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ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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WOMEN OF PASSION, WOMEN OF GREECE (30-06-2017 7:00 pm) The Railway Carriage Theater “to Treno sto Rouf” presents the theatrical performance in English “Women of Passion, Women of Greece”. The performance has been running since May 11th, 2016 and will continue through the new year.
“Women of Passion, Women of Greece” offers a symbolic journey full of humor and emotions from ancient to modern Greece.
An old wagon is transformed into a theatrical stage where the mythological, hieratic figure of ancient Greek tragedy, Medea, meets the contemporary “priestesses” of modern Greece, Maria Callas and Melina Mercouri. Their paths are different yet they have one common characteristic, they are passionate women incorporating the temperament and values of Greek spirit; passion for life, passion for love, passion for art and creativity, passion for freedom and democracy.
An actress and a musician meet on stage to bring to life significant historical moments and guide spectators through this imaginary voyage, which starts from and finishes in Greece and has several stops in the hearts of people around the world.
Dates: 11/05/2016 – 30/06/2017.
Hours of Operation: 19:00 (every Saturday).
For groups, 18:00 (every Friday) or upon request.
For more info: http://totrenostorouf.gr.
Venue: Railway Carriage Theater “to Treno sto Rouf”, “Rouf” Suburban & Railway Station, Konstantinoupoleos Avenue
ATHENS FOOD MARKET (02-07-2017 10:00 pm) The City of Athens is hosting the summer edition of its already successful Athens Food Market, through Sunday, July 2nd, at Klafthmonos Square in the center of the capital. Here you’ll find some of the capital's most renowned chefs dishing up original creations at prices that won't leave anyone out of pocket. Some big chains, including Algida, Ben & Jerry's and Scandal ice cream, as well as Fix beer, will be setting up their own food courts, while popular restaurants, such as Sushi Q and Polly Maggoo, will be serving their signature dishes. Admission is free of charge and opening times are noon to 22:00 from Sunday to Thursday and noon to midnight on Friday and Saturday. For more details, see www.thefoodmarket.gr (available only in Greek).
HOUSE ON THE BEACH PARTY (09-07-2017 12:00 pm) The longest running house party in Greece is back!
The last 19 years and every summer Sunday, the Cariocas Beach Bar is creating a legend while hosting top quality artists from around the world for its long day and night soundtracks lasting from the noon before till the morning after.
Legends as , Frankie Knuckles , David Morales , Timmy Regisford , Kerri Chandler , Joe Claussell , Ron Trent , DJ Spinna , Danny Krivit , Body & Soul , Glenn Underground and many many more , have passed by this blessed House on the Beach Booth and filled the dance floor with pure joy , love and happiness , giving to the Cariocas Syndays the reputation of being the best underground parties for almost 2 decades.
Odyssia Festival is proud to host The House On the Beach Party on Sunday 9th of July and celebrates the day with a unique line up sharing the Odyssian booth for the first time ever!
Shelter’s Maestro Timmy Regisford, offers his gift to the Odyssians, am original 10 hour non stop set like the ones taking place to the legendary Shelter of NYC.
Lakuti, brings her vinyls and spreads her love for music to all of us in a special selection for the OdyssIan beach !
Justin Van Der Volgen, the man behind the New Underground scene of NY , with plenty of lovely releases and edits , offers an unexpected set, as he is used to do, performing around the world !
Spellband is a dynamic trio from Rome and our favourite DJ’s from Italy. They come to Odyssia for a second time, ready to share the vibes of their soulful sets, along with lots of new tracks and remixes that our house fans would shazam like there is no tomorrow if it wasn’t to be Odyssians, that is.
(to all the fans out there , shazaming is killing the dance floor I repeat shazaming is killing the dance floor)
Full Line Up :
House on The Beach
with :
Timmy Regisford
Lakuti
Justin Van Der Volgen
Spellband.
Tickets Info:
On line:
http://www.odyssiafestival.com/buy-tickets/?lang=el
Physical:
Cariocas beach bar
Proki Tattoo studio
Four Twenty break bar
Mikro Cafe Peristeri
Ministry Of Concrete@
Bashment Cafe·bar·radio·store
Papa George's.
Pre-sale : 10e
VIP : 20e
Family : 5e*.
Venue: Cariocas beach bar
Schinos, 20300 Loutráki, Korinthia, Greece.
*Got small kids? Book their space games while you are dancin!
More info here >>> http://www.odyssiafestival.com/kids-town/paidia-mikra/
Feel free to visit www.odyssiafestival.com
and explore the endless possibilities and choices of living like an Odyssian!
......Destination Beyond Time !
ATHENS & EPIDAUROS FESTIVAL 2017 (19-08-2017 9:00 pm) From mid-May to the 19th of August, the 2017 Athens and Epidavros Festival opens its doors and welcomes its audiences.
