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POLYDRAMA

Opening Act ECATI | Special Guest mc mi55t / IOKO/ Alexandros Argyris / George Doussos

ody icons officially present their first full length album and invite you to celebrate with them.

On October 14, 2023 at PLYFA the songs from the POLYDRAMA album will be heard live immediately after their release on all music platforms. In POLYDRAMA the ody icons reveal the materials from which tears are made and turn on the lights in the secret rooms of our most personal confessions. POLYDRAMA is what the title says: a collection of songs – points in recent years that admit the thirst for drama but also methods of relieving it within the cultures that shaped their personality in Cyprus, Greece and Paris.

“This is a musical imprint of my journey through the various rooms of my human experience thus far. It’s intense, it’s overwhelming, it’s sad and playful, political and emotional. It is a variety of elements that make up my fragility, my essence, my strength. I am this journey. this journey is me. It is much, it is multiple, it is plural, it is maximum. I went through dark rooms and bright rooftops to come back and put the notes on my piano honestly.
Please visit POLYDRAMA the same way you would visit your soul: gently but thoroughly, with care and bravery.”
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In “POLYDRAMA” the songs are signed by ody icon and the album, like the concert, is musically produced and orchestrated by Fotis ingie Papatheodorou with whom they have been collaborating for the last few years (EP “drama” & ” We cry at night”).

The evening will be opened by the distorter of rembetic sounds and tour guide of dark soundscapes ECATI, presenting material from his first album while the concert will feature as special guests mc mi55t, Iōko Ioannis Kotidis, Eugenia Liakou, Elena Posatzidou, Roula Chernou but also Alexandros Argyris and the clarinetist Giorgos Dousos who also participate in the POLYDRAMA album.

The musicians Irini Alisa and Yiannis Papanikolaou and the interpreters Androniki Xanthopoulou and Olga Dalekou appear on stage.

In the supertitles Grigoris Stathopoulos.

The costumes are edited by Marios Rammos, while the visual identity and visuals were created by Markos Zouridakis (nodataism) and Phaidonas Galogavras (fedon nom).

In the accessibility and production of the concert Christos Papamichael and liminal. In her communication, Katerina P. Trichia.

The spot will sell ody icons merchandise, the net proceeds of which go to the social kitchen The Other Man.

*The concert is accessible to Deaf and Hard of Hearing people*

INCANTATIONS

Incantations is a meeting point of various women artists creating an empowering and immersive journey made of mysterious chants, hypnotizing sounds, moving bodies and visual performances. The night will grow as a polyphonic ritual among which performances will occur in the contemplative space of the PLYFA theater of Athens.

The Vougioukli Sisters:
Technique or expressiveness: a fiercely debated subject amongst music lovers that ceases to exist in the divine presence of both. This much sought-after endowment is a way of life for siblings Eleni and Souzana Vougioukli.

Born and raised in the multi-cultural environs of Xanthi, northeastern Greece, the sisters have in less than a decade taken the local music scene by storm. Their musical art form brings harmony and custom. Performing in over 20 languages, the two girls turn to tradition for inspiration and training, absorbing the musical “wisdom” of the past while adding their own artistic signature and finally producing a distinctive creative outcome. Whether it be Portugal’s lamenting fados, Irish ballads and drinking songs, the forceful American blues or the passionate songs of southern Italy’s Grecia Salentina, the Vougioukli sisters manage thanks to their extensive classical studies to deliver a practiced performance.

But it is neither their impressive vocal skill nor correctness that sets them apart. As many of us will agree, technically gifted artists abound. The pair’s arousing vocal acrobatics linger into those deeper nooks and crannies of the soul, leading to the gratification and accompanying elation that only music can achieve. And this, my friends, is what artists from all walks of art strive to achieve. This is too what we the audience, starved of good sound, seek to find. Both are professional musicians by studies… and choice. Souzana is a mathematics degree holder and speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. While Eleni, specialising in Slavic and Balkan studies and economics, speaks Arabic and Turkish.

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Exotica Lunatica:
Exotica Lunaticais a French-Greek musical duo formed after the explosive and obvious encounter of two very singular artistic personalities. This project is an invitation to travel, to discover several horizons coexisting in harmony and enriched by their diversity. Born in 2022, the duo has released their debut album « Enter The Moon » last June, and has been touring in France, Italy and Greece since then.

