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"Greek World": Educational programs for many tastes

Aesop, Odyssey, chocolate cooking in January from IME

Aesop's fables, the Olympiad of the forest, the doll and wood workshops, the search for the traces of Odysseus and other activities claim the interest of the young visitors of the "Hellenic World" in January 2013 at the Foundation of Greater Hellenism (IME).
The first month of the new year unfolds new and old educational programs, which on Saturdays are aimed at pre-school children (from 3 years and older) accompanied by their parents.
The Sunday Educational Programs are aimed at toddlers and elementary school children. Specifically:
Saturday training programs
Saturday 12 January

Aesop's fables (from the troupe "Athenian Marionettes")
In this new program, three fables of Aesop, "The False Shepherd", "The North and the Sun" and "Mercury and the Woodcutter", compose a comic story through the eyes of the "Athenian Marionettes" troupe. Marionettes, glove dolls, puppets and giant dolls come to life before children's eyes, while the techniques of shadow theater and black theater give a different artistic note.
Saturday 19 January
"Flour, dough, bread… let's get to know their story together"
Children have the opportunity to discover the ingredients and secrets of bread, which is one of the oldest delicacies. Together with their parents, they will follow the path of the seed from the field to… fermentation.
Saturday 26 January
"An Olympiad for forest dwellers"
The animals organize their own Olympiad and invite children to compete alongside them. In the context of this new educational program, young and old discover the Olympic sports starring their favorite animals. The goal of the program is cooperation, the fun, team play as well as a better understanding of the body and its relationship with space.
Sunday educational programs

Sunday 13 January
"Doll Workshop"
Familiar everyday materials come to life and transform into dolls. Friends of the "Greek world" using various materials will create their own dolls, which will then be animated by the same.
"Wood Workshop"
In this workshop, the wood becomes a city, snake, doll or whatever,what else can one be inspired by... Children create constructions with wood as a raw material, while at the same time discovering information about its uses and different types. They play with volumes and colors and make toys or decorative objects from scratch.
Sunday 20 January
"In the footsteps of Odysseus!»
Children dive into the Odyssey to learn about the adventures and ingenuity of the mythical king of Ithaca, of one of the most famous heroes of Greek mythology. Through stories, pictures, games and creative activities, children will discover that the adventures of Odysseus highlight the timeless value of man's struggle to achieve his goals.

Sunday 27 January
"Chocolate dishes!»
In this educational program the "Hellenic World" acquires a sweet taste and invites children to play and create, discovering all the secrets of their favorite confection. Young visitors will discover the different types of chocolate, they will get to know its origin as well as the ways of its preparation, they will discuss the myths and truths about its consumption and, of course, they will try secret recipes.
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The temptation of freedom

