The festival of the Tiganokinisi educational programme will take place on 24 October 2026, from 10:00 to 13:00, at the Athalassa Environmental Information and Education Centre. It is organised by the Environmental Education and Sustainable Development Unit of the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, together with the AKTI Research and Study Centre.As part of the festival, awards will be presented to the schools that collected the largest amount of used cooking oil during the 2025–2026 school year, as well as to their supporters. Environmental stations with educational activities, a treasure hunt and creative workshops combining art, play and environmental education will take…

At the Literary Stage of the Nicosia Book Festival, there will be a discussion titled “A Place in Our Poetry”. Poets Marios Agafangelou and Doros Georgiou, along with poet Mona Savvidou Theodoulou, will read their poems and discuss how place is reflected in their work. The conversation will be moderated by Katerina Voskaridou Pakkou.The discussion will explore the image of place in the participants’ poetry and how this theme relates to existence, love and death. The poets will consider how these themes connect with the idea of place, as well as how memory and longing for home find their way into poetic creation.The meeting will also focus on how the loss of one’s homeland and forced…