Episode - Island Talks

Facing Love in Cyprus – Episode 5: Forgiving yourself 100 times (1/10/2023)

Forgiveness can touch upon even the smallest inconveniences, like missing out on doing your laundry as you had promised yourself after days of procrastination. It can also involve the more challenging task of forgiving yourself for accepting abusive behavior from those around you, or even harder still, for recognizing moments when you may have been abusive. The beauty of forgiveness is that it's something we should carry with us always. How could you go about your life without it? How could you wake up each day knowing that you're holding yourself hostage to your past actions, replaying old words…

KaleidHERscope – Episode 7: Chiara Rosselli: Redesigning processes can help fix politics (27/9/2023)

Chiara Rosselli, co-founder & executive director of the APROPOS Group and a speaker at the Cyprus Forum on the 29th September 2023 speaks to kaleidHERscope about how redesigning or tweaking processes can help fix politics, whether at political party level or non-profit organization level. As a process designer and a political dialogue curator since 2015, she talks about being a firm believer that a better way for the political sector to communicate and collaborate is possible, about the big challenges, her dream clients and about using conferences more effectively. For more information about : Apropos Group: https://www.aproposgroup.org/ Cyprus Forum…

KaleidHERscope – Episode 6: African mystic, author Mmatshilo Motsei on multigenerational healing & community development (8/9/2023)

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African mystic, author, healer, and midwife Mmatshilo Motsei speaks to Magda Zenon on KaleidHERscope about uncovering the old truth that Africa is great and powerful and that, because of the poisoning of our mind, our soul is afflicted, about multi-generational healing and community development and of the role of indigenous midwifery in countering obstetric violence.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 42: Arjantin’den Madrid’e, Oppenheimer’den Barbie’ye (7/9/2023)

Kısa bir yaz tatili arasından sonra Garip Zamanlar geri döndü. Sertaç Arjantin ve Latin Amerika gözlemlerini paylaştı, Evren adım adım Madrid'i anlattı, Kemal üçüncü Prag deneyiminden dem vurdu. Herkes bir yerlere gittikten sonra Lefkoşa'ya geri dönüp Barbie-Oppenheimer dualitesini konuştular. Hindistan Ay'a insan gönderdi. Muhabbet bitmedi, bir saate uzadı. Kemal editleyene kadar canını yedi. Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan ile Garip Zamanlar podcast formatında 42. bölüme ulaştı.

Τα αδέσποτα – Επεισόδιο 1: Δημιουργώντας queer χώρους (2/9/2023)

Συζητούμε με τον Δημήτρη Χειμώνα τζαι τον Λεξ Γρηγορίου του Sessions τζαι τον Diego Armando Aparicio του QueerWave για το πώς είναι να δημιουργείς queer spaces στην Κύπρο τζαι παρουσιάζουν μας τα project τους τζαι την επικείμενη συνεργασία τους. Τα αδέσποτα - Queer αναπολογητικά νιαουρίσματα με Μαριλένα Κυριάκου τζαι Γιάννη Χαριλάου.

Facing Love in Cyprus – Episode 4: Feeling Behind in Life (1/9/2023)

Life is like a train station with everyone boarding different trains heading to various destinations. Yet, strange enough, many of us can’t shake the feeling that our train has left the station without us 🚂 In this episode we take a closer look at the experience of “feeling behind in life” and explore the crisis that comes up when our personal goals and society’s benchmarks contrast. In a world full of so many curated timelines, it’s easy to get lost in comparison and struggle to see the beauty in our unique paths. We discuss different strategies that gently challenge…

KaleidHERscope – Episode 5: Director Renos Spanoudes on playing personalities of apartheid era (28/8/2023)

Educator, actor, director and playwright Renos Spanoudes, a South African Greek Cypriot Diasporan speaks on kaleidHERscope about playing the role of Dimitri Tsafendas, the assassin of the architect of apartheid, and, advocate George Bizos in the landmark Rivonia Trials, about how the scenarios of these plays developed as archives were opened over time and the original narrative was no longer valid. He also speaks about Nelson Mandela, diversity and inclusion and how storytelling in all its forms – acting, narration, writing, drawing, etc – may ultimately be a more effective peacebuilding tool.

Nicosia Uncut – Episode 49: Status-quo in Cyprus is an illusion (21/8/2023)

The UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus has been attacked by the Turkish Cypriot police in the buffer zone close to Pyla village during an ongoing work of fixing a road to connect the bicommunal village to the Turkish Cypriot controlled areas. While the Turkish & Turkish Cypriot side citing humanitarian reasons, the international community as well as the permanent members of the Security Councils, barring Russia, condemned the attack. In this episode of Nicosia Uncut, Andromachi Sophocleous and Kemal Baykallı discuss the developments and underline that there is no-such thing as status-quo without a settlement. Against the background, the…

KaleidHERscope – Episode 4: Character-driven narratives for the page & the screen about memory, conflict and displacement with Argyro Nicolaou (9/8/2023)

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Argyro Nicolaou, a Cypriot writer and filmmaker who calls both Cyprus and NYC home, speaks on kaleidHERScope about memory, conflict, and displacement, the role that Varoshi has played in her life and her work, how story-telling can be a healing process, how her work links historical research to create 3-dimensional, character-driven narratives for the page and the screen, and about leaving Cyprus and finding her place in metropolitan NY.

Terra Nullius Cyprus – Episode 1: A first podcast with (possibly) Cyprus’ first podcaster Magda Zenon (2/8/2023)

Cyprus is filled with big hearts and big emotions - a hot, sleepy island, with hot tempers! On the surface it looks ‘normal’, but below the surface are many layers, filled with history - both beautiful and painful. An island full of amazing people, with incredible stories, doing amazing things. Join social and political analyst Costa Constanti to meet Cyprus and those who live there. World Premiere of Terra Nullius Cyprus starts with a chat with civil society rock star Magda Zenon about life in South Africa, Greece and Cyprus, gender equality and women’s empowerment, bit of politics and…