4th SARDAM: alternative literary readings festival

07-09 October 2015 / LIMASSOL – NICOSIA

SARDAM returns for its fourth year, bringing the audience closer to literature, through contemporary ways of writing and live reading!

Writers from Cyprus and abroad share innovative ways of writing and presenting literature, through enjoyable readings / performances and workshops. A common ground is the emphasis on original writing / live reading techniques and the combination of literature with both contemporary and more traditional ways of artistic expression, like Theatre, Technology, Dance, Music / Sound, Slamming / Spoken Word, Visual Arts and so on. Every festival aims at presenting always something new. Last year, the programme included, among others, an interactive literary installation, as well as Sound Poetry. This year, for the first time, the audience will have the chance to experience the combination of literature and Architecture, Visual Writing, as well as the intermixing of words with wheatpaste and stencil art. This year’s festival also includes selections from the work of two Cypriot Writers (Panos Ioannides, Giorgos Kalozois), as well as a parallel event on the last day of the festival: a one man show by the guest poet-performer Vasilis Amanatides (Greece). This year, the awarded slam poet Sergio Garau (Italy) returns to the festival for an amazing workshop.

MAIN EVENT – ALTERNATIVE LITERARY READINGS

07 OCTOBER 2015, THEATRO ENA, LIMASSOL, 8:30pm

08 OCTOBER 2014, ARTOS FOUNDATION, NICOSIA, 8:30pm

Entrance fee: 5 Euro / Reservations-info: 99404072

The main event of readings in Limassol and Nicosia includes the writers-performers: (GREECE) PATRICIA KOLAITI / YIANNIS STINGAS / VASSILIS AMANATIDIS, (HUNGARY) KINGA TOTH, (SWEDEN) LAURA WIHLBORG, (ITALY) SERGIO GARAU, (CYPRUS), STAVRINOS KYRIACOU / NORA NADJARIAN / D&RTT (GEORGIOS MAKRIDES) / AVGI LILLI, and presents selected works by PANOS IOANNIDES and GIORGOS KALOZOIS.

With them, the group en.act (MARINA MAKRIS/ELENA KALLINIKOU), the actor STELIOS ANDRONIKOU, the dancer/performer JULIA BRENDLE, the musicians IRENAEOS KOULLOURAS and DUKE BEDELIAN, and the architects DO:GMA.

*from 7:00pm to 11pm, at the Nicosia venue, the writer Persephone Krasidou and the visual artist Anna-Maria Charalambous present the exhibition “Once upon a thread”

+ 3 WORKSHOPS

NICOSIA / 08 OCTOBER 2016 / ARTOS FOUNDATION

3:00pm -7:00pm (GREECE) VASSILIS AMANATIDIS / Γραφή_αφή: Το κειμενικό σώμα -Η ποίηση και η επιτέλεσή της: αντλώντας από την επ-αφή Κόσμου-Εαυτού-Τέχνης, και από το «μεταξύ» των ειδών (ποίηση-πεζό-θέατρο) / Writing_touch: The body of a text – Poetry and Poetry Performance: inspired by the connections between World-Self-Art and the “in-between” identity of genres (poetry-prose-theatre)

LIMASSOL / 09 OCTOBER 2016 / THE TRADE

10:30am -2:30pm (CYPRUS) MARIA A. IOANNOU– Το αντικείμενο ως λογοτεχνικός πρωταγωνιστής στη μικρή φόρμα / Objects as literary protagonists in short fiction

3:30pm -7:30pm (ITALY) SERGIO GARAU – Poetry Slam! *poetry and spoken word workshop in English (with the participation of the contrabassist Irenaeos Koullouras)

Participation fee: 20 euro (per workshop) – for those wishing to attend all workshops of Sardam, one is free. Limited number of participants. By reservation only, until the 3rd of October: 99404072

Workshop descriptions, here: https://sardamcy.wordpress.com/workshops/

+ SARDAM SOLO

by the poet-performer Vassilis Amanatidis (GREECE) entitled: μ_otherpoem: μόνο λόγος

LIMASSOL / SUNDAY O9 OCTOBER 2016 / PALIO XYDADIKO / 8:30pm

Entrance fee: 5 Euro / Reservations-info: 99404072

Further info about parallel events, here: https://sardamcy.wordpress.com/parallel-events/

SARDAM is organized by: Maria A. Ioannou, Evi Panayiotou (group aRttitude)

Supporters: Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, Vivliotropio, K.P Kyriacou Bookshops, PLATO Educational Services, Inprima, Exertus Services, Veramànd Studio Academy, Sound and Beyond Audiovisual Services, Boubouki Writer’s Residency, newspaper LEMESOS, Kanali 6

More info – www.sardamcy.wordpress.com