• Saturday 11/23 to Sunday 11/24 || 12:00 PM–9:00 PM
• Atrium
• Free Entry

Workshops

Internet Skills for Ages 60+

The successful digital empowerment workshop is back at Kypseli Municipal Market! We meet every Tuesday for the advanced group and every Wednesday for beginners, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM. With tablet use, we learn how to surf the internet, search for useful information, communicate online with friends and family, and complete transactions with the government.

• Advanced Group: Every Tuesday from 10/1 to 12/3 || 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
• Creative Lab 1, Cost: €60 for the full 10-session course
• Beginners Group: Every Wednesday from 10/2 to 12/4 || 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
• Tickets available at more.com

Art Therapy Workshops

These art therapy workshops, led by expressive therapist Marili Topouzoglou, offer a chance for personal growth and self-expression through various artistic methods. Activities include finger painting, creating ceramic totems, storytelling, and self-portrait exploration. Participants discover new ways to connect with memories, senses, and their inner worlds, enhancing self-awareness, creativity, and a sense of community in a safe space for creative experimentation and emotional expression.

• Every Tuesday from 10/1 to 11/26 || 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
• Creative Lab 1
• Free Entry (registration required here or call 2111824102)

Introduction to Woodworking with Hōkō

Learn basic woodworking techniques while making your first project—a handy stool to take home at the end of the course.

• Every Wednesday from 10/9 to 11/27 || 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Cost: €220 for the full 8-session course
• Info and reservations here

Dive into Imagination

Art workshop for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-grade children with Kyriakos Mourtzis. Ready to become a unique young artist and dive into the world of colors and imagination? Join us at the Kypseli Municipal Market to play with color and shape, get messy with clay, paint with brushes, and create fantastic worlds that only you will understand!

• Every Wednesday from 11/6 to 11/27 || 6:00 PM–7:00 PM
• Creative Lab 1
• Cost: €30 for the full 4-session course
• Tickets available at more.com

Photography Workshop: The Art of Wedding Flatlays

Kypseli Municipal Market hosts the Photography Workshop: The Art of Wedding Flatlays, designed for photographers, content creators, e-shop owners, event and wedding planners, and anyone passionate about design and composition. Renowned photographer Monika Kritikos will lead the workshop, sharing the secrets of the art of wedding flatlay and demonstrating how these techniques can be applied to product and e-commerce photography.

• Saturday 2/11 || 11:00 AM–6:00 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Cost: €320
• Tickets available here

Little Pastry Chefs in Action

Byzantion Bakery invites you to the magical world of baking with a unique Halloween workshop for kids. Join us to create spooky Halloween cookies. Using creative ingredients like fondant and colorful glazes, kids will decorate cookies in shapes like ghosts, pumpkins, and bats! Ingredients include egg, flour, butter, sugar, apricot jam, food coloring, and fondant.

• Saturday 2/11 || 11:00 AM–2:00 PM
  • 11:00–11:30 AM & 11:40 AM–12:10 PM for ages 6–8
  • 12:20–12:50 PM & 1:00–1:30 PM for ages 9–10
• Atrium
• Free entry; registration required at byzantionbakery@gmail.com (limited spaces)

Plant Propagation in Water with Hōkō

Hōkō presents the easiest technique for plant propagation using water. Each participant will learn how to cut and propagate a plant to take home. You’ll also learn how to care for the cutting as it roots and how to transfer it to the soil.

• Thursday 7/11 and every first Thursday of the month until December || 6:30–7:30 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Free entry; reservation required here

Creating with Chrysolie: Watercolor Painting

Discover the art of watercolor inspired by nature’s beauty! In this workshop, we’ll explore how to capture natural landscapes and elements through watercolor techniques. Learn the basics and experiment with colors and textures to create impressive pieces inspired by the world around us. Embrace the creative process with a fresh perspective and natural inspiration!

• Saturday 9/11 || 7:00–9:00 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Cost: €22
• Reservations: chrysoliesart@gmail.com or 6984561871

Candle Making Workshop

Join us for a hands-on, creative workshop exploring the world of natural candles. Spend four hours immersed in colors, scents, and decorations, making beautiful container candles and learning everything you need to create your own natural candles!

• Sunday 10/11 || 11:00 AM–3:00 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Free entry; reservations on Instagram @beemamacourses or 6909068341

First Aid for Infants, Children, and Adults

This First Aid seminar at Kypseli Municipal Market is for parents, teachers, caregivers, and anyone interested in learning important skills for handling emergencies across all ages. Participants will learn basic techniques like CPR, anti-choking methods, and managing injuries and allergic reactions. The seminar includes theoretical training and practical exercises to build confidence in handling emergency situations.

• Tuesday 12/11 || 5:30–7:00 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Cost: €30
• Required reservations on the Momscent Instagram page or 6979545608 (limited spaces)

Vlavi Book Club

The book club of Vlavi magazine is a space for engaging with essays and literary texts that have shaped the history of publishing. The only requirement for participation is reading the books suggested by the magazine’s editorial team and preparing for a critical discussion.

• Thursday 14/11 || 6:00–9:00 PM | Discussing “Fashion” by Georg Simmel, Plethron Editions
• Saturday 16/11 || 6:00–9:00 PM | Discussing “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner, Gutenberg Editions
• Creative Lab 2
• Free entry

Wax Wrap Workshop

In this workshop, learn to create natural, household wax wraps, an eco-friendly alternative to plastic wrap for food storage and transport. You’ll learn how to make, use, and renew them, and will leave with two personal-use wraps.

