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SLADEK

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Ars Moriendi Theater Group Presents Ödön von Horváth’s “SLADEK”

Following a successful three-show run last season in Thessaloniki, Ars Moriendi Theater Group presents the political drama “Sladek” by the Austro-Hungarian playwright Ödön von Horváth in Athens. The play depicts the rise of fascism in the Weimar Republic, as engineered by the paramilitary “Black Army.”

Von Horváth’s play is set during the interwar period and the Great Depression, when inflation, unemployment, famine, poverty, and homelessness plagued Germany and drove people to desperation, providing an opportunity for extreme political groups, such as the Nazi Party, to win the hearts of the defeated and the poor. In Sladek, we see how social conditions lead “small” people to desperate acts and heinous violence, paving the way for dictators and fascists who exterminate anyone who stands in their way: women, homosexuals, Jews, communists, democrats.

The work predicts with terrifying accuracy the cycle of violence that was about to spread across Europe. The fascism of 1920s and 1930s Germany is no more, but History today creates similarities that urge us not to be complacent. Online hate speech, the impoverishment of language, femicides, xenophobia, homophobia, and television and internet populism compose the Eternal Fascism, as Umberto Eco calls it, which feeds on the natural fear of the different, on the feelings of humiliation of vulnerable social groups, and on our primal need to be heroes in our mundane lives.

“The hero,” however, “of Eternal Fascism is impatient to die,” and “in his impatience he usually sends other people to their death” (Umberto Eco). This is the story of Sladek and his comrades.

 

The production Sladek is presented under the auspices and with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki.

 

 

Duration: 80 minutes
Suitable age: 14+

MINAS PASPALAS LIVE | GUEST: MARIANNA KATSIMICHA

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Minas Paspalas Live
Guest: Marianna Katsimicha

Minas is a young singer and songwriter—you’ve probably come across him in the backstreets of Athens, playing and singing with his guitar. His first full-length work is being released soon, and he’s coming to PLYFA for a live show where he’ll present songs from the upcoming album, along with other favorites. Joining him for the evening is Marianna Katsimicha, the girl whose melodic voice heals every memory. We’ll be waiting for you there!

Duration: 2 hours

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR STRAY.GR

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Christmas Bazaar Stray.Gr
Organization for the Protection and Welfare of Stray Animals “Stray.Gr”

With great joy (and even more wagging tails), we invite you to the Christmas Bazaar of Stray.Gr!

Come shop for unique, handmade, and special gifts, meet our team, laugh, help out, and of course, immerse yourself in the cutest Christmas spirit!

At this year’s Bazaar, you will find:

Come with your friends (and your dogs, of course!) for a wonderful stroll in the city center, do your shopping, and help stray animals!

Our Bazaars are the main source of funding for our work, as we receive no government support.

Duration: from 10:00 to 22:00

8

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8
Anema Dance Company

The dance performance “8” draws inspiration from Kandinsky’s compass — a symbol of inner orientation within a world that shifts, chatters, and is reborn again and again through its own forms.

Through rhythm and transformation, the body becomes the painting itself: it carries the colors, generates the shapes, inhabits them. Information overflows, deconstructs, rebuilds. And there, at the threshold between order and chaos, the joy of the moment is born — the simple, almost childlike delight of being part of the space, the canvas, the movement itself.


“8” cannot be explained; it simply breathes.
Like a color that changes with the light.
Like a shape that is born anew each time.

 

Duration: 40 minutes

CHRISTOS TZITZIMIKAS & BANDA CALDA

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Christos Tzitzimikas & Banda Calda

On Friday, November 14th at PLYFA, starting at 20:30, the seven-member Banda Calda and Christos Tzitzimikas join forces, measuring time through their music and taking us on a journey from the Mastorochoria of Epirus to the plains of Imathia.
We’ll hear all the voices and musical dialects that once nestled—and still do—at the foothills of Smolikas and Tymfi, Grammos and Verno, Kaimaktsalan, Paiko, and Vermio, and we’ll dance to the steps of their people.

Duration: 300 minutes
Intermission: 30 minutes

Doors open at 20:00.

VASILIS PRODROMOU SOLO

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Vasilis Prodromou SOLO

After a series of sold-out performances, Vasilis invites you to experience his SOLO.

You’ll hear stories laced with existential and political reflections, songs about love, memory, and revolution, and tales that wrestle with the ideas of “forever,” “never,” and “never again.” All of this unfolds with the intention of “acknowledging everything that’s his—his rights and his wrongs,” as he sings in “At the Foot of the World,” from his debut album “Life Begins Now.”

