29/05/2026
Some rooms just stay with you. This was one of them.
Women from Iran, Iraq, Lithuania, the United States, Mexico, and Greece, sitting side by side, turning memory into art and art into story. There were collages, paintings, colour everywhere, and a lot of courage. Different countries, different journeys, different reasons for ending up in Cyprus, but the same quiet question running through all of it: what does my heritage actually mean to me now?
That, to us, is what intangible cultural heritage really is. Not something behind glass in a museum, but something living, carried across borders in the hands of the women who refuse to let it fade.
A huge thank you to Ira Irakleous (.iraaaaa), our artistic mentor, who held this group with so much care and helped each woman bring her story to the surface and onto the paper in her own most creative way.
And thank you to every single woman who trusted us with her story. We will not forget this one.