Shared by Christina Skarpari, PhD Candidate at Central Saint Martins
Christina is also the Founder and Art Director of Xarkis Festival
Photograph from artists’ residency performance at Xarkis Festival 2017
“You Had to Be There…” | Spatial Explorations in Embodied Storytelling | Anastasia McCammon
Xarkis NGO is inviting recent UAL alumni as well as current Graphic Communication Design students from the BA and MA programmes, to submit proposals for the graphic design identity of Xarkis Festival 2018. The chosen collaborator will design the complete graphics and identity of this year’s festival, including the social media communication, poster, program, postcards, banners and signage.
ABOUT XARKIS
Xarkis: from Ancient Greek ex’ arhis, which means from the beginning.
Xarkis is a project which was initiated during MA Communication Design at CSM (2012-2014). The distinction project focused on the development of the Xarkis festival; an event that aims to build a communal identity, community cohesion and cultural resilience through creative practice in a context of design led social innovation. Today, Xarkis Festival is one of the most anticipated Festivals happening in Cyprus and we are working towards its 6th edition.
Xarkis Festival will be hosted in the idyllic village of Koilani (Limassol district) Cyprus, during the 18-19th August 2018. Our team is planning a unique interdisciplinary, intergenerational and cross-cultural experience with art, design and craft workshops, a concert, an open air cinema, audio walks, performances, spatial installations and an experimental fiesta, which is inspired by the Greek Cypriot ‘glenti’ or ‘ziafettin’ and will form the climax of our Festivities.
Photograph from workshop programme at Xarkis Festival 2015
Weaving + Architecture Workshop | Joanna Jossif, Chryso Onisiforou + Elina Pattichi
Please click here to read last year’s Festival schedule
The upcoming Xarkis Festival will be realised with collaborators who will be selected mainly on the basis of their contributions in socially engaged initiatives, which nurture creativity, experimental and innovative practices surrounding local culture and heritage.
As a follow-up to the artists’ residency program we had initiated in 2017, which featured artists’ participation from Canada, Spain, Greece and Cyprus, we are planning to develop the program to include creative practitioners from a wider range of fields, including practitioners from performance art, design, craft, music and fine art backgrounds from different parts of the globe.
The participants will be invited to work with the team of Xarkis, the local community and with workshop educators and facilitators who will be leading workshops and seminars during the week of 11-17 August. The results from their residencies will be presented during the Festival weekend.
Photograph from artists’ residency performance at Xarkis Festival 2017 Performance | En.act
Our selected graphic designer will receive:
- 600 euros compensation
- Air tickets to and from Cyprus for the attendance of the Festival
- Accommodation + 3 meals per day during the course of the event
Free Entrance to all the workshops and Festival facilities - The opportunity to showcase work, via exhibition, installation / workshop, as part of our activities
Interested graphic designers are called to send:
- Their CV ( 2 A4 pages max)
- Project Proposal (200 words max)
- 4 images of past works with descriptions (max)
Please send the above information as a single PDF by the 15th of April 2018 to info@xarkis.org.
Photograph from the music concert at Xarkis Festival 2017
Jannis Anastasakis + Sofia Sarri