Todos Tango Festival is a yearly international tango festival that takes place for the third time and that is connected since it’s early steps with quality events of high artistic value. For the first time, the legends of Argentine tango, together in one beautiful festival!

From Wednesday May 30th to Sunday June 3rd Athens becomes the capital of tango. The living legends of tango convene in TODOS TANGO FESTIVAL ATHENS 2018 to fill yet one more page in the history of tango The entire event will be hosted in Gazi Music Hall in Keramikos, an artistically vibrant neighbourhood of Athens.

One of the most significant personalities of Tango Argentino worldwide, Miguel Angel Zotto along with his extraordinary and talented partner Daiana Guspero, the absolute ambassador of the culture and elegance of Argentine Tango, Sebastian Missé with Andrea Reyero a couple with great heritage, the unique dancer and choreographer Gabriel Missé described as “Baryshnikov of tango”, with his new partner Maru Rifourcat and  last but not least the gifted dancer Stella Missé with the Greek maestro Kostas Nikolaidis.

Todos Tango Festival couldn’t be missing great tango couples from Greece, famous within and beyond the frontiers of their country, Loukas Balokas with Georgia Priskou, Vaggelis Hatzopoulos with Marianna Koutandou and Raphael Passaquay with Danaie Zeugadina. 

Our aim is to spread the beauty of tango to the world, in it’s most authentic sense and encourage the unity of nations and cultures, through the means provided by this dance of love and embrace by convening tangueros and art lovers of any age and nationality, every year in Greece.

This year Todos Tango Festival takes place in Athens under the auspices of the Municipality of the city and addresses itself to all people who love music, dance and art.It is an open invitation to anybody who wishes to approach Tango Argentino in it’s originality and get acquainted with this fascinating culture, an invitation to all people who need a new way of expression and communication in their everyday life. Under this perspective, the festival incorporates the innovative idea to add a three class seminar for new beginners in it’s schedule, giving the opportunity to newcomers to sense the taste of the original tango by most renowned maestros.

Only a few days away form the opening of the festival and the world’s first gathering of all these maestros in one event, the international tango community eagerly awaits for this moment. Meanwhile, we call to all of you to join us in this marvelus dance of love and understanding. Let go of any hesitations and let your steps guide you to a warm embrace.


MILONGA SCHEDULE

Wednesday 30 May: Gazi music Hall Rooftop "Baile de los Maestros".Entrance: € 15 (presales: €12)Dj: Aris Canaro

Thursday 31 May: Gazi music Hall Rooftop Shows from Vaggelis Hatzopoulos & Marianna Koutantou and Raphael Passaquay & Danae Zevgadina.Entrance: €18 (presales: €15)Dj: Nikos Marketos

Friday 1 June:  Gazi Live (Gazi Music Hall - Main Stage) Shows από Sebastian Missé & Andrea Reyero and Loukas Balokas & Georgia Priskou.Entrance: €25 (presales: €20)Dj: Patrizia, "La Tipica Mujer"

Saturday 2 June: Gazi Live (Gazi Music Hall- Main Stage) Shows from Miguel Angel Zotto & Daiana Guspero and Stella Missé & Kostas Nikolaidis.Entrance: €25 (presales: €20)Dj: Trifon HiouteasSunday

03 June: Gazi Live (Gazi Μusic Hall- Main Stage) Show from Gabriel Missé & Maru Marta Rifourcat and Baile de los Maestros.Entrance: €25 (presales: €20)Dj: Emilio Falsetti "El Fueye"  

FULL MILONGA PASS: €75 

 "INTRODUCTION TO TANGO" SEMINAR: €80

INCEPTION is the artist's first solo exhibition.

The artist presents 21 artworks, in transparent film on Plexiglas, related to the inner journey, memories, dreams and in the forgotten inner self.

Ultimate purpose is, the spark of a thought, the activation of an integrated human existence.

The title is a reference point of the script by the well-known director C.Nolan, where in the new millennium our imagination travels through into spacetime, turning body into matter and thought into energy.

Ioannis Kountouris was born in Athens in 1988. He studied Direction, Creative Writing and Photography. From 2007 until 2011, Ioannis worked as a radio producer and participated in numerous video clips as a director, lighting director, photography director and scenography director at Boston University.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 11:00 – 15:00


The Gallery will not be open on Tuesday, June 5 and on Thursday, June 7.

Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, founders of the Obie Award-winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma, take on the myth and legacy of the American Dream. Inside a Western saloon, a Mexican barman, an Austrian sales rep, the re-enactment of a peacekeeping mission in Baghdad, a magic potion and some unsettlingly uplifting cowboy dances make up a zany universe, a take of American clichés and Spaghetti Western.

The United States’ founding document, the Declaration of Independence, defines ‘the pursuit of happiness’ as one of the ‘unalienable rights’ of human beings, which governments have been tasked to protect. But what is Happiness? Into what dark corners does each of us chase it? To what lengths and wild frontiers will we go to pursue it? Will this pursuit of happiness culminate in an unseemly Hollywood blockbuster?

The New York-based Nature Theater of Oklahoma, named after the eponymous theatre in Kafka’s novel America, works together with six brilliant dancers of the internationally acclaimed Slovenian dance company EnKnapGroup, jointly creating a surreal folk tale about violent Western expansionism, “one of the wildest things you’ll see at the theatre this year” (New York Times).

Post-performance talk on 1 June

Moderated by Georgina Kakoudaki, artistic co-curator of Athens & Epidaurus Festival for educational programmes

Schedule:

01/06/2018 at 21:00 
02/06/2018 at 20:00 
03/06/2018 at 21:00

The beloved film-loving summer date, the Athens Open Air Film Festival, in collaboration with the City of Athens Cultural, Sport and Youth Organization, returns in its 8th edition with magical screenings from June to August. Special city corners, archaeological monuments, parks, squares, beaches and some of the most beautiful museums and sites in Athens transform into an open-air cinema with free entrance to the audience.

The Athens Open Air Film Festival continues its solid collaboration with the British Council by suggesting classic masterpieces of the British cinema, among which some of the top adaptations of literary works within the framework of the “Classics Illustrated: Reading on the big screen” tribute which runs through this year’s program.

This article outlines all of the screenings for June so keep scrolling for full program info...

Friday, June 15^th / Plato’s Academy
Goldfinger, 1964 - by Guy Hamilton

The glittering Aston Martin. The woman named Pussy Galore. A naked female body dipped into gold. Gert Fröbe as a fatally cool rival. The first- class combination of cosmopolitan adventure, spy action and witty screenplay. Sean Connery as more irresistible a James Bond as ever. Shirley Bassey and her prominent voice in the theme song. Humour which becomes a necessary addition to an on-screen cocktail that is always served «shaken, not stirred»…

Duration: 110’ 
Starting Time: 21h30


Thursday, June 21^st / Ermou Pedestrian Precinct
Strictly Ballroom, 1992 - by Baz Luhrmann

European Music Day Celebration

The young dancer Scott Hastings trains from a young age in ballroom dances, something that is a family tradition. Being faithful to a totally unique personal style, he does his best to win the big prize in the national competition. A director who loves music, grand spectacle and who functions without guilt towards the pop culture’s bliss and film melodrama, Luhrmann delivers in his cinema debut an indulging dance lesson.

Starring: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thompson, Gia Carides, Peter Whitford
Duration: 94’
Starting Time: 21:30

The Athens Open Air Film Festival collaborates for the fourth consecutive year with the Athens & Epidaurus Festival in a series of screenings with  free entrance which cinematographically mark the summer.

Monday, June 25th / Cine Riviera
The Young Runaway, 1968 - by Stavros Tsiolis

While waiting for the «Jungle» circus’ arrival in the village, the children pretend to be grown-ups, the birds are singing and midsummer young Maria meets young Alexis. Alexis will tell her that he is a runaway and shortly after, holding a crushed plastic bottle of milk in his hands, he will ask her the  magical question: «Maria, do you want to marry me when we grow up?».

Starring: Maria Papaioannou, Nikos Oikonomidis, Aggelos Antonopoulos, Ina Mauer, Maria Foka, Theano Ioannidou
Duration: 92’ |
Starting Time: 21h30

Electra awaits the appropriate timing to avenge her father's death, Agamemnon , King of Myceanae, who was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover Aegisthus. Opportunity arises when she meets again with her brother Orestis. Together they will both set to motion their lethal plan.

