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2ND SOCIAL MEDIA CONFERENCE (19-06-2013 4:00 pm) The 2nd Social Media World conference takes place at the Divani Caravel Hotel (2 Vassileos Alexandrou, Athens), starting at 09:00 under the auspices of the Ministry of Development and Networks.
Social media are now dominant in our everyday lives and tend to become the main medium through which large population groups express and communicate, rendering the previous prevailing voice communication, almost obsolete.
And although we used to joke with the motto “you either are on Social Media or your do not exist”, now we have come to mean it, because there is a rule for every business or entrepreneurship to “hang out” where their perspective clients do so.
Therefore we have come to the point where each and every one of the major social networks, offer the possibility to have an online business presence, at the same time when most companies invest in building their social image on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Google+, Twitter and so on.
Given that social media form extensively the online and offline brand perception, a new ground for marketing has emerged where the absolute leaders are the consumers and the profile they create online and share with their friends and followers.
The conference is addressed to professional and businesses in Greece who accept, provide, utilize of think of utilizing marketing services using the tools and techniques of social media in all aspects of the industry: manufacturing, trade, hospitality, travel, tourism, services, transportation, banking, telecommunications, electronics, computers, entertainment and internet.
The conference will host executives and senior corporate executives, heads of departments of companies, entrepreneurs and students with professional skills on social media and who are already working on the field of: marketing, branding, social media, customer service, e-commerce, online and direct marketing, sales, CRM, SW & web development, graphic design and advertising.
BALKANS BEYOND BORDERS (30-06-2013 5:00 pm) Call for submissions for the Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival 2013
The call for submissions for the 4th edition of the Balkans beyond Borders Short Film Festival is now open. After three successive years of receiving inspiring films we are again inviting young film-makers to share their vision with us through their film-making and to "Reinvent Bridges".. “Our contemporaneity is manifested as a time when we analyse everything. The present is not only a transitory instance, but becomes a site of permanent rewriting of the past and the future, of permanent rewriting of history.”
(Boris Groys)
With the fall of the Berlin wall and with the end of the Cold War, Europe entered a new historical era. Marked by the Communist past and the European Union future many of the countries have undergone radical changes in the last 23 years. The Balkan countries and their people, though neighbours, do not share the same personal, historical, political and social experience of these changes. As a result even their expectations about the future are different.
What questions and issues about the past and the future are important for the present? How are the Balkans, with all their diversity, rewriting their past and reinventing their future? How to translate or embody this into moving images?
Young artists up to the age of 35 from the Balkan region and beyond (Southeast Europe) are invited to send their own short films related to this year’s topic.
The submission period will run from the 17th of December until the 1st of June and the festival will take place in Bucharest in September 2013.
"THE ART OF FICTION" (10-07-2013 8:00 pm) The Herakleidon Museum invites you to a special seminar today on its Educational Hall, by Vangelis Raptopoulos. Participants will write texts as well as read and criticize each others work. They will also analyze texts from the world of Modern Greek literature.
References will be given to various texts which are related to the syllabus of each lesson. Exercises and suggested titles of popular books will also be provided which participants can read either during or after the seminar.
Vangelis Raptopoulos was born in Athens in 1959 and published his first work, at the age of 20. He has written a series of novels: “In Pieces”, “Toll Gates”, “The Cicadas”, “The Imperial Memory of Blood”, “The Bachelor Obsessions”, “ Loula”, “The Game”, “Sad and Deep as You” “The Incredible Story of Pope Joan”, “Black Wedding “, “Does Simitis Listen to Mitropanos?”, “My Own America”, “The Invention of Reality”, “We Lost Dad”, “A Bit of History of Modern Greek Literature”, “Friends”, “Ancient Recipe: Herodotus, Heraclitus, Lucian”, “The Great Sand”, “Endlessly Empty House”, “Tales of Limni: The Game, Sad and Deep As You, Endlessly Empty House”, “The High Art of Failure”, “The Most Secret Wound”. “The Cicadas” came out in English and “The Incredible Story of Pope Joan” in Italian. “The Bachelor” was brought to the screen. His personal archive has been donated to the Gennadius Library. His website: http://vangelisraptopoulos.wordpress.com.
