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
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.
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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Danai Moraiti will perform at PLYFA on Thursday, June 29, where she will present tracks from her first studio album entitled Koureloú (December 2022). Her musical compositions are influenced by various musical idioms, such as that of Epirus, Thrace and Asia Minor with references to classical forms but also later idioms of Western music. In the context of creating soundscapes, she incorporates electronic and ambient elements into her music. Lyrically, she is influenced by folk and folk songs, myths and fairy tales. The concert will also include some traditional tunes from places of her musical influences, as well as compositions by favorite past and present songwriters.
On Tuesday, June 20, Lambda and Sophie lies share the PLYFA stage.
Going through the period of TRIA, Lambda continues their performances in Athens. In Plyfa, selected tracks from all their albums will be heard, with the last one dominating numerically as well as in feeling.
After a year of acoustic and quiet sets, currently recording new material, Sophie lies will appear with an electric full band set, with old and new songs.
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And those who were afraid to live did not want to
The sea washes them away
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In the sea the waves
I will learn to grow old
Usurum start their summer performances from Athens and PLYFA on June 19!
Usurum is celebrating 10 years in their discography this year, while they are preparing to release their 5th album in 2023.
So, in their summer performances, they will present many of the songs that will make up their upcoming album as well as selected songs from the previous ones.
Doors open at 20:00
“I’m too sad to” is a multisensory, nocturnal landscape of resistance made of flesh, bones, sounds, voices, smells and objects. Three dancers and a musician seek ways to resist the kinetic inertia of grief by opening up a field of action that embraces fall, failure and darkness and celebrates imperfection, weakness and vulnerability. In a game of orientation, they choose the activation of the senses as a gateway to the world and the Other. Where the body sees its skin not as a boundary, but as a spreading surface, as a connective tissue that connects it to the universe. Rejecting the thought that the human body is a self-contained, closed entity, a body under negotiation, driven by questions, is welcomed. As Deborah Hay said: “My body in question is the dance.”.
As paradoxical as it sounds, “I’m too sad to” is a promise of light for a new start of the world, for a leap towards impossibility.
The performance is held under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Aria Boubaki (choreographer)
Aria Boubaki is a dance artist who lives and works in Athens.
She studied dance at the State School of Orchestral Art and continued her education in the postgraduate choreographic research program Ex.e.r.ce at Ici-Ccn (Choreographic Center of Montpellier, France), as a scholarship holder of the Onassis Foundation.
Her works are characterized by their creative process and the concept of community in art. Exploring dancing bodies in different realities, he creates works of different structures and places (stage works, installations, site-specific projects, community projects, texts, videos, etc.). Fascinated by sound, language, objects and architecture, she collaborates with artists involved in visual art, music and dance. Fascinated by the body and kinetic identity, she often invites non-professional dancers to explore/re-define dancing, stage bodies and the need for physical-kinesthetic realism in dance works. He wishes to work with collectives, succumb to kinetic pleasure and awaken consciousness, while proposing tenderness as a means of revolution!
Parallel to her creative process is teaching in the form of regular workshops in modern dance technique, improvisation and choreography in educational institutions, dance studios and festivals. He has collaborated with the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Foundation Shelter, the Pompidou Center, the State Theater of Northern Greece and the French Institute of Athens. Her latest projects have been financed by the Ministry of Culture and Sports. In 2020 she was a danceweb scholarship holder of the international festival IMPULSTANZ -Vienna (with the support of the Onassis Foundation), as well as one of the artists who was awarded the ARTWORKS prize of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Support Program.
Canadian Author & Culture Activist Stephen Jenkinson brings Griefwalker, a National Film Board of Canada documentary to Athens.
Stephen Jenkinson is the subject of Griefwalker, directed by Tim Wilson (2008).
Griefwalker is a lyrical, poetic portrait of Stephen’s work with dying people. Filmed over a twelve year period, Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses, in counselling sessions with dying people and their families, and in meditative and often frank exchanges with the film’s director while paddling a birch bark canoe about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die.‘Griefwalker’ is currently being translated into Greek.
MORE ABOUT STEPHEN JENKINSON ~ Author ~ Master of Ceremony ~ Culture activist ~ Storyteller ~ Off-grid small-scale Farmer ~ Carver ~ Keeper of the Great Hall ~
Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School.