Exhibition in Berlin shows the post-war adventures of the highest social good

She is blind, but not spiritually unscented, or asleep. Justice never sleeps. At least not in the minds of the artists, where he works constant overtime. A permanent court-martial, which turns against everything – sometimes of himself.
That is why in the imaginary "Court of Right Reason", as the first part of the exhibition "Temptation of Freedom" at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin is called, the roles are not clear. Not only the opponents of freedom are sitting in the accused's dock, but also many of its supporters. Judges are not professionals, but amateurs. And their verdict is not recorded in documents, but in pictures – tables, sculptures, facilities, photos, video.
Upside down world: Artists judge not only the crimes committed in the name of Enlightenment, but in necessity also the Right Word itself, as a potential source of atrocities. Not only the sleep of Logic, they say, but her wake can also give birth to monsters – more frightening, from everything else.
Accused Robespierre and Marat: Guilty! says judge Yiannis Kounelis. His work, a metal plate, on which the names of the two heroes of the French revolution are written in chalk, as well as the phrase: «Free Death» (freedom or death), reminds, that anyone who did not then agree with the Jacobin regime, he was in danger of ending up in the guillotine. Jacobin freedom, based on "terreur", the terror, it produced unfreedom and death. A lighted white candle in front of the plaque gives a religious overtone to the verdict.
The judge's judgment is also speculatively extreme – whether it is a "sweet" greeting, as in the sculpture "Je vous salue Marat" (Greetings Mara) by Ian Hamilton Finley – where the phrase is the work itself, formed from neon tubes. Either a "sharp" sentence like a guillotine stroke, such as "The Age of Enlightenment" by Ginka Shonibare, which shows the Orthologus as beheaded, i.e. mindless body.
The exhibition presents projects 113 artists from total 28 Countries, which were created after the 1945. From the Greek side, except for the installation of Kounellis, a surrealist painting by Nikos Eggonopoulos is also on display.
 Two prostitutes, surrounded by fascists, Stalinist and democratic symbols, they escape from a mess only to end up in a much worse one – as always happens in a "Civil War", as the work is called.
The starting point of works is freedom, as she secured the 1949 in the United Nations Charter of Human Rights.
The exhibition follows the aesthetic adventures of freedom against the background of the two blocs of the cold war, the east, under the guidance of the Soviet Union, and the west, under US hegemony.
A century and a half full of dizzying successes, but also tragic mistakes, captured in classical works, such as René Magritte's "Memory" from 1948, or in completely modern ones, such as "Untitled" by Maria Bartusova from 2012: a set of small amorphous sacks tied together with thin strings, which shows how fragile the balance between the components of the social fabric is today.
The newest of all projects: "Capital-ism" by Dan Perjovsky, the highest stage of social chaos, which was created just on the eve of the inauguration – at 17 October.
One of the good things about the exhibition is its systematic division into 12 thematic sections with more or less poetic titles: "Journey to the Garden of Wonders", "Fear and Darkness", "The other place" so to speak. The visitor can thus more easily understand the problematic and the affinity of the works per each section.
Of course, the most interesting ones are those that throw it into the "fine" with the established political and aesthetic perceptions.
Example, the "Portable engraving for three persons" by Tamas Oby, a 90x155x53 cm parallelepiped made of cardboard with three open surfaces, which was created 1969 in response to the Warsaw Pact tank raid the 1968 in Prague. A completely inappropriate one, if not a ridiculous means of self-protection, which, precisely for this reason, makes a mockery of any concept of war.
The 10x10 are also enjoyable, namely 100 unwound alarm clocks with the inscription "Minutes of the Hour", which Armand has lined up on a tableau (Fernandez). For the French artist there is only subjective time: political, personal, erotic, coke. Objective time, on the contrary, it doesn't exist, the metronomes, says, they record only the destruction of human life. That is why he tries to destroy destroyers himself – winding the clocks.
Question from the undersigned: Space, there is;
But even Damien Hirst's painting "Professions without a future" does not go back to ingenuity. Only here, instead of alarm clocks, extinguished cigarette butts are exposed. "They express insecurity in the labor market," says the artist. "This is the price of the so-called free market in the age of globalization".
The project, in front of which one remains dazzled, is "Flowers" by Aurora Reinhardt: A bouquet of gloves, on the edge of which they grow, like flowers, "living" polished nails. "It's the projection of men's fantasies in our accessories" says their producer. Feminists never sleep either: The latest here, the visitor realizes that the feminist "Court of Right Reason" does not behave with a glove. And that the fingers he will order to be cut off, it will not be feminine.
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The exhibition "Temptation Freedom" at the Historisches Museum Berlin, which takes place under the auspices of the Council of Europe, lasts until 26 January 2013.
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Saint John of the Slaughterhouses directed by Nikos Mastorakis at the Acropolis

Nikos Mastorakis chose to present a play that has rarely been performed in Greece in his first collaboration with the Acropolis Theater Organization.

It is "Saint Joan of Slaughter" by Bertolt Brecht.

The play was written by the great German author the 1929, but he himself did not get to see it performed on stage, as its first presentation took place in 1959…

Like all of Brecht's works, so it also highlights the human condition.
"Saint Joan of Slaughterhouses" could be seen as a modernized one, scathingly satirical version of the story of Joan of Arc, which takes place with many nested songs in his Chicago 1929 and the financial crash.

Director Nikos Mastorakis notes features:

Having experienced two world wars, of the Weimar Republic and the Great Change of East Germany to a Communist State, bertolt brecht begins to write the 1929, too soon, Agia Joanna of the Slaughterhouses, which he himself will never manage to raise. So, Saint Joan, which is more a paraphrase than a parody of Schiller's Maid of Orleans, played after his death the 1959, the time when the economic miracle of post-war Germany is being cooked up, and is perhaps the postscript of his spiritual path.

Here Brecht, in the form of the epic theater, explains to modern man the mechanism of the capitalist economy and the absolute dependence of all of us on it, as well as our inability to escape the impasse of a system destructive to both man and nature.

They star: Emilios Chiilakis in the role of Pierpont Mauler and Vicky Voliotis in the role of Joanna Dark

They also play (in alphabetical order) the: Kika Georgiou, Dimitris Degaitis, Minos Theocharis, Danai Katsameni, Lambros Ktenavos, Mother Luca, Constantine Maravelias, Angel Bouras, Michalis Oikonomou, Eleni Ouzounidou.

