Things to do on Thursday, June 18

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The performance takes as its starting point a well-known observation by photographer Philippe Halsman: that when you ask someone to jump, their attention shifts to the act of jumping and the mask falls, revealing the real person. Duration: 75 minutes. Tickets: rialto.interticket.com. Suitable for ages 12 and over. Nicosia, Axiothea Mansion, 8.30pm. Balancing contemporary dance, theatre and dystopian narrative, the 29th University of Cyprus Cultural Festival hosts “Tormentful Invisibility” by choreographer and creator Panayiotis Tofis. Performers: Danai Vasilakakou, Damianos Angelos Efstathiou, Thanos Stasinos. Research performers: Damianos Angelos Efstathiou, Sofia Mouzoura, Panayiotis Tasoulis. Tel. 22894531. Music Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 86-90 Faneromenis Street, 8.30pm. The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation’s FANEROMENI ’26 Arts Festival opens this year with a performance combining narration, music and the power of oral tradition. The musical-narrative production “MYTHOS – From Cyprus to the World” invites audiences on a journey through myths, songs and stories that cross places and cultures. Soprano Mariza Anastasiadi, in the role of Memory, and actor Petros Yiorkatzis, in the role of Myth, converse through speech, song and performance, with the Concordia String Quartet providing live musical accompaniment to the staged narration. Duration: 60 minutes. Free admission. 22128175. Book Larnaca, Parga Bookshop, 6.15pm. Presentation of Panayiotis Thomas’s book, “Colour of Hope: 20 Short and Shorter (Fact-Fiction) Stories.” The book will be discussed by philologist and writer Christos Argyrou, and musician and poet Stella Voskaridou. Festival Nicosia, Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking, June 15-21. Screenings start at 8pm. The “Images and Aspects of Alternative Cinema” Festival returns for 2026, featuring tributes to iconic creators, rare screenings, experimental cinema, animation, queer feminist interventions and works that challenge the conventions of cinematic storytelling. Free admission. Information: 99407856. Theatre Pyla, UCLan amphitheatre. Thursday, June 18, 9pm. A modern comedy full of twists, fast pacing and human contradictions comes to Cyprus with “Κατάδικός μου” (“My Convict”), written by Eleni Rantou, Sara Ganoti and Nikos Stavrakoudis, and directed by Rantou herself. Tickets: ticketmaster.cy and ACS Courier. Duration: 120 minutes (with intermission), suitable for ages 12 and over. Exhibitions Nicosia Gloria (22762605). Retrospective exhibition of painter and hagiographer Paris Sivakas (1959-2018). Until July 2. Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. Painting exhibition “With a Golden Ribbon,” featuring works created by children from the Paediatric Oncology Clinic. Until June 26. Corridor – ARTSLab. Final-year student Giorgos Hatzopoulos presents a deeply experiential visual arts piece through the site-specific installation “HOOK.” Until June 17. Art Seen (22006624). Group exhibition titled “Summer Constellations.” Until July 10. Akamantis Business Centre. Kinanis law firm is organising a photography exhibition as part of its 8th Photography Competition. Until June 19. Marginalia (99657080). “Tragia” by Pavlos Hambidis. Until June 27. Apokalypsi (22300150). Group exhibition titled “Code Reconstruction.” Until September 12. Leventis Gallery (22668838). “Dialogue: Niki Marangou – Rodi Konstantoglou.” Until July 31. Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking. The exhibition “Mediterranean” features works from the collection of Andreas Nicolas. Until July 25. www.hambismuseum.cy Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (State Gallery of Contemporary Art, 22479600). Group exhibition featuring 50 artists titled “Agropoetics: Soils/Bodies.” Until June 30. Nicosia Town Hall Square. “Water Movement Nicosia,” a site-specific installation by Maurice Cazzolli. Until June 30. Leventis Gallery, Temporary Exhibitions Hall. “Christoforos Savva: Simple – Complex – Invisible: An Unknown Archive.” Until June 28. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. “Cyprus: Island, History, Memory, Reality.” Until June 30. Limassol 125 Space (25733994). Group exhibition titled “New Forms, New Voices.” Until July 18. Platres, Minerva Hotel. “The Summer Holiday Trilogy” by Christodoulos Panayiotou. Until August 30. XeniArtSpace, Trilogy West Tower (99980009). Photography exhibition “Women in Focus.” Until September 19. eins gallery (99522977). “A disappearing act, an erroneous camouflaging” by Leontios Toumpouris. Until June 27. Pylon Art & Culture (95950857). “INTERIOR” by Fanos Kyriakou. Until June 27. PSI Foundation. Exhibition titled “Bill Viola. Unspoken.” Until August 1. Larnaca Pierides Museum (22128175). “Nina Iakovou: Eyes to See and Hands to Touch.” Until May 6, 2027. Paphos Blue Iris Gallery (26822446). Exhibition titled “Symbolic Presence: The Human Form in the Art of Glyn Hughes.” Until July 31. Cinema NEW FILMS: How to Make a Killing (directed by John Patton Ford, starring Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick), Obsession (directed by Curry Barker, starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson), Toy Story 5 (animated, directed by McKenna Harris and Andrew Stanton) – RIO (Nicosia Mall and Limassol). Tel. 25871410. Nicosia, Pantheon. Screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s new film “Bitter Christmas.” The Spanish director returns to his homeland with an autobiographically-toned work, revisiting cinema’s bittersweet relationship with life. Duration: 111 minutes. June 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 and July 1. Daily at 8.30pm, weekends also at 6pm. 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