KaleidHERscope

Seagull Shahbazi, women’s rights activist and founder of the ‘Women of Cyprus’ initiative speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope after the first anniversary of the #WomenLifeFreedom revolution following the murder of Mahsa Amini, about why this fight is so important and that it is about more than just the hijab, what’s happening in Iran now […]

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 8: Seagull Shahbazi, founder of the ‘Women of Cyprus’ discuss #WomenLifeFreedom revolution (16/10/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.

Chiara Rosselli, co-founder & executive director of the APROPOS Group and a speaker at the Cyprus Forum on the 29th September 2023 speaks to kaleidHERscope about how redesigning or tweaking processes can help fix politics, whether at political party level or non-profit organization level. As a process designer and a political dialogue curator since 2015, […]

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 7: Chiara Rosselli: Redesigning processes can help fix politics (27/9/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.

African mystic, author, healer, and midwife Mmatshilo Motsei speaks to Magda Zenon on KaleidHERscope about uncovering the old truth that Africa is great and powerful and that, because of the poisoning of our mind, our soul is afflicted, about multi-generational healing and community development and of the role of indigenous midwifery in countering obstetric violence.

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 6: African mystic, author Mmatshilo Motsei on multigenerational healing & community development (8/9/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.

Educator, actor, director and playwright Renos Spanoudes, a South African Greek Cypriot Diasporan speaks on kaleidHERscope about playing the role of Dimitri Tsafendas, the assassin of the architect of apartheid, and, advocate George Bizos in the landmark Rivonia Trials, about how the scenarios of these plays developed as archives were opened over time and the […]

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 5: Director Renos Spanoudes on playing personalities of apartheid era (28/8/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.

Argyro Nicolaou, a Cypriot writer and filmmaker who calls both Cyprus and NYC home, speaks on kaleidHERScope about memory, conflict, and displacement, the role that Varoshi has played in her life and her work, how story-telling can be a healing process, how her work links historical research to create 3-dimensional, character-driven narratives for the page […]

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 4: Character-driven narratives for the page & the screen about memory, conflict and displacement with Argyro Nicolaou (9/8/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.

Ipek Borman and Myrtani Pieri speak on kaleidHERscope about the Transformative Scenario Process (TSP), a distinctive process that does not promote a specific solution, but rather looks at the multiple concerns of Cypriots today including but also beyond the “Cyprus problem” and allowed Cypriots from across society to explore and discuss their whole future together. […]

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 3: Scenarios for the Cyprus problem with İpek Borman & Myrtani Pieri (21/7/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.

Despina Psara, an active member of civil society speaks on kaleidHERscope about the value of a space for women’s voices, what she would want for Cyprus, body shaming, job opportunities (or NOT) for the youth, and what she would tell President Christodoulides, if she could.

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 2: In inter-generational conversation with Despina Psara (2/7/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.

Welcome to the first episode of KaleidHERscope as a member of the Island Talks family! In this special episode, Magda Zenon hosts Hara Kaminera. Hara Kaminara, a documentary maker, visual storyteller and photographer who focuses on social issues, speaks to kaleidHERscope about her participation aboard the ‘Aquarius’, a ship that rescued 29,523 people in the […]

The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 1: ‘A Letter to Nikola’ by Hara Kaminera (6/6/2023) first appeared on Island Talks.