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Cyclades Trail Cup ~ Kimolos Trail
The Kimolos Trail 21km will award you 83 points and the Kimolos Trail 9km will award you 33 points. Sports and Cinema will be joined the days of Kimolos Trail. Just like in every other Cyclades Trail Cup event, the Kimolos Trail must combine Sports with Cultural events. With the cooperation of the Kimolistes, local volunteer team, we will host a cinema night on a beach of Kimolos island!
18th Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival
The biggest jazz music festival in Greece celebrates its 18th birthday and this year will throw the best birthday party ever! Music, activities, surprises and much much more!
For 7 days, Technopolis' main stage, will host the best jazz tunes from around the world and for the first time this year, its first day will be dedicated to Greek Jazz Music, presenting the best Greek jazz bands.
Meanwhile, METAPolis Photography Group will present its annual exhibition, 'W', a female-oriented project, with a mesmerising personality and our favorite Meet Market, will introduce us once again with its vibe by displaying innovative ideas, finely crafted products and fresh concepts.
#JazzBeThere and remember: Once you go jazz, you never go back!
Athens Photo Festival 2018 - Main Exhibition | Benaki Museum
Exploring critical issues relevant to our times, the festival functions as a dynamic platform where the social impact of the ever-changing visual culture can be raised and discussed. Athens Photo Festival 2018 brings together over 120 emerging and established international artists from 32 countries with the aim to reflect the diversity of contemporary photography, and to create opportunities for exchange of ideas, artistic expression and international engagement.
The 2018 main exhibitions take place from 6 June to 29 July 2018, at the Benaki Museum (Pireos St. Annexe). At the core of the festival is a range of events, including portfolio reviews, screenings, talks and discussions, workshops, and various community and participatory projects. In addition to the main venue-based programme, the festival encourages community involvement through satellite exhibitions in various locations in the city.
The main exhibition program, which covers over 2,000 square meters, is divided into sections, striving to create a dialogue between different thematic ideas, woven into one whole.
Click HERE to view the exhibition's program!
Video Art Miden @ FokiaNou Art Space
.Sofia Grigoriadou presents a series of videos focusing on in between situations and spaces. Some of them are concerned with what is promoted and what is silenced in public urban space, while others suggest transitions that reflect on and disrupt both polarities and boundaries between private and public, familiar and unfamiliar, monumental and the anti-monument.
Participants: Aurèle Ferrier, Di Hu, Wojciech Gilewicz, François Roux, Przemek Wegrzyn.
The selection by Margarita Stavraki explores the autonomy of narrative elements and their reconnection in a video art selection. In these videos the object, the gesture and the space become art works on their own. Sometimes they deny their narrative role, sometimes they just insinuate it, and at others they serve it poetically.
Participants: Mircea Bobina, Eleonora Roaro, Hanna Schaich, Irini Folerou, Anna Macdonald, Hamza Kırbas, John C. Kelley, Cat Del Buono, Mauricio Sanhueza, François Roux, Collin Bradford, François Roux & Mathieu Bouillod, Marcia Beatriz Granero.
Panagiotis Voulgaris selects and places a series of videos that focus on everyone's special sound. A sequence of intense mechanical sounds and silences, seductive murmurs and war cries, exotic songs and electro-acoustic music decrypts the notion of place as paradise, dystopia, fragment and poetry, leading the viewer into an exciting audio-visual endeavour.
Participants: Di Hu, Randomproject300, Hana Ben-Haim Yulzeri, Jack Williams, Luca Ferri, Susanne Wiegner, Nenad Nedeljkov.
Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece and created an international festival identity, presenting an annual video art festival for a decade. Since 2015, Miden continues its work changing its form to a more flexible and broadened event programming, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research. Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou and Margarita Stavraki.
FoKiaNou Art Space is an artist-run project space in the intimacy of a small apartment in an old building in the center of Athens. The apartment has been transformed into an open space that encourages collaborative creative efforts between Greek and foreign artists, thereby promoting and supporting the local art community. The space hosts exhibitions, workshops and projects under the direction of two artists, Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris.
Closing Party: Saturday 9th of June 2018 at 20.00.
V For Vrana - A Stand Up Comedy Night For Katerina Vrana
20 comedians and herself have decided to organise a special comedy night, where all proceeds will go towards her health restoration which has been seriously affected since April 2017, while performing in Malaysia.
