PROGRAMME *
DAY 1 FRIDAY 21st FEBRUARY 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Registration and coffee/tea
15:00 - 15:30
Opening remarks and welcome by symposium curators
Mariza Bargilly, Dr Marina Hadjilouca and Eleni Ioannou
15:30 - 16:00
Inaugural talk by Andy Bargilly, Honorary CYCSTAT President
16:00 - 16:30
Views and outcomes of Performance Design Futures 2022
by Marina Maleni, former co-curator of Symposium
16:30 - 16:45
Coffee/ tea break
16:45 - 18:00
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
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Theatre or Life :The Art of Charlotte Salomon (1917 - 1943)
Pamela Howard OBE
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18:00
Drinks reception
DAY 2 SATURDAY 22nd FEBRUARY 2025
9:30 - 10:30
Registration and coffee/ tea
10:30 - 11:30
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
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Resisting Extinction Theatre Has Left the Building: Pursuing the Scenographic ‘Real’
Dr Dorita Hannah (NZ)
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11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:00
PRESENTATONS ​
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Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival: Creating and Curating Beyond the Liminal Fragility of Buffer Zones in Cyprus
Nihal Soganci (CY) + Ellada Evangelou (CY)
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Nicosia as a stage: Crossing external and internal boundaries through theatre.
Elena Katsouri (CY) + Magdalena Zira (CY)
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Q&A
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13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30
PRESENTATIONS
From Dust to Dust: Performing in wounded landscapes.
Melita Couta (CY)
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Scenography of the Memory
Hadi Damien (LB)
Graces Kneading: No one is a stranger: Performative Sculpture of Memory, Hospitality, and Community
Dr Adonis Volanakis (GR)
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Space Memory (working title)
Adrian Damian (RO)
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Q&A
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15:30 - 15:45
Coffee / Tea break
15:45 - 17:15
PRESENTATIONS
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Spacing Thawra: Performative Inversions of the Public Realm during Lebanon’s 2019 October Revolution
Dr Dorita Hannah (NZ) & Selim Mawad (LB)
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Protest Scenographics: Analysing post-conflict urban environments
Dr Marina Hadjilouca (CY/UK)
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Playful Urbanscapes as Commons: The Phaneromeni’s Schoolyard
Dr Popi Iacovou (CY) & Christiana Ioannou (CY)
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Bury Our Weapons: The many controversies of rallying for peace in performance practices
Dr Maria Konomi (GR)
Q&A
20:00
Dinner
DAY 3 SUNDAY 23rd FEBRUARY 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Registration and coffee / tea
11:30 - 12:30
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
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Scenographic Metaphors of Resistance: The Case of Brundibár in Theresienstadt
Dr Sofia Pantouvaki (FI/GR)
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12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30pm - 15:00pm
PLENARY
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Scenography as a form of activism
Pamela Howard OBE (UK), Dr Dorita Hannah (NZ) and
Dr Sofia Pantouvaki (FI/GR)
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End of Symposium
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* All times are in GMT/ UTC +2
** This is a working programme, subject to change. More information TBA.