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The Albertina
The architectural history of the Palais
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Image: The oldest photographic view of the newly designed Palais Archduke Albrecht, 1869
"It is my will that the expansion of the inner city of Vienna with regard to a suitable connection of the same with the suburbs as soon as possible is tackled and at this on Regulirung (regulation) and beautifying of my Residence and Imperial Capital is taken into account. To this end I grant the withdrawal of the ramparts and fortifications of the inner city and the trenches around the same".
This decree of Emperor Franz Joseph I, published on 25 December 1857 in the Wiener Zeitung, formed the basis for the largest the surface concerning and architecturally most significant transformation of the Viennese cityscape. Involving several renowned domestic and foreign architects a "master plan" took form, which included the construction of a boulevard instead of the ramparts between the inner city and its radially upstream suburbs. In the 50-years during implementation phase, an impressive architectural ensemble developed, consisting of imperial and private representational buildings, public administration and cultural buildings, churches and barracks, marking the era under the term "ring-street style". Already in the first year tithe decided a senior member of the Austrian imperial family to decorate the facades of his palace according to the new design principles, and thus certified the aristocratic claim that this also "historicism" said style on the part of the imperial house was attributed.
Image: The Old Albertina after 1920
It was the palace of Archduke Albrecht (1817-1895), the Senior of the Habsburg Family Council, who as Field Marshal held the overall command over the Austro-Hungarian army. The building was incorporated into the imperial residence of the Hofburg complex, forming the south-west corner and extending eleven meters above street level on the so-called Augustinerbastei.
The close proximity of the palace to the imperial residence corresponded not only with Emperor Franz Joseph I and Archduke Albert with a close familial relationship between the owner of the palace and the monarch. Even the former inhabitants were always in close relationship to the imperial family, whether by birth or marriage. An exception here again proves the rule: Don Emanuel Teles da Silva Conde Tarouca (1696-1771), for which Maria Theresa in 1744 the palace had built, was just a close friend and advisor of the monarch. Silva Tarouca underpins the rule with a second exception, because he belonged to the administrative services as Generalhofbaudirektor (general court architect) and President of the Austrian-Dutch administration, while all other him subsequent owners were highest ranking military.
In the annals of Austrian history, especially those of military history, they either went into as commander of the Imperial Army, or the Austrian, later kk Army. In chronological order, this applies to Duke Carl Alexander of Lorraine, the brother-of-law of Maria Theresa, as Imperial Marshal, her son-in-law Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, also field marshal, whos adopted son, Archduke Charles of Austria, the last imperial field marshal and only Generalissimo of Austria, his son Archduke Albrecht of Austria as Feldmarschalil and army Supreme commander, and most recently his nephew Archduke Friedrich of Austria, who held as field marshal from 1914 to 1916 the command of the Austro-Hungarian troops. Despite their military profession, all five generals conceived themselves as patrons of the arts and promoted large sums of money to build large collections, the construction of magnificent buildings and cultural life. Charles Alexander of Lorraine promoted as governor of the Austrian Netherlands from 1741 to 1780 the Academy of Fine Arts, the Théâtre de Ja Monnaie and the companies Bourgeois Concert and Concert Noble, he founded the Academie royale et imperial des Sciences et des Lettres, opened the Bibliotheque Royal for the population and supported artistic talents with high scholarships. World fame got his porcelain collection, which however had to be sold by Emperor Joseph II to pay off his debts. Duke Albert began in 1776 according to the concept of conte Durazzo to set up an encyclopedic collection of prints, which forms the core of the world-famous "Albertina" today.
Image : Duke Albert and Archduchess Marie Christine show in family cercle the from Italy brought along art, 1776. Frederick Henry Füger.
1816 declared to Fideikommiss and thus in future indivisible, inalienable and inseparable, the collection 1822 passed into the possession of Archduke Carl, who, like his descendants, it broadened. Under him, the collection was introduced together with the sumptuously equipped palace on the Augustinerbastei in the so-called "Carl Ludwig'schen fideicommissum in 1826, by which the building and the in it kept collection fused into an indissoluble unity. At this time had from the Palais Tarouca by structural expansion or acquisition a veritable Residenz palace evolved. Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen was first in 1800 the third floor of the adjacent Augustinian convent wing adapted to house his collection and he had after 1802 by his Belgian architect Louis de Montoyer at the suburban side built a magnificent extension, called the wing of staterooms, it was equipped in the style of Louis XVI. Only two decades later, Archduke Carl the entire palace newly set up. According to scetches of the architect Joseph Kornhäusel the 1822-1825 retreaded premises presented themselves in the Empire style. The interior of the palace testified from now in an impressive way the high rank and the prominent position of its owner. Under Archduke Albrecht the outer appearance also should meet the requirements. He had the facade of the palace in the style of historicism orchestrated and added to the Palais front against the suburbs an offshore covered access. Inside, he limited himself, apart from the redesign of the Rococo room in the manner of the second Blondel style, to the retention of the paternal stock. Archduke Friedrich's plans for an expansion of the palace were omitted, however, because of the outbreak of the First World War so that his contribution to the state rooms, especially, consists in the layout of the Spanish apartment, which he in 1895 for his sister, the Queen of Spain Maria Christina, had set up as a permanent residence.
Picture: The "audience room" after the restoration: Picture: The "balcony room" around 1990
The era of stately representation with handing down their cultural values found its most obvious visualization inside the palace through the design and features of the staterooms. On one hand, by the use of the finest materials and the purchase of masterfully manufactured pieces of equipment, such as on the other hand by the permanent reuse of older equipment parts. This period lasted until 1919, when Archduke Friedrich was expropriated by the newly founded Republic of Austria. With the republicanization of the collection and the building first of all finished the tradition that the owner's name was synonymous with the building name:
After Palais Tarouca or tarokkisches house it was called Lorraine House, afterwards Duke Albert Palais and Palais Archduke Carl. Due to the new construction of an adjacently located administration building it received in 1865 the prefix "Upper" and was referred to as Upper Palais Archduke Albrecht and Upper Palais Archduke Frederick. For the state a special reference to the Habsburg past was certainly politically no longer opportune, which is why was decided to name the building according to the in it kept collection "Albertina".
Picture: The "Wedgwood Cabinet" after the restoration: Picture: the "Wedgwood Cabinet" in the Palais Archduke Friedrich, 1905
This name derives from the term "La Collection Albertina" which had been used by the gallery Inspector Maurice von Thausing in 1870 in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts for the former graphics collection of Duke Albert. For this reason, it was the first time since the foundation of the palace that the name of the collection had become synonymous with the room shell. Room shell, hence, because the Republic of Austria Archduke Friedrich had allowed to take along all the movable goods from the palace in his Hungarian exile: crystal chandeliers, curtains and carpets as well as sculptures, vases and clocks. Particularly stressed should be the exquisite furniture, which stems of three facilities phases: the Louis XVI furnitures of Duke Albert, which had been manufactured on the basis of fraternal relations between his wife Archduchess Marie Christine and the French Queen Marie Antoinette after 1780 in the French Hofmanufakturen, also the on behalf of Archduke Charles 1822-1825 in the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory by Joseph Danhauser produced Empire furnitures and thirdly additions of the same style of Archduke Friedrich, which this about 1900 at Portois & Ffix as well as at Friedrich Otto Schmidt had commissioned.
The "swept clean" building got due to the strained financial situation after the First World War initially only a makeshift facility. However, since until 1999 no revision of the emergency equipment took place, but differently designed, primarily the utilitarianism committed office furnitures complementarily had been added, the equipment of the former state rooms presented itself at the end of the 20th century as an inhomogeneous administrative mingle-mangle of insignificant parts, where, however, dwelt a certain quaint charm. From the magnificent state rooms had evolved depots, storage rooms, a library, a study hall and several officed.
Image: The Albertina Graphic Arts Collection and the Philipphof after the American bombing of 12 März 1945.
Image: The palace after the demolition of the entrance facade, 1948-52
Worse it hit the outer appearance of the palace, because in times of continued anti-Habsburg sentiment after the Second World War and inspired by an intolerant destruction will, it came by pickaxe to a ministerial erasure of history. In contrast to the graphic collection possessed the richly decorated facades with the conspicuous insignia of the former owner an object-immanent reference to the Habsburg past and thus exhibited the monarchial traditions and values of the era of Francis Joseph significantly. As part of the remedial measures after a bomb damage, in 1948 the aristocratic, by Archduke Albert initiated, historicist facade structuring along with all decorations was cut off, many facade figures demolished and the Hapsburg crest emblems plunged to the ground. Since in addition the old ramp also had been cancelled and the main entrance of the bastion level had been moved down to the second basement storey at street level, ended the presence of the old Archduke's palace after more than 200 years. At the reopening of the "Albertina Graphic Collection" in 1952, the former Hapsburg Palais of splendour presented itself as one of his identity robbed, formally trivial, soulless room shell, whose successful republicanization an oversized and also unproportional eagle above the new main entrance to the Augustinian road symbolized. The emocratic throw of monuments had wiped out the Hapsburg palace from the urban appeareance, whereby in the perception only existed a nondescript, nameless and ahistorical building that henceforth served the lodging and presentation of world-famous graphic collection of the Albertina. The condition was not changed by the decision to the refurbishment because there were only planned collection specific extensions, but no restoration of the palace.
Image: The palace after the Second World War with simplified facades, the rudiment of the Danubiusbrunnens (well) and the new staircase up to the Augustinerbastei
This paradigm shift corresponded to a blatant reversal of the historical circumstances, as the travel guides and travel books for kk Residence and imperial capital of Vienna dedicated itself primarily with the magnificent, aristocratic palace on the Augustinerbastei with the sumptuously fitted out reception rooms and mentioned the collection kept there - if at all - only in passing. Only with the repositioning of the Albertina in 2000 under the direction of Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the palace was within the meaning and in fulfillment of the Fideikommiss of Archduke Charles in 1826 again met with the high regard, from which could result a further inseparable bond between the magnificent mansions and the world-famous collection. In view of the knowing about politically motivated errors and omissions of the past, the facades should get back their noble, historicist designing, the staterooms regain their glamorous, prestigious appearance and culturally unique equippment be repurchased. From this presumption, eventually grew the full commitment to revise the history of redemption and the return of the stately palace in the public consciousness.
Image: The restored suburb facade of the Palais Albertina suburb
The smoothed palace facades were returned to their original condition and present themselves today - with the exception of the not anymore reconstructed Attica figures - again with the historicist decoration and layout elements that Archduke Albrecht had given after the razing of the Augustinerbastei in 1865 in order. The neoclassical interiors, today called after the former inhabitants "Habsburg Staterooms", receiving a meticulous and detailed restoration taking place at the premises of originality and authenticity, got back their venerable and sumptuous appearance. From the world wide scattered historical pieces of equipment have been bought back 70 properties or could be returned through permanent loan to its original location, by which to the visitors is made experiencable again that atmosphere in 1919 the state rooms of the last Habsburg owner Archduke Frederick had owned. The for the first time in 80 years public accessible "Habsburg State Rooms" at the Palais Albertina enable now again as eloquent testimony to our Habsburg past and as a unique cultural heritage fundamental and essential insights into the Austrian cultural history. With the relocation of the main entrance to the level of the Augustinerbastei the recollection to this so valuable Austrian Cultural Heritage formally and functionally came to completion. The vision of the restoration and recovery of the grand palace was a pillar on which the new Albertina should arise again, the other embody the four large newly built exhibition halls, which allow for the first time in the history of the Albertina, to exhibit the collection throughout its encyclopedic breadh under optimal conservation conditions.
Image: The new entrance area of the Albertina
64 meter long shed roof. Hans Hollein.
The palace presents itself now in its appearance in the historicist style of the Ringstrassenära, almost as if nothing had happened in the meantime. But will the wheel of time should not, cannot and must not be turned back, so that the double standards of the "Albertina Palace" said museum - on the one hand Habsburg grandeur palaces and other modern museum for the arts of graphics - should be symbolized by a modern character: The in 2003 by Hans Hollein designed far into the Albertina square cantilevering, elegant floating flying roof. 64 meters long, it symbolizes in the form of a dynamic wedge the accelerated urban spatial connectivity and public access to the palace. It advertises the major changes in the interior as well as the huge underground extensions of the repositioned "Albertina".
Christian Benedictine
Art historian with research interests History of Architecture, building industry of the Hapsburgs, Hofburg and Zeremonialwissenschaft (ceremonial sciences). Since 1990 he works in the architecture collection of the Albertina. Since 2000 he supervises as director of the newly founded department "Staterooms" the restoration and furnishing of the state rooms and the restoration of the facades and explores the history of the palace and its inhabitants.
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
“As You Like It”
A musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It
Adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery
Music and lyrics by Shaina Taub
Orchestrations and band arrangements by Mike Brun
Directed by Rodney Hudson
Music directed by Brian Cimmet
Choreography by Felipe Panamá
Scenic design by Kristina Fosmire
Costume design by Amaan Khan
Lighting design by Em Stripling
Sound design by Jacqueline R. Herter
Wig design by Michael A. King
Fight choreography by Alec Barbour
Assistant music director: Jacob Stebly
Dramaturg: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Stage manager: Emma Yehle
Cast
Malaika Wanjiku Jaques
Alexandra Kafrissen Rosalind
Thomas Riggleman Orlando
Samantha Harnick Celia
Kevin Ilardi Oliver
Dylan Knight Weaver Duke Senior
Ian Purcell Duke Frederick
Will Foohey Touchstone
Hayden Poe Andy
Olivia Lacie Andrews Phoebe
Sofia Swensen Silvia
Rileigh Very Mama Corin, Ensemble
Blaise Rossman Papa Corin, Ensemble
McKay Marshall Miss Amiens, Hisperia
Shaun Collins William, Frankie Flow, Ensemble
Adam Forward Bronco, Ensemble
Zach Simpson Adam, Caveman
Elana Babbitt Announcer, Ensemble
Corinne Ferrer Agent, Ensemble
Alice Meyer Little Jaques, Ensemble
Swings
Rachel Langetieg, Austin Rose
Performances
Friday, April 29, 8 p.m. (Preview)
Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m. (Opening)
Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m. (ASL Interpreted)
Wednesday, May 4, 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m. (Open captioned)
Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m.
