Re Aphrodite: Sunday, 19th of May, at Maroudia’s

SUNDAY 19 MAY 2013

Ethnological Museum (The Hadjgeorgakis Kornesios Mansion)

(20 Patriarchou Gregoriou Street, old Nicosia, tel.: 22305316, www.mcw.gov.cy/da)

Within the framework of the exhibition “at Maroudias”, a collaboration between Re Aphrodite, the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, and the Department of Antiquities, part of the international arts program Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis, the following will take place:

15:00 – 16:30 Creative Workshop “at Maroudia’s” for children of 7 – 12 years old.

A creative workshop for children, which aims at a reinterpretation of the children's relationship to the museum as a space and as a home during the Ottoman period in Cyprus.

Workshop development: Nikoletta Verykioy, Eva Kalomoiri, Elena Pavlidou, Evi Tselika, Maya Hadjigeorgiou. Delivery: Maya Hadjigeorgiou. (in Greek. For Registrations: 22797394)

15:30 – 16:30 Guided tour of the exhibition “at Maroudias” by Chrystalleni Loizidou and Evi Tselika

17:00 – 18:00 A Reading-performance at Maroudia’s. Researcher dramaturge Ellada Evangelou, activist social scientist Christina Kaili, and fine artist Lia Lapithi, each via their own media, side by side, explore the boundaries of history and feminist theory. Three contemporary women represent three different types of expression, and come from three different generations. Τρία θεατρικά για βασίλισσες γραμμένα από άντρες. Μια περφορμανς-μεταφορά που αμφισβητεί την κυριαρχία της ανδρικής φωνής, ακόμη και στη σύγχρονη κοινωνία, στους περισσότερους τομείς της δημόσιας ζωής.

18:00 – 19:00 Aphrodite: Courtesan of the Word.  Presentation and Performance by academic Stavros Karayannis, Associate Professor at the European University Cyprus.

The presentation draws from "Rhapsody on a Dragoman," a 2012 poem on the theme of translation by Stephanos Stephanides. This project uses the poem's images as it embarks on a creative exploration through movement (choreography) in combination with poetry recital. The Dragoman in Stephanides' poem emerges as an elusive and also portentous cultural figure of contrasts.  A “courtesan of the word”, the Dragoman institutes and mediates, obeys and imposes.  In an attempt to radically reconfigure and reclaim Aphrodite's potential for trans-la-formation, the goddess will emerge as discourse (Word) that through its productive contrasts will encourage fresh articulations of difference, gender, sex, and pleasure and their courtship with power.  

19:30 – 20:30 Guided tour of the Museum organized by the Department of Antiquities.

20:30 – 22:30 Reception and live music by “NAVA”, a ten-member ensemble who perform original compositions and traditional music from Central Asia.