Κυριακή 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2013

Thessaloniki Food Festival

Thessaloniki Food Festival 


 Initiative to organize Gastronomy Festival takes the Municipality of Thessaloniki in order to bring out a new annual event for the city. The main objectives of the event is both a search of gastronomic identity of Thessaloniki, on which so much is said and written, and creative participation of professionals and amateurs working in related fields, but also the emergence of Thessaloniki as a top culinary destination Greek and foreign visitors. To achieve them address an open invitation to participate in this great celebration gastronomy, with aromas and flavors flooded restaurants, ouzo bars, patisseries, cafes, kitchens and town squares. Acknowledging strewn around the table, enjoying everyday dishes or gourmet cooking, take courses culture, economy, geography, aesthetics, history, and tradition of the people, the municipality of Thessaloniki organizes a Festival of Gastronomy in the city two and a half millennia station is peoples and cultures. Foreigners with different nationalities, religions, customs, mores and customs were residents. The cohabitation resulted in the incorporation of new ideas in the expressions of everyday life. The Thessaloniki Food Festival suggests one month with delicious cooking, tastings, workshops, taste, gastronomy and wine fairs, dinners, gastro-artistic interventions and various activities throughout the city. Also this November various activities will take place throughout the city, including: Exhibition of local products Street food in Thessaloniki Children & flavors Thessaloniki Food Festival in Museums and libraries Paths of Taste in Thessaloniki Tasting Crossroads Cooking masterclasses with renowned chef Parallel events in restaurants, hotels, deli, liquor stores, streets, neighborhoods, etc. The city invites us to Gastronomy Festival and its determination to conquer its place in the modern world culinary map. Info: 2310 877912, foodfestival@thessaloniki.gr

Δευτέρα 28 Οκτωβρίου 2013

What it Means to be Greek





Two Greek immigrants Ivan Silvenberg and Georgia Taxaki created the touching video entitled “What it means to be Greek.” The video lasts for about 12 minutes and it gives us insight on what it means to be Greek.
The creators of the video were born and live in Chicago. Nine Greeks shared their perspectives on what it means to have Greek roots.
The video is very popular on Internet and it was created for the event
“Coming Together in Skokie: A Celebration of Greek Culture 2013.” The festival focused on Greek culture. Skokie is a suburb of Chicago, and its population according to the last census is 60,000.



πηγη :Greek USA Reporter 

Two Greek immigrants Ivan Silvenberg and Georgia Taxaki created the touching video entitled “What it means to be Greek.” The video lasts for about 12 minutes and it gives us insight on what it means to be Greek.
The creators of the video were born and live in Chicago. Nine Greeks shared their perspectives on what it means to have Greek roots.
The video is very popular on Internet and it was created for the event “Coming Together in Skokie: A Celebration of Greek Culture 2013.” The festival focused on Greek culture. Skokie is a suburb of Chicago, and its population according to the last census is 60,000.
- See more at: http://usa.greekreporter.com/2013/10/26/what-it-means-to-be-greek/#sthash.eOp89VPU.dpuf
Two Greek immigrants Ivan Silvenberg and Georgia Taxaki created the touching video entitled “What it means to be Greek.” The video lasts for about 12 minutes and it gives us insight on what it means to be Greek.
The creators of the video were born and live in Chicago. Nine Greeks shared their perspectives on what it means to have Greek roots.
The video is very popular on Internet and it was created for the event “Coming Together in Skokie: A Celebration of Greek Culture 2013.” The festival focused on Greek culture. Skokie is a suburb of Chicago, and its population according to the last census is 60,000.
- See more at: http://usa.greekreporter.com/2013/10/26/what-it-means-to-be-greek/#sthash.eOp89VPU.dpuf

