Sardam Festival 2013
aRttitude presents SARDAM
12 October 2013, Limassol
SARDAM combines readings and workshops by Cypriot writers, as well as writers from Greece, Italy and Croatia. This project aims at bringing the audience closer to a more direct, unconventional enjoyment of literature, through innovative and unusual readings that combine literature with other forms of art like video, spoken word-slamming, dance/movement, dramaturgy, performance writing, audience interaction, voice experimentation, sound/music and so on. Sardam, through its workshops, also aims at offering interesting writing techniques regarding the short story, as well as alternative methods of experimenting with words in relation to the body.
Sergio Garau (ITA), Maria A. Ioannou (CY) with aRttitude, Maja Klaric (CRO) with Dimitris Spyrou – Acapella Solo Loop, Lily Michaelidou (CY), Eftychia Panayiotou (CY), Constantinos Papageorgiou (CY) with Zoi Kavaltzi, Christos Polymenakos (GR/CY), Costas Reousis (GR/CY), Dimitris Tanoudis (GR)
9 writers / 9 readings – Palio Xydadiko, Limassol, 20:30
Entrance fee: 5 euro
By reservation only: 99404072
2 workshops – Dance House Limassol, Dimitris Tanoudis 10:00-14:00 («Writing as a moment») & Christos Polymenakos 15:00 – 18:00 («Performing your Writing»)
Participation fee: 25 euro (per workshop)
Limited number of participants.
By reservation only, until the 6th of October: 99404072
Supporters: Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Coop Limassol, PLATO Educational Services LTD, Inprima LTD, Exertus Services LTD, greek online magazine Ntouente, Veramànd Studio, Avlea ton Oniron, Kanali 6.
Participants
Maria A. Ioannou (CY), with aRttitude
Maria A. Ioannou was born in 1982, in Limassol. She studied English Literature in the UK (MA 20th Century Lit, King’s College London / BA English Lit, 1st Class, University of Reading). She has won awards in both local and international writing competitions and often combines her writing with other forms of art. Her collection of short stories – “The Gigantic Fall of an Eyelash” (Gavrielides Publishing, Athens 2011) – has been awarded the Emerging Writer Literary Prize by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus. She is currently writing short stories for “Simio Stixis”, a combined project with the artist Marina Yerali in Politis newspaper.
*aRttitude was founded in 2009 by the choreographer Evi Panayiotou and the writer Maria A. Ioannou, aiming at promoting dance and literature in both Cyprus and abroad.
aRttitude’s previous productions:
ATTENTION FRAGILE, 10th Dance Platform, Rialto Theatre, 2010 / Untitled#1, NOBODY Festival, Pallas Theatre, 2010 / Untitled#2, 11th Dance Platform, Rialto Theatre, 2011 / TRANSPORTERS, Nea Kinisi Summer Festival, in a public bus (EMEL), 2011 / et cetera, Nea Kinisi Summer Festival, Gnorimias snack cafe, 2012 / BODY BIOS, Ethal, 2012 / ICY357, Nea Kinisi Summer Festival, 2013 / BODY BIOS II, Stoff Fringe Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
Sergio Garau (Italy)
Sergio Garau was born in Sardinia, Italy. He is a performance poet, an activist, a translator and an editor. His multilingual projects experiment between spoken word, spoken music and videopoetry. He has been awarded in several poetry competitions.
His most recent work, IO game over, is on tour around Europe since 2010.
Dimitris Tanoudis (GR) – εργαστήρι «Η Γραφή ως Στιγμή»
Dimitris Tanoudis was born in Athens in 1981. He studied Social Anthropology and Folk Culture. He works as a translator of English texts and manages three seminar circles of literary writing. In December 2011, he received the honorary distinction awarded by EKEBI (The National Book Centre) during the 1st New Authors’ Festival. The novel Spasm, which is published with Nefeli Editions, is his first book. His second novel, Soils, will be released in October 2013.
