Might I Suggest - Spring 2016

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READ ABOUT: Culture and Family Activities, Fashion, Culinary Experiences, A Day Trip to Chalkida, Greek Easter & Athens’ Lesser-Known Museums

CULTURE & MUSIC Dialogue In the Dark

CULTURE & MUSIC

Leave the world of sight for an experience of a lifetime.

Dialogue in the Dark is a guided tour through your familiar surroundings in the city of Athens without leaving the sense of security of the indoor installation.

By eliminating the use of sight, everyday situations become completely new experiences.

As the visit proceeds, personal involvement and interaction between the members of a group and their guide develop into a close bond of friendship and understanding culminating in a light discussion of the experience in a social setting.

Badminton Theater, Goudi, 157 73, Athens, Greece Experience the Dialogue in the Dark >

Hypnos Project What happens during sleep?

The “Hypnos Project� will open our eyes to a time during which we have no sense of who we are.

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The Hypnos Project is a festival of the Onassis Cultural Centre. It consists of an exhibition of modern and contemporary art, a series of performances and sleepovers, a cycle of sound works and walks, a series of lectures and public discussions, and a special magazine issue.

Main Exhibition | Opening: 11 April 2016 The Hypnos Project brings to the public masterpieces of Greek art, works by contemporary artists, and archival material.

The exhibition is organized around a series of

binaries, with a rich historical context, whose effects extend to this day: sleep/death, love/gender, normality/disorder, work/rest, reality/dream, rational/irrational, modern/contemporary, object/ realization.

Onassis Cultural Centre, 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens, Greece APR-JUN 2016 Experience the Hypnos Project >

Rimini Protokoll [Haug & Wetzel]

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Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, Volumes 1 & 2

Adolf Hitler through the eyes of Rimini Protokoll: A revelatory, radical piece of documentary theatre tackling the Führer’s infamous bestseller from Europe’s foremost avant-garde theatre company.

Only Rimini Protokoll, the award-winning documentarists of the European stage, the company that has previously put out-of-work Egyptian muezzins and contemporary Athenian Prometheuses on stage, would dare take on a book as infamous and controversial as Mein Kampf (1925–26). The grimmest bestseller of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler’s two-volume authorial effort—that com-

bination of autobiography and political manifesto which was destined to become the Bible of German National Socialism—is the explosive material Rimini Protokoll bring to the OCC two years after Situation Rooms, their fascinating live videogame-installation on the arms trade.

Onassis Cultural Centre, 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens, Greece 21-24 APR 2016 at 20:30

View the Rimini Protokoll play >

FFF | Web of Trust How many clicks, tweets and likes are needed for an uprising?

CULTURE & MUSIC

How many clicks, tweets and likes are needed for an uprising? The Internet, social media, digital tools and Dostoyevsky’s Demons are utilized in the wired performance of Edit Kaldor, the most hardcore director of Hungary.

‘It doesn’t look like theatre, but it is. Indeed, it is the best kind of theatre that exists’, as one writer has described the work Hungarian director Edit Kaldor (b. 1969). Paraphrasing Shakespeare’s ‘All the world’s a stage’, Kaldor seems to counter-propose ‘all cyberspace is a stage’. Born in Budapest,

raised in the USA, and based in Amsterdam, the internationally acclaimed and pioneering director makes use of the Internet’s cosmopolitanism, the real-time deterritorialized interactions of social networks and the mass democracy of cyberspace.

Onassis Cultural Centre, 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens, Greece 29-30 MAY 2016

Learn more for the Web of Trust >

3 urban experiments

by Candy Chang

CULTURE & MUSIC

Having intervened from Hong Kong to Las Vegas in anything and everything that could be considered public space, the celebrated visual artist is coming to Athens with three of her site-specific installations.

Born in Pittsburgh to Taiwanese parents and now a long-term resident of New Orleans, Candy Chang has different cultures in her DNA but just one obsession: intervening in public space.

For her, it’s like setting up a hybrid board game designed for mass participation in the heart of the city. Thanks to this artistic modus vivendi in which art flirts with activism, Chang’s large-scale

participatory installations both blur the boundaries between public and private and give passers-by the opportunity to spontaneously interact with and ask questions about her works. Ultimately, her installations provide the public with the means to reclaim the space around and within them.

