Program of Paros Festival 12-14 July 2019
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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2019
10.00-13.00 Myths, legends, and truths | Ekatontapyliani Church Narration workshop for fifth-grade and sixth-grade primary school pupils, with the archaeologist-tour guide Ari Sichlimiris and the art historian Katerina Konstantinou. [in Greek] The Ekatontapyliani church is over 18 centuries old. The building has survived through the ages alongside the legends people narrate about it. Where is the hundredth gate? What’s the story of the bell tower? Where is the print left by Saint Theoktisti? Who was the pirate Nisyris? What happened to the master builder and his disciple? How did all those stories reach us? Which of all these are true? And which are fairy-tales? What stories do we have to tell about Ekatontapyliani? Come and let’s make our own fantastic story about the monument! 19:00-21:00 Tracing the Mavrogeni family | Starting point Ekatontapiliani’s square
A game of discovering Parikia through the material and immaterial traces of the great family of Mavrogeni | In collaboration with Avgi Kalogianni. Pick up the riddles and begin. Solve the riddles, ask the locals, follow the experts of Parikia, track all locations throughout the city and collect all ten collective cards of the 2nd Paros Festival. |
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20:00-21:00 Anthropologists@Work | Varoucha Mansion
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20:00-21:00 Irini Varoucha: A cosmopolitan archaeologist from Paros | Municipal Art Space “Dimitrakopoulos”
Lecture by Despoina Evgenidou (Honorary Director of the Numismatic Museum) on the life and work of Irini Varoucha-Christodoulopoulou
She travelled a lot, she studied abroad and she worked for the Numismatic Museum in Athens. She confronted the turbulence of the 20th century in Greece and served archaeology through the years of WWII. We owe to her the preservation of the numismatic collection of the Museum and its re-exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum when peace was finally restored in Greece.
21:00-23:00 Marinos Kontaras: The corsair of the Aegean | YRIA Workshop
Loop screening of the movie directed by G. Tzavellas (1948)
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21:00 George Kontrafouris trio | Frankish monastery
Giorgos Kontrafouris - piano
Vasilis Koutsonanos - bass
Vasilis Podaras - drums
Giorgos Kontrafouris, a leading jazz musician in Greece, travels to Paros to present his forthcoming album, as well as previous compositions from his discography. The jazz piano trio includes two of the most active musicians in the greek jazz scene, Vasilis Koutsonanos and Vasilis Podaras. The George Kontrafouris Trio invites the public of Paros Festival in the Frankish monastery, an abandoned monastery in the heart of Parikia, trying to make the neglected monument a living space for the community.
22:00 Dodecanese and music of the Aegean | Agios Konstantinos
Traditional music concert with
Manolis Kottoros - violin, Martha Mavroidi - lafta, voice, Apostolos Karpontinis - lute, Stella Valasi - santuri
Focusing on the Dodecanese traditional music, the virtuoso violinist Manolis Kottoros, side-to-side with prominent musicians, takes us on a trip to the cultural and musical networks of the Aegean. In a night full of the island’s particular ambience, the Manolis Kottoros orchestra will immerse the audience in the experience of the Dodecanese soundscape.
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20:00-21:00 Irini Varoucha: A cosmopolitan archaeologist from Paros | Municipal Art Space “Dimitrakopoulos”
Lecture by Despoina Evgenidou (Honorary Director of the Numismatic Museum) on the life and work of Irini Varoucha-Christodoulopoulou
She travelled a lot, she studied abroad and she worked for the Numismatic Museum in Athens. She confronted the turbulence of the 20th century in Greece and served archaeology through the years of WWII. We owe to her the preservation of the numismatic collection of the Museum and its re-exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum when peace was finally restored in Greece.
21:00-23:00 Marinos Kontaras: The corsair of the Aegean | YRIA Workshop
Loop screening of the movie directed by G. Tzavellas (1948)
*See appendix
21:00 George Kontrafouris trio | Frankish monastery
Giorgos Kontrafouris - piano
Vasilis Koutsonanos - bass
Vasilis Podaras - drums
Giorgos Kontrafouris, a leading jazz musician in Greece, travels to Paros to present his forthcoming album, as well as previous compositions from his discography. The jazz piano trio includes two of the most active musicians in the greek jazz scene, Vasilis Koutsonanos and Vasilis Podaras. The George Kontrafouris Trio invites the public of Paros Festival in the Frankish monastery, an abandoned monastery in the heart of Parikia, trying to make the neglected monument a living space for the community.