Additional Credits
Puppeteers: Elana Babbitt, Shaun Collins, Kevin Ilardi, Blaise Rossmann
Dance Captain: Blaise Rossmann
Fight Captains: Adam Forward, Austin Rose
Assistant to the Director: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Assistant Choreographer: Olivia Lacie Andrews
Additional Staging and Choreography: Olivia Lacie Andrews, Blaise Rossmann
Assistant Scenic Designer: Angel Wai Yan Lam
Associate Costume Designer: Rosario Appleton Figueira
Assistant Costume Designer: Ryn Gross
Assistant Lighting Designer: Mairead Cummins
Assistant Sound Designer: Malena Logan
Assistant Stage Managers: Emily Kellner, Maya Royston
Casting Assistant: Liam Bierley
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
New Market is a market in Kolkata situated on Lindsay Street. Technically, it referred to an enclosed market but today in local parlance the entire Lindsay Street shopping area is often known as New Market.
HISTORY
Some of the earliest English quarters of Calcutta were in an area known then as Dalhousie Square. Terretti and Lalbazar nearby were the customary shopping haunts of the British. Later settlements arose in Kashaitola, Dharmatala and Chowringhee.By the 1850s, British colonists held sway in Calcutta and displayed increasing contempt for the “natives” and an aversion to brushing shoulders with them at the bazaars. In 1871, moved by a well orchestrated outcry from English residents, a committee of the Calcutta Corporation began to contemplate a market which would be the preserve of Calcutta’s British residents. Spurred by the committee’s deliberations, the Corporation purchased Lindsay Street, made plans to raze the old Fenwick’s Bazar located there, and commissioned Richard Roskell Bayne, an architect of the East Indian Railway Company, to design the Victorian Gothic market complex which would take its place. It began to take shape in 1873, and Bayne was honoured for his achievement with a Rs. 1,000 rupee award, a large sum in the 1870s.The giant shopping arcade was thrown open to the English populace with some fanfare on January 1, 1874. News of Calcutta’s first municipal market spread rapidly. Affluent colonials from all over India shopped at exclusive retailers like Ranken and Company (dressmakers), Cuthbertson and Harper (shoe-merchants) and R.W. Newman or Thacker Spink, the famous stationers and book-dealers.
Sir Stuart Hogg, then the Chairman of Calcutta Corporation, had shown tenacious support for the plans to build the New Market. So, 28 years later, on December 2, 1903, the market was officially named Sir Stuart Hogg Market and later shortened to Hogg Market. Bengali society, in the British era, called it Hogg Shaheber Bajaar, a name that is still in use, just as a painting of Sir Stuart Hogg still hangs in Calcutta Corporation’s portrait gallery. But the earliest provisional nickname, New Market, which remained in use throughout, proved to have the most sticking power.
New Market’s growth kept pace with the city until World War II. The northern portion of the market came up in 1909 at an expense of 6 lakh rupees. Despite the gathering storm of World War II, an extension was engineered on the south flank, and the historic clock tower on the eastern end of the market was shipped over from Huddersfield and installed in the 1930s. Florists were located near the front entrance, and stalls selling fresh and preserved foods were placed towards the rear of the market. Beyond the vegetable stalls, fishmongers and slaughterhouse butchers plied their trade, and, until the mid-1970s, at the very back of the market, exotic animals from all over the British Empire could be bought as pets.
DESCRIPTION
Despite the appearance of new air-conditioned, American-style, shopping malls all over Kolkata, New Market, which has survived two devastating fires and regular flooding, remains at the core of the shopping experience in the city. Over 2000 stalls under its roof sell everything from clothing to wheeled luggage to electronics to a special cheese found nowhere else. Under its apparent chaos lie extraordinary finds as well as remarkable bargains.
There are several renowned confectioners in New Market: Nahoum & Sons (estd. 1902) is truly historic, with its original mahogany cabinetry and marble counters. For over a century, millions of customers have sworn by Nahoum’s Rich Fruit Cake, its brownies, marzipan, macaroons and much more. Imperial Confectioners and D Gama compete for a close second and third place. New Market is also home to a plethora of saree shops, such as Dayaram & Co. (estd. 1908),Bombay Silk House and Ghanashyam.It houses a world famous kashmiri shawl store Pumposh-kashmir shawl emporium (estb.1935). A huge section of New Market is allotted to floriskts, where customers can choose from a wide seasonal selection of many varieties of carnations, gerbera, gladiolas, orchids, tuberoses, roses and lilies, and other flowers. Among the most renowned are A. Bose Pvt. Ltd. (estd.1874), and Coondoo Florists. Another huge section of the market houses crockery and crystal stores, such as Staffordshire Stores (estd.1938), that sell everything from champagne flutes, wine glasses, and cocktail funnels to dinner and tea sets and flower vases..
Situated on Lindsay Street, Kolkata (Calcutta), just off Chowringhee Road, the market is open 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday to Friday, until 7 p.m. on Saturdays, and closed on Sundays.
FIRE OF 1985 & 2011
A fire burned down large portions of the original building on December 13, 1985. It has since been rebuilt, and provided with a new wing. Another fire broke out on July 20, 2011 but was confined to a small area in the Flower Range near the Lindsay Street entrance.
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Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
Chris Lawless became the first Briton to win the Tour de Yorkshire after a superb ride on the last stage to Leeds.
Lawless, racing in the blue jersey as the overnight leader, finished right behind stage winner Greg van Avermaet to secure a debut win for Team Ineos.
Wigan's Lawless, 23, was immediately congratulated by team-mate Chris Froome, who orchestrated the decisive final break on Cote de Otley Chevin.
Team Ineos was only officially launched last week, replacing Team Sky.
"I can't believe it," Lawless told ITV 4. "If someone had told me I'd win this race before it started I'd have called them a liar.
"I started losing touch halfway up the Otley Chevin but I knew if I could get back on there was a climb around 5km from the finish that I could get over.
"I knew I could follow Greg van Avermaet when he went. Greg was someone I looked up to when I first started riding so to beat him is special.
"I've got to thank the team for backing me because I don't have a good history on stages like this but they said they'd give me a chance."
When asked how big a win it is for him personally, he replied: "The biggest."
Froome's tactics pay off
After 150km of racing, much of it through the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, the final stage exploded on the final categorised climb of the race - the Cote de Otley Chevin - with around 20km remaining.
With Lawless appearing to struggle, four-time Tour de France champion Froome - who was Ineos' road captain and said "decisions were made out on the road" - went on the attack and his effort forced other teams pursuing the overall victory to try to chase him down.
Froome's team-mate Eddie Dunbar had also followed the attack. He then launched his own surprise move as the riders crested the hill and quickly broke clear, chasing down and passing three French riders who were part of the day's original break.
Realising that Dunbar could go on and win the overall title, Froome disrupted the pace of the chasing pack and that, in turn, gave Lawless the chance to catch up.
Eventually, defending champion Van Avermaet, who started the day six seconds behind Lawless, had to attack and while he quickly caught Dunbar, Lawless went with him. That left the Belgian CCC rider with two Ineos riders for company and with an almost impossible task of shaking them both off.
Knowing his fate was sealed, Van Avermaet took the stage win, with Lawless happy to follow him over the line and claim the title by two seconds.
Alexander Kamp, who started the final stage on the same time as Lawless claimed that he was "the strongest rider" over the hills but the Dane failed to live up to his bold statement and was distanced on the final climb out of Otley.
France's Arnaud Courteille, who was in the day's nine-man break, was first to the top of three of the day's five categorised climbs to take the King of the Mountains title.
Stage four result:
1. Greg van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) 4hrs 40mins 03secs
2. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) same time
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +02secs
4. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data) +09secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) Same time
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis)
7. Alexander Kamp (Den/Riwal Readynez)
8. Gabriel Cullaigh (GB/Team Wiggins Le Col) +12secs
9. Jenthe Biermans (Bel/Katusha Alpecin)
10. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling)
Final classification:
1. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) 15hrs 18mins 12secs
2. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) +02secs
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +11secs
4. Alexander Kamp (Ned/Riwal Readynez) +15secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) +25secs
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis) Same time
7. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data)
8. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling) +28secs
9. Connor Swift (GB/Madison Genesis) same time
10. Nick van der Lijke (Ned/Roompot-Charles)
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Riccardo Muti
Audio CD (August 13, 2002)
Label: EMI Classics
Tracklist
1. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: Promenade - Gnomus - Promenade
2. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: The Old Castle - Promenade
3. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: Tuileries
4. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: Bydlo - Promenade
5. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: Ballet of the unhatched chicks
6. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: Samuel Godenberg and Schmuyle
7. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: Limoges - The Market
8. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: The Catacombs (Sepulchrum Romanum)
9. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
10. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: The hut on fowl's legs
11. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: The Great Gate of Kiev
12. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 1 - Adoration of the Earth: Introduction
13. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 1 - Adoration of the Earth: The Augurs of Spring -
14. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 1 - Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of Abduction
15. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 1 - Adoration of the Earth: Spring Rounds
16. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 1 - Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of the Rival Tri
17. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 1 - Adoration of the Earth: Procession of the Sage
18. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 1 - Adoration of the Earth: The Sage - Dance of the
19. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 2 - The Sacrifice: Introduction
20. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 2 - The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles of the Maidens
21. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 2 - The Sacrifice: Glorification of the Chosen One
22. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 2 - The Sacrifice: Evocation of the Ancestors
23. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 2 - The Sacrifice: Ritual of the Ancestors
24. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Part 2 - The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen On
Il coro “Sant’Alene de Tula” nasceva a Tula (SS) nel 2002. La direzione artistica venne affidata al Maestro Giovanni Marongiu. Il nome del coro è “Sant’Alene de Tula” in onore della Vergine Patrona del paese Sant’Elena Imperatrice. Da anni il coro si esibisce in canti tradizionali in lingua sarda in occasione del Natale e della “Festa de Sant’Alene ‘e Austu” (festa degli emigrati). Inoltre il coro partecipa a vari concorsi sia nazionali che internazionali. Recentemente, il coro ha vinto il primo e il secondo premio al Festival di Cori tradizionali nella Città di Ozieri (premio miglior solista). Ma, il fiore all’occhiello del coro, rimane il trionfo ottenuto al 10° Festival del Folklore mondiale svoltosi a Barcelona nei giorni 24-28 settembre 2008, “Europe and its Songs – International Folksong Choir Competition & Concerts”; concorso nel quale il coro ha ottenuto il primo premio in assoluto nella categoria M2. Il coro ha anche inciso il suo primo cd dal titolo “Su ballu ‘e mesu idda” edito dalle Edizioni Frorias di Decimomannu, contenente 14 brani tradizionali ed inediti.
Curriculum Del Direttore. Giovanni Marongiu esordisce nella banda musicale “Bernardo Demuru” all’età di 13 anni. Immediatamente inizia gli studi musicali più approfonditi nel conservatorio di musica “Luigi Canepa”di Sassari. Nel frattempo entra a far parte della big band di Paolo Fresu, un jazzista ormai famoso in tutto il mondo. Si diploma in contrabbasso e continua i suoi studi musicali in direzione corale, armonia e direzione d’orchestra. Nel 1987 costituisce il gruppo etnico “Prendas”. Dal 1984 è maestro di cappella nella parrocchia di San Sebastiano e Santa Lucia di Berchidda, dove segue il coro di voci bianche e la scuola cantorum. Da quasi quattro anni è il maestro del coro voci virili “Sant’Alene de Tula”, col quale ha effettuato diversi concerti in Italia e all’estero.
The choir “Sant’Alene de Tula” was founded in Tula (SS) in 2002 and its artistic director is M° Giovanni Marongiu. The choir was named “Sant’Alene de Tula” in honor of the city’s patron virgin Sant’Elena Imperatrice. It has been years that the choir performs traditional Sardinian songs on the occasion of Christmas and of “Festa de Sant’Alene ‘e Austu” (emigrant day). Furthermore, the choir takes part in numerous national and international competitions. Recently, the choir won the first and second prize at the “Festival di Cori tradizionali” in Ozieri (prize for best soloist). But, the flagship of the choir is the participation to the 10th World Folk Festival in Barcelona, 24-28 September 2008, “Europe and its Songs – International Folksong Choir Competition & Concerts”, where the choir was awarded the first prize in the category M2. The choir has also recorded a CD titled “Su ballu ‘e mesu idda” and published by Edizioni Frorias of Decimomannu. It consists of 14 traditional and unedited pieces.
Curriculum Of The Conductor. Giovanni Marongiu débuts at the age of 13 in the music band “Bernardo Demuru”. He studied at the Conservatory “Luigi Canepa” in Sassari. In the meanwhile he becomes a member of the Paolo Fresu big band, a worldwide known jazz player. He graduated in double bass and studied choral conduction, harmony and orchestration. In 1987 he founded the ethnic group “Prendas”. Since 1984 he has been the maestro di cappella of the San Sebastiano and Santa Lucia Church, in Berchidda, where he conducts the treble voice choir and the cantourm school. Since 2006 he is the maestro of the male voice choir “Sant’Alene de Tula”, with which he held numerous concerts both in Italy and abroad.
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
“As You Like It”
A musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It
Adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery
Music and lyrics by Shaina Taub
Orchestrations and band arrangements by Mike Brun
Directed by Rodney Hudson
Music directed by Brian Cimmet
Choreography by Felipe Panamá
Scenic design by Kristina Fosmire
Costume design by Amaan Khan
Lighting design by Em Stripling
Sound design by Jacqueline R. Herter
Wig design by Michael A. King
Fight choreography by Alec Barbour
Assistant music director: Jacob Stebly
Dramaturg: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Stage manager: Emma Yehle
Cast
Malaika Wanjiku Jaques
Alexandra Kafrissen Rosalind
Thomas Riggleman Orlando
Samantha Harnick Celia
Kevin Ilardi Oliver
Dylan Knight Weaver Duke Senior
Ian Purcell Duke Frederick
Will Foohey Touchstone
Hayden Poe Andy
Olivia Lacie Andrews Phoebe
Sofia Swensen Silvia
Rileigh Very Mama Corin, Ensemble
Blaise Rossman Papa Corin, Ensemble
McKay Marshall Miss Amiens, Hisperia
Shaun Collins William, Frankie Flow, Ensemble
Adam Forward Bronco, Ensemble
Zach Simpson Adam, Caveman
Elana Babbitt Announcer, Ensemble
Corinne Ferrer Agent, Ensemble
Alice Meyer Little Jaques, Ensemble
Swings
Rachel Langetieg, Austin Rose
Performances
Friday, April 29, 8 p.m. (Preview)
Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m. (Opening)
Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m. (ASL Interpreted)
Wednesday, May 4, 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m. (Open captioned)
Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m.
