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The K. Giannaris takes them… Kalashnikov

Violence in the Greece of nihilism will be the subject of the 50-year-old director's next film
A mirror of the Greek reality, with intense socio-political reflection on issues of identity, gender and race, the work of director Constantinos Giannaris needs no introduction. The immigration, the alienation, subculture and the fringes are the director's stimuli in restless cinematographic creations such as "From the Edge of the City", the "Fifteenth of August", "Homer" and recently "Man at sea".
 
And while "Man at sea" has not yet found distribution, his tireless and perpetually restless 50-year-old director is already working on the script for his next film. "It's a scenario inspired by the surrounding violence and the general nihilism that now dominates in Greece" Giannaris told us a while ago by phone from the Peloponnese, where he comes from. Challenging as always, Giannaris "christened" his film "Kalashnikov". Not strange at all, since this particular Russian weapon is one of the most characteristic symbols of violence in Greece and constantly dominates the news, "above all in Athenian society", as the director characteristically said.
If everything goes according to’ please, the 2012 it is predicted to be an active year for K. Giannari. During the last Thessaloniki Festival, last November, where Giannaris was honored with the screening of all his films, Lawrence Cardis, senior curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (and president of the Jury of the festival of which Giannaris was a member), excited about "Shards", the experimental filmed diaries of the Greek director. In fact, the thought of Mr. Cardis is to present "Fragments" at MoMA next season, while, as told to us by Mr. Giannaris, "Fragments" may also play in the Image Forum, a major festival held in Tokyo and Yokohama.
"Fragments" is the general title with which K. Giannaris christened the film notes he kept for years (and still does). Avid filmmaker, the K. Giannaris, where he goes, he carries a camera with him. Today a digital one, formerly a Super 8. And it pulls everything. Like notes. "As a writer in my position would make notes in a notebook or a painter would make sketches, that's how I film too. And then I put them aside".
But it seems that at some point he remembered them and decided to combine them into two "chapters" of a total duration of about three and a half hours. They have images from Giannaris' life in London, where he studied and made cinema, personal matters, erotically, even more difficult, such as the funeral of a cousin.
In everything,what about the "troubled" latest film of "Man at sea", the K. Giannaris hopes to hit theaters this winter, because it is "a film that has gone through many waves and is now looking for its contact with the audience". At the moment it has not managed to find distribution in Greece, despite her participation in last year's Berlin Festival (Panorama) and at the Thessaloniki Festival a few months ago, where it was shown with a new edit.
Giannaris still believes that the filming of "Man at sea" was the most difficult of his career, but he adds: "This plan was ambitious and had a sense of vanity in relation to the meager budget. It was a big undertaking done under unbearable pressure". According to the director anyway, the film's producer George Lykiardopoulos is busy finding a distributor.
Both in Thessaloniki and at the Film Library and also at the Sorbonne University, where he recently gave seminars on his work, the K. Giannaris once again felt the joy of enjoying his films as a simple viewer. "When you're on set or in the editing process, you lose emotional contact with the event you yourself create" he told us. "You need at least five years _ especially in feature films with the difficulties and traumas of filming _ to be able to watch them as a viewer. And when that happens, as it happened to me, the feeling is great".
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The ten most important archaeological facts in the world about 2011

One of the world's first buildings was discovered in Jordan. In Scotland came to light boat 1000 years with the burial of a Viking. While scientists reconstituteddigitally a school of Roman gladiators. The "Top 10" of the archaeological discoveries of the past year, as recorded by the authoritative American magazine "Archaeology" includes investigations, events, even highlighting the effects of the war in Libya on the monuments, the political and social upheaval in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria by 2011.
Absent from this list, however, is Greece, not necessarily due to a lack of archaeological activity but perhaps also due to insufficient information. Moreover, as the magazine itself points out, the reason par excellence why it will go down in history 2011 is the political and economic crisis in the world. Without meaning that, of course, that archaeologists and other scientists stopped working and presenting work. Applications of modern technology, for example, in archeology new possibilities open up both in field research and in the study of findings to draw more accurate conclusions.

