2nd INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE MITSIKOURI

Event Dates:

Event	Day	Date	Start Time	Venue	Tickets:
🇳🇱 ΗΟΜΕ	Saturday	11/10/2025	12:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇳🇱 ΗΟΜΕ	Saturday	11/10/2025	15:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇮🇹 SEGGIOLINE: TO GROW UP	Saturday	11/10/2025	17:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇮🇹 SEGGIOLINE: TO GROW UP	Sunday	12/10/2025	17:00	LARNACA MUNICIPAL THEATRE "G.LYKOURGOS"		BUY
🇫🇷 CINQ MINUTES AVEC TOI	Saturday	11/10/2025	18:40	BookFest - Acropolis Park	Free Entrance
🇫🇷 CINQ MINUTES AVEC TOI	Sunday	12/10/2025	17:00	LEFKARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL	Free Entrance
🇪🇸 LITTLE NIGHT	Sunday	12/10/2025	10:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA	*Tickets ONLY for Children	BUY
🇪🇸 LITTLE NIGHT	Sunday	12/10/2025	12:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA	*Tickets ONLY for Children	BUY
🇪🇸 LITTLE NIGHT	Sunday	12/10/2025	15:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA	*Tickets ONLY for Children	BUY
🇨🇾 TIP, TOE, TAP: BODIES IN MOTION	Sunday	12/10/2025	11:00	XYDADIKO LIMASSOL		BUY
🇱🇺🇫🇷 MINUIT	Sunday	12/10/2025	17:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇨🇾 WRITE ME YOUR STORY! (STAGE READING)	Wednesday	15/10/2025	20:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA	Free Entrance
🇨🇿 DREAMER	Saturday	18/10/2025	10:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇨🇿 DREAMER	Saturday	18/10/2025	12:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇩🇪 FLIP FLOP	Saturday	18/10/2025	15:00	XYDADIKO LIMASSOL		BUY
🇩🇪 FLIP FLOP	Sunday	19/10/2025	15:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇫🇷 THE FABULOUS STORY OF BASARKUS	Saturday	18/10/2025	17:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇫🇷 THE FABULOUS STORY OF BASARKUS	Sunday	19/10/2025	16:00	ATTIKON MULTISPACE PAPHOS		BUY
🇮🇪 FALL AND FLOAT	Sunday	19/10/2025	10:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY
🇮🇪 FALL AND FLOAT	Sunday	19/10/2025	17:00	MELINA MERCOURI HALL NICOSIA		BUY

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Mime Wave
The Netherlands
Genre: Mime
Ages: 2+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 50’

Through animated paintings and music, children are submerged in a fairytale-like world. Anastasiia and her dog Djonnik lose their house because of a storm, so they have to look for a new one. A house where they can feel at home again. During their journey through many landscapes, they meet all kinds of animals. Could they live with one of their animal friends? Finally, they find a house, but what makes a house also feel like home? After the show, the children from the audience can draw their own homes.
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Cyprus.

Seggioline: To grow up
 

Teatro Telaio
Italy
Genre: Theatre
Ages: 3+
Language: Non-verbal (with a few words)
Duration: 43’

A surreal journey between two emotions, as many as can arise from the meeting of two people who seem distant but actually need each other. With a little imagination in all that order, and a little order in all that imagination, the two characters begin to transform the chairs around them – and themselves – discovering that the other is not so far from us.
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Italy in Cyprus. 
 

The performance at the Larnaka Municipal Theatre is presented in collaboration with Larnaka 2030 – European Capital of Culture, Candidate City.

 

Cinq minutes avec toi

Des fourmis dans la Lanterne
France
Genre: Object theatre
Ages: 3+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 35’

As good parents, they had imagined a moment of complicity with their child in the park… But very quickly, the whirlwind of modern life swept them away.
 

How can we make ourselves available to our loved ones, when we’re drowning in demands? How can we find the right balance between our various obligations and distractions?
 

Des Fourmis dans la Lanterne Company and its childlike puppetry hold up a mirror to our absurd yet endearing realities.
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of France and the French Institute in Cyprus. 
 

The performance at the Acropolis Park is presented in collaboration with Nicosia Bookfest.

Little Night

Imaginart
Spain
Genre: Interactive theatre - Installation
Ages: 2+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 30’

Little Night plays with the night, with fantastic characters, with humour, a touch of the absurd and surreal. Stars that travel with their handbags, gentlemen with umbrellas that fall from the sky, coloured spots that invade everything, a multitude of cars that avoid them... Suggestive images that stimulate the senses, that provoke children's play, that change shape and colour when they are touched, when they are chased…
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Spain and the Cervantes Institute in Cyprus.

