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ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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PERFORMANCE: YIANNIS PARIOS (27-04-2014 9:30 pm) As of this evening, veteran singer Yiannis Parios is performing career-spanning sets in a rare residency spanning through the end of April at the Pantheon Theater in central Athens. The vocalist is accompanied by a 15-member orchestra and a 24-member choral ensemble. Shows take place on Fridays, Saturdays (starting at 21:30) and Sundays (20:30).
Tickets can be purchased at select Vodafone stores and online at www.athenspantheon.com and www.tickethour.com. For telephone reservations, call the Pantheon Theater on 210 3471111.
Prices range from 15 to 45 Euros.
Venue: Pantheon Theater, 166 Pireos,
210 8941620, www.athenspantheon.com
FREE FUEL EXHIBIT (30-04-2014 6:00 pm) Free Fuel – Breathe And Reboot – We Are Open is presented in the context of back to Athens 2014 festival. The exhibit is running until the end of this month, April 30th.
10 European artists are reintroducing something forbidden in a new age black market.What is the fuel that drives us nowadays, what makes the world spin? Come In. A box full of dreams. Re-used. Influence. “Do not open”.A dream station. Dreams for one price. Dreams to memory, dreams to eternity.Prison.Illusion. A weapon-dream. Targets and limitations. Black Market. Reality. The cities. Urban planning. Re-productions, re-projections. Transition. Mass production- consumerism goods. A mythology. Come in! Yes, we’re open!
Curators: Georgia Stathopoulou, Tania Simoes.Writer: Foteini VenieriArtists: Eunice Artur, Sara Franco, Tania Simoes, Pedro Zamith, Giannis Gigourtakis, Maria Gouveli, Theoni Dimopoulou, Michalis Zacharias, Christos Soularis, Georgia Stathopoulou.
See more at: http://campoint.gr/?p=6318&lang=en#sthash.fVFj4WkS.dpuf
MIRIAM SIMUN: SQEEZING OUT EVERY LAST DROP (03-05-2014 4:00 pm) The Non-Profit cultural organization Pantheon and Gerasimos Kappatos present the third season of the program Art Professionals-In-Athens Residency, which is centred upon the production and exhibition of new work by American performer, Miriam Simun.The third resident of the program Art Professionals-In-Athens Residency, Miriam Simun, is in Athens since the beginning of March and creates the series Three Rituals for the Eco-City, which is based on the rituals of «mourning», «cleaning» and «eating».
Rituals are among the first symbols of culture, often used to perform the human experience of ecological processes, such as birth and death; eating and drinking; markers of time whether passing to adulthood or the change of seasons. Simun is interested in exploring the relationship between ecology, human ritual (and the ideology and culture it signifies), and the performance of multi-species bodies in urban space.
For Three Rituals for the Eco-City, each ritual proposes a way of being in the world that challenges our conceptions of what it means to ‘live ecologically' and to build and participate in ‘eco-cities'. Building on recent work by Bruno Latour, Timothy Morton, and Slavoj Zizek, these rituals reject the concept of ‘nature' in favor of a more holistic understanding of ecology. According to this thinking, whether or not we accept 'nature' as inextricably linked to ourselves, the very conceptualization of ‘nature' positions ecological forces in opposition to the human and human-built ‘civilization'. ‘Nature' is thus positioned as something other than human. Three Rituals for the Eco-City takes a systemic approach to viewing the natural world, understanding the human species (including human industry, artifice and pollution) as a fundamental part of the global ecological system.
End date: 3 May 2014.
Venue: Art Professionals In Athens Residency
Athinas 12, Monastiraki, 105 54 Athens
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 12:00-20:00, Saturday 12:00-16:00.
EXHIBITION: "THE CURSED SERPENT" (25-05-2014 8:00 pm) New York-based Greek artist Eleni Mylonas presents “The Cursed Serpent” at the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street annex.
She draws her inspiration from helmets worn by protestors during the Arab Spring: DIY constructions intended to protect their wearers from stones tossed in running clashes on roads and squares. Paintings, video, an installation and photographs by the artist with hats made of household objects and garbage, constitute her commentary on the daring and imagination of the protesters.
The title of the exhibition is drawn from a work by composer Manos Hadjidakis, which refers to the battle of Megalexandros (a folk hero whose character and name hold allusions to Alexander the Great) with the terrible and awe-inspiring serpent that terrorised the country; and the intervention of Karaghiozis (the archetypal and familiar hero of traditional shadow puppetry in Greece). The works in the exhibition, as well as the story of the cursed serpent, highlight the fact that whatever crisis might threaten, whether external or personal, it may be vanquished with daring and imagination.
The exhibition and the catalogue are dedicated to the artist Chryssa.
The exhibition will remain on display through May 25.
Tickets: 4€, 2€.
Venue: Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos & Andronikou,
210 3453111, www.benaki.gr.
BEYOND PLANET EARTH (31-05-2014 5:00 pm) This spring, Hellenic Cosmos in Athens presents “Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration,” an exhibition developed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The show offers a vision of future space travel and examines humanity's next steps in the solar system and beyond, including missions to Mars and Jupiter.
At the exhibition areas of Hellenic Cosmos permanent and temporary exhibitions are organized, which aim at presenting various aspects of Hellenic culture. They are based on modern museological design, they take advantage of the most advanced technology and their objective is the active participation of visitors. All the exhibitions are accompanied by educational programs, which are organized and created by the Foundation's museum educators. They also include Virtual Reality applications and Internet sites that provide additional information, games for students and educators, as well as printed and electronic publications for all ages.
Admission is set at 7 Euros for adults and 4 Euros for children. A 20-Euro family ticket for two adults and two children is also available. Tickets are on sale at Hellenic Cosmos and select Public stores.
Venue: Hellenic Cosmos, 254 Pireos, Tavros,
212 254000, www.hellenic-cosmos.gr
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