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HAPAX — Solstice Special

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HAPAX — Solstice Special

This June, HAPAX and Pullman Club come together for a full solstice drift of drinks, open-fire cooking, and sound.

HAPAX is a Paris-based collective working at the intersection of art, design, gastronomy, and music. This gathering marks the passage into the most incandescent season of the year.

Pullman Club is a supper club founded in Athens in 2022 by chef Kostas Pardalis and architect and designer Chrysa Petrochilou. Through a series of pop-up dinners hosted across Greece, Europe, and internationally — in wine bars, art galleries, rooftops, and other intimate settings — Pullman creates gatherings where food becomes a means of bringing strangers around the same table.

Each gathering takes shape through a site-specific approach, where menu, atmosphere, and spatial setting are considered as interconnected elements of the experience. Moving between different cities and venues, Pullman adapts to each context while remaining grounded in a Mediterranean sensibility and a close relationship with local produce.

At the core of Pullman lies the idea of commensality — the act of eating together as a shared social experience. The table is approached as a space for exchange, conversation, and temporary community, where unfamiliar people can, if only for an evening, inhabit a common experience through food.

In this sense, the meal extends beyond hospitality itself, becoming a form of cultural and social encounter.

For culinary purposes and thermal explorations, Ariadne Strofylla and Konstantinos Chatzakis will build a bio-construction grill, channeling a hedonistic refractivity around food through its Typhonian mouth and volcanic belly.

 

LINE UP

17:00 — Opening; Undertone Therapeutics by Jessie Onze

18:00 — DÉSIRÉ BONAVENTURE

19:00 — ROMAIN BARRY

20:00 — V3RYNICH3 presents Self Sufficient Island

21:00 — CHRISTINA VANTZOU Solo Live Show

22:00 — THERE IS A NOISE BEHIND THE CURTAIN; a performance by Émile Papandréou & Elliott Matta

23:00 — Closing; DJ set by KVADOSH

00:00 — End

 

https://www.hapax.art/solstice

LE RAGAZZE PERDUTE

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LE RAGAZZE PERDUTE
«THE LOST GIRLS»
A NEW PIECE DIRECTED BY GRACE ANDREWS

Meet us within the restless pulse of ‘50s-70s Naples, where Lenú fights to unravel her lifelong entanglement with Lila, her brilliant friend. Fuelled by rivalry, revenge and devotion, they race from childhood to motherhood in a city alive with fierce contradiction, held up by a fragile community built on violence, ambition and brutal love.

Inspired by the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, this new piece from the Athens Fonact Ensemble explores how identity is made and unmade across generations of mothers and daughters in a world of men.

WITH TEXT FROM:

THE NEAPOLITAN NOVELS BY ELENA FERRANTE

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND PLAYTEXT BY APRIL DE ANGELIS

 MY BRILLIANT FRIEND SCREENPLAY BY SAVERIO COSTANZO

Duration: 1,5 hour
Suitable for: 13+

My Body: a map to love

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My Body: a map to love

We invite you to an experiential day of therapeutic connection, dedicated to meeting the self, the body, and our authentic expression.

Through art therapy, music therapy, dance therapy, and sound healing, we will have the opportunity to move, feel, create, and exist with greater awareness and presence.

Limited spots available.


We look forward to sharing this experience of connection, care, and presence with you.
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Duration: 12:00 – 21:00

REALITY AND OTHER SPECULATIONS

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“Reality and Other Speculations”
by Christina Oikonomidou


Apópeira
presents the new poetry book by Christina Oikonomidou, “Reality and Other Speculations.”

The book will be introduced by EKPA professor and literary critic Titika Dimitroulia, and by poets Giannis Antiochou and Efthychia Panagiotou.

Poems will be read by actress Katia Gerou, singer-songwriter Apostolos Rizos, and poet Antonia Botonaki.

 

 

 

Duration: 1.5 hours without intermission.

MATMOS LIVE IN ATHENS

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Matmos Live in Athens

Matmos, one of the most influential acts in contemporary electronic music, will perform live in Athens.

 

For more than three decades, Matmos have been redefining the boundaries of electronic music, transforming unexpected sound sources—from everyday objects to field recordings—into intricate rhythmic and sonic structures.

Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt move between art, research, and live performance, exploring sound down to its finest detail, balancing precision, humor, and curiosity.

Listening to their work feels like observing through a microscope, revealing worlds that usually remain invisible.

Based in Baltimore, Matmos have developed a distinctive artistic identity grounded in the use of unconventional sound sources and their transformation into immediately accessible musical forms. Their work has been internationally recognized for its contribution to the evolution of sampling culture, and they have collaborated with artists such as Björk, Kronos Quartet, Terry Riley, and Anohni.

Their most recent album, Metallic Life Review (Thrill Jockey, 2025), is constructed entirely from metal sounds—copper, steel, aluminum—processed into a multilayered sonic landscape.

The choice of the industrial venue PLYFA acts as a natural extension of their practice, an environment where sound and material converge.

A rare appearance in Athens, as part of the Scenius Series.

 

https://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/matmos
 https://www.exform.net/matmos/
https://scenius.gr/matmos-live-in-athens/

Doors open at 20:30.

 

Duration: 120 minutes
Age suitability: 16+

ECHORROES: Echonexus — with three musicians and a participatory approach

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ECHORROES: Echonexus — with three musicians and a participatory approach

We have built Echorroes so that anyone, of any age and language, can express themselves musically without prior training. At its core stands a facilitator; around her, Echonexus — an interactive musical instrument driven by AI algorithms that listens and responds.