Tip-Toe-Tap (Bodies in Motion)
 

Zoe Georgallis
Cyprus
Genre: Dance
Ages: 1+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 40’
 

Tip-toe along the footsteps of three dancers.

Toe-tap to the melodies of three musicians.
 

Let them guide you through an adventure of exploration, interaction and experimentation using your senses. Together, we will discover the relationship between movement and sound and play using gravity, touch and our breath in moments of observation and interaction.
 

Tip-Toe-Tap is a performance for children aged 1+ and their families.

Minuit
 

Rotondes
Luxembourg & France
Genre: Live drawing concert
Ages: 9+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 50’
 

Within each of us there is a battle of contrasts unfolding, where shadows and light collide. Drawing inspiration from Italo Calvino's The Cloven Viscount, this story follows two multi-instrumentalist musicians and a versatile illustrator. They break down genre barriers, merging the worlds of concert and drawing to explore the dualities that shape our inner complexity. Live before an audience, they weave a dreamlike tapestry in shades of black and white, accompanied by a soundtrack layered with elements of jazz and electronic music. With a blend of poetry and humour, Minuit guides us through an inner journey – a magical search for beauty, even in the depths of our darkest corners.
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of France and the French Institute in Cyprus.

Stage reading “Write me your story!

Cyprus
Genre: Stage reading
Ages: 12+
Language: Greek
Duration: 120’

 

The staged reading presents the monologues written by teenagers during the playwriting workshop “Write me your story!”, which was organised by ASSITEJ Cyprus, in collaboration with the National Betting Authority. The texts, developed with the guidance of the facilitators (Eleni Xenou, Michalis Papadopoulos and Alexia Papalazarou), come to life on stage through the performances of professional actors, directed by Alexia Papalazarou. This presentation highlights the voices and stories of the young creators.
 

The staged reading is presented in collaboration with the National Betting Authority.

Dreamer

FysioART
Czechia
Genre: Mime and Dance Theatre
Ages: 1+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 40’

“I’m holding the world in my hands while hugging a pile of pillows. Have you ever met a huge snail? How many dots are enough to cross a white sheet of paper?” At times playful and interactive, this performance speaks through gesture, dance and animated collages. It is designed for young children who, from the soft comfort of pillows, can follow the journey through short stories or even participate in them. Hands and feet become restless friends who want to dance to the very edge of a sheet of paper, from the door to the window of a room, or to the banks of a pillow river. 
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Czechia in Cyprus.

Flip-Flop

Theater o.N.
Germany
Genre: Theatre for early years
Ages: 2+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 30’

A gentle, playful performance about balance, movement and discovery. The performers invite children to follow the rhythm, to observe and to participate in their own way.
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Germany in Cyprus. 
 

The performance at the Vinegar Factory is presented in collaboration with Lemesos 2030 – European Capital of Culture, Candidate City.
 

After the performance, a workshop for children and their families will take place.

 

The Fabulous Story of Basarkus

Lamento Company
France
Genre: Dance and acrobatics
Ages: 3+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 35’

Basarkus is not like any other being! A creature with two heads and multiple legs, it also has numerous arms. It's happy this way, in perfect harmony with itself. But discovering that it has two hearts, Basarkus wonders. What if they were actually two? Together, they seem stronger, safer. However, driven by a fierce curiosity, they can't resist the urge to dissociate. Their games now revolve around overcoming their fears and experimenting with separation at any cost.
 

The quest for identity and the concept of hybridity take centre stage in this story. Where does my body begin and where does it end? Who is this other than me? So many questions that form the core of this ode to self-discovery.
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of France and the French Institute in Cyprus. 
 

The performance at the Attikon Multicultural Space is presented with the support of the Municipality of Pafos.



FALL and FLOAT

Monica Muñoz Dance
Ireland
Genre: Dance
Ages: 4+
Language: Non-verbal
Duration: 43’

With playful energy, impressive acrobatics, comic timing and a joyful soundscape, two dancers create a magical world through the clever manipulation of simple balloons. Their imagination seems to know no bounds – resulting in a hypnotic, funny and uplifting performance full of falling, throwing, catching, stumbling, floating… and maybe even a little bit of flying! 
 

The production is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Ireland in Cyprus.