It's time for your monthly dose of Kalo Mina; October has officially arrived! Cooler temps are on their way, along with rain, clouds, and of course, the wintry sunny skies. Let's enjoy this month and explore our fine city of Athens. Here are our picks for the best events this month!

1st Athens Curry Food Festival

The first ever Curry Food festival is taking place at the majestic coastal suburb of Alimos on October 6th and 7th. This festival aims to awaken visitors' taste buds, with exotic flavors from Asia and Africa, giving guests the chance to enjoy different dishes with spices and herbs from around the world.

Athens Craft Beer Expo

 

Held at Zappeion Megaron, the Athens Craft Beer Expo will take place on October 13th and 14th for a beer-filled weekend. Visitors can taste more than 100 craft beers from all over Greece and abroad, including beer from this year's guest star brewery, the Bronckhorster Brewing Company from Holland. Also in attendance will be the Po'Boys Food Truck and a few other vendors to shop while sipping your drink.

Dissolving Localities: An Audiovisual Performance

On October 8th, the Athens School of Fine Arts will be hosting Dissolving Loyalties, an artistic platform that aims to connect cities and art. As their presentation, they will use artistic expression of the daily life of different cities and its inhabitants. Other cities Dissolving Localities has performed include Madrid, Paris, Krakow, and Los Angeles.

Official Opening Of Kypseli's Municipal Market

The first social entrepreneurship, Kypseli Municipal Market, is coming to Athens on October 4th through the 6th. This 3-day festival will have events for both kids and adults, which will be organized by the vendors of the market. The opening will be held on October 4th, of which the Mayor of Athens will be attend.

Photographs Of Joan Leigh Fermor: Artist & Lover

Currently at the Benaki Museum are the photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor, a woman who documented her time in Greece. Joan, with her lover and friend Paddy, visited Athens and then traveled all around Greece before finally settling in the Peloponnese. There, they built a home in Kardamyli and between the 1940's and 1960's, Joan took thousands of photographs of people and places in Greece.

Vegan Life Festival

On October 7th, the Vegan Life Festival returns to Technopolis City of Athens, following last year's success of more than 12,500 visitors! This is the biggest vegan event in Greece, where there will be talks, workshops, a kids zone, and one of the largest exhibitions of cruelty free and vegan products. The Vegan Life Festival is for anyone who wants to learn more about the vegan lifestyle, animal rights, benefits of a vegan diet, and environmental impacts.

Following the huge success of last year's Vegan Life Festival in Athens last July, which welcomed more than 12,500 visitors in one day, Vegan Life Festival returns to Technopolis City of Athens on October 7th for the biggest vegan event ever held in Greece!

The vegan way of life is transforming to a movement that is constantly gaining ground worldwide! The festival will feature talks, workshops, informational material, a kids activities zone, and the largest exhibition of cruelty free and vegan products! Last but not least, we have teamed up with the very best vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants to bring you delicious vegan food!

The Vegan Life Festival 2018 is open to everyone who is interested in learning about the vegan way of life, the animal rights, the protection of the environment and wishes to be informed of the benefits of the vegan diet on their health. All the informational material and presentations will be given by prominent scientists and active members of the vegan community in Greece.

Located in the northern Aegean sea, the small island of Fourni will be the host of the first energy independent community in Greece. This comes after the news that Tilos is implementing an environmentally-friendly network of wind and solar powers.

The Fourni Korseon Municipality's aim with this new act, announced by the island's Mayor Ioannis Mourssis at the Thessaloniki International Fair, is to establish Fourni as a leading source in power self-sufficiency. The municipality will introduce technologies that will help produce, store, and manage renewable energy resources, benefitting the Fourni community.

Participating in this new act, already including the Fourni Korseon Municipality and the EUNICE Energy Group and Laboratories, will mean being both a consumer and producer that will allow for its participants to enjoy power independence and at the same time, reap the economic benefits by utilizing renewable energy resources.

To read this article in full, please visit: Greek Travel Pages

Photo thanks to: Turhan Akman

Greece celebrates "European Heritage Days" on Saturday 29 September and on Sunday 30 September 2018 and during the weekend museums & and archaeological sites will be open to the public with free admission. 

Visitors of the Acropolis Museum will be able to enjoy the permanent exhibition areas and the temporary exhibition “From the forbidden city: imperial apartments of Qianlong”.

The Kypseli Municipal Market is the first social entrepreneurship market in Greece. The official re-opening will take place on Thursday, October 4th with the mayor of Athens attending the ceremony. 

A 3 day festival will follow with events for both children and adults, organised by the stores that will be operating on the market.

Stay tuned!

Joan and Paddy Leigh Fermor were united in a pact of liberty – sharing their lives, mostly in Greece, as lovers and friends. As photographer and writer, they were also artists of equal stature.

Joan was a restless rebel when she took brilliant images of the London Blitz as a symbol of all that she would be leaving behind. She met Paddy in Cairo in 1944 and soon he was following her to Athens. They travelled all over Greece before settling in the Peloponnese – in the beautiful house they built at Kardamyli and bequeathed to the Benaki Museum.

Between the 1940s and 1960s Joan took thousands of photographs of people and places as she travelled with Paddy round Greece. A few appeared in his books Mani and Roumeli; most remained unseen on her death in 2003. Her archive is held at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

In a new book and exhibition, Ian Collins and Olivia Stewart pay tribute to an elusive figure whose art is a revelation.

Opening Hours: 

Wednesday, Friday: 10:00 - 18:00
Thursday, Saturday: 10:00 - 00:00
Sunday: 10:00 - 16:00

After its presentation in Madrid, Paris, Krakow, Los Angeles and other major cities, Dissolving Localities project will be presented in Athens, at the Athens School of Fine Arts, on Monday 8th of October.

Dissolving Localities was created as an artistic platform to connect cities and art by taking the daily life of the cities' inhabitants and transforming them into artistic expression. The project was originally created in Jerusalem where artists from all over the world cooperated in order to collect audiovisual material of the city, which was then mixed live and presented as a performance.

The project then evolved into connecting Jerusalem with other cities around the world and it has already been presented in Madrid, Paris, Krakow, Los Angeles et al.

Emmanuel Witzthum, Thomas Köner and Arik Futterman the three basic members of project, in collaboration with Greek video-artist Eleni Zervou, will be hosted in Athens for a week. During this period they will explore the urban scene and collect audiovisual material of the city and its inhabitants. After this process, the material collected will be edited in audio-visual segments of the city, which will be mixed live on stage by the artists. By re-presenting the city to its inhabitants, the project will lead to raising new perspectives and views for audience and artists alike.

After spending 15 days on the island of Crete, Discover Greece recently released their 4th season of Wanderlust Greece, promoting the island's extraordinary beauty. The aim of their campaign is to increase the average spending of tourists, as well as to encourage longer stays to see more of Crete. After watching this video, it wouldn't be hard to do just that.

The video below showcases Crete's greatest assets, including its mountains, ancient Minoan culture, and of course, the beaches. Check out the amazing video below.



Article source: Greek Reporter

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