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Movie premiere Thursday 19 January 2012

J. EDGAR
Case : As America's law enforcement spokesman for approx 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover inspired fear and admiration, while his actions were condemned by others and glorified by others. But back, through closed doors, there were secrets that if leaked would ruin the image, his career and life. Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (“Inception”, “Blood Diamond”) he stars in the film's title role “J. Edgar”, a drama that explores the public and personal life of one of the most powerful, of contradictory and enigmatic personalities of the 20th century.

Watch the trailerhere






THE WAR HORSE(WAR HORSE)
Case : Shortly after the outbreak of A’ World War, Albert, a teenager living on a farm in the British countryside, he is informed that his father has decided to sell Joey, his favorite horse, in the British Cavalry. Very soon, Joey ends up on the front lines of the French front, where he magically changes the lives of the people he comes in contact with. Back to England, however, Albert, feeling that he has lost a very good friend, decides to defy fate and enlist in the army, in the hope of finding him again…

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THE DARKEST HOUR(THE DARKEST HOUR)
Case : After an inexplicable global catastrophe, electronic devices stop working in all parts of the world. A group of Americans and Brits, who have visited Moscow, they are trapped in the city. The real chaos begins, when an unknown force begins to stalk the human population. The team members find refuge underground and try to survive in any way possible. Five days later they arrive in a haunted town, which once teemed with life, but while they are looking for other survivors, it becomes clear that the threat is still visible. Now, to save themselves, they should adapt and work as a team.
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Source : villagecinemas.gr
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The Melas-Papadopoulos gallery opens with an exhibition by G. Sagri

The first official exhibition of the new Melas-Papadopoulou gallery is the presentation of the artist Georgia Sagri, who many remember from her performance some years ago outside the Polytechnic, which had also occupied the Greek news.

Sagri began by recycling and translating visual practices of female artists of the 70s and 80s, (like Mona Hatoum, Marina Abramovic and Orlan) and in the years that followed he continued experimenting on the platform of performance but also trying other media. Lately it seems that she has found her own personal identity that has matured her work and made it interesting. THE “migration” her time in America has done her good and now a path is emerging that is probably worth watching carefully.
For her first exhibition at the Andreas Melas gallery & Helena Papadopoulos, Georgia Sagri presents a flexible composition of Courtyards where plants grow, plastic and ceramic objects appear, actions are outlined and reproduced by the artist in the performance that will take place in the gallery, for three consecutive nights.

A double no or a double yes, a strategy for re-appropriation. The Yards, variable wooden boxes with aromatic plants, scattered sculptures and attached benches, refer to a closed place, in a scene where actor and spectator are subject to already formed narrative structures.
However, the Sagri, in an attempt to circumvent the tragic decline of social and political imaginaries, offers the fact of the love of the French philosopher Alain Badiou – love as a material and practical embodiment of miracle-making – as a potential site for the production of truth. The Yards exhibition includes an installation, show/loop, a PowerPoint presentation, a series of drawings/collages and a collection of texts by the artist. Georgia Sagri was born in Athens in 1979. He lives and works in New York.


GEORGIA SAGRI
Yards
19 January – 8 Of March 2012
inauguration: Thursday 19 January, 7-9:30 pm
performance: 19, 20, 21 January, at 7.30 mm EXACTLY.
Melas-Papadopoulos
Epicurus 26 & Korini
Scabies
Source : protothema.gr
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The Patras Carnival begins

Opening ceremony on Saturday
Patrines are donning their festive gear and preparing events for the patrine carnival with the opening ceremony scheduled for Saturday.

Young and old will take part in an outdoor celebration, which is expected to pleasantly upset the city center. Music, dance, original happenings, street performers and a host of surprises will unfold through inventive acts generously spreading fun, vitality and joy.

The events will start from 11 in the morning and will last all day, converting the pedestrian streets, the streets, the square of Georgiou and the city hall in the field of carnival action.

From early on Saturday the auctioneer, accompanied by carnival performers, the municipal band and the bandina, they will play familiar carnival motifs and convey the message of joy and fun

From the 11:00-14:00  the children's Carnival Town on the pedestrian street of Riga Feraios will invite Lilliputians and not only to a festive date, envisioning the children's carnival.

At the same time, various events will be held on the pedestrian streets of the center and in Georgiou Square, associations, groups, schools, crews, while the free entries of crews of the "hidden treasure" are expected to give their own color, groups and carnivalists, who will flood the center with their spontaneous carnival appearances.

At 1.30 at noon the telalist with his carnival entourage will arrive at the town hall and hand over the paternal carnival banner to the mayor of Patreon, Yiannis Dimaras 2012, which will remain at the town hall until the end of the events, at 26 February.

At 2 at noon the mayor of Patreon will announce the official opening of the patreon carnival in Georgiou Square, where King Carnavalos will make his impressive appearance.

A concert by the band "The Burger Project" will follow, while until the evening there will be a music program in Georgiou Square. The celebration will conclude with Samata of the "Outraged Carnivalists"’ in collaboration with the dance department of the municipality's cultural organization.

From their side, the "hidden treasure" crews will have their own parade, which will start on 7 on Saturday night from Olgas square. The parade will end at Georgiou Square, where the carnivalists will present events, promising many surprises.

"In an environment of insecurity, uncertainty and anxiety, we attempt through the carnival to light up the dark landscape as much as possible, to create oases of entertainment and fun for our fellow citizens, to keep the great institution of the city at its height" said the mayor Yiannis Dimaras.

