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The Spiros Louis cup is presented to the public

At 27 August at the Acropolis Museum by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation

On Monday 27 August, the "Stavros Niarchos" Foundation will hold the public presentation of the Cup that was awarded to the Olympian Spyros Louis. The presentation will take place on 7 in the afternoon at the Acropolis Museum.

It is recalled that the Foundation acquired the Cup at an auction in April 2012.

The cup, height 15 centimeters, was auctioned after a relevant decision of the Olympian's grandson.

According to Christie's, the value of the cup was between 120.000 and 160.000 pounds (about 146.000- 195.000 euro).

In the announcement of the Foundation, last April, referred to:

"The Stavros Niarchos Foundation’ announces that it has acquired the Silver Cup inspired and designed by Michel Bréal, for the First Marathon Winner, the Greek Spyros Louis, and which was awarded to him during the first Modern Olympic Games, in Athens, the 1896.

» The Stavros Niarchos Foundation’ acquired the Silver Cup in a spirited auction held today at Christie's in South Kensington, London.

» The Foundation will share the cup with the Greek people, exhibiting it permanently at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, after the completion of the last one 2015.

» In the meantime, the Foundation will investigate finding a suitable temporary location for its public display.”

Source : tovima.gr

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Aristophanes' chickens from DIPETHE of Crete, in the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus

The Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2012 hosts one of Aristophanes' finest comedies. The Chickens produced by DIPETHE of Crete  are coming to the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus for two performances, on Friday 10 and on Saturday 11 August, at 21:00.

In times of severe crisis, the search for utopia returns more fiercely. The director Yiannis Kakleas with a staff of notable actors and the legendary music of Hadjidakis as an ally, looking for today's Nephelococcygia.

Extremely topical comedy, the Hens were written the 414 e.g., time when the war, the hunger, debts and decline plagued Athens. Desperation drives two elderly Athenians to flee and create the ideal city in alliance with birds.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

A journey into the desire for a free world, a fair world, asking for Happiness are the "Chickens" of Aristophanes.
This great satirical poet tells us a story of overthrowing a corrupt society, decadent, of a society that degrades the desire for Life, in a desperate effort to survive.
"Chickens" is a political text and at the same time a poetic parable that scorns an inhumane world and dreams of "a society of birds", that is, a society with imagination, which adopts the Archetypal values ​​of Law, of Merit and Perpetual Motion. A society that may seem unrealized but that if Man stops desiring it is in danger of annihilation.
"Chickens" is a work as modern as man's need to fly above his individual and social commitments and create an "other" society, without hypocrisy, fear, destructive rage and social injustice.
Utopian; It depends on us!

Yannis Kakleas
Director

Date Friday 10 and on Saturday 11 August 2012, at 21:00

Ticket prices 50€ (VIP)
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15€ (Student – Zone B.)
20€ (Upper Diazoma)
10€ (Student – Upper Diazoma, DISABLED)

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Telephone exchange: +30 – 210 32 72 000.
daily (and Sundays) 9:00-21:00
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Centrally: University 39 (inside Pesmazoglou stoa)
Hours of operation: Monday – Friday: 9:00-17:00, Saturday: 9:00-15:00
Ancient Theater of Epidaurus: Prefecture of Argolis
Hours of operation: Monday – Thursday: 9:00-14:00 and 17:00-20:00, Friday- Saturday: 9:30-21:30
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Source : culturenow.gr

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Encardia are stealing hearts in Lower Italy

The awards for the Greek documentary continue

Another honorable distinction for the Greek documentary "Encardia, the dancing stone" by Aggelos Kovotsos – this time from Italy: the film that has been shot in areas of Greece but mainly in the Greek-speaking villages of Lower Italy with the protagonists being the Greek music group Encardia as well as musicians, famous poets and anonymous artists of the Salento region, he received an honorable mention for his direction at the cinema del reale documentary festival that takes place every year in Spezia, Lower Italy.

Spekia is located in the heart of Salento, which is the center of the nine Greek-speaking villages of Italy. The warm welcome, the warm applause of the audience as well as the distinction to the film and its director reflect the response the film had in the region where the Grico language is still alive through music, the Greek poems and songs.

The Greek delegation that accompanied the film with actors, friends, partners and of course the Encardia complex, at the end of the screening he set up a wild party outside the screening area and roused his Italian friends with dances and songs.