What happens if, in the facilitator’s place, we put three virtuoso improvisers? How does a system designed for everyone — inclusive yet of genuine aesthetic substance — come face to face with musicians who have mastered the art of improvisation, and what new thing is born from that encounter?

Savina Yannatou guides us with her voice, calmly into the unexpected, without a map, defying the fear of the unknown.

Yorgos Stavridis, with his “percussion,” transforms every object into a musical instrument — doing by hand what the algorithm does digitally.

Panagiotis Sioras, with his bass clarinet — a centuries-old “tube” built for virtuosi — enters into dialogue with Echonexus, a young musical “tube” built to give voice to every child.

Three new cores within a vessel already shaped by the relationship between the facilitator, the algorithm, and the children — open a new space of interactions. Participation migrates inward, between the musicians and Echonexus, and at the same time outward, toward an audience invited to share the space and the sound with curious ears.

 

 

Duration: 20:00–22:00 (two 45-minute sessions with an intermission)

SLEEPLESS: a multi-layered live installation

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SLEEPLESS: a multi-layered live installation

The Performance Art Lab of Delos Drama School presents its new performance, titled SLEEPLESS: a multi-layered live installation inspired by the exhibition “The Bed in History and Contemporary Art”, presented at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna in 2015.

The stage is transformed into a fragmented space: 12 rooms, 12 autonomous yet interconnected actions. In each room, a body is exposed, persists, resists, or surrenders. The performances unfold simultaneously, creating a living landscape through which the audience is invited to wander, choose, and compose their own experience.

The work draws inspiration from the idea of the bed not as a place of rest, but as a field of political and existential tension. The bed becomes a site of power, care, surveillance, desire, loneliness, and violence. A place where the body is revealed in its most vulnerable, yet most exposed, state.

In SLEEPLESS, bodies do not sleep — they remain alert.

The performance explores insomnia as a contemporary condition: the body as a vessel of memory and pressure, privacy as a fragile construct, and the relationship between care and control.

Without speech, without linear narrative, the work is composed through images, situations, and durations. The spectator does not watch from a distance — they participate actively, moving between the rooms and composing their own “map of sleeplessness.”

SLEEPLESS is an experience that places the body at the centre:
where rest becomes impossible, and truth emerges.

 

Duration: 2 hours
Suitable for ages 16 and up. The performances contain scenes of violence and nudity.

feed me peace

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feed me peace
Anastasia Valsamaki

In “feed me peace”, choreographer Anastasia Valsamaki engages with the political and embodied dimensions of self-care as a field of renegotiation, and collective practice. Placing the body at the center, the performance explores how care shifts between personal experience and collective reality. Is it an individual refuge or a tool for survival under pressure?

Drawing inspiration from historical practices of self-care as tools of resilience and activism, the piece juxtaposes the need for survival and assertion with the contemporary commodification of wellness. Ιn interaction with the scenographic environment, the performative action becomes a process of exploring and re-signifying care in the present, continuously generating new sonic, conceptual, and visual worlds. The stage is shaped as a space of community, where four female bodies initiate the action between a familiar everyday setting and a ritual-like practice of care. Through repetition, shifts, and changes in intensity, movement accumulates and transforms, leading into a sustained state of high energy in which rhythm becomes dominant. The stage transitions into a collective celebration: an extended shuffle dance as an act of survival, pleasure, and togetherness. An attempt to “care for ourselves” under conditions of high intensity, through the cathartic connection between music and dance, and perhaps, ultimately, an effort to find a sense of peace without compromise.



Anastasia Valsamaki
is a contemporary dance artist based in Athens. She creates dance performances and collaborates with other artists in a variety of dance and cross-field projects. Her work explores the physicality and brainy side of movement, seeking to offer new readings of human coexistence. Anastasia graduated with honors from the National School of Dance (KSOT) and studied choreography at SEAD (I.C.E.). As a choreographer, she has received international recognition through two selections by the Aerowaves network, and is a recipient of the ARTWORKS Award. She has created the works Sync, Body Monologue, DisJoint, W REST L ING, and THE VERSO, presenting them at international and Greek festivals.

https://anastasiavalsamaki.com/

 

Premiere ARC FOR DANCE FESTIVAL 17
Under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture

 

Duration: 45’, no intermission

EXOTICA LUNATICA – LIVE IN ATHENS

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Exotica Lunatica – Live in Athens 

Exotica Lunatica is a duo from the Strasbourg scene, bringing together French composer and multi-instrumentalist Daphné Hejebri and Greek singer and performer Eleanna Konstanta.

Their debut album Enter The Moon (2023) offers a trance-like, immersive sound blending polyphonic voices, ethnic textures, and contemporary influences in a mystical, cosmic atmosphere.

Music&lles #1 – Jury Favorite (2024)
Les Inouïs du Printemps de Bourges – Grand Est Laureates (2025)
Cosmo Jazz Festival – Laureates (2025)

A live performance between trance and intimacy.
Join them in Athens.

 

 

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Recommended age: 20+

What I Wanted, What I Found

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What I Wanted, What I Found

What I Wanted, What I Found is an attempt to mirror the reality of an artist’s life in Greece. Or at least, that is what it tries to do. Based on the shared experiences of its creators, the work unfolds between their dreams and initial expectations and what they ultimately encounter in everyday life, shedding light on a system that promises a great deal and gives very little in return.

 

 

Duration: 40 minutes