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<< 19 April - 25 April 2010 >>

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Bellapais Art Exhibition
Tour of South Nicosia Orchid Walk Chorus Lambousa Sidestreets at Kyrenia
Tour of North Nicosia Line Dancing Lessons Tour of North Nicosia Tour of South Nicosia Tour of North Nicosia Guzelyurt Market Church Services
Line Dancing Lessons   Kyrenia Market Orchid Walk Tour of South Nicosia Lambousa Market Karakum Market
    First Aid Course Children's Film show Pembegul Market
    NCCCT Bingo Line Dancing Lessons Carpenters Market Blood Donor Day Buyukkonuk Market
    Line Dancing Lessons ATA  Talk Pegasos Market Coffee Morning Amanda's Auction
    Friends Coffee Morning Tango Concert Children's Day. Dinner & Talk KAR Dog Show
        Famagusta Market Lambousa Auction  
        Phoenix Charity Quiz    

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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. (Back to top)

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. (Back to top)

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!). (Back to top)

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. (Back to top)

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. (Back to top)

Carpenters Market. Friday weekly.
Carpenters Craft & Farmers market, Karaoglanoglu. 10am to 1pm. (Back to top)

Pegasos Market. Friday weekly.
Pegasos Friday market, Karaoglanoglu. The original Friday market. 10am - 2pm (Back to top)

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. (Back to top)

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. (Back to top)

Church Services, Every Sunday.
Both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are represented in North Cyprus. Sunday services are as follows.
St Andrew’s 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 Mark’s 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 (Back to Top)

Karakum Market. Every Sunday.
9am to 1 pm at Star Bowling. Books, hand made greeting cards, hand made Turkish Cypriot souvenirs, plants, toys, clothing, shoes, English jams, preserves, pickles, bric-a-brac, carpets, haberdashery, wool, electricals, electronics, pictures, photo., To set up a stall contact Sandie on  0533 8649195  or 0533 8629416 or e-mail to karakumcarboot1@gmail.com  (Back to Top)

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. (Back to Top)

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. (Back to top)

 Amanda's Auction, Ozankoy, Alternate Sundays.
10am. Viewing Friday and Saturday. (Back to top)

Sidestreets at Kyrenia, Last Sunday Monthly.
12 Midday, Onar Village, Kyrenia. The tenth event in Sidestreets’  “Conversations on Culture” series in Kyrenia will be a presentation by Dr. Holger Briel on “Dinner for One and Humour Across Cultures.” The presentation will include a screening of the classic short film “Dinner for One” (“The 90th Birthday”) and a discussion by Dr. Briel.
 
“Dinner for One” (The 90th Birthday/Der 90 Geburtstag) is a comedy sketch for the theatre written in the 1920s by British author Lauri Wylie. Practically unknown in Britain, it has become a New Year’s Eve cult classic in Germany (where up to half the population watches it every year), the Nordic countries, Switzerland, Australia and South Africa, since the 18-minute film version (recorded in English) premiered on German television in 1963. Listed in the 1995 Guiness Book of Records as the most frequently repeated television program ever, “Dinner for One” has been the subject of a range of parodies, interpretations and cultural analyses.
 
Dr. Briel’s Sidestreets presentation  will consider a range of questions in relation to “Dinner for One”: How does humour translate? What is so specific about British humour? What is its history and its performance? And why is it a big hit abroad? How does it differ from American humour? And German humour? What mechanisms are at work when a piece is received in a foreign country? And what role do the media play in this reception?
 Holger Briel completed his studies at Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen, the University of Michigan, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of  Communication at the University of Nicosia, and has published widely in the fields cultural studies, critical theory and visual communication. His books include “Intercultural Visual Literacy” (London: Sage, 2010) and “Glocal Media and the Balkans” (Skopje: Blesok, 2009). Seats cost 30TL, including lunch, and should be reserved in advance at Sidestreets, Tel: 229-3070. (Back to Top)

Chorus Lambousa, 21st to 24th April
6.30pm for 7.30pm, Chateau Lambousa. Chorus Lambousa present Only a Rose, stanzas from more than 20 West End shows. Tickets cost 25TL, and include a glass of wine. (Back to Top)

Children's Day, 23rd April.
This is a public holiday in the TRNC. Read more information, or list all holiday dates. (Back to Top)

Blood Donor Day, Saturday 24th April.
10am - 1pm. The BRS are holding a blood donor session at the medical centre, Yeni Erinkoy. (Back to Top)

St Andrews Coffee Morning. Last Saturday Monthly, February to October.
10am, The Hermitage, Kyrenia. Coffee morning, bring & buy, and raffle. (Back to Top)

Wild Flower and Orchid Walk, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Occasional Saturdays, March and April.
Hisarkoy. An all day experience. The morning walk is to the east of the village over fairly gentle terrain. This lasts about two hours, and is followed by lunch . The afternoon walk, which also lasts two hours, is a gentle walk to the west towards an orchard glade, an area of black tulips and other wild flowers.  The circular route takes in a medieval Maronite church, an Ottoman Turkish bath and a bronze age tomb. The route is flexible, and can be varied depending on the needs of the group. The cost is £15 per person. Numbers are limited, so booking is essential on 0392 721 3013, 0542 8544329, or with Maureen Hutchinson at the Friday Carpenters’ market. (Back to Top)

KAR Annual Dog Show, Sunday 25th April.
9am registration. Judging starts 9.30.Held on the site of the Wednesday Market. It's KAR’s second largest fund raiser of the year and usually has about 1500 in attendance. Two judging rings and lots more besides. Entrance free.
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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)
6pm - 8pm, Dome Hotel, Girne. Intermediate. Entrance 15TL 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. (Back to Top)

First Aid Course, 21st to 23rd April.
9.30am – 3.30pm, Civil defence HQ, Girne. A three day course held by 112/TKOD. The course covers all the requirements to be a competent First Aider/First Responder. There is a small administration charge, and a certificate will be awarded on successful completion of the course.  (Back to Top)

Charity Quiz, Friday 23rd April.
Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. The Phoenix line dancing club are having a charity quiz. (Back to Top)

ATA Meeting, Thursday 22nd April.
7.30pm, Mountain View Hotel. ATA member Rob Vardy will talk about all aspects in the art of divining. Bring your own BBQ skewers and have a go!!!! A buffet meal will follow the talk. The cost is 25TL for members and 30TL for non members. The talk only costs 5TL. Bookings to Sandy by email  jjoram@superonline.com or telephone 0542 872 4291. (Back to Top)

Dinner and Talk, Saturday 24th April.
7.30pm, Five Fingers, Ozankoy. John Hughes-Wilson will be giving a talk entitled “Churchill. Towering statesman or lucky politician?” Tickets cost 25TL, and include a three-course meal. Bookings essential on 0533 845 8278. (Back to Top)

Tango Concert, Thursday 22nd April.
8.30pm, Bellapais Abbey. Tango Cyprus present a concert by its dance group and the orchestra, El Medeterraneo. Tickets cost 20TL or €10. (Back to Top)

Lambousa Auction, Saturday 24th April.
12.30pm, Chateau Lambousa. Viewing Friday from 10am, and Saturday morning. (Back to Top)

Art Exhibition, 17th April to 16th May
10am - 4pm, Bellapais Abbey crypt. Kate Fensom and Max Dane, joined by several other artists are holding an art exhibition. At least one of the artists will be in attendance daily. (Back to Top)