Eleanna Konstanta is a Greek singer, guitarist, director and performer and Daphné Hejebri is a French composer, multi-instrumentalist, director and performer. With a strong technical musical background and emerging from various roots, this duo produces an ethnic and deeply polyphonic music with real sounds, incorporating classical elements and merging them with diverse modern materials. Exploring various themes such as the relationships humans have with the living, with the elements, with the matter, with the senses, with the transcendence, as well as more committed socio-political themes, this duo conveys us through a mystical, metaphysical, erotic and cosmic soundscape.

The creative fusion between the two women artists was evident, like a sharing of heritage, an opening to new horizons and a deep desire for connection through a mixture of singular artistic universes. The specificity of what Exotica Lunatica offers lies in the hybrid character of a music that claims to break away from genre. Its existence is also accompanied by a desire to create strong collaborative, performative, musical and visual objects that only strengthens its identity. Born with the idea of surrealism, symbolism and a touch of mysticism, this duo develops a language that brings together a variety of images through which sensory connections can be established.

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GENESIS NO 2

Extra performances beyond Mondays and Tuesdays:
Wednesday 25/10/2023, Friday 27/10/2023 at 21:00 and Saturday 28/10/2023 at 20:00.

This play is performed in Greek
The show is suitable for people over 16

Genesis No. 2 by Ivan Viripaev is a “tragedy of meaning” that manages to combine humor and realism, with deep questions about meaning and existence. It talks about freedom and imposition, loneliness and connection between people. He talks about God and with God, who is one of the characters of the work.

“If you believe in God, this does not mean that God also believes in you”

But it is about a humanized, revolutionary God, who defiantly declares that he does not exist, forcing man to look for what might exist beyond him. Is there anything else?

“In everything that exists around us, there is something else, something other than what we see”

Through the text worlds and characters are born, current and eternal that have the flexibility to transform through the eyes of the viewers. This brings to the surface thoughts and feelings that we all have, but perhaps don’t know how to put into words.

The polyphonic nature of the text is also reflected in the direction, which tries an innovative approach to the work. Five actors alternate in the roles of the play, changing characters in each performance, spontaneously, without any prior agreement as to which role each one will take on in each scene. Thus, through this game of self-determination, each performance will be different, unpredictable and truly “alive”.

The ETÚTI Theater Group, directed by Kali Voikli and with the original musical composition of Viki Kapetanopoulou, create an alternative performance, where Viripaev’s text emerges as the “main face of the work”.

The performance is held under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

VROMIA

A shocking work from Robert Schneider about the “stranger” among us, loneliness, hope and dreams that cross borders

“My name is Sad. I am thirty years old. Sad in English means sad. I’m not sad.”
With this sentence, Sad begins to tell his story.
Sad was born and raised in Iraq. Now he is another immigrant, in Germany. He is now in the place he dreamed of and loved through his readings, but he is alone and afraid.
He would like to be like everyone else. He wishes he could talk to them. To be able to enter the subway. To belong somewhere.

But he is a stranger.
He lives locked in his room.

“This is my chair. Here I sit. I love my chair… Even though it doesn’t belong to me, this chair is my homeland.”
Inside this room, which is his whole world, Sad longs and dreams. He talks about his life and people, struggles to hold on to everything he loves, pokes fun at himself and juggles loneliness and hope with heartbreaking humor and disarming honesty.
Sad is the Other, the different one who is to blame for everything. The one we pass by every day without seeing him, without ever really getting to know him. Sad is among us. Or maybe inside us?
“Vromia” was staged for the first time in Greece in 1997, by the New World Theater directed by Vangelis Theodoropoulos and starring Konstantinos Markoulakis.
Konstantinos Famis presented “Vromia” for the first time in 2016 while touring Greece, while in 2018, he performed in Athens and Thessaloniki.

“… I heard a phrase somewhere in Arabic, but I know someone thought of it in German. Now I will say this sentence.
For what you cannot speak, it is better to be silent.
Now I know that this sentence is wrong.
What you can’t talk about, you have to talk about!”

