4ο Cycladic Kids Festival

For the first time, Cycladic Kids Festival is made accessible!

On September 26 and 27, the 4th Cycladic Kids Festival welcomes us to the Athens Municipality Arts Center at Eleftherias Park for two days filled with creative activities for children, teenagers, and families. For the first time, the Festival is made accessible in collaboration with liminal.

A banner for the Cycladic Kids Festival by the Museum of Cycladic Art, titled “I Want the Museum to Be…”. Against a dark pink background, a yellow hand holds a paintbrush and appears to be painting the simple line drawings spread across the poster, including a star, birds, a sun, and more. At the bottom, the following information is displayed: cycladic.gr, 26–27 September, Free admission, City of Athens Arts Centre.

“I Would Like a Museum to Be…”

This year, the Museum of Cycladic Art is transforming itself and turning to its audience! Through the 13th International Kids’ Art Contest, thousands of children and teenagers from around the world responded by drawing and recording their ideas, showing us how they imagine a museum that truly belongs to them.

The 4th Cycladic Kids Festival is here to bring their ideas to life! Each Festival activity takes its title from an artwork that was awarded or recognized by the Competition’s jury. Through their participation, children and teenagers have helped shape the Festival program.

In a sunny outdoor setting, children around the age of eight, wearing colourful clothes, sit on a large orange cloth spread over the gravel. We see them from behind as they appear to be watching something unfolding in front of them, outside the frame of the photograph.
At a table, children use colourful markers to draw images of flowers that appear to be divided into small dots or pixels. Their drawings take on the appearance of mosaics or digital images.
At a wooden table, five children are building something resembling a wind turbine out of LEGO. A woman wearing glasses, a white T-shirt, and jeans leans over the table and looks at their creations with them, as if offering advice or guidance. In the background, other people taking part in the activity can be seen faintly at other tables.

This year’s festival is designed for children aged 4 and up, teenagers, families, and adults, and offers a diverse programme of sensory workshops, screenings, performances, dance, concerts, stand-up comedy, sculpture, painting, video animation, augmented reality, and even a mobile skatepark! The Park will also welcome beloved actors, the acclaimed stand-up duo Vyronas Theodoropoulos and Michalis Mathioudakis, teenage bands, as well as fifteen groups and artists.

liminal is collaborating with the Museum of Cycladic Art to design and deliver accessibility services and adaptations, creating a festival where every visitor can find their own place.

The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities.

Accessibility also extends to the program, with services for selected exhibits and activities, such as:

  • interpretation in Greek Sign Language (GSL), subtitles for D/deaf and hard-of-hearing people,
  • audio description, materials in Braille and tactile maps for people with visual disabilities, as well as
  • adaptations to the workshops and preparatory material for neurodivergent visitors.

Because that’s what the children asked for: a museum for EVERYONE!

ℹ️ Read the full programme of the 4th Cycladic Kids Festival at the link below: https://cycladic.gr/en/cycladic-kids-festival-2026/

“The Playing Sculpture” – Inclusive movement workshop

Among the many activities featured in the 4th Cycladic Kids Festival is the workshop “The Sculpture That Plays”, led by Katerina Gevetzi and Demy Papathanasiou. The workshop explores the relationship between bodies, space and the imagination.

In a grey-toned performance space bathed in cool light, disabled and non-disabled dancers throw their bodies into expansive movements across the stage. The momentum of their movement leaves some figures blurred in the frame.

Using inclusive dance as our vehicle, we will create our own collective sculptures and play with the way we see – how we observe, what we know about what we observe, and how we let our imagination add its own elements to what we see.

Information

Date: Saturday September 26, 2026
Time: 20:00-21:00
Space: Exhibition Area
Participation: Online registration required
Age: 14-18 years old

“Klikable – The Museum with My Eyes Closed!”

A young bearded man wearing a black sleep mask over his eyes holds his phone upright and uses the camera to capture a lush green tree visible in the distance in front of him.

liminal invites families to “Klikable – The Museum with My Eyes Closed”, an experiential and inclusive photography workshop where parents and children explore the museum and Parko Eleftherias through sound, touch, smell, movement and imagination. Through blindfold photography, they create images without relying on sight and discover new ways of observing and capturing the world around them.

Information

Date: Sunday September 27, 2026
Time: 11:00-13:00
Space: Athens Book Space
Participation: Ηλεκτρονική Κράτηση
Age: +7 years old

Useful information

Dates and time: Saturday 26/9: 11:00–21:00, Sunday 27/9: 11:00–18:00
Location: Athens Municipality Arts Center at Eleftherias Park (Vasilissis Sofias Avenue-Metro station: Megaro Moussikis)

Free admission

The Festival is held in collaboration with theCity of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organization (OPANDA), with Eurobank as its Main Sponsor.

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