Additional Credits
Puppeteers: Elana Babbitt, Shaun Collins, Kevin Ilardi, Blaise Rossmann
Dance Captain: Blaise Rossmann
Fight Captains: Adam Forward, Austin Rose
Assistant to the Director: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Assistant Choreographer: Olivia Lacie Andrews
Additional Staging and Choreography: Olivia Lacie Andrews, Blaise Rossmann
Assistant Scenic Designer: Angel Wai Yan Lam
Associate Costume Designer: Rosario Appleton Figueira
Assistant Costume Designer: Ryn Gross
Assistant Lighting Designer: Mairead Cummins
Assistant Sound Designer: Malena Logan
Assistant Stage Managers: Emily Kellner, Maya Royston
Casting Assistant: Liam Bierley
The Gothic Horror Music of 'Bloodborne'
Peter Scaturro | Sr. Music Producer, Sony Computer Entertainment Americas
Jim Fowler | Music Production Supervisor, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Penka Kouneva | Lead Orchestrator, Kouneva Studios
Location: Room 3006, West Hall
Date: Friday, March 18
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Get creative with the forms your map can take to be useful and effective in your culture.
Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity, Risdon, Quattlebaum, 2018, New York: Rosenfeld Media
Chris Lawless became the first Briton to win the Tour de Yorkshire after a superb ride on the last stage to Leeds.
Lawless, racing in the blue jersey as the overnight leader, finished right behind stage winner Greg van Avermaet to secure a debut win for Team Ineos.
Wigan's Lawless, 23, was immediately congratulated by team-mate Chris Froome, who orchestrated the decisive final break on Cote de Otley Chevin.
Team Ineos was only officially launched last week, replacing Team Sky.
"I can't believe it," Lawless told ITV 4. "If someone had told me I'd win this race before it started I'd have called them a liar.
"I started losing touch halfway up the Otley Chevin but I knew if I could get back on there was a climb around 5km from the finish that I could get over.
"I knew I could follow Greg van Avermaet when he went. Greg was someone I looked up to when I first started riding so to beat him is special.
"I've got to thank the team for backing me because I don't have a good history on stages like this but they said they'd give me a chance."
When asked how big a win it is for him personally, he replied: "The biggest."
Froome's tactics pay off
After 150km of racing, much of it through the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, the final stage exploded on the final categorised climb of the race - the Cote de Otley Chevin - with around 20km remaining.
With Lawless appearing to struggle, four-time Tour de France champion Froome - who was Ineos' road captain and said "decisions were made out on the road" - went on the attack and his effort forced other teams pursuing the overall victory to try to chase him down.
Froome's team-mate Eddie Dunbar had also followed the attack. He then launched his own surprise move as the riders crested the hill and quickly broke clear, chasing down and passing three French riders who were part of the day's original break.
Realising that Dunbar could go on and win the overall title, Froome disrupted the pace of the chasing pack and that, in turn, gave Lawless the chance to catch up.
Eventually, defending champion Van Avermaet, who started the day six seconds behind Lawless, had to attack and while he quickly caught Dunbar, Lawless went with him. That left the Belgian CCC rider with two Ineos riders for company and with an almost impossible task of shaking them both off.
Knowing his fate was sealed, Van Avermaet took the stage win, with Lawless happy to follow him over the line and claim the title by two seconds.
Alexander Kamp, who started the final stage on the same time as Lawless claimed that he was "the strongest rider" over the hills but the Dane failed to live up to his bold statement and was distanced on the final climb out of Otley.
France's Arnaud Courteille, who was in the day's nine-man break, was first to the top of three of the day's five categorised climbs to take the King of the Mountains title.
Stage four result:
1. Greg van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) 4hrs 40mins 03secs
2. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) same time
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +02secs
4. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data) +09secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) Same time
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis)
7. Alexander Kamp (Den/Riwal Readynez)
8. Gabriel Cullaigh (GB/Team Wiggins Le Col) +12secs
9. Jenthe Biermans (Bel/Katusha Alpecin)
10. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling)
Final classification:
1. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) 15hrs 18mins 12secs
2. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) +02secs
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +11secs
4. Alexander Kamp (Ned/Riwal Readynez) +15secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) +25secs
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis) Same time
7. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data)
8. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling) +28secs
9. Connor Swift (GB/Madison Genesis) same time
10. Nick van der Lijke (Ned/Roompot-Charles)
As a surprise for my birthday, Kristin orchestrated a complex birthday dinner (and ultimately a week) of fun activities for my birthday, enlisting friends and family from several parts of the country. The first part involved getting kidnapped at the house and taken to dinner. This involved a blindfold and "Wierd Al Yancovic" Tape played on a Sony Walkman so that I couldn't hear the conversations.
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
Chris Lawless became the first Briton to win the Tour de Yorkshire after a superb ride on the last stage to Leeds.
Lawless, racing in the blue jersey as the overnight leader, finished right behind stage winner Greg van Avermaet to secure a debut win for Team Ineos.
Wigan's Lawless, 23, was immediately congratulated by team-mate Chris Froome, who orchestrated the decisive final break on Cote de Otley Chevin.
Team Ineos was only officially launched last week, replacing Team Sky.
"I can't believe it," Lawless told ITV 4. "If someone had told me I'd win this race before it started I'd have called them a liar.
"I started losing touch halfway up the Otley Chevin but I knew if I could get back on there was a climb around 5km from the finish that I could get over.
"I knew I could follow Greg van Avermaet when he went. Greg was someone I looked up to when I first started riding so to beat him is special.
"I've got to thank the team for backing me because I don't have a good history on stages like this but they said they'd give me a chance."
When asked how big a win it is for him personally, he replied: "The biggest."
Froome's tactics pay off
After 150km of racing, much of it through the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, the final stage exploded on the final categorised climb of the race - the Cote de Otley Chevin - with around 20km remaining.
With Lawless appearing to struggle, four-time Tour de France champion Froome - who was Ineos' road captain and said "decisions were made out on the road" - went on the attack and his effort forced other teams pursuing the overall victory to try to chase him down.
Froome's team-mate Eddie Dunbar had also followed the attack. He then launched his own surprise move as the riders crested the hill and quickly broke clear, chasing down and passing three French riders who were part of the day's original break.
Realising that Dunbar could go on and win the overall title, Froome disrupted the pace of the chasing pack and that, in turn, gave Lawless the chance to catch up.
Eventually, defending champion Van Avermaet, who started the day six seconds behind Lawless, had to attack and while he quickly caught Dunbar, Lawless went with him. That left the Belgian CCC rider with two Ineos riders for company and with an almost impossible task of shaking them both off.
Knowing his fate was sealed, Van Avermaet took the stage win, with Lawless happy to follow him over the line and claim the title by two seconds.
Alexander Kamp, who started the final stage on the same time as Lawless claimed that he was "the strongest rider" over the hills but the Dane failed to live up to his bold statement and was distanced on the final climb out of Otley.
France's Arnaud Courteille, who was in the day's nine-man break, was first to the top of three of the day's five categorised climbs to take the King of the Mountains title.
Stage four result:
1. Greg van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) 4hrs 40mins 03secs
2. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) same time
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +02secs
4. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data) +09secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) Same time
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis)
7. Alexander Kamp (Den/Riwal Readynez)
8. Gabriel Cullaigh (GB/Team Wiggins Le Col) +12secs
9. Jenthe Biermans (Bel/Katusha Alpecin)
10. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling)
Final classification:
1. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) 15hrs 18mins 12secs
2. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) +02secs
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +11secs
4. Alexander Kamp (Ned/Riwal Readynez) +15secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) +25secs
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis) Same time
7. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data)
8. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling) +28secs
9. Connor Swift (GB/Madison Genesis) same time
10. Nick van der Lijke (Ned/Roompot-Charles)
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
Ayala Centre Cebu is a large shopping mall at the Cebu Business Park in Cebu City, Archbishop Reyes Ave. Philippines. It is the first Ayala Shopping Centre located outside Metro Manila. It was opened in 1994, and is owned by Ayala Malls. On an average day, more than 85,000 people visit Ayala Centre Cebu, with the figure increasing to 135,000 on weekends. On October 30, 2008, Ayala Centre Cebu unveiled ~ The Terraces, a P 600-million redevelopment that transformed what used to be a simple lagoon area to a food and beverage strip with the signature Ayala-landscaping and orchestrated water features. Ayala Mall Cebu is located near the IT Park and in the heart of the Cebu City Business Park. Ayala Mall Cebu is the areas most beautiful and comfortable mall to go shopping and dining with live entertainment events on the ground floor almost daily. The nice thing about Ayala Mall in Cebu is if you need a break from shopping you can go sit at one of the many shops on the Terraces and just relax and have a drink or dine on one of the many different cuisines that are offered on all levels.
Cebu City is a significant cultural centre in the Philippines. The imprint of Spanish and Roman Catholic culture is evident. The city's most famous landmark is Magellan's Cross. A few steps away from the Magellan's Cross is the Basilica Minore del Santo Nino (Church of the Holy Child). This is a Augustinian church elevated to the rank of Basilica in 1965 during the 400th year celebrations of Christianity in the Philippines, held in Cebu. The church, which was the first to be established in the islands, is built of hewn stone and features the country's oldest relic, the figure of the Santo Niño de Cebú ( Holy Child of Cebu ). This religious event is celebrated during the island's cultural festivities known as the Sinulog festival. Held every third Sunday of January, it celebrates the festival of the Santo Nino, who was formerly considered to be the patron saint of Cebu. (This patronage was later changed to that of Our Lady of Guadalupe after it was realised that the St. Niño could not be a patron saint because he was an image of the Christ and not a saint.) The Sinulog is a dance ritual of pre-Hispanic indigenous origin. The dancer moves two steps forward and one step backward to the rhythmic sound of drums. This movement resembles somewhat the current (sulog) of the river. Thus, the Cebuanos called it Sinulog.
When the Spaniards arrived in Cebu, the Italian chronicler, Antonio Pigafetta, sailing under convoy with the Magellan expedition, offered a baptismal gift to Hara Amihan, wife of Rajah Humabon. She was later named Juana, the figure of the Santo Nino. The natives also honoured the Santo Niño de Cebu in their indigenous Sinulog ritual[citation needed]. The Sinulog ritual was preserved but limited to honouring the Santo Nino. Once the Santo Niño church was built in the 16th century, the Christian Malay people started performing the Sinulog ritual in front of the church, the devotees offering candles and indigenous dancers shouting ~ Viva Pit Senor!
Magellan's Cross is a Christian cross planted by Portuguese, and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand Magellan on arriving in Cebu in the Philippines around April 14 or 21, 1521. This cross is housed in a chapel next to the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño on Magallanes Street ( Magallanes being the Spanish name of Magellan ), just in front of the city centre of Cebu City. A sign below the cross describes the original cross is encased inside the wooden cross that is found in the centre of the chapel. This is to protect the original cross from people who chipped away parts of the cross for souvenir purposes or in the belief that the cross possesses miraculous powers. Some people, however, believe that the original cross had been destroyed or had disappeared after Magellan's death, and the cross is a replica that was planted there by the Spaniards after they successfully colonized the Philippines.
The history is that when Ferdinand Magellan first arrived in Cebu on 21 April 1521 he erected a cross in Cebu. The cross there today is not the original. Magellan's Cross is one symbol of Cebu. This chapel's image can be found in Cebu city seal. It is also seen as the symbol of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines. Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to arrive in the Philippines. They made the first conversions to Catholicism when they converted Rajah Humabon, the local chief, his wife and hundreds of his Cebuano villagers to accept Christianity and be consequently baptized. At the same time Magellan left in Cebu the Santo Nino de Cebu [ holy child of Cebu ] a doll figure made in Europe in the 16th Century representing Jesus Christ as a child. This doll was rediscovered some 45 years later the return to Cebu of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi who came back to Cebu on the order of King Phillip of Spain to make Cebu the first centre of the new Spanish Colony in Asia, called Las Islas Filipinas. This doll also plays an important function in the religious life of millions of people as explained here.
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
@ AWF smackdown --she won! but Scha's horse and pole came a close second
A series of events organised and orchestrated by DanCoyote Antonelli.
“As You Like It”
A musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It
Adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery
Music and lyrics by Shaina Taub
Orchestrations and band arrangements by Mike Brun
Directed by Rodney Hudson
Music directed by Brian Cimmet
Choreography by Felipe Panamá
Scenic design by Kristina Fosmire
Costume design by Amaan Khan
Lighting design by Em Stripling
Sound design by Jacqueline R. Herter
Wig design by Michael A. King
Fight choreography by Alec Barbour
Assistant music director: Jacob Stebly
Dramaturg: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Stage manager: Emma Yehle
Cast
Malaika Wanjiku Jaques
Alexandra Kafrissen Rosalind
Thomas Riggleman Orlando
Samantha Harnick Celia
Kevin Ilardi Oliver
Dylan Knight Weaver Duke Senior
Ian Purcell Duke Frederick
Will Foohey Touchstone
Hayden Poe Andy
Olivia Lacie Andrews Phoebe
Sofia Swensen Silvia
Rileigh Very Mama Corin, Ensemble
Blaise Rossman Papa Corin, Ensemble
McKay Marshall Miss Amiens, Hisperia
Shaun Collins William, Frankie Flow, Ensemble
Adam Forward Bronco, Ensemble
Zach Simpson Adam, Caveman
Elana Babbitt Announcer, Ensemble
Corinne Ferrer Agent, Ensemble
Alice Meyer Little Jaques, Ensemble
Swings
Rachel Langetieg, Austin Rose
Performances
Friday, April 29, 8 p.m. (Preview)
Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m. (Opening)
Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m. (ASL Interpreted)
Wednesday, May 4, 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m. (Open captioned)
Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m.
Additional Credits
Puppeteers: Elana Babbitt, Shaun Collins, Kevin Ilardi, Blaise Rossmann
Dance Captain: Blaise Rossmann
Fight Captains: Adam Forward, Austin Rose
Assistant to the Director: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Assistant Choreographer: Olivia Lacie Andrews
Additional Staging and Choreography: Olivia Lacie Andrews, Blaise Rossmann
Assistant Scenic Designer: Angel Wai Yan Lam
Associate Costume Designer: Rosario Appleton Figueira
Assistant Costume Designer: Ryn Gross
Assistant Lighting Designer: Mairead Cummins
Assistant Sound Designer: Malena Logan
Assistant Stage Managers: Emily Kellner, Maya Royston
Casting Assistant: Liam Bierley
Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity, Risdon, Quattlebaum, 2018, New York: Rosenfeld Media
Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity, Risdon, Quattlebaum, 2018, New York: Rosenfeld Media
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.
