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EXHIB: "ATHENS TWICE SEEN" (07-07-2018 8:00 pm) Exhibition featuring compositions of "twice-seen" Athens images of yesterday and today...
The exhibition Athens Twice Seen by American Richard W. Moore showcases “twice-seen” photographs of historic monuments and areas of Athens. Moore digitally merges his own captures with vintage photographs, courtesy of art historian and director of Éditions Kallimages, Haris Yiakoumis. Athenian historic sites, captured twice, with at least one century's distance between them, construct a puzzle that reveals an interaction of past and present, a dialogue or a surprise.
According to the photographer: “Twice-seen photographs” collapse the past and the present into the same frame. The twice-seen images follow a stream of ideas: observation and encounter, memory and amnesia.
Richard W. Moore has a BA from Yale University in Art and Architecture and studied photography with Paul Caponigro and Neil Maurer. Early in the 2000s, with the advent of digital photography, Moore began making “twice-seen” images, with vintage and contemporary photographs and has since completed six projects at historic sites in New England, resulting in books and exhibits at art sites in United States.
The exhibition is organized by the Hellenic American College (HAEC) in cooperation with Hellenic American University (Nashua, NH, USA) and the New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA), with the support of Hellenic American Union.
Information:
Artist:
Richard W. Moore.
Organizer:
Hellenic American College (HAEC), New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA), with the support of Hellenic American Union.
Start Date:
14/06/2018.
End Date:
07/07/2018.
Gallery Hours/Duration:
Monday-Friday: 12:00-21:00, Saturday: 10:30-14:30, clïsed on Sunday
Interpretation Provided:
No,
Registration Required:
No,
Reservation Required:
No.
Admission is free.
Venue: Hellenic American Union, Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery, Massalias Street 22,
10680 Athens, 210 3680052
"AGAMEMNON" AT EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATER (07-07-2018 9:00 pm) Agamemnon at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
Following last year’s successful Seven Against Thebes, Cezaris Graužinis returns to the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus with a production of Agamemnon (6-7 July).
In the first part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon returns to Argos after the end of the Trojan war. Clytemnestra warmly receives her husband. In truth, she has decided to take revenge for the murder of their daughter, Iphigenia, sacrificed by Agamemnon to get the Greek ships afloat over ten years ago. Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon and the captured princess, Cassandra, thus continuing the bloodshed of the Atreides house, which will also continue in the two other parts of the trilogy.
Yannis Stankoglou will portray both Agamemnon and Aegisthus, with Maria Protopappa in the role of Clytemnestra. The cast also includes Thodoris Katsafados, Argyris Pantazaras, Iovi Fragatou and a 12-member chorus. The performance will feature a new translation by Yorgos Blanas and original music by Haris Pegiazis.
With English Surtitles.
For more information, please visit the official site of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival: http://greekfestival.gr/en/events/view/cezaris-graužinis-2018.
Venue: Ancient Theater of Epidaurus Dates: 6-7th July, 2018
ATHENS PHOTO EXHIB AT ATHENS INT'L AIRPORT (15-07-2018 11:55 pm) Athens photo exhibition at Athens International Airport
Athens International Airport (AIA) has teamed up with the Benaki Museum once again and is hosting a new temporary exhibition at its «Art & Culture» exhibition area titled "Images of Athens from Benaki Museum’s Photographic Archives" that runs until July 15th, 2018.
During the said exhibition, which is the first individual collaboration between the Benaki Museum and the Athens International Airport, unique photographs of Athens covering the rich history of the city from the mid-19th century up to the late 1960s are put on display at AIA’s «Art & Culture» Exhibition Hall until mid-July for all airport visitors and passengers to marvel at.
The exhibition that includes a selection of photographs safeguarded by Benaki Museum in its Photographic Archives collection showcases the works of renowned Greek photographers valued both for their historical significance and their aesthetic excellence thus offering exhibition visitors with a unique opportunity to travel back in time and discover an Athens of a different era.
The "Images of Athens from Benaki Museum’s Photographic Archives" exhibition is a collaboration of Athens International Airport and the Benaki Museum.