For years, after apprenticing to a master storyteller as a young man, acquiring a master’s degree in theology from Harvard Divinity school and another in social work from the University of Toronto, Stephen Jenkinson led the palliative care department in a major Canadian hospital and was assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. He has worked extensively with caregivers, dying people and their families. Whilst sitting at the deathbeds of over a thousand people, he encountered again and again what he called a “wretched anxiety.” Rather than any one individual’s personal issue with dying, Jenkinson understood this as symptomatic of a cultural absence, a death phobia, a grief illiteracy.
These experiences served to distil a number of questions: Has it always been this hard to die? When do we really begin to die, and what are we supposed to do then? How is it that grief is a skill, something to be learned and practised? Those questions and more spawned several books. He is the subject of the National Film Board of Canada feature length film documentary, Griefwalker (Dir.T.Wilson).
He is the author of Reckoning, co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson (2022), and A Generation’s Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (2021), Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018), the award-winning Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015 and translated into Hebrew and Turkish), Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions (a live teaching from 2013), How it All Could Be: A workbook for dying people and those who love them (2009), Homecoming – The Haiku Sessions (Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life – (a live teaching from 2009), and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation (2002). He was a contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2007).
Lost Nation Road (Dir.I.MacKenzie) is a glimpse behind-the-scenes of a soulful mystery train. His Nights of Grief and Mystery world tours, with fellow Canadian singer/ songwriter Gregory Hoskins, are odes to wonder, love letters for the willingness to know endings. 2023 World Tour Dates
Read more about Stephen here.
Stephen Jenkinson’s new book is COME OF AGE: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (July 2018) video link
In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species.
To purchase a hard copy or download Stephen’s audio book visit orphanwisdom.com
The Making of Humans video clip short films by director/producer Ian MacKenzie
Die Wise A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul is Stephen’s book about grief, and dying, and the great love of life. (2015 Nautilus Award Winner)
Dying well is not a matter of enlightened self-interest or personal preference. Dying well must become an obligation that living people and dying people owe to each other and to those to come.
The Miss Hellas Drag Pageant is the pageant for Drag Queens and aims to highlight the art of Drag and its artists. In this event, new Drag Queens from all over Greece will compete for the title of Miss Hellas Drag 2023. The two categories that will determine the winner are Pageant Queen in an evening gown and the Talent Show. The winner will be chosen by the jury at the end of the competition, followed by a party where people can take pictures with the Drag Queens, drink and dance. The title of Miss Hellas Drag and Runner Up carry a cash prize, gift certificates and other rich prizes. Of course, the other contestants will also receive gifts.
At 11:00pm there will be a party with DJ Lockbird
A concert, an accessible musical performance, with songs from their self-titled first full-length album, which is expected to be released in the coming months, with pieces that shaped their personal aesthetic identity as well as with their previous releases. 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.
In “POLYDRAMA” the songs are signed by ody icons and the record, like the concert, is musically produced by Fotis ingie Papatheodorou with whom they have been collaborating for the last few years (EP “drama” & “We cry at night“).
“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.” -ody icon
The night is opened by the distorter of rembetic sounds and tour guide of dark soundscapes ECATI, presenting material from his first album, while the concert features mc mi55t, who also participates in the POLYDRAMA album, as a special guest.
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ody icon is a young multidisciplinary musical artist from the eastern Mediterranean. Born and raised in Cyprus, he studied acting in Athens and did postgraduate studies in Paris in theater directing and dramaturgy. He joined the choirs of the “Epilogi” Cultural Movement from a very young age, studied piano with Tania Oikonomou and studied classical, modern and traditional singing with different teachers. He has directed, played and participated in shows and performances in Greece, Cyprus, France, Germany and England.
In 2017, he was introduced to the public as ody icons with the cover of the song “Supermelancholic”, while in December 2020 he released his own debut track – manifesto, “Working Out My Little Muscles” in collaboration with liminal. Since then they have maintained a solid partnership making all of his music videos accessible to deaf people through interpretation and subtitling. In April 2022, the EP album “drama” produced by Fotis ingie Papatheodorou and the homonymous ten-minute film “drama were released ”, directed by choreographer Haris Koussios, which accompanied the three songs on the album. The drama was then released accessible to blind people making it the first universally accessible music video in Greece.