"This seminar revolves around the secrets of the art of fiction, in the sense that the creative process remains a mystery."
Days & Hours: Wednesday from 17:00-20:00
Dates:: 22/5, 29/5, 5/6, 12/6, 19/6, 26/6, 3/7, 10/7
Venue: Museum’s Educational Hall
Duration: 24 teaching hours (8 three hour sessions)
Participation cost: 320 €
If you wish to make your payment with credit card, you have the option of choosing three (3) interest-free installments, upon enrollment.
50% discount for unemployed persons
An attendance certificate is given to the participants upon completion of the program.
CONTACT INFO
Ms. Eleni Nomikou (Mon.-Fr. 9:00-13:00)
tel: 210 34 61 981 (ext. 201), mob: 6947 277 697
email: enomikou@herakleidon-art.gr
"At least, for me, even after 17 published works of fiction."
HELLENIC FESTIVAL (20-07-2013 8:00 pm) The “Hellenic Festival”, established in 1998 for the organization of music, theater and other cultural events, the publication and distribution of periodicals, books and other types of publications, and the creation of audiovisual material for the promotion of its events, began on Saturday, June 1, and runs through the end of August, at various venues around Athens and at the two ancient theaters of Epidaurus, which are reserved for ancient drama and romantic musical soirees.
DANCE
Lucy Guerin “Untrained”
June 1 & 2 (9 p.m.), tickets 15 euros
Australian dancer and choreographer Lucy Guerin will launch the festival in the Pireos 260 complex, with two performances of “Untrained,” where she pits two experienced dancers against two amateurs in a comment on the development of movement. The dancers are Ross McCormack, Alisdair Macindoe, Jake Shackleton and Michael Dunbar, with music by Duplo Remote.
Dimitris Papaioannou “Primal Matter”
June 1-23 & June 27 - July 14 (9 p.m.), tickets 25 euros
Dimitris Papaioannou's “Primal Matter” is a critically acclaimed study on the human body, its mannerisms and its reactions, featuring the 49-year-old Greek choreographer and dancer together with Michalis Theofanous. Papaioannou premiered the performance last summer in a sold-out run.
.pelma.lia haraki “The Shape of Necessity” & “Tune In”
June 7 & 8 (9 p.m.), tickets 15 euros
From Cyprus, Lia Haraki presents the .pelma.lia haraki collective in a double performance consisting of “The Shape of Necessity” and “Tune In.” In “The Shape of Necessity,” two dancers repeat the dominant motifs of the man-woman relationship as they evolve from the archetypal couple, while in the solo “Tune In,” Haraki, the choreographer of both shows, compares primitive rituals to modern clubbing.
Katerina Papageorgiou “Oh! Deep Sea – Corpus III”
June 10 & 11, tickets 15 euros
“Oh! Deep Sea – Corpus III” is the third in a four-part series and is inspired by Homer's Odyssey. Choreographed by charismatic local performer Katerina Papageorgiou (aka Kat Valastur), the show explores collective memory and how it manifests itself in movement.
Peeping Tom “A Louer”
June 12-14 (9 p.m.), tickets 25 euros
Boundary-pushing Belgian collective Peeping Tom comes to Greece with “A Louer” (For Rent), a show inspired by the moment when our minds start to wander during times of intense boredom. The concept belongs to Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, who also direct.
Lenio Kaklea “Arranged by Date”
June 12 & 13 (9 p.m.), tickets 15 euros
Paris-based Greek dancer and choreographer Lenio Kaklea presents her solo show “Arranged by Date.”
