Art and the business of art: do it anyway! Lecture by Nefeli Soteriou

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Art and the business of art: do it anyway!
Lecture by Nefeli Soteriou
Location: 6x6 Centre for Photography 19 Ipeirou Str. Limassol
Date: 8th September 2018
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, with Q and A
FREE Entrance [PLEASE REGISTER TO SECURE YOUR SPOT] 
📞 +35725354810 or email info@cyprus6x6.com

Do you wish sometimes it were easier to make your art? Is your partner, or family members unsupportive of your creative endeavors? Can you not make time to make your art? Is the business of art overwhelming? Are you devastated by submission rejections?

All these are contemporary symptoms of avoidance to express your creativity. In this presentation, you will learn to rise above hindrances and to do it anyway!

What you will learn:
· How to regain control of your creative life
· Ways to embrace your unique artistic identity at home and at work
· Powerful processes to help yourself in times of rejection
· Learn how to create in the middle of things
· Business tips that serve you as an entrepreneur

Mini Bio of the Lecturer:
Committed to the arts at a very young age, Nefeli played the mandolin in a children’s choir in Limassol where she grew up and earned degrees in photography and film and media arts. Now a licensed life coach in New York State and certified creativity coach, she helps her clients to lifestyle transformation, to enhance their creativity and wellness and presents her own engaging and transformative workshops in New York City. Nefeli produces narrative films that celebrate the human condition and has worked in the film industry, as a freelance designer, videographer, and a photographer, and over the last 17 years teaches and designs curriculum in filmmaking production, photography and other visual art for all ages (5-77 years old). Nefeli has won professional commercial awards for her video and photography work and has extensive experience as an adjunct professor in Filmmaking Production at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, SUNY at Buffalo, NY and taught the course of Interpersonal Communication at CUNY in NYC. She has worked as a consultant with healing and wellness groups over the last 4 years and has developed programs and courses of study for those seeking to dive deeper into personal transformation, enhance their creativity, as well as for arts professionals desiring training and supervision.

"INSTANT DREAMS" DOCUMENTARY Screening 6/8/2018 (Ticket pre-sale has started!)

6x6 Centre for Photography supports the 13th Lemesos International Documentary Festival and invites you to the screening of the documentary INSTANT DREAMS, by Willem Baptist. The screening will take place at Evagoras Lanitis Centre, in Limassol, on Monday, 6th of August, at 18:30. English & Greek subtitles
Duration: 91'

SYNOPSIS:  
Instant Dreams by Willem Baptist is a visual tribute to the fascination of Polaroid photography. When Polaroid announced the end of instant film in 2008, the last still working factory was bought by a small group of enthusiasts. Among them is the retired scientist Stephen Herchen who is still trying to unravel the secret of the lost chemical formula. 

TICKET PRE-SALE at 6x6! CALL 25354810, or drop by from 09:00 - 18:00. Each ticket costs €2.

TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/241010157

6-week photography course starts April 14th

Join our next practical photography course organised on a six week basis (in small groups), and starting on Saturday, April 14th. A simple and comprehensible learning method is applied, including theory of photography, Photoshop techniques, hands-on photographic sessions, outdoor photography and studio photography (in the Centre’s fully-equipped studio).

To reserve your place please call (+357) 25354810 or email info@cyprus6x6.com for more info.

Please click here for the course outline.

HOMO URBANUS EUROPEANUS Photography Exhibition by JEAN-MARC CARACCI

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6x6 Centre for Photography is proud to present French photographer Jean-Marc Caracci's photography exhibition entitled Homo Urbanus Europeanus.

The series of photographs “Homo Urbanus Europeanus” has been the subject of 29 exhibitions in 22 countries, across Europe and the world. The exhibition was first presented in Cyprus within the framework of Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture, and now travels to Limassol.

Jean-Marc Caracci has travelled to 39 European capitals (including Nicosia in 2015) to photograph "the man in his urban environment" or, according to the artist, "the urban being".

Every photograph of the series “Homo Urbanus Europeanus”, by the accuracy of its framing and its crisp style, is a hymn to the magnificent citizen. This human presence, captured with fineness, gives the city an unexpected beauty and majesty.

