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Aquarterly cultural review of the Ministry of Education and Culture
published and distributed by the Press and Information Office (PIO),
Ministry of Interior, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Pavlos Paraskevas, Director of Cultural
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Photographic credits: Leventis Municipal Museum
Renos LavithisArchive
Andreas Coutas
Marianna Christofides
Nicolas Iordanou
Pravdoliub Ivanov
THOC
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Front cover: Poster model for the scenography exhibition “Stin
Bouka”, Casteliotissa Hall, 15 December 2006-5 January 2007. Co-
organised by THOC, Satiriko Theatre, Theatre Ena, ETHAL, Skala
Theatre. Curators: Charis Kafkarides, Melita Kouta. Poster Model:
Charis Kafkarides, Melita Kouta.
Back cover: “Guardians of the Island”, painting byAlinaTrofimova
(13 yrs old) from the 2011 exhibition “Cyprus and the Greek
Mythology” through the drawings of the children of the Marioupolis
Art School in Ukraine, held at the Leventis Foundation in Nicosia.
PIO 224/2011 – 10000
ISSN (print) 0045-9429
ISSN (online) 1986-2547
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Volume XLIX, No 2, April-June 2011
Editorial.............................................................................3
Theatre...............................................................................4
Cinema.............................................................................12
“Temporal Taxonomy”....................................................17
Monica Vassiliou.............................................................22
Akis Cleanthous. .............................................................23
“Cyprus-St Petersburg”...................................................24
Honorary Cultural Grants................................................27
14th European Dance Festival.........................................28
“Dance/Body at the Crossroads of Cultures”..................32
Painter Christos Foukaras; Elements of His Paintings....33
Solo Art Exhibition by Renos Lavithis............................36
11th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival. .......44
Concerts with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
“From Romanticism to Neoclassicism”......................46
“Images and Views of Alternative Cinema”....................54
Spanish Film Festival 2011. ............................................56
“Cyprus Film Days 2011”. ..............................................58
“Cyprus and Greek Mythology”......................................67