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ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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ATHENS COFFEE FESTIVAL 2020 (28-09-2020 9:00 pm) We are invited to an event meant for both coffee professionals and aficionados. For the 5th consecutive year, the Athens Coffee Festival aims to become the ultimate meeting point for the entirety of the coffee sector, as well as for consumers.
From large coffee supply and production companies to equipment firms to beverage suppliers (coffee, tea, energy drinks, etc.) to specialized e-shops, etc., world-renowned brands as well as Greek companies-industry leaders in the country, will once again be present at the festival as many companies from the coffee industry have already expressed strong interest in participating in the Athens Coffee Festival. Already from the first contacts there have been several reservations with the final number of exhibitors expected to exceed 150!
This way, coffee professionals will once again have the opportunity to exchange ideas, discuss business ventures, enter into new partnerships, talk to the best Greek roasters as well as representatives of all the leading coffee brands, and share their concerns with talented baristas and coffee specialists. Furthermore, they will be able to closely observe consumer behavior, preferences, requirements or needs, as well as reactions to new products and innovations.
This year’s event may be somewhat different than the previous ones due to the “new normal” set by SARS-COV-2, but the Festival’s full and strict compliance with the Hellenic National Public Health Organization and the Ministry of Health-approved safe operation protocols is a guarantee for success.
The dynamic presence of large and significant sector businesses proves that –other than the business benefits provided by the ACF all these years– they fully trust FORUM SA to hold a safe festival.
Visitors will be able to access the festival exclusively from the entrance at Iakhou street and leave exclusively through the exit at Persephonis street. Upon their entry and exit, all visitor invitations will be scanned so that the exact number of people inside Technopolis can be accounted for at all times.
EVENTS:
COFFEE MASTERCLASSES,
CUPPING ROOM | CUP TASTING,
NATIONAL COFFEE CHAMPIONSHIPS,
THE STAGE | MAIN STAGE.
The opening hours of the festival are Saturday 26.09 from 10:00-22:00, Sunday 27.09 from 10:00-22:00 and Monday 28.09 from 12:00-21:00.
For more information, please visit the official website:
www.athenscoffeefestival.gr/en.
Venue: Technopolis Athens, Gazi, Keramikos Metro Station.
EXHIB: \"VISIONS OF HOPE\" (30-09-2020 9:00 pm) The exhibition "Visions of Hope" at the Hellenic American Union is a Group exhibition by 21 teenage, refugee photographers in cooperation with the non-profit organization Faros…
“Visions of Hope” was created by a group of 21 refugee photographers, aging between 13 and 17 years old. This exhibition is the result of the photography workshops, which ran at Faros’ shelter. Faros’ staff psychologist and photographer, Artemis Milona, used photography as a means of therapy and personal expression during her meetings with the children.
The goal of the exhibition is to raise awareness about the challenges and the lasting psychosocial trauma refugee children face after fleeing war and persecution.
Since March 2020, the Hellenic American Union and the Hellenic American College partnered with non-profit organization Faros in order to give to Faros' youth access to higher education.
Information:
Start Date: 15/09/2020.
End Date 30/09/2020.
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, observing all the prescribed safety measures.
Venue: Hellenic American Union, Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery, Massalias Street 22, Athens.
Tel.: 210 3680052.
2020 EVENTS IN HONOR OF MELINA MERCOURI YEAR (18-10-2020 11:00 pm) The events for 2020 Melina Mercouri Year - commemorating a centennial since the birth of the actress, activist and politician - beginning on January 29th with the presentation of proceedings of a 1-day conference devoted to the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has announced.
A schedule of events was presented at a press conference at the Plaka-based Melina Mercouri Foundation. It included the foundation directors and the artistic director of the National Theater. The committee overseeing the events includes former French Minister of Culture and personal friend of Mercouri, Jack Lang.
The presentation at the Acropolis Museum will be attended by President of the Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos. This event was chosen to be the inaugural one for the year "because of the efforts Melina made to fulfil a dream we all believe will one day come true, the unification of the Parthenon sculptures on the Parthenon," Mendoni said.
In February, the museum of Nafplio, Peloponnesian Foundation of Folklore, will devote an exhibition to "Our own Melina", while this year's acting awards established in her name will be handed out at Rex theater in Athens.
In March, the foyer of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris will hold two exhibits, one on the return of the Parthenon sculpture from Britain and another on antiquities smuggling, 2 issues closely related," Mendoni said.
In June, singer Alkistis Protopsalti will perform songs associated with Mercouri at Epidaurus' Little Theater. The same month, photographs, correspondence and costumes of the iconic Greek personality will be inaugurated at Technopolis.
The city of Piraeus, where her family left its legacy, will be hosting an event on her birthday, October 18th, and promote other events as well that Mendoni said would "include surprises which will be revealed that day." On the same day, the Melina Mercouri Foundaton and the Ministry of Culture will hold a 1-day meeting on Mercouri's initiatives as minister of culture, and on her activism. "Melina was an activist in everything she did," the Culture Minister said.
Mendoni also referred to an institution introduced by Mercouri, the public regional theaters (DIPEThE), an innovative idea at the time that is now in need of upgrading to enhance its presence regionally. A meeting to that effect was held at the ministry with all theater directors and presidents, and related mayors and regional directors.
DIGITAL ART ATHINA 2020 (31-10-2020 10:00 pm) The largest annual art institution in Greece, Art Athina, will be available on a digital platform with access for all via the internet as the unprecedented conditions generated by the pandemic have forced the cancellation of Art Athina 2020, which was scheduled to be held at the Zappeion Hall.
The platform Art Athina Viewing Rooms will be presented in the first week of October and will be online until the end of October. It will be also combined by Art Athina Week, a week of events for Greek art galleries on October 8-15th, 2020, during which the galleries will be able to exhibit the art presented via the internet in its natural environment.
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