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Art Exhibitions At The Phoenix Athens Gallery & Residency
Opening: February 20th
Duration: February 21st - February 28th
The intention of his work, which has greater importance than the cultural production itself, is built around the concept of *ORGUE - PAYSAGE. Behind it is a multifaceted project inspired by the cultural heritage of the street organ, which consists of gathering the imagery and inspiration from popular cultures, exploring them, and extracting the most beautiful aspects with a contemporary and collaborative perspective.
For the “ORGUE - PAYSAGE” show, Alexis Paul invites people to discover his musical path, exploring the poetic side of his nomadic project. His practice includes a variety of mediums from soundscapes to photographs and collages. Paul has recently started exploring the links between embroidery and sound alongside the idea of repetition. Using the traditional perforated cardboard and punching on it ancient patterns from the Cyclades, his aims is to play a loop of textiles.
During the opening night, Alexis Paul will be presenting, for the first time a "light" solo set blending audio sample extracted from his street organ to selected analog synthesizers.
THE PERFECT ENDING
Opening: February 20th
Duration February 21st - March 29th
Phoenix Athens presents the solo exhibition The perfect Ending by Leandros Pigades.
The artist, based in New York and Athens invites the viewer to embark on a psycho-geographical detournement of time and space. An experiment in situational awareness and cultural appropriation, the artworks, weave a cinematic narrative encouraging the viewer to question their perceptions and comprehension of the environment as a means to better understand the contemporary world on a local and global level.
The exhibition explores the relationship between the universality of myth and aesthetic-terrorism. Pigades practice, inherently derivative of art history, insists that it is not unique but continues the tradition which simply juxtaposes new and old ways of art-making as a projection of the future. An authentic advocate of the avant-garde post-humorist art movement, which should not be confused with “posthumous” because the artist is not dead yet.
Pigades encourages the capitalistic community to “BUY NOW” and consume his works before its too late. Using the gentrifying anarchist hotbed of Exarchia as a launching point for dialogue and to discuss the many contradictions and blah blah blahs it possesses, the artist hopes to shine new light on post-crisis Athens and the changing urban reality.
XpatAthens is proud to be a Non-Profit Sponsor of the Phoenix Athens Gallery & Residency
Tsiknopempti At Acropolis Museum's Restaurant
Visitors can enjoy delicious typical Tsiknopempti recipes and piano music.
For reservations, please contact the restaurant during Museum opening hours on +30 210 9000915.
3rd PAMEMMAZI Forum At The American College of Greece
On February 22nd, 2020, at 10:00 a.m., the American College of Greece, Pierce Theater, will be hosting PAMEMMAZI’s third forum entitled “Integrative Approaches on Cancer Care: Evidence and Strategies.”
PAMEMMAZI was founded in 2017 for the psychosocial support of oncology patients and their families and to fight stigma through programs of art, programs for health and wellbeing, programs to encourage creativity and share information, through annual forums about integrative care, through participation in awareness-raising races with the team “Untouchables by Pamemmazi” and through publishing stories on our blog www.scarsandscarves.com
The aim of this year’s forum is to highlight the importance of palliative care in the framework of embedded integrative care, the role of complementary therapy programs as well as the research that supports their use. We stress the powerful effect that psychology can have on psychosomatic health, with the therapeutic qualities of music, dance, and of art in general, as well as the importance of expression, communication, and personal strength and resilience in dealing with cancer, resulting in better results and better quality of life.
The forum is directed at health professionals, doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists and the students of those fields, but also to the general public who are interested in approaching cancer in a holistic manner, or who are interested in matters of health generally.
The Program includes an open discussion amongst scientists, health professions and the audience as well as informative/interactive workshops with topics such as the therapeutic approach of music and tango, advice of dentists for good dental health from diagnoses to post-treatment, and the works of two non-profit organizations that also support cancer patients and their families, KEFI and Pnoi Agapis.
The first part of the Forum (10:15-12:30 and 13:00-14:30) will include presentations and round table discussions. The second part (14.30-16:30) will include 5 different workshops to address the variety of interests held by our audience.
In the reception area we have a) Art Exhibition that represents the work done by Eva Grigoriadou, Art Therapist, in the Art Therapy program offered by PAMEMMAZI at the G.O.H.K. hospital “Agioi Anargyroi” b) Therapeutic Photography exhibition, a program offered by PAMEMMAZI in collaboration with Eyes of Light and Dimitra Ermeidou and, c) Drawing exhibition by students from the program SMOKEFREEGREECE of the Institute of Public Health of the American College of Greece.
Participation in the forum and the workshops is free.
Register HERE!
Big Winter Book Bazaar
Athens English Comedy Club
The first, and only, purely English comedy club in Greece is a reality!
Is the Athens comedy scene “all Greek” to you? Are you Greek and want to flex your English speaking muscles before the next tourist season? Do you want to try your hand at stand up in English? We are here for YOU!
The Athens English Comedy Club presents local and international comedians right in the heart of Athens.
Our comedy club show is on every first Sunday of the month, with a different lineup each time!
