Here is what’s on across Cyprus on Thursday 15 October, from the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in Nicosia to the Ayia Napa Medieval Festival and a theatre premiere.
Music
Nicosia, Municipal Theatre, 8.30pm. The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Starlight 1’ concert features works by Nestor Taylor, Camille Saint-Saëns and Georges Bizet. The soloist is pianist and composer Giorgos-Emmanouil Lazaridis, and the conductor is Zoe Zeniodi. cyso.interticket.com. Next performance: 16 October, Pattichion, Limassol, SoldOut Tickets.
Nicosia, Axiothea Mansion, 8.30pm. Federico García Lorca’s poetry meets contemporary composition and Mediterranean musical traditions in ‘Andalucía. Poems of Cante Jondo’ by Greek composer Spyros Kallivokas. Elena Xyda sings and plays the laouto, Marily Milia sings and plays the cello, and Christina Polykarpou plays the lyra. Free entry. 22895136, 22894531.
Exhibition opening
Nicosia, Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. A major part of the Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection is being shown in Cyprus for the first time. The exhibition ‘Messages in Metal. A Timeless Dialogue with Cyprus’, which opens today, includes 136 coins: 110 from the Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection, 23 from the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia and three from the A.G. Leventis Gallery. Until 10 January 2027. leventismuseum.org.cy / alphabank.com.cy
Event
Nicosia, Pallas Theatre, 7pm. A commemorative event marks 200 years since the Exodus of Messolonghi, one of the defining events of the Greek Revolution, and its echo in Cyprus. The keynote speaker is the Mayor of Messolonghi, Spyridon V. Diamantopoulos, on ‘The Messolonghi of the World’. Petros Papapolyviou will follow. The event includes a short music programme with soprano Vivian Dagla and students of the Nicosia Music School. Free entry. 22800931.
Books
Nicosia, Solonion Book Centre, 7pm. Lena Divani’s new novel ‘This Is How the World Ends’ is presented in Nicosia. It explores political and social decline through characters vying for power. Author Nasia Dionysiou will give the opening remarks, and journalist Christos Michalaros will talk to Divani and moderate the discussion with the audience. Registration: 22795003, [email protected]
Nicosia, Pancyprian Gymnasium, 6pm to 7pm. In ‘American Trojan: Leadership, Resilience, and the Renewal of Higher Education’, Chrysostomos (C. L. Max) Nikias traces his path from refugee in 1974 to president of one of the leading research universities in the United States. Speakers are journalist and CyBC board chairman Pavlos Pavlou, former Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriakos Kokkinos, and lawyer Marios Iliades. Reception and book signing, 7pm to 8pm.
Festival
Ayia Napa, George Seferis Cultural Centre Square and Medieval Monastery, 14 to 18 October. The queens of medieval Cyprus, the island’s legends and the cultures that shaped its history are the focus of the 21st Ayia Napa Medieval Festival. Under the theme ‘Ayia Napa: The Crown of the Mediterranean’, the festival offers five days of international shows, music, a parade, exhibitions and hands-on activities. Free entry. agianapa.org.cy
Screenings
Limassol, Rialto Theatre. The 16th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus returns to the Rialto for seven days, from 10 to 16 October. It features filmmakers from Cyprus and around the world, with short films, special screenings and activities beyond the big screen. 77 77 77 45, www.isffc.com.cy
Installation
Nicosia, Haratsi Café, 14 to 16 October, 7pm. Filmmaker and photographer Eleonora Sotiriou, working with architecture practice Archlab10, presents the audiovisual installation ‘Chasing Life’ as part of the Nicosia International Festival. The work is about loss, memory and the persistence of life, and starts from the deaths of four children in Gaza in 2014. Duration: seven minutes.
Theatre
Nicosia, Satiriko Theatre Lower Stage (basement). Premiere, 8pm. Satiriko Theatre stages award-winning British playwright Lucy Prebble’s ‘The Effect’ for the first time in Cyprus, directed by Evita Ioannou. The play sets a love story inside a clinical trial and asks whether our feelings are truly our own or can be shaped by brain chemistry. Cast, in alphabetical order: Rafaela Kavazi, Elena Kallinikou, Andreas Koutsoumbas and Vasilis Michael. Performances: 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29*, 31 October and 1 November, 8pm (Sundays 6.30pm). Duration: 90 minutes. Tickets: ticket.satirikotheatro.com, 22 312940.
Nicosia, Dentro Theatre, 8pm. Vasilis Katsikonouris’s ‘Milk’, directed by Marina Vronti for Lexi Theatre, returns for a second season. 15 and 17 October. Tickets: SoldOut Tickets. Also at the Rialto Theatre, Limassol, on Wednesday 21 October, 8.30pm. rialto.interticket.com
Mitsikouri festival
Nicosia, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, 11am and 5pm. Norwegian company Spektra offers a different way to experience the performing arts, beyond words and the usual conventions of a theatre, with ‘Helix – The Hanging Garden’. The inclusive performance-installation is part of the Mitsikouri International Festival of Performing Arts for Children and Young People. For children aged three and over, neurodivergent people and those accompanying them. Tickets: SoldOut Tickets. Duration: 60 minutes.