Varosha - Maras is the southern quarter of the Famagusta, a de jure territory of Cyprus, currently under the control of Northern Cyprus. Varosha has a population of 226 in the 2011 Northern Cyprus census. The area of Varosha is 6.19 km2 (2.39 sq mi).
The name of Varosha derives from the Turkish word varoş (Ottoman Turkish: واروش, 'suburb'). The place where Varosha is located now was empty fields in which animals grazed.
In the early 1970s, Famagusta was the number-one tourist destination in Cyprus. To cater to the increasing number of tourists, many new high-rise buildings and hotels were constructed. During its heyday, Varosha was not only the number-one tourist destination in Cyprus, but between 1970 and 1974, it was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and was a favorite destination of such celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, and Brigitte Bardot.
Before 1974, Varosha was the modern tourist area of the Famagusta city. Its Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, when the city of Famagusta came under Turkish control, and it has remained abandoned ever since. In 1984 a U.N. resolution called for the handover of the city to UN control and said that only the original inhabitants, who were forced out, could resettle in the town.
Entry to part of Varosha was opened to civilians in 2017.
In August 1974, the Turkish Army advanced as far as the Green Line, a UN-patrolled demilitarized zone between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, and controlled and fenced Varosha. Just hours before the Greek Cypriot and Turkish armies met in combat on the streets of Famagusta, the entire Greek Cypriot population fled to Paralimni, Dherynia, and Larnaca, fearing a massacre. The evacuation was aided and orchestrated by the nearby British military base. Paralimni has since become the modern-day capital of the Famagusta province of Greek Cypriot-led Cyprus.
The Turkish Army has allowed the entry of only Turkish military and United Nations personnel since 2017.
One such settlement plan was the Annan Plan to reunify the island that provided for the return of Varosha to the original residents. But this was rejected by Greek Cypriots in a 2004 referendum. The UN Security Council Resolution 550 states that it "considers attempts to settle any part of Varosha by people other than its inhabitants as inadmissible and calls for the transfer of this area to the administration of the United Nations".
The European Court of Human Rights awarded between €100,000 and €8,000,000 to eight Greek Cypriots for being deprived of their homes and properties as a result of the 1974 invasion. The case was filed jointly by businessman Constantinos Lordos and others, with the principal judgement in the Lordos case dating back to November 2010. The court ruled that, in the case of eight of the applicants, Turkey had violated Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights on the right of peaceful enjoyment of one's possessions, and in the case of seven of the applicants, Turkey had violated Article 8 on the right to respect for private and family life.
In the absence of human habitation and maintenance, buildings continue to decay. Over time, parts of the city have begun to be reclaimed by nature as metal corrodes, windows are broken, and plants work their roots into the walls and pavement and grow wild in old window boxes. In 2014, the BBC reported that sea turtles were observed nesting on the beaches in the city.
During the Cyprus Missile Crisis (1997–1998), the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, threatened to take over Varosha if the Cypriot government did not back down.
The main features of Varosha included John F. Kennedy Avenue, a street which ran from close to the port of Famagusta, through Varosha and parallel to Glossa beach. Along JFK Avenue, there were many well known high rise hotels including the King George Hotel, The Asterias Hotel, The Grecian Hotel, The Florida Hotel, and The Argo Hotel which was the favourite hotel of Elizabeth Taylor. The Argo Hotel is located near the end of JFK Avenue, looking towards Protaras and Fig Tree Bay. Another major street in Varosha was Leonidas (Greek: Λεωνίδας), a major street that came off JFK Avenue and headed west towards Vienna Corner. Leonidas was a major shopping and leisure street in Varosha, consisting of bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and a Toyota car dealership.
According to Greek Cypriots, 425 plots exist on the Varosha beach front, which extends from the Contandia hotel to the Golden Sands hotel. The complete number of plots in Varosha are 6082.
There are 281 cases of Greek Cypriots who filed to the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) of Northern Cyprus for compensation.
In 2020, Greek Cypriot Demetrios Hadjihambis filed a lawsuit seeking state compensation for financial losses.
The population of Varosha was 226 in the 2011 Northern Cyprus census.
In 2017, Varosha's beach was opened for the exclusive use of Turks (both Turkish Cypriots and Turkish nationals).
In 2019, the Government of Northern Cyprus announced it would open Varosha to settlement. On 14 November 2019, Ersin Tatar, the prime minister of Northern Cyprus, announced that Northern Cyprus aims to open Varosha by the end of 2020.
On 25 July 2019, Varosha Inventory Commission of Northern Cyprus started its inventory analysis on the buildings and other infrastructure in Varosha.
On 9 December 2019, Ibrahim Benter, the Director-General of the Turkish Cypriot EVKAF religious foundation's administration, declared all of Maraş/Varosha to be the property of EVKAF. Benter said "EVKAF can sign renting contracts with Greek Cypriots if they accept that the fenced-off town belongs to the Evkaf."
In 2019–20, inventory studies of buildings by the Government of Northern Cyprus were concluded. On 15 February 2020, the Turkish Bar Association organised a round table meeting at the Sandy Beach Hotel in Varosha, which was attended by Turkish officials (Vice President Fuat Oktay and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül), Turkish Cypriot officials, representatives of the Turkish Cypriot religious foundation Evkaf, and Turkish and Turkish Cypriot lawyers.
On 22 February 2020, Cyprus declared it would veto European Union funds to Turkish Cypriots if Varosha were opened to settlement.
On 6 October 2020, Ersin Tatar, the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus, announced that the beach area of Varosha would reopen to the public on 8 October 2020. Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Turkey fully supported the decision. The move came ahead of the 2020 Northern Cypriot presidential election, in which Tatar was a candidate. Deputy Prime Minister Kudret Özersay, who had worked on the reopening previously, said that this was not a full reopening of the area, that this was just a unilateral election stunt by Tatar. His People's Party withdrew from the Tatar cabinet, leading to the collapse of the Turkish Cypriot government. The EU's diplomatic chief condemned the plan and described it as a "serious violation" of the U.N. ceasefire agreement. In addition, he asked Turkey to stop this activity. The U.N. Secretary-General expressed concern over Turkey's decision.
On 8 October 2020, some parts of Varosha were opened from the Officers' Club of Turkish and Turkish Cypriot Army to the Golden Sands Hotel.
In November 2020, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey's ambassador to Nicosia, visited Varosha. In addition, the main avenue in Varosha has been renamed after Semih Sancar, Chief of the General Staff of Turkey from 1973 to 1978, a period including the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The European Parliament on 27 November, asked Turkey to reverse its decision to re-open part of Varosha and resume negotiations aimed at resolving the Cyprus problem on the basis of a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation and called on the European Union to impose sanctions against Turkey, if things do not change. Turkey rejected the resolution, adding that Turkey will continue to protect both its own rights and those of Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus presidency also condemned the resolution.
On 20 July 2021, Tatar, the president of Northern Cyprus announced the start of the 2nd phase of the opening of Varosha. He encouraged Greek Cypriots to apply Immovable Property Commission of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to claim their properties back if they have any such rights.
Bilal Aga Mosque, constructed in 1821 and taken out of service in 1974, was re-opened on 23 July 2021.
In response to a decision by the government of Turkish Cyprus, the presidential statement of the United Nations Security Council dated on 23 July said that settling any part of the abandoned Cypriot suburb of Varosha, "by people other than its inhabitants, is 'inadmissible'." The same day, Turkey rejected the presidential statement of the UNSC on Maras (Varosha), and said that these statements were based on Greek-Greek Cypriot propaganda, were groundless and unfounded claims, and inconsistent with the realities on the Island. On 24 July 2021, the presidency of Northern Cyprus condemned the presidential statement of the UNSC dated on 23 July, and stated that "We see and condemn it as an attempt to create an obstacle for the property-rights-holders in Varosha to achieve their rights".
By 1 January 2022, nearly 400,000 people had visited Varosha since its opening to civilians on 6 October 2020.
On 19 May 2022, Northern Cyprus opened a 600m long X 400m wide stretch of beach on the Golden Sands beach (from the King George Hotel to the Oceania Building) in Varosha for commercial use. Sun beds and umbrellas were installed.
UNFICYP said it would raise the decision taken by Turkish Cypriot authorities to open that stretch of beach in Varosha with the Security Council, spokesperson for the peacekeeping force Aleem Siddique said on Friday. The UN announced its "position on Varosha is unchanged and we are monitoring the situation closely".
In October 2022, the Turkish Cypriots announced that public institutions will be opened in the city.
In April 2023, Cleo Hotel, the 7-floor Golden Seaside Hotel, and the 3-star Aegean Hotel were purchased by a Turkish Cypriot businessman (from their Greek Cypriot owners) who will operate them within 2025.
On 10 August 2023, the Government of Northern Cyprus decided to construct a marina and tourist facility in Varosha.
Varosha was analyzed by Alan Weisman in his book The World Without Us as an example of the unstoppable power of nature.
Filmmaker Greek Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis described the city and interviewed its exiled citizens in the film Attilas '74, produced in 1975.
In 2021, the Belarusian group Main-De-Gloire dedicated a song to this city that has become a ghostly place.
Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. It is recognised only by Turkey, and its territory is considered by all other states to be part of the Republic of Cyprus.
Northern Cyprus extends from the tip of the Karpass Peninsula in the northeast to Morphou Bay, Cape Kormakitis and its westernmost point, the Kokkina exclave in the west. Its southernmost point is the village of Louroujina. A buffer zone under the control of the United Nations stretches between Northern Cyprus and the rest of the island and divides Nicosia, the island's largest city and capital of both sides.
A coup d'état in 1974, performed as part of an attempt to annex the island to Greece, prompted the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This resulted in the eviction of much of the north's Greek Cypriot population, the flight of Turkish Cypriots from the south, and the partitioning of the island, leading to a unilateral declaration of independence by the north in 1983. Due to its lack of recognition, Northern Cyprus is heavily dependent on Turkey for economic, political and military support.
Attempts to reach a solution to the Cyprus dispute have been unsuccessful. The Turkish Army maintains a large force in Northern Cyprus with the support and approval of the TRNC government, while the Republic of Cyprus, the European Union as a whole, and the international community regard it as an occupation force. This military presence has been denounced in several United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Northern Cyprus is a semi-presidential, democratic republic with a cultural heritage incorporating various influences and an economy that is dominated by the services sector. The economy has seen growth through the 2000s and 2010s, with the GNP per capita more than tripling in the 2000s, but is held back by an international embargo due to the official closure of the ports in Northern Cyprus by the Republic of Cyprus. The official language is Turkish, with a distinct local dialect being spoken. The vast majority of the population consists of Sunni Muslims, while religious attitudes are mostly moderate and secular. Northern Cyprus is an observer state of ECO and OIC under the name "Turkish Cypriot State", PACE under the name "Turkish Cypriot Community", and Organization of Turkic States with its own name.
Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, marked mid-20th century Cyprus. These included the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–59 during British rule, the post-independence Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, and the Cyprus crisis of 1967. Hostilities culminated in the 1974 de facto division of the island along the Green Line following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The region has been relatively peaceful since then, but the Cyprus dispute has continued, with various attempts to solve it diplomatically having been generally unsuccessful.
Cyprus, an island lying in the eastern Mediterranean, hosted a population of Greeks and Turks (four-fifths and one-fifth, respectively), who lived under British rule in the late nineteenth-century and the first half of the twentieth-century. Christian Orthodox Church of Cyprus played a prominent political role among the Greek Cypriot community, a privilege that it acquired during the Ottoman Empire with the employment of the millet system, which gave the archbishop an unofficial ethnarch status.
The repeated rejections by the British of Greek Cypriot demands for enosis, union with Greece, led to armed resistance, organised by the National Organization of Cypriot Struggle, or EOKA. EOKA, led by the Greek-Cypriot commander George Grivas, systematically targeted British colonial authorities. One of the effects of EOKA's campaign was to alter the Turkish position from demanding full reincorporation into Turkey to a demand for taksim (partition). EOKA's mission and activities caused a "Cretan syndrome" (see Turkish Resistance Organisation) within the Turkish Cypriot community, as its members feared that they would be forced to leave the island in such a case as had been the case with Cretan Turks. As such, they preferred the continuation of British colonial rule and then taksim, the division of the island. Due to the Turkish Cypriots' support for the British, EOKA's leader, Georgios Grivas, declared them to be enemies. The fact that the Turks were a minority was, according to Nihat Erim, to be addressed by the transfer of thousands of Turks from mainland Turkey so that Greek Cypriots would cease to be the majority. When Erim visited Cyprus as the Turkish representative, he was advised by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the then Governor of Cyprus, that Turkey should send educated Turks to settle in Cyprus.
Turkey actively promoted the idea that on the island of Cyprus two distinctive communities existed, and sidestepped its former claim that "the people of Cyprus were all Turkish subjects". In doing so, Turkey's aim to have self-determination of two to-be equal communities in effect led to de jure partition of the island.[citation needed] This could be justified to the international community against the will of the majority Greek population of the island. Dr. Fazil Küçük in 1954 had already proposed Cyprus be divided in two at the 35° parallel.
Lindley Dan, from Notre Dame University, spotted the roots of intercommunal violence to different visions among the two communities of Cyprus (enosis for Greek Cypriots, taksim for Turkish Cypriots). Also, Lindlay wrote that "the merging of church, schools/education, and politics in divisive and nationalistic ways" had played a crucial role in creation of havoc in Cyprus' history. Attalides Michael also pointed to the opposing nationalisms as the cause of the Cyprus problem.
By the mid-1950's, the "Cyprus is Turkish" party, movement, and slogan gained force in both Cyprus and Turkey. In a 1954 editorial, Turkish Cypriot leader Dr. Fazil Kuchuk expressed the sentiment that the Turkish youth had grown up with the idea that "as soon as Great Britain leaves the island, it will be taken over by the Turks", and that "Turkey cannot tolerate otherwise". This perspective contributed to the willingness of Turkish Cypriots to align themselves with the British, who started recruiting Turkish Cypriots into the police force that patrolled Cyprus to fight EOKA, a Greek Cypriot nationalist organisation that sought to rid the island of British rule.
EOKA targeted colonial authorities, including police, but Georgios Grivas, the leader of EOKA, did not initially wish to open up a new front by fighting Turkish Cypriots and reassured them that EOKA would not harm their people. In 1956, some Turkish Cypriot policemen were killed by EOKA members and this provoked some intercommunal violence in the spring and summer, but these attacks on policemen were not motivated by the fact that they were Turkish Cypriots.
