Sardam Festival 2023

11th SARDAM interdisciplinary literature festival

(22 – 24 September 2023 in Limassol)

After last year’s 10-year anniversary at Rialto Theatre in Limassol and at S22 in Athens, Sardam festival returns slightly more reserved but still rich and vibrant. Like every year, writers-performers and other artists from Cyprus and abroad will be sharing original experiences of writing, reading and performing, through a variety of acts, workshops, screenings and parallel events. Common ground will be the combination of literature/text and spoken word with traditional and modern means of expression like theatre, technology, sound / music, contemporary dance, poetry slam, visual arts, videopoetry, and so on.

For the first time this year, the Main Event of the festival will be divided into two separate nights which will showcase different acts each time, at Sinergio theatre on the 23^rd and the 24^th of September. SARDAM Residency programme will also return this year, during which two artists from abroad will be inspired by Limassol to create an interdisciplinary literary performance.

SARDAM’s 11^th edition, with an emphasis on participants from Cyprus and Greece this year, will also present the international Video Poetry festival of Athens and will showcase awarded videopoems from different parts of the world. SARDAM’s Guest of Honour will be the musician and composer/songwriter Michalis Siganides (Thessaloniki, 1958), who follows a “deconstructive” approach to songwriting and represents the musical collage in Greece, with extensive research on the poetry of Miltos Sahtouris. Workshops will be delivered by the writer Amanda Michalopoulou from Greece and by the choreopoet from Barbados and the UK Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa.

The programme of this year’s 11^th SARDAM:

two group events

Saturday, 23 September & Sunday, 24 September / 8pm

Entrance fee: 5 euro per night

Synergio theatre (91A Eleftherias street, Limassol)

Group Event Ι / Saturday 23 September

CYPRUS

Christos Panayiotou (interactive installation)

Loukia Pieridou, in cooperation with the visual artist Peter Eramian

Melissa Zanga, in cooperation with the musician Angelos Messios

GREECE

Sissy Doutsiou, in cooperation with the rapper Dimitris Koufoudakis and the electronic music dj Biomass

BARBADOS / UK

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

+ screenings of awarded videopoems, in cooperation with the international Video Poetry festival of Athens (organized by the Institute of Experimental Arts) – Part 1

Group Event ΙΙ / Sunday 24 September

CYPRUS

Christos Panayiotou (interactive installation / continued)

Paris Erotokritou, in cooperation with the performer Kestrel Farin Leah and the visual artist Demetris Soteriou

GREECE

Achilles ΙΙΙ, in cooperation with the composer and guitarist Themis Vasiliou

The Bad Poetry Social Club

Michalis Siganides (Sardam Guest of Honour)

ARGENTINA / CHILE

Cristian Forte, in cooperation with the visual artist Ginés Olivares (Sardam Residency 2023)

+ screenings of awarded videopoems, in cooperation with the international Video Poetry festival of Athens (organized by the Institute of Experimental Arts) – Part 2