"Whilst taking photographs in a city, I see myself as a private detective, investigating the comings and goings of humanity, similar to a biologist observing movements inside a cell. Capturing people in their urban environment opens a way to explore my own humanity".

 - Jean-Marc Caracci

About the Photographer

Jean-Marc Caracci was born in Tunisia, his heritage is 100% Sicilian, but he has lived in the south of France, Montpellier, since his early childhood. With help and support from his elder brother, he started photographing and using the darkroom at the age of 15. When he was 20, he joined the army and was fortunate to be appointed the official photographer of the regiment. Being a self-taught photographer, during his time in the army he developed his skills and technical expertise in photographing people. He has always focused on Man as a representation of belonging, and rarely as a social object. His work is strongly influenced by photographers like Henri Cartier Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Raymond Depardon… and also by the American painter Edward Hopper.

* Below is the link to the portfolio “Homo Urbanus Europeanus”:

http://homo.urbanus.free.fr/portfolio

Major Sponsor  FIDELIUS

“with and without you-εmotions” Photography Exhibition by Ioanna Markidou

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Ioanna Markidou cordially invites you to her second solo photo exhibition entitled “with and without you-εmotions” to take place at 6x6 Centre for Photography.

Opening: Friday 15 December 2017 at 7 p.m.

The exhibition will remain open from the 15th to the 23rd December 2017.

Opening hours: Monday - Friday       : 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. & Saturday & Sunday   : 10 a.m.  - 4 p.m.

Part of the proceeds will be donated to The Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society.

More info: info@cyprus6x6.com,

+357 25354810, Facebook: 6x6 Centre for Photography

Location: 19 Ipeirou Str., Limassol 3040 (parallel to Anexartisias str.)

"ANIMA" Photography Exhibition of Digital Visual Effects by Pavlina Bargili

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Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, 21st November 2017, 7 p.m.

 Exhibition Duration: 21/11/2017 - 4/12/2017

 6x6 Centre for Photography, Limassol

6x6 Centre for Photography presents the photography exhibition ANIMA, by Pavlina Bargili. The exhibition, which exclusively presents photographs of digital visual effects, will open on Tuesday, 21 November 2017, at 7p.m. and will remain open to the public until the 4th of December. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Mr. Andy Bargilly, scenographer.

Language and words are often imprecise - they can neither express nor describe the love, the loss, the tragedy or joy felt deep inside the human soul. Working with digital photography, capturing faces is, in fact, an act of profound intuition. "I create for all those things that deeply matter to me. I create to challenge this intuition; a type of work that gives me access to a depth of emotions, to all the complex feelings lying beneath those faces. Their soul - anima", the artist mentions.

Pavlina Bargili comes from Famagusta. She studied jewellery design in Austria and is the owner of the jewellery store in Atlantica Miramare Hotel in Limassol. This is her first exhibition titled Anima.

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday: 10:00 - 18:00 , Saturday: 10:00 - 15:00

Exhibition Sponsors: American Academy and Karolin Tours

"PARALLEL" Photography Exhibition by Sofronis Sofroniou

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PARALLEL “an unseen reality, coexisting with the real world “

Photography Exhibition by Sofronis Sofroniou

Opening: Friday, 3 November 2017, 19:00

Exhibition Duration: 3/11/2017 - 15/11/2017, Opening Hours: Monday - Friday: 10:00 - 18:00 , Saturday: 10:00 - 15:00

6x6 Centre for Photography presents the photography exhibition PARALLEL, by Sofronis Sofroniou. The exhibition will open on Friday, 3 November 2017, at 7p.m. and will remain open to the public until the 15th November.

A parallel realism, portrayed through the exploration of the powers of near infrared photography, documenting moments in time. Light within the infrared spectrum is captured at longer wavelengths, unperceived by the human eye. Crossing into the deepest red, a diverse reality is revealed.

Sofronis Sofroniou has been experimenting with Infrared Photography since 1998. He works as a Director of Photography in the advertising and film industry and has been awarded for his cinematography in five international short film festivals.

6-week Photography course starts September 20th

Join our next practical photography course organised on a six week basis (in small groups), and starting on Wednesday, September 20th. A simple and comprehensible learning method is applied, including theory of photography, Photoshop techniques, hands-on photographic sessions, outdoor photography and studio photography (in the Centre’s fully-equipped studio).

For the course outline please click here.