However, in January 1957, Grivas changed his policy as his forces in the mountains became increasingly pressured by the British Crown forces. In order to divert the attention of the Crown forces, EOKA members started to target Turkish Cypriot policemen intentionally in the towns, so that Turkish Cypriots would riot against the Greek Cypriots and the security forces would have to be diverted to the towns to restore order. The killing of a Turkish Cypriot policeman on 19 January, when a power station was bombed, and the injury of three others, provoked three days of intercommunal violence in Nicosia. The two communities targeted each other in reprisals, at least one Greek Cypriot was killed and the British Army was deployed in the streets. Greek Cypriot stores were burned and their neighbourhoods attacked. Following the events, the Greek Cypriot leadership spread the propaganda that the riots had merely been an act of Turkish Cypriot aggression. Such events created chaos and drove the communities apart both in Cyprus and in Turkey.
On 22 October 1957 Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot replaced Sir John Harding as the British Governor of Cyprus. Foot suggested five to seven years of self-government before any final decision. His plan rejected both enosis and taksim. The Turkish Cypriot response to this plan was a series of anti-British demonstrations in Nicosia on 27 and 28 January 1958 rejecting the proposed plan because the plan did not include partition. The British then withdrew the plan.
In 1957, Black Gang, a Turkish Cypriot pro-taksim paramilitary organisation, was formed to patrol a Turkish Cypriot enclave, the Tahtakale district of Nicosia, against activities of EOKA. The organisation later attempted to grow into a national scale, but failed to gain public support.
By 1958, signs of dissatisfaction with the British increased on both sides, with a group of Turkish Cypriots forming Volkan (later renamed to the Turkish Resistance Organisation) paramilitary group to promote partition and the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as dictated by the Menderes plan. Volkan initially consisted of roughly 100 members, with the stated aim of raising awareness in Turkey of the Cyprus issue and courting military training and support for Turkish Cypriot fighters from the Turkish government.
In June 1958, the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was expected to propose a plan to resolve the Cyprus issue. In light of the new development, the Turks rioted in Nicosia to promote the idea that Greek and Turkish Cypriots could not live together and therefore any plan that did not include partition would not be viable. This violence was soon followed by bombing, Greek Cypriot deaths and looting of Greek Cypriot-owned shops and houses. Greek and Turkish Cypriots started to flee mixed population villages where they were a minority in search of safety. This was effectively the beginning of the segregation of the two communities. On 7 June 1958, a bomb exploded at the entrance of the Turkish Embassy in Cyprus. Following the bombing, Turkish Cypriots looted Greek Cypriot properties. On 26 June 1984, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, admitted on British channel ITV that the bomb was placed by the Turks themselves in order to create tension. On 9 January 1995, Rauf Denktaş repeated his claim to the famous Turkish newspaper Milliyet in Turkey.
The crisis reached a climax on 12 June 1958, when eight Greeks, out of an armed group of thirty five arrested by soldiers of the Royal Horse Guards on suspicion of preparing an attack on the Turkish quarter of Skylloura, were killed in a suspected attack by Turkish Cypriot locals, near the village of Geunyeli, having been ordered to walk back to their village of Kondemenos.
After the EOKA campaign had begun, the British government successfully began to turn the Cyprus issue from a British colonial problem into a Greek-Turkish issue. British diplomacy exerted backstage influence on the Adnan Menderes government, with the aim of making Turkey active in Cyprus. For the British, the attempt had a twofold objective. The EOKA campaign would be silenced as quickly as possible, and Turkish Cypriots would not side with Greek Cypriots against the British colonial claims over the island, which would thus remain under the British. The Turkish Cypriot leadership visited Menderes to discuss the Cyprus issue. When asked how the Turkish Cypriots should respond to the Greek Cypriot claim of enosis, Menderes replied: "You should go to the British foreign minister and request the status quo be prolonged, Cyprus to remain as a British colony". When the Turkish Cypriots visited the British Foreign Secretary and requested for Cyprus to remain a colony, he replied: "You should not be asking for colonialism at this day and age, you should be asking for Cyprus be returned to Turkey, its former owner".
As Turkish Cypriots began to look to Turkey for protection, Greek Cypriots soon understood that enosis was extremely unlikely. The Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios III, now set independence for the island as his objective.
Britain resolved to solve the dispute by creating an independent Cyprus. In 1959, all involved parties signed the Zurich Agreements: Britain, Turkey, Greece, and the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Makarios and Dr. Fazil Kucuk, respectively. The new constitution drew heavily on the ethnic composition of the island. The President would be a Greek Cypriot, and the Vice-President a Turkish Cypriot with an equal veto. The contribution to the public service would be set at a ratio of 70:30, and the Supreme Court would consist of an equal number of judges from both communities as well as an independent judge who was not Greek, Turkish or British. The Zurich Agreements were supplemented by a number of treaties. The Treaty of Guarantee stated that secession or union with any state was forbidden, and that Greece, Turkey and Britain would be given guarantor status to intervene if that was violated. The Treaty of Alliance allowed for two small Greek and Turkish military contingents to be stationed on the island, and the Treaty of Establishment gave Britain sovereignty over two bases in Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
On 15 August 1960, the Colony of Cyprus became fully independent as the Republic of Cyprus. The new republic remained within the Commonwealth of Nations.
The new constitution brought dissatisfaction to Greek Cypriots, who felt it to be highly unjust for them for historical, demographic and contributional reasons. Although 80% of the island's population were Greek Cypriots and these indigenous people had lived on the island for thousands of years and paid 94% of taxes, the new constitution was giving the 17% of the population that was Turkish Cypriots, who paid 6% of taxes, around 30% of government jobs and 40% of national security jobs.
Within three years tensions between the two communities in administrative affairs began to show. In particular disputes over separate municipalities and taxation created a deadlock in government. A constitutional court ruled in 1963 Makarios had failed to uphold article 173 of the constitution which called for the establishment of separate municipalities for Turkish Cypriots. Makarios subsequently declared his intention to ignore the judgement, resulting in the West German judge resigning from his position. Makarios proposed thirteen amendments to the constitution, which would have had the effect of resolving most of the issues in the Greek Cypriot favour. Under the proposals, the President and Vice-President would lose their veto, the separate municipalities as sought after by the Turkish Cypriots would be abandoned, the need for separate majorities by both communities in passing legislation would be discarded and the civil service contribution would be set at actual population ratios (82:18) instead of the slightly higher figure for Turkish Cypriots.
The intention behind the amendments has long been called into question. The Akritas plan, written in the height of the constitutional dispute by the Greek Cypriot interior minister Polycarpos Georkadjis, called for the removal of undesirable elements of the constitution so as to allow power-sharing to work. The plan envisaged a swift retaliatory attack on Turkish Cypriot strongholds should Turkish Cypriots resort to violence to resist the measures, stating "In the event of a planned or staged Turkish attack, it is imperative to overcome it by force in the shortest possible time, because if we succeed in gaining command of the situation (in one or two days), no outside, intervention would be either justified or possible." Whether Makarios's proposals were part of the Akritas plan is unclear, however it remains that sentiment towards enosis had not completely disappeared with independence. Makarios described independence as "a step on the road to enosis".[31] Preparations for conflict were not entirely absent from Turkish Cypriots either, with right wing elements still believing taksim (partition) the best safeguard against enosis.
Greek Cypriots however believe the amendments were a necessity stemming from a perceived attempt by Turkish Cypriots to frustrate the working of government. Turkish Cypriots saw it as a means to reduce their status within the state from one of co-founder to that of minority, seeing it as a first step towards enosis. The security situation deteriorated rapidly.
Main articles: Bloody Christmas (1963) and Battle of Tillyria
An armed conflict was triggered after December 21, 1963, a period remembered by Turkish Cypriots as Bloody Christmas, when a Greek Cypriot policemen that had been called to help deal with a taxi driver refusing officers already on the scene access to check the identification documents of his customers, took out his gun upon arrival and shot and killed the taxi driver and his partner. Eric Solsten summarised the events as follows: "a Greek Cypriot police patrol, ostensibly checking identification documents, stopped a Turkish Cypriot couple on the edge of the Turkish quarter. A hostile crowd gathered, shots were fired, and two Turkish Cypriots were killed."
In the morning after the shooting, crowds gathered in protest in Northern Nicosia, likely encouraged by the TMT, without incident. On the evening of the 22nd, gunfire broke out, communication lines to the Turkish neighbourhoods were cut, and the Greek Cypriot police occupied the nearby airport. On the 23rd, a ceasefire was negotiated, but did not hold. Fighting, including automatic weapons fire, between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and militias increased in Nicosia and Larnaca. A force of Greek Cypriot irregulars led by Nikos Sampson entered the Nicosia suburb of Omorphita and engaged in heavy firing on armed, as well as by some accounts unarmed, Turkish Cypriots. The Omorphita clash has been described by Turkish Cypriots as a massacre, while this view has generally not been acknowledged by Greek Cypriots.
Further ceasefires were arranged between the two sides, but also failed. By Christmas Eve, the 24th, Britain, Greece, and Turkey had joined talks, with all sides calling for a truce. On Christmas day, Turkish fighter jets overflew Nicosia in a show of support. Finally it was agreed to allow a force of 2,700 British soldiers to help enforce a ceasefire. In the next days, a "buffer zone" was created in Nicosia, and a British officer marked a line on a map with green ink, separating the two sides of the city, which was the beginning of the "Green Line". Fighting continued across the island for the next several weeks.
In total 364 Turkish Cypriots and 174 Greek Cypriots were killed during the violence. 25,000 Turkish Cypriots from 103-109 villages fled and were displaced into enclaves and thousands of Turkish Cypriot houses were ransacked or completely destroyed.
Contemporary newspapers also reported on the forceful exodus of the Turkish Cypriots from their homes. According to The Times in 1964, threats, shootings and attempts of arson were committed against the Turkish Cypriots to force them out of their homes. The Daily Express wrote that "25,000 Turks have already been forced to leave their homes". The Guardian reported a massacre of Turks at Limassol on 16 February 1964.
Turkey had by now readied its fleet and its fighter jets appeared over Nicosia. Turkey was dissuaded from direct involvement by the creation of a United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in 1964. Despite the negotiated ceasefire in Nicosia, attacks on the Turkish Cypriot persisted, particularly in Limassol. Concerned about the possibility of a Turkish invasion, Makarios undertook the creation of a Greek Cypriot conscript-based army called the "National Guard". A general from Greece took charge of the army, whilst a further 20,000 well-equipped officers and men were smuggled from Greece into Cyprus. Turkey threatened to intervene once more, but was prevented by a strongly worded letter from the American President Lyndon B. Johnson, anxious to avoid a conflict between NATO allies Greece and Turkey at the height of the Cold War.
Turkish Cypriots had by now established an important bridgehead at Kokkina, provided with arms, volunteers and materials from Turkey and abroad. Seeing this incursion of foreign weapons and troops as a major threat, the Cypriot government invited George Grivas to return from Greece as commander of the Greek troops on the island and launch a major attack on the bridgehead. Turkey retaliated by dispatching its fighter jets to bomb Greek positions, causing Makarios to threaten an attack on every Turkish Cypriot village on the island if the bombings did not cease. The conflict had now drawn in Greece and Turkey, with both countries amassing troops on their Thracian borders. Efforts at mediation by Dean Acheson, a former U.S. Secretary of State, and UN-appointed mediator Galo Plaza had failed, all the while the division of the two communities becoming more apparent. Greek Cypriot forces were estimated at some 30,000, including the National Guard and the large contingent from Greece. Defending the Turkish Cypriot enclaves was a force of approximately 5,000 irregulars, led by a Turkish colonel, but lacking the equipment and organisation of the Greek forces.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1964, U Thant, reported the damage during the conflicts:
UNFICYP carried out a detailed survey of all damage to properties throughout the island during the disturbances; it shows that in 109 villages, most of them Turkish-Cypriot or mixed villages, 527 houses have been destroyed while 2,000 others have suffered damage from looting.
The situation worsened in 1967, when a military junta overthrew the democratically elected government of Greece, and began applying pressure on Makarios to achieve enosis. Makarios, not wishing to become part of a military dictatorship or trigger a Turkish invasion, began to distance himself from the goal of enosis. This caused tensions with the junta in Greece as well as George Grivas in Cyprus. Grivas's control over the National Guard and Greek contingent was seen as a threat to Makarios's position, who now feared a possible coup.[citation needed] The National Guard and Cyprus Police began patrolling the Turkish Cypriot enclaves of Ayios Theodoros and Kophinou, and on November 15 engaged in heavy fighting with the Turkish Cypriots.
By the time of his withdrawal 26 Turkish Cypriots had been killed. Turkey replied with an ultimatum demanding that Grivas be removed from the island, that the troops smuggled from Greece in excess of the limits of the Treaty of Alliance be removed, and that the economic blockades on the Turkish Cypriot enclaves be lifted. Grivas was recalled by the Athens Junta and the 12,000 Greek troops were withdrawn. Makarios now attempted to consolidate his position by reducing the number of National Guard troops, and by creating a paramilitary force loyal to Cypriot independence. In 1968, acknowledging that enosis was now all but impossible, Makarios stated, "A solution by necessity must be sought within the limits of what is feasible which does not always coincide with the limits of what is desirable."
After 1967 tensions between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots subsided. Instead, the main source of tension on the island came from factions within the Greek Cypriot community. Although Makarios had effectively abandoned enosis in favour of an 'attainable solution', many others continued to believe that the only legitimate political aspiration for Greek Cypriots was union with Greece.
On his arrival, Grivas began by establishing a nationalist paramilitary group known as the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B or EOKA-B), drawing comparisons with the EOKA struggle for enosis under the British colonial administration of the 1950s.
The military junta in Athens saw Makarios as an obstacle. Makarios's failure to disband the National Guard, whose officer class was dominated by mainland Greeks, had meant the junta had practical control over the Cypriot military establishment, leaving Makarios isolated and a vulnerable target.
During the first Turkish invasion, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus territory on 20 July 1974, invoking its rights under the Treaty of Guarantee. This expansion of Turkish-occupied zone violated International Law as well as the Charter of the United Nations. Turkish troops managed to capture 3% of the island which was accompanied by the burning of the Turkish Cypriot quarter, as well as the raping and killing of women and children. A temporary cease-fire followed which was mitigated by the UN Security Council. Subsequently, the Greek military Junta collapsed on July 23, 1974, and peace talks commenced in which a democratic government was installed. The Resolution 353 was broken after Turkey attacked a second time and managed to get a hold of 37% of Cyprus territory. The Island of Cyprus was appointed a Buffer Zone by the United Nations, which divided the island into two zones through the 'Green Line' and put an end to the Turkish invasion. Although Turkey announced that the occupied areas of Cyprus to be called the Federated Turkish State in 1975, it is not legitimised on a worldwide political scale. The United Nations called for the international recognition of independence for the Republic of Cyprus in the Security Council Resolution 367.