Cie MPTA “Ali” & “Nous sommes pareils”
June 15-17 (9 p.m.), tickets 25 euros
On a livelier note, Cie MPTA - Compagnie les mains les pieds et la tete aussi, a dance company from Tunisia launched by circus performer Mathurin Bolze, presents a twin performance of “Ali” and “Nous sommes pareils” (We Are the Same). Dancers and brothers Ali and Hedi Thabet, who last year enchanted local audiences with a performance inspired by the Sufi whirling ritual, this year draw on the history of rebetiko music. The second part of the show is inspired by a poem by the French surrealist Rene Char. Both performances are accompanied by an orchestra of Greek and Tunisian musicians playing rebetiko and traditional Tunisian melodies.
Eleana Alexandrou “In Wonder(?)Land”
June 18 & 19 (11 p.m.), tickets 15 euros
A political performance, young Cypriot performer Eleana Alexandrou's “In Wonder(?)Land” explores the identity of the island nation that has been split since a Turkish invasion of the north in 1974 as well as the role of her generation in challenging the status quo and authority.
Cie Maguy Marin “Nocturnes”
June 22 & 23 (9 p.m.), tickets 25 euros
Maguy Marin and Denis Mariotte of the Cie Maguy Marin company present a thought-provoking performance titled “Nocturnes,” which addresses personal angst and collective memory.
Stavroula Siamou & Persa Stamatopoulou “Fight or Flight?”
June 26 & 27 (9 p.m.), tickets 15 euros
Local artists Stavroula Siamou and Persa Stamatopoulou, who began creating their own work in the 1990s, present their first collaboration, “Fight or Flight?” The piece explores the work they have done separately and somewhat in parallel over the years and addresses the question “What drives them?”
Antonio Ruz “Ojo”
July 14 & 15 (9 p.m.), tickets 20 euros
In “Ojo,” Spanish dancer and choreographer Antonio Ruz injects the contemporary dance vocabulary with elements of flamenco in what is his first appearance in Greece. The performance features a cast of six dancers.
* All dance performances take place at the Pireos 260 complex in southern Athens.
THEATER
On the theater front there is not much to interest foreign audiences in Greece as the majority of performances are in Greek, though the ancient drama at Epidaurus is an experience that should not be missed if only for the chance to view a performance at the ancient amphitheater, which boasts excellent acoustics. The following international productions will be staged in Athens.
Robert Wilson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Willem Dafoe “The Old Woman”
June 27, Onassis Cultural Center, tickets TBA
Robert Wilson directs renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and award-winning actor Willem Dafoe in “The Old Woman,” an adaptation of the work of the same name by Russian author Daniil Kharms, described by critics as “an obscure, brilliant and slyly political novella written in the 1930s.” It tells the story of a writer trying to pen a tale about a miracle worker. In English with Greek supertitles.
Ensemble Artistique “Rhinoceros”
June 30 & July 1 (9 p.m.), Onassis Cultural Center, tickets 15-25 euros
Francophones will have a treat with the Ensemble Artistique of the Theatre de la Ville, led by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, presenting Eugene Ionesco's 1959 play “Rhinoceros.” Demarcy-Mota takes Ionesco's themes of conformity, mass movements and culture, an applies them to the present day. The performance is in French with Greek supertitles.
Schaubuhne “An Enemy of the People”
July 3-5 (9 p.m.), Pireos 260, tickets 25 euros
A favorite in Greece, Germany's Schaubuhne company and director Thomas Ostermeier will stage their ultramodern and pioneering version of Henrik Ibsen's “Enemy of the People.” A darkly satirical tale of greed and corruption, “An Enemy of the People” is Ibsen’s most overtly political play, about a community that turns on a man speaking uncomfortable truths, with Ostermeier dragging it into the 21st century and addressing contemporary issues such as immigration and environmental disasters. In German with Greek supertitles.
Olivier Py “Miss Knife”
July 9 (10 p.m.) & July 10 (9 p.m.), Pireos 260, tickets 20 euros
The French actor and director explores gender issues and plays with his sexuality in “Miss Knife,” named after his singing drama-queen alter ego, who made her debut in 1996. In French with Greek supertitles.
