Sunday we meet in Kofinou
When: 14.06.2026 00:00
Organizer: Admin
A great event dedicated to refugees, the memory, history and living cultural heritage of the occupied areas of Cyprus.
More than 30 occupied communities, municipalities, institutions turn Kofinou into a living space of memory, history and tradition, Kofinou, a community that has since 1974 been deeply associated with refugees, the hospitality of displaced persons and the collective experience of loss, hosts for the second consecutive year the 2nd Memory and Culture of Occupied Communities, on Sunday 14 June 2026 from 15:00 to 21:00 in a large event dedicated to refugees, to the memory, history and living cultural heritage of the occupied areas of Cyprus.
Over 30 municipalities, communities, organized ensembles and cultural institutions from occupied Cyprus will be found in Kofinou, carrying with them images, flavors, songs, narratives and traditions from the homelands that remain under occupation. The Adamoma is not just a cultural event but a collective act of memory and continuity. A reminder that the occupied communities of Cyprus still live through their people, their narratives, customs, flavors and traditions carried from generation to generation. Through the booths of the communities, visitors will have the opportunity to know particularly local customs, traditional costumes, crafts, music, photographic and archival material, as well as aspects of the everyday life of the occupied areas before and after 1974. Each stand will be a small place of memory where history will meet personal experience and tradition becomes a living presence.
Special emphasis is placed this year on the experiential workshops, through which tradition is presented not only as an exhibit, but is experienced and transmitted actively to visitors. Traditional arts, flavors and practices that marked the social and cultural life of the occupied communities revive through workshops of fervolite-caratian embroidery, pyrogiatiko embroidery, ceramics, panerios, cocoon frames of silkworm and the promotion of other forms of folk art.
At the festival, in a specially designed kiosk – workshop, Grandma Friday Matthew along with other refugees from Rizokarpaso who settled in Kofinou after 1974 will revive flavors, images and experiences of the lost homeland. With the support of the well-known Telegrysos Lefos, they will ferment and bake authentic buns with anari (myzithra) in the traditional oven, while making traditional millopits – or “pissias”, as they call them refugees from other areas. Visitors will be able to participate actively in the process, knowing closely about techniques, flavors and secrets carried from generation to generation.
In the area of the event we will have actions to record oral testimonies showing the oral history and experiential memory of the communities through accounts of people who lived the Turkish invasion, displacement and refugee of 1974, turning the Adamoma into a living place of meeting memory, experiences and generations.
At the same time, the “Violent Area of Memory and Refugees 1974” will offer visitors an experience of the first period of refugees, through authentic objects, photographic material, testimonies and images of the time, highlighting the difficult living conditions and the strength, dignity and endurance of the refugees of Cyprus.
The artistic program will include a music program with singer Dimitris Lunch and dance presentations, folk poetry, revivals of traditional processes, as well as culinary actions that highlight the cultural wealth of occupied communities.
Particularly touching moment of the 2nd Memory and Culture Adamoma is expected to be the screening of the documentary "Presentation", directed by Pe..
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