In the years after the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus one can observe a history of failed talks between the two parties. The 1983 declaration of the independent Turkish Republic of Cyprus resulted in a rise of inter-communal tensions and made it increasingly hard to find mutual understanding. With Cyprus' interest of a possible EU membership and a new UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1997 new hopes arose for a fresh start. International involvement from sides of the US and UK, wanting a solution to the Cyprus dispute prior to the EU accession led to political pressures for new talks. The believe that an accession without a solution would threaten Greek-Turkish relations and acknowledge the partition of the island would direct the coming negotiations.
Over the course of two years a concrete plan, the Annan plan was formulated. In 2004 the fifth version agreed upon from both sides and with the endorsement of Turkey, US, UK and EU then was presented to the public and was given a referendum in both Cypriot communities to assure the legitimisation of the resolution. The Turkish Cypriots voted with 65% for the plan, however the Greek Cypriots voted with a 76% majority against. The Annan plan contained multiple important topics. Firstly it established a confederation of two separate states called the United Cyprus Republic. Both communities would have autonomous states combined under one unified government. The members of parliament would be chosen according to the percentage in population numbers to ensure a just involvement from both communities. The paper proposed a demilitarisation of the island over the next years. Furthermore it agreed upon a number of 45000 Turkish settlers that could remain on the island. These settlers became a very important issue concerning peace talks. Originally the Turkish government encouraged Turks to settle in Cyprus providing transfer and property, to establish a counterpart to the Greek Cypriot population due to their 1 to 5 minority. With the economic situation many Turkish-Cypriot decided to leave the island, however their departure is made up by incoming Turkish settlers leaving the population ratio between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots stable. However all these points where criticised and as seen in the vote rejected mainly by the Greek Cypriots. These name the dissolution of the „Republic of Cyprus", economic consequences of a reunion and the remaining Turkish settlers as reason. Many claim that the plan was indeed drawing more from Turkish-Cypriot demands then Greek-Cypriot interests. Taking in consideration that the US wanted to keep Turkey as a strategic partner in future Middle Eastern conflicts.
A week after the failed referendum the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU. In multiple instances the EU tried to promote trade with Northern Cyprus but without internationally recognised ports this spiked a grand debate. Both side endure their intention of negotiations, however without the prospect of any new compromises or agreements the UN is unwilling to start the process again. Since 2004 negotiations took place in numbers but without any results, both sides are strongly holding on to their position without an agreeable solution in sight that would suit both parties.
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
Another Textbook in Orchestration - Stravinsky: Petrushka, Scene IV The Shrovetide Fair - My notes...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFvjao_RHVU
Orchestrating the marriage of an Old World vintage poster to modern style, I used a hand-drawn look, optimal line quality, and aged texture but in an energetic color. As a promo piece for brand identity camp, the poster’s symbols and info provide much to ponder. While paying homage to the past, the work is playfully contemporary.
Emerson Stage presents
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Music Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Original Broadway Production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA.
April 14 & 16, 2022
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Emerson College
Boston, MA
Scenic Design by LUCIANA STECCONI and JORDAN BARNETT
Projects Design by ALEX BASCO KOCH and PIPER PHILLIPS
Props Lead: LAUREN CORCUERA
Costume Design by MOLLY SHAUGHNESSY
Lighting Design by TALIA ELISE & GRACE TUCHMAN
Sound Design by MEGAN CULLEY
Stage Manager: SOPHIE KLOKINIS
Dramaturg: CIARA BERARDI
Cast: ROBERTA ALAMAN, LUCAS BABCOCK, JONAH BARRICKLO, OLIVIA BODLEY, NAJA NICOLE BROWN, JAKE COLLINS, DENNIS DIZON, CEDRICK EKRA, MARCO GIACONA, ISABEL GINSBERG, EMERSON HART, HAWA KAMARA, ELLIANA KARRIS, EMILY KILBOURNE, KARLEY KRICKMIER, ANTHONY LAFORNARA, BRENDAN MASSAR, MORGAN MCMILLIN, ZOEY SCHORSCH, ELLA SHAW, BEATRICE STEUER, AMANDA VAZQUEZ, ANANIA WILLIAMS, ISABELLE WISDOM, ZEHAVA YOUNGER
Orchestra: MICHAEL BELLOFATTO, LISA BROOKE, DAVID BURDETT, MAXWELL CONNOR, JACQUELINE DEVOE, KATE FOSS, JONATHAN GOLDBERG, CLARA KEBABIAN, DOUGLAS LIPPINCOTT, SALLY MERRIMAN, CAMERON SAWZIN, JENNIFER SHALLENBERGER, EMMA STAUDACHER, LOUIS TOTH, NORALEE WALKER
All photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
More information: www.emersonstage.org/into-the-woods
“As You Like It”
A musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It
Adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery
Music and lyrics by Shaina Taub
Orchestrations and band arrangements by Mike Brun
Directed by Rodney Hudson
Music directed by Brian Cimmet
Choreography by Felipe Panamá
Scenic design by Kristina Fosmire
Costume design by Amaan Khan
Lighting design by Em Stripling
Sound design by Jacqueline R. Herter
Wig design by Michael A. King
Fight choreography by Alec Barbour
Assistant music director: Jacob Stebly
Dramaturg: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Stage manager: Emma Yehle
Cast
Malaika Wanjiku Jaques
Alexandra Kafrissen Rosalind
Thomas Riggleman Orlando
Samantha Harnick Celia
Kevin Ilardi Oliver
Dylan Knight Weaver Duke Senior
Ian Purcell Duke Frederick
Will Foohey Touchstone
Hayden Poe Andy
Olivia Lacie Andrews Phoebe
Sofia Swensen Silvia
Rileigh Very Mama Corin, Ensemble
Blaise Rossman Papa Corin, Ensemble
McKay Marshall Miss Amiens, Hisperia
Shaun Collins William, Frankie Flow, Ensemble
Adam Forward Bronco, Ensemble
Zach Simpson Adam, Caveman
Elana Babbitt Announcer, Ensemble
Corinne Ferrer Agent, Ensemble
Alice Meyer Little Jaques, Ensemble
Swings
Rachel Langetieg, Austin Rose
Performances
Friday, April 29, 8 p.m. (Preview)
Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m. (Opening)
Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m. (ASL Interpreted)
Wednesday, May 4, 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m. (Open captioned)
Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m.
Additional Credits
Puppeteers: Elana Babbitt, Shaun Collins, Kevin Ilardi, Blaise Rossmann
Dance Captain: Blaise Rossmann
Fight Captains: Adam Forward, Austin Rose
Assistant to the Director: Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu
Assistant Choreographer: Olivia Lacie Andrews
Additional Staging and Choreography: Olivia Lacie Andrews, Blaise Rossmann
Assistant Scenic Designer: Angel Wai Yan Lam
Associate Costume Designer: Rosario Appleton Figueira
Assistant Costume Designer: Ryn Gross
Assistant Lighting Designer: Mairead Cummins
Assistant Sound Designer: Malena Logan
Assistant Stage Managers: Emily Kellner, Maya Royston
Casting Assistant: Liam Bierley
Varosha - Maras is the southern quarter of the Famagusta, a de jure territory of Cyprus, currently under the control of Northern Cyprus. Varosha has a population of 226 in the 2011 Northern Cyprus census. The area of Varosha is 6.19 km2 (2.39 sq mi).
The name of Varosha derives from the Turkish word varoş (Ottoman Turkish: واروش, 'suburb'). The place where Varosha is located now was empty fields in which animals grazed.
In the early 1970s, Famagusta was the number-one tourist destination in Cyprus. To cater to the increasing number of tourists, many new high-rise buildings and hotels were constructed. During its heyday, Varosha was not only the number-one tourist destination in Cyprus, but between 1970 and 1974, it was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and was a favorite destination of such celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, and Brigitte Bardot.
Before 1974, Varosha was the modern tourist area of the Famagusta city. Its Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, when the city of Famagusta came under Turkish control, and it has remained abandoned ever since. In 1984 a U.N. resolution called for the handover of the city to UN control and said that only the original inhabitants, who were forced out, could resettle in the town.
Entry to part of Varosha was opened to civilians in 2017.
In August 1974, the Turkish Army advanced as far as the Green Line, a UN-patrolled demilitarized zone between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, and controlled and fenced Varosha. Just hours before the Greek Cypriot and Turkish armies met in combat on the streets of Famagusta, the entire Greek Cypriot population fled to Paralimni, Dherynia, and Larnaca, fearing a massacre. The evacuation was aided and orchestrated by the nearby British military base. Paralimni has since become the modern-day capital of the Famagusta province of Greek Cypriot-led Cyprus.
The Turkish Army has allowed the entry of only Turkish military and United Nations personnel since 2017.
One such settlement plan was the Annan Plan to reunify the island that provided for the return of Varosha to the original residents. But this was rejected by Greek Cypriots in a 2004 referendum. The UN Security Council Resolution 550 states that it "considers attempts to settle any part of Varosha by people other than its inhabitants as inadmissible and calls for the transfer of this area to the administration of the United Nations".
The European Court of Human Rights awarded between €100,000 and €8,000,000 to eight Greek Cypriots for being deprived of their homes and properties as a result of the 1974 invasion. The case was filed jointly by businessman Constantinos Lordos and others, with the principal judgement in the Lordos case dating back to November 2010. The court ruled that, in the case of eight of the applicants, Turkey had violated Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights on the right of peaceful enjoyment of one's possessions, and in the case of seven of the applicants, Turkey had violated Article 8 on the right to respect for private and family life.
In the absence of human habitation and maintenance, buildings continue to decay. Over time, parts of the city have begun to be reclaimed by nature as metal corrodes, windows are broken, and plants work their roots into the walls and pavement and grow wild in old window boxes. In 2014, the BBC reported that sea turtles were observed nesting on the beaches in the city.
During the Cyprus Missile Crisis (1997–1998), the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, threatened to take over Varosha if the Cypriot government did not back down.
The main features of Varosha included John F. Kennedy Avenue, a street which ran from close to the port of Famagusta, through Varosha and parallel to Glossa beach. Along JFK Avenue, there were many well known high rise hotels including the King George Hotel, The Asterias Hotel, The Grecian Hotel, The Florida Hotel, and The Argo Hotel which was the favourite hotel of Elizabeth Taylor. The Argo Hotel is located near the end of JFK Avenue, looking towards Protaras and Fig Tree Bay. Another major street in Varosha was Leonidas (Greek: Λεωνίδας), a major street that came off JFK Avenue and headed west towards Vienna Corner. Leonidas was a major shopping and leisure street in Varosha, consisting of bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and a Toyota car dealership.
According to Greek Cypriots, 425 plots exist on the Varosha beach front, which extends from the Contandia hotel to the Golden Sands hotel. The complete number of plots in Varosha are 6082.
There are 281 cases of Greek Cypriots who filed to the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) of Northern Cyprus for compensation.
In 2020, Greek Cypriot Demetrios Hadjihambis filed a lawsuit seeking state compensation for financial losses.
The population of Varosha was 226 in the 2011 Northern Cyprus census.
In 2017, Varosha's beach was opened for the exclusive use of Turks (both Turkish Cypriots and Turkish nationals).
In 2019, the Government of Northern Cyprus announced it would open Varosha to settlement. On 14 November 2019, Ersin Tatar, the prime minister of Northern Cyprus, announced that Northern Cyprus aims to open Varosha by the end of 2020.
On 25 July 2019, Varosha Inventory Commission of Northern Cyprus started its inventory analysis on the buildings and other infrastructure in Varosha.
On 9 December 2019, Ibrahim Benter, the Director-General of the Turkish Cypriot EVKAF religious foundation's administration, declared all of Maraş/Varosha to be the property of EVKAF. Benter said "EVKAF can sign renting contracts with Greek Cypriots if they accept that the fenced-off town belongs to the Evkaf."
In 2019–20, inventory studies of buildings by the Government of Northern Cyprus were concluded. On 15 February 2020, the Turkish Bar Association organised a round table meeting at the Sandy Beach Hotel in Varosha, which was attended by Turkish officials (Vice President Fuat Oktay and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül), Turkish Cypriot officials, representatives of the Turkish Cypriot religious foundation Evkaf, and Turkish and Turkish Cypriot lawyers.
On 22 February 2020, Cyprus declared it would veto European Union funds to Turkish Cypriots if Varosha were opened to settlement.
On 6 October 2020, Ersin Tatar, the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus, announced that the beach area of Varosha would reopen to the public on 8 October 2020. Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Turkey fully supported the decision. The move came ahead of the 2020 Northern Cypriot presidential election, in which Tatar was a candidate. Deputy Prime Minister Kudret Özersay, who had worked on the reopening previously, said that this was not a full reopening of the area, that this was just a unilateral election stunt by Tatar. His People's Party withdrew from the Tatar cabinet, leading to the collapse of the Turkish Cypriot government. The EU's diplomatic chief condemned the plan and described it as a "serious violation" of the U.N. ceasefire agreement. In addition, he asked Turkey to stop this activity. The U.N. Secretary-General expressed concern over Turkey's decision.
On 8 October 2020, some parts of Varosha were opened from the Officers' Club of Turkish and Turkish Cypriot Army to the Golden Sands Hotel.
In November 2020, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey's ambassador to Nicosia, visited Varosha. In addition, the main avenue in Varosha has been renamed after Semih Sancar, Chief of the General Staff of Turkey from 1973 to 1978, a period including the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The European Parliament on 27 November, asked Turkey to reverse its decision to re-open part of Varosha and resume negotiations aimed at resolving the Cyprus problem on the basis of a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation and called on the European Union to impose sanctions against Turkey, if things do not change. Turkey rejected the resolution, adding that Turkey will continue to protect both its own rights and those of Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus presidency also condemned the resolution.
On 20 July 2021, Tatar, the president of Northern Cyprus announced the start of the 2nd phase of the opening of Varosha. He encouraged Greek Cypriots to apply Immovable Property Commission of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to claim their properties back if they have any such rights.
Bilal Aga Mosque, constructed in 1821 and taken out of service in 1974, was re-opened on 23 July 2021.
