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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 09-08-04
CONTENTS
[01] FAMAGUSTA MUNICIPALITY - CAMPAIGN
[02] THOK - GREECE - BRITAIN - JOINT PRODUCTION
[01] FAMAGUSTA MUNICIPALITY - CAMPAIGN
The Municipality of Famagusta, under Turkish occupation since 1974, is
embarking on yet another enlightenment campaign to inform world public
opinion and decision-making centres about the plight of the town. The
Municipality calls on its citizens to mark on a map the location of
their house - with ``the flag of return`` - thus claiming their right
to return to their occupied city, fenced off since the 1974 Turkish
invasion.
According to a press release, the map will be posted at specific
locations in the southern government-controlled part of Cyprus
(Limassol, Larnaca, Nicosia, and the Famagusta Cultural Centre in
Dherynia) from early August to mid September. The Municipality of
Famagusta appeals to its citizens to support this global campaign to
highlight the need for respect of UN resolutions that call for the
return of Famagusta to its lawful inhabitants.
UN Security Council resolution 550 (1984) considers any attempts to
settle any part of Varosha (the fenced off area of Famagusta) by people
other than its inhabitants as inadmissible and calls for the transfer
of this area to the administration of the UN. The Municipality had, in
the past, collected thousands of signatures from its citizens, who
demanded the right to return to their hometown. The list was
communicated to various decision-making bodies in Europe and elsewhere.
Famagusta was captured by the advancing Turkish troops during the
second phase of the Turkish invasion, in mid August, 1974. Ever since
it has remained sealed off, under the control of the Turkish military.
[02] THOK - GREECE - BRITAIN - JOINT PRODUCTION
The Cyprus Theatre Organisation (CTO) is cooperating with the National
Theatre of Greece and the British Theatre company Imitating the Dog, in
a co-production entitled Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls, to be
presented in all three countries between September 2009 and March 2010.
The Creative Collaboration Project Fund, launched in August 2008, has
now come to a successful close, supporting 25 distinct projects taking
place all across the UK and South East Europe in 2009-10, a press
release issued by the CTO has said.
A new, inspiring, multilingual theatre work, The Bar of Lost Souls,
weaves together experiences and expressions from different
nationalities and cultural backgrounds. It focuses on ports and places
of mobility, migration and creativity, imagination and shared
histories. It is an international co-production combining new
technologies with narrative and physical theatre techniques.
The inspiration for the piece arises from the notion of Mediterranean
ports as cultural melting pots, space of ``heterotopias``, where
national borders and identities are challenged by the ever-changing mix
of ethnicities and nationalities. Set in an imaginary bar in an
imaginary European seaport in the early 20th century, this new theatre
work is a magical realist exploration of the importance of the
Mediterranean to the psyche of the New Europe.
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