Nicosia, Melina Mercouri Hall, 6pm. A round-table discussion on ‘Inclusion and accessibility in the performing arts for children and young people’ is organised by the Cyprus Centre of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ Cyprus), the ENA Foundation and the University of Limassol, as part of Mitsikouri 2026. The speakers are:
- Theis Irgens of Spektra Art, creator of ‘Helix – The Hanging Garden’ (Norway)
- Marta Galli, artistic director of ArteVOX Teatro and vice-president of the International Inclusive Arts Network (Italy)
- Panagiotis Kosmas, chair of the Department of Education Sciences, University of Limassol
- Angeliki Chalkiopoulou, head of educational and literary programmes at ‘Mikros Odysseas’
- Maria Filippou, actor and cultural producer
- Tasoula Georgiadou, president of the Pancyprian Association for People with Autism
Language: Greek and English.
Exhibitions
Nicosia
- Artos House. Photography exhibition ‘PhOETRY IV’, part of the Poetry MOVES festival of poetry and movement. Until 17 October.
- Museum (22430008). Four important relics from the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan come to Nicosia for ‘Faith and Identity – Relics from the History Museum of Armenia’. Until 9 April 2027.
- Isnotgallery contemporary (99569498). ‘The Alnwick Garden’ by Dimitris Neocleous. Until 31 October.
- Gloria (22762605). ‘In the Garden of a Universe’ by Marion Paschali. Until 23 October.
- Gallery K (22 341122). ‘Beyond Olympus’ by Kyprianos Dimosthenous. Until 24 October.
- Marginalia Gallery (99657080). ‘Wanderings’ by Minas Kampitakis. Until 31 October.
- Apokalypsi (22300150). ‘Alternative Reality’ by Marinos Kartikkis. Until 24 October.
- Old town. The video art exhibition ‘Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear’ unfolds in the streets of old Nicosia, as a parallel event to ‘Bill Viola. Unspoken’ at the PSI Foundation in Limassol. Until 2 November. Information: PSI Foundation.
- Diachroniki (22680145) marks 36 years with ‘Cyprus 1990 – 2026 through our Artists Eyes’. Until 21 October.
- Art Seen (22006624). ‘The Future of the Past’ by Andreas Kallis. Until 6 November. art-seen.org
- Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking (22496930). ‘Coexistence, A. Tassos – Hambis’. Until 24 July.
- IN TOTO Gallery Space (22262470). ‘Closely Observed’ by Milenko Stevanovic. Until 15 October.
Limassol
- Pylon Art & Culture (95 950857). ‘Tracing Angel’s Men’ by Theopisti Stylianou Lambert. Until 19 December.
- Morfi (25378733). ‘Whispers of Heritage – The Art of John Corbidge’. Until 15 October. morfi.org
- eins (99522977). ‘On Second Thoughts’ by Alexandros Pissourios. Until 15 December.
- Velychko Gallery (96855580). ‘MURMUR kairos’ by Kyriaki Costa. Until 15 December.
- NeMe. Group exhibition ‘Power Lines’. Until 6 November.
- The Edit Gallery (25251710). ‘Carriers’ by Hannah Rowan. Until 17 October.
- XeniArtSpace Gallery, Trilogy Plaza. Group exhibition ‘Channelled: Women in Art Across Centuries’. Until 5 March.
- Lumière Contemporary Art Gallery. ‘Some Body’ by Christina Drakou. Until 5 November.
- PSI Foundation. ‘Bill Viola. Unspoken’. Until 24 October.
Larnaca
- Pierides Museum (22128175). ‘Nina Iacovou: eyes to see and hands to touch’. Until 6 May 2027.
Cinema
New releases: ‘The Suitcase’ (directed by Dimitris Papathanasis, with Natalia Tsaliki, Apostolis Totsikas and Vaso Kavalieratou), ‘Whalefall’ (directed by Brian Duffield, with Austin Abrams, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin), ‘The Fix’ (directed by Guy Moshe, with Zachary Levi, Liam Neeson and Quincy Isaiah), ‘Street Fighter’ (directed by Kitao Sakurai, with Noah Centineo, David Dastmalchian and Jason Momoa) and the animated film ‘Yugly’ (directed by Yanis Belaid and Jeremie Degruson). RIO Limassol and Nicosia Mall, 25871410.
Also showing: ‘Sacrifice’ (directed by Romain Gavras, with Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy and Vincent Cassel), RIO Limassol.
