Piraeus - Athens

Myths, fairy tales and literary texts selected by the French Institute of Greece come to life in a read-aloud session for children and young people

Curious about skateboarding? Come try it out, express yourself, and move freely with others! 

The workshop continues the artist’s practice on participation as a tool for investigating citizenship. The formed group of participants will learn how to produce a community radio show, narrate, discuss and record together and form questions on our everyday life and the experience of residents of Piraeus, with a focus on communities that experiences migration either in 1920’s and its legacies or very recent experiences. Through the use of sound, music and mapping, we will explore the present soundscape of Piraeus, producing for a future, through sharing experiences, poetry and music.

Klickable is a closed-eyes photography workshop that frees photography from the dominance of vision and activates hearing, smell, touch, and the sense of atmosphere by using our largest sensory organ — the skin. It is aimed at people with or without visual impairments, as well as professional and amateur photographers. Participants will practice the method of blind photography using their digital camera or their mobile phone’s camera. 

Christina Koza, singing in Greek, Arabic and Turkish, under the direction of master musician Kyriakos Kalaitzidis, oud and music composer, will be exploring universal traditional songs of the Mediterranean Sea. Famous violinist Zied Zouari from Tunisia will exceptionally be participating to this concert. The Mediterranean has always been a sea of encounters and exchanges. Each shore calls out to the other, constantly, inevitably, from ancient times to the present day, between East and West. It is this unique feature that will be highlighted in this concert, conceived by Kyriakos Kalaitzidis. 

Darkness is hurled with a voiceless cry, a shadow that became a weight, an indelible mark. With a hand reaching out— that holds— never letting me go, without suffocating, without hurting. A path— a step that measures time, a step that erases fear. Where the weight becomes breath, and presence becomes refuge.