The Encardia complex (Kostas Constantatos – crust, mandolin, violin, song, Vangelis Papageorgiou – accordion, harmonica, song, Michalis Kontaxakis – guitar, song, Anastasia Dolfi – song, castanets, Dimitris Tsekouras – contrabass, song and Konstantina Kalkanis, Gianna Hamaleli – dance) is inspired, creates and presents music and songs through the rich musical tradition of Lower Italy. It was established 2004 and so far has performed more than three hundred live performances throughout Greece, Italy, South of France, Germany, Cyprus, Algeria etc. He has released three records and has collaborated on record and in live performances with the most important representatives of Low Italian music.

On the occasion of her participation in the cinema del reale festival, the film was then screened in Kalimera villages, Corigliano D’ Otranto and Sternatia. After the projection in the square of the villages, there was dancing and singing by Encardia as well as big names of the music scene of the region: Roberto and Francesca Licci, Franco Corleano, Enza Parliara et al.
The distinction of "Encardia" in Lower Italy comes after the audience award it received at this year's Thessaloniki documentary festival Images of the 21st Century. The film is already scheduled to be shown at several foreign festivals and to be released in Athenian cinemas in October.

Source : tovima.gr

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The exploration of Mars from the Curiosity vehicle began

It successfully landed today on 8.32 (Greece time) on the planet Mars the robotic vehicle Curiosity, NASA announced. The seven-minute process was the hardest landing of an unmanned spacecraft ever on the Red Planet. The vehicle immediately began sending pictures back to earth and searching for extraterrestrial life forms.

The Curiosity rover sent its first signal when it entered the Martian atmosphere. "We received signals, things look good" said a member of the mission. NASA's space shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral on 26 November 2011.

Its mission is to explore Mars in order to determine whether the Red Planet ever had the conditions to support any life.

Immediately after the successful landing the mission members erupted in cheers and one of the officials handed out Mars chocolates…

The same atmosphere of joy prevailed when the robot sent the first photo, of exceptional purity, of his shadow on the ground of Mars, immediately after his landing.

US President Barack Obama in his announcement speaks of an unprecedented technological achievement.

The program cost money 2,5 di. dollars.

The craft entered the Martian atmosphere at a speed of approx 20 thousands of km/h. A combination of systems (parachutes, specially designed thrusters etc.) built into the craft helped Curiosity to land as "softly" as possible so as not to damage any of its advanced and ultra-sensitive instruments.

New ambitious exploration phase

A new ambitious phase of exploration of the neighboring "red planet" is thus inaugurated, with the main stake being finding traces of microbial life, either in the distant past, or more recently, either- as the most visionary hope- even in the present.

In essence, the new mission is expected to lay a firmer foundation for a future human-first mission to the planet, something that is not expected to happen at least two decades ago.

The weight 900 kg nuclear powered (with plutonium fuel) six-wheeled robotic rover, with the official name "Mars Science Laboratory" (Mars Scientific Laboratory"), it's the size of a car, it is more than twice as long and five times heavier than the twin rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity” who reached Mars the 2004.

"Curiosity" was launched on 26 November 2011 and traveled approx 248 million. kilometers to reach Mars, being the
largest and most expensive vehicle ever sent to another planet.

The entire shipment cost approx 2,5 billion dollars and it is hoped that the vehicle will last many more years than the two years NASA originally planned.

It is the most complete and technologically advanced space mobile scientific laboratory, as it has a range of cameras and scientific instruments, as well as a robotic sample collection arm, which will allow him to carry out, in the coming years, a wide range of on-site scientific analyses. Every day, the results of his surveys of the Martian soil will be sent electronically to Earth for further analysis by
the scientists.

The autonomous rover, which will remain stationary in its place for several days, until it is ensured that all is well with its electronic systems, will focus his investigations on its alluvial rocks, height approx 5 km, Mount Sharp (or, as is its official name, Aeolis mountains), which is located inside the ancient and huge Gale Crater, latitudinal 154 km. and aged over 3,5 di. years.

The rocks in question are considered a kind of "time capsule" for the successive geological stages of the planet from the wettest
and his warm past to his arid and cold present.

