🗓 May 3, 2026 | 🕚 11:30 AM
📍 Ipsonas Municipal Theater
🎟 Free admission

The Municipality of Kourion, as part of the “Kourion Classical Music Days” festival, is hosting the University of Cyprus Music Academy for a particularly impressive classical music journey, where youthful passion meets high artistic expression. This is a unique musical journey full of energy and lyrical exuberance, where talented young musicians perform string works characterized by a strong rhythmic pulse, exuberant chords, and sonic outbursts.

Program:
J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
E. Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 21
Béla Bartók: Romanian Dances

The program opens with Brahms’s popular Hungarian Dance No. 5, followed by Edvard Grieg’s String Quartet No. 1—a gem of the repertoire, brimming with virtuosity, drama, and Scandinavian lyricism. The concert concludes with Béla Bartók’s Romanian Dances, an explosive composition rooted in folk tradition, featuring intense rhythms and vibrant timbres.

Performers:
String Quartet: Andreas Ioannou (1st violin), Chloe Erefich (2nd violin), Vasilios Klouvatos (viola), and Athina Klouvatos (cello).
Instructor: Prof. Nicolas Efthymiou
String Ensemble of the University of Cyprus Music Academy
Piano: Dr. Christina Koulapi
Artistic Direction: Petros Stylianou

The Municipality of Amathounta, in collaboration with the Akrounta Youth Centre, is organizing the Akrounta May Day Festival on Friday, 1 May 2026, from 10:30 to 21:00, at Akrounta Park.

We look forward to welcoming spring together with an event for all ages, set in a magical landscape against the backdrop of the mountains of Akrounta.

The May Day Festival will include:

• Football Tournament
• Activities for children
• Live Link with Sfera 96.8
• Entertainment programme and market stalls with various items
  Food, sweets, drinks, and coffee available for purchase

If you would like to take part in the Football Tournament, click here.

The event programme will continue to be updated.

For the festival location, click here

Programme

• 10:30 – Start of the football tournament
• 11:00 – 13:00 – Children’s activities
• 11:00 – 13:00 – Live Link with Sfera 96.8 featuring Maria Onisiforou & Christina Georgiou
• 15:30 – Entertainment programme
• 16:00 – 18:00 – Children’s activities

The Municipality of Limassol and the Department of Maritime and Commerce of Frederick University are co-organizing the Blue Limassol Forum 2026 on Friday, 15 May, from 17:30 to 20:00, at Frederick University in Limassol (18 Marios Agathangelou Street, Agios Georgios Havouzas).

Established in 2020, the Blue Limassol Forum serves as a platform for dialogue on the sustainability of coastal cities, reflecting Limassol’s strategic role as a leading maritime and coastal city in the Mediterranean.

This year’s theme, “From Commitment to the Implementation of Integrated Coastal Governance,” highlights the need to move from declarations to the implementation of coordinated and participatory practices for the management of coastal and marine ecosystems. As coastal cities face — and contribute to — increasing pressures from climate change, maritime activity, and pollution, the Blue Limassol Forum underlines the importance of integrated and collaborative governance models that balance development with environmental protection.

The Mayor of Limassol, Mr. Yiannis Armeftis, and the Rector of Frederick University, Professor George Demosthenous, will welcome participants to the Blue Limassol Forum, while the Deputy Minister of Shipping, Ms. Marina Hadjimanolis, will deliver the opening address.

The Blue Limassol Forum brings together policymakers, industry representatives, researchers, and citizens, aiming to strengthen cooperation and promote solutions that respond to local needs, enhance social well-being, and reinforce the relationship between the port, the sea, and the city.

The programme includes presentations covering topics such as stakeholder coordination in the blue economy, marine pollution monitoring, and sustainable port operations. In this context, progress on the shore-to-ship power supply project (cold ironing) at the Port of Limassol will also be presented.

This will be followed by a discussion on the development of an integrated coastal governance model for Limassol. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Angelos Menelaou, Chair of the Department of Maritime and Commerce at Frederick University, with the participation of:

Yiannis Armeftis, Mayor of Limassol
Yiannis Tsoloftas, President of the Limassol District Local Government Organisation
Penelope Vasquez Chatzilyra, Architect and Mission Oriented Policies (MOPs) Advocate
Capt. Eugen-Henning Adami, President of the Cyprus Foundation of the Sea
Dr. Theodoulos Mesimeris, Deputy Director General at the Deputy Ministry of Shipping
Dr. Emmanouil Nikolaidis, Assistant Professor at the Department of Maritime and Commerce of Frederick University

The presentations and discussions will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, however registration is required by 8 May.

The For You(th) Festival – Not Another Youth Festival is coming to Limassol, and registrations have just opened — and they are FREE!

