Pame Kaimakli Festival moves to Synergasias Street for its 12th edition

Nicosia, Cyprus. The 12th Pame Kaimakli Festival will take place on October 24 and 25, 2026, with NGO Urban Gorillas moving the event to Synergasias Street. Under the theme Collaborative Works, the programme will feature over 35 projects involving more than 60 artists and creative practitioners from Cyprus and overseas.

A different setting in Kaimakli

Urban Gorillas’ annual festival welcomes performers, neighbourhood residents, visitors, migrants and others. For this edition, activities will temporarily move away from the usual surroundings of Ayia Varvara Square and Kaimakli’s historic centre, taking over Synergasias Street and nearby spaces.

The organisers describe Collaborative Works as an exploration of making and working together. Alongside artists from Cyprus and abroad, Urban Gorillas will examine how people with different practices, ideas, histories and experiences can create collectively.

According to the programme, the street will serve as a gathering point over the two days, hosting music, performances, participatory and site-specific art, workshops, installations and unexpected encounters.

Connecting art with the street’s history

The festival’s account of Synergasias Street traces its route along the former Cyprus railway. Local recollections describe residents joining forces after the railway’s removal to develop and improve the street, with its name reflecting that collective effort.

The organisers aim to reconnect visitors with this forgotten history through art, meetings, shared experiences and stories about the street and its railway connections, while introducing another area of Kaimakli.

They describe the weekend as the culmination of preparations extending across September and October. These have brought artists, residents and collaborators together for residencies, research, workshops and interventions shaped directly by their relationship with the neighbourhood.

The programme also includes two international artist collectives, one from Italy and one from France. A further 30 architecture students from the University of Nicosia will experiment with spatial installations around Kaimakli.

Activities across the weekend

Saturday, October 24, will feature games around the neighbourhood, workshops in marbling and crafts, curated walks, interventions in the street, teenage performers, readings presented on stage and live music, according to the schedule.

Sunday’s programme includes film screenings, workshops involving tablecloths, creative writing, theatre in the street, tango and storytelling performed live.

The listed contributors presenting work are Orientaction, Miss Marble, Yasemin Κemal, Carolina Vasilikou, Suzana Anastasi, Metamorphe, Eidekanou Theatre, Elena Agathokleous, Nektarios Theodorou, Gaba Project, Valentina Otmačić, Stephani Andreou, Tina Rousou, Antonia Kattos, Roz, Annie Sofocleous, Savvas Kourtis, Nikolas Kourtis, Koullou|Makka collective and Ariana Economou.

The Urban Gorillas event will be held on Synergasias Street in Kaimakli, Nicosia. Further information is available at https://pame-kaimakli.org/ and https://urbangorillas.org/.