Onassis Cultural Centre, 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens, Greece FEB - ΜΑY 2016

Experience the 3 Urban Experiments >

Migration Antonio Sanchez 4tet

The composer of the Soundtrack of Birdman movie, which won a lot of Oscar awards, is for the first time in Athens!

Watch live the Mexican jazz drummer and allow his sounds to transcend you far from the typical sound techniques.

Voutadon 32-34, Gkazi, Athens Friday, April 22nd 2016

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Gazarte,

“Mr. Madrugada” visits 4 places in Greece!

The frontman of “Madrugada” band, Sivert Høyem, returns with his new, solo

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album in hand in Greece.

The Norwegian musician visits Greece -with a full band- for 4 live performances in 4 equally big Greek cities as part of his tour Lioness Tour to promote his new album, «Lioness». Saturday, April 23rd will be the day to visit Athens – Piraeus 117 Academy.

Pireos 117, Athens 118 54

Kovacs revisits Athens!

The relationship of Sharon Kovacs with the Greek audience looks like love; her feelings exactly when it comes to singing.

Pireos 117, Athens 118 54

CULTURE & MUSIC

Her musical journey continues and makes 4 stops in our country. The one in Athens will be happening on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 April 2016 at Piraeus 117 Academy.

FAMILIES Around the World in Eighty Days

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A thrilling theatrical adventure for travellers of all ages…

The exciting Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is returning to the stage of The Megaron. A musical-theatrical performance for young and old alike, featuring a big cast with action and humour, live music and video sequences.

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, Vass. Sophias & Kokkali - Athens 115 21 5, 12, 19, 26 ΜARCH 2016 at 15:00 6, 13, 20, 27 ΜARCH 2016 at 11:30

Explore the Adventure >

Jason and the Golden Fleece Greek mythology’s most legendary journey; Now a major play for the entire family.

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Jason and the Golden Fleece is an epic adventure that follows the steps of Jason and his comrades as they sail off from the port of Iolcus, Thessaly, to reach the coast of Colchis (in present day Georgia).

The story begins with the magic flight of Phrixus and Helle on the back of the golden ram, recounts

Badminton Theater, Goudi, 157 73, Athens, Greece March 1st –April 24th 2016

the Argonauts’ labors at sea and culminates at Jason’s inventive tricks and his fight against the dragon, as he attempts to retrieve the Golden Fleece.

Hop on to Argo along with Jason and the Argonauts and be part of a breathtaking journey with Greece’s most daring spirits as they attempt to break new ground, discover new lands and bring back home the Golden Fleece! An epic adventure not to be missed!

Journey with Jason >

Big Bang Festival 2 The explosive European music festival

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The explosive European music festival for youth and adventurous listeners returns once again at the Onassis Cultural Centre.

For all children up to 12 years old and their parents.

Except from the Onassis Cultural Centre, in this network also participate the Centro Cultural de Belém (Portugal), the Nytt Konserthus I Stavanger IKS (Norway), the Opéra de Lille (France), the Centre for Fine Arts – Bozar (Belgium), the Kinder Kinder (Germany), the Fundación para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Alcalá de Guadaira, Alcalá Innova (Spain) and the MotorMusic bvba (Belgium).

Onassis Cultural Centre, 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens, Greece 21-22 MAY 2016

Learn More >

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FASHION Athens Xclusive Designers Week

FASHION

8-11 of April 2016

Athens Fashion Week, will hold its 19th event from 8-11 of April 2016, presenting collections of Greek and International designers and fashion brands, for the season Fall/Winter 2016-2017.

New collaborations with international buyers, designers, international fashion weeks and media representatives, enrich AXDW’s 360ο network, who continues its effort on Greek

fashion’s extroversion and the Greek designers’ development at the global fashion stage.

At the same time, Athens Fashion Week, for one more season, organizes the established competition for the New Designers Awards, in order to give prominence to new talents, who will claim important awards for their next steps in fashion.

Visit the Athens Xclusive Designers Week >

CULINARY EXPERIENCE Dinner in the Sky A unique experience in the heart of Athens, Greece.