MUSIC
Richard Wagner “The Flying Dutchman”
June 7, 9, 11, 13 (9 p.m.), Herod Atticus Theater, tickets 25-100 euros
Two hundred years after the birth of Richard Wagner, the Greek National Opera presents the German composer’s most popular romantic opera “The Flying Dutchman,” starring Thomas J. Mayer as the ghostly sea captain who is doomed by the devil to sail for all eternity unless he finds redemption in the love of a faithful woman. The powerful music conveys the force of nature and the metaphysical elements that are eventually defeated by the power of love and compassion.
Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem
June 14 , Herod Atticus Theater, tickets 15-30 euros
The Athens State Orchestra celebrates the bicentennial of Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birth by staging his famous Requiem. Written to commemorate the deaths of Italian cultural greats, composer Gioachino Rossini and novelist Alessandro Manzoni, Verdi's Requiem is a concert setting of the most dramatic of liturgical texts.
Thanos Mikroutsikos
June 18 (9 p.m.), Herod Atticus Theater, tickets 20-40 euros
Respected composer Thanos Mikroutsikos will present a selection of popular folk songs interpreted by Manolis Mitsias, Giannis Kotsiras, Dimitris Basis and Rita Antonopoulou. With more than 40 albums and a long list of hits over his 25-year career, Mikroutsikos is today considered one of the most important artists in Greece. His 1979 “Stavros tou Notou” album, based on poetry by Nikos Kavvadias, is one of the biggest-selling records of all times in Greece.
Latinitas Nostra “A Voyage into the Levant”
June 23 (9 p.m.), Pireos 260, Building D, tickets 20 euros
Led by Greek harpsichordist Markellos Chryssicos, the baroque music ensemble Latinitas Nostra – meaning “Our (Greek) West” – will perform “A Voyage into the Levant.” The ensemble performs baroque works, including unpublished pieces, using period instruments.
Patti Smith
June 22 (9 p.m.), Herod Atticus Theater, tickets 25-50 euros
Now 65, the legendary Patti Smith will be here for one concert at the Herod Atticus Theater at the foot of the city’s ancient citadel. More than 35 years after her debut album “Horses” catapulted her to international stardom, Smith, often dubbed “the godmother of punk,” remains one of the most influential figures in rock. “Banga,” her 11th studio album released last year was hailed by the BBC as “her best LP since ‘Horses.’”
Haendel “Alessandro”
June 28 & 30 (9 p.m.), Athens Concert Hall, tickets 15-40 euros
Composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726, the opera is based on Alexander the Great’s journey to India and his famous outburst against Macedonian general Cletus. Max Emanuel Cencic will play the main hero, under the direction of choreographer Lucinda Childs and the baton of Georges Petrou.
Diana Krall
July 1 (9 p.m.), Herod Atticus Theater, tickets 35-90 euros
Canadian jazz-pop singer and pianist Diana Krall is coming to town in support of her new album, “Glad Rag Doll.” Hailed as “a major departure and a natural progression for the gifted musician,” the 13-track collection, produced by the legendary T-Bone Burnett and engineered by Mike Piersante, covers mostly jazz songs dating back to the 1920s and 30s. Krall has sold more than 6 million albums in the United States and won two Grammy awards.
Haris Alexiou & Nouveau Sextet
July 3 (9 p.m.), Herod Atticus Theater, tickets 20-40 euros
Popularly acclaimed Greek vocalist Haris Alexiou teams up with an ensemble of talented Greek musicians performing on a total of 20 instruments for a concert of songs that cross borders and generations.
Athens State Orchestra
July 5 (9 p.m.), Herod Atticus Theater, tickets 15-30 euros
Award-winning French conductor Pascal Roffe, Greece's emblematic Athens State Orchestra and four acclaimed performers present a tribute to the Hungarian and Russian national schools of music with a selection of signature works by Zoltan Kodaly, Bela Bartok and Modest Mussorgsky. On piano are the renowned soloist and director of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, George-Emmanuel Lazaridis, and the award-winning experimentalist Stefanos Thomopoulos. Veteran Dimitris Desyllas and rising star Andreas Farmakis play percussion.