So in the "Top 10" of "Archaeology"., are included, in no particular order anyway, the following events:

– Viking burial on a ship, which came to light in exceptionally good condition in Ardamurchan, Scotland (the first on British soil). The dead man was a high-ranking warrior who had been buried with his weapons, a sword with a silver hilt, shield, spear, ax but also a drinking horn.
– Neolithic building uncovered in Wadi Fainan, Jordan. It is dated 11.700 years before today, it is oval in shape and was made of mud. An interesting fact is that it is surrounded by two terraces reminiscent of the construction of an amphitheater, while according to the evidence it had a roof, which covered a part of it. The building may have been used periodically by small groups of people to process products such as barley and peanuts or for gatherings.
– Research developments on the search for skin remains in fossil remains of Australopithecus sediba discovered in Malapa, South Africa. The remains are 2,2 million years old and a thin layer of minerals found on them, it is thought that it could be the remains of skin. However, the investigation has not yet reached definitive conclusions.
– Discovery of the earliest domesticated dogs in Predmosti, Czech Republic. This is about publishing a study, which refers to three dog skulls, dating from ca 31.500 years ago and present characteristics, which separate them from their ancestor the wolf. This is a smaller and wider muzzle and a wider space for the brain. Researchers as recently, they considered that the domestication of the dog took place before 14.000 years.
– Unveiling of a rare burial of a woman, who was a Mayan ruler in Nakum, Guatemala. The burial chamber was found under another and was _surprisingly_ untouched by antiquarians. The woman carried two vases on top of her head and was buried with valuables. Both the quality of the grave and the position in which it was found, show that it was used for people of royal descent for half a millennium.
– Digital reconstruction of the "Gladiator Gymnasium" found in the ancient Roman city of Carnundum in Austria by an international team of researchers from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Research and Virtual Archeology.

In this city, which she once had 50.000 inhabitants and today it is a huge archaeological park, the fourth largest in the world has been discovered, school for gladiators of the 4th c. X. century. It is a closed complex with an inner courtyard, circular training area, living quarters and a cemetery while high-resolution images collected by the GPR survey show underfloor heating, swimming pools and paths.

Additional, with the improved technology developed, visitors can watch the life of the gladiators inside it.

– Uncovering meal remains in Chinese burials in Shaanxi and Xinjiang provinces. The world's oldest soup is 2000 years, the particular one found in pots was dog soup. the second _ 2400 years old _ it was millet noodles.
– War and ethnogenesis through the excavation of pre-Columbian settlements at Taraco, on the edge of Peru's Lake Titicaca. The research showed, that cooperation between different ethnicities can certainly be a path to success, but sometimes an organized conflict can be more effective in obtaining resources!
– Revelation of the whaler "Two Brothers" that sank the 1823 in Hawaii. The ship holds a special place in literary history, for his captain was hard-headedGeorge Pollard Jr.Pollard's first ship, the "Essex" was rammed and sunk by a blow whale, providing inspiration toHerman Melville for the creation of the famous work of "Moby Dick".
– The "Arab Spring" and its effects on the monuments of Egypt as well, of Tunisia, of Syria and Libya. Recording of the disasters and looting in these countries, to the degree, that this is possible due to turbulence and minimal information. As is well known, Egyptian archaeological sites and museums were looted, last September, the Seleucid city of Apamea in Syria was looted, while many monuments in these countries have been damaged by the military operations.
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The Archaeological Museum of Ioannina nominated for the European Museum Award

Nominee for the European Museum of the Year Award 2012 (European Museum Award 2012), is the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina. The museum was visited last September by members of the Jury of the European Museum Forum (EMF) which is under the auspices of the Council of Europe and specifically the ladyShirley Collier director of the Scarborough Museum of Britain and Mr.Michael Ryan, head of ICOM in Ireland, who expressed their admiration both for his exhibition and for its organization.