All comedians participating have promised to give their best in this night of laughter, optimism and solidarity:
Stelios Anatolitis
Dionysis Atzarakis
Dimitris Dimopoulos
Dimitris Doukoglou
Thomas Zambras
Vyronas Theodoropoulos
Chrysa Katsarini
Michalis Mathioudakis
Mikeius
Blink Mike
Kostas Malatsis Salas
Konstantinos Bouras Baimakos
Aristotle Rigas
Zisis Rubos
Paris Rupos
Angelos Spiliopoulos
Lampros Fisfis
Bismissos
Ilias Fountoulis
George Hatzipavlou
Dimitris Christoforidis
*Performances will be held in Greek
Athens Garden Festival 2018
Friday 8 June 2018
19:00 City of Athens Choir
20:00 Hellenic Musica Viva Orchestra - Ludmila Limorova
Saturday 9 June
(2nd stage – Beside the playground, from Irodou Attikou St)
18:00 DILEMMA in cinema sounds(central stage - Asteri place, entrance from Vassilisis Amalias Ave)
19:00 City of Athens Philharmonic Orchestra
20:00 Encardia
Sunday 10 June 2018
(2nd stage – Beside the playground, from Irodou Attikou St)
18:00 Athens Music High School Choir(central stage - Asteri place, entrance from Vassilisis Amalias Ave)
19:00 Childre and Youth Symphony Orchestra - Nina Patrikidou
20:00 City of Athens Symphony Orchestra
George Condo At The Museum Of Cycladic Art
Also displayed for the first time, is a series of paintings and drawings created in 2017, featuring a suite of self-portraits titled Self portrait in Paris 1-3 (2017) and Me, Myself and Him (2017).
Opening hours:
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 10:00 to 17:00
- Thursday: 10:00 to 20:00
- Sunday: 11:00 to 17:00
- Tuesday: Closed
YES To Shipping Forum FORUM 2018
YES Forum says YES to Shipping by organizing again, YES to Shipping Forum on Friday 8th June at Posidonia Conference Hall during Ρosidonia Exhibition 2018 at Metropolitan Expo.
YES Forum was initiated by Danae Bezantakou, CEO - Navigator Shipping Consultants and is the first forum to be held under the auspices of the Ministries of Shipping & Education and the majority of Greek Universities, organizedby a team of 60 volunteers.
YES Forum is the leading platform of open dialogue among the Decision Makers ofthe Greek Shipping and Sea Tourism Industry and the Entrepreneurship in general,principals, executives and university students, recent graduates and youngexecutives. What we are aiming for, is the next generation to become acquaintedwith the Greek Shipping History through our Collaboration with the Greek Shipping Miracle and the Posidonia Exhibitions as well as to exercise and practice theirnetworking skills.
The President of the Union of Greek Shipowners, Mr. Theodoros Veniamis willaddress the opening remarks.
Moderators of the Forum will be: George Teriakidis, Regional Manager of BusinessDevelopment -DNV GL Maritime, George Xiradakis, Chief Executive XRTC BusinessConsultants Ltd and President of Propeller Club (Port of Piraeus), Danae Bezentakou,CEO of NAVIGATOR SHIPPING CONSULTANTS and Katerina Stathopoulou, ExecutiveDirector - INVESTMENTS AND FINANCE LTD.
This year, the participants on the day of the Forum, apart from having theopportunity to ask their questions, they will be able to either take part in organizedvisits to the Posidonia Exhibition stands or to participate in the logistics panel inorder to become familiar with the Industry of Shipping Services.
Submit your question and get your Free invitation HERE!
Say YES to Shipping and we are looking forward to welcoming you on Friday 8 th June2018!