The vehicle- laboratory, which will move slowly with a speed of just 30 meters per hour (going through the lot 200 meters per day), will continue to analyze Martian rocks looking for complex organic molecules, which will probably constitute the
chemical "signature" of some past or present microorganisms.

But the difficulty for scientists will be to make sure that such carbon-based molecules are indeed of biological origin (the metabolism of microbes), since they could also have been produced through abiotic geochem
procedures.

Research so far has shown that once upon a time, billions of years ago, Mars had an atmosphere and liquid water, therefore a basic condition for the emergence of some form of life was met.

Now, it is hoped that the “Curiosity” will take another step, also finding evolved organic molecules that could be remnants or byproducts of such microorganisms.

Continuation of the article attanea.gr

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Dustin Hoffman in… Greek board

"The lives of others" in the Athenian theater

Dustin Hoffman is, in duplicate, the protagonist of the upcoming theater season in Athens. That's because both films in which he won an Oscar for Best Actor will be played, prepared, on the board. "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The Rain Man" -ή «Rainman», they are transferred in the winter to the stages of the Emporikon and Bretania theaters, respectively. A decade apart, the first is his production 1979 and his second 1988, while they are the ones who gave it to him, for the role of Ted Kramer and Raymond Rabbit the two Oscars of his career, until now at least….

Next to these two film adaptations, and a third, German production, comes to the Athens theater from autumn: The Oscar-winning best foreign film will be shown at the Thision theater (2006) by screenwriter and director Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck "The Lives of Others" -which also set a record number of nominations at the German Film Awards.

More detailed, directed by Eleni Scotti - who alongside her work at Epi Colonos theater with the group NAMMA- and performed by Mirella Papaikonomou, the Kramers will be brought to life by Dimitris Alexandris and Maria Zorba - Meryl Streep then won her first Oscar, for the second female role, as a wife and mother. On the subject of a couple's life after divorce and especially the way their young son experiences it, the production also won the Oscar for Best Picture 1979 while also achieving great box-office success. Directed and written by Robert Benton _based on the book by Avery Corman. The Greek production of Hellenic Theamaton for the Emporikon theater stage, includes among its contributors Dimitris Papadimitriou (music) and George Gavalas (scenery). Also playing are Athina Maximou, Christodoulos Stylianou, Dimitris Mavros and (alternately) three children.

Dimitris Lignadis brings to the stage of the central Bretania theater "Man of the Rain" with Christos Chatzipanagiotis and Yiannis Stankoglou, in the roles of the two brothers played by Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, in the late 80s. The movie, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass, it received rave reviews at the time, and alongside Hoffman's Oscar, it also won an Oscar for Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay. Its theme is the story of a selfish yuppie, by Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and left his entire fortune to his other son, the autistic Raymond, whose existence he was completely unaware of. The film was also a box office success…

End at Thision of Tournavitou Street, Alice Danezi – Knutsen, whom we met through the theater "Festen", in the same place six years ago, suggests "The Lives of Others", in the translation of Eris Kyrgia and the scenery of Kiki Pitta. This is the play by Albert Ostermeier based on the film by Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck: Based in East Berlin 1984, the play deals with the story of the famous playwright Georg Dreimann and his actress partner Christa – Maria Silland being watched by the Stasi spy, Gerd Whistler at the indirect prompting of the infatuated minister Bruno Hepf. When the spy as an uninvited "guest" and witness to the lives of others begins to harbor feelings of sympathy for the unsuspecting couple, nothing can stay the same anymore. Actors play: Anna Masha (Krista – Maria Silland), Manolis Mavromatakis (Gerd Whistler), Fanis Mouratidis (Georg Dreyman), Costas Berikopoulos (Bruno Hepf), Giorgos Symeonidis Mr. a. It is a production of the Lykofos company of Giorgos Lykiardopoulos.

Source : tovima.gr

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Free screenings of European films

Film program of European cinema from the Society of Greek Directors

The screenings of European films, including Greek ones, continue in the small summer hall of the garden of the Association of Greek Archaeologists, Hermou 134-136 in Thisio.

"Paradise Cinema" movies have already been shown, "The Choir of Charitonos", "Mad Pierrot", "Plato Academy", "Summer Stories" and "Let the Women Wait".

Screenings take place every week, Tuesday and Thursday, time 21.30 pm. μ. and entry is free.

