Sardam Festival 2017

5th SARDAM: alternative literary readings festival
29th September – 1st October 2017 / LIMASSOL – NICOSIA

SARDAM returns for its fifth year, bringing the audience closer to literature, through contemporary ways of writing and performing literature!
Writers-performers from Cyprus and abroad share innovative ways of writing and reading/presenting literature, through enjoyable readings / performances, workshops and parallel events. A common ground is the emphasis on 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. In its previous editions, the programme included, among others, an interactive literary installation, a combination of literature with architecture, visual writing, poetry through stencil/graffiti art, as well as sound poetry. This year, some of the above elements are preserved, and new combinations are presented. The tribute to a Cypriot writer is continued (an artist presents the work of a writer, without the participation of the actual writer), and so is the parallel event SARDAM SOLO, which presents a literary performance of a longer duration by a guest writer-performer from abroad. This year, one more parallel event is introduced, SARDAM GROUP, during which a production which has been presented abroad, is also presented to Cyprus. This year’s festival also showcases its guest of honour, the amazing writer-performer and sound poet from Hungary Katalin Ladik – Yoko Ono Prize 2016. Katalin Ladik, besides participating in the group readings/performances in Limassol and Nicosia, will also present an innovative live lecture in Limassol, on the last day of the festival.

MAIN EVENT –LITERARY READINGS/PERFORMANCES

29 SEPTEMBER 2017, THEATRO ENA, LIMASSOL, 8:30pm
30 SEPTEMBER 2017, ARTOS FOUNDATION, NICOSIA, 8:30pm
Entrance fee: 5 Euro / Reservations-info: 99932788

The main event in Limassol and Nicosia includes the writers-performers:
(GREECE) MARIOS CHATZIPROKOPIOU / XENIA PAPADOPOULOU
(HUNGARY) KATALIN LADIK
(JAPAN) TOMOMI ADACHI
(SPAIN) ANNALISA MARI PEGRUM
(FRANCE) SAIBAN
(GERMANY) JESSY JAMES, in cooperation with the sound designer TYCHONAS MICHAELIDES
(KENYA) OGUTU MURAYA, in cooperation with the dancer-performer ELEANA ALEXANDROU and the visual artist EVA KORAE.
(CYPRUS) ANTONIS GEORGIOU, in cooperation with the director/actress ELENA AGATHOCLEOUS, MICHALIS PAPADOPOULOS, PAMBOS VOSKARIDES.
The visual artist ALEXANDRA PAMBOUKA will also present selected works by ELENA TOUMAZI REMBELINA.

+ 3 WORKSHOPS
NICOSIA / 30 SEPTEMBER 2017/ ARTOS FOUNDATION
2:00pm -6:00pm (JAPAN) TOMOMI ADACHI – NEWSPAPER READING CHOIR: Live mixing, editing, musicalisation of banal/found texts (a sound poetry and live reading workshop) *the result of the workshop will be presented to the public as an opening act of the Nicosia Main event **speakers of any language are welcome
LIMASSOL / 1 OCTOBER 2017 / NeMe Arts Centre
10:30am -1:30pm (CYPRUS) CHRISTOS KRASIDES – ALTERNATIVE WRITING (a workshop which combines the writing process with other forms of art)
2:00pm -5:00pm (GREECE) MARIOS HATZIPROKOPIOU – POETRY PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Participation fee: 20 euro per workshop (for those wishing to attend all three workshops of Sardam, one is free). Limited number of participants. By reservation only, until the 27th of September: 99932788

+ LIVE LECTURE
by our GUEST OF HONOUR KATALIN LADIK (HUNGARY) – YOKO ONO PRIZE 2016: Katalin Ladik’s Visual Poetry Pieces / Collage Scores, with sound recordings (this lecture will also include the live performance “Spring Cleaning”)
LIMASSOL / 1 OCTOBER 2017 / NeMe Arts Centre / 6pm
Limited amount of seats / Reservation required: 99932788 / Free Entrance