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ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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"BEARS WINTER SLEEP, EVEREST, RIBOSOMES AND ANTIBIOTICS" (21-05-2012 7:00 pm) MEGARON PLUS
In collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in Athens.
Speaker:
Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel in Chemistry 2009
Nobel Prize-winner Ada Yonath deciphered the structure and mechanism of action of ribosomes – the cell’s protein factories. Her findings are crucial for developing advanced antibiotics.
(Lecture given in English)
KLIK RECORDS 9TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY (26-05-2012 10:00 pm) On Saturday the 26th of May, Klik Records celebrates its 9th anniversary and invites you to join the biggest spring music festival and experience an ultimate night full of Klik Records sounds and melodies.
The event will be held at Aigli Zappeiou in 3 stages feat 3 live acts from Cayetano Live Band, Lee Burton & The Busy Band and SCSI-9 and 13 dj sets from Mikael Delta, Serafim Tsotsonis, Anton Glass Coffee, Ralph Myerz, Nikos Diamantopoulos, GPal, Amx, Chris Nemmo, Spyros Pagiatakis, Alex Dimou, Dousk, Aris Kokou, Dimitri Avgeros & George Kyriakou.
Mail john@klikrecords.gr with subject Klik records 9th anniversary and your full details till Tursday the 24th fo May and win a double free invitation. If you will not manage to get your fee invitation then tickets will be available on door for 15 Euro including free drink. Doors open @ 21:00. Guest list applies till 22:30.
LEVENTIS FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS (03-06-2012 2:00 pm) “From the Collections of the A.G. Leventis Foundation” presented together for the first time. The art collections offer visitors a unique aesthetic and educational experience.
The exhibition includes 270 works and is divided, conceptually and architecturally, into three sections that correspond to the three art collections held by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.
From the Paris Collection (17th-20th centuries): Housed in the collector’s Parisian apartment for over half a century, the private collection of Cypriot entrepreneur Anastasios G. Leventis (1902-1978) was acquired progressively from the 1950s to the early 1970s. The exhibition includes 67 oil paintings, watercolours and drawings from this significant collection, which has remained largely unseen and unpublished to date. The collection encompasses works by artists of the calibre of Juan de Arellano, François Boucher, Canaletto, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac and Marc Chagall among others, offering glimpses of the high points of Western art.
From the Collection of Works by Greek Artists (19th-20th centuries): The early core of this collection was made up of the art works – oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints – acquired in 1973 by A.G. Leventis from Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas. Today, this important collection numbers upwards of 270 works, of which 176, created by 90 artists, are presented in the exhibition. Amongst them there are extraordinary paintings by the artists who shaped the face of Greek art from Gysis, Lytras, Volanakis and Pantazis to Parthenis, Maleas and Papaloukas, as well as the younger artists Tsarouchis, Ghikas and Moralis.
From the Collection of Works by Cypriot Artists (20th century): The exhibition includes works by the most important exponents of the first and second generations of Cypriot painters. The common feature of the eight artists represented in the exhibition is that their work focused on their experiences with nature and the people in Cyprus, each artist providing markedly different accounts.
Display info:
Through June 3 2012, (50, Vassilisis Sofias av.), Metro Evangelismos Where: Athens Venue: National Gallery-Museum Opening hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 09:00 – 16:30, Wednesday: 14:00 – 21:00, Tuesday: closed. www.nationalgallery.gr
LESSONS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & FOLK SONGS (03-06-2012 3:00 pm) Another interesting idea for spending time in this culturally rich city can be found at the Museum of Popular Instruments. Housed in the historical Lassanis Mansion nearby the Roman Agoran since 1824, it holds the collection of about 1200 Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th Century to the present day, the fruit of a half century of research and study by the musicologist Phoibos Anoyanakis.
For the period of October 3, 2011 through June 2012, this unique museum is offering the following lessons of musical intruments and folk songs:
Folk Song Nick Chaldaeakes, Traditional Percussion Stephen Agiopoulos, Epirus Polyphonic Singing al. Lambridis - Ant. Exarch, Clarinet Dimitris Kotsikas, Violin Panagiotis Kotsonis - Sandouri Panagiotis - Vergos Cannon - Antigone Papailias, Lute & Lyre Crete Yannis Xilouris, Cretan Mandolin Astrinos Zacharioudakis, Lyra Macedonia & Thrace Dimitris Arvanitis, mainland Lute & Nisiotiko Maria Ploumi, focused Constantinople Lute (lafta) Nikos Angelopoulos, Bouzouki Lefteris Makris, Democratic Guitar Elias Mavrikis, Tambura Peter Moustakas, Oud Stelios Varveris and Mandolin Tasos Gousetis.
Participation in any of the above courses is a mere fee of 10 Euros. For more information
Info: Peter Moustakas Tel: 210-3250198, 210-3254119, 210-3254129
TANIORAMA FILM FESTIVAL (27-06-2012 6:00 pm) Film buffs should check out this year’s Tainiorama Film Festival, which is set to run through June 27 at the Asty Cinema (4 Korai, tel 210 3221925).
There are 42 thematic units at this year’s festival and 126 films from all over the world, with three screenings taking place daily, starting at 18:00, which can be seen with one 6-Euro ticket.
Tainiorama is dedicated exclusively to art-house cinema and this year will be featuring legendary films such as Orson Welles’s “Falstaff,” Lars von Trier’s “Europa,” Mario Monicelli’s “I soliti ignoti,” Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and David Lynch’s “Lost Highway.”
Details of the films being shown at Tainiorama this year are available on the website www.amafilms.gr.
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