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Year of Constantine P. Cavafy is declared the 2013

Occasion of the one hundred and fifty years since the birth of the Alexandrian poet

"Year of K.P. Cavafy" proclaims it 2013 the Ministry of Education, of religion, of Culture and Sports on the occasion of the anniversary of 150 years since the birth of the leading poet.
Constantine Cavafy (1863 – 1933) is one of the most important Greek poets of modern Greek literature. His poetry is characterized by a strong symbolic tendency and is combined with a simple but timelessly relevant speech.
The ironic mood, what has been called Cavafian irony, combined with the tragedy of reality and became the point of reference for many later poets.
His work has been the subject of long-standing study around the world and his poems have been translated into French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and many other languages.
The central planning of the action program will be carried out by the General Directorate of Contemporary Culture, the Directorate of Letters and the National Book Centre (E.KE.BI ) and will collaborate with the Onassis Foundation (House of Letters and Arts) which has under its jurisdiction the complete record of the poet, foreign embassies in Greece, the Chairs of Modern Greek Language and Culture of the Universities abroad where Cavafy is taught, the Library of Alexandria, the Hellenic Foundation of Culture and the Hellenic Foundation in Alexandria, the European Cultural Center of Delphi, literary societies and other bodies.
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The musical "Chicago" in Thessaloniki

The award-winning musical "CHICAGO» directed by him Stop Beans, will be presented by 30 December for a limited number of shows at Thessaloniki Concert Hall.

With 30.000 tickets from Pallas in his luggage, with excellent rates, a wonderful ensemble of actors and dancers in particularly demanding roles, in choreographies by Fokas Evangelinos and a ten-member orchestra on stage conducted by Alexis Priftis, "CHIGAGO" is undoubtedly the most glamorous show of this year's theater season.

The Emerald Coconut, Tanya Trypi, Konstantinos Markoulakis, Antonis Loudaros and Marinella in a surprise role, demonstrate their virtuoso skills in the inventive stage environment of Giorgos Gavalas and Yiannis Mourikis and the impressive costumes of Denis Vachliotis, justifying the bold choice of Hellenic Spectacles to stage this year, the "Rolls Royce of musicals".

The story
"CHIGAGO" is an authentic "jazz" story set in the Prohibition era and combining love, the comedy, adultery, the drama, satirizing "justice", "state Pharisaism" but also the "starter" of every form! Murders, violence and corruption, explosive dance moves and powerful songs excite and enthrall audiences around the world.

First uploaded on 1975 on Broadway and completed 936 representations. The direction and innovative choreographies that went down in history were signed by Bob Fosse. The public applauded it enthusiastically for two years and due to its great success it was staged again 1996 and 1997 on two Broadway stages making it the 4th longest running musical in Broadway history! It had the same excellent run in London's West End since it was played by 1997 until September 1st 2012 where the last performance was given!

Premiere 30/12
Next performances 2-6/1/2013

Buy tickets:
From the publishing houses of Megaros Musikis, in Aristotelous Square and from www.tch.gr.
Information and purchase of tickets: 2310-895938-9

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Andersen's first fairy tale found

The manuscript was located in the historical archives of Funen Island

Hans Christian Andersen's first fairy tale (1805-1875) they believe Danish experts discovered in a handwritten text, written in ink, which was found in a local file. Entitled "The Tallow Candle" (The tallow wax), the manuscript was located in the historical archives of Funen Island, where the Danish writer was born. It was in the back of an archive where it was unearthed last October by local historian Esben Brage.
Two months later the historians decided, that the manuscript, which consists of six pages was actually written by Andersen, they even dated its writing to the middle of his decade 1820, when the author was in his late teens. "I have no doubt that it was written by Andersen", Ejnar Stig Askgaard of the Odense City Museum also told the Danish newspaper "Politiken". The newspaper has even translated and published the text in English.
On the first page of the manuscript one can read: "To Mrs. Bunkeflod from the devoted H. C. Andersen». It is about the widow of a vicar, who lived across the street from Andersen's childhood home and historians know that he often visited her to borrow her books. And as Askgaard said “The fairy tale was a gift to a woman, whose home was very important to him".
Afterwards, however, the Bunkeflod family sent the manuscript to another, who was closely associated with the Andersens, the Plum family, in whose archives the tale was finally found. A dedication even written on the document later in blue ink states: "To P. Plum Bunkeflod by his friend". Here experts believe, that the text found, possibly a copy _ by the author himself of course _ of his original manuscript, which had been lost.
The fairy tale, however, talks about a neglected and dirty candle made of animal fat, which finds happiness when a wimp sees its inner beauty and the glow in its wick. Despite the fact that the story is not on the level of Andersen's later works, it is nevertheless considered the most important find from the decade 1920, when the author's memoirs were discovered in the Royal Library.
"This is a shocking discovery. On the one hand because it should be considered as Andersen's first fairy tale and on the other hand because it shows that he was interested in fairy tales from his youth, before establishing himself as a writer", Askgaard adds.
 
