14th SARDAM International Interdisciplinary Literature Festival

14th SARDAM International Interdisciplinary Literature Festival

(23-27 September 2026, Limassol)

Writers, writer-performers and other artists from Cyprus and abroad are sharing ways of writing,reading and performing literature through performances, workshops and parallel events. The festival combines words with both contemporary and traditional forms of expression, including theatre, technology, sound and music, spoken word, sound poetry, visual arts, and more. This year, among others, the festival collaborates with Xing the Line, one of the longest-running alternative initiatives of the London poetry scene, as well as with the London-based publisher Outspoken Press.

FESTIVAL’S FULL PROGRAMME:

WED 23/09

LYDIA DAVIS (Man Booker Prize 2013) / USA (ENG)

[Online Interview, via Zoom]

18:00-19:00

Coordinated by Maria A. Ioannou, Sardam festival’s artistic director

The festival opens with this year’s Guest of Honour, Lydia Davis, a unique opportunity for the public to meet the writer via Zoom, in an exclusive live interview organized especially for Sardam Festival 2026, exploring the multi-layered and fascinating world of writing!

If you want to register, please call 99558358 or send an email to [email protected] (first come,first served).

THU 24/09

DIAL / IRELAND (ENG)

[Vinegar Factory / 34 Genethliou Mitella str, 3036, Limassol]

20:00-21:00

DIAL is a durational writing, performance and recording project, ongoing since 2021, by Christodoulos Makris, in partnership with Diatribe Records and in cooperation with the musicians Joanna Mattrey and Keith Lindsay. For more information on the project, which has been presented in Dublin and New York, you can visit: https://yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html.

Free admission.

For reservations please call 99558358.

FRI 25/09

Workshop by Elena Agathokleous / Cyprus (GR)

Narrative Cartography–From Places and Identities to Live Storytelling

[Vinegar Factory / 34 Genethliou Mitella str, 3036, Limassol]

16:30-19:30

A workshop by Elena Agathokleous on cartographic practices focusing on the exploration of the relationship between identity and place, examining the ways in which spatial routes are constructed and transformed into live personal storytelling. Participation fee - 25 euro.

Reservation required, please call 99558358. Limited number of participants.

This workshop will be conducted in greek.

GROUP EVENT I - LITERARY PERFORMANCES

[Sinergio Theatre / 91A Eleftherias str, 3042, Limassol] 20:00-21:30

Live performances by a selection of local and international participants

Admission Fee: 8 euro.

For reservations please call 99558358.

SAT 26/09

Workshop by Christos Chrissopoulos / Greece (GR)

Life Writing | Writing the Self

[Sinergio Theatre / 91A Eleftherias str, 3042, Limassol] 10:30-13:30

A creative writing group workshop following the principles of Narrative Therapy. The aim is productive: we investigate, reveal, create. It all leads to a literature which “doesn’t write for the self” but “writes the self” in a deliberate way, which one might say is what our essential relationship with writing is.

Participation fee: 25 euro.

Reservation required, please call 99558358. This workshop will be conducted in greek.

IRIS COLOMB / (UK)

Exhibition

Iris Colomb - Installation

[Tapper, 1st floor / 62 Eleftherias str, 3042, Limassol]

18:30-22:30

The exhibition will be open to the public on the 26th and the 27th of September.

Free Admission. No reservation required.

GROUP EVENT II - LITERARY PERFORMANCES

[Sinergio Theatre / 91A Eleftherias str, 3042, Limassol] 20:00-21:30

Live performances by a selection of local and international participants

Admission Fee: 8 euro. For reservations please call 99558358.

SUN 27/09

Workshop with Jeff Hilson / (UK) (ENG)

“I Love You And The Sonnet Is Not Dead”: An Experimental Sonnet Workshop

[Sinergio Theatre / 91A Eleftherias str, 3042, Limassol] 16:00-19:00

An experimental creative writing workshop exploring innovative approaches to the sonnet, led by poet, editor and critic Jeff Hilson, whose work has played a pivotal role in rethinking the contemporary sonnet (Jeff Hilson is also the editor of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets). The workshop invites writers to challenge conventions while engaging with one of poetry’s most enduring forms.

Participation fee: 25 euro.

Reservation required, please call 99558358. This workshop will be conducted in english.

CLOSING: SARDAM OPEN MIC

[Sinergio Theatre / 91A Eleftherias str, 3042, Limassol] 19:30

Sardam festival’s Open Mic,

Free admission.

For registrations (as participants) and for reservations please call 99558358.

Admission fees

Per workshop: 25 euro (60 euro for all 3)

More information on: www.sardamfestival.com