Σάββατο 19 Οκτωβρίου 2013

SECOND international SEMIMARATHON 5000 m thessaloniki 19/10/2013



Great runners ready to shine in Thessaloniki Quite a few renowned long-distance runners will honor the 2nd International Thessaloniki Night Half Marathon, on Saturday Oct. 19, joining the party which will see more than 9,000 participants occupy the main streets of the city by night. The competition will not only have a huge participation in all, but will also host quite a few elite Greek runners, who will have the rare experience of 8,570 runners registered for the event! A registrations record beyond all expectation was set ahead of the 2nd International Thessaloniki Night Half Marathon and 5000m Road Race. A total of 8,570 were registered in the event, which will be held on Saturday, Oct. 19 and will become a huge party for all citizens and visitors of Thessaloniki. The registrations windows was officially closed two weeks before the competition kicks off, reaching a tally of 8,570 participants (some 2,300 of them will run the 21.1 km Half Marathon, while 6,270 will take part in the 5000m. Road Race). Such numbers indicate a 250% raise of participants, compared to last year’s event, in which there was a total of 3,424 runners. Given the ongoing interest in view of the 2nd Night Half Marathon, which is less than two weeks away, the Organizing Committee decided to offer 1,000 more places for non-registered people who wish to participate in this nighttime running party. These 1,000 additional places (300 for the Half Marathon and 700 for the 5000m. Road Race) will be distributed on a first come - first serve basis, at the Registration Center of the Kaftanzoglion Stadium, which will be open on Thursday Oct. 17 and Friday Oct. 18, from 10:00 to 20:00. Those participants who will obtain the 1,000 additional places will not have the opportunity to get the official competition T-shirt. However there will be no additionpenaltycost for their late inscription.
such an after dark event. Top-class runners such as Mihalis Parmakis, Kostas Poulios, Antonis Papadimitriou and Kostas Drosos, accompanied by Dimitris Tsiounis, Yannis Krekas and Iason Ioannidis will fight for the top spots at the Night Half Marathon. Moreover, there is going to be the triathlon champion Grigoris Skoularikis joined by his sister Hara Skoulariki, while the women’s list boast with more renowned runners, such as Magda Gazea (winner of last April’s 8th “Alexander the Great” Marathon), Denise Dimaki, Vasiliki Karageorgaki and Efthymia Pouliopoulou. The participants list has got some important names registered for the 5000 m Road Race as well. Pavlos Apostolidis, winner of the respective race of the 8th “Alexander the Great” Marathon six months ago, will do his best for another medal. The Road Race will be honored by two of the greatest current Thessaloniki sporting stars and Olympians, albeit not representatives of track & field: Swimmer Aris Grigoriadis and cyclist Yannis Tamouridis, both world champions in their field of expertise, will join the nighttime party and enjoy running the streets of Thessaloniki.


Κυριακή 15 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013

 78th Thessaloniki International Fair

 
 
HELEXPO - International Exhibition Centre
Egnatia 154
Thessaloniki 546 36
78th Thessaloniki International Fair | 07-15.09.13 TIF-HELEXPO S.A., the enhanced and now unified National Exhibition Agency, is starting a new chapter in its history and despite the difficult circumstances for entrepreneurship and the economy, it is using its technical knowledge and dynamism to mark its ‘positive beginning’ by organising the 78th TIF.
Focusing on the main axes of ‘INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT, EXTROVERSION’, as well as the REBIRTH of the institution of TIF, which retains its major recognisability and is a point of reference both for participants and for the thousands of visitors from Greece and Abroad, the agency is organising the 78th TIF from 7 to 15 September 2013.

The 78th TIF is being enriches with new, unique sectors:

  • ‘ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION’
  • ‘TECHNOLOGY, Hi-Tech, i-Gaming’
  • ‘EMPLOYMENT – EDUCATION – LABOUR STRUCTURES’
  • ‘BOOKS’
Successful yet renewed special homage events such as ‘Greece and Entrepreneurship’, with the participation of enterprises through Chambers or Regions, ‘Patents & Robotics’, ‘Energy & Construction’, ‘Automobile’, ‘Agriculture’, ‘Sports’, ‘Furniture – Decoration’ and ‘International Participations’ are being continued.
The international commercial prestige and effectiveness of TIF-HELEXPO S.A. becomes its comparative advantage in the historically and geographically single economic area of the Balkans, the Black Sea Zone and the Eastern Mediterranean.
At the same time, within the framework of the 78th TIF, TIF-HELEXPO S.A. will develop a number of communication actions both within and beyond its Exhibition Centre, aiming at promoting the event and providing information to its visitors.

visit the site of the fair 
http://www.helexpo.gr/default.aspx?page=568&lang=en-US

