📣 Semester Overview 📣
Over the three-month semester, we will consider mystical belief systems as a connective tissue in Cyprus. In our commitment to move beyond dominant research lenses that frame Cyprus primarily as a post-conflict island divided along religious lines, we turn instead to magic, cosmologies and superstition as a line of inquiry.
You can join ALL or ANY session that you would like. Critical Coffee Reading is an alternative pedagogical space to read, think, and learn about Cyprus and beyond, aiming to make academic knowledge engaging and accessible.
Stay tuned: the date and registration link for the May session will be released soon!
some spreads from our new publication, “of the passing winds - and other such future cyprus souvenirs: a zine on the sbas in cyprus”
*now available to read as an open access pdf - link in bio*
edited by @florenza.mp4
with contributions from @rizokolektif_cyprus@decolonial_cypriot@queerdeepstatecy@rhomios@arcin.the.pea@emilyo00 pavlina polyviou & rhodou
the zine includes historic, geopolitical and environmental texts on akrotiri and dhekelia, as well as visually based accounts of how the SBAs operate as sites / their infrastructures + info on their use to launch near-daily surveillance flights to provide intelligence for “israel” in the gaza genocide.
the physical zine is being sold as a fundraiser for @brzkh.space in beirut. it will be available at several bookshops in london soon + cyprus from next month.
some more info on the illustrations:
the texts are illustrated with pressed leaves gathered from the abandoned RAF camp in pergama, a village in cyprus in-part in SBA territory, where a forest was strategically implanted over a site which hosted the raf 264 signals unit prior to its demolition. raf 264 was a signals interception unit of the RAF who on night-time duties would monitor communications in service of US-UK-“israeli” interests. the signals they gathered from cyprus would be interpreted by GCHQ headquarters in mainland UK (as is still the case). in 1967 raf 264 + their infrastructures relocated to ayios nikolaos, an ongoingly active nsa-gchq intelligence facility, connected to dhekelia by a single british-owned road.
Join @rizokolektif_cyprus for the launch of “Of the Passing Winds - and Other Such Future Cyprus Souvenirs” - A Zine on the SBAs in Cyprus
An open access resource communicating information and perspectives about Akrotiri and Dhekelia, the British Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, from artists, academics, activists and people with personal relationships to the SBAs.
The physical zines will be for sale at £10.
All profits from this print run will go towards @brzkh.space who are currently providing food and resources to forcibly displaced people in Lebanon.
Editor: @florenza.mp4
Illustrator: @ayshemira
Contributors:
@rizokolektif_cyprus@decolonial_cypriot@queerdeepstatecy
Rhodou
@rhomios@arcin.the.pea@emilyo00
Pavlina Polyviou
Printed at @houseofannetta with Slow + Dirty Press
Address: 117 Green Lanes N16 9DA
Event structure:
18.00 Doors Open
19.00 Discussion and reading by Rizo Kolektif
20.00 Social Space
Some refreshments will be provided.
Link in bio for free tickets via Eventbrite
earth-body for the lunar new year 🌑🥀🕯️
pressed leaf silhouettes, dried rose petals (collected in cyprus in december) & candlewax on handmade paper, 120mm x 176mm
so excited to begin offering online tarot readings in a more structured way… swipe to see my rates for various spreads + some info about my deck and my practice as a tarot reader 🕯️
all this info is also up on my website - the tarot section is directly linked in my bio 🌘
photography by @lujain.mnsr 🤎
first earth-body goddess of the new year // in anticipation of the wolf moon 🌕
148x210mm, pressed leaves and dried pomegranates from my ancestral homes garden, hair, period blood and candlewax on paper
(swipe for digitised variations all earth tones)
🤎🌹🕯️🍃🪵🌿🥀🌙✨✨✨
New YouTube video is up! It's an interview with the creator of the Earth Mother Magic Tarot, Ayshe-Mira Yashin 👏👏👏
🔗 Link to my YT channel in the linktree in my bio! Or find me @tarotgrove on YT
We talk about all things tarot, queerness, politics and the importance of the colour brown! 🤎
You can pick up a copy of the Earth Mother Magic Tarot at the shop: tarotgrove.co.uk (link also in my bio)
#tarot #tarotshop #indietarot #radicaltarot #queertarot
illustration for radical jewish calendar 5786 which is an antizionist calendar by signal fire radical artist co-op🌟🤎🌹🧿 the composition and style is inspired by sephardic wedding contracts from istanbul and izmir but reimagined from a feminist lens ❤️🤎❤️
(the text is in ladino which is a language that was censored / erased by the turkish state alongside other minority / indigenous languages like greek armenian and kurdish.) it says “sephardic women for decolonisation / freedom for palestine from the river to the sea” 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
you can find the calender at @signalfirecoop 🤎🌹🌟
ashera, anat and astarte - 3 risograph goddess illustrations made for @alashiya.co earlier this year 🌹🪻🌷
soooo happy to have had the chance to make these prints inspired by the flowers i grew up with + the ancient goddesses of our region 🌞🌞🌞 they each go with one of alashiya’s hand blended perfumes (more collab between us coming soon !!) 🤎
part of my ongoing side project making queer-feminist reimaginings of sephardic wedding contracts 🤎🌹🪻
woodcut print on paper made in june
(will share more context when i post the next one 🤎)
“pergama”, a new etching part of the same body of work as my degree show exhibited piece
pergama is a village i visited for the first time in april but it turns out my dad has distant relatives there who’s houses we looked for (i drew them in the upper part). when he and the relatives children used to play, they knew that if they crossed over the creek they would be in british territory, but there wasn’t a checkpoint then like there is now (the village is divided between Turkish-occupied and British territory but it’s a Cypriot village). it also has beautiful red soil and apparently is known for its potatoes 🤎
the bottom part of the image shows the abandoned RAF camp in Pergama which @arcin.the.pea took me to and shared tree knowledge - i tried to draw some of those trees which grew over the areas that once hosted the infastructure of the RAF camp which was used to launch helicopters before it was demolished in 1997.
at the bottom right corner you can see some goddesses doing a collective ritual next to the ruination of one of the helicopters 🤎