For the full program of events visit:
www.greekfestival.gr.
DOCUMENTA 14 (31-08-2017 8:00 pm) On October 6th, 2014, a symposium titled "documenta 14, Kassel: Learning from Athens" was held at Kunsthochschule (Academy of Fine Arts) in Kassel, Germany, at the invitation of the academy. Organized by the team of documenta 14, and led by Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk, the symposium presented key members of the next documenta organization, as well as discussed essential ideas and thematic concerns of the exhibition project as a whole, scheduled to take place in 2017.
The city of Kassel has been the host of documenta since its inception in 1955. Likewise, over the past thirteen editions, documenta has served as host to many artists and cultural practitioners from around the globe. But, ultimately, this position of host-with all the privileges involved-appears to be no longer tenable and begs to be questioned, if only temporarily. To this end, Szymczyk introduced documenta 14's planned twofold structure: In 2017, documenta 14 will establish a second site-Athens-bringing Kassel and the Greek capital onto equal footing as the two locations of the exhibition. Thus documenta's undisputed position as host will be abandoned for another role, that of guest, in Athens.
Szymczyk noted that the main lines of thinking behind this move are manifold. They have to do with the current social and political situation both in Europe and globally, which motivates artistic action. Further, they indicate the need to embody in documenta 14 the palpable tension between the North and the South as it is reflected, articulated, and interpreted in contemporary cultural production. The challenge involves avoiding the traps of binary logic, while resonating with changing realities. To that end, instead of the singular spectacle, with its clearly designated location and temporal order, typical for great international exhibitions, documenta 14 will comprise two iterations set in dynamic balance in space and time.
The distance between Kassel and Athens will fundamentally alter the visitors' experience of documenta 14. A feeling of loss and longing brought about by geographic and mental displacement created by two distant iterations of the exhibition might change the visitors' perception of the show, working against the idea of rootedness and countering the widespread, normative assumption that such an exhibition must sustain the unity of action, place, and time. Challenging this state of things, documenta 14 will attempt to encompass a multitude of voices in, between, and beyond the two cities where it is situated, reaching beyond the European context from the vantage point of the Mediterranean metropolis, where Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia face each other. The diverse and diverging locations and socioeconomic circumstances of Kassel and Athens will come to bear on the very process of creation of the exhibitions, while inspiring and determining its individual works of art. For documenta 14, the participating artists will be invited to think and produce within the dynamic between these two cities.
The working schedule envisages documenta 14 to open in Athens in April 2017; it will then be inaugurated two months later in Kassel, on June 10. This will ensure that there will be a month of overlap, with two parts of the exhibition running in parallel. Moreover, though each iteration of the exhibition will be developed as an autonomous project, they will inform each other's content while not repeating the form, with several distinctive venues in Athens, as in Kassel. Documenta 14 intends to learn from the city of Athens and its citizens, instead of parachuting a prepackaged event from Kassel into one or several picturesque venues. Rather than being merely a sum of two destinations, documenta 14 will unfold in a three-year-long process of learning and producing knowledge, while also engaging in the process of instituting spaces for public life in both locations. In this process, both cities' communities will become involved, contributing to the project. Already, over the course of 2013 and 2014, several instructive meetings have taken place in Athens with a number of the city's cultural producers who represented the diversity and contradictions of the Greek context today, beginning an ongoing discussion of collaboration with certain institutions there. In parallel, similar discussions have been led in Kassel.
Greece in 2014 is not an isolated case; it is emblematic of the fast-changing global situation, and it embodies the economic, political, social, and cultural dilemmas that Europe must face today-much as Kassel in 1955 embodied the need to deal with the trauma of destruction brought about by the Nazi regime and simultaneously served as a strategic location at the onset of the Cold War. If Athens exemplifies the current issues that extend beyond the proverbial notion of the "Greek Crisis," these problems-which are as much European and global as they are Greek-remain unresolved. Yet they present us with an opportunity to open up a space of imagination, thinking, and action, instead of following the disempowering neoliberal setup that offers itself as (non)action implied in the (non)choice of austerity. While the specific timing and choice of locale of Kassel in 1955 were precisely the factors that allowed documenta to develop into a now half-century-old venture, those sociopolitical parameters that made documenta urgent are no longer in play. This sense of urgency, then, must be found elsewhere.
Szymczyk and his team concluded by noting that documenta 14-in its temporary displacement and doubling of perspectives-would enable those artistic strategies that reach toward the reality of a contemporary world, one understood as a place for a multitude made up of individuals, and not as a territory defined by hegemonic relationships that make it a place of suffering and misery for many. It is this world that will be addressed in the exhibition, the world larger than Germany or Greece.
Author: http://www-en.elculture.gr.
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