The aim of the award is to promote innovative museum practice andoffer quality public services to all categories of visitors. In the past, in fact, the Folk Art Museum of Nafplio has been honored with the EMYA First Prize (1981) and with the Council of Europe Award the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki (2005).

The Archaeological Museum of Ioannina highlights through its seven main halls and in addition the central corridor and three atriums (total area 1.200 T. m.) about the 3.000 archaeological findings covering a long period of time, since the first appearance of man in Epirus, during the Lower Paleolithic era (before 250.000 years) as well as the west of late antiquity in late Roman times (3century AD. X.).

However, special emphasis is placed on the findings of the sanctuary of Dodoni, which are exhibited in a room dedicated exclusively to one of the most important oracles of the Greek world. The structure of the exhibition is based on three axes: a timeline, a geographical and a thematic one which as they intertwine, run through the museological flow, trying to highlight the special physiognomy and course of the region during antiquity.

It should be noted that the 2012 are completed 35 years since the institution of the European award.
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David Sentaris v… Santa Claus

The author tells in his unique humorous way what he went through when he had to work as…elf!
Are you worried?, during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, when the flashing lights start menacing public and private spaces; Are you tired of window displays with fake snow and plastic Santas who smile the same way every year at bewildered customers; It makes you uncomfortable when you hear the song "Rudolph the Reindeer" everywhere; Do you resent the peculiarity of the festive climate imposed by m’ an extraordinary way of joy, hope and of course consumption;
If you believe that goblins – there are also – they have to shake off that seasonal euphoria at some point, then you must read the American's Christmas Country DiariesDavid Sentaris. S’ this short novella, the humorist writer of Greek origin, he describes with his sly sarcasm what attracted him when he decided to work, black as he was, as a multi-tasking and "full-time" elf in the world's largest store, «Macy's in Herald Square» during a festive season which always creates the need for additional support staff.
The author's narrative, a hilarious tour of a multidimensional bureaucracy that "sells" the holiday experience and souvenirs from’ her photos for an exorbitant fee, leads us to believe that it would be better to be a reindeer and pull Santa's sleigh in distant Lapland than to wear "green velvet suit» and be humble p’ an annex of the mythical house of s’ an American department store that accepts young and old.
We follow the hero, among many other ridiculous things, to rage with the other elves, freaking out when it comes to taking over a cash register and losing control when the store gets crowded. «Any sane person would leave if they knew they would have to wait over two hours to see Santa. Two hours – you could see onefilm in two hours. Standing in a line that will last two hours makes people worry that they don't live in a democratic state». But the purpose is one: for as many people as possible to stay in "Christmasland" and consume as many products as possible while there. In other words "we were an efficient machine in the chaos" where at any time it is possible to anagram "Santa" (Santa Claus) with "Satan" (Satan).
The working elves go through many devious ways to keep up the interest of distracted parenting parents and young children who, because they are not happy enough, their parents slap them and demand ap’ them to stop crying and smile at the elf who is waiting to take their photo as a happy family. «Some of these kids get anxious before they see Santa. They pace up and down and shake hands looking at the floor. They pretend to be going to a job interview» thinks the narrator, trying to reassure a child. «Don't worry, Santa isn't going to judge you. He is not strict. He used to be very critical but people were protesting so he stopped. Trust me, you don't need to worry»…
It is interesting the embarrassment with which he, the v’ other magical world faces reality, that is, when children with disabilities or mental retardation go to see Santa Claus. And when Sendaris describes these situations he does so with sensitivity. With the rest he is amusingly merciless. «I witnessed a fist fight between two moms and watched a woman suffer a severe agoraphobic panic attack: he fell to the floor trying to breathe, waving her arms as if chasing away bats. A Long Island father called Santa a sister for not reciting “Christmas Eve” to his child».
THEHenry James he said that "experience is the very atmosphere of the intellect” and in the mind of David Sedaris everything is strange, surreal, desperate jokes. The author read this novella for the first time, which later became a play, in the morning program of NPR (National Public Radio) of the USA on 23 of December 1992. From then on he became more widely known and subsequently the books he published climbed several times on the bestseller lists in America.
The author's books in Greek http://www.vivlionet.gr/
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Culture actions for economically vulnerable groups