Παρασκευή 5 Ιουλίου 2013

4th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

4th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART September 18, 2013- January 31, 2014 General title: “Old Intersections- Make it New» Central Exhibition title: “Everywhere but Now” The official site of 4th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART is http://biennale3.thessalonikibiennale.gr/en/mainpage Exhibitions, art events in museums and monuments; art installations, performances, workshops, conferences, educational programs, interventions in public spaces and guided tours will be taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, during the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, from September 18, 2013 until January 31, 2014. This year’s Thessaloniki Biennale is being extended with a full program of events on a role, aiming to attract the art lovers’ interest in the city and internationally. The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is funded under the Operational Programme Macedonia-Thrace 2007-2013 and is co-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund). The organization is run by the State Museum of Contemporary Art, realized with the participation of the “5 Museums’ Movement in Thessaloniki” (namely, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, the Museum of Byzantine Culture, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the State Museum of Contemporary Art, the Teloglion Foundation of Art of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) supported by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and with the collaboration of a number of other cultural and educational agencies and institutions. Director of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is Katerina Koskina, President of the Board of Trustees of the SMCA, Art Historian & Curator. The Biennale opening will be held on September 18, with the inauguration of the exhibition “Everywhere but Now”, curated by Αdelina von Fürstenberg, Chief Curator of the Central Exhibition of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, along with the opening the exhibitions by the “5 Museums’ Movement in Thessaloniki”, while other events and exhibitions will be inaugurated during the following months. 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art -a Synopsis (the final program will be announced on September) The Mediterranean sea, as a geographical space, in which the current cultural and social reality is researched and studied, although yet vague and still extremely interesting due to the constant dramatic changes in recent years, with its traditional elements along with influence and impact of the global model indicated, will be again this year’s thematic of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, under the general title “Old Intersections-Make it New”. The Biennale program goes as following: _ Central Exhibition “Everywhere but Now” is the title given to the Central Exhibition by Αdelina von Fürstenberg the Chief Curator of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Independent Curator and Film Producer, President of the NGO ART for The World. Over 50 artists from 25 countries - from Brazil and Cuba to Iran and India, as well as many Mediterranean countries, including 14 artists from Greece - will present their works, using all media such as paintings, sculptures, photography, video installations, films and performances. Αdelina von Fürstenberg’s comments on the exhibition title: “Everywhere but Now closely relates the question of space of different genius loci in the Mediterranean area with the question of time of creation in our contemporary world. It’s in fact, Ernst Jungers’s Hic et nunc that in the "Treaty of Rebel" describes the rebel as an independent and free man of action, very similar to the artist’s condition. Everywhere but Now broadens also the concept of hic and nunc by giving a wider significant: a vision that adheres to the ideals of existentialism and recognizes man’s fragility in his condition over: the Being there, Dasein of Heidegger. In addition, we can perceive in the title the fundamental character of Dasein as Being-in-the-world, in taking the world as horizon of the project.” Participating artists and filmmakers: Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, John Armleder, Maja Bajević, Bill Balaskas, Lenora de Barros, Beforelight, Jacques Berthet, Nigol Bezjian, Mohamed Bourouissa, Marie Bovo, David Casini, Sheba Chhachhi, Claire Fontaine, Jordi Colomer, Marta Dell’Angelo, Desertmed Collective, Haris Epaminonda, Inci Eviner, Ymane Fakhir, Parastou Forouhar, Apostolos Georgiou, Khaled Jarrar, Hüseyin Karabey, Gülsün Karamustafa, Iseult Labote, Ange Leccia, Los Carpinteros, DeAnna Maganias, Marcello Maloberti, Miltos Manetas, Mark Mangion, Liliana Moro, Adrian Paci, Rosana Palazyan, Jafar Panahi, Maria Papadimitriou, Dan & Lia Perjovschi, Paris Petridis, Ivan Petrović, Khalil Rabah, Philip Rantzer, Zineb Sedira, Veronica Smirnoff, Priscilla Tea, Panos Tsagaris, Maria Tsagkari, Gal Weinstein, Peter Wüthrich, Raed Yassin, Yiorgis Yerolymbos, Vasilis Zografos. Exhibition Designer: Arch. Uliva Velo. Countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia, Brazil, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Syria, Switzerland, Turkey, USA. Central Exhibition venues: Alatza Imaret, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Geni Tzami, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Pavillion 6 (Thessaloniki International Trade Fair area), State Museum of Contemporary Art (Moni Lazariston) For the first time, a large part of the Biennale Central Exhibition will be hosted in the Pavillion 6 (Thessaloniki International Trade Fair area), urging the visitors to explore the Thessaloniki city centre, and discover the monuments along with the old and contemporary history of the city. The SMCA headquarters, Moni Lazariston, hosts the big exhibition “The Costakis collection and the Russian avant-garde. 