Cyprus in UK - Culture

🎧✨ Step into a world of voices, memories, and home.

Due to audience demand, Maria Christodoulou’s Voices of Home: Women and Everyday Life in Cypriot Culture returns for an additional Open Day at Cyprus House.

Part of THERE IS AN ISLAND III, the installation invites audiences into an intimate soundscape inspired by the traditional Cypriot household in the UK. Through women’s voices and everyday stories, the work reminds us that culture often survives through small gestures conversations around tables, family traditions, and the memories we carry with us. 🏠🫖🌿

Come and experience a moving reflection on identity, belonging, and the living realities of our diaspora.

📍 Cyprus House, London
🗓 Tuesday, 9 June
⏰ 11:00am–3:00pm (last entry)

🎟 Complimentary tickets:
https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/voices-of-home-women-and-everyday-life-in-cypriot-culture-open-days-at-cyprus-house

Applications for 2026-27 Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (cycle 2) are now open

We would like to ask for your support to promote these awards.
The Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS) offer fully-funded Master’s scholarships to Commonwealth citizens. Successful applicants can travel to a different country in the Commonwealth, where they can study a variety of courses and benefit from the expertise provided by leading universities. Developing new skills, gaining a qualification and experiencing life in another country benefits both the individual and their home country.
Three fully funded Master’s scholarships are available, hosted by member institutions in Papua New Guinea and South Africa. Further details of the scholarships, including eligibility, host universities and details on how to apply, are available on the ACU website.

Applications close on 3 June 2026 at 15:00 UTC.
We have developed a marketing toolkit with materials that you can use to share these scholarship opportunities with your networks. The toolkit includes:
• Email and social media templates
• Social media graphics
• QECS student flyer
• QECS student poster

Thank you in advance for helping us market this application cycle for QECS, so that we can reach as many talented scholars from across the Commonwealth as possible.

More Details: https://www.acu.ac.uk/funding-opportunities/for-students/scholarships/queen-elizabeth-commonwealth-scholarships/

Next weekend!
Stay tuned!

🍷🇨🇾 The Cypriot Wine Festival is back!

Next weekend (6-7 June) look out for us at the largest community event of the year for fantastic Cypriot wines, delicious food, live entertainment, and a wonderful celebration of our culture and heritage.

🎟️ Find out more and get your tickets:
https://cwfexpo.co.uk/

Cypriot Wine Festival & Business Expo

🎨🇨🇾 The transformation has begun.

Today, the first walls of George Pol. Georghiou – Timeless Cyprus are rising at The Hellenic Centre in London. In just a few days, these spaces will be filled with the colours, memories, landscapes and people that shaped the artistic vision of one of Cyprus’s most important painters.

Every exhibition begins with empty walls. What follows is the work of many hands, many conversations and a shared belief that art has the power to connect people across generations and borders.

We are proud to present this landmark exhibition as part of the official cultural programme of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.

Presented by the A. G. Leventis Gallery, in collaboration with the High Commission of the Republic of Cyprus in the United Kingdom, and with the support of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, Timeless Cyprus will soon welcome audiences from across London and beyond.

A heartfelt thank you to the curators, exhibition team, technicians, designers, installers, educators and partners who are helping bring this remarkable project to life.

The journey continues… ✨

📍 Learn more: https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/george-pol-georghiou-timeless-cyprus-1 | The Hellenic Centre, London
📅 3–22 June 2026

Calling young disability advocates across the Commonwealth! 📣

The Commonwealth Children & Youth Disability Network (CCYDN) is looking for passionate young leaders to join its Executive Committee for 2026–2028.

🌍 Meet young changemakers from around the world
💬 Advocate for inclusion and equal opportunities
🤝 Build networks and leadership skills
✨ Help shape the future of disability rights globally

If you are between 18 and 33 years old and involved in disability advocacy through an organisation or network, we encourage you to apply.

🗓 Deadline: Monday 1 June 2026
⏰ 11:59pm (GMT)

📲 More information and applications here:
https://shorturl.at/creKe

Cardiff is next. 🇨🇾

The journey of the UK Cyprus Film Festival 2026 continues — and each stop feels more meaningful than the last.

This June, we bring to Wales a programme dedicated to women Cypriot filmmakers, as part of Cyprus’ Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

We will share:
🎭 our TIMELESS CYPRUS workshops with young people
🎬 SKAMMATA, a documentary that speaks to memory, history and identity

📍 Screening at
Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas

Grateful for every community that opens its doors to us along the way.

219 artworks, abandoned in 1974, returned home decades later. A gesture of trust. A moment of hope.

Discover this remarkable story in a lecture by Dr Yiannis Toumazis:

✨ A glimpse into Famagusta’s cultural heyday...

A journey into the cultural life of Famagusta and the enduring power of art to reconnect communities.

📅 17 June 2026
📍 The Hellenic Centre, London
🎟️ https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/dr-yiannis-toumazis-lecture-talk

We are delighted to invite you to the closing event of our Cultural Season 2026 (first half) 🌿✨

Rivers, a site-responsive poetic performance by Costas Mannouris, directed by Petros Charalambous, with visual creation by Eugene Gabriel.

Set in St James’s Square Garden, this immersive experience brings together poetry, image, and performance in a quiet journey through memory and reflection 🌊

📍 St James’s Square Garden, London SW1Y 4LE
🗓 Sunday 5 July 2026
🕕 Doors open at 6:00pm | Event concludes at 8:00pm

🚪 Entry via the northwestern gate
🎟 Book: https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/rivers

🌧 In case of rain, the event will move indoors to Cyprus House

On Monday 8 June 2026, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra arrives at Cadogan Hall for a landmark concert celebrating Cyprus’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Under the baton of Cypriot maestro Dr Marios Papadopoulos, the evening will feature:
🎹 Anna Avramidou in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy
🎶 Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9
🎤 Cypriot soloists Zoe Nicolaidou, Shakira Tsindos, Sotiris Charalampous & Yiorgo Ioannou
🎻 Guest Concertmaster Rainer Küchl, former Concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic

A celebration of Europe, culture and artistic excellence through the timeless music of Beethoven ✨

🎟️ Tickets:
https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/beethoven-choral-fantasy-symphony-no-9/