Eftychia Panayiotou (CY)
Eftychia Panayiotou (born in Nicosia, 1980) is a poet, copy editor, poetry translator and literary reviewer. She studied Philosophy in Athens and Modern Greek in London and is currently completing her PhD in Modern Greek female poetry. Her first poetry book, megas kipouros, was published in 2007. Her second one, Mavri Moralina, published in 2010, was shortlisted for the Cyprus State Prize and the “Diavazo” Poetry Prize and won the third prize for Best Book by a Young Poet in Greece. Her poetry has appeared in various languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Albanian and Serbian). Panayiotou has translated into Greek Anne Sexton’s Love Poems (Melani Publishers, 2010) as well as works of other American poets, such as Anne Carson.
Constantinos Papageorgiou (CY), with Zoi Kavaltzi
Constantinos Papageorgiou was born in 1981. In 2008 the Cyprus Writers’ Union awarded him with 1st Poetry Prize in a competition for young writers. He published his first poetry book («The Five Seasons») in 2012 by Melani Publications. That was shortlisted by the «Hellenic Authors Society» under the category of Best Newcomer Poet 2012.
Zoi Kavaltzi. Born in Greece in the ’80s. She works in education as a primary teacher, but her heart is devoted to theatre.
Her first serious attempts with drama where during her studies, at the Theatre Club of the University of Cyprus.In 2003 she becomes one of the founding members of Istos theatre group and over the years participates in many performances of devised theatre. In 2011, along with other people who love drama, create the storytelling group «Plastelini».
Christos Polymenakos (GR/CY) – εργαστήρι «Performing Your Writing»
Christos holds a BA in Acting from the Diomedes Fotiades Drama School and an MA in Performance Writing (Merit) from the internationally acknowledged Dartington College of Arts, with a scholarship from the Hellenic Centre for Theatre and Dance in Greece. He has attended workshops with important teachers in the fields of contemporary theatre, dramaturgy, dancetheatre, performance and creative writing, devised theatre in various countries.He has worked as a performance writer, staged and awarded filmed dance productions’ dramaturge, actor, performer, performing arts journalist, while he has also worked as a production and publicity manager. He was a member of the Greek State Subsidies for Dance Committee and of the selection panel for System Athens, the Hellenic I.T.I Platform. Christos is the artistic director of several independent research projects and has been the co-artistic director and co-designer of the first Arts, Technology and Creative Business Training Centre in Cyprus, VERAMàND STUDIO. Christos has taught performance and creative writing, dramaturgy, improvisation, acting and movement for performers. His research focuses on the body/word relation in analogical and digital environments. Christos’ works, workshops and articles have been hosted and published in Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Finland, Portugal, France, Germany and elsewhere.
Maja Klaric (Croatia), with Dimitris Spyrou – Acapella Solo Loop
Maja Klarić was born in 1985 in Šibenik, Croatia. She studied Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She works as a literary translator for numerous newspapers and magazines, a radio program and publishing houses. She published her work in literary magazines and newspapers, as well as anthologies. She was awarded on many international literary contests (Castello di Duino, Sea of Words, Aprilski susreti and so on). She won the UNESCO/Aschberg scholarship for artists in residence in Bahia, Brazil (2012). She organizes the international Activist Poetry Festival Art Attack. She published a collection of poetry Život u ruksaku (AGM, Zagreb, 2012) and is currently preparing a new collection.
Dimitris Spyrou – Acapella Solo Loop – works on music composition, through his participation in several music groups, as well as through personal projects that deal with the use of voice, musical and non musical instruments as producers of sound and a research on ancient ways of expression. He has written music and has performed in many theatre performances in Cyprus and abroad. His most recent project – Acapella Solo Loop – is based on music made of voices and everyday objects as producers of sound.
Lily Michaelidou (CY)
Lily Michaelides lives and works in Nicosia. She has published four collections of poetry. The Alchemy of Time (Govostis, 2001), Shapes and Roads in Relief… (Govostis, 2003), Remembrance of a Dawn (Govostis, 2004 – bilingual edition), Innuendos (Ypenigmoi) (Melani 2007) and the prose The city needs no recommendation (Melani 2011). She is a key member of the non Profit Organisation Ideogramma www.ideogramma–cy.com organising literary events with the participation of writers from all over the world. In March 2010 she organised the presentation of the Swedish Noble LaureateTomas Tranströmer, in Nicosia, (ARTE) and in February 2011 the presentation of the Greek writer Ersi Sotiropoulos, (The Shoe Factory).
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