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Buffer Fringe festival returns to Nicosia with three-day 2026 programme
Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival will return to Nicosia from October 2 to 4, featuring performances, installations, a cross-divide walk and DJ sets.
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The Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival will return to Nicosia from October 2 to 4, with a programme spanning venues on both sides of the city’s divide.
Cyprus Mail reports that the festival’s 11th edition follows a three-year break and will be hosted at the Home for Cooperation, CYENS Centre of Excellence and Rustem Bookshop.
The programme includes performances, installations, a cross-divide walk focused on art and activism, and DJ sets by local and international artists. Festival activities are free and open to all, although registration is required for the Buffer Fringe Walk on Art and Activism.
The opening walk will begin at 4pm on October 2 at the Home for Cooperation before ending at the CYENS Centre of Excellence.
Installations listed in the programme include Pinned, Camera Obscura, Threads of Heritage and Witness: Past and Present.
The closing day at Rustem Bookshop will feature Fruta oneiron rüyadaki meyveler, Karakoncoles, a poetry and live electronics performance by x.pno and Panayiotis Mina, and a closing set by DJ Nevss.