22:00 Dodecanese and music of the Aegean | Agios Konstantinos
Traditional music concert with
Manolis Kottoros - violin, Martha Mavroidi - lafta, voice, Apostolos Karpontinis - lute, Stella Valasi - santuri
Focusing on the Dodecanese traditional music, the virtuoso violinist Manolis Kottoros, side-to-side with prominent musicians, takes us on a trip to the cultural and musical networks of the Aegean. In a night full of the island’s particular ambience, the Manolis Kottoros orchestra will immerse the audience in the experience of the Dodecanese soundscape.
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019
10:00 - 11:30 Guided tour with the guide Avgi Kalogianni and Kyriaki Haralampous (Koula Diplou) | Meeting point Diplos Grocery store, Agora of Parikia [in Greek]
This is a different guided tour. Participants will have the chance to listen to the professional tour guide Avgi Kalogianni along with a member of the local community. Koula “Diplos” -as she is known among the locals- will be narrating her own lived memories of the old town of Parikia.
11:30-12:30 Guided tour in Parikia | Meeting point Ekatontapyliani Square
With the guide Georgia Papadopoulou [in english]
10: 00-12: 00 Landscape Painting Workshop | Kato Gialos
For children from 1 to 3 years old and their attendants [limited vacancies]
The everyday view of Parikia becomes the canvas for this workshop. Children and parents are invited to experiment creatively using finger paints and imagination, with a view of one of the best known landscapes of Paros.
Dress comfortably. Wear clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty and come to play! Let’s discover the surrounding environment through an imaginative activity!
18:30-19:30
Walk around the Medieval Parikia | Μeeting point Towel of Parikia Castle |
With the archaeologist Konstantinos Roussos
The medieval Parikia remains largely unknown to the public and it is gradually being revealed to the scholars. Let’s walk together in the labyrinthian settlement and discover how the modern city was formed over centuries of habitation. With main stops at the Castle and the Ekatontapiliani church, this walk promises an insightful journey through space and time.
19:30-20:00 Walk with music | From Ekatontapyliani Square to the KAPI in the seafront.
A musical walk through the old town, to reach the Community Centre for Elders (KAPI) on the beach of Parikia. A "patinada" with local musicians leading to a "veggera" (ball) . . .
20:00 Veggera | KAPI of the Municipality of Paros
A typical veggera (visit) in the KAPI kafenion with the local musicians: Manolis Delendas - violin, Fanouris Petropoulos - lute, Antonia Nika - vocals
The building that today houses KAPI (the Community Centre for Elders) was donated by Nicholas Mavrogenis in 1782 to the community of Paros. As the patron dictated in his donation, the building should not change in use. It should always remain a cafe.
Older Parians remember it as the "the Grand Cafe" or "the Communal," frequented by the "lords" of the island and their ladies. Since then, the society of Paros has changed a lot... Today the cafe of Mavrogenis is a lively meeting place for elderly locals.
This "Veggera" - visit in today's KAPI by Paros Festival, aspires to actively involve its members in the social life as well as the Festival.
Veggera (f) greek. Salon; a late evening visit and gathering in a home or outdoors for amusement and getting together, where drinks, pastries and food are offered. Soirée. [etym. > Italian. veggheria <post.lat. vigulare <vigul / vigil "vigilant, watchman"]
20:00 - 21:00 Anthropologists @ Work | KAPI
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21:00-23:00 Marinos Kontaras: The corsair of the Aegean | YRIA Workshop
Loop screening of the movie directed by G. Tzavellas (1948)
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22:30 Hohlakas | Courtyard of the Ekatontapyliani |
Concert by the contrabassist Giorgos Ventouris with Yannis Papadopoulos - piano, Stratis Psaradellis - lyre, Leonidas Sarantopoulos - flute, Martha Mavroidi – Saz, lafta, Dimitris Klonis - drums, Vangelis Karipis - percussion
Hohlakas project has many references to George Ventouris' birthplace in Paros.