"Culture month" dedicated to economically and socially vulnerable groups is declared in December by thirteen cultural institutions of Athens providing events (representations, concerts, exhibitions, educational programs, movie screenings etc. a.) with free entry for art lovers, they want to follow the culture but the circumstances do not allow them.

The extraordinary initiative was organized in a short period of time and is the result of the meeting held last September around Crisis and Culture. An informal Network of Cultural Organizations called "APO KOINOU" was created then, from people who, despite the times and passing from the individual to the collective, declared their intention to develop synergies to strengthen the role of culture in social development, making everyone's everyday life better. The agencies participate in the network: ART – ATHENS, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens International Film Festival, National Opera, National Theatre, National Book Center, Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, "Hellenic World" Cultural Center, State Orchestra of Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art, Benaki Museum, Athens Biennale, House of Letters and Arts – Onassis Foundation.

Specifically, the "Culture Month" program includes the following actions per organization:
ART – Athens: Program of guided tours and other activities with free entry to art galleries in Athens and Thessaloniki. Among others from Athens, AD galleries participate, Art Gallery “Kaplanon 5”, Astrolabe, About, Andreas Melas & Helena Papadopoulos, Art Zone 42, Batagianni gallery, Ersi Gallery, expression – Gianna Gramatopoulos, food, Ileana Tounda Center for Contemporary Art, K – art, Medusa Art Gallery, Qbox, Rebecca Camhi, Cap, The Apartment, The Breeder, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, and Artis Causa from Thessaloniki, TinT Gallery and Zina Athanassiadou Gallery. (Detailed program at www. art – Athens. gr)

Byzantine and Christian Museum: Christmas workshops for children at 11 and 17 and 18 December. Young visitors will make Christmas cards and ornaments starting with Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons and other selected objects from the Museum's collections, which illustrate different episodes from the Nativity narrative. For children 5 to 8 years with free membership. However, since places are limited, a strict priority order will be observed. registration on the phone 213 213 9507 Sunday 11, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December. Start times: 10: 00 and 12: 00 (www. byzantinemuseum. gr)

Athens International Film Festival: Apollo Cinemax Class cinemas offer free screenings to the unemployed (Stadium 19), Danaos 1 and Danaos 2 (Kifissia 109) and Nirvana Cinemax (Alexandra 192) in collaboration with the Athens International Film Festival. Specifically on Monday 12 and on Monday 19 December entry will be free for holders of unemployment cards recognized by the OAED: for Apollo and Nirvana cinemas, the offer is valid for the first evening screening and for Danaos cinemas 1 and 2 for all views. Entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis – depending on the available seats of the cinemas – and in the scheduled screenings of those days. (Information at www. aiff. gr.)

National Opera: Grant 100 seats for the ballet performance "Everyone dances a waltz!» of December 11.. The positions will be given to registered unemployed and elderly people over 68 years while the is made from the funds of the EU. L. S. (Academy 59-61) in order of priority (09.00-21.00, daily). It is necessary to show an unemployment card – identity. (Information: 2103662100, www. nationalopera. gr)

National Theatre: Provides 30 places with reduced entry 5 euro (in order of priority) to young people, elderly and unemployed for the performance of William Shakespeare's play "Pericles" directed byYannis Houvardas on the Main Stage, on Thursday 22/12. Free viewing of her "Peter's Walk" performanceAlkis Zeiin the Children's Stage for special groups of children, after consultation with the competent authorities. Performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles directedTakis Tzamargiain prisons, on Wednesday 14/12. Organization of a tour of the grounds of Ethniko on Monday 19/12 at 11.00 in the morning, open to the public. (Information at the press office of the National Theater and email promodept@n – t. gr)

