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“Displacement”: people, ideas and artistic practices

Cyprus-based and international artists explore physical and virtual space in Covid times

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Solidarity with artists and the artistic community at the heart of the festival

About the Festival

WHAT IS BFPAF???

Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival (BFPAF) showcases new and experimental work by local and international artists, challenges physical and artistic barriers, and creates opportunities for artists to meet and exchange ideas. The theme of Buffer Fringe 2020 turns to a phenomenon as old as humanity itself: Displacement.

The performances explore why this human activity is contested, the relationship between migration/mobility/displacement and how different people experience the displacement of themselves, their ideas and their practices.

MEET THE ARTISTS

Argyro Nicolaou

History Lesson

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cie K&A | (Postponed for Buffer Fringe 2021)

8102

About the artist

A Buffer Fringe partnership: Mitos and Mağusa Kale Pasajı

95 Stops / Mapping the Space Between Us

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Vikram Iyengar

A Multitude of Drops

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FROM OUR FEED

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Buffer Fringe Week is here and starting on the 29t

Buffer Fringe Week is here and starting on the 29th of November with "95 stops: Limassol - Famagusta, Mapping the Space Between Us!" A collaboration between Centre of Performing Arts “Mitos”, Mağusa Kale Pasajı and Buffer Fringe 2020.
On November 29, the project 95 stops, Limassol - Famagusta,
Mapping the space between us, will be presented online by the center of performing arts MITOS, designed and curated by Elena Agathokleous, in collaboration and within the frame of the Buffer Fringe Festival 2020.
On November 29, a new complementary map will be presented online, consisting of 95 stops -that is, the corresponding kilometres from the Vinegar Factory (Xydadiko) in Limassol to Mağusa Kale Pasajı in Famagusta. Each stop is geographically placed on the current map of Cyprus, and concerns anyone / anywhere worth visiting today, to taste, to know, to hear or anything that can make us feel like home. During this long journey, everyone will be able freely to tune in online. The last stop will be the community space Mağusa Kale Pasajı, where N. Karagil will share a video that she created especially for the 95 stops.
More on our FB page: BufferFringe!
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The @goethe_institut_zypern is a long standing col

The @goethe_institut_zypern is a long standing collaborator of the @home4cooperation and supporter of the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival. As firm believers of the power of arts in transforming societies; Goethe Institute is supporting Buffer Fringe 2020 artists this year, in this challenging time:
"Buffer Fringe is a unique bi-communal and international performing art festival that brings people and ideas together. We highly appreciate the work of our neighbors, the Home for Cooperation. And we are happy to support bi-communal events together with them. Karin Varga, Director of Goethe-Institute Cyprus "
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2020 edition of Buffer Fringe is characterized wit

2020 edition of Buffer Fringe is characterized with collaborations and new relations!
Part of the innovative Buffer Fringe Festival 2020 will be the online international conference entitled “Making Theatre at a Time of Global Crisis” organized by the @openuniversitycyprus!
This conference, aptly placed within the framework of the Buffer Fringe Festival 2020 (organized by the @home4cooperation), intends to explore perspectives by international theatre scholars as well as local Cypriot artists, in an attempt to respond to the quandaries that are affecting society and our way of perceiving theatre-making beyond anything that could ever be imagined.
The event will be livestreamed on Facebook!

📢We are looking for volunteers!! Volunteers ha

📢We are looking for volunteers!!
Volunteers have always been an integral part of the Buffer Fringe, and played a key role in its realization and success. In a challenging year like 2020, the contribution of volunteers is twice as important.
Volunteers’ duties include supporting the preparation (November 29th-December 4th) and the performances (Dec. 4-6), by helping artists and the technical team during the set-up / rehearsals / performances, general organization needs, audience support, safety, first aid and support on social media outreach.
Apply now at: https://bit.ly/3pRklsi
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Our Artistic Director Ellada Evangelou shares with

Our Artistic Director Ellada Evangelou shares with Eleni Philippou, the challenges Buffer Fringe 2020 team and participating artists face, organizing and taking part in a festival in the middle of a pandemic on @Cyprus Mail:
“There is so much that is not under our control right now, but some things are. Keeping the festival going, engaging artists and thinking outside the box is. So we decided to go ahead with the festival and draw on that human quality of adaptability to take care of the rest. "
Read more on Cyprus Mail!
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Tonight, at 21.00, live on @lefkosaturkbelediyesi

Tonight, at 21.00, live on @lefkosaturkbelediyesi Facebook Page: One of Buffer Fringe 2020's Creative Directors Nihal Soğancı, will be joining Asu Demircioğlu on "Başka", to discuss what to expect from Buffer Fringe 2020, the difficulties of organizing a festival during a pandemic and all virtual and physical events in the 2020 program.
Tune in, to learn all about the upcoming Buffer Fringe!
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