Let’s get acquainted…

Vasilis studied at the Music School of Serres, while also taking lessons in folk guitar and three-string bouzouki with Stavros Vasdekis and Dimitris Psarras respectively.
During his Architecture studies at Democritus University of Thrace, he became active as a musician and singer, performing across Northern Greece.

In December 2013, after completing his architectural studies, he made his first appearance in Athens, performing with Glykeria and Babis Tsertos.
Since then, he has collaborated—both live and in the studio—with leading composers, songwriters, and performers, while presenting his own music in venues within and beyond Athens. His main creative companions include composer and accordionist Dasho Kurti, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Dimitris Sintos, and drummer Thanos Tselebis.

He is also a member of Pagan, a progressive-ethnic band, where he plays acoustic guitar and sings.

Collaborations (Live)

Glykeria, Eleni Vitali, Natassa Bofiliou, Pagan, Dimitra Galani, Vasilis Tsitsanis Orchestra, Christina Maxouri (Songs of Sotiria), Pitsa Papadopoulou, Manolis Lidakis, Christos Nikolopoulos, Nikos Dimitratos, Ioulia Karapataki, Anatoli Margiola, Aspasia Stratigou, Manolis Pappos, Giorgos Merantzas, Melina Kana, Lizeta Kalimeri, Fotini Velessiotou, Sofia Kourtidou, among others.

Discography (as singer or musician)

  • From the Pillow of the Earth – D. Sintos (2011)

  • Voices in This City – A. Katsigiannis & N. Anagnostakis (2014)

  • Life Begins Now – Vasilis Prodromou (2017)

  • Monologue – Konstantinos Plousios (2017)

  • Rodostamo – Aspasia Stratigou (2017)

  • The Second Ones (Because the First Got Tired) – Fotis Siotas & Thodoris Gonis (2019)

  • Amulet – Nikos Samaras (2020)

  • Red Thread – Dimitris Sintos & Anatoli Margiola (2020)

  • Microclimate – Alexandros Emmanouilidis (2023)

  • Epilogue – Al. Gourgoulios (2024)

Stage Appearances

  • Cherchez la Femme (National Theatre of Northern Greece) – directed by Sofia Spyratou (2015)

  • Minore (Cyprus & Thessaloniki) – directed by Takis Tzamargias (2022)

  • My Name is Sotiria (Avlaia Theatre, Thessaloniki) – directed by Giorgos Papageorgiou (2024)

  • Melodia Radio Tapes: The Tape of Manos Eleftheriou (24/07/2024, Lycabettus)
    — with Giannis Kotsiras, Miltos Paschalidis, Nefeli Fasouli, and Violeta Ikari

  • In the Blooming Gardens (tribute to Mikis Theodorakis, 14/10/2024, Herodeion)
    — with Natassa Bofiliou
    — Arrangements by Themis Karamouratidis, Direction by Angelos Triantafyllou

  • Boston (Berklee College of Music) Performance with the Vasilis Tsitsanis Orchestra (Manolis Pappos, Fotis Vergopoulos, Dasho Kurti) and Natassa Bofiliou, in a tribute to Vasilis Tsitsanis.

Doors open at 20:45.

BUILDING BRIDGES TO GREECE

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Building Bridges to Greece
Α bold exploration of sound and collective truth

You are cordially invited to Building Bridges to Greece (BBG), the first cycle of which presents four new works for solo bassoon by daring composers based in the USA and Europe. This music performance includes electronics, lights and musiktheater, in an original spectacle. The music of Stratis Minakakis, Konstantinos Baras, Michalis Paraskakis and Niki Harlafti draws inspiration from their Greek heritage and contemporary Greek reality: from the transcendence of ancient Greek hymns and temples, philosophy and mythology, to the challenges of life in modern Greece. 

Building Bridges to Greece (BBG) is a global initiative by virtuoso German-American bassoonist Ben Roidl-Ward and Greek composer Niki Harlafti aiming to promote Greek composers internationally, through the commission and presentation of exciting contemporary classical works and multimedia performances involving the bassoon.

A brief, open discussion with the creative team will follow.

Michalis Paraskakis, Elephant’s foot or Pyriphlegethon
Stratis Minakakis, …hypnon apo glefaron skedasei glykyn…
Konstantinos Baras, Allegory
Niki Harlafti, The Blood of Others 

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A concert production by Building Bridges to Greece (BBG) and the Greek Composers Union (GCU)
The event is held under the kind sponsorship of the Luminarts Foundation (USA) and the Hellenic Composers’ Union (Greece), under whose auspices it takes place.

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Suitable age: 15+
Duration: 60 minutes without intermission, followed by a 30-minute discussion with the creative team.
Entry is permitted only between works.

