Spain is guest of honour at this year’s Nicosia Book Fest, Limassol Art Walks opens a string of new exhibitions across the city, and soprano Aida Garifullina gives her first concerts in Cyprus at Kourion. Here is what’s on this weekend.
FESTIVALS
Nicosia, Acropolis Park. October 9-11. Official opening ceremony: Friday, October 9, 7pm. This year’s Nicosia Book Fest brings together more than 100 stands, more than 200 authors and over 100 events. Spain is the guest of honour, and the opening draws on its literary tradition, with references to Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca. Saturday, October 10, and Sunday, October 11, 10am-10pm. Free entry. nicosiabookfest.com
Nicosia, Building 53 – Centre for Experimental Arts, October 9-10, 8pm. The Breach Festival returns for its fifth edition with six musical encounters in free improvisation, experimental music and contemporary sound art. This year’s programme features artists from Cyprus, the Netherlands, Lebanon and Greece. 700 00 216. Tickets at More.com
VISUAL ARTS
Nicosia, Byzantine Museum (22430008). Four significant relics from the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan come to Nicosia for the temporary exhibition ‘Faith and Identity – Relics from the History Museum of Armenia’, presented by the Byzantine Museum of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation in cooperation with the Armenian museum. Deputy Minister of Culture Klea Hadjistephanou Papaellina will open the exhibition at 7pm. Until April 9, 2027.
Nicosia, Isnotgallery contemporary (99569498). Artist Dimitris Neocleous presents his new work ‘The Garden of Alnwick’ in an exhibition that moves between the introversion of drawing and the extroversion of colour. Opening: 7.30pm. Until October 31.
Limassol, Pylon Art & Culture (95 950857). Opening: October 9, 5-9pm, as part of Limassol Art Walks. Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert presents her latest artistic research as part of curator Alessandro Katsola’s wider project ‘An Archaeological Museum at the Threshold’. The exhibition ‘Tracing Angel’s Men’ revisits a study carried out in Cyprus in 1949 and looks beyond the archives and anthropometric data for the people and family stories left behind them. October 10 and 11, 11am-6pm. Until December 19.
Limassol, Morfi (25378733). The retrospective ‘Whispers of Heritage – The Art of John Corbidge’ includes a rare selection of the artist’s work taken directly from the private collection of his daughter, Melissa Corbidge. Part of Limassol Art Walks 2026. Opening: 7pm. Until October 15. morfi.org
Limassol, eins gallery (99522977). Alexandros Pissourios presents his first solo exhibition in Cyprus, ‘On Second Thoughts’, as part of Limassol Art Walks 2026. Opening: 5pm. Until December 15.
Limassol, Aleph, 80 Athinon Street. Art Seen presents Shaheer Zazai’s exhibition ‘A Petal for a Petal’ as part of Limassol Art Walks 2026. Starting from his personal connection to Afghan carpets, Zazai explores how textiles and digital technologies work as systems for recording and passing on knowledge. Opening: 5pm. Runs October 9-11, 11am-6pm.
Limassol, Velychko Gallery (96855580). Kyriaki Costa presents her solo exhibition ‘MURMUR kairos’, a new body of work combining sculpture, embroidery and painting that focuses on the ‘whispers’ warning of a world at a critical point. Opening: 5-9pm (as part of Limassol Art Walks, October 10-11, 11am-6pm). Until December 15.
Limassol, Oasi Space for Visual Experimentations (99380483). Avraam Choirodontis presents the solo exhibition ‘Terrains of Becoming’ as part of Limassol Art Walks 2026. October 9-11: October 9, 5-9pm; October 10-11, 10am-6pm.
Limassol, NeMe. The group exhibition ‘Power Lines’ examines the impact of renewable energy on landscapes, communities and ways of life, raising difficult questions about the real cost of the ‘green’ transition. Opening: October 9, 5-9pm, as part of Limassol Art Walks (October 10-11, 11am-6pm). Until November 6.
Nicosia, Gloria (22762605). From October 9, Marion Paschali presents her new work ‘In the Garden of a Universe’ at Gloria Gallery, an exhibition that freely links philosophical thought with science. Opening: 7.30pm. Until October 23.