It is a unique collaboration of talented musicians from diverse music fields. Contemporary musical dialects blend with Eastern Mediterranean music through virtuoso improvisations in instruments of different traditions.
23:45 Film Screening "Across her body" | Frankish monastery
directed by Zacharias Mavroidis (2018) | 84 '
Every year, on July 31st, Mrs. Irene and the rest remaining “fifteeners” return to the obsolete Monastery of the Accession, on Therasia, the little known sister-island of cosmopolitan Santorini. For two weeks, they pray for eternal rest of their beloved ones, while preparing the church for the day of the Accession. In between, they recall the past gazing at the tourist traffic across the volcanic bay. “Across her body” documents the fading tradition of “Fifteen’ correlating three bodies: the sacred body of the Virgin Mary, the deserted body of the once upon a time fertile Therasia and the aging female bodies of the fifteeners.
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019
10:00-12:00 Reading Paros’ history through the coins of the Archaeological Museum | Archaeological Museum of Paros
Apostolos Papadimitriou, archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades
Emmanouil Psarros, archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades
The Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades exhibits a series of selected coins at the Archaeological Museum of Paros. These coins were either collected and delivered by individuals to the Ephorate or found in excavations. They are dated from the Archaic period to the Ottoman times. Through the classification and typology of these coins, one can read the most important events in the History of Paros.
*The guided tour will be held both in Greek and English
18:30 “All the twelve islands” | Apothiki Gallery
20’ Performance Stratis Psaradellis - lyra, Dionysia Papouli - singing
Stratis Psaradellis and Dionysia Papouli interpret a song written in the Cretan dialect by an unknown author dated back in the 17th century. Τhe poet narrates the pillage of Parikia in Paros in the 19th of May of the 1668 by the grand admiral of the Ottoman navy, Kapudan Pasha Kaplan Mustafa. This interpretation is based on the reconstitution of secular post-byzantine music by Giorgos Hatzimichelakis.
19:00-20:00 Possible futures for the archipelago. The case of Paros | Municipal Library «Giannis Gkikas »
How do children imagine Paros in the distant or near future? An evening reading of the results of the homonymous workshop that took place in the context of Paros Festival by the artist Kyriaki Goni and the students of the Visual Arts Workshop of the Municipality of Paros.
20:00 - 21:00 Anthropologists@Work | Crispis Mansion
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21:00-23:00 Marinos Kontaras: The corsair of the Aegean | YRIA Workshop
Loop screening of the movie directed by G. Tzavellas (1948)
*See appendix
20:00-22:00 City made of music
Wander around Parikia, follow the sounds of several music events that pop up here and there, giving life to every corner of the city.
Jazz trio
Leonidas Sarantopoulos - flute
Dimitris Klonis - drums
Yannis Papadopoulos - piano
The trio will play original compositions from the discography of the three musicians. Selected tracks from the albums "Paflax" by L. Sarantopoulos (flute), ''Next Step'' by Yiannis Papadopoulos (piano) and ''101'' by Dimitris Klonis (drums) are adjusted to create a new synthesis.
Traditional duet
Stratis Psaradellis - lyre
Vangelis Karipis - percussion
From the Aegean to Constantinople, the lyra-percussion fuse takes us to a different space-time where the rhythm of percussion and the melody of the lyre interweave in an interesting improvisation to interpret folk and scholarly music.
SaxNbass
Christos Kyriazis - saxophone
Pantelis Petrou- bass
A saxophone and a bass bring music of the world in the Agora of Parikia.
22:30 Matoula Zamani | Parikia seafront
On the last night of the Paros Festival we meet at the beach of Parikia to dance, sing, have fun, and enjoy a carefree summer with Matoula Zamani.
Matoula Zamani travels with her orchestra to the Paros Festival to share "new songs, stories of erotic resentment, of summer laziness, of provincial enlightenment, of the mating of labor and romance, of traditional dark-japan pride, of poems from Metaxochori and other hedonisms of this time's goodness..."
