27 November 2024
‘Constantine Leventis’ Auditorium, at 19:30

'Unsettled'
by Dr. Argyro Nicolaou, scholar and filmmaker.

'Unsettled’ is a lecture performance by scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and her attempts to reconstruct her mother’s past in the town of Varosha.

Varosha, on the eastern coast of Cyprus, was fenced off by the occupying Turkish military for 46 years. Since the Greek-backed coup d’etat and Turkish invasion of 1974 that divided the island and displaced a third of its population, Varosha was neither settled nor demolished. It turned into a “ghost town”.

In 2006, a family member entered the town undetected, snuck into the family’s ancestral home, and recovered a childhood diary that belonged to Nicolaou’s mother. This was the closest Nicolaou came to witnessing her mother’s life before she was displaced, until October 2020, when the Turkish military opened Varosha to the public, and the two women were able to visit the town together for the first time.

RSVP by Monday 25 November 2024.

For reservations:
| +357 22 668838, (Monday-Friday, 09.00-13.00 & 14.00-16.30)
| rsvp@leventisgallery.org

The doors close at 19:40.
Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

*The lecture will be given in English.

Free entrance | Limited number of seats.