A festival for young people aimed at connection, enhancing mental well-being, and developing skills through:

Workshops • Activity Corners • Creative Sessions • NGOs • Small Businesses • Food Trucks • After Party

📍 CUT Central Square
📅 9 May 2026

🎟 FREE ENTRY

Participation is free, and places in the workshops are limited.

🔗 Register at the link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_1iFNYuwsqBeh5B5JEo9YMJspo8HmITfWUfjoqCUsDe4zhA/viewform?usp=publish-editor

or scan the QR Code.

The Municipality of Limassol celebrates International Jazz Day with a special musical evening!

We invite you to a unique concert featuring the Jazz Orchestra of the Limassol Municipal Band.

📍 Medieval Castle Square
🗓 Sunday, 3 May 2026
🕖 7:15 p.m.

Come and enjoy beloved jazz melodies together under the spring sky, in an evening full of rhythm.

🎟 Free admission

The Animal Welfare Committee of the Municipality of Limassol is organizing the event “Love without limits – Adopt a friend” on Sunday, 3 May 2026, at the Limassol Municipal Gardens (Tennis Court), from 15:00 to 19:00.

The event aims to raise public awareness about animal welfare, promote responsible adoption, and strengthen the bond between humans and animals. At the same time, it gives citizens the opportunity to meet dogs available for adoption and, why not, offer them a new home and a second chance in life.

The afternoon will include presentations of dogs available for adoption, information on their care and needs, as well as activities that promote a more animal-friendly culture in our city. The contribution of local organizations and partners supporting this effort is also significant.

Special emphasis is placed on children through free creative activities, including:

Magic show (Magic Show by Liotatis)
Face painting
Photo booth
Crafts
Pottery
Painting
Stilt walker/juggler

In addition, the Open School of the Municipality of Limassol – Mesa Geitonia – Tserkez Tsiflik will participate with children’s activities, enhancing the social and educational character of the event. The program also includes a dance performance by the dance school of Maria Diamantidou and a live link with Kanal 6.

The event “Love without limits – Adopt a friend” is a celebration of love, offering, and awareness. The Municipality of Limassol invites the public to actively support this initiative, contributing to the protection of animals and the cultivation of a more sensitive and responsible society.

Admission is free.

Rehearsals in placemaking
A transdisciplinary project opening our 2026 programme

April 24 – May 24, 2026
Opening: Friday, April 24, 18:00–22:00
Words of welcome: 19:00

Jafra Abu Zoulouf | Ria Alexandrou | ANBAU | Angela Ioannidou | Kalaqs | Loizos Olympios | Belinda Papavasiliou | Eva Papavasiliou | Marios Pavlou | Maria Petrides | Suzana Phialas | Phivos Philitas | Elena Savvidou | Eleftheria Sokratous | Emiddio Vasquez

Rehearsals in placemaking initiates the 2026 programme of the Limassol Municipal Arts Centre – Apothikes Papadaki, unfolding as both a group exhibition and a process of reinhabiting the warehouse shell. The project approaches place and artistic practice as action, movement, and labour, forces that extend beyond repair through a commitment to the daily as a social space of transformative rehearsal. Drawing on methodologies of self-organisation, rehearsal is proposed as a way of practicing critical forms of making, thinking and being together in times of rupture and ecological catastrophe.

Through a sequence of gestures and scores, the project brings together a transdisciplinary assembly of fifteen artistic contributions. Artists, writers and makers working across text, video, sound, sculpture, performance, site-specific installation, drawing, archiving, and public interventions, engage placemaking as a situated and relational act. The exhibition embraces artistic practices as modes of becoming — speculative, poetic, and pragmatic at once.

At a time when place is increasingly constrained, the project asks how public space, its fragments, and the city more broadly might be reclaimed and reimagined as a commons that defies the financialisation of daily life. In doing so, it traces this urgent prompt as an attempt to imagine cultural space as an infrastructure of feeling and enchantment, and how it might be sustained through everydayness and togetherness.

Beyond the duration of the exhibition, Rehearsals in placemaking sets a placeholder for the long term on-site activation of a “living room”: a space where familiarity and belonging are rehearsed, hosting frequent gatherings, assemblies, performances, listening sessions, poetry nights, walks, workshops and reading groups, and more. Over time, this space will nurture these encounters and inspire other ways of rehearsing public space.

Hours:
Wednesday–Saturday
10:00–20:00
Sunday
10:00–18:00

Free admission

HALLOUMI FESTIVAL – PRASTEIO (AVDIMOU)

12th Traditional Goat & Sheep Halloumi Festival

Sunday, 3 May 2026, 11:00–19:00

(Complimentary halloumi tasting and decoration at the entrance)

Under the patronage of the President of the Limassol District Local Government Organization
Mr. Yiannis Tsouloufta

Gold Sponsor
Deputy Ministry of Tourism – Republic of Cyprus
CYPRUS