FokiaNou Art Space is pleased to present a collaborative art project between the Japanese visual artist Tomoko Shirakumo and the Greek musician and photographer Cadatta. Tomoko Shirakumo will exhibit eleven paintings from her series “The New Creation – 7”, which inspired and informed Cadatta‘s musical production, the album “Cosmos – Paradise on Earth”. The music will run as a soundtrack to the visual exhibition.

Shirakumo’s colorful natural world is full of energy, a calligraphic synthesis of fantastical flora, archetypal symbols and divine signs from the cosmos, rendered in watercolor, colored inks, Japanese Gansai, Japanese black ink, acrylic paint and glitter, as well as contemporary materials such as non-toxic nail polish and glass beads. Cadatta's ambient music reflects this synthesis and the continuous flow of a transcendental world while evoking in the viewer familiar memories and senses.

Tomoko Shirakumo was born in Japan where she currently lives and works, having spent 20 years in other countries such as Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and the U.S.A. She studied Fine Art at the University of California, Irvine. Upon returning to Japan, she worked in graphic arts at Nippon Design Center and other companies. Her work has been shown in many cities in Japan as well as Italy and Taiwan. She is vice-chairman of Earthship, a non-profit organization which aims to spread the concept of “Wa”, (which means "concord, harmony" in Japanese) through art and music.

Cadatta (Panagiotis A. Stefanou) is an alternative music artist from Athens. He has been producing music since 2003 and from 2005 has made many albums and remixes in the electronic music scene, for companies such as Café del Mar, Etoka Records, Pure Substance, Muak Music, DeepWit Recordings. He has worked with artists such as Hideo Kobayashi, Maria Voumvaki, Ilias Katelanos, nikosf, Alvaro Hylander and Tomoko Shirakumo. He performed frequently in Athens and London from 2007 to 2013 and at parties with Kerrri Chandler, Osunlade and Phonique. He manages the recording company DeepWit Uncovered.

With the kind support of Polis Grand Hotel, Athens. 

Hours: Tuesday 19/6 to Saturday 23/6 and Thursday 28/6 to Saturday 30/6, 17:00-20:00.
Artist Talk: Tuesday, 19 June, 19:00

The Athens - Epidaurus Festival continues with a special tribute to the great Loula Anagnostaki.

A number of people, actors and musicians come together to create a world made up entirely from her 12 works, all through the eyes of those who saw her, met her or just imagined how she was.

In just two incredible plays, the public will have the chance to enjoy ''The White Performance'' in space B of Peiraeus, which will cover the works of Loula Anagnostaki as a standard psychoanalytic writing and ''The Red Performance'' in space E, which observes her work from a standard political writing point of view.

Art Athina, the biggest annual visual arts organization in Greece, remains faithful and is returning for the 23rd year in a new space in the heart of Athens and with a number of interesting innovations!

From June 21^st to  June 24^th, Art Athina will be welcoming guests at the Athens Conservatory, in an  exhibition that will be inaugurated by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. Prokopios Papillopoulos on Wednesday, June 20^th !

This year's exhibition will be featuring 53 galleries from Greece and all over the world! 

The venue that Art Athina 2018 will be taking place is the most ancient Music Theatrical Educational Institution of modern Greece that has hosted in the past, the National Museum of Contemporary Art and a number of other art initiatives, like Documenta14.
 

It's important to mention that for the first time, Art Athina acquires its own artresidency, the ArtAthina Workspace. In cooperaton with Copelouzos Family Art Museum, a 10,000 euros prize will be established, which will be awarded to a Greek artist, in order to further promote and support his work.

Galleries that will be participating in Art Athina 2018: 

a. antonopoulouart (Athens),a. antonopoulouart (Athens),Agathi-kartalos (Athens), AlmaContemporaryArtGallery (Athens), AnnaPappasGallery (Melbourne), ArgoGallery (Athens),ArtforumGallery (Athens), Artprisma (Piraeus), Artzone 42 (Athens), CanChristinaAndroulidakiGallery (Athens), Cheapart (Athens),CubeGallery (Patras), DepoDarm (Athens), ekfrasi-yiannaGrammatopoulou (Athens), EleftheriaTseliouGallery (Athens),EleniKoroneouGallery (Athens), EnaContemporaryArt (Athens), EniaGallery (Piraeus), EpsilonArtGallery (Loutraki),FrançoiseHeitsch (Munich), GalleryErsi (Athens), Gallery "7" (Athens), GenesisGallery (Athens), IkastikosKiklosSianti (Athens)IleanaTountaContemporaryArtCenter (Athens), KalfayanGalleries (Athens), KaplanonGalleries (Athens), KappatosGallery (Athens),LolaNikolaou (Thessaloniki), MihalariasArt (Athens), NitraGallery (Athens), PeritechnonKarteris (Athens), SkoufaGallery (Athens),TheBreederGallery (Athens), ZinaAthanassiadouGallery (Thessaloniki).

Emalin (London), GaleriaQuadradoAzul (Porto), HotWheelsProjects (Athens),Emalin (London), GaleriaQuadradoAzul (Porto), HotWheelsProjects (Athens),Lapaix (Paris), ModernShapes (Antwerp), SADE (Los Angeles), SoftOpening (London), StemsGallery (Brussels), Syndicate(Cologne), TheHole (New York), 0-0 LA (Los Angeles)

BaliceHertling (Paris), BonnyPoon (Paris), Bureau (New York),BaliceHertling (Paris), BonnyPoon (Paris), Bureau (New York),CallicoonFineArts (New York), HighArt (Paris), KoppeAstner (Glasgow), Rodeo (London), UnionPacific (London)

Further information is available in Greek HERE!