In response to a decision by the government of Turkish Cyprus, the presidential statement of the United Nations Security Council dated on 23 July said that settling any part of the abandoned Cypriot suburb of Varosha, "by people other than its inhabitants, is 'inadmissible'." The same day, Turkey rejected the presidential statement of the UNSC on Maras (Varosha), and said that these statements were based on Greek-Greek Cypriot propaganda, were groundless and unfounded claims, and inconsistent with the realities on the Island. On 24 July 2021, the presidency of Northern Cyprus condemned the presidential statement of the UNSC dated on 23 July, and stated that "We see and condemn it as an attempt to create an obstacle for the property-rights-holders in Varosha to achieve their rights".
By 1 January 2022, nearly 400,000 people had visited Varosha since its opening to civilians on 6 October 2020.
On 19 May 2022, Northern Cyprus opened a 600m long X 400m wide stretch of beach on the Golden Sands beach (from the King George Hotel to the Oceania Building) in Varosha for commercial use. Sun beds and umbrellas were installed.
UNFICYP said it would raise the decision taken by Turkish Cypriot authorities to open that stretch of beach in Varosha with the Security Council, spokesperson for the peacekeeping force Aleem Siddique said on Friday. The UN announced its "position on Varosha is unchanged and we are monitoring the situation closely".
In October 2022, the Turkish Cypriots announced that public institutions will be opened in the city.
In April 2023, Cleo Hotel, the 7-floor Golden Seaside Hotel, and the 3-star Aegean Hotel were purchased by a Turkish Cypriot businessman (from their Greek Cypriot owners) who will operate them within 2025.
On 10 August 2023, the Government of Northern Cyprus decided to construct a marina and tourist facility in Varosha.
Varosha was analyzed by Alan Weisman in his book The World Without Us as an example of the unstoppable power of nature.
Filmmaker Greek Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis described the city and interviewed its exiled citizens in the film Attilas '74, produced in 1975.
In 2021, the Belarusian group Main-De-Gloire dedicated a song to this city that has become a ghostly place.
Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. It is recognised only by Turkey, and its territory is considered by all other states to be part of the Republic of Cyprus.
Northern Cyprus extends from the tip of the Karpass Peninsula in the northeast to Morphou Bay, Cape Kormakitis and its westernmost point, the Kokkina exclave in the west. Its southernmost point is the village of Louroujina. A buffer zone under the control of the United Nations stretches between Northern Cyprus and the rest of the island and divides Nicosia, the island's largest city and capital of both sides.
A coup d'état in 1974, performed as part of an attempt to annex the island to Greece, prompted the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This resulted in the eviction of much of the north's Greek Cypriot population, the flight of Turkish Cypriots from the south, and the partitioning of the island, leading to a unilateral declaration of independence by the north in 1983. Due to its lack of recognition, Northern Cyprus is heavily dependent on Turkey for economic, political and military support.
Attempts to reach a solution to the Cyprus dispute have been unsuccessful. The Turkish Army maintains a large force in Northern Cyprus with the support and approval of the TRNC government, while the Republic of Cyprus, the European Union as a whole, and the international community regard it as an occupation force. This military presence has been denounced in several United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Northern Cyprus is a semi-presidential, democratic republic with a cultural heritage incorporating various influences and an economy that is dominated by the services sector. The economy has seen growth through the 2000s and 2010s, with the GNP per capita more than tripling in the 2000s, but is held back by an international embargo due to the official closure of the ports in Northern Cyprus by the Republic of Cyprus. The official language is Turkish, with a distinct local dialect being spoken. The vast majority of the population consists of Sunni Muslims, while religious attitudes are mostly moderate and secular. Northern Cyprus is an observer state of ECO and OIC under the name "Turkish Cypriot State", PACE under the name "Turkish Cypriot Community", and Organization of Turkic States with its own name.
Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, marked mid-20th century Cyprus. These included the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–59 during British rule, the post-independence Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, and the Cyprus crisis of 1967. Hostilities culminated in the 1974 de facto division of the island along the Green Line following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The region has been relatively peaceful since then, but the Cyprus dispute has continued, with various attempts to solve it diplomatically having been generally unsuccessful.
Cyprus, an island lying in the eastern Mediterranean, hosted a population of Greeks and Turks (four-fifths and one-fifth, respectively), who lived under British rule in the late nineteenth-century and the first half of the twentieth-century. Christian Orthodox Church of Cyprus played a prominent political role among the Greek Cypriot community, a privilege that it acquired during the Ottoman Empire with the employment of the millet system, which gave the archbishop an unofficial ethnarch status.
The repeated rejections by the British of Greek Cypriot demands for enosis, union with Greece, led to armed resistance, organised by the National Organization of Cypriot Struggle, or EOKA. EOKA, led by the Greek-Cypriot commander George Grivas, systematically targeted British colonial authorities. One of the effects of EOKA's campaign was to alter the Turkish position from demanding full reincorporation into Turkey to a demand for taksim (partition). EOKA's mission and activities caused a "Cretan syndrome" (see Turkish Resistance Organisation) within the Turkish Cypriot community, as its members feared that they would be forced to leave the island in such a case as had been the case with Cretan Turks. As such, they preferred the continuation of British colonial rule and then taksim, the division of the island. Due to the Turkish Cypriots' support for the British, EOKA's leader, Georgios Grivas, declared them to be enemies. The fact that the Turks were a minority was, according to Nihat Erim, to be addressed by the transfer of thousands of Turks from mainland Turkey so that Greek Cypriots would cease to be the majority. When Erim visited Cyprus as the Turkish representative, he was advised by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the then Governor of Cyprus, that Turkey should send educated Turks to settle in Cyprus.
Turkey actively promoted the idea that on the island of Cyprus two distinctive communities existed, and sidestepped its former claim that "the people of Cyprus were all Turkish subjects". In doing so, Turkey's aim to have self-determination of two to-be equal communities in effect led to de jure partition of the island.[citation needed] This could be justified to the international community against the will of the majority Greek population of the island. Dr. Fazil Küçük in 1954 had already proposed Cyprus be divided in two at the 35° parallel.
Lindley Dan, from Notre Dame University, spotted the roots of intercommunal violence to different visions among the two communities of Cyprus (enosis for Greek Cypriots, taksim for Turkish Cypriots). Also, Lindlay wrote that "the merging of church, schools/education, and politics in divisive and nationalistic ways" had played a crucial role in creation of havoc in Cyprus' history. Attalides Michael also pointed to the opposing nationalisms as the cause of the Cyprus problem.
By the mid-1950's, the "Cyprus is Turkish" party, movement, and slogan gained force in both Cyprus and Turkey. In a 1954 editorial, Turkish Cypriot leader Dr. Fazil Kuchuk expressed the sentiment that the Turkish youth had grown up with the idea that "as soon as Great Britain leaves the island, it will be taken over by the Turks", and that "Turkey cannot tolerate otherwise". This perspective contributed to the willingness of Turkish Cypriots to align themselves with the British, who started recruiting Turkish Cypriots into the police force that patrolled Cyprus to fight EOKA, a Greek Cypriot nationalist organisation that sought to rid the island of British rule.
EOKA targeted colonial authorities, including police, but Georgios Grivas, the leader of EOKA, did not initially wish to open up a new front by fighting Turkish Cypriots and reassured them that EOKA would not harm their people. In 1956, some Turkish Cypriot policemen were killed by EOKA members and this provoked some intercommunal violence in the spring and summer, but these attacks on policemen were not motivated by the fact that they were Turkish Cypriots.
However, in January 1957, Grivas changed his policy as his forces in the mountains became increasingly pressured by the British Crown forces. In order to divert the attention of the Crown forces, EOKA members started to target Turkish Cypriot policemen intentionally in the towns, so that Turkish Cypriots would riot against the Greek Cypriots and the security forces would have to be diverted to the towns to restore order. The killing of a Turkish Cypriot policeman on 19 January, when a power station was bombed, and the injury of three others, provoked three days of intercommunal violence in Nicosia. The two communities targeted each other in reprisals, at least one Greek Cypriot was killed and the British Army was deployed in the streets. Greek Cypriot stores were burned and their neighbourhoods attacked. Following the events, the Greek Cypriot leadership spread the propaganda that the riots had merely been an act of Turkish Cypriot aggression. Such events created chaos and drove the communities apart both in Cyprus and in Turkey.
On 22 October 1957 Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot replaced Sir John Harding as the British Governor of Cyprus. Foot suggested five to seven years of self-government before any final decision. His plan rejected both enosis and taksim. The Turkish Cypriot response to this plan was a series of anti-British demonstrations in Nicosia on 27 and 28 January 1958 rejecting the proposed plan because the plan did not include partition. The British then withdrew the plan.
In 1957, Black Gang, a Turkish Cypriot pro-taksim paramilitary organisation, was formed to patrol a Turkish Cypriot enclave, the Tahtakale district of Nicosia, against activities of EOKA. The organisation later attempted to grow into a national scale, but failed to gain public support.
By 1958, signs of dissatisfaction with the British increased on both sides, with a group of Turkish Cypriots forming Volkan (later renamed to the Turkish Resistance Organisation) paramilitary group to promote partition and the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as dictated by the Menderes plan. Volkan initially consisted of roughly 100 members, with the stated aim of raising awareness in Turkey of the Cyprus issue and courting military training and support for Turkish Cypriot fighters from the Turkish government.
In June 1958, the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was expected to propose a plan to resolve the Cyprus issue. In light of the new development, the Turks rioted in Nicosia to promote the idea that Greek and Turkish Cypriots could not live together and therefore any plan that did not include partition would not be viable. This violence was soon followed by bombing, Greek Cypriot deaths and looting of Greek Cypriot-owned shops and houses. Greek and Turkish Cypriots started to flee mixed population villages where they were a minority in search of safety. This was effectively the beginning of the segregation of the two communities. On 7 June 1958, a bomb exploded at the entrance of the Turkish Embassy in Cyprus. Following the bombing, Turkish Cypriots looted Greek Cypriot properties. On 26 June 1984, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, admitted on British channel ITV that the bomb was placed by the Turks themselves in order to create tension. On 9 January 1995, Rauf Denktaş repeated his claim to the famous Turkish newspaper Milliyet in Turkey.
The crisis reached a climax on 12 June 1958, when eight Greeks, out of an armed group of thirty five arrested by soldiers of the Royal Horse Guards on suspicion of preparing an attack on the Turkish quarter of Skylloura, were killed in a suspected attack by Turkish Cypriot locals, near the village of Geunyeli, having been ordered to walk back to their village of Kondemenos.
After the EOKA campaign had begun, the British government successfully began to turn the Cyprus issue from a British colonial problem into a Greek-Turkish issue. British diplomacy exerted backstage influence on the Adnan Menderes government, with the aim of making Turkey active in Cyprus. For the British, the attempt had a twofold objective. The EOKA campaign would be silenced as quickly as possible, and Turkish Cypriots would not side with Greek Cypriots against the British colonial claims over the island, which would thus remain under the British. The Turkish Cypriot leadership visited Menderes to discuss the Cyprus issue. When asked how the Turkish Cypriots should respond to the Greek Cypriot claim of enosis, Menderes replied: "You should go to the British foreign minister and request the status quo be prolonged, Cyprus to remain as a British colony". When the Turkish Cypriots visited the British Foreign Secretary and requested for Cyprus to remain a colony, he replied: "You should not be asking for colonialism at this day and age, you should be asking for Cyprus be returned to Turkey, its former owner".
As Turkish Cypriots began to look to Turkey for protection, Greek Cypriots soon understood that enosis was extremely unlikely. The Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios III, now set independence for the island as his objective.
Britain resolved to solve the dispute by creating an independent Cyprus. In 1959, all involved parties signed the Zurich Agreements: Britain, Turkey, Greece, and the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Makarios and Dr. Fazil Kucuk, respectively. The new constitution drew heavily on the ethnic composition of the island. The President would be a Greek Cypriot, and the Vice-President a Turkish Cypriot with an equal veto. The contribution to the public service would be set at a ratio of 70:30, and the Supreme Court would consist of an equal number of judges from both communities as well as an independent judge who was not Greek, Turkish or British. The Zurich Agreements were supplemented by a number of treaties. The Treaty of Guarantee stated that secession or union with any state was forbidden, and that Greece, Turkey and Britain would be given guarantor status to intervene if that was violated. The Treaty of Alliance allowed for two small Greek and Turkish military contingents to be stationed on the island, and the Treaty of Establishment gave Britain sovereignty over two bases in Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
On 15 August 1960, the Colony of Cyprus became fully independent as the Republic of Cyprus. The new republic remained within the Commonwealth of Nations.
The new constitution brought dissatisfaction to Greek Cypriots, who felt it to be highly unjust for them for historical, demographic and contributional reasons. Although 80% of the island's population were Greek Cypriots and these indigenous people had lived on the island for thousands of years and paid 94% of taxes, the new constitution was giving the 17% of the population that was Turkish Cypriots, who paid 6% of taxes, around 30% of government jobs and 40% of national security jobs.
Within three years tensions between the two communities in administrative affairs began to show. In particular disputes over separate municipalities and taxation created a deadlock in government. A constitutional court ruled in 1963 Makarios had failed to uphold article 173 of the constitution which called for the establishment of separate municipalities for Turkish Cypriots. Makarios subsequently declared his intention to ignore the judgement, resulting in the West German judge resigning from his position. Makarios proposed thirteen amendments to the constitution, which would have had the effect of resolving most of the issues in the Greek Cypriot favour. Under the proposals, the President and Vice-President would lose their veto, the separate municipalities as sought after by the Turkish Cypriots would be abandoned, the need for separate majorities by both communities in passing legislation would be discarded and the civil service contribution would be set at actual population ratios (82:18) instead of the slightly higher figure for Turkish Cypriots.
The intention behind the amendments has long been called into question. The Akritas plan, written in the height of the constitutional dispute by the Greek Cypriot interior minister Polycarpos Georkadjis, called for the removal of undesirable elements of the constitution so as to allow power-sharing to work. The plan envisaged a swift retaliatory attack on Turkish Cypriot strongholds should Turkish Cypriots resort to violence to resist the measures, stating "In the event of a planned or staged Turkish attack, it is imperative to overcome it by force in the shortest possible time, because if we succeed in gaining command of the situation (in one or two days), no outside, intervention would be either justified or possible." Whether Makarios's proposals were part of the Akritas plan is unclear, however it remains that sentiment towards enosis had not completely disappeared with independence. Makarios described independence as "a step on the road to enosis".[31] Preparations for conflict were not entirely absent from Turkish Cypriots either, with right wing elements still believing taksim (partition) the best safeguard against enosis.
