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The
Department of Antiquities is organizing a concert titled “Kypris” |
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The Department of Antiquities,
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works announces that on the 24th
June 2022 at 20:00 the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Cypriot
artist Alexia Vassiliou will be presenting her work “Kypris”. The concert is
organized within the framework of the celebrations for International Museum
Day and the reopening of the Archaeological Museum of Larnaka District, with
free entry. Inspired by the antiquities on
display at the Larnaka Museum and the various themes that they express, such
as the natural world, birth, death and ritual, Alexia’s artistic approach
represents the feminine perspective of storytelling, allowing the audience,
the individual, to create their own experience within the reinterpretation.
In essence it is the correlation between the antiquities, the interpretation,
and the meaning we assign to them. Through spoken word narratives, songs,
sound effects, and improvisations, Alexia creates a sonic auditory landscape,
a soundscape of imageries creating a bridge between the ancient world and the
present. The musical program will be woven with commentary/storytelling from
Iosif Hadjikyriakos In ancient inscriptions, the
epithet Kypris was
given to Cyprus’ most emblematic female deity, demonstrating the widespread
worship of the goddess, on an island-wide scale. (MG/ECHR) |
