Cultural collective Alternative Brains Rule (ABR) is hosting the second edition of Trapezoma, a series of communal gatherings built around food, wine, music and conversation, at Kaskanter wine bar in Lympia on Sunday, June 21, starting at 18:30. This instalment is built around a conversation on decentralisation.
Trapezoma, ABR says, brings people together around the same table for conversations that do not need panels, microphones or a formal setting, beginning instead with shared food and music. The first edition took place at a traditional coffee shop in the heart of the city, a space ABR describes as central to Cypriot life well beyond just coffee, historically used for meeting, exchanging news and stories, and socialising.
For the second edition, the same format moves further from the centre, to Lympia. ABR frames the move as a shift in perspective as much as location, posing questions about whether the village has been left behind by the centre, or whether it instead holds knowledge, memory and ways of living that the city has lost touch with. The gathering will explore what changes when conversation moves outside the centre, whose voices are heard differently there, and what the city might still learn from places it has left behind.
Event information
Wine bar: Kaskanter, Lympia
Food by: To Patrikon
Curated by: ABR
Music: Cotsios o Pikatillis and Charalambos, playing vinyl
Date: Sunday, June 21
Time: 18:30
Reservations: trapezomakaskanter.netlify.app
Places are limited and participation is subject to booking confirmation. The event is held under “EUnity20,” an initiative funded by the European Union under the CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM programme.
About Alternative Brains Rule
Alternative Brains Rule (ABR) is a non-profit creative company based in Cyprus. Since 2011, it has designed and produced experimental, socially engaged cultural experiences across Europe, working at the intersection of design, community and artistic practice, and collaborating with changemakers on projects aimed at more joyful, just and sustainable futures.
