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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 â€‹

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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.

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