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Creating music, enjoying the melody and
impromptu performances!
The Nicosia leg of the interactive installation
was co-organised by the Cultural Services of the
Ministry of Education and Culture andAvantgarde
Cultural Foundation.
At the opening ceremony, Minister of Education
and Culture Costas Kadis said the Cultural
Services had embraced the Avantgarde Cultural
Foundation’s initiative to host this original
installation with a keen interest. “It significantly
contributes to the creation of opportunities to
cultivate, develop and promote, not just music
but all the other forms of artistic creation too,”
said the Minister.
“
Play me, I’m yours
is the biggest audio-visual
interactive installation that has ever been organised
in Cyprus, as it unites the arts of music and
visual, while simultaneously engaging the entire
audience of Nicosia and beyond. For ten days,
starting tomorrow, the town of Nicosia will host
the ten pianos that we unveiled a while back and
which distinguished Cypriot artists very willingly
painted,” said Kadis at the October opening.
“By prompting the public to
Play me, I’m yours
,
the pianos will be at the disposal of anyone who
wishes to create music; to enjoy their melody
and share impromptu performances and unique
artistic experiences with their friends and
passers-by,” he added.
The Minister was especially pleased to announce
that once the installation expired, the pianos
would then be donated to children’s homes,
hospitals, rehabilitation centres and other special
locations, to offer support, encouragement and
entertainment. “This way, the pianos that will
uplift the citizens of Nicosia musically and
visually, will continue to offer this to society for
many years to come,” said Kadis.
Play me, I’m yours: The man behind it
Play Me, I’m Yours
was first commissioned by
Fierce Earth in Birmingham, UK in 2008. With
15 pianos located across the city for three weeks
In Nicosia
1. Makarios IIIHospital ChildPsychiatric
Department – piano painted by artist
Petros Papapetrou
2. Paediatric Oncology Unit at the
Makarios Hospital – piano painted by
Paschalis Anastasi
3. Shelter for the Victims of Domestic
Violence – piano painted by Paschalis
Anastasi
4. “Agia Skepi” Therapeutic Community
– piano painted by Achilleas
Michaelides (Paparazzi)
In Limassol:
5. Cyprus Red Cross Society Children
Therapy Centre “Stella Soulioti” –
piano painted byAndreas Ladommatos
6. Child Development Centre ‘To Alma’
at Theotokos Foundation – piano
painted by Christos Michlis
In Larnaca:
7. Children’s House of Larnaca
In Paphos:
8. Paphos Children’s Home – piano
painted byAndreas Charalambides
In Famagusta:
9. ‘Apostolos Pavlos’ Centre for people
with special needs in Liopetri – piano
painted by Nicos Kouroushis
10. Gymnasium of Rizokarpasso – piano
painted by Hambis Tsangaris, Stelios
Stylianou and Eleni Panagidou.
Cambridge. Photograph by Claude Schneider Photography
Stavrou Avenue - piano by Pascalis Anastasi
photo uploaded by Krystallena Stylianou
Mall of Engomi - piano by Doros Heracleous
