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What's on in North Cyprus

<< 31 August - 06 September 2009 >>

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Turtle Hatching
Tour of North Nicosia Abba Divas Tour of North Nicosia Tour of South Nicosia Tour of North Nicosia Guzelyurt Market Church Services
Tour of South Nicosia 7th International North Cyprus Theatre Festival
112 Quiz   Friends Coffee Morning Lawrence Durrell's House Open Classic Cars
    NCCCT Bingo BARK Coffee Morning Carpenters Market Children's Film show  
    Carmina Burana Pegasos Market Free Concert, Nicosia  
    Free Concert, Nicosia Blood Awareness Famagusta Market Moon Market  
    Kyrenia Market Free Concert, Nicosia Tour of South Nicosia Abba Divas  
          Lambousa Market  

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Tour of North Nicosia. Monday, Wednesday and Friday weekly.
Conducted walking tour of North Nicosia. Meet 10.00 at the Kyrenia Gate, or 10.30 at the Lokmaci crossing point. More information. (Back to top)

Kyrenia Market. Wednesday weekly.
Kyrenia municipal open air market. Here you will find fantastic value on a vast range of goods, especially fruit, vegetables, cheeses, yoghurts, oils and vinegars (often brought in from the country by farming families), fish, footwear, clothing and all sorts of odds and ends. (Back to top)

Famagusta Market. Friday weekly.
Here you can buy about everything you might need; clothing, household items, flowers, fish and fresh fruit and vegetables. You can also buy freshly pressed olive oil there, mostly made by the vendor itself (and it does come very often in re-used bottles of J&B, Bells or Teachers!). (Back to top)

Guzelyurt Market. Saturday weekly.
Everything from clothes, shoes, nuts, sweets, olive oil, honey, home made cheese as well as fruit and vegetables are sold. Produce is fresh, and local people are encouraged to sell the excess from their own gardens. The market opens early, and continues till about 1pm. It is situated on the main street opposite the museum and church. (Back to top)

Friends Coffee Morning. 1st, 2nd 3rd and Last Wednesdays.
11am. Friends of those in Need coffee morning. The first 3 Wednesdays of the month will be at Ginko Restaurant, Namik Kemal Square, Famagusta and is a social meeting. On the Last Wednesday, it will be a fund-raising meeting at the Terrace Beach bar, Bogaz. (Back to top)

Carpenters Market. Friday weekly.
Carpenters Craft & Farmers market, Karaoglanoglu. 10am to 1pm. (Back to top)

Pegasos Market. Friday weekly.
Pegasos Friday market, Karaoglanoglu. The original Friday market. 10am - 2pm (Back to top)

Lambousa Market. Saturday weekly.
Chateau Lambousa Arts and Crafts Fair. 10am to 2.30pm (or later). Stallholders include homebaked pastries and pies, homemade jams and marmalades. CDs, DVDs and book stalls. A variety of clothing and jewellery, antiques, paintings, sculptures and other arts and crafts. (Back to top)

Moon Market. Saturday weekly.
10am - 3pm. Saturday craft & general market at the Moon Over Water, Iskele. (Back to top)

Children's Film Show. Saturday weekly.
2pm. Free film screenings for children (age 9 and up) at Sidestreets, Nicosia. The films are sometimes in English, sometimes Turkish. For information phone 0392 22 93070/71. Sidestreets is past the post office, and opposite the law courts. (Back to top)

Free Concert in Nicosia, every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Lefkosa Municipality Chamber Orchestra have free concerts in Lefkosa every week

Wednesdays
Buyuk Han ( inside ) 11.30am – 1.30pm . One week the wind trio, the following week the sting trio.
Buyuk Han square :11.30am – 1.30pm.  jazz orchestra.
Thursdays
Buyuk Han ( inside ) 11.30am – 1.30pm. Pop orchestra.
Saturdays
Buyuk Han (inside) 11.30am – 1.30pm. Jazz orchestra.
Lokmaci gate :1pm – 3pm. One week the pop orchestra, the following week the Latin orchestra. (Back to top)

Church Services, Every Sunday.
Both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are represented in North Cyprus. Sunday services are as follows.
St Andrew’s Church, Kyrenia (Anglican)
8am. Communion.
10am. Family Eucharist and Sunday School.
2pm. Turkish language service. (Held in the church hall)
5.30pm. Cyprus International Fellowship
5.30pm. 2nd Sunday, Communion at the Hermitage chapel
5.30pm, 4th Sunday, Evening prayer at the Hermitage chapel
St Mark’s Anglican Chaplaincy, Famagusta.
9.30am. Held at the Bogaz Hotel
11am. Communion (Except 1st Sunday, Morning Praise) Held at the Old Greek St George church, Salamis Road.
5.30pm.Praise & Worship (Except 1st Sunday, Communion) Held at the Old Greek St George church, Salamis Road.
St Elizabeth of Hungary R.C. Church, Kyrenia
12 Noon. Mass (Back to Top)

Turtle Hatching, end July to end September (Approximate Dates)
North Cyprus is one of the few turtle nesting areas in the Mediterranean. Every year student volunteers study these animals. Around 60 days after nesting, the eggs begin to hatch. The volunteers give any stragglers a hand once the sun starts going down, and you can watch this. Booking is not necessary, but there is not an excavation every day, and normally not an excavation on a Sunday. Public excavations will be announced on this web site and the turtle blog. For more information on turtles and their nesting, follow the links. Follow their exploits by reading their 2008 diary, or their 2009 blog. (Back to Top)

112 Quiz night. Last Monday Monthly.
7.30pm, The Red Lion (on the right hand side of the road leading to Deniz Kizi Hotel). Quiz night in aid of the ERB fund. A 15YTL entry fee provides a chance to have fun, win prizes and enjoy supper. (Back to top)

BARK coffee morning. 1st Thursday monthly.
11am. Moon over Water, Iskele. (Back to top)

Lawrence Durrell's House Open, 3rd to 29th September (Except Sundays).
The house, at Bellapais, is only open for a few weeks every year. Meet outside the house at 11.30am. The tour lasts 1.5 hours, and costs 15TL. Refreshments available. (Back to Top)

Classic Car event, Sunday 6th September.
10am. CESMA karting circuit, Lefkosa. Turkish Cyprus Classic Cars Association (KTKOD)are holding a car fest and Slalom.  (Back to Top)

Abba Divas on Tour, Various Dates.
For a list of concert dates, follow the link. (Back to Top)

Carmina Burana, 2nd and 3rd September.
8pm, Girne Amphitheatre. Kibris Sanat present Carmina Burana, with The Lehrergesangverin Chorus, Nuremberg, The Aegean Philharmonic Orchestra, Izmir, and the Kibris Sanat Chorus, Girne, Conducted by Bernd Dietrich. Full information here. (Back to Top)

Blood Donor Awareness, 3rd September
Shayna’s Beach bar and Restaurant, Catalkoy. A dinner dance to raise awareness of the shortage of blood in North Cyprus. Entertainment will be provided by DJ Tim and Kelvin and the Wranglers for the south. Tickets cost 60TL for a three course meal and includes all local drinks. For information or tickets, contact  0533 844 7882 or 0533 879 4881. (Back to Top)

7th International North Cyprus Theatre Festival, 1st to 26th September.
A series of theatre performances in Turkish at the Ataturk Cultural Centre, Nicosia. Follow the link for the full programme. (Back to Top)