Source : newsbeast.gr
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Yiannis Parios sings of love at the Concert Hall

14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 February
THEYannis Parios top performer, in a very short time since the beginning of his career, he has been established in the consciousness of all of us as an expression of love and romance. His voice as well as his soul advocated and led him along the paths of this supreme human emotion.
This year filling in exactly 40 years of artistic presence, and in the midst of an unprecedented bad situation for the country, he wanted to lead us to the oasis of music and remind us of all that the "Love Song" has been offering us for so many years. Not as a parenthesis in judgment, but as a positive exhortation to the truth... Because what else is more important in the course of a lifetime than the human relationship, companionship love, love.
Songs he loved as a child,  since he was lucky enough to be born into a beautiful family bathed in the light of the Aegean, songs of great creators of past decades, as of X. Hairopoulou, Attic, K. Giannidis, Suyulbut also favorite songs of his own generation, that moved and crossed our lips and hearts.
On stage with him is the 60-member orchestra of various music of ERT, under his directionAndreas Pylarinou,  12member folk orchestra and his large choirKyriakos Tsolakis.
The direction and lighting of the show was edited byLiberty Deco.
 Source : culturenow.gr
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“You remember how the magnolias smelled in Nicaragua;» at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation

TheMichalis Kakogiannis Foundationpresents his workYannis Souliotis«Do you remember how the magnolias smelled in Nicaragua?;» directedGiorgos Karamichosfor only three performances onThursday 26, on Friday 27, & on Saturday 28 January 2012, at 21:00.
A sensitive one, poetic performance full of melodies and fragrances of life, which was staged for only three performances in May 2011, excited, and comes back with the best recommendations atTheater tu Foundation M. KakogiannisIs the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar26 until 28 January 2012, at 21:00. The hero of the play observes - vertically and horizontally in space and time- his life.
Memories, desires, love needs and love acrobat between two worlds. And dreams, many dreams. Infused with magnolia scent and iris hues. Voicemail messages, sms, emails… Electronic letters. Days, nights, flowers, Zoe, love, friendship, affection, smiles, anxieties, death, tears, dying ships – the sea is always alive- through a computer, that unites continents and people, but it brings with it the vast loneliness of the ocean…
Source : culturenow.gr
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Carmen Lundy in Athens

Half Note Jazz Club presents Carmen Lundy one of jazz's leading voices starting Thursday 19 until Sunday 22 January 2012.
 
THECarmen Lundyas a contemporary singer she has a unique style that comfortably combines her funk elementAretha Franklinwith her brillianceElla Fitzgeraldand Sarah Vaughan's colorings. More than just a singer though, orCarmen Lundyshe is a composer, he writes songs, she is an actress and, additional, very good painter.
He has been on the jazz scene for over three decades – having started music at an early age, playing the piano and singing gospel and spirituals. But what really attracted her was the brilliance of soul jazz as expressed by her Dionne Warwick, the Roberta Flackor even himStevie Wonder.
In the late 1970s he began singing with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis' orchestra and then played with the cream of modern jazz musicians such as Don Pullen, Kip Hanrahan, Courtney Pine et al. In the mid-eighties she started releasing her own music and that's when her enormous talent was noticed. Since then Carmen Lundy's career has continued to develop at all levels and today she is considered one of the leading jazzwomen…
Source : culturenow.gr
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«Click… in History" from the Foundation of Greater Hellenism

"Click... in History" is a new one, innovative educational program carried out by the Greater Hellenic Foundation with the cooperation of Vodafone. The purpose of the program is to highlight local history through the eyes of the students, harnessing the unlimited possibilities of mobile communication in modern education. The program is aimed at high school students and is under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religion. As the special secretary of the Ministry of Education, Michalis Kontogiannis, said in a presentation of the program, the cognitive approach via mobile phone and computer is a key priority and challenge for the era.

The program takes full advantage of the digital environment in which young people move today, putting digital technology at the service of education. As part of the program, the students, equipped with a mobile phone used as a camera, camera and voice recorder, they become "reporters of history". They explore the city, their neighborhood and village, collect evidence from family photo albums, cultural institutions and public records, and make their own audio-visual presentations.

The audio-visual research material is sent via the Vodafone network to the http web platform://local.e-history.gr/ which has been designed specifically for the program, in such a way as to be the tool for presenting students' work to parents, the school community and the general public. The program uses methods that stimulate students' interest, at the same time giving the school community the opportunity to take an active role in the local community and to present its work in continuous dialogue with other school communities.

The "Click... in History" program, with the continuous cooperation of students, teachers and researchers of the Greater Hellenistic Foundation, makes an important contribution to educating students about how research is conducted, while also helping to acquire skills in composing a paper in electronic format with a method that gains the attention of students. End, trains students to work collaboratively, since they create groups, within which they must collaborate to shape the final work.
Mr. Dimitris Efraimoglou, CEO of the Greater Hellenic Foundation, he said about the program: “Once again, the Foundation of Greater Hellenism is actively alongside the students, keeping up with and strengthening Education in any way it can. The program "Click… in History" was not only "embraced" by the Ministry of Education, the teachers and students who participated in its pilot phase, but it continues on an even larger scale, with even more participants and even greater responsibility towards our work".

Ms. Angeliki Papantoniou, Director of Corporate Relations at Vodafone, he said about the program: "Click... in History" is proof that the contribution of technology to the educational process can be essential. The students, utilizing the possibilities offered by technology throughout Greece, they get close to the history of their place and immerse themselves in collective work and composition. The warm reception of the program by the students and the educational community is the strongest basis for its evolution and further development".

The program has already been piloted in six public high schools throughout Greece, while by the end of this school year twelve more will have been added to the Prefectures of Attica, Achaia, Evros, Evia, Lasithiou, Lesvos, Xanthi, Pella, Rodopis and Samos.

On the website http://local.e-history.gr/ the visitor can navigate to the work of the schools of the first phase of the implementation of the program from Agia Larissa, the Drama, Thebes, Nafplio, Nea Ionia and Chios.

Source : protothema.gr