In 1962 Michael Cacoyannis delivers through «Electra» the most timely and simultaneously exemplary transfer of ancient greek tragedy to cinema.

Starring: Irene Papa, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Manos Katrakis, Notis Peryalis, Takis Emmanuel

Music: Mikis Theodorakis

Duration: 110’/

Starting Time: 21:30

Athens & Epidaurus Festival is Greece’s foremost cultural festival and one of the oldest performing arts festivals in Europe (1955). Each year presents performances from acclaimed artists in theatre, dance, and music and attracts large audiences from around the world.

With a legacy that spans more than sixty years, today it incorporates a full programme of music, theatre, dance and visual arts. Performances at the two ancient theatres of Odeon Herodes Atticus and the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus are highlights of the festival. Both are famous for their exemplary acoustics and many of the great works of classical playwrights such as Sophocles who premiered at the Epidaurus theatre in ancient times.

Other venues that the festival takes place include EMST, Megaron, Epidaurus Theater, Little Theater of Ancient Epidaurus, Ancient Stadium of Epidaurus, Odeon of Herodes, Benaki Museum, National Acheological Museum, Benizelos Mansion, the Athens Conservatory and more.

Click HERE to find out information on the events taking place this year!

Cyclades Trail Cup is a series of trail races that aim to promote the Cycladic Islands as a destinationfor alternative, cultural and athletic tourism.

In its 3rd consecutive year in 2018, Cyclades Trail Cup presents a new set of events in alternative destinations with original routes and exciting cultural experiences! Giving priority to some of the "smaller" Cycladic islands, the 2018 Championship will include 6 races on 6 islands: Kimolos, Folegandros, Ios, Andros, Kythnos and Tinos.

Get ready for Kimolos Trail, Folegandros Sunset Trail, Ios Trail Race, Andros Trail Race, Kythnos Challenge andT inos Challenge!

The first race of the year will be in Kimolos island on 3 rd June. The 1st trail running race: Kimolos Trailwill have two routes, 21 and 9 kilometers long. The starting and finish line will be at the Chorio village and the 21km has a unique solidarity for runners choosing to participate.

For your ferry tickets, the organizers are cooperating with the “AEGEAN SPEED LINES” ferry company and offer all athletes and visitors a 30% discount on their tickets. In order to book them,after you register for the Kimolos Trail race (3rd June 2018), you will have to send an email at info@travelmilos.com with your First Name, Last Name, telephone number and “Kimolos Trail”designation to our trip partner “TRAVEL ME TO MILOS”

Every race and course offers score points for Cyclades Trail Cup, determined by the newCTC_PointSystem. Any athlete who finishes at least one race regardless of distance is eligible to receive points. The athlete that earns the highest amount of points by the end of the year will be the winner of Cyclades Trail Cup 2018.

The Kimolos Trail 21km will award you 83 points and the Kimolos Trail 9km will award you 33 points. Sports and Cinema will be joined the days of Kimolos Trail. Just like in every other Cyclades Trail Cup event, the Kimolos Trail must combine Sports with Cultural events. With the cooperation of the Kimolistes, local volunteer team, we will host a cinema night on a beach of Kimolos island!

The winners of the race will be the first 3 men and women of every route and the 1 st man and womanoriginating from Kimolos island.For registrations, visit the official website of Cyclades Trail Cup at www.cycladestrailcup.com until May the 27th.

For new registrations, after May 27th , come at the reception desk of the race on Saturday 2 June, between 10:00-18:00 at the Municipality of Kimolos.

Are you ready to jazz?

The biggest jazz music festival in Greece celebrates its 18th birthday and this year will throw the best birthday party ever! Music, activities, surprises and much much more!

For 7 days, Technopolis' main stage, will host the best jazz tunes from around the world and for the first time this year, its first day will be dedicated to Greek Jazz Music, presenting the best Greek jazz bands.

Meanwhile, METAPolis Photography Group will present its annual exhibition, 'W', a female-oriented project, with a mesmerising personality and our favorite Meet Market, will introduce us once again with its vibe by displaying innovative ideas, finely crafted products and fresh concepts.

#JazzBeThere and remember: Once you go jazz, you never go back!

After 30th anniversary's festivities last year, the festival now enters its fourth decade with the aim to challenge the boundaries and experience of a traditional festival of photography.

