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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.
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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.
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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!).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Church Services, Every Sunday.
Both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are represented
in North Cyprus. Sunday services are as follows.
St Andrews 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 Marks 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
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Catalkoy Market.
Every Sunday.
9am to 1 pm. Soyuz Bar. More information from 0542 885 7723 or 0542
886 7012.
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Pembegul
Market, Every Sunday.
10am - 3pm, Pembegul Garden Centre.
Next to K-Pet petrol garage, Between Bellapais traffic lights &
Bellapais roundabout. A selection of plants, books, shoes, DVDs,
and more.
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Buyukkonuk
Market, Every Sunday.
11am 4pm., Buyukkonuk village centre, Karpaz. Organised by the
Eco-Tourism Association, the market has handicrafts, traditional
food, and local produce.
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Line Dancing Lessons, Mondays
to Thursdays,
October to June
Two groups, Phoenix Line Dance Club, and the Kibris Liners hold line
dancing lessons in the TRNC.
Mondays.
10.30am -12.30pm, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Beginners. Entrance 5TL.
(Kibris Liners)
10.30am -12.30pm, Altinkaya Jam Bar, Girne, Girne. Intermediate.
Entrance 5TL which includes bar supper and coffee, tea, or soft
drink. (Pheonix)
Tuesdays.
10.30am - 12.30pm, Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. Improver
level. Entrance 5TL. (Phoenix)
10am - noon, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Absolute beginners. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
Wednesdays.
10.30am 12.30pm, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Intermediate. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
11am - 1pm, Koca Reis, near Salamis. Beginner. Entrance 5TL
(Phoenix)
Thursdays.
10.30am - 12.30pm,Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. Beginners.
Entrance 5TL. (Phoenix)
For more information, contact Phoenix on 0533 876 3410, and
Kibris on 0542 883 4422.
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NCCCT
Bingo, Wednesday Afternoons.
A bingo fundraiser for the charity takes place every Wednesday
afternoon at central Kyrenia's Watermill Hotel. Bingo books cost
each player YTL25 at the sessions, with 10% being donated to the
Cancer Charity. All of the remainder goes into the prize fund.
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7.30pm. NCCCT charity bingo at the Altankaya Roof Bar. Admission free. A book of six games costs 35TL.
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8th International North Cyprus
Music Festival, 8th October - 5th
November.
Friday 8th October. Samsun State Opera soloists
Esra Çetiner (soprano), Seda Ortaç (Soprano), Onur Polat (tenor) and
Mehmet Yılmaz (Bass) sing favourite arias from operas. Natalie
Chanturishvili (Piano).
Tuesday 12th October. Alexander Mekaev-
Piano Recital. The world renowned Russian pianist will
perform works by Schubert,Schumann, Chopin, Grieg and Liszt.
Saturday 16th October. Jazz Concert. Zeliş
Şenol (Soloist), Ersen Sururi (piano), Hikmet Altunbaşlıer
(Trumpet), Tony Jones (Bass), Uğur Güçlü (Drums)
Tuesday 19th October. Gülsin Onay- Piano
Recital. 200th Anniversary of Chopin's birth. World famous
Turkish pianist Gülsin Onay will perform works by Chopin.
Tchaikovsky Piano Trio Op. 50 will end the programme.
Friday 22nd October. Violin and Piano
Recital. Zülfiye Seçkin (Violin) and Begüm Çelebioğlu
(piano). Works by Grieg, Prokofiev and Amirov.
Wednesday 27th October. World famous
virtuoso violonist Alexander Markov performs Bach's Partita
No. 2 in D Minor and Paganini Caprices.
Saturday 30th October. Erol Emmioğlu. Piano
Recital. Young Turkish Cypriot pianist performs works by
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Racmaninoff.
Friday 5th November. Arman Ratip- Piano
Recital. World renowned Turkish Cypriot pianist-composer
Arman Ratip will perform his own variations on a theme of
Paganini. The programme includes Turkish Folk Music and
Space Music.
All concerts are at Bellapais Abbey and begin at 8.30 p.m.
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9th International
Olive Festival, 1st to 8th October.
Full programme details can be found
here.
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ATA Karpaz
Weekend, 9th and 10th October.
Fully Booked
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Abba Picnic
Concert, Friday 8th October.
7.30pm, The Hermitage, Girne. An invitation to the Hermitage Grounds
for a picnic and to listen to some music. People are asked to
bring their own picnic, rug, or tables and chairs. The gates open at
6pm, and entry costs 10TL with proceeds to the Hermitage project.
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Charity Quiz, Friday
8th October.
Green Valley restaurant, Alsancak. The Phoenix line dancers have a
charity quiz.
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Arman Ratip, Tuesday
Weekly.
8pm, The Old Grapevine, Girne. Pianist composer Arman Ratip plays a
selection of classical and jazz music for patrons, much of which he
has composed or arranged . Arman is a Turkish Cypriot who started
playing piano at the age of five. He studied music and pianoforte
with his mother Jale Dervis, one of the most famous music and piano
teachers on the island. He started composing at the age of seven,
fascinating audiences as a child prodigy. Later, his musical career
took off in London when he recorded two albums of his own
compositions and arrangements for EMI, and performed extensively in
the United Kingdom. He is hailed by music critics as one of the most
outstanding and captivating virtuosos of our times. Entrance is free
to customers of the Old Grapevine.
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Bedri Rahmi, The Lost
Mosaic Wall. 6th October to 30th November,
except Sundays.
Sidestreets Cultural Centre, Nicosia. Fifty years ago, one of the
most important works in the history of modern Turkish art and
architecture disappeared. This work was Turkeys first modern,
prefabricated building, the visionary Turkish pavilion, designed for
Expo 58, the Brussels Worlds Fair by architects Utarit İzgi,
Muhlis Türkmen, Hamdi Şensoy and İlhan Türegün. The pavilion
brought together, in a collaborative synthesis of art and
architecture, major figures in Turkish art, such as İlhan Koman,
Sabri Berkel, Fureya Koral, and Zeki Faik İzer.
The recent discovery in North Cyprus of some of the most visually
striking parts of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlus mosaic wall prompted a
research project that has extended from Turkey to Europe to the
United States to Cyprus, to trace for the first time, the full
history of this lost artwork. The exhibition will provide the first
opportunity in 50 years for the public to view the surviving parts
of this artwork in Cyprus, display for the first time a digital
photographic reconstruction of the entire wall, and tell its untold
story. The opening lecture at 6pm, provides an overview of
the research done for the exhibition, covering the architectural,
artistic, and socio-political context of the lost work.
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Karaman
Concert, Saturday 9th October.
8pm, Karaman Church. Cypriot folk music with a classical touch. The
repertoire by Cypress Classica, consists of folk pieces from 300
years ago to the present day. The pieces are introduced, along with
their history, making the evening like a documentary of folk music.
Entrance is free, but donations on the door will go towards the
church upkeep, and assisting with university fees for
underprivileged Turkish Cypriot children.
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Classic Car Rally,
Sunday 10th October.
11am, Famagusta City Gate. The Famagusta Old City Association and
the Northern Cyprus Classic car Association are hosting this event
which starts with a procession through the main city gate. The
Parade returns to Namik Kemal Square at 1.30pm, and an awards
ceremony will be held at 3pm.
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12.30pm, Chateau Lambousa. Viewing Friday and Saturday from 10am.
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