National Book Center: Festival of Young Writers. A two-day focus on the new generation of Greek creators with the presentation 40 emerging writers, which are recommended by literary magazines as well as parallel events of dialogue with the other arts: movie screenings, dance and theater performance, speculatively, comic, musical happenings, competitions, workshops (all events are open to the public). On Friday 9 and on Saturday 10 December at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation. (Detailed program of events: http: //www. festivalneonlogotechnon. gr/, Information: National Book Center, tel. 210-9200300, info@ekebi.gr, www. half. gr)

Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation: Movie Wednesdays with free admission with a small tribute to Woody Allen. From Wednesday 7 until Wednesday 28 December, time 21:30. In collaboration with New Star andVelissario Kossyvakis. (Information and seat reservations on a first-come, first-served basis: 210 34 18 579, Mon – Fri. 10: 00 – 14:00). Parallel Events – Music is echoing: Two small Jazz concerts in the foyer of the Foundation (14/12 and 21/12 at 21:00) from the Philippos Nakas Conservatory (Information 210 52 44 648, 6972 710 991)

"Hellenic World" Cultural Center : One hundred free tickets to the exhibition "There is a solution to everything; A journey into the world of ancient Greek mathematics". One hundred free tickets for the exhibition "Yiannis Metsis – Athens Experimental Ballet". Fifty free tickets for the screenings of "THOLOS". (Information on the provision of tickets on the telephones: 2122542001-4. www. hellenic – cosmos. gr)

State Orchestra of Athens: Special offer 50 free tickets to registered unemployed persons for each of the following concerts: "The Lost Palace of the Gods" – Works ofGluck, Tchaikovsky, XenakiandHaydn, Friday 09.12.2011, 20: 30 Athens Concert Hall. "On the Edge of Legend" – Works ofSibelius, Beethoven, Strauss, Friday 16.12.2011, 20: 30 Athens Concert Hall. "Christmas Concert" – The 4 his flute quartetMozart, Monday 19.12.2011, 20.30 Parnassos Philological Association Concert Hall. (Information on the phones 210 7257601-3. For collection, it is required to show an unemployment card recognized by the OAED and a police ID card. Priority will be given. www. too. gr)

Museum of Cycladic Art: Free entry to the new exhibition "Barren Line. An archaeological trip to Kastellorizo, in Symi, in Halki, in Tilos and Nisyros" on Thursday 15 December 2011 (10.00 – 20.00). At 18.30 there will be a guided tour for the public. (Ε: communication@cycladic.gr)

Benaki Museum: In the main building. Educational Christmas program "Santa is looking for partners" on 18 December (11.00-14.00) and on 29 December (17.00-20.00) for young and old visitors, with the aim of discovering the rich collections of the Museum through an exciting game. Entrance free.
In the Islamic Museum. Two free guided tours by the curatorsMina MoraitouandRosanna Ballianfor an introduction to Islamic culture, on Saturday 10 December, time 11.00, for unemployment card holders and on Saturday 17 December, time 11.00, special tour of refugee groups (Organized in collaboration with the Greek Council for Refugees). Priority will be given. Maximum number of visitors 35 individuals.
In the Piraeus Street Building. Guided tours of the exhibition "Nikos Chouliaras. The back rooms of the mind" on Friday 9 December time 19.00 to unemployment card holders and Sunday 11 December, time 12.00 in refugee groups (Organized in collaboration with the Greek Council for Refugees). Priority will be given. Maximum number of visitors 35 individuals. (Information on the phone 210 3671023, www. benaki. gr)

Athens Biennale: Free entry is provided to the unemployed, teachers and special categories of visitors’ throughout the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 ONE ROAD (to 11 December). In collaboration with the National Book Center and the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROMOS presents at the 1st Festival of Young Writers (9 – 10 December 2011) his play "Rhinