Specifically, on the morning of Saturday 12 April 2025 from 11 am to 1 pm, a traditional event of music, flavours and traditional crafts for young and old will take place at the Traditional House of Paralimni. Children will have the opportunity to prepare, bake and taste traditional flounces which will be prepared by the Centre of Offer and Love (KEPA) Agios Christoforos, to try their skills in pottery with the potter Christos Askotis, to make baskets at the Basketmaking Workshop, to learn about the distillation of zivania with the traditional craftsman Athinodoros Georgiou and to explore the Traditional House of Paralimni. The young Romiosini Ensemble of the Romiosini Cultural Association will participate in the event with carols of Lazarus from Greece and traditional music, as well as the 21st System of Paralimnii Naval Scouts, the 112th System of Naval Scouts of Derynia and the 291st System of Paralimnii Air Scouts with traditional games.
On Palm Sunday, 13 April 2025 at 4 pm at the Xenion amphitheatre in Paralimni, the storyteller Marina Katsari and the musician Vangelis Gettos take on the ghosts, and the knights with iron bars of medieval Cyprus and sing their sufferings and deeds in a narration of Medieval Tales entitled "Medieval Tales of Cyprus"...that dragons in Cyprus nothing else!". The legends and tales are rendered in their natural language, the Cypriot dialect, which reached its heyday in the late medieval period. The musical choices follow in the footsteps of the medieval harmonies that creatively infused Cypriot traditional music.
Entrance to all events of the Festival is free
The events are part of the Festival of Traditional Culture of the Municipality of Paralimni - Derynia "Voices and Memories".
See the full programme of the Festival: https://pdm.org.cy/festival-paradosiakou-politismou-fones-tziai-thymises/