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SUMMER NOSTOS FESTIVAL (24-06-2018 10:00 pm) The Summer Nostos Festival (SNFestival) will be held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) June 17-24th, in a week of free events.
The SNFestival is organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and includes 101 open events with 496 artists. Participation in all events is free of charge.
"Nostos is a collective return to experiences and emotions that make us feel at home, to moments that have shaped us, as well as the longing to experience once again that summery feeling. Nostos, is also the return to the homeland ? figuratively or metaphorically ? to the place where home is," said SNF in a statement.
For more information, visit: www.snfcc.org.
19th EUROPEAN MUSIC DAY (24-06-2018 11:59 pm) For 4 days, from June 21st to 24th, the melodious summer celebration gives the starting point and invites us to share our feelings about music on the occasion of the 19th European Music Day, under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Tourism and the Tourism Organization.
It is a journey, a means of daydream. - It is the trigger to start the party! - It sets you free. - It is an essential part of life, a way of expression and artistic creation. What is music for you? And what do you think it means to the man beside you?
51 cities from the 13 regions of the country are coordinated to sound a common melody and unite music, generations, cultures and traditions across the country.
More than 320 events and concerts and more than 500 artistic proposals from well-known and emerging artists contacts this year's European Music Day, which is devoted to the artistic expression and the enjoyment of rhythm and melody.
From Lefkada to Nisyros and from Dimitsana to Alexandroupolis, the program has been enriched with new cities that have joined the European Music Day network.
The opening ceremony on Thursday, June 21, will be held in cooperation with the Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation, presenting an original artistic partnership at the Chios Mastic Museum, and will be broadcasted live on the official website of the Hellenic Tourism Organization (ÅÏÔ) on Facebook (Visit Greece).
In Athens, on June 20th, an electro pre-party at Spinster will introduce us to the European Music Day. On the next day, the doors of the Archaeological Museum will be opened and events will be held at Herodion and at the Garden of Megaron, on pedestrian streets, rooftops and town squares.
In Thessaloniki, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipality of Thessaloniki will give a baroque concert in Rotunda, while artistic-folk notes will sound at the central square of Xanthi from "Mikis Theodorakis" Orchestra. 7 DJ's - music producers and a visual artist will meet for an one-evening event at the Venetian Harbor of Chania, Sykia Xylokastro will host the biggest beach party of the summer with 15 beach events, while in the Acheloos Valley concerts will take place along the bridges of the river.
These and hundreds of other events - which are constantly renewed - will take place free of charge all over Greece, at the European Music Day that invites us to visit neighborhoods, cities and places of unparalleled beauty that we have not visited before.
With this year's program of events as a compass, you should come, experience, talk and feel before answering to the question, "What is Music for You?"
The detailed National Art Program 2018 can be found here: www.europeanmusicday.gr
The National Organizer for the co-ordination of the European Music Festival and founding member of the Greek Network is the Non-Profit Organization MESO. (Music Events Coordination Organization) www.mesoevents.eu.
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
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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