THE CYC LAUNCH PARTY
October 20th 2023

Poetry from Steph Kleanthous & Joe Cook
Music by Eleftherios
Food by Yiayia Mama Magnet Centre, Park Approach, Birmingham B23 7SJ

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EVENTS
THE CYC LAUNCH PARTY

October 20th 2023
- Tickets £30

Poetry from Steph Kleanthous & Joe Cook
Music by Eleftherios
Food by Yiayia Mama Magnet Centre, Park Approach, Birmingham B23 7SJ

Tickets £30 ︎︎︎RESERVE A TICKET

EVENTS OTHER ISLES

2022 — ONGOING

TALKS CAHIT ASOVA

A History of Cypriot Music
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walking music encyclopedia, Cahit Asova discusses the characteristics that make traditional Cypriot music and how listening to it can transport us back to the homeland, proving just how important music and identity is. Cahit will discuss how Cyprus' history and politics has transformed the music on the island, and despite efforts to erase it, how traditional music lives on through peace-building efforts. Cahit is on a mission to prove that traditional Cypriot music is for everyone and why we can't leave it in the past.

TALKS ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU

Cyprus, Poetry and Identity
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Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher.

His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. It was listed as one of New Statesman’s top books of 2022.

His second collection, After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year.

WORKSHOPS CREATIVE PRACTICE

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Gamze Şanlı is a British, Turkish, and Cypriot multidisciplinary artist and performer.

She holds a Combined Honours BA in Turkish & Greek Studies from King’s College London and SOAS, and an MA in Human Rights from UCL. Her craft weaves stories centred around socio-politics, ancestral remembrance, nostalgic fantasy, poetic horror, hauntology, mythology and witchcraft. The projects that she has collaborated on and/or performed in vary from experimental theatre to independent film and documentary.

She is currently working on some experimental short films and art projects and is a member of the Documentarist, MENA Film Festival and London Short Film Festival teams. As an artist her work combines embroidery, collage and illustration. Şanlı is a founding member of the multilingual folk music group ‘Janatolia’, and is the art and activism director of the SWANA collective Full Potential. Having worked in Erbil and Istanbul she is now based in London.

WORKSHOPS MORLEY
HOUSE BOOKS

Artist book workshop
- Tickets £50 (15 places) including materials
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We are an artist duo working at the crossroads of visual art and literature. We make artists' books and see them as vessels, depositories for narratives, comprised of textual and physical elements.

We both grew up at the borders – of cultures, countries, languages. The fascination with liminal states and spaces translates into our central themes: trauma and healing, violence and communication, unity and isolation.