Exploring critical issues relevant to our times, the festival functions as a dynamic platform where the social impact of the ever-changing visual culture can be raised and discussed. Athens Photo Festival 2018 brings together over 120 emerging and established international artists from 32 countries with the aim to reflect the diversity of contemporary photography, and to create opportunities for exchange of ideas, artistic expression and international engagement.

The 2018 main exhibitions take place from 6 June to 29 July 2018, at the Benaki Museum (Pireos St. Annexe). At the core of the festival is a range of events, including portfolio reviews, screenings, talks and discussions, workshops, and various community and participatory projects. In addition to the main venue-based programme, the festival encourages community involvement through satellite exhibitions in various locations in the city.

The main exhibition program, which covers over 2,000 square meters, is divided into sections, striving to create a dialogue between different thematic ideas, woven into one whole.

Click HERE to view the exhibition's program! 

FokiaNou Art Space is pleased to welcome and host Video Art Miden in a four-day video art event that takes place on June 2018. Sophia Grigoriadou, Margarita Stavraki and Panagiotis Voulgaris, curate a screening program of 25 selected video, submitted at the recent open call that was held by Video Art Miden

.Sofia Grigoriadou presents a series of videos focusing on in between situations and spaces. Some of them are concerned with what is promoted and what is silenced in public urban space, while others suggest transitions that reflect on and disrupt  both polarities and boundaries between private and public, familiar and unfamiliar, monumental and the anti-monument.

Participants: Aurèle Ferrier, Di Hu, Wojciech Gilewicz, François Roux, Przemek Wegrzyn.

The selection by Margarita Stavraki explores the autonomy of narrative elements and their reconnection in a video art selection. In these videos the object, the gesture and the space become art works on their own. Sometimes they deny their narrative role, sometimes they just insinuate it, and at others they serve it poetically.

Participants: Mircea Bobina, Eleonora Roaro, Hanna Schaich, Irini Folerou, Anna Macdonald, Hamza Kırbas, John C. Kelley, Cat Del Buono, Mauricio Sanhueza, François Roux, Collin Bradford, François Roux & Mathieu Bouillod, Marcia Beatriz Granero. 

Panagiotis Voulgaris selects and places a series of videos that focus on everyone's special sound. A sequence of intense mechanical sounds and silences, seductive murmurs and war cries, exotic songs and electro-acoustic music decrypts the notion of place as paradise, dystopia, fragment and poetry, leading the viewer into an exciting audio-visual endeavour.

Participants: Di Hu, Randomproject300, Hana Ben-Haim Yulzeri, Jack Williams, Luca Ferri, Susanne Wiegner, Nenad Nedeljkov.

Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece and created an international festival identity, presenting an annual video art festival for a decade. Since 2015, Miden continues its work changing its form to a more flexible and broadened event programming, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research. Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou and Margarita Stavraki.

FoKiaNou Art Space is an artist-run project space in the intimacy of a small apartment in an old building in the center of Athens.  The apartment has been transformed into an open space that encourages collaborative creative efforts between Greek and foreign artists, thereby promoting and supporting the local art community.  The space hosts exhibitions, workshops and projects under the direction of two artists, Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris.  

Closing  Party: Saturday 9th of June 2018 at 20.00.

Katerina Vrana, a talented stand up comedian who was named "The Funniest Woman In The World" at the "Laugh Factory" competition aims to spread laughter and positive energy to the world through her performances. 

20 comedians and herself have decided to organise a special comedy night, where all proceeds will go towards her health restoration which has been seriously affected since April 2017, while performing in Malaysia.


All comedians participating have promised to give their best in this night of laughter, optimism and solidarity:

Stelios Anatolitis
Dionysis Atzarakis
Dimitris Dimopoulos
Dimitris Doukoglou
Thomas Zambras
Vyronas Theodoropoulos
Chrysa Katsarini
Michalis Mathioudakis
Mikeius
Blink Mike
Kostas Malatsis Salas
Konstantinos Bouras Baimakos
Aristotle Rigas
Zisis Rubos
Paris Rupos
Angelos  Spiliopoulos
Lampros Fisfis 
Bismissos
Ilias Fountoulis
George Hatzipavlou
Dimitris Christoforidis

*Performances will be held in Greek