100 since the collector’s birth”, putting in focus the collection and the collector’s work accordingly, through over 250 artworks. At the same time, some of the artists participating in the Central Exhibition will be in dialogue with Russian avant-garde period works, during the Biennale. _Exhibitions organised by the “5 Museums’ Movement in Thessaloniki” State Museum of Contemporary Art Exhibition title: “The Costakis collection and the Russian avant-garde. 100 since the collector’s birth” Venue: Moni Lazariston Duration: April 5, 2013-January 31, 2014 Curators: Maria Tsantsanoglou, SMCA Director, Angeliki Charistou, SMCA Art Historian 2013 is an anniversary year for the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki-Greece, since it has been 100 years since the collector George Costakis was born in Moscow. On this occasion the SMCA holds a big exhibition, with over 250 artworks from the famous Russian avant-garde collection, dedicated to the collector himself, a large part of whose collection belongs to the Museum. The other part was donated by the collector himself in 1977 to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The Costakis collection is the largest collection of Russian avant-garde art (1900-1930) and has a great mobility in exhibitions all over Europe and the USA. It is a big presentation of the Costakis collection and the archive which follows and shows the collector’s gaze and method, through monographic artists’ presentations, enriched by guided tours, educational programs, talks, book presentations and lessons on the Russian avant- garde period. State Museum of Contemporary Art Exhibition title: “Tradition-Reversal” Venue: Warehouse B1 (port area) Duration: September 2013-December 2014 Curator: Katerina Koskina, SMCA President, Yannis Bolis, SMCA Art Historian The exhibition consists of art works which emerged from donations and purchased acquisitions of the State Museum of Contemporary Art that took place the past few years. These works of art –paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and videos– aim to form a single language, an artistic intervention for the situation in the Mediterranean that they will stand at the same time as action, idiom, expression and image, in an era of intense and dramatic upheavals, rapid and unexpected changes. The artists come to tell stories of personal and collective experiences, or stories of contemporary political, social and cultural questionings such as alienation, violence, technology of information, relationships of the present and the past, communicational conditions of the work of art, structures and behaviors in the urban environment, economic crisis, globalization, as well as similarities and differences, convergences, unifying lines and deviations, the “old” and the “new” in the wider geographical area of Mediterranean. Artists: Nikos Alexiou, Stephen Antonakos, Lydia Dampassina, Khaled Hafez, Nike Kanagini, Antigoni Kavvatha, Mahita Khatari, Nikolaj Bendix Skuym Larsen, Maria Loizidou, Dimitris Merantzas, Constantin Xenakis, Irfan Onürmen, Dennis Oppenheim, Leda Papaconstantinou, Eugenio Tibaldi, Gioros Tserionis, Costas Tsoclis, Yang Yongling and others. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Exhibition title: “Mediterranean palimpsests: three enigmas of decay and incorruption” Venue: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Duration: September 18, 2013-January 31, 2014 Curators: Dr. Archaeologist, Evangelia Stefani, Archeologist AMTh, Dr. Archaeologist, Angeliki Koukouvou, Archeologist AMTh, Dr. Art Historian, Themis Veleni The exhibition “Mediterranean palimpsests: three enigmas of decay and incorruption” invites to an open dialogue two cultural derivatives of different eras of the same place. An ancient text, the earliest preserved Greek “book” in Europe, the Derveni papyrus, converses with two contemporary works of art, in the form of installation, by the artist Demetris Xonoglou. The exhibition’s narrative is being unfolded in two different units, defined by two large in size installations by Demetris Xonoglou, in two halls of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The first raises the issue of the relationship between the political and institutional power with knowledge and cultural and material goods, while the second highlights the issue of personal responsibility towards knowledge and the choices, according to which everyone constructs, through the plethora of cultural information, their personal cultural palimpsest. The exhibition addresses the perennial question regarding the acquisition and management