The group Yasemin Collective will open the doors of Faneromeni25 Arts Festival on Thursday 26 June with the theatre and dance performance "Aphrodite(s)".

A multidimensional proposal focusing on the female experience, identity and Cypriot multiplicity, directed and artistically curated by Natalia Panagiotou. Theatre, dance, music and poetry coexist in a polyphonic stage landscape, where Cypriot women creators from different artistic fields come together to renegotiate the image of Aphrodite: not as a Goddess or a myth, but as a living symbol of root and rupture, beauty and trauma, belonging and transition.

The "Aphrodite(s)".  are many - as are the voices, bodies, experiences and identities that appear on stage. What does it mean to be a woman in Cyprus today? A female artist? Which identity do you carry, and which one do you claim? How do memory, histories and language converse in a place divided but shared? How does this division affect collective memory and identity?

CONTRIBUTORS

Direction and Artistic curation: Natalia Panagiotou

Performers: Despina Chrysanthou, Annie Sofokleous, Konstantina Xenophontos, Natalia Panagiotou, Stalia Nikolaou, Nasia Kelepesi, Maria Kasapi

Duration: 60 minutes

Date: Thursday, 26 June 2025

Time: 8:30 p.m.

Venue: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 86-90 Faneromenis Street, 1011 Nicosia

Free entrance

Doors open at 20:00

Events will take place with observation of all necessary protection measures for the health and safety of visitors and staff and are accessible to disabled groups.