The group Yasemin Collective will open the doors of Faneromeni25 Arts Festival on Thursday, June 26, 2025 with the theatre and dance performance “Aphrodite(s)”.

A multidimensional proposal focusing on the female experience, identity and Cypriot multiplicity, directed and artistically curated by Natalia Panagiotou. Theatre, dance, music and poetry coexist in a polyphonic stage landscape, where Cypriot women creators from different artistic fields come together to renegotiate the image of Aphrodite: not as a Goddess or a myth, but as a living symbol of root and rupture, beauty and trauma, belonging and transition.

The “Aphrodite(s)”.  are many – as are the voices, bodies, experiences and identities that appear on stage. What does it mean to be a woman in Cyprus today? A female artist? Which identity do you carry, and which one do you claim? How do memory, histories and language converse in a place divided but shared? How does this division affect collective memory and identity?

Contributors

  • Direction and Artistic curation: Natalia Panagiotou
  • Performers: Despina Chrysanthou, Annie Sofokleous, Konstantina Xenophontos, Natalia Panagiotou, Stalia Nikolaou, Nasia Kelepesi, Maria Kasapi

Event information

  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
  • Time: 8.30pm
  • Venue: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 86-90 Faneromenis Street, 1011 Nicosia
  • Entrance: free
  • Doors open: 8pm

Events will take place with observation of all necessary protection measures for the health and safety of visitors and staff and are accessible to disabled groups.

Also during events, photos and/or videos will be taken. Images of event attendees may be used for promotional purposes or provided to the media or uploaded on the Internet. By attending events, the public automatically grants organisers the right to use the photos/videos taken.

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Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

  • 86-90 Faneromenis Street, 1011 Nicosia
  • For more information: 22 128157www.boccf.org