of knowledge. Knowledge as a collection of cultural information units from different sources of provenance, as a dynamic multi-collective construction, which travels through the material and organic bodies in space and time. Knowledge as a personal case, but also as a collective condition for its existence, its definition and preservation. A question that rises urgently through a new prism, in a crucial for humanity era: “how knowledge is transmitted”, “how it is assimilated”, “who manages knowledge” and finally “how knowledge of the past is transformed into creation in the present. Museum of Byzantine Culture Exhibition title: "The veneration of Saint Mamas in the Mediterranean: a traveller, border defender Saint." Venue: Museum of Byzantine Culture Duration: October 19, 2013-January 19, 2014 Curator: Dr. Agathoniki Tsilipakou, MBP Director, Dr. Nikos Bonovas, Archaeologist MBP For the first time, the exhibition presents the broad dissemination of Saint Mamas’, which until today remains alive among different peoples across the Mediterranean. Artifacts from Greece and Cyprus, but also rich photographic material cover a period from the 6th c. to our time. Initially, the exhibition traces the identity of the saint, martyred in Caesarea during the years of the Emperor Aurelianus (270-275 a.D.), as well as the origin of the iconographic type as a shepherd boy. The main part of the exhibition focuses on the diffusion of Saint Mamas’ veneration in Cyprus, Constantinople, Eastern Mediterranean and Greece. A special reference is made to the relation between Mamas and Demetrius, patron-saint of Thessaloniki, highlighting their healing and myrrh-streaming powers. The exhibition ends with the diffusion of the saint’s veneration in the medieval West. Through churches, wall-paintings, icons, objects of metalwork, religious fairs and place names a common tradition is displayed, a tradition that survives in several parts of the Mediterranean. The exhibits and the photographic material come from the collections of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, public museums, private collections and Ephorates of Antiquities around Greece, as well from museums and churches of Cyprus. Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Exhibition title: “The Mediterranean experience: The Mediterranean as a spatial paradigm for circulation of ideas and meaning”. Venue: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Duration: September 18- December 31, 2013 Curator: Denys Zacharopoulos Deputy Curators: Alexios Papazacharias, Maro Psyrra This MMCA exhibition comprises more than 120 emblematic contemporary art works by Greek and foreign artists, who are negotiating the manifold concept of free public space. The Mediterranean is understood here, as spatial paradigm and structure in which the traditional notion of centre is substituted by the function of an “opposite side”, which gives place to communication and exchange. The exhibition explores systematically and for the first time, the formation of new cognitive and aesthetic categories as a topology of "The Mediterranean Experience”, within contemporary art, starting with Le Nouveau Réalisme and Arte Povera until the present times. After the 2nd World War, public art stopped being exclusively identified with “statue-making” and monumental sculpture, and the unorthodox demand of artists for a unification of art with life came to the fore. Within this frame new forms of art appeared, such as the Environments, the Installations and the Performances, that inaugurated a conscious attempt at the incorporation of the artist’s creation into the real space and targeted the active participation of the audience in the artistic result. Public art in the Mediterranean region was historically linked to the urban context. In time though, the new social, economic and political circumstances as well as the rapid advancement of technology created a different artistic context. Today, “public space” can be considered as the mental dimension of a monument such as the White Tower of Thessaloniki, of a private space like the house of Kavafis in Alexandria, Egypt, or even the potential spaces of the Mass Media or internet as well as archives –a locus of memory– of objects that testify to the existence of the Other, next to us or opposite. Teloglion Foundation of Art – AUTh Exhibition title: “Vasso Katraki: In Black and White” Venue: Teloglion Foundation of Art – AUTh Duration: September-December 2013 General Coordination: Prof. Alexandra Goulaki-Voutyra, Teloglion Foundation Gen. Secretary Curator: Dr. Panagiotis Bikas, Art Historian Artistic Curator: Marietta Panidou, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Graphic Design, College of Creative Arts, School of Art and Design, West Virginia University, USA The exhibition “Vasso Katraki: In Black and White” held at the Teloglion Foundation of Art is a major artistic event for the city of Thessaloniki. Vasso Katraki was the greatest female engraver in Greece and her work has illustrated the agony and the passing of the Greeks to the difficult post-war period. Her socially and politically charged work echoed a universal message of humanism and renewed essentially the art of engraving, with which dealt almost exclusively. Abroad, she was awarded with significant