A cyanotype workshop in the Troodos hills, Cypriot music on village squares, and a Jafar Panahi film under the stars in Nicosia. Here is what is on today and in the weeks ahead.
VISUAL ARTS
Pedoulas, Environmental Education Centre, Thursday August 13, 10am–1pm, Saturday September 5, 3–6pm, Sunday September 13, 10am–1pm. The hands-on workshop Nature, sun and cyanotype in the village offers a creative journey through the Cypriot countryside, presented as part of the Cultural Decentralisation Programme 2026. Artist Eleni Philippou (The.Curious.Curly) introduces participants to cyanotype, one of the oldest camera-less photographic techniques, developed in 1842, which uses sunlight to create its distinctive blue prints.
Agios Theodoros Pitsilias, Panagia Kivotou physiotherapy centre, Friday August 14, 10am–1pm, Sunday September 6, 10am–1pm, Sunday October 4, 10am–1pm. Free, booking required. Information and bookings: 96401402.
MUSIC
Giolou, village square, Thursday August 13, 8.30pm. Thkyo Stales sto Choman (Two Drops in the Soil) is a musical journey linking Cyprus’s traditional music with contemporary work, presented as part of the Cultural Decentralisation Programme 2026. The concert takes as its starting point Thkyo Stales, the recent record by Stelios Papamichael and Stefanos Ioannou, built on Cypriot verse and the local musical idiom. The programme also features material from Symeon Merkouris’s forthcoming record, which includes arrangements and original compositions drawn from primary recordings of traditional Cypriot tunes. Platanistasa, village square, Friday September 4, 8.30pm. Kampos, village square, Friday September 25, 8.30pm. Alona, village square, Saturday September 26, 8.30pm.
Kedares, Cultural Centre square, Thursday August 13, 8.30pm. Michalis and Petros Kouloumis present a music and dance performance devoted to Cypriot musical tradition, part of the Deputy Ministry of Culture’s Cultural Decentralisation Programme 2026. The performers are Michalis Kouloumis (violin), Petros Kouloumis (voice, lute) and Eleni Koki (santouri), joined by the Dionysos Cultural and Dance Group and the Ieroi Kipoi Cultural Group, who accompany the music with dance from the Cypriot tradition. Nikokleia, Church of Agios Dimitrios, Monday August 17, 8.30pm.
SCREENING
Nicosia, Konstantia open-air cinema, 9pm. The 27th Summer Screenings Marathon runs every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday until September 13. Tonight and on September 12, the programme is It Was Just an Accident, 105 minutes, directed by Jafar Panahi. A seemingly simple, quiet family drive through the Iranian countryside is suddenly overturned. The film follows a group of former Iranian political prisoners who, after an unexpected incident, face an enormous moral dilemma: whether to take revenge on a passer-by they recognise and believe was their old torturer in prison. Tel. 22348203
EXHIBITIONS
Nicosia
Sic. Contemporary Culture, siccontemporary.com. Marina Kassianidou presents Aggregate, a new site-specific installation. Until August 13
Vitrina (16 Pentadaktylou). Christina Siakola’s installation Things I Forget. Until August 25
Apokalypsi (22300150). Group exhibition, Code Recomposition. Until September 12
Limassol
Platres, Minerva Hotel. Christodoulos Panayiotou’s Trilogy of Summer Holidays. Until August 30
XeniArtSpace, Trilogy West Tower (99980009). Photography exhibition, Women in Focus. Until September 19
Larnaca
Kypriaki Gonia (99564131). Works by Andreas Asproftas, Stelios Votsis and Glyn Hughes. Until August 22
St-art Cafe (7 N. Laniti). Group exhibition in which every work is priced the same, at 250 euros. Until August 31
Municipal Gallery (24658848). Pancyprian art exhibition, Reflections of Clay. Until August 22
Pierides Museum (22128175). Nina Iakovou: eyes to see and hands to touch. Until May 6, 2027
Paphos
Almyra Hotel (26888700). Group exhibition, Temporary Forever. Until September 6
CINEMA
NEW RELEASES: The Get Out (directed by Derrick Borte, starring Russell Crowe, Luke Evans and Teresa Palmer) — RIO Limassol, tel. 25871410.