Nicosia, Gallery K (22 341122). Kyprianos Dimosthenous’s painting exhibition ‘Beyond Olympus’ includes works drawing on Greek mythology, human psychology and collective memory. Opening: 5-9pm. Until October 24.
Nicosia, Marginalia Gallery (99657080). Memories of places, travels, wanderings and images of nature come together in Minas Kampitakis’s new painting exhibition, ‘Wanderings’. Opening: Friday, October 9, 7.30pm. Until October 31 (Tuesday-Friday 10am-1pm and 5-8pm, Saturday 10.30am-1pm).
Limassol, Xydadiko, October 9-11. Elena Agathocleous’s ‘O Sinemas’ (The Cinema) is an act of farewell and an attempt to let the story of a place be heard again through different voices. The work is presented as part of the fifth Limassol Art Walks. Friday 5-9pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm.
MUSIC
Limassol, Ancient Theatre of Kourion, Friday, October 9, and Saturday, October 10, 8pm (gates open 7pm). Soprano Aida Garifullina comes to Cyprus for the first time for two concerts with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the orchestra’s artistic director, Myron Michailidis. The programme includes the ‘Habanera’ from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’, ‘Juliet’s Waltz’ from Gounod’s ‘Faust’, ‘O soave fanciulla’ from Puccini’s ‘La bohème’, Lauretta’s aria from ‘Gianni Schicchi’, Johann Strauss’s ‘Voices of Spring’ waltz, arias from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ and ‘Iolanta’, and the ‘Brindisi’ from Verdi’s ‘La traviata’, along with other operatic works. Tickets: SoldOut Tickets
Nicosia, The Shoe Factory, 8.30pm. 17th Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival. The duo LAB51, soprano Johanna Vargas and pianist Magdalena Cerezo, presents a programme combining contemporary music, electronics, performance and physical theatre. Programme: Bernhard Lang, ‘The Cold Trip 2’; Georges Aperghis, ‘Retrouvailles, pour deux percussionnistes comédiens’; György Ligeti, ‘Mysteries of the Macabre’. 22663871. Tickets: SoldOut Tickets
Nicosia, Axiothea Mansion, 8.30pm. Anastasia Dimitriadou (Nama Dama), Cemre Arca, Hayat Sebep and Naz Atun present ‘Songs from the Garden’, a multimedia music performance combining original songs, polyphonic singing and contemporary puppet theatre, as part of the 29th University of Cyprus Cultural Festival. 22894531
Limassol, Pattichion Municipal Theatre, Friday, October 9, 8.30pm. George Dalaras brings ‘Rebetiko’ to Cyprus, a music show dedicated to one of the most important chapters of Greek music. He is joined by a select group of musicians and singers Aspasia Stratigou, Mariana Katsimicha and Vasilis Korakakis, in a programme that seeks to bring out the style and distinctive sound of rebetiko. Tickets: Ticketmaster, Pattichion Theatre box office and ACS Couriers
THEATRE
Nicosia, Anemona Theatre. Premiere: Friday, October 9, 8.30pm. Anemona Theatre presents Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanasiou’s comedy ‘Ta Mora ta Ferni o Pelargos’ (The Stork Brings the Babies), directed by Marinos Xenofontos, a story set in Thessaloniki under German occupation. Cast (in order of appearance): Eirini Konstantinou, Giannis Kokkinos, Christopher Greco, Elena Cheileti, Gianna Lefkati, Angelos Hadjimichael, Nikolas Arkadiou. Every Friday and Saturday 8.30pm, Sunday 7pm, until November 1. Paphos, Markideio Theatre, Thursday, October 22, 8.30pm. Larnaca, G. Lykourgos Municipal Theatre, Tuesday, November 3, 8.30pm. Limassol, Rialto Theatre, Wednesday, November 4, 8.30pm. Tickets: SoldOut Tickets. Information and bookings: 70007721.