For the past 36 years, European Music Day has united millions of people through thousands of events in over 700 cities. 

The Athens Concert Hall participates once again with a mosaic of musicians and ensembles, and many different kinds of music.

Enjoy a fantastic summer night full of music and culture at the our garden venue, right in the heart of Athens.

Performing artists include:

• Camerata Junior – The Friends of Music Youth Orchestra

• The Athens State Orchestra

• ‘Nikolaos Lavdas’ Athenian Mandolin Orchestra

The Museum of Cycladic Art has arranged six five-day terms in June and July that will fascinate the young friends of the Museum and make the summer in the city a creative adventure full of discovery.

Packed with interactive guided tours, screenings, storytelling, painting, construction and sculpture crafts, group games and activities, the Museum of Cycladic Art's 'summer camp' is an alternative summer activity for children 5-9 years old.

A game between Picasso and Antiquity is based on the temporary exhibition: «Picasso and Antiquity. Line and clay».

In this year's summer camp line and clay join contradictions and create a fertile field prone to dialogue between now and then, man and woman, war and peace, man and beasts and, finally, children and Antiquity, children and Picasso. This dialogue will carry on between mythology and folk tales and will sum up in children's artworks through different techniques.

To learn more, please visit the: Museum of Cycladic Art

This conference seeks to put Thucydides back into his native city, exploring the man within his political and social circles, and delving deeper into the realities of Periclean policy and ideology.

An international group of scholars will address these questions through analyses of Pericles’ allies and enemies, and Thucydides’ staging of these characters in his narrative as they experience the post-Periclean legacy. Additionally, they will investigate the Periclean building program, and present new ways of using the evidence from the recently discovered cup inscribed by Pericles and members of his milieu.


Organizing Committee:

Lynn Roulo, an American Kundalini Yoga and Enneagram instructor living in Athens, Greece, is offering SUP yoga classes this summer!

A: SUP Yoga is doing yoga in the sea on a Stand Up Paddleboard. It’s like a regular yoga lesson, but your mat is a SUP Board, and your studio is the sea.

A: I can’t think of a better place than Greece for SUP Yoga! The water is warm, clean and clear, and the conditions are ideal since the sea is usually pretty flat. If there are waves, they are really gentle.

A: For the first few years, we were in Alimos with occasional trips to Schinias and Glyfada. This season, we’re moving further south to Voula and Varkiza. And starting on June 29, 2018, we’ll be offering SUP Yoga at Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni!

A: Anyone who can swim! My lessons are all-levels which means you don’t need experience in SUP or yoga to participate. I’m a Kundalini Yoga teacher so we use a lot of Kundalini Yoga exercises, and I try to make sure there is something for the full range of abilities—absolute beginners to experienced yogis.

A: Come to a class! We offer classes every Friday at Astir Beach through July 31 and other weekend classes during the summer.

 

The 8th Athens Open Air Film Festival and the Athens & Epidaurus Festival are happy to organise and present together a unique screening at the Ancient Epidaurus Little Theatre, which opens its doors for the first time to cinephile audiences!

On Saturday, June 30th the little atmospheric theather of Epidaurus invites the public on a fascinating experience with the emblymatic screening of "Electra, 1962" by Michael Cacogiannis.

The theater, which has been hosting events of  the  Athens & Epidaurus Festival for years, is located between orange and olive groves, on a slope overlooking the mountain and the sea and is considered as a favorite destination for friends art.

In the last few years, the theater has hosted many alternative performances of ancient drama, so it was considered as an  ideal place for the venue for this screening, which brings the legend of Euripides' Electra to the big screen!

The beloved film-loving summer date, the Athens Open Air Film Festival, in collaboration with the City of Athens Cultural, Sport and Youth Organization, returns in its 8th edition with magical screenings from June to August. Special city corners, archaeological monuments, parks, squares, beaches and some of the most beautiful museums and sites in Athens transform into an open-air cinema with free entrance to the audience.

This article outlines all of the screenings for July so keep scrolling for full program info...

Wednesday, July 4th / French School at Athens

​​Trash can travel throughout the world's rivers and oceans, accumulating on beaches and in the sea.

This debris harms physical habitats, transports chemical pollutants, threatens aquatic life, and interferes with human uses of river, marine and coastal environments.

On July 7th , the National Hellenic Student Assocation (NHSA) are on a mission to make Greece a country better than was it was before. Join them in this Beach clean up in Saronida at 11:30, along with locals and Greeks of the diaspora! 

Free transporation & food.
Bus leaves at 10:30am from Elliniko Station.

3 Reasons to Join a Beach Clean-up:

1. You’ll become more aware of your own lifestyle as well as saving marine animals.
"After picking up all the plastics it’s hard to ever go back to using them or to not speaking up against them.” – Kahi Pacarro – Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii. Thousands of marine species become extinct and endangered every year due to man-made pollutants.

2. You’ll get to know the people in your community better and help them from spreading diseases
Many chemicals are found in polluted oceans and can contaminate water supplies and food chains, which eventually end up in the water we drink and the food we put on our plates. What’s better than spending a couple hours with family, friends, and neighbors making your home a healthier environment?

3. You'll help the ocean breathe and revive the beaches of Greece!
During periods of high tide, the ocean may also sweep some of the trash or debris that has been left on the beach back into the sea. This in turn puts marine wildlife in danger. Beach clean-ups help reduce this risk towards the survival of marine wildlife, and helps the overall marine system be safer and healthier for all. By helping maintain the highest standards and by keeping our beaches clean, we can ensure that tourists continue to visit local beaches.