Greek Cypriots however believe the amendments were a necessity stemming from a perceived attempt by Turkish Cypriots to frustrate the working of government. Turkish Cypriots saw it as a means to reduce their status within the state from one of co-founder to that of minority, seeing it as a first step towards enosis. The security situation deteriorated rapidly.
Main articles: Bloody Christmas (1963) and Battle of Tillyria
An armed conflict was triggered after December 21, 1963, a period remembered by Turkish Cypriots as Bloody Christmas, when a Greek Cypriot policemen that had been called to help deal with a taxi driver refusing officers already on the scene access to check the identification documents of his customers, took out his gun upon arrival and shot and killed the taxi driver and his partner. Eric Solsten summarised the events as follows: "a Greek Cypriot police patrol, ostensibly checking identification documents, stopped a Turkish Cypriot couple on the edge of the Turkish quarter. A hostile crowd gathered, shots were fired, and two Turkish Cypriots were killed."
In the morning after the shooting, crowds gathered in protest in Northern Nicosia, likely encouraged by the TMT, without incident. On the evening of the 22nd, gunfire broke out, communication lines to the Turkish neighbourhoods were cut, and the Greek Cypriot police occupied the nearby airport. On the 23rd, a ceasefire was negotiated, but did not hold. Fighting, including automatic weapons fire, between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and militias increased in Nicosia and Larnaca. A force of Greek Cypriot irregulars led by Nikos Sampson entered the Nicosia suburb of Omorphita and engaged in heavy firing on armed, as well as by some accounts unarmed, Turkish Cypriots. The Omorphita clash has been described by Turkish Cypriots as a massacre, while this view has generally not been acknowledged by Greek Cypriots.
Further ceasefires were arranged between the two sides, but also failed. By Christmas Eve, the 24th, Britain, Greece, and Turkey had joined talks, with all sides calling for a truce. On Christmas day, Turkish fighter jets overflew Nicosia in a show of support. Finally it was agreed to allow a force of 2,700 British soldiers to help enforce a ceasefire. In the next days, a "buffer zone" was created in Nicosia, and a British officer marked a line on a map with green ink, separating the two sides of the city, which was the beginning of the "Green Line". Fighting continued across the island for the next several weeks.
In total 364 Turkish Cypriots and 174 Greek Cypriots were killed during the violence. 25,000 Turkish Cypriots from 103-109 villages fled and were displaced into enclaves and thousands of Turkish Cypriot houses were ransacked or completely destroyed.
Contemporary newspapers also reported on the forceful exodus of the Turkish Cypriots from their homes. According to The Times in 1964, threats, shootings and attempts of arson were committed against the Turkish Cypriots to force them out of their homes. The Daily Express wrote that "25,000 Turks have already been forced to leave their homes". The Guardian reported a massacre of Turks at Limassol on 16 February 1964.
Turkey had by now readied its fleet and its fighter jets appeared over Nicosia. Turkey was dissuaded from direct involvement by the creation of a United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in 1964. Despite the negotiated ceasefire in Nicosia, attacks on the Turkish Cypriot persisted, particularly in Limassol. Concerned about the possibility of a Turkish invasion, Makarios undertook the creation of a Greek Cypriot conscript-based army called the "National Guard". A general from Greece took charge of the army, whilst a further 20,000 well-equipped officers and men were smuggled from Greece into Cyprus. Turkey threatened to intervene once more, but was prevented by a strongly worded letter from the American President Lyndon B. Johnson, anxious to avoid a conflict between NATO allies Greece and Turkey at the height of the Cold War.
Turkish Cypriots had by now established an important bridgehead at Kokkina, provided with arms, volunteers and materials from Turkey and abroad. Seeing this incursion of foreign weapons and troops as a major threat, the Cypriot government invited George Grivas to return from Greece as commander of the Greek troops on the island and launch a major attack on the bridgehead. Turkey retaliated by dispatching its fighter jets to bomb Greek positions, causing Makarios to threaten an attack on every Turkish Cypriot village on the island if the bombings did not cease. The conflict had now drawn in Greece and Turkey, with both countries amassing troops on their Thracian borders. Efforts at mediation by Dean Acheson, a former U.S. Secretary of State, and UN-appointed mediator Galo Plaza had failed, all the while the division of the two communities becoming more apparent. Greek Cypriot forces were estimated at some 30,000, including the National Guard and the large contingent from Greece. Defending the Turkish Cypriot enclaves was a force of approximately 5,000 irregulars, led by a Turkish colonel, but lacking the equipment and organisation of the Greek forces.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1964, U Thant, reported the damage during the conflicts:
UNFICYP carried out a detailed survey of all damage to properties throughout the island during the disturbances; it shows that in 109 villages, most of them Turkish-Cypriot or mixed villages, 527 houses have been destroyed while 2,000 others have suffered damage from looting.
The situation worsened in 1967, when a military junta overthrew the democratically elected government of Greece, and began applying pressure on Makarios to achieve enosis. Makarios, not wishing to become part of a military dictatorship or trigger a Turkish invasion, began to distance himself from the goal of enosis. This caused tensions with the junta in Greece as well as George Grivas in Cyprus. Grivas's control over the National Guard and Greek contingent was seen as a threat to Makarios's position, who now feared a possible coup.[citation needed] The National Guard and Cyprus Police began patrolling the Turkish Cypriot enclaves of Ayios Theodoros and Kophinou, and on November 15 engaged in heavy fighting with the Turkish Cypriots.
By the time of his withdrawal 26 Turkish Cypriots had been killed. Turkey replied with an ultimatum demanding that Grivas be removed from the island, that the troops smuggled from Greece in excess of the limits of the Treaty of Alliance be removed, and that the economic blockades on the Turkish Cypriot enclaves be lifted. Grivas was recalled by the Athens Junta and the 12,000 Greek troops were withdrawn. Makarios now attempted to consolidate his position by reducing the number of National Guard troops, and by creating a paramilitary force loyal to Cypriot independence. In 1968, acknowledging that enosis was now all but impossible, Makarios stated, "A solution by necessity must be sought within the limits of what is feasible which does not always coincide with the limits of what is desirable."
After 1967 tensions between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots subsided. Instead, the main source of tension on the island came from factions within the Greek Cypriot community. Although Makarios had effectively abandoned enosis in favour of an 'attainable solution', many others continued to believe that the only legitimate political aspiration for Greek Cypriots was union with Greece.
On his arrival, Grivas began by establishing a nationalist paramilitary group known as the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B or EOKA-B), drawing comparisons with the EOKA struggle for enosis under the British colonial administration of the 1950s.
The military junta in Athens saw Makarios as an obstacle. Makarios's failure to disband the National Guard, whose officer class was dominated by mainland Greeks, had meant the junta had practical control over the Cypriot military establishment, leaving Makarios isolated and a vulnerable target.
During the first Turkish invasion, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus territory on 20 July 1974, invoking its rights under the Treaty of Guarantee. This expansion of Turkish-occupied zone violated International Law as well as the Charter of the United Nations. Turkish troops managed to capture 3% of the island which was accompanied by the burning of the Turkish Cypriot quarter, as well as the raping and killing of women and children. A temporary cease-fire followed which was mitigated by the UN Security Council. Subsequently, the Greek military Junta collapsed on July 23, 1974, and peace talks commenced in which a democratic government was installed. The Resolution 353 was broken after Turkey attacked a second time and managed to get a hold of 37% of Cyprus territory. The Island of Cyprus was appointed a Buffer Zone by the United Nations, which divided the island into two zones through the 'Green Line' and put an end to the Turkish invasion. Although Turkey announced that the occupied areas of Cyprus to be called the Federated Turkish State in 1975, it is not legitimised on a worldwide political scale. The United Nations called for the international recognition of independence for the Republic of Cyprus in the Security Council Resolution 367.
In the years after the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus one can observe a history of failed talks between the two parties. The 1983 declaration of the independent Turkish Republic of Cyprus resulted in a rise of inter-communal tensions and made it increasingly hard to find mutual understanding. With Cyprus' interest of a possible EU membership and a new UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1997 new hopes arose for a fresh start. International involvement from sides of the US and UK, wanting a solution to the Cyprus dispute prior to the EU accession led to political pressures for new talks. The believe that an accession without a solution would threaten Greek-Turkish relations and acknowledge the partition of the island would direct the coming negotiations.
Over the course of two years a concrete plan, the Annan plan was formulated. In 2004 the fifth version agreed upon from both sides and with the endorsement of Turkey, US, UK and EU then was presented to the public and was given a referendum in both Cypriot communities to assure the legitimisation of the resolution. The Turkish Cypriots voted with 65% for the plan, however the Greek Cypriots voted with a 76% majority against. The Annan plan contained multiple important topics. Firstly it established a confederation of two separate states called the United Cyprus Republic. Both communities would have autonomous states combined under one unified government. The members of parliament would be chosen according to the percentage in population numbers to ensure a just involvement from both communities. The paper proposed a demilitarisation of the island over the next years. Furthermore it agreed upon a number of 45000 Turkish settlers that could remain on the island. These settlers became a very important issue concerning peace talks. Originally the Turkish government encouraged Turks to settle in Cyprus providing transfer and property, to establish a counterpart to the Greek Cypriot population due to their 1 to 5 minority. With the economic situation many Turkish-Cypriot decided to leave the island, however their departure is made up by incoming Turkish settlers leaving the population ratio between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots stable. However all these points where criticised and as seen in the vote rejected mainly by the Greek Cypriots. These name the dissolution of the „Republic of Cyprus", economic consequences of a reunion and the remaining Turkish settlers as reason. Many claim that the plan was indeed drawing more from Turkish-Cypriot demands then Greek-Cypriot interests. Taking in consideration that the US wanted to keep Turkey as a strategic partner in future Middle Eastern conflicts.
A week after the failed referendum the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU. In multiple instances the EU tried to promote trade with Northern Cyprus but without internationally recognised ports this spiked a grand debate. Both side endure their intention of negotiations, however without the prospect of any new compromises or agreements the UN is unwilling to start the process again. Since 2004 negotiations took place in numbers but without any results, both sides are strongly holding on to their position without an agreeable solution in sight that would suit both parties.
Guess is was the hand movements that made me think of the title.
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What happens when you combine Luchador wrestling with one of the top eclectic and comedic acts in rock and roll? Luchafer. That's what.
Who Is Luchafer? Puscifer’s Money $hot Heard Around The World European Tour Opening Act
While the Maynard James Keenan-fronted Puscifer has always been a bit of a mysterious project for the TOOL frontman, even more mysterious is the surprise announcement of an otherwise unheard of musical act being selected as the opener for the 2015 Money Shot tour.
The best we can figure is that Luchafer =Luchador wrestling + Puscifer members in some pre-orchestrated, and most likely comedic display of Mexican wrestling.
Chris Lawless became the first Briton to win the Tour de Yorkshire after a superb ride on the last stage to Leeds.
Lawless, racing in the blue jersey as the overnight leader, finished right behind stage winner Greg van Avermaet to secure a debut win for Team Ineos.
Wigan's Lawless, 23, was immediately congratulated by team-mate Chris Froome, who orchestrated the decisive final break on Cote de Otley Chevin.
Team Ineos was only officially launched last week, replacing Team Sky.
"I can't believe it," Lawless told ITV 4. "If someone had told me I'd win this race before it started I'd have called them a liar.
"I started losing touch halfway up the Otley Chevin but I knew if I could get back on there was a climb around 5km from the finish that I could get over.
"I knew I could follow Greg van Avermaet when he went. Greg was someone I looked up to when I first started riding so to beat him is special.
"I've got to thank the team for backing me because I don't have a good history on stages like this but they said they'd give me a chance."
When asked how big a win it is for him personally, he replied: "The biggest."
Froome's tactics pay off
After 150km of racing, much of it through the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, the final stage exploded on the final categorised climb of the race - the Cote de Otley Chevin - with around 20km remaining.
With Lawless appearing to struggle, four-time Tour de France champion Froome - who was Ineos' road captain and said "decisions were made out on the road" - went on the attack and his effort forced other teams pursuing the overall victory to try to chase him down.
Froome's team-mate Eddie Dunbar had also followed the attack. He then launched his own surprise move as the riders crested the hill and quickly broke clear, chasing down and passing three French riders who were part of the day's original break.
Realising that Dunbar could go on and win the overall title, Froome disrupted the pace of the chasing pack and that, in turn, gave Lawless the chance to catch up.
Eventually, defending champion Van Avermaet, who started the day six seconds behind Lawless, had to attack and while he quickly caught Dunbar, Lawless went with him. That left the Belgian CCC rider with two Ineos riders for company and with an almost impossible task of shaking them both off.
Knowing his fate was sealed, Van Avermaet took the stage win, with Lawless happy to follow him over the line and claim the title by two seconds.
Alexander Kamp, who started the final stage on the same time as Lawless claimed that he was "the strongest rider" over the hills but the Dane failed to live up to his bold statement and was distanced on the final climb out of Otley.
France's Arnaud Courteille, who was in the day's nine-man break, was first to the top of three of the day's five categorised climbs to take the King of the Mountains title.
Stage four result:
1. Greg van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) 4hrs 40mins 03secs
2. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) same time
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +02secs
4. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data) +09secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) Same time
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis)
7. Alexander Kamp (Den/Riwal Readynez)
8. Gabriel Cullaigh (GB/Team Wiggins Le Col) +12secs
9. Jenthe Biermans (Bel/Katusha Alpecin)
10. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling)
Final classification:
1. Christopher Lawless (GB/Team Ineos) 15hrs 18mins 12secs
2. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel/CCC Team) +02secs
3. Edward Dunbar (Ire/Team Ineos) +11secs
4. Alexander Kamp (Ned/Riwal Readynez) +15secs
5. James Shaw (GB/Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling) +25secs
6. Matthew Holmes (GB/Madison Genesis) Same time
7. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned/Dimension Data)
8. Scott Thwaites (GB/Vitus Pro Cycling) +28secs
9. Connor Swift (GB/Madison Genesis) same time
10. Nick van der Lijke (Ned/Roompot-Charles)
Crazy Party Game my Aunt & sister orchestrated. Zach was wearing blue eye mask & plastic poncho.
Baby Shower
Led and Orchestrated by poet Bob Holman, the reading of Howl includes a “Greek chorus” of voices... Poets representing The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and A Gathering of the Tribes... Including Stephanie Berger, Nina Freeman, David Henderson, Paolo Javier, Vincent Katz, Eliel Lucero, Sheila Maldonado, Ace McNamara, Nancy Mercado, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph D Robbins, Bob Rosenthal, Caroline Rothstein, Judah Rubin, Tahani Salah, Jon Sands, Edwin Torres & Bruce Weber.