This play is performed in Greek

Performance duration
70 minutes without a break

Information – reservations
Tel.: 6946649550

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They wrote about Vromia:

CheckinArt
A FIST IN THE RACIST STOMACH OF ALL OF US
“Amazing acting by Konstantinos Fami that makes you question and loathe the existing racist trends that exist around us and are spreading rapidly.”

Fourketa
“Sad’s story is a mesmerizing monologue, with a Konstantinos Fami who performs the role exceptionally well, keeping the viewer’s interest and emotional involvement undiminished. A show worth watching.”

Fragile
“Konstantinos Famis is simply sensational on stage. Although he had an extremely difficult monologue in his hands, full of symbolism, he was revelatory interpretatively.”

Koita-magazine
“Konstantinos Famis dives into the shelters of the hero Sad, covers his body, soul and spirit with the “white sheet” where Robert Schneider wrote.”

newsbeast
“The sensational performance emphasizes the popular saying ‘is John afraid of the beast or the beast of John?’ After all, the relations between citizens and States function like communicating vessels, and fear metaphorically does not have the same density.”

#Realnews
“Be sure to see Konstantinos Fami in ‘Vromia’. It’s worth it!”

tetragwno.gr
“Through a difficult work, with sharp, often fragmentary speech, with rapid emotional changes and with sudden dramatic climaxes, Konstantinos Famis successfully outlines the personality of the saddened Sad.”

3point magazine
Sad by Constantinos Fami and Katerina Polychronopoulos gave me chills”

Noizy.gr
“Konstantinos Famis was simply wonderful. Even though he was constantly on stage alone, you never lost interest and this is purely due to his talent. Amazing in the transitions from Iraqi immigrant to German citizen, in such a simple way and easy to to be perceived by all viewers. Whatever anyone says will be a bit. Just brilliant.”

Theatro.gr
“Constantinos Fami’s performance as Sad is riveting! Absolutely natural in his performance… sometimes sensitive, touching, proud, humane, kind and sometimes sharp, raging full of rage, anger and fear. Emotional transitions with silences, pauses and repetitions captured with aptness and absolute precision.”

MALI IN ATHENS

Our mentors Brahima Bandjougou Coulibaly and Oumar Koné, will be in Athens for the third time to initiate us in the dance and music tradition of Mali. A great musician also, virtuoso Ngoni fola, Adama Coulibaly will also join us for the first time in Greece.
Yeelen West African dance and music company welcomes with great respect and an open heart the three internationally recognized artists in Athens and invites you for another year to the seminar weekend MALI in ATHENS.

SCHEDULE
LIVE PERFORMANCE 29/9 FRIDAY
ROES theater 21.30 entrance 13 & 10€
Book your ticket: 6940774237

SATURDAY 30/9 & SUNDAY 1/10
11.00-14.00 West African dance open level
16.00-18.00 Ngoni harp—Singing open level
18.00-20.00 Percussion open level

• Dance will be held at PLYFA, 39 Koritsas Str., Votanikos, Athens
•• Percussion and Ngoni seminars will be held at Yeelen Center, 216 Liosion Str., Kato Patisia, Athens

PRICES
Dance 1 day / 3 hrs: 45€
Dance 2 days / 6 hrs: 90€

Percussion 1 day / 2 hrs: 25€
Percussion 2 days / 4 hrs: 50€

Ngoni—Singing 1 day / 2 hrs: 25€
Ngoni—Singing 2 days / 4 hrs: 50€

Dance + Percussion OR Ngoni 1 day / 5 hrs: 60€
Dance + Percussion OR Ngoni 2 days / 10 hrs: 125€

FULL 1 day Dance + Percussion + Ngoni / 7 hrs: 90€
FULL 2 days Dance + Percussion + Ngoni / 14 hrs: 170€

—Booking your spot is NECESSARY with an advance of 50% of the total amount. In the event of cancellation by you before September 21th 50% of the advance payment will be refunded to you. There is no refund for cancellations after September 21th. Payments of any kind (advance or full amount) shall be carried out through a deposit to a bank account (Piraeus, Alpha Bank, PayPal).

