Hellen Costaki

Pharos Arts Foundation

The Cyprus-based Pharos Arts Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the arts and humanities. Taking advantage of the island's unique cultural and geographic situation on the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa and the European Union's south-eastern boundary, the Foundation offers a permanent home for the arts, culture and global dialogue in Cyprus by bringing artists, writers, musicians, composers and philosophers together for creative expression and exchange. The Pharos Arts Foundation works with individual artists and musicians as well as organizations throughout the world, and realizes activities and publications that contribute to the positive interaction between culture and development and stimulate intellectual and artistic growth in the form artistic productions, creative processes and debate. Throughout the year, the Foundation presents several cultural and educational programmes: Concert and Recital Series, Cyprus Artists Series, Music Education Programme, International Chamber Music Festival, Contemporary Music Festival, Visual Arts Programme, Publishing, Lecture Series, Residency Programme, Brazilian Culture Month. Over the past few years, the Pharos Arts Foundation has organised over 750 concerts and recitals with extraordinary soloists and ensembles and has benefited over 75.000 students through its educational programmes.