Residency

Through the Pharos Arts Foundation’s Residency Programme, visual artists, composers, musicians, writers and are invited to visit Cyprus, create new works and interact with local creators and audience.

Examples of past residencies include British composer Emily Hall who visited Cyprus in 2005, to complete her opera Sante, based on the Rwandan genocide, before receiving its world premiere at the Aldborough Festival in the UK, in 2006; composer Evis Sammoutis who completed his masterpiece Echopraxia, which was premiered in Nicosia by Ensemble Modern in 2006 and went on to win several prizes including the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in London and the Irino Prize in Tokyo; Russian writer and environmentalist, Ivetta Gerasimchuk, who gave a talk about her award winning essay Dictionary of Winds and wrote a short piece, The Blue Line, inspired by the divided old Nicosia and dedicated to the Pharos Arts Foundation; poet and writer Joachim Sartorius; visual artists Richard Wentworth, Mike Marshall, Joanna Jones, Laura Padgett, Marcos Grigoryan, to name but a few.

For further information on the Residency Programme contact the Pharos Arts Foundation on Tel: +357 22 663871 or Email: info@pharosartsfoundation.org