======Kilimi (Space) ======

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^          **Kilimi**                          ^^
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| Area:         |Limassol|
| Active Period:  | 1981|
| Political Position:      |Anarchism|
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//Kilimi// (lit. //Kilim//) was a self-managed social space in Limassol, which operated for a short period in the early 1980s. It is considered as the first anarchist social space in Cyprus, and the first appearance of the anarchist milieu in Limassol.


===== Space Identity =====
<blockquote>Already in Limassol the "space" had undergone a radical transformation from leftism to a diffused anti-authoritarian-alternative mentality, from the early 1980s in a short-lived but decisive series of gatherings in a gallery called kilimi...(([[en:magazines:traino:no_11:anexartisia|Independence Generations - The Post-colonial Human]], Magazine Train in the City, Issue 11, 1994, p. 38-45.))

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The story of [[en:groups:xrisallida|Chrysallida]] begins in the summer of
'81, a few meters up, on the same street, in an old,
large house on the northern corner of Agios Andreas Street,
which was rented by some Limassol painters and
used its large rooms as a studio.
When at some point some left,
the rest responded positively to a group's proposal
to be given two of the rooms to use as a meeting place. Slowly,
the circle grew and became a meeting point for several
people, from different areas, who in the end
became an even larger group. So the summer ends and almost everyone leaves for studies. The next episode finds many in Lyon, France, where another hangout is created, another large group, in a house that for a while functions as a kind of commune. It is there that the one and only issue of the magazine [[en:magazines:mavrespinelies|'Mavres Pinelies']] (Black Brushstrokes) is printed in photocopies and circulated from hand to hand, which is important, not so much for its content, but for the fact that it is the first, as far as we know, publication of the Cypriot anarchist-autonomous milieu, in the sense that, although the entire effort was made abroad, it was made mainly by Cypriots.(([[https://archive.org/details/entropia15|Entropia Magazine, Issue 15, July 2019, p.22]]))</blockquote>


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Condition:"Needs Translation":"Needs Turkish Translation" 
"Spaces"
"Decade:Decade 1980-1989" 
Areas:Limassol 
"Ideological Positions":"Anarchism"}}