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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.
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Carpenters Market. Friday weekly.
Carpenters Craft & Farmers market, Karaoglanoglu. 10am to 1pm.
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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 Nesting, June to August.
North Cyprus is one of the few turtle nesting areas in the
Mediterranean. Every year student volunteers study these animals,
and you can join them on one of their overnight expeditions. Numbers
are limited, so it is essential that you pre-book at their
headquarters, “The Goatshed” at Alagadi. 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)
Iskele Folk
Dance Festival, 1st to 14th July.
Programme TBA. More
information about the festival can be found here.
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The Rat Pack,
Saturday 18th July.
***Event Cancelled***
8pm, Kyrenia Amphitheatre. Cyprus WorkShop and Comedy 100 proudly
presents an exceptional night with The Rat Pack as seen in the West
End, Vegas and Monte Carlo. This show has been internationally
accepted as the best RAT PACK tribute! The Show includes the Vegas
Showgirls, The Big Band, and a guest appearance by Dawn as Nancy
Sinatra.This one-off event will certainly sell out quick. Contact
Details and Reservations: 0542 856 5751 -
info@cyprusworkshop.com
0533 845 2548 -
comedy100@hotmail.com Please note: No under 12 permitted to
show! Price: £27 pp (under 15 is £2 (Back to Top)
Registration continues until Tuesday, 7 July. For information about
registration and the program costs, please contact us at 229
3070/71.
PROGRAM
13 July - Monday, 2009
Games in Literature: Visual & Sound Poetry
14 July - Tuesday, 2009
Listening to & Understanding Music II: Classical Music
15 July - Wednesday, 2009
Looking at Art and Culture II: The Christian, Gnostic and Islamic
Traditions
16 July - Thursday, 2009
Art and Architecture Tour: Lefkoşa (Back to
top)
For a list of
dates and venues, follow the link. (Back to Top)
Dance of
Cyprus Tour, Various Dates.
Dance of Cyprus present Shadow of Darkness. For a list of
dates and locations,
follow the link. (Back to Top)
Gonyeli
International Folk Dance Festival, 4th to 15th July.
Programme TBA. (Back to Top)
Breakaway Blues Band, 18th
July.
8.30pm, Celebrity Beach Club. The band features Nick Vinnecombe, who
has played alongside major stars including Bo Diddley, Chick Berry
and Sting, as lead Guitarist. Bass guitarist is Charlie Harty, a
former professional session musician. Tickets cost 15TL, and can be
bought on the door.
Charity Night, 15th July.
7.30pm, The Fez, Catalkoy. The TRNC Children in Need Trust are
holding a race and quiz night. Tickets cost 20TL, including food.
For reservations call 0543 882 0041 or 0533 867 1781.
Painting Exhibition, 8th
to 15th July.
Eaved House, Nicosia. Turkish artist Aysegul Bakir has an exhibition
featuring images of sea turtles. The exhibition aims to highlight
the powerful links between nature and women. There are 31 paintings,
which are on sale at prices ranging from 400 to 2500TL, and profits
will go towards te EMU Sea Turtle Conservation Project.
Karpaz Beach Festival, 12th to
26th July.
Yeni Erinkoy Municipality Beach. Programme TBA
10pm, Pizza King, Alsancak. Salsa Jam present Latin Dance Party,
Volume 2. (Back to Top)