CULINARY EXPERIENCE

An extraordinary culinary proposal -in the center of Athens- welcomes you! A table for 22 people, along with our experienced chefs who are preparing a 5 course menu, lifts you up to 50 meters and offers once in a life time experience over the city.

Dinner in the Sky takes you to heaven, while the nightlife of Athens “awakens�. As the table slowly rotates, you get views ranging from the sculpturally lit Acropolis, the surrounding mountains, the sea and of course the Athenian cityscape.

Invite your friends, loved ones or colleagues to a special dinner and spice up your nights in Athens with a combination of exceptional food and breathtaking views. Try special, modern tastes inspired by the Greek tradition accompanied by delicious Greek wines.

Technopolis of Athens Iakchou & Voutadon St., Gazi, 11854, Athens, Greece info@dinnerinthesky.gr | +30 694 5396 509 Experience the Dinner in the Sky >

A DAY TRIP TO CHALKIDA Chalkida

A D ay T rip to C hal k ida

the best one-day excursion during Spring season

Chalkida is the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece and is situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point.

Only an hour and a half from Athens, Chalkida is the best one-day excursion during Spring season.

The town is now connected to the mainland Greece by two bridges, the “Sliding Bridge� in the west at the narrowest point of the Euripus Strait and a suspension bridge.

A special tidal phenomenon takes place in the strait, as strong tidal currents reverse direction once every six hours, creating strong currents and maelstroms.

Experience the city of Chalkida >

The Evripos Tide Phenomenon

The tidal phenomenon of Chalkida, observed in the famous Evripos Channel, is a very rare phenomenon of a change of direction in the flow of the sea currents. This phenomenon has provoked the admiration and interest of humans from ancient times, not only from an astronomical and geophysical perspective but also a philosophical one.

The mystery and beauty of this phenomenon captivates the visitor, as its combination with the imprint of the channel creates a remarkable panorama.

The visitor is stunned, observing the change of the water’s direction approximately every six (6) hours. The water flows at times from the north Evian Gulf to the south, and at times in the reversed direction, thus confirming the existence of the miraculous physical rules that operate in the frame of nature’s cause and effect.

At the location of the old mobile bridge the phenomenon sees its culmination, the speed of the water flow reaching even 9 miles per hour and making the tidal phenomenon even more perceptible.

Visit Nea Artaki; Lefkandi; Nea Lampsakos and Drosia if you’re a sea food lover or Vathy (in the area of Avlida) for a tour in the archaeological site where the Temple of Artemis stands

A D ay T rip to C hal k ida

The continuous function of the phenomenon in accordance with the laws of nature, for thousands of years, shows us that each and every day is a carrier of eternity.

GREEK EASTER Filopappou Hill

GREEK EASTER

Ash Monday

Standing opposite the Acropolis Rock, Filopappou Hill is worth a walk up to observe the vivid colors of the Athenian sky during sunset. Take a stroll on Ash Monday, the 14th of March this year, and you may be lucky enough to be part of the events taking place on the hill.

Ash Monday or Clean Monday is the first day of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Christian.

It is a movable feast that occurs at the beginning of the 7th week before Orthodox Easter Sunday.

Clean Monday is a public holiday in Greece and Cyprus, where it is celebrated with outdoor excursions, the consumption of shellfish and other fasting food, a special kind of azyme bread, baked only on that day, named “lagana� and the widespread custom of flying kites.

Numerous colorful flying kites you will be delighted to watch in the clearl blue Athenian sky if you visit the Filoppapou Hill for pic-nic and a stroll under the sun on Monday, March 14th 2016.

How to access the Hill of Filopappou >

GREEK EASTER

GREEK EASTER

Greek Easter

Easter also called Pasch or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

The week before Easter is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the

Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Good Friday is an eminently mournful day that commemorates the Passion of Christ in all of Greece.

Even the most remote churches honor the tradition of the epitaph filling the atmosphere with piety and devoutness.

In every Greek city, village or island, the Passion of Christ is revived through different traditions.

From the early morning hours in all the Greek churches, the Epitaph, decorated with flowers, is ready to receive the body of Jesus. In most areas, the epitaph procession begins around 9pm.

Easter eggs

GREEK EASTER

Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter festival.