The effort is a collaboration between the Society of Greek Directors and the Hellenic Association
Archaeologists.

The screening program continues in August with the following films:

Thursday 02 August 2012 "A Tender Kiss", directed by Ken Loach
Tuesday 07 August 2012 "Chiu", directed by Maki Papadimitratou
Thursday 09 August 2012 "A Story of Love and Anarchy", directed by Lina Wertmiller
Tuesday 21 August 2012 "Common Quiet Hours", directed by Katerina Evangelakou
Thursday 23 August 2012 «Match point», directed by Woody Allen
Tuesday 28 August 2012, “What did you do in the War, Death;», directed by Dino Katsouridis
Thursday 30 August 2012 "The Voice of the Moon", directed by Federico Fellini.

Show time 9.30pm. μ. Free Entry

Source : tovima.gr
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Οι Maybeshewill στην Ελλάδα, για δυο συναυλίες

Οι Catch The Soap Productions και Lovelight Productions παρουσιάζουν το βρετανικό post rock συγκρότημα «Maybeshewill», που θα δώσει δυο συναυλίες στη χώρα μας την Friday 21 Σεπτεμβρίου στην Αθήνα και το Σάββατο 22 September, in Thessaloniki.

Εκρηκτικές κιθαριστικές εξάρσεις, μαγευτικά ιντερλούδια και συναρπαστικές ηλεκτρονικές παρεμβάσεις, σε έναν ήχο που προσπερνά με ευκολία τις μανιέρες, προσφέροντας μια πολυπόθητη πνοή δημιουργικής φρεσκάδας στην μοντέρνα ορχηστρική ροκ σκηνή. Οι Maybeshewill, το εξαιρετικό Βρετανικό post rock κουαρτέτο, έρχονται για δύο μοναδικές εμφανίσεις σε Αθήνα και Θεσσαλονίκη, στις σκηνές του An Club και Eightball Club, τη Παρασκευή 21 and Saturday 22 Σεπτεμβρίου αντίστοιχα.

Σχηματισμένοι το 2005 από τους Robin Southby και John Helps, αποδεικνύουν από τα πρώτα τους κι όλας βήματα το ιδιαίτερο μουσικό όραμα και την ασυμβίβαστη φιλοσοφία τους. Το ιδιαίτερο μίγμα heavy κιθαριστικής rock, ηλεκτρονικών beats, και cinematic μουσικής σύνθεσης καταγράφεται ολοκάθαρα στο εκπληκτικό ντεμπούτο της μπάντας “Japanese Spy Transcript” – ένα ντεμπούτο που θα καταφέρει να τραβήξει από την πρώτη στιγμή τα βλέμματα των φίλων του φρέσκου post rock ήχου παγκοσμίως. Ο δίσκος θα κυκλοφορήσει από την Robot Needs Home, το indie label που ίδρυσαν οι ίδιοι οι Maybeshewill με αποκλειστικό σκοπό την στήριξη της σκηνής του Leicester – από την οποία και αναδύθηκαν – πιστοί στο συναδελφικό αίσθημα και την DIY ηθική τους.

Η συνέχεια θα είναι εξίσου δυναμική με το “Not for Want of Trying” του 2008 να αναδεικνύεται από το (εξαιρετικά επιλεκτικό) Radio 1 του BBC ως άλμπουμ της εβδομάδας και με το περσινό “I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone” να τους εδραιώνει ως ένα από τα πλέον σημαντικά ονόματα της ορχηστρικής/post rock/electronica, οι Maybeshewill θα συνεχίσουν να μεγαλώνουν το ήδη μεγάλο fanbase τους με κοινές εμφανίσεις πλάι σε εξίσου σημαντικά ονόματα του post rock χώρου, αλλά και με παγκόσμιες sold out περιοδείες σε Ευρώπη και Ασία. Τρία χρόνια σχεδόν μετά την αξέχαστη εμφάνισή τους επί ελληνικού εδάφους, οι μοναδικοί Maybeshewill επιστρέφουν αισίως σε Αθήνα και Θεσσαλονίκη στις 4 and 5 Μαΐου αντίστοιχα για να μας δείξουν το πιο ώριμο και δημιουργικό πρόσωπό της καριέρας τους.

Source : culturenow.gr