13TH INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERATURE FESTIVAL SARDAM
Where: LIMASSOL
When: 25/09/2025 - 28/09/2025
Tickets: Performance evenings €8 / €5 (disabled, unemployed, students, pensioners) | €25 Workshops | €90 Sardam Full Pass (3 days of events + 4 workshops)
Duration: Workshops 4h | Performances 2h
Ages: 18+
Language: Greek / English (no subtitles)
About the event:
Τhe International Interdisciplinary Literature Festival SARDAM returns for its 13th year! Bringing literary performance once again in the spotlight, the audience will have the chance to engage with poetry performers and other artists from Cyprus and abroad, who share original ways of writing, reading and performing literature, through live performances, workshops, and parallel events. Literature and speech are combined with contemporary or traditional means of expression, such as theater, sound/music, spoken word, contemporary dance, sound poetry, video poetry, technology, visual arts, and so on. This year’s programme includes well-known and emerging writers, poetry performers and artists from Cyprus, Greece, the USA, Ireland, Finland and Iceland!
More info and detailed Press Release: http://www.sardamfestival.com
Event Dates:
| Event | Day | Date | Start Time | Venue | Tickets: | |
| SARDAM - Poetry workshop with Danez Smith (USA) - Guest of Honour 2025 “Personal Machines: Invented Form” | Thursday | 25/09/2025 | 17:30 - 21:30 |
PALIO XYDADIKO LIMASSOL 
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Workshop |
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| SARDAM - Sound Poetry and Voice Workshop with Maja Jantar (Finland) | Friday | 26/09/2025 | 15:00 - 19:00 |
PALIO XYDADIKO LIMASSOL
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Workshop |
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| SARDAM - GROUP EVENT I | Friday | 26/09/2025 | 20:00 |
POLYCHOROS SYNERGEIO LIMASSOL
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Performance |
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| SARDAM - Interdisciplinary workshop with Alev Adil (Cyprus/UK) | Saturday | 27/09/2025 | 10:30 - 14:30 |
POLYCHOROS SYNERGEIO LIMASSOL
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Workshop |
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| SARDAM - GROUP EVENT II | Saturday | 27/09/2025 | 20:00 |
POLYCHOROS SYNERGEIO LIMASSOL
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Performance |
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| SARDAM - Spoken Word - Slam Poetry Workshop with P.I.E.V. (The Bad Poetry Social Club, Greece) | Sunday | 28/09/2025 | 11:30 - 15:30 |
POLYCHOROS SYNERGEIO LIMASSOL
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Workshop |
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| SARDAM - Sardam Open Mic & Closing event | Sunday | 28/09/2025 | 18:00 - 21:00 |
POLYCHOROS SYNERGEIO LIMASSOL
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Performance |
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| SARDAM FULL PASS (3 days of events + 4 workshops) | Thursday - Sunday | 25/09/2025 - 28/09/2025 | 17:30 - 21:00 | PALIO XYDADIKO / POLYCHOROS SYNERGEIO |
FULL PASS |
More about the event:
WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, September 25, 2025
Poetry workshop with Danez Smith (USA) - Guest of Honour 2025
“Personal Machines: Invented Form”
17:30 - 20:30 @ Palio Xydadiko (Genethliou Mitella, 3036, Limassol)
This 4-hour workshop invites us to explore traditional and very contemporary forms of poetry (e.g., bop, duplex, burning haibun, Molotov sonnet) before attempting to create our own poetic forms and poems. Although free verse offers freedom, strictly personal constraints can provoke unexpected sonic and semantic reactions. Open to all, this workshop challenges us to break out of established poetic frameworks and imagine new poetic possibilities in times of great turmoil but also hope.
*Language of communication: English
FRIDAY, September 26, 2025
Sound Poetry and Voice Workshop with Maja Jantar (Finland)
15:00 - 19:00 @ Palio Xydadiko (Genethliou Mitella, 3036, Limassol)
During this 4-hour workshop, we will warm up our bodies and voices with vocal exercises and improvisation techniques, exchange vowels and make sounds together, even if they are cacophonous. Together we will explore ways to lift the text from the page and bring it into the performance space, listening to what it asks and desires from us. We will discuss examples and transform our text, exploring what it means to bend it, twist it, chew it, shout it out, whisper it, exhale it, return it to the mouth, roll it on the tongue and knock it between the teeth.
*Language of communication: English
SATURDAY, September 27, 2025
Interdisciplinary workshop with Alev Adil (Cyprus/UK)
“Catharsis: a creative workshop”
10:30 - 14:30 @ Polychoros Synergeio (91A Eleftherias Street, Limassol)
This interdisciplinary workshop explores catharsis (emotional release through creative action) as a path to healing and resistance. Inspired by The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk), it recognizes that trauma resides in both the mind and the body. Through writing, movement and visual expression, participants will process personal and collective crises. Emphasizing process over outcome, the workshop encourages the destruction and reconstruction of the work as a metaphor for transformation. It offers space for reflection, liberation, and creative resilience through acts of creation and deconstruction.
*Language of communication: English
SUNDAY, 28 September, 2025
Spoken Word - Slam Poetry Workshop with P.I.E.V. (The Bad Poetry Social Club, Greece)
11:30 - 15:30 @ Polychoros Synergeio (91A Eleftherias Street, Limassol)
Spoken word, contemporary writing, books and zines, persona and performance are the themes that will be developed in this workshop. From creating a text, staging, writing, performing and selecting the music, we will conclude this workshop with a focus on live presentation on stage and its requirements.
Language of communication: Greek
PERFORMANCES INFO:
GROUP EVENT I (26/9)
20:00 @ Polychoros Synergeio (91A Eleftherias Street, Limassol)
Participants:
Hlín Leifsdóttir and Whodoes (aka Morton) (Iceland / Greece)
Konstantinos Papacharalampos (Greece / UK)
Fisherwomxn (Cyprus)
Tuğçe Tekhanli (Cyprus)
Alexandros Adamidis and Stelios Andronikou (Cyprus)
Guest of Honour: Danez Smith (USA)
+ visual installation by Anastasia Melandinou
GROUP EVENT II (27/9)
20:00 @ Polychoros Synergeio (91A Eleftherias Street, Limassol)
Participants:
Maja Jantar (Finland)
Tasos Sagris and Whodoes (aka Morton) (Greece)
Evi Lampropoulou (Greece)
Kalia Maliali (Cyprus)
Maria Philippou (Cyprus)
Stephen James Smith (Ireland)
+ visual installation by Anastasia Melandinou (continued)
Open Mic & Closing Event (28/9)
(in collaboration with The Bad Poetry Social Club and KENO Publications)
18:00 - 21:00 @ Polychoros Synergeio (91A Eleftherias Street, Limassol)
Guest performances:
The Bad Poetry Social Club
Lefteris Moumtzis (Freedom Candlemaker)
