Sea water is at a perfect 21°C temperature and crystal clear. The air temperature most likely will be at around 22-25°C on the lower sections with an expected 13-14°C on Olympus peak.

108,9km total distance  |  3000m+ of total ascent  |  3 sports  |  1 target, the summit

The orchestra was created in October 2016 by renowned saxophonist George Krasidis. The whole project is a collective, voluntary effort of 19 great musicians with a common characteristic of their love of jazz music and more specifically JAZZ BIG BAND. The repertoire of the Jazzologia Cyprus Big Band consists of historical compositions and orchestrations by the pioneers of Big Band Music but also more contemporary works written for orchestras of this particular type. Also traditional Cypriot songs will be heard arranged by Cypriot composer / arranger Aris Antoniadis for Jazz big band. In this series of concerts the great singer George Kalopedis is taking part.

The Jazzologia Cyprus Big Band has been known for its presence in a number of Festivals and Performances in Cyprus, such as the Cultural Capital of Paphos 2017 Jazz Encounters, the Old Port Jazz Festival 2017, the Jazzologia at Pattice Theater 2018, Faneromeni 2019, the Summer Concerts in Cyprus. Technopolis 20, Paphos et al.

Giorgos Krasidis / tenor sax – band director
Achilleas Tomasidis / alto sax
Alexandros Papacharalambous / alto sax
Nicholas Georgiou / alto sax
Marios Papares / tenor sax
Simos Tziakouris /tenor sax
Aris Kyriakides / baritone sax
Elias Ioannou / trumpet
Michalis Michael / trumpet
Fedonas Dimitriou / trumpet
Christos Loizides / trumpet
Nikos Koukouvinos / trombone
Burkhard Fischer / trombone
Michel Verwer/ trombone
Igor Babcinetchi/trombone
George Issa / guitar
Nikolas Genethliou / piano
Ioannis Karseras / Bass
Marios Gregoriou / drums