ALKINOOS IOANNIDIS "TOGETHER IN THE LIGHT" - NICOSIA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2022
Where: NICOSIA MUNICIPAL THEATRE
When: 02/12/2022 - 03/12/2022
Tickets: €25 / €20 (reduced) | Reduced tickets are valid for: Students, soldiers, pensioners, large families, actors, disabled with presentation of relevant ID
Duration: 90’
Language: Greek
About the event:
Alkinoos Ioannidis Invites the Nicosia International Festival audience to a concert in complete darkness. An invitation the objective of which is promote empathy and understanding of what it's like to live with visual impairment and the fact that the visually impaired have the same rights to access life, art and society.
Standing next to Alkinoos the writer and singer Thodoris Tsatsos who was born blind. Through their artistic coexistence, they shall accompany the audience from darkness to light.
Enjoy 'Wine, Cheese & Charcuterie ' 🍷🧀
Enjoy a Glass of Wine accompanied by Cheese & Charcuterie, before during break or after the Show!
Your pre-order will be ready for you by selecting the “Glass of Wine with Cheese Charcuterie” option when purchasing your tickets.
More about the event:
The idea behind this concert in the dark, started in Greece in order to support the voluntary organization Reading for Others, a volunteer network founded in 2015 with the aim of recording books for people who are blind or visually impaired.
The net proceeds of the concert will be donated to the School for the Blind, thus inaugurating a partnership with the Nicosia International Festival. The goal of this collaboration is the development of a series of joined actions related to culture, as part of the School’s educational program.
Guitar: Avraam Kontos
Sound engineer: Vassilis Drungas
The initial initiative for the concert in the dark "Together in the Light", which took place for the first time in May 2021 at the Michalis Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, belongs to "Great Events", a Greek Urban Non-Profit Company that organizes concerts and cultural events with the aim of the financing of organizations that inspire and contribute to society as a whole.