With the big concert of Dionysis Savvopoulos, the events for the 34th Ayia Napa International Festival culminated last night. Thousands of locals as well as foreign visitors had the opportunity to watch closely the rich cultural program offered for three decades by the Municipality of Ayia Napa on the occasion of World Tourism Day.
It was preceded on Thursday, September 27 at the Municipal Museum "Sea", a pre-event, which included the opening of the Exhibition of the Nanyue Palace Archaeological Museum of the Chinese city of Guangzhou, a presentation of the traditional way of serving Chinese tea, the dancing by the Ayia Napa Dance Club, a performance by Chinese Artists who performed a traditional instrument show, entitled "Extolling Good Times with Singing and Dancing", the Puppet Show, "Long Silk Dance" and the Konton Opera "BailongGuan" and the representation of the Cyprus Wedding "Today the Sky shines" by the Music Band and the Dance Ensemble of the Municipality of Deryneia "Drymio".
On Friday, September 28, the "Choral Encounter" with the Community Choir of Pera Orini and the Choir of the Municipality of Sotiras opened the curtain on the stage of the Central Square and was followed by a concert with Pantelis Thalassinos, accompanied by the artist Georgitas , and Michalis Hatzimichael.
Saturday night closed with the big concert of the remarkable songwriter and composer Dionysis Savvopoulos entitled "Dionysis Savvopoulos in the songs of others". This is a musical performance performed for the first time by the great artist, who together with the Vocal Ensemble "Dimension", 30 musicians from Cyprus and Greece and orchestrations of two great musicians, the Greek and permanent collaborator of D. Savvopoulos Giotis Kiourtsoglou and of the Cypriot composer Vassos Argyridis presented and sang songs of other colleagues, older and younger, from Attik or Markos Vamvakaris, to Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Phoebus Delivorias and others.
The events end tonight. The Dance Club of the Municipality of Ayia Napa and the Music Group of the Cultural Club "Cape Greco" from 8.00 pm until midnight will alternately present the "Traditional Dance Sergiani" and the music and dance performance "Come, night, to listen to the song my". The Music Band "Cape Greco" will accompany the Siakallis Band. Around 9.15pm there will be a short break of the program for the proclamation of the 35th International Festival by the Mayor of Ayia Napa Giannis Karousos.
In addition to the art program, the audience will be able to admire the various exhibitions that will be exhibited indoors and in the courtyard of the Monastery and cover the entire wide range of artistic creation of Cypriot and foreign artists, such as "Little Salamis in Ayia Napa" by Filippos Yapan , "The Cyprus of Yesterday and Today in small paintings, engravings and copies" of the "Diachroniki" Gallery, the photography exhibitions of our occupied cities "Famagusta City Ghost", "Morphou, the theft and destruction of Pa ancient heritage, "" Cultural heritage of Kyrenia "looting and destruction" that kindly granted the occupied Municipalities of Famagusta, Morphou and Kyrenia and the Municipality of Agia Napa photography exhibition "Agia Napa of yesterday and today."
In addition to the art exhibitions, there will also be an exhibition of agricultural products and flowers by the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, the Cypriot Handicrafts of the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Tourism, the Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works on "Traditional ", An exhibition of maps and engravings from the collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and the Department of Forests on" Flora, Fauna and Environment of Cyprus ". The Farmhouse will function as an exhibition space and will be fully equipped with traditional furniture, agricultural tools and home decoration of a traditional Cypriot house.
In the courtyard of the Farm House, demonstrations of various household, agricultural and agricultural occupations will be carried out, such as the preparation of zivania, pasta halloumi, pasta, bread and palouze. There will also be demonstrations of traditional arts such as wood carving, silversmithing, glazing, silkwork, leatherwork, basket weaving, pottery and more.
Admission to all Festival events is free for the public.
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