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

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^          **Kilimi**                          ^^
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| Area:         |Limassol|
| Active Period:  | 1981|
| Political Position:      |Anarchism|
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//Kilimi// 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.


===== Ταυτότητα Χώρου =====
<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 the kilimi...(([[el:magazines:traino:no_11:anexartisia|Γενιές Ανεξαρτησίας - 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 the road, in an old house,
big house on the north corner of Agios Andreas,
which was rented by some Limassol painters and
used its large rooms as studios.
When at some stage some of them left, the
the others responded positively to the proposal of a group of people
to use two of the rooms for their own use.
to use as a meeting place. Little by little the
circle grew and became a meeting point for several
people from different places who in the end
became an even bigger group. So the summer is coming to an end and almost the whole
people leave to study. The next episode
finds a lot of people in Lyon, France, where
another sort of hangout is created, a
another big group, in a house that for some reason
for a while, a kind of commune. It is there that is photocopied and circulated by hand
the one and only issue of the magazine
[[en:magazines:mavrespinelies|"Mavres Pinelies"]], which is important, not so
for its content, but for the fact that it is the
the first, to our knowledge, publication of the Cypriot
anarchist-autonomous space, in the sense that, despite the fact that, as far as we know
the whole effort was made abroad, it was made primarily by Cypriots
(([[el:magazines:entropia:no_15|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"}}