The custom of the Easter egg originated in the early Christian community of Mesopotamia, who stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at his crucifixion. As such, for Christians, the Easter egg is a symbol of the empty tomb. The oldest tradition is to use dyed chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute eggs made from chocolate.

Museum Herakleidon | 16 Herakleidon Str, Thissio, Athens

A Walk around Athens’ Lesser-Known Museums Athens is a city of great cultural significance, with a recorded history of at least 3,400 years.

The cultural heritage of the city’s classical era is still evident, represented by numerous ancient monuments and works of art, the most famous of all being the Parthenon.

The city is home to a large number of museums, some well-known worldwide such as the Acropolis Museum and other lesser-known but equally fascinating establishments.

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The Jewish Museum of Greece

The Museum of Greek Children’s Art

The Museum was founded in 1977 to collect, preserve, research and exhibit the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish life in Greece.

The collection contains more than ten thousand artifacts pertaining to the domestic and religious life, as well as the history of the Greek Jews. The museum is located in central Athens.

The Museum of Greek Children’s Art is a pioneering Museum, one of the very few worldwide that exhibits exclusively drawings and three dimensional artworks created by children 5 to 14 years old.

39 Nikis Str, Athens

9 Kodrou Street, Athens

Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum

The Museum of Greek Folk Art was founded in 1918 by poet Georgios Drosinis, archaeologist G. Kourouniotis and a group of Athenian intellectuals under the name “Museum of Greek Handicrafts.” It was given its present name in 1959. Since 1981 the Museum of Greek Folk Art provides a great variety of educational activities and opportunities for the appreciation, enjoyment and awareness of Greece’s cultural heritage.

The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum is a unique museum devoted to the art of jewelry and the decorative arts. The museum was founded in 1993 and opened to the public, as a non-profit organization. Today the Museum’s permanent collection includes over 4000 pieces of jewelry and micro sculptures from over 50 collections designed by the museum’s founder, Ilias Lalaounis, between 1940 and 2000.

17 Kidathineon Str., Athens

12 Kallisperi Str., Athens

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Museum of Greek Folk Art

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Athens University History Museum

Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments

The Athens University History Museum is located in one of the oldest residential buildings still standing in Athens today. It dates before the 18th century and it is situated beneath the imposing heights of the Acropolis.

The principal aims of the Museum are the collection, preservation, study, conservation and presentation of the University’s heirlooms.

The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments was inaugurated on June 6, 1991 and is a public entity supervised by the Ministry of Culture. It consist of a collection of 1200 Greek folk musical instruments from the 18th century to the present day, the fruit of a 40-year research and study conducted by musicologist Foivos Anogianakis.

1-3 Diogenous Str., Athens

5 Tholou Str., Athens

Museum of Greek Gastronomy The Museum of Greek Gastronomy is housed in a neoclassical 19th century building in the historic center of Athens. The idea of creating the Museum started in 2013 and belongs to a group of young people, who come from different knowledge fields. It is an establishment that promotes the Greek History and Culture, focusing on the gastronomy and its historical and cultural value.

The Museum is dedicated to the exile experience which is preserved through artifacts, documents, art work, photographs, newspapers, magazines and original oral history records. A considerable collection of paintings, stone reliefs, engravings, sketches and prints and other valuable objects have come under its shelter. In recent years, the museum collections have been enriched by documents referring to the prison and concentration camp experience in Greece as well as that of political refugees.

31 Agion Asomaton Str. Keramikos, Athens

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13 Agiou Dimitriou Str, Psyri, Athens

Exile Museum

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Museum Herakleidon

Museum Herakleidon has been bringing art, education, and culture to the general public since 2004. It aspires to help prepare young people, both intellectually and emotionally, to face the growing demands of our world, both today and tomorrow. The inspiration for this endeavor comes from the founders Paul and Anna-Belinda Firos.

16 Herakleidon Str, Thissio, Athens

Centre for the Study of Modern Pottery

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The Centre for the Study of Modern Pottery was founded in 1987 by Betty Psaropoulou with the aim at housing articles and information collected by herself in the course of her extensive research and wide traveling all over Greece. Since 1987 the center has become an institution functioning as a museum, research and educational center intending to preserve showcase Modern Greek pottery, from the early 19th century until now.

4-6 Melidoni Str. – Keramikos, Athens

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