Venue: Athens International Airport, Arrivals Level (Entrance 1), «Art & Culture» exhibition area – Spata, 190 19, Athens ¦ Days & times: Open daily on a 24 hours basis
NATIONAL MUSEUM EXHIB: \"YOUTH OF MANTINEIA\" (22-07-2018 8:00 pm) The Youth of Mantineia, an exceptional statue depicting an idealized young man, will be on view at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens as of Monday (today), until July 22nd.
The young man's features recall the face of Antinous, favorite of Roman emperor and philhellene Hadrian, who lived in the 2nd century AD, and will complement the museum's temporary exhibit on "Hadrian and Athens: Conversing with an Ideal World," which will run through November this year.
The Youth of Mantineia is part of a rotating-object program, The Unseen Museum, which places in public view a different object every month from the museum's storage, and is the 17th such object to be put on exhibit.
According to a Culture and Sports Ministry announcement, the Youth was located in 1886 in the area of the ancient town of Mantineia, in southern Greece (Peloponnese), and was transferred to the museum.
From May to July this year, museum archaeologists will be giving tours of the exhibit tracing Hadrian's steps through Athens to Mantineia, and talking about the intellectual revival of Greek paideia and nostalgia for the past, as experienced during Hadrian's reign.
The tours are free but a museum entrance ticket and reservations are required.
Tours are offered on Fridays (May 4, 25, June 8, July 6th) and Sundays (June 3 and 19, July 15 and 22nd) and start at 13:00.
For reservations, please call any of the following numbers:
213 214 4856
213 214 4858
213 214 4866
213 214 4893.
From Omonoia Square, follow 28th October (Patision) Street. After 600 meters you will see the National Archaeological Museum on your right hand side.
ATHENS & EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL 2018 (19-08-2018 8:00 pm) The Greek calendar is full of cultural festivals and events, especially during the summer months. One of the most prestigious Greek festivals – that has been running for more than 60 years attracting large audiences from Greece and around the world – is the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
What is it about: Greece’s foremost cultural festival and one of the oldest performing arts festivals in Europe (1955), the Athens & Epidaurus Festival each year presents numerous theater, dance, and music artists, acclaimed in Greece and worldwide, attracting large audiences from around the world.
Taking place annually between June and August, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival features a top line-up of Greek and international theater, drama, opera, music and dance performances held at various historic and modern venues across Athens as well as at Epidaurus in the Peloponnese.
The festival is best-known for its ancient venues, namely the amphitheatre of Epidaurus and Athens’ 2nd Century B.C. Odeon of Herodes Atticus; both open-air. The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus is located within the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Asklepios in the Peloponnese, which is only a 30m drive from picturesque Nafplio and a 2h drive from Athens, whereas the Odeon of Herodes Atticus lies beneath the Acropolis Hill dominating the western end of its southern slope.
Since its inception in 1955, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has staged world class performances by internationally acclaimed artists spanning across all fields of performing arts; among them some of the biggest names in music, theatre and dance, including – to name but a few – Frank Sinatra, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Martha Graham and Rudolf Nureyev.
So, it comes as no surprise that this year’s Athens and Epidaurus Festival also boasts an impressive lineup! The festival’s 2018 edition includes world-famous Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, Italian orchestra Il Pomo d' Oro, Moscow's Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, British violinist Nigel Kennedy, American actor Bill Murray, rock musician Sting and many more.
The Athens leg of the festival opens at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus with Verdi's "Nabucco" on June 1st and closes with Bizet's "Carmen" on July 31st, whereas the Epidaurus leg of the festival kicks off on June 29th with Aristophanes' “The Acharnians” and closes on August 18th with Sophocles' “Oedipus at Colonus”. In between and for over a month several classic works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes will be presented every Friday and Saturday at the Epidaurus amphitheater.
All performances have English subtitles unless otherwise stated. Lastly, Athens’s Pireos 260 venue – another iconic venue of the festival – will be hosting contemporary Greek and international plays. Its inaugural performance is "The Pursuit of Happiness" by the US-based Nature Theater of Oklahoma on June 1st.
For more information please visit the official site of Athens & Epidaurus: www.http://greekfestival.gr/en/events
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