Sunday, March 1st
- Dimitri Doukoglou MCing
- Konstantinos Bouras-Baimakos
- Blink Mike
- Kinthia
- Dimitra Nikitea
- Dimitris Christodoulou!
Sunday, April 5th
Lineup To Be Announced - Book in advance and be surprised!
Come and laugh! Nay! Come and chortle. Or better yet, guffaw!
XpatAthens is proud to be a Media Sponsor of the Athens English Comedy Club
Lenten Delights At GB Winter Garden
Enjoy an indigenous selection of traditional Loukoumades and Halvas to accompany your favorite beverage or glass of wine.
"Lenten Delights" will be available at the Winter Garden City Lounge from March 2nd until April 18th.
To view the full menu click here!
FokiaNou Art Space/ Maria Bourbou: “Nude”
Born in Athens, Maria Bourbou studied Photography at the private photography school «E.M.E.F» of Dimitrios Xliveros in Athens, as well as German Language and Literature at the University of Kiel (Germany). In recent years, Maria Bourbou has been living and working in different countries in Europe. Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally including at the Instituto de Camões in Lisbon, the gallery Teambox, (LX- Factory, Lisbon) and at the Konrad Adenauer Building of the European Parliament in Luxemburg. She recently had a solo show at the Hellenic American Union in Athens, and has participated in many group exhibitions, most recently at the Salon du CAL 2018 in Luxembourg, at “Back to Athens 6” (International Art Festival in Athens), presenting the digital poem «Myopia» . Some of the works in this series were shown in the exhibition “Gender and Other Boundaries” at the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Setúbal, Portugal.
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 space 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.
Opening: Saturday 7 March 19.00
Duration: 7 – 28 March 2020
Hours: Thursday – Saturday 17.00-20.00
Maluma Live In Greece
With his charismatic voice and explosive stage presence, Maluma has cemented himself in the heart of the world music scene, with countless sold-out concerts and collaborations with some of the music industry’s biggest names including, Madonna, Ricky Martin, Shakira.
The 25-year-old Latin singer and sexiest man alive for 2018, already counts nearly 200 sold-out concerts worldwide with more than 1,000,000 tickets. His latest album F.A.M.E. was to the top of Billboards chart, since its first release, and he has already won a Grammy in the category of the best contemporary pop album. The exotic Maluma aims to raise each one of his 76 million followers in Twitter, Facebook & Instagram and make them dance to the biggest stages and concert halls of the planet.
The ultimate Greek pop star Eleni Foureirawill be the special guest at both of MALUMA concerts in Greece (Athens and Thessaloniki).
She has already released 5 personal albums and many hits! Her impressive participation in Eurovision in 2018 with her hit single "Fuego" gained the second place and launched her international career. She has already collaborated with J Balvin as well as Snoop Dogg among others and she is established as the ultimate show woman that the audience is looking forward to her spectacular dance and her live shows.
Reggaeton vibes, Colombian beats and the world's biggest hits, as well as giant screens, fireworks and spectacular dancing will make these two concerts the events of the year!
Special guest Eleni Foureira!
MARCH 11th 2020 - O.A.K.A. Olympic Indoor Hall
MARCH 13th 2020 - PAOK SPORTS ARENA
Athens ArtCore - “Death In Athens”
Friday 13/3 (opening): 18:00-23:00
Saturday 14/3: 14:00-20:00
Sunday 15/3: 14:00-19:00, (closing party): 20:00-24:00
The following initiatives will participate:
- FokiaNou Art Space
- Phoenix Athens
- Domatio
- A-Dash
- APARÄMILLON
- Athens Open Studio
- Backspace
- Come alone
- Communitism
- Institut für Alles Mögliche
- KP Studio
- NOUCMAS
- One Minute Space
- O Meteoritis (Subbotniki)
- Pow Wow
- PS:
- Sektor30
- Snehta
- The Athens Zine Bibliotheque
- EIGHT
- Yellow Brick
- ZOETROPE
Lessons Of War III ~ The National Theatre Of Greece (English Supertitles)
Following the great success of Lessons of War I and II among audiences of all ages, but especially teenagers, Lessons of War III comes to the National Theatre of Greece. This third part of the Lessons of War trilogy is again based on ancient Greek history, but while the first two parts dramatised episodes from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Lessons of War III takes Xenophon’s Hellenica as its source. This time, the focus is on the main events at the end of the Peloponnesian War, which mark the end of Athenian hegemony and Athenian democracy. Our aim is to make experiential teaching, which is, in any case, an important aspect of NTG productions, not only entertaining but also a tool so that audiences can become familiar with texts.
Fridays, Saturdays at 21:00
With supertitles in English: Every weekend from the 14th of March to the 12th of April
TICKET SERVICES Pesmazoglou Arcade – 39 Panepistimiou Str.
Monday/ Wednesday: 9:00-17:00
Tuesday/ Thursday/ Friday: 9:00-20:00
Saturday: 10:00-14:00
XpatAthens is proud to be a Media Sponsor of The National Theatre of Greece