YES Forum Program:
10.00 – 10.30: Registration for YES Tour @ Posidonia Exhibition &10.30 – 11:30:YES Forum Registration
10.30 – 12.30: YES Tour @ Posidonia Exhibition (limited seats) or
11:30 – 12.30: Introduction Panel – Logistics
Moderator: Kostis Achladitis, Managing Director – GOLDEN CARGO
Speakers: Christos Bravos, General Manager – GOLDEN CARGO
Pantelis Sarantis, Marine Solutions-Air & Sea Product Development – GOLDENCARGO
13.00 – 13:15: Official Opening Address Theodoros Veniamis, President – Union ofGreek Shipowners
13:15 – 14:15: Ship-owners PanelModerator: Georgios Teriakidis, Regional Business Development Manager - DNV GLMARITIME
Speakers:Nikolaos Veniamis, CEO - STARBOARD SHIPPING AND TRADING, Director - GOLDENUNIONIoanna Procopiou, Managing Director - SEA TRADERS S.A. PROMINENCEMARITIME SAGeorge Papagiannopoulos, Principal - COMMON PROGRESS COMPANIA NAVIERAS.A.Basil Sakelis, Managing Director - ALASSIA NEWSHIPS MANAGEMENT INC
14:15 – 14:30: YES Forum presentation
14:30 – 15:30: Mapping the Youth Shipping Organizations and presenting theGreek Shipping HistoryModerators:Danae Bezantakou, CEO - NAVIGATOR SHIPPING CONSULTANTS LTD.Katerina Stathopoulou, Executive Director - INVESTMENTS AND FINANCE LTD.Speakers:George Alexandratos , Managing Director - APOLLONIA LINES S.A. & Vice-President -Hellenic Chamber Of ShippingFilippos Ioulianou , Founder & Vice President - YoungShip Cyprus – Member of BodYoungShip Cyprus InternationalPetros Kokkalis, President – BLUE GROWTHMarkos Kiosseoglou , Co-founder and Board Member - Reload GreeceMichael Foustanos , Director - Greek Shipping Miracle
15:30 – 15.45: Presentation of YES Forum Research
15.45. -16.00: Presentations of the winning projects of ECONOMIA Competition' THE FUTURE OF GREEK SHIPPING
”16.00- 16.50: Shipping Executives PanelModerator:George Xiradakis, Managing Director of XRTC BUSINESSCONSULTANTS LTD. and President of THE PROPELLER CLUB (PORT OF PIRAEUS)
Speakers:
Athena Kanellatou, Regional Director - MACGREGORDorothea Ioannou, Chief Commercial Officer SCB Inc., Manager -The American P&IClubCostas Kontes, General Manager - V.Ships Greece Ltd.Costis Fragkoulis, CEO - FRANMAN GROUPWanda Costopoulou, Managing Director - ARKAS HELLAS
16.50 – 17.00 YES to Shipping Forum 2018 Closing
3rd Bobos Arts Festival ~ Athens Concert Hall Garden
Bobos Arts Festival is a cultural festival designed for children from 3 to 12 years old, which is organized yearly in Athens and which is for the first time being presented in the beautiful garden of the Athens Concert Hall on Sunday the 10th of June.
Music, theater, visual arts and creative play in a big celebration for the children, culture and the arts!Its program runs throughout the day and presents a wide variety of carefully selected cultural shows, which aim to familiarize children with the arts and offer quality entertainment to the entire family.
Wear your hats, pick up your picnic rugs and come spend exciting moments full of play in the Athens Concert Hall’s green garden.
- Burger Project "A Crazy Concert": The band’s new interactive play-concert for children and imaginative adults.
- “Agisilagos”: A musical puppet tale by Dimitris Baslam. A story for a rabbit cook and his adventures, who is interpreted and animated with lots of imagination and humor, accompanied by live music.
- “The Much Feared Enemy and The Chained Elephant”: Two stories by Jorge Bucay, interpreted by the award-winning Topi theatrical team. A play about the values of life, made with a great deal of humor and interaction.
- “Isol’s stories”: An interactive narrative, played by the awarded theatrical team Kopernikos, based on the work of the renowned Argentine writer and illustrator Isol (Martis Editions), on her first visit to Greece.
- A series of imaginative shows by La Petite Marguerite (bubble show), Alex de Paris (pantomime) and Motus Terrae (interactive happening).
- British Council Kid’s corner “Playing with words”: Through various educational games, children will come into contact with some of the world's languages, highlighting the importance of learning foreign languages while sharpening their memory and linguistic skills.
- “Little archaeologists, great discoveries” by Archaeolab: An original workshop that resembles the process of an archaeological excavation.
- “Melodist” by Peripatos Cultural Company: A workshop inspired by the sounds of summer.
- “Isol’s arts workshop” by Martis Editions: A workshop inspired by the work of the renowned writer and illustrator Isol.
- “Prints of color” by Me Ligi Fantasia Company: A colorful creative workshop in which children create their own unique designs on fabric, using colorful …potato prints.
Lecture On The Ceramic Sidelight About The Archaeology Of Cyprus In The Roman Period