prizes. Among them a prominent position certainly has the one from the Biennale of Venice, in 1966, under the Commission of Tony Spiteris. This award served as a reference point for the Greek engravers. The presentation of key-moments of her artictic course, in which prevails the typical abstract line, along with matrices and the famous pebbles from Gyaros island, is accompanied by material from the Tony Spiteris’ Archive. All the above, enable the visitors to experience the emblematic artistic route of an engraver, who managed to connect the individual and the collective in a unique way. The exhibition has as axis the politically charged work of Katraki, the emergence of the material and the folk art. The second axis is the imprinting of the Messolonghi’s lagoon, not only as an idyllic landscape, but also as an ecosystem in danger. This way is related to the contemporary environmental concerns about the use of water in the Mediterranean, a subject that also concerns the modern artists. _Other events of the main program 3rd Thessaloniki Performance Festival Duration: October 15-19, 2013 Curator and Coordination: Eirini Papakonstantinou After the successful conduct of the first and the second Performance Festival, the public’s positive response and how it contributed to the spread of performance as an artistic expression and practice, the 3rd Festival is aiming to be an important project that will explore the concept and the development of performance, will instigate awareness and will set down an indelible mark on the city. The festival’s program will include live performances which will highlight the diverse elements that constitute the art of performance, master classes by artists participating in the festival and a workshop to be held a week before the opening of the Festival and will aim to broaden the relationship between performance and photography, as also the transition through the photographic lens. In addition, the Festival will include a conference with theorists/art historians and interventions by artists and participants of the Festival, experimental electronic music concerts and screenings of video performances. In addition, underlining the historical background of this artistic practice, the Festival will make tributes to two major art figures that throughout their longtime artistic trajectories, they excelled in the area of performance. Live performances Maria Jose Arjona (Colombia), Ron Athey (USA/UK), Aymeric Hainaux (France), Clarice, Lima (Brazil), Mara Maglione (Italy), Mohamed El Mahdaoui (Morocco), Monali Meher (India), Alekos Plomaritis (Greece), Tamar Raban (Israel), Maria Sideri (Greece) Workshop by Manuel Vason Tributes: Valie Export (screenings), Dimitris Alithinos (lecture, re-enactment, video) Video-performance screenings: Sarah Trouche (France), Andres Galeano (Spain), Mary Zygouri (Greece), Performance Voyage by Artists’ Association MUU (Finland) Young Artists’ Workshop of the 4th Thessaloniki biennale of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the ACTION FIELD KODRA, (Municipality of Kalamaria) Venue: Action Filed Kodra, Kalamaria Thessaloniki Duration: October 14-25, 2013 Curators: Areti Leopoulou, Theodore Markoglou, SMCA Art Historians Collaboration: Dimitris Mihalaros, Director of Action Field Kodra The artists’ workshop of this year’s Biennale is being held within a fertile collaboration with the Action Field Kodra. As a workshop, reasonably it is one of the most flexible programs, since the participants are called to work after the beginning of the Biennale and to configure their works throughout the process of the whole organization. For this reason – inevitably – there are no pictures of the works to show you. This year’s workshop will have an alternative and multilevel structure: in charge, there will be two acclaimed artists who will be the “animators” of the program, alongside with the curators and the coordinators of the workshop. There will be also created a group of 7 to 10 artists from various creative fields and from different experience backgrounds, who will be asked collaborate and coexist in the framework of the workshop (established artists together with “fresh” graduates from the School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki, Ioannina and Florina, who will be selected from a committee after reviewing portfolios from the Platform project of the Action Field Kodra). Any kind of project that may come up from the workshop will be presented afterwards either in an exhibition or in an alternative way that the works themselves may provide. Symposium The theme of this year’s Biennale symposium will be linked again to the general title of the Biennale and subsequently to the Mediterranean area. At the same time, the symposium will be focused on the function of the archives and their practices in the contemporary art field. Tribute to the experimental and visual arts cinema in collaboration with the 54th Thessaloniki Film Festival November 1-10, 2013 Interventions in public spaces At the same time, the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art will support, exhibitions and art actions organized by other institutions, and groups. The full program will be announced in the final press conference given before the officail opening on September 2013.

Κυριακή 9 Ιουνίου 2013

World Naked Bike Ride @ Greece -THESSALONIKA - Salonicco

It’s time to put a stop to the indecent exposure of people and the planet to cars and the pollution they create. We face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity and exposing the vulnerability faced by cyclists and pedestrians on our streets as well as the negative consequences we all face due to dependence on oil, and other forms of non-renewable energy.
Every year, in cities around the world, people ride bikes naked to celebrate cycling and human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against car culture. At Greece only Thessaloniki city holds the ride from 2008 and now days are participating over 2.000 cyclists.
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6th World Naked Bike Ride Thessaloniki Greece
FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2013, 19.00
Location Parko XANTH (Xarhakos)

15.00 Bodypainting
19.00 Naked Bike Ride
22.00 After Party
Live Krousi (Percussion Group)
+ DJ Sets
+ Performances
+ Happenings
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Links
Greek Website http://www.worldnakedbikeride.gr (this site)
Greek Website in English http://www.worldnakedbikeride.gr/p/english.html (this page)
Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/wnbr.greece
Twitter http://twitter.com/wnbr_greece
International Website http://www.worldnakedbike.org
E-mail info@worldnakedbikeride.gr

Κυριακή 2 Ιουνίου 2013

EVENTS GAYPRIDE THESSALONIKI


.E-V-E-N-T-S JUNE 2013 5th THESSALONIKI's NAKED BIKE RIDE JUNE 2013 2nd GAYPRIDE THESSALONIKI JUNE 2013 30th BOOK FESTIVAL ARISTOTELOUS SQ. SEPTEMBER 2013 15th GAY MOVIE PANORAMA SEPTEMBER 2013 REWORKS FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 2013 77th INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR NOVEMBER 2013 54th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DECEMBER 1st 2013 WORLD AIDS DAY ARISTOTELOUS SQUARE DECEMBER 2013 11th HIP HOP FESTIVAL 2014 EUROPEAN YOUTH CAPITAL MARCH 2013 15th THESSALONIKI's DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

Σάββατο 20 Απριλίου 2013

Alexander The Great Marathon


Marathon


Starting Time: 08:00
The Marathon route is of low difficulty. Its main characteristics are the small altitude fluctuations and the long straight street that make it ideal for great records. Some other characteristic features are its constant east direction, the long straight street and the limited inhabited areas which it crosses until almost the 30th kilometer.
The race starts from Pella, in front of the statue of Alexander the Great on horseback, hardly a km from the homonym archaeological site, and some 43 meters above sea-level. After the first km of downhill road, the athletes get onto the Thessaloniki-Edessa highway, following it for another 8 km, until they reach Chalkidona.

At the 8th km the athletes enter the city of Chalkidona.
At the 9th km they meet the junction Veroia and Thessaloniki. After Chalkidona they leave the 10th km.

At the 13th km the road  passes through a bridge over the Axios River.
The 15th km is before the village Gefyra.
The 17th km is at the second exit of the Gefyra village.
The 20th km is right after the exit for Agios Athanasios at the national highway.
The 25th is a little after the crossroad of Nea Agchialos.
The 27th km is at the height of the Greek smelter company "Sidenor".
The 28th km passes over Gallikos River.
Precisely after the 30th km the athletes pass by Ionia (Diavata) and in front of the the premices of EKO, the Greek Petroleum Company (at the 32th km).
The 35th km is in the center of Kordelio, in Monastiriou Street.
At the 38th km the athletes turn right in Giannitson Street.

At the 39th the runners turn right in Dafnis Street and then left in Kountouriotou Avenue.

The 40th km is at the Court of Thessaloniki.
The 41st-42nd km is in Nikis Avenue.
The finish is at the White Tower.






 

Σάββατο 30 Μαρτίου 2013

ALEXANDER ROCK OPERA THESSALONIKI


The rock opera “ALEXANDER” is a theatrical/musical production of a new play created by the Greek composer Constantine Athirides and the English lyricist Penny Turner. The duration of the performance is approximately two hours and fifteen minutes and is supported by a live orchestra of 14 musicians, 4 singers, actors and dancers. The story begins in the island of Samothrace, one year before the birth of Alexander, where during the Kaveiria Rituals in the Temple of the Great Gods, his mother, the priestess Olympias, and Philip, the king of Macedonia, meet for the first time. It ends with the death of Alexander in Babylon, thirty four years later. Through contemporary sound and music, the rock opera aims to acquaint us with the magic, the dream and the human side of Alexander. For the creators, it is a real challenge to stage a musical and theatrical “ALEXANDER” created in the actual area where he was born and reached manhood. The rock opera has already been recorded, bringing together more than 150 musicians, singers and actors who have offered their knowledge and talent for its completion. The recording of the rock opera released in the form of a double cd accompanied by a book, on November 1st 2012. The world premiere: Rock Opera “ALEXANDER” begun its journey on the 9th of November 2012 at the Stage Hall. Not forgetting the extremely difficult economic circumstances, all participants involved are optimistic about presenting a performance of a high artistic and recreational standard about Alexander the Great, a significant part of world history and of the Greek cultural heritage.

 A. THE SCENERY Various Palace interiors, battle held, desert and other simple exterior settings will compose the scene.

B. THE COSTUMES Approximately 60 costumes are required.


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Παρασκευή 15 Μαρτίου 2013

15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
15 - 24 March 2013
The 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century will take place from March 15 to March 24 2013, celebrating for a 15th consecutive year the restless, ceaselessly transformative and vigilant art of the documentary. The Festival’s goal is to present the social, historical, political and, above all, human realities of the new century, that become the grounds for adventurous cinematic journeys.

