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Bus Tickets Information

20/08/2016 by

Buses from Paphos & Limassol will be available on both Comic Con dates, to take you to and from the convention venue at Filoxenia Conference Centre, Nicosia.

The following ticket prices are per day and include the return journey. There are no one-way tickets being sold as this is a fixed rate. Buses will arrive directly to Filoxenia. Please note that for arrival on Saturday and departure on Sunday you will need to purchase both a Saturday ticket and a Sunday ticket.

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Bus Ticket Prices

Paphos:  9 euros
Limassol: 7 euros

Pick-up/drop-off points:

Paphos – GSK (Pafiako) Stadium

Limassol – Tsireio Stadium

Timetable:

Paphos bus sets off at exactly 09:00AM.

Limassol bus sets off at exactly 10:00AM.

 

At night, all the buses will leave for the return journey to the other cities at the following times:

On Saturday the return journey will begin at 20:00 (8PM)
On Sunday the return journey will begin at 21:00 (9PM)

 

Get your Bus Ticket

You can also find more public transport & general travel information on our access page.

Antiquarian World

19/08/2016 by

Antiquarian_Logo_Compass PNGOne of the participating stores for this year’s Comic Con is Antiquarian World!

Antiquarian World is not your classic antique or modern art shop. It’s a concept, a philosophy; Antiquarian World is a physical aesthetic representation of the fantasy and fictional sub-genre inspired by 19th-century steam power, elegance and romanticism with a modernity spin to it. At Antiquarian World they create custom steampunk creations such as industrial lighting, ornaments and jewellery. They are also specialised in bar interior decoration and custom industrial creations used in such settings.

Some of their projects include lighting for Farma Project, Custom bar equipment for Palia Pineza, interior decoration for houses and shops.

There will be two Steampunk handicraft workshops in Kyrenia lecture theatre each day of the convention. Saturday 13:00 and 16:00 and Sunday 13:00 and 16:00. During each workshop a small group of volunteers from the audience will have the opportunity to build their own steam punk accessories hands-on.

Visit Antiquarian World’s website here.

Gioco Libero – Cyprus Throwdown Tournament Series

19/08/2016 by

Three of the gaming tournaments to participate in at this year’s Comic Con are Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Street Fighter V and Mortal Kombat XL.

The tournaments are organised by Gioco Libero and Cyprus Throwdown Tournament Series. 

This year both the gaming tournaments and their prizes will be bigger and better!

Aside from the prizes that have already been announced, there will likely be prizes for the 4th and 5th place in the tournaments and even small prizes for lucky spectators!

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Saturday 14:00 – 16:00: Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Sunday 10:00 – 13:00: Street Fighter V
Sunday 13:00 – 15:00: Mortal Kombat XL

The tournament will have the form of Elimination, Best of Three Rounds. The player that wins two matches proceeds and the loser is eliminated.

 

Participating fee:
  • 10 euros per tournament
  • 15 euros for two tournaments

 

 

Regulations:

1.All games will be played on the default settings, unless otherwise specified, below.

2. Players must provide their own controller for games played on all systems. In case a player does  not bring their own controller, default controllers will be provided that may not fulfill the player’s requirements.

3. Players that arrive late to the tournament or don’t appear in time for their match will be eliminated.

The tournaments will be livestreamed through YouTube, Twitch και Facebook!

Gioco Libero is the home of Cyprus Throwdown Tournament

Gioco Libero is from now on the home of Cyprus Throwdown Tournament. The internet café is located in Limassol and has state of the art stations for PC and console gaming!

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Stephanie Nicolaou

19/08/2016 by

Meet the next Featured Artist to showcase their work at CCC16, illustrator and painter Stephanie Nicolaou!

Stephanie was born in Limassol in 1991. Ever since she a young age, she had a passion with visual arts, so after her final year at S.Antonis High School, she followed her dream to study Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. It was an amazing 3 years of experience, where she was exposed to new things, people and places through her studies and travels all around Europe. In September 2012 she submitted her final project for my Diploma, titled “The psychology of the non-verbal communication: The expression of felicity”, and was passed with flying colors.

To see more of Stephanie’s work, visit her page on Facebook.

After Italy, she returned to Cyprus and started working at Zorpas bakery as a sales person, which was not really what she had wanted for herself. After two and a half years she quit that job and started working as a waitress, then as kitchen assistant and bartender at a coffeeshop. Life wasn not easy for Stephanie after graduating, but she didn’t give up.

In 2014, she traveled to Slovakia for a Hitech Music Festival, where she saw for the first time how amazing UV glowing decoration was for a night party. This inspired her and she started creating cartoon paintings with UV colors that can glow under the blacklight. That was the beginning of her crazy crew that she named “Completely Fried Mind – KFM” which aims to create imagery of crazy and sometimes creepy cartoons!

Special Guest: George Georgiou

18/08/2016 by

Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce brilliant actor George Georgiou as one of our esteemed Special Guests for CCC16!

Born in London of Greek-Cypriot parents, George received his actor’s training at the prestigious Drama Centre London alongside Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender.

George has appeared in some of the best quality shows to grace our screens over the last few years, both in the UK and the US.  More specifically, he was recently seen on Season 6 of the massively popular TV series ‘Game of Thrones‘ (2011– ) – reprising his role of Razdal Mo Eraz from Season 3 (a high-born leader of the Yunki slave tribe). George has also been acting in the most current Season (5) of political thriller series ‘Homeland‘ (2011– ) where he plays the recurring character of Al Amin.

In 2015, he appeared in hit US TV shows ‘The Americans‘ and ‘Bones‘ for Fox as well as playing a lead in NBC’s ‘AD: The Bible Continues‘.

Make sure to visit George Georgiou’s official website for more information about his illustrious career in film and television.

Other worthy TV credits include a regular in the award winning ‘The Honourable Woman‘ opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal playing the Palastinian Ambassador.

George also played one of the lead characters in a TV pilot called ‘Bubbles‘ set amongst the Greek Cypriot community in London – also starring Marina Sertis (Star Trek) and Peter Polycarpou (Birds of a Feather).

On the big screen George has starred alongside Meryl Streep in ‘Mamma Mia!‘ (2008) playing Panos, her housekeeper and then went on to appear in action movies such as ‘300:Rise of an Empire‘ (2014) and ‘RED 2‘ (2013).

Most recently, George starred in the award-winning ‘Killing Jesus‘ (2015) for Scott Free Productions as well as ‘God the Father‘ (2014). He can also be seen in Fatih Akin’s latest film that premiered at Venice Film Festival (main category) in 2014, called ‘The Cut‘ (2014) that is set in pre-WW1 about the Armenian Genocide. George takes on the role of Vahan, an Armenian that gets taken to a concentration camp which he does not survive.

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George recently played Greek Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras for a BBC Radio 4 play titled ‘A Greek Drama‘ (2015) about what went on behind the scenes in the lead up to Greece’s decision to stay in Europe. He also voiced a character in the highly acclaimed video game ‘Tom Clancy’s The Division‘ (2016).

George has worked on the stage both on and off West End since leaving Drama School.

Some stage productions he participated in include:

The Bacchae – The Royal National Theatre
Chicken – West End – Trafalgan Studio
Our Counties Good – West End – Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Battle of Green Lanes – Theatre Royal
and many others.

As well as acting,George set up the ArtHouse Crouch End Cinema – that won the Time Out Award for best cinema in London for the past 2 years running.