Andersen's first fairy tales were published in 1835 while overall he wrote about the 160 stories, which have been translated into more than 100 languages.
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Festive events with an aroma of antiquity at the Acropolis Museum

Invitation for young and old during the holidays

The program is intensely festive and Christmassy
of the Acropolis Museum, which starts next weekend. Children's
laboratories, family archaeological games, 3D projections,
musical events and Christmas treats are some of them
surprises that await its visitors this year's festive season.

Children's workshop "Iresioni and the Carols"

The Museum invites its little friends to decorate Iresioni, a
olive branch, as they did in ancient times. That way they will know where it comes from
their favorite custom. They will also sing carols of almost the same age 3.000
years. (Program days: Sunday 23 December & Sunday 30 December.
Program hours: 11:00-11:45 a.m., 2:00-2:45 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, 3:00-3:45 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones).

The workshop is aimed at children 7-12 years old and takes place in
second floor reading room (symbolic price of a special ticket 2 euro
for each child). Reservations will be made at the Information Desk 15
minutes before the start time (number of participants per group: 25
children).

Cold and Hot, Pomegranate Pomegranate you are here;

The Museum welcomes children with their parents to play with them
Archaeologists-Caretakers and to discover celebrations and gifts of antiquity
connecting them to today. A surprise awaits them at the end. (Days
program: Saturday 22 December, Sunday 23 December, Saturday 29 December
& Sunday 30 December. Program hours: 11:00-12:00 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, 12:00-1:00
Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, 1:00-2:00 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, 2:00-3:00 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, 3:00-4:00 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, 4:00-5:00 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones).

The program is aimed at children 8-12 years (token expert fee
ticket 2 euros for each child). Reservations will be made at the Office
Information 15 minutes before the start time (number of participants per
group: 15 children with their parents).

3D projections

The Museum welcomes visitors to the Virtual Reality Hall
with 3D projections in order to learn more about its monuments
Acropolis (Program days: Saturday 22 December, Sunday 23 December,
Saturday 29 December & Sunday 30 December).

also, the fifteen-minute film "The Acropolis in Antiquity" will be shown at
space 1.30 pm. to 5.00 pm. (symbolic price of a special ticket 1 euro
from the funds). The program is aimed at visitors aged over 13 years.

Musical walk through the exhibition grounds

On Sunday 23 December and Sunday 30 December, young and old will
they can enjoy the Museum's exhibits while listening to festive tunes:

  • at
    12:30 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones: "Christmas musical stories from the kingdom of
    animals" and "New musical fairy tales" by the pianist and composer Marios
    Strofali on the balcony of the second floor overlooking the Hall of the Archaics
    Statues.
  • at
    5:00 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones: Carols and Christmas songs by’ the whole world, with
    the Mixed and Children's Choir of the Kontali Conservatory on its ground floor
    Museum with a view of the pediment of Hekatombedos (Piano: Gerasimos Hoidas,
    Address: Michalis Patseas).
Family backpacks

The Museum invites families to get to know its collections through the
themed archaeological games available either at the Information Office as
free loaner backpacks or in the shops.

Christmas sweets

At 22, 23, 29 and 30 December, Is the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar 12:30 Creation "regarding the modern administration and the European ones, the restaurant will
offers delicious children's meals at the special price of 5 euro that will
include a children's burger with a patty, homemade chips and salad with
gherkin, chocolate stars and sorrel.

Gifts from the Acropolis Museum

His charm 2013 inspired by the wings of the little Eros that decorate it
clay jewelry case cover of the 4th c. e.g., faithful copies of exhibits
exclusive production of the Acropolis Museum workshops and many more
unique creations inspired by the Museum's exhibits are available at
sales offices.

Like every year, the Museum will remain closed 25 and 26 December and 1
January.

Source : tovima.gr