Κυριακή 20 Ιανουαρίου 2013

‘UP Greek Tourism’ campaign in NEW YORK


NEW YORK  BILLBOARD TIMES  SQUARE
WASHIGTON DC BILLROAD  7th STREET
LONDON PICADILLY LITE
Managed by Greeks around the world on a voluntary basis, Up Greek Tourism is a private initiative aiming to promote Greece as a touristic destination. With no budget or hired professionals and using Loudsauce as its platform, we have already completed two projects in New York City and Washington DC and we just finished crowdfunding for our third one in London. Our campaigns are promoted mainly via social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.
The main objective of the ‘UP Greek Tourism’ campaign is to promote Greek tourism abroad in two ways: directly, through the outdoor advertising campaign, and indirectly through the word of mouth created through traditional and social media who will re-produce the campaign. Additionally we hope to inspire Greeks to think of innovative personal initiatives to help the Greek economy and we also want to demonstrate to the world that Greek people remain an innovative, resilient and hospitable nation.

SOURCE : FACEBOOK PAGE  ' UPGREEK TOURISM'
 http://www.upgreektourism.gr/


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Παρασκευή 18 Ιανουαρίου 2013

«ΘΕΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΗΡΩΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΜΥΘΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ» - «GREEK GODS AND HEROES» EXHIBITION IN MYLOS THESSALONIKI



GREEK GODS AND HEROES FROM 14 DECEMBER IN MYLOS POLIHOROS IN THESSALONIKI 
 
 The exhibition is taking place under the auspices of the Region of Cent
ral Macedonia, suggested also by the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports. Τhe Centre of Arts and Culture "Mylos" has launced a Unique Cultural Event. An exhibition without any precedent consists of contemporary Greek Artists. Inspired and based on Greek Myhtology and History.



THE EXHIBITION
In the olden days, the Ancient Greek Spirit had achieved to illuminate the darkness side of Medieval Europe. The principles of Philosophy and Culture, Science and Art, as defined and developed during the Classical Antiquity, became major influence to both intellectuals and societies of that era. Together, they succeed to create the identity of the European Civilization while also the civilization of the whole world.


Nowadays, since the global financial crisis seeping through borders and civilizations, has a negative impact on all fields of our daily lives at a moral and practical level, it is important to preserve and recall the main principles and codes of the Ancient Greek Spirit.
 
OUR AIM is this exhibition to be a cultural and at the same time educational project, which is the essence of the humanistic aspect  of Arts and Civilization.


Greek Mythology had an extensive influence on western civilization, arts and literature, and remains a part of Greek heritage. It is the echo of an ancient history, which not just Greeks, but all Europeans should be acquainted with. It is the cradle of a civilization that laid the foundations for the civilizations of the entire European continent. The exhibition
Considering that our Ancient Greek spiritual wealth, which is the homocentric axis of this exhibition, can be a carrier of messages of optimism and exaltation, ambassador and bridge between different cultures, we are planning to hold this presentation, to as many capitals as possible, for as long as possible.

 The exhibition is taking place under the auspices of the Region of Central Macedonia, suggested also by the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports. Τhe Centre of Arts and Culture "Mylos" has launced a Unique Cultural Event. An exhibition without any precedent consists of contemporary Greek Artists. Inspired and based on Greek Myhtology and History.


THE EXHIBITION
In the olden days, the Ancient Greek Spirit had achieved to illuminate the darkness side of Medieval Europe. The principles of Philosophy and Culture, Science and Art, as defined and developed during the Classical Antiquity, became major influence to both intellectuals and societies of that era. Together, they succeed to create the identity of the European Civilization while also the civilization of the whole world.


Nowadays, since the global financial crisis seeping through borders and civilizations, has a negative impact on all fields of our daily lives at a moral and practical level, it is important to preserve and recall the main principles and codes of the Ancient Greek Spirit.

OUR AIM is this exhibition to be a cultural and at the same time educational project, which is the essence of the humanistic aspect  of Arts and Civilization.

Greek Mythology had an extensive influence on western civilization, arts and literature, and remains a part of Greek heritage. It is the echo of an ancient history, which not just Greeks, but all Europeans should be acquainted with. It is the cradle of a civilization that laid the foundations for the civilizations of the entire European continent. The exhibition
Considering that our Ancient Greek spiritual wealth, which is the homocentric axis of this exhibition, can be a carrier of messages of optimism and exaltation, ambassador and bridge between different cultures, we are planning to hold this presentation, to as many capitals as possible, for as long as possible.

SOURCE :
WEBSITE: www.greekgodsandheroes.co.uk