Health & Trigger Warnings

Health Warning:
One of the featured works contains flashing lights and loud sound effects, which may affect individuals with light or sound sensitivities.*

Content Warning:
Another work includes artistic references to murder, violence, accidents, and complex political issues. Such material may cause distress or discomfort to some audience members. For your well-being, please take this into consideration before attending.*

*Relevant warnings will appear in the event program, and attendees will have the option to exit the performance if needed.

Pétale COLLECTION LAUNCH EVENT

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Pétale Collection Launch event
STUDIO ARISTOTELIS BARAKOS

Like petals from a precious flower carried by the wind, the pendant lights of Pétale collection add  a sense of understated beauty in any space. From show-stopping “petal clouds” that rise  multiple metres in height, to a single pendant casting a soft light on a bedside table, Pétale is a  versatile modular system that can be combined in an unlimited number of arrangements.  

The French word pétale comes from the Greek petalo, both meaning the petal of a flower. They  originate from the Ancient Greek word petalon, which initially meant a plant leaf or a thin metal  plate. The two meanings of the ancient word exist in this new lighting collection, combining  ethereal lightness with solid metal craftsmanship.  

A single Pétale unit is made of two round metal plates enfolding a cylindrical spotlight. This  unique shape creates an illusion of flatness, but at the same time allows for different geometries  to appear, depending on the angle from which the pendant is seen. Its curved surfaces catch the  light beautifully — a feature that, in combination with the subtle rotation of the pendants due to  moving air, creates a mesmerising visual effect.  

In addition to freeform arrangements, Pétale may also be lined up, creating custom rows of lights  that can illuminate tables, desks, reception counters and many more.  

Pétale invites architects and designers to compose with light as if with flower petals, creating  unique spatial atmospheres where material precision meets poetic grace. This new Studio  Aristotelis Barakos collection is currently available in gold satin brushed brass, with more  finishes becoming available in the future.  

 

Finishing: Satin-brushed brass (more finishings TBA soon)
Dimensions: 20 x 21 x 8 cm
Light bulb: GU10  

Photography by: Giorgos Vitsaropoulos 

 

Duration: 13.00 – 20.00

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PAIDI TRAVMA SPECIAL LIVE

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PAIDI TRAVMA
Special Live

Friday, October 31: SOLD OUT
NEW DATES: Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13

Do you want to experience a Second Life?

After an immediate and emotional sell-out, we’re adding another date for this special live show!

On Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13, Paidi Travma will be at PLYFA, offering us a unique opportunity to experience a different kind of concert with him. That evening, the strange story of Diana, the mysterious heroine of his new album who is reportedly missing, will be revealed.

Songs from the new album “Second Life”, releasing on October 30 via Fine! Records, will be performed live for the first time, in a concert – encounter without distance between the audience and the band. The space will be specially arranged so we can enter Diana’s world, explore her Second Life, see her personal objects, and read her favorite postcards.

Paidi Travma invites us to let go and sing along with him on an endless journey of escape and forgiveness, presenting a complete audiovisual performance under the artistic direction of Vasilis Kehagias. Lighting design by Alex Hills.

Duration: 120 minutes

WOLVES / THIS CHILD

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WOLVES / THIS CHILD
Christos Theodoridis & Xenia Themeli
SuNdogs Group

“The SuNdogs,” a group of ten actors who graduated in 2024 from the “Neo Elliniko Theatro” (New Greek Theatre), present at PLYFA Joël Pommerat’s “This Child,” under the artistic direction of Christos Theodoridis, and “WOLVES,” a dance performance choreographed by Xenia Themeli.

“WOLVES” — Xenia Themeli

A dance performance
An experiment in coordination
An experiment on a musical piece
An experiment on the trail of a pack.

“THIS CHILD” — Christos Theodoridis

Written in 2006, the play “This Child” dissects with disarming candor the relationships that form within the most intimate and at the same time most fragile social cell: the family. Ten moments of everyday life are enough to reveal the endless conflicts, the deep silences, and the inevitable chaos that dominate among the members of the modern family. Drawing on interviews with working-class women in Normandy and propelled by the political climate of the time, Joël Pommerat delivers a work structured as a raw theatrical montage of moments.

The production attempts to open a dialogue about the future of a society tested by wars, economic crises, and power games, following a past marked by social indifference, the struggle for survival, and the absence of love. It invites us, in the present, to answer the question: What have we done?

 

Performance Dates: November 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 22 & 23
Duration: “Wolves” – 20’, “This Child” – 80’ (with a 15-minute intermission in between)
Suitable for ages: 10+