Nicosia, Goethe-Institut (next to the Ledra Palace). Premiere: Friday, October 9, 9pm. Theatro AntiLogos presents ‘Brandy Sour’, the stage adaptation of Constantia Soteriou’s award-winning novel, directed by Neoklis Neokleous, with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot actors. Cast: Iliana Kakkoura, Serife Mersinli, Andriani Neokleous, Izel Seylani, Fotis Fotiou, Christina Christofia and musician Savvas Chrysostomou (Sais). Performances: October 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 30 and 31, and November 1. Weekends 8pm, weekdays 9pm. Larnaca, G. Lykourgos Municipal Theatre, Tuesday, October 13, 8.30pm. Paphos, Markideio Theatre, Wednesday, October 14, 8.30pm. Limassol, Rialto Theatre, Monday, October 19, 8.30pm. Deryneia, Famagusta Venue Garage, Wednesday, October 21, 8pm. Pyla, UCLan Cyprus Amphitheatre, Sunday, November 8, 8.30pm. Tickets: SoldOut Tickets and Stephanis stores. For Limassol, through the Rialto Theatre.
Nicosia, Dentro Theatre, 8pm. Vasilis Katsikonouris’s ‘The Milk’, directed by Marina Vronti for Theatro Lexi, returns for a second season. October 9. Tickets: SoldOut Tickets. Limassol, Rialto Theatre, Wednesday, October 21, 8.30pm. rialto.interticket.com
Akrotiri, Akrotiri Cultural Club hall, 8pm. The Akrotiri Cultural Club presents Georgios Konstantinou’s ‘Gela Kallyttera Opoios Gela Teleftaios’ (He Who Laughs Last Laughs Best) as part of the 39th Pancyprian Amateur Theatre Festival. Tel: 99667712
EXHIBITIONS
Nicosia
Apokalypsi (22300150). ‘Alternative Reality’ by Marinos Kartikkis. Until October 24.
Old Town. The video art exhibition ‘Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear’ unfolds in the streets of old Nicosia, as a parallel event to the exhibition ‘Bill Viola. Unspoken’ at the PSI Foundation in Limassol. Until November 2. Information: PSI Foundation
Diachroniki (22680145). Diachroniki celebrates 36 years with the exhibition ‘Cyprus 1990 – 2026 through our Artists Eyes’. Until October 21.
Art Seen (22006624). ‘The Future of the Past’ by Andreas Kallis. Until November 6. art-seen.org
Kastelliotissa Hall. The exhibition ‘Serbian Medieval Monuments in Danger’ features monuments of medieval heritage in Kosovo. Until October 12.
Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking (22496930). ‘Coexistence, A. Tassos – Hambis’. Until July 24.
IN TOTO Gallery Space (22262470). ‘Closely Observed’ by Milenko Stevanovic. Until October 15.
Limassol
The Edit Gallery (25251710). ‘Carriers’ by Hannah Rowan. Until October 17.
XeniArtSpace Gallery, Trilogy Plaza. Group exhibition ‘Channelled: Women in Art Across Centuries’. Until March 5.
Lumière Contemporary Art Gallery. ‘Some Body’ by Christina Drakou. Until November 5.
PSI Foundation. ‘Bill Viola. Unspoken’. Until October 24.
Larnaca
Kypriaki Gonia Gallery (24621109). ‘Worlds Elusive’ by Anna Vasiliou. Until October 10.
Pierides Museum (22128175). ‘Nina Iacovou: Eyes to See and Hands to Touch’. Until May 6, 2027.
CINEMA
NEW RELEASES: ‘Primetime’ (directed by Lance Oppenheim, starring Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo), ‘The Social Reckoning’ (directed by Aaron Sorkin, starring Mikey Madison, Betty Gilpin, Jeremy Allen White), ‘Other Mommy’ (directed by Rob Savage, starring Jessica Chastain, Dichen Lachman, Karen Allen), ‘Forgotten Island’ (animation, directed by Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado) – RIO Limassol and Nicosia Mall, tel. 25871410.
Nicosia, Pantheon. Thomas Mann’s relationship with his daughter Erika is at the centre of ‘Fatherland’, the new film by award-winning Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski. Screenings: October 8, 9 and 10 at 8.30pm. Additional screenings at 6pm on October 1, 3 and 10. Running time: 82 minutes. pantheon-theatre.com
