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ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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9th POSEIDON ATHENS HALF MARATHON (22-04-2018 12:00 pm) The 9th International Poseidon Athens Half Marathon, the great athletic event aiming to raise awareness regarding diabetes and obesity, will be held on Sunday, April 22nd, 2018.
With the phrase “Everyone is a winner” as its moto, the event includes several races apart from the Half Marathon race such as a Relay Half Marathon race (2 runners), a quarter Marathon race, a Fun Run, a Power Walking race, the Chiquita Athens Kids Run and a Charity Run.
The courses make their way past the most beautiful spots of the coastline at Faliro area.
In the case of the Half Marathon race, these include among others the Nautical Tradition Park, the battleship Averof, the trireme “Olympias”, the Water Square, the Park of Kallithea and Esplanada.
The finish line for all races is in the track of the Cultural and Sports Centre of the Municipality of Palaio Faliro.
Apart from the races, various other events will also take place from April 20th to April 22nd, inviting everyone to participate.
The event is under the auspices of the Municipality of Palaio Faliro, the Municipality of Alimos, the Greek National Tourism Organisation, the Hellenic Diabetes Association (EDE), Hellenic Olympics Academy (ΕΘΝ.Ο.Α.), the Hellenic Association of Mass Popular Sports & Ultra Running Clubs (EOSLMA-Y) and the European Federation “Sports for All” (UESpT).
For more information: www.poseidon-athenshalfmarathon.com.
Place: Faliro bay area. Start Time: 08:30 (Half Marathon race, Relay race, ¼ Marathon race), 11:00 (Fun Run, Power Walking), 11:30 (all other races)
COMICDOM CON ATHENS 2018 (22-04-2018 10:00 pm) The greatest Greek comics’ convention opens its doors to the public for the 13th consecutive year…
Comicdom Con Athens meets once again with comics fans at the Hellenic American Union and the Institut français de Grèce à Athènes and transforms an entire neighborhood of Neapolis into the largest comics’ celebration.
International guests of this years’ festival include the acclaimed New Zealander comics artist Roger Langridge (ΤΗΕ MUPPET SHOW, POPEYE), the British comics writer Simon Spurrier (X-MEN LEGACY, STAR WARS: APHRA, ΤΗΕ DREAMING, THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE), the award winning French comics creator and collaborator of the Louvre Museum Nicolas de Crécy, the award winning Israeli comics creator Rutu Modan (EXIT WOUNDS, THE PROPERTY), the up and coming comics artist from Turkey Sümeyye Kesgin, the creators of the graphic novel EXARCHEIA: L’ORANGE AMÈRE Nicolas Wouters and Dimitri Mastoros and the graphic designer Emma Price.
Comicdom Con Athens 2018 features also include comics exhibitions, film screenings, workshops for scriptwriting and illustrating, a children’s program, a bazaar of Greek comics shops and publishers, the artists' alley, the self publishers' alley, the Greek Comics Awards and the ever more popular Comicdom Cosplay contest, which is the national qualifying competition for the London Eurocosplay.
For more information: Comicdom Con Athens 2018
Comidom Con Athens 2018 is organized by Comicdom Press, the Hellenic American Union and the Institut français de Grèce à Athènes.
Information:
Artists:
Roger Langridge, Simon Spurrier, Nicolas de Crécy, Rutu Modan, Sümeyye Kesgin, Nicolas Wouters, Δημήτρης Μαστώρος, Emma Price.
No Registration Required.
Admission is free.
Start Date:
20/04/2018.
End Date:
22/04/2018.
Hours of Operation:
Friday, Saturday & Sunday 11:00 - 21:30.
Organizer:
Comicdom Press, Hellenic American Union, Institut français de Grèce à Athènes.
Venue:
Hellenic American Union, Massalias 22 Street, Kolonaki, 210 3680052| Institut français de Grèce,Sina 31
"NO FINISH LINE" CHARITY RACE AT THE SNFCC (29-04-2018 2:00 pm) No Finish Line, the leading international charity race, where people can walk or run raising funds for a good cause, will be taking place at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Athens for the 2nd consecutive time on 25-29th April, 2018.
The 2nd NFL circuit will be open around the clock over a 90 hours period between 08:00 Wednesday, April 25th and 14:00 on Sunday, April 29th. The race is open to participants of all ages regardless of their stamina and fitness level, as there are no time limits or finish lines. The idea is simple; participants are welcome to do as much or little of the circuit as they can and as many laps of the track as they want.
