Occupy Buffer Zone - Global Spring

We welcome you to join us on our GLOBAL SPRING celebrations.

Tayfa Bandista is joining us from Istanbul to give a solidarity concert.

Sharing an Island will be shown first time at the OBZ.

"OBZ Documentary" will be premiered after a long time of waiting.

We have many more activities, activities for you and everyone!

JOIN US!

Detailed plan for the day is below. Check it out!

Detailed Program of the day

* 13:00 - Global Spring Announcement by OBZ
* 14:00 - Bandista Solidarity Concert
* 15:00 - Face Painting + Juggling + DJ's
* 16:00 - Childrens Games
* 17:00 - Street art workshop
* 18:00 - 'Within, across, and beyond borders: Our daily life'
* 19:00 - Sharing an Island Screening
* 21:00 - 'Occupying the Buffer Zone: Discussing its Realities and Potentials' + Food is Served
* 22:00 - OBZ Documentary

* 13:00- We will start the event by giving out fliers to passers by and arranging the space for the concert. The concert will start right after an announcement. http://www.may12.net/

* 14:00- Tayfa Bandista from İstanbul are joining us for Global Spring this year for solidarity. This mini concert will include their most loved tracks. http://tayfabandista.org/

* 15:00- Face Painting for kids or just for fun, we are all kids! -OBZ artists will use their talents with face paint while talented Jugglers juggle on to the music played by OBZ DJ's. Music will go on for three hours.

* 16:00- Once we get our faces painted, we will start playing childrens games on "No Borders Street" . Bring your kid, and their favourite games!

* 17:00- Street art is a part of our everyday life. Always wondered how to do things like a graffiti or a stencil? Join us, learn and improve yourself. Learn your way around a spray paint!

* 18:00- 'Within, across, and beyond borders: Our daily life' is a publicly open discussion on the daily life of Cyprus. We will question what 'border' means, living within an island, and how our daily life is shaped within, across, and speculate a life beyond 'borders'.

* 19:00- Screening - 'Sharing an Island' is a true film about three Greek-speaking and three Turkish-speaking Cypriots who meet for the first time on camera and together they travel across divided Cyprus. http://www.sharinganisland.com/

*21:00- 'Occupying the Buffer Zone: Discussing its Realities and Potentials'. This is an publicly open discussion on the story of Occupying the Buffer Zone, including its internal hardships yet also the prospects it could offer. OBZ community chefs will start serving food. Famous OBZ barbercue will happen. On the menu: Souvlaki, Sheftalia, Halloumi, Grilled Veggies and salad.

*22:00- A second screening will be held, "OBZ Documentary" will be premiered and shown to public. This documentary shows and explains OBZ from our first day, up till now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxnL4mhdog

*23:00- Music with DJ's will start again, we will have fun till we get tired.

** Throughout the day, we will continue giving out fliers and talking to the passersby.