Contact / Info : 0030 6940774237 WhatsApp, (Sissy) or email : [email protected]

SMINOS

BOOK-LIKE, EDUCATIVE, EPHEMINE, NOMAD, LAZY, CO-OPERATIVE, POLITICAL

There is this deathly embrace of neoliberal destructiveness all around us. From Evia to Tempi and from Pylos to the daily wage, everything around us is filled with mourning and ugliness. And then there are the everyday resistances, overt and unacknowledged, that make life bearable, often and beautiful. Somewhere in the middle of this tug-of-war is us, who, more than a job, want our relationships to foreshadow a possible future beyond capitalism.

We said, therefore, that it is a good occasion to gather, words, ideas and actions in a two-day festival, in a celebration.

In place of forced association and pre-made behaviors, we counter-propose a swarming with you on the free and festive side of ideas and everyday life. We oppose a swarm of free meetings, of dialogue, of participation.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 09

BUILDING 7A

17.30-18.45 • DISCUSSION Small publishers – big ideas. With Michalis Paparounis (futura), Christos Mai (Psifides), Fotis Kateva (Eutopia) and Telemachos Doufexis Antonopoulos (Colleagues Publications).

19.00-20.15 • DISCUSSION Realistic utopias, Commons and cooperation. With Yiannis Zaimakis, Karolos Kavoulakos and Giorgos Lieros. Antonis Brumas coordinates.

20.30-22.00 • DISCUSSION Everyone is trying to heal me. Open discussion with interventions by the members of the Network of People Who Hear Voices and the Pedagogical Group “to Skasiarcheo”. This is followed by the interactive-reflective workshop “Empathy, collective care and collaboration for a community school”.

22.15 • SCREENING Wooden builders of the Aegean. Agios Isidoros Samos. Documentary by Giorgos Nikolakakis about traditional woodworking and the last ship carpenters in Agios Isidoros Samos and their relationship with the Commons.

BUILDING 7G

17.30-18.15 • THEATER The Theater Group of the People Hear Voices Network is inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Ship of Madmen and creates a performance about coexistence in chaos. Excerpts of texts by Odysseus Elytis, Albert Camus, Justine del Corte, Antonio Porcia and others are heard.

18.30-20.00 • DISCUSSION Feminist violence? Rethinking the autonomy of the feminist movement. With Irene, author of The Feminist Horror.

20.15-21.45 • DISCUSSION From the libertarian colonies of the 19th century to the Temporary Autonomous Zones of today. With Daniel de Roulet, author of Ten Little Anarchists.

22.00 • SHOWING Working with our pass (Lavorare Con Lentezza). Film by Guido Chiesa about the historic Italian radio station Radio Alice, which was associated with labor struggles and the Autonomy movement.

OUTDOOR STAGE

21.15-00.00 • CONCERTS TOXIC RABBITS, DOT ON EARTH, LOLEK
Post-punk and electronic beats from the strongest bands, for a truly industrial Saturday night!

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

MORNING PROGRAM

BUILDING 7A

12.00-13.15 • DISCUSSION Instructions for using the need: How to build, manage and defend a collective. Members of collaborative ventures (Pangaki, Co. Others, BIOME, Publications of Colleagues) participate.

13.30 • SHOW 95% reality. Documentary by Pierre-Andre Sauvazo about Jean-Francois Villard, author of the book It’s Always Others Who Die.

BUILDING 7G

11.30-12.45 • DISCUSSION Noir at noon. The aesthetics of denunciation: neopolar instead of proclamation. A game of chess between a noir writer (Andreas Apostolidis) and an artist (Pavlos Nikolakopoulos).

13.00-14.15 • DISCUSSION Round table/open meeting for mental health professionals with the main topic of discussion being self-management issues in the professional field of psychotherapy and mental health and the professionalization model. Coordination: Apo Koinou collective. Psychosocial Empowerment and Psychotherapy.

OUTDOOR SPACE

14.15-17.00 • EVENT Collective Industrial picnic. We eat, drink and chat together. In this context, The Hour of Unconditional Laziness will take place. An hour without selling and doing nothing.

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

BUILDING 7A

18.00-19.15 • DISCUSSION The haunting thought screams “well you dug old mole”: Marx and Lukacs are still young. Participants: Yannis Milios, Dimitra Ali Fieraki, and Alexandros Minotakis.

19.30-20.45 • DISCUSSION Building a public school, cooperative and democratic, for all children. Open discussion from me

ALCHEMY OF THE EXTRAORDINARY

David Glass Ensemble Learning and JEUDi present Alchemy of the Extraordinary, a 4-week intensive training in Creative Practice and Invented Theatre.

