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Buffer-Out!

  • Home Enables: On Awaiting Your Response with Kat Kats and Bryce Ives

    9 MAY 2023 · In this final episode of Buffer-Out!, Meltem Burak hosts Australian artists Kat Kats and Bryce Ives. Together, they elaborate on Awaiting Your Reponse which is an art project based on the 134 love letters the Cypriot grandparents of Kat Kats sent to each other in the 1960s. Awaiting Your Response was first showcased during the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival in 2020. It is a work in progress which develops with the time. For more information on Awaiting Your Response, please refer to the posters all over Nicosia or simply consult the project`s https://awaitingyourresponse.com/ .
    30m 12s
  • Home Enables: On Divided Still with Antonis Pouliasis

    17 MAR 2023 · In this fifth episode of Buffer-Out!, Meltem Burak hosts videographer Antonis Pouliasis. Antonis is the director of the short documentary Divided Still which was produced by the Home for Cooperation in 2022. The documentary was screened at various international short documentary film festivals such as the Kalamata ShortDocs in Greece. Throughout the episode, Antonis elaborates on the short documentary, the role of arts and culture in peacebuilding, and on his relationship with the Home for Cooperation.
    15m 51s
  • Home Enables: On Peace Journalism with Stefanos Evripidou

    31 JAN 2023 · In this fourth episode of Buffer-Out!, Meltem Burak hosts ex-journalist Stefanos Evripidou. Stefanos is a media professional with sixteen years of experience. Throughout the episode, Stefanos elaborates on his experiences in journalism from Cyprus and other zones of frozen and intractable conflict; shares his perception on peace journalism with a critical approach; and explains his relationship with the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) and the Home for Cooperation (H4C). Stefanos produced video blogs for the AHDR and co-produced a documentary called Birds of a Feather which was screened at the AHDR. The documentary investigates the role of the H4C in creating space for intercommunal dialogue in divided Cyprus. You can access the video blogs and the documentary from the https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRxb3KupJnpTfXimOOMaHWrLRXAkHQxzR of Stefanos. The documentary has subtitles available in Turkish, Greek and English that can be found in the settings.
    21m 18s
  • Home Enables: On Environmental Peacebuilding with Vijdan Sengor

    23 DEC 2022 · In this third episode of Buffer-Out!, Meltem Burak talks to Vijdan Sengor. Vijdan is an environmental peace activist from Cyprus. Throughout the podcast, Vijdan elaborates on how she became an activist, what environmental peace activism entails in practice, and Avli. Avli is an intercommunal initiative that strives for an intersectional social transformation by focusing on the environment and peace in Cyprus. If you have any environmental peacebuilding ideas, please feel free to contact Vijdan and Avli via the links below: Avli`s official website: avli.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avli.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avli_org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/avli_cy
    21m 4s
  • Home Enables: An Interview with Lefteris Moumtzis (Freedom Candlemaker)

    26 NOV 2022 · In this second episode of Buffer-Out!, Meltem Burak talks to Lefteris Moumtzis (Freedom Candlemaker). Lefteris is a musician from Cyprus who makes use of music to establish a culture of peace in the island. Throughout the podcast, Lefteris elaborates on United by Sound, and its offspring band Island Seeds, which is one of the most important peacebuilding programmes of the Home for Cooperation. For more information on United by Sound, please visit https://www.home4cooperation.info/our-work/united-by-sound/ Listen to The Time is Ripe via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV9iQDS9BB0 Listen to Island Seeds` 2022 concert at Fengaros Reacts via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlIoWeJKfmE Listen to Lefteris` 2021 concert at Fengaros Reacts via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880pPFucQVI
    22m 28s
  • Home Enables: An Interview with Andri Christofides and Hayriye Rüzgar

    1 OCT 2022 · In this first episode of Buffer-Out!, Meltem Burak talks to Andri Christofides and Hayriye Rüzgar. Andri is the manager of the Home for Cooperation. Hayriye is the communications officer of the Home. Together, they elaborate on the role of the Home for peacebuilding in Cyprus, how the Home brings different communities of Cyprus together through arts and culture, and the relationship between arts and culture and peacebuilding. Finally, Andri and Hayriye explain the meaning of the Home for their own lives and personal development.
    26m 2s

Buffer-Out! is a podcast series by the Home for Cooperation and Meltem Burak, an independent pod producer. Throughout the Buffer-Out! podcast series, Meltem will invite different people to spread the...

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Buffer-Out! is a podcast series by the Home for Cooperation and Meltem Burak, an independent pod producer.

Throughout the Buffer-Out! podcast series, Meltem will invite different people to spread the word on their own personal stories and experiences and their relationship with the Home for Cooperation. They will together explore questions such as: how they encountered the Home for Cooperation; why the Home is important for Cyprus; how they came up with their peacebuilding idea; what kind of difficulties they have been facing; how the Home for Cooperation helps them realise their idea and overcome difficulties etc. Overall, Buffer-Out! is a digital storytelling platform which aims to contribute to the construction of a culture of peace in Cyprus.

Buffer-Out! is funded by the Active Citizens Fund, through the Home for Cooperation project which is implemented by the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research.

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