Dimitris Papadimitriou & Fotini Darra
July 10 (9 p.m.), Herod Atticus Theater, tickets TBA
Composer and singer Fotini Darra performs on stage with her mentor, Dimitris Papadimitriou, in an evening of songs that include poems by Nikos Gatsos set to music as well as their personal favorites. The music will be performed by the Contemporary Music Orchestra of state broadcaster ERT.
Iro & Javier di Ciriaco “Querer”
July 12-13 (9.30 p.m.), Little Theater of Ancient Epidaurus, tickets 20-25 euros
Iro, a popular Greek crossover singer, composer and pianist, joins Argentinean performer Javier di Ciriaco (best known for his rendition of the “Sexteto Milonguero”) in a program titled “Querer” and featuring well-known flamenco classics. The Nuevo Siete Ensemble, which will perform the music, is conducted by Haris Pegiazis, while Zoe Tiganouria will play accordion.
Encardia
July 19-20 (9 p.m.), Little Theater of Ancient Epidaurus, tickets 20-25 euros
Vangelis Papageorgiou, Michalis Kontaxakis, Natalia Kotsani, Dimitris Tsekouras and Kostas Konstantatos make up Encardia, an ensemble of local musicians that has been going from strength to strength in recent years and has acquired an avid following. Over two nights, the ensemble will perform a program that includes dance and special effects to accompany songs from rural parts of southern Italy, a genre at which Encardia excels in.
INFO
* Herod Atticus Theater, Dionysiou Areopagitou, tel 210.324.1807.
* Pireos 260, 260 Pireos, tel 210.928.2900.
* Athens Concert Hall, Vasilissis Sofias & 1 Kokkali, tel 210.7282.333.
* Onassis Cultural Center, 107-109 Syngrou, tel 210.900.5800, tickets 2130.178.000.
* Epidaurus Theater, Palaia Epidavros, Argolis, Peloponnese, tel 27530.22026 (Festival), 27530.22009, 27530.22666 (Archaeological site).
* Little Theater of Ancient Epidaurus, Palaia Epidavros, Argolis, Peloponnese.
* Children, students, pensioners and people with special needs are entitled to discounts on the price of regular tickets. Most venues have wheelchair access, though people with mobility problems are advised to call ahead to organize their visit.
* For more information, go to www.greekfestival.gr
WRITING SEMINAR WITH ALEXIS STAMATIS "FROM IDEA TO PRACTICE" (21-07-2013 7:00 pm) From the 10th of May throuhgh the 21st of June, join us at the Herakleidon Museum with guest instructor Alexis Stamatis in a writing seminar series entitled "From Idea to Practice".
A series of seminars that explores how, as writers, we go from idea to practice. It is for all those who want to enter the «writer’s kitchen» and discover the places and means that will help them in their own writing. During our meetings we will talk about techniques and ways of writing and will complete exercises in an atmosphere of insight and creativity.
The goal is specific. By the end of the seminar, each participant will have either completed a writing piece of medium length (short story, novella) or laid the groundwork for a longer piece.
A seminar on literature, whose goal is to bring the participants in touch with the «invisible» world of writing. To experience this «other way of seeing», through which an author perceives things. We will try, through a two-way process, to lift the «working curtain» of the creative writer and to work on the techniques, the structure and the seams of a book. At the same time we will also explore how the novel interacts with the world. We will delve into the «how» and «why» of the texts, in the «laboratory» of the act of writing.
*Depending on the flow of the lessons, there is the possibility to have one or more guests with whom we will discuss various subjects.
Herakleidon
Experience in Visual Arts
Herakleidon 16, Thissio
118 51 Athens, Greece
(Metro station: Thissio)
T: +30 210 34 61 981
F: +30 210 34 58 225
E: info@herakleidon-art.gr
Museum Hours
Friday: 13:00 - 21:00
Saturday: 11:00 - 19:00
Sunday: 11:00 - 19:00
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