“David Glass’s creative practice is a unique and courageous exploration
of the archetypal experience of human existence”.
Peter Brook, International Theater Director

“His imagination is unique and his work is a real challenge. David makes theater about things that matter.”
Paule Constable, Olivier and Tony Award winning Lighting Designer.

Led by teacher David Glass, Alchemy of the Extraordinary is an intensive educational program in Invented Theater and Creative Practice. The 4-week experience will include David Glass’ Creative Practice in five stages: his research on Authentic Voice, Child, Adolescent, Elder, Playwriting-Creation and Ensemble Theatre. David’s work has influenced and engaged from theater groups to education, social development organizations around the world (such as UN, Save the Children, Gecko, 111 Program and many others).

David Glass’ workshops are distinguished for their rigor, but also their creativity and efficiency. Over a period of 4 weeks, 6 days a week and 8 hours a day, participants will have a transformative experience based on the skills of David Glass’ creative framework. They will find the tools to integrate and enhance what they already do in their own practice, broadening and deepening their ability to create in theatre, but also in other areas of art, education and social development.

The Program is hosted by the PLYFA industrial complex on July 24, 25 and 26, 2023. On Wednesday, July 26, the participants will present their work, in an “open presentation” and discussion context.

NEFELI FASOULI LIVE

Six months after her big exit in New York, Nefeli Fasouli, full of upheavals, experiences and adventure, begins her summer live in Athens with a cheerful mood reminiscent of the good old days.

With a completely fresh band, with songs from the personal album “O Kosmos sou” with music and lyrics by Phoebus Delivorias, but also with other well-known and beloved folk songs, the group is expected to burn down the loft this summer.

Doors open at 20.00

ST-ANGER: Emotional landscapes of care

An actress embodies (only) discourses of women connected to the dense field of gender violence. The roles played are both fictional and real, and they are essentially “political figures” rather than fixed and materialized identities. The social worker, the mediator, the psychologist, the mother, the peer, the activist, the lawyer talk about trauma in a waiting setting. A trauma that does not appear as a psychological process or a physical wound, but is a political stake.

This play is performed in Greek.

The co-emotional landscapes concern those “atmospheres” that are created individually and collectively and that co-shape the public space as a place of political confrontation with the injustices that it produces every day.

Adopting the slogan “we are full of f–rage” that the brutal public murder of Jacques Kostopoulos highlighted and that echoed at the same time in the protest marches for Eleni Topaloudis, as in other cases of femicides, in this work care is intertwined with the rage it creates the daily reproduction of the injustice of the deaths of those who haunt the public space, while the search for social justice is constantly pending.

The text of the show is a transcription of a series of fiction audio documentaries – podcasts produced through interviews and systematic research within the framework of the research program “Co-emotional landscapes of care: Gender-based violence and resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic”*, Department of Social Anthropology, Pantheon University.

*The research program “Co-emotional landscapes of care: Gender-based violence and resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic” is funded by ELIDEK (Hellenic Research & Innovation Foundation), within the framework of the 4th Call for Action “Science and Society “, Flagship Action entitled “Interventions to deal with the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic”, with the Diotima Center as a collaborating organization and housed at the Department of Social Anthropology, Pantheon University of Social and Political Sciences.

AGORAPHOBIC

In September 2023, the musical constellations, shooting stars, meteors, pulsars, black holes and zodiacs that make up the sonic universe in which the generations of myspace, facebook, instagram, tiktok and other lovers of social isolation, gather in the same space, in a festival of two days and two stages, which explores the sonic and artistic identity of a large part of the past, present and future of the domestic scene.

22/9/23 | Agoraphobic Day 1
Stella, The Boy, The Children of Antiquity, Krista Papista, Veslemes, The Callas, Sillyboy’s Ghost Relatives, Degear0001, Dimitris Glyfos

23/9/23 | Agoraphobic Day 2
Pan Pan, Nalyssa Green, Melentini, Sci-Fi River, Lunar, $oft $kull, The Model Spy, My Brother the Couch, My Wet Calvin

Agoraphobic aspires to be repeated with a different curator every year – starting with Aris of My Wet Calvin.

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