Within the running track that consists of the 1000m circular route around the SNFCC Canal each participant can walk or run at whichever pace they chose, for as long as they want and at any time of the day or night they want with the aim of raising money for charity with each kilometer they do (50 cents per kilometer). Funds raised from this year’s No Finish Line Athens will go to support “Together for Children”, a union of 10 non-for-profit children’s NGOs.
During its first edition last year, the race, that is part of the NFL International initiative, exceeded all expectations and set a record among all No Finish Line races being held for the first time, having registered 50,903 kilometers from more than 6,200 participants who raised 25,452 Euros.
The 2nd NFL Athens is organized by No Finish Line International in collaboration with athletic club “Hermes 1877”. The initiative is also supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center as well as other well-known sponsors.
Individual and team registrations are open until 13 April 2018.
For more info and registrations please see here: http://nflathens.com/english/; https://results.chronolog.gr/registrationv2.aspx?h=0b7c39224558bb3350298b06e74b13f2.
Venue: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) – 364 Syggrou Avenue, 176 74, Kallithea, Athens.
EXHIB: \"ANCIENT CHINESE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY\" (29-04-2018 8:30 pm) With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China.
Under the auspices of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Hellenic Republic.
The exhibition “Ancient Chinese Science and Technology” of the China Museum of Science and Technology in Beijing will introduce to the Greek public for the first time some of the remarkable technological achievements of the Chinese civilization, which is one of the most ancient. These achievements cover a broad scientific spectrum, from astronomy and navigation to weaving techniques, papermaking, printing, seismography, et al., and will be presented through the models of a variety of inventions. Exhibits are supported by video-installations and all accompanying texts are trilingual (Greek-English-Chinese).
Moreover, visitors will have the unique opportunity to watch the following demonstrations:
- Papermaking: This presentation will allow the audience to understand the papermaking process, an epoch-making invention in the history of human civilization.
- Printing hands-on demonstration: Visitors can experience traditional Chinese printing by using wooden movable types, rubbing and stamping.
- Rubbing: The audience will be introduced to the ancient Chinese rubbing technique, created by placing a piece of paper over the subject and then rubbing the paper.
- Weaving game for childred, to introduce them to the technique of weaving in a simplified way.
- Dougong/Luban Lock/Ball-shaped Luban Lock: This complex jumble of wooden brackets known as “dougong” (11th cent.-256 BC) is one of the outstanding features of traditional Chinese architecture, designed to absorb the earthquake energy.
- Dragon Wash Basin: These folk amusement articles were especially made for the Imperial Court (10th-13th cent AD), as their dragon pattern on the interior suggests.
Chinese civilization, one of the most ancient in the world, has many remarkable achievements to offer in the area of the physical sciences and mechanical engineering. Chinese scientific discoveries and technological inventions cover almost the whole spectrum of the sciences, from mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering and astronomy, to geophysics, biology, botany, medicine, pharmaceutics, chemistry, et al. The ancient Chinese scientists were the first to observe the sunspots, they researched magnetic phenomena, but also calculated, as did the ancient Greeks, the value of π – the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. The compass, gunpowder, paper, moveable type, bronze and iron casting, the seismograph, crossbow, iron plowshare, wheelbarrow, and the stern rudder are some of the technological achievements of China.
From now through April 29th, 2018.
Hours of Operation:
Daily & weekends 10:00-18:00;
Thursday 10:00-20:00.
General admission:
Monday-Tuesday: 5 Euros.
Wednesday-Sunday: 7 Euros (including special demonstrations).
Venue: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Herakleidon Street 16 & 37 Ap. Pavlou Street, Thissio, 210 3461981.
GYBE IN ATHENS (29-04-2018 9:00 pm) The Canadian experimental music band Godspeed You! Black Emperor (aka GYBE) will appear in Athens on Sunday April 29th.
The band was formed in the early 1990’s in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Efrim Menuck, Mauro Pezzente και Mike Moya. They played a handful of shows and recorded a self-released cassette as a trio before expanding the group by recruiting musicians from around the town during 1995-1996 which drove them to mount sense-rattling wall-of-sound performances, featuring as many as 14 musicians and several 16mm film projectors.
In 2003, the band announced an indefinite hiatus but finally reconvened for a tour, which began in December 2010, as they were invited to take part and curate the All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK.
GYBE will perform in the Fuzz Live Music Club in Athens on Sunday, April 29th in a high quality show that will capture your soul and mind. How can you resist?
For more information: www.fuzzclub.gr.
Venue: Fuzz Live Music Club, Peiraios Avenue 209 & Patriarhou Ioakim Street 1, Moschato Tavros 177 78, tel: 210 3450817
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