• Friday 22/11 || 6:30–8:00 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Cost: €30
• Reservations: welcome@astikimelissa.gr or at the Astiki Melissa shop in Kypseli Municipal Market

Creating with Chrysolie: Mixed Media on Canvas

Explore your creativity with mixed media on canvas! In this workshop, we’ll use acrylic paints, markers, paper, glue, scissors, stencils, and more to create impressive artworks. Through experimental techniques and material combinations, you’ll discover new textures and techniques to express your imagination and creativity on each canvas. Embrace the joy of creation and explore the possibilities of mixed media together!

• Saturday 23/11 || 7:00–9:00 PM
• Creative Lab 2
• Cost: €25
• Reservations: chrysoliesart@gmail.com or 6984561871

So it was with great interest that I picked up a copy of the in-flight magazine of Swiss airways on a recent work trip. The headline: 'Athens: Mother of all cities’

Clearly these articles are written to entice travellers to visit this lucrative Swiss airways destination. They are marketing pieces. But what exactly would a Swiss author see as enticing about Athens?

I'm going to re-write a few key phrases from the piece here - and hope that this isn’t breaking any laws! The full article can be seen linked below...

According to Swiss, ‘The Athenians virtually invented urban life, and we can still learn from them today’.  They say that Athens remains a model of urbanity. Because the ‘warm climate and the friendliness of the locals make make Athens a place where life spills out of the homes, shops and thousands of bars and restaurants and onto the streets, however narrow they may be. Because it’s a city that buzzes almost around the clock. And because a new generation has taken the recent crises as a chance to reaffirm, with almost Olympian zeal, the great Greek triumphs of the past: hospitality, culinary variety, strong coffee and fine wine!’

They mention the places that we all know – Plaka, Psirri, National Gardens, rooftop restaurants, bars, and obviously the acropolis.

In an interview with Ted Lelekas (telegourmet.org), he answers the question ‘Why Athens?’  His answer: The nightlife. The sensuality. The friendliness. The wine.

I'd say they pretty much 'got it'. Athens is all of that, and it’s not just ‘marketing puff’ to say so.

Until next week,

Jack

Swiss Magazine (Athens, November 2014):
http://www.swiss.com/CMSContent/web/SiteCollectionDocuments/SWISS-Magazine/2014/SWISS-Magazine-November.pdf

Interview with Ted Lelekas: http://www.swiss.com/CMSContent/web/SiteCollectionDocuments/SWISS-Magazine/2014/SWISS-Magazine-November-Talk.pdf

Check out the Swiss City Guide for Athens here: http://www.swiss.com/CMSContent/web/SiteCollectionDocuments/SWISS-Magazine/2014/SWISS-Magazine-November-City-Guide.pdf

 

In this weekly space, keep up with ‘Jack’ as he navigates daily life in Athens… Anecdotes, stories, hits & misses, the good, the bad and, well, the rest…

Though Veria has been an important settlement since ancient times, the Roman statesman Cicero (100-43 BC) described it as an "out-of-the-way town" because of its distance from Thessalonika (68 km) and the Roman Via Egnatia.

Today, despite being close to a throbbing motorway, it remains a small, neat provincial town amongst the hilly farmland of central Macedonia, with a view across the broad plain below.

Saint Paul the Apostle preached in Veria on his evangelical tour of Macedonia (around 49-51 AD) and found a very receptive audience. A grand outdoor marble and mosaic monument to his visit has been built on the Víma, the square where he preached, at the edge of the town.

One of the main mosaics depicts Paul's "Macedonian vision", a scene found in many churches in Macedonia.

Downtown has a couple of main streets lined with smart shops, cafés and offices full of well-dressed young people. Pleasant but unremarkable. As ever, it's when you go behind this modern veneer and explore the side streets and alleys that things get interesting.

As so often in Greece, one comes across the widespread ambivalence to its own history and heritage. Ancient mosques, churches and houses have been left to decay.

During the five centuries of Turkish occupation, churches were disguised as barns and warehouses. There are said to be 48 of these, which explains Veria's epithet "Little Jerusalem". But the stories of disguise seem odd, as you only have to walk past one and peer into a window to see the magnificent frescoes or smell the incense. It is impossible not to conclude that there must have been a degree of collusion or laissez-faire between the local Greek and Turkish populations. This was certainly not always the case, and the Turkish authorities were known to inflict vicious retribution, such as the hanging of the archbishop in 1436.


To read more, please visit my-favourite-planet.de

By David John

Department of Defense is seeking shooters, counter intelligence agents and qualified fighter jet pilots, while the government has already issued a visa for 135 people who will work for the country’s elite units. The military recruitment from abroad has increased since 2012, while the appointment of some 36 foreign employees on the defense sector is currently pending.

The Australian Defense Ministry has already given funds to attract the elite military personnel. “In fact, this is not a waste of time, on the opposite, we save money as we do not spend time for staff training.

To read more, please visit greekreporter.com

By Aggelos Skordas

Three moms who are passionate about Greece created Kids Love Greece and after extensive research in Athens, came up with their top list of things to do in the city with your family! There are many excellent options for families traveling to Athens, but they rounded up the best ones.

1. Climb up the Acropolis, travel back to the Golden Age of Pericles, and discover the birthplace of Democracy.
   
   
2. Find the Karyatides (which hold up the roof of the Parthenon) among the marvelous artifacts on exhibit at the Acropolis Museum.
   
   
3. Run around the streets of Plaka and play with the knickknacks in the stores in Monastiraki.
   
   
4. Watch the peacocks and the kri kri (Cretan Ibex) in the beautiful gardens of Zappeio.
   
   
5. Visit all the amazing children’s museums – especially the Goulandris Museum of Natural History, which is full of dinosaurs.
   
   
6. Get to know the dolphins and their fun-loving friends at the Attica Park Zoo.