Sistema Cyprus

National Network
Cyprus
Address

40 Apollonos
1010 Nicosia
Cyprus

Telephone
0035722663030
E-Mail
info@sistemacyprus.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2018
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Human rights
General Information

The organisation is managed by the core team which consists of the three founding members, an additional member who is in charge of securing Grants and designing Educational Programmes for the organisation and the Artistic Director. We employ 5 staff and 12 part time music teachers. Despite the fact that it is a newly established organisation, Sistema Cyprus has set up strong and viable partnerships with important supporters, thus ensuring its presence in the years to come. Among these supporters are the Nicosia Municipality, UNHCR Cyprus, Mohari Hospitality, the Yiannis Christodoulou Foundation, The University of Nicosia, Sistema Europe Association, the European Association of Music in Schools, the Global Leaders Program, The Community Arts Network and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and more.

Mission and Objectives

Sistema Cyprus is a social-music orchestra programme established in 2018. Sistema Cyprus offers music education to the children and young people of Cyprus, including migrants, refugees and children and young people with fewer opportunities, and ensures that these groups are respected, recognised, and included in the society.
Sistema Cyprus is inspired by the El Sistema social action music programme that was first founded in Venezuela in 1975. Through the formation of orchestras and choirs, El Sistema acts as a superb model, reaching children and young people to many of the world’s challenging neighbourhoods. El Sistema and other El Sistema inspired programs, like ours, offer free classical music education that gives children and youth with fewer opportunities all over the world the opportunity for personal development. Sistema Cyprus is focused on the personal development of its participants focusing primarily on empowerment and helping them in reaching their full potential.

Main Projects / Activities

Sistema Cyprus String and Percussion orchestras with 120 children living in Nicosia.

Sistema Cyprus Winds and Percussion Orchestra with 40 children liiving in Larnaca.

Community music workshops in shelters of unaccompanied refugee minors in Nicosia and Larnaca.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We could help in order to establish music as a tool for social inclusion, integration, intercultural and civil society dialogue.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

To build strong collaborations with other organisations and to work together towards common goals including the promotion of intercultural and civil society dialogue.

Additional Information
Contact (1) Full Name
Nikoletta Polydorou
Job Title
Executive Director
Head of the organisation
Nikoletta Polydorou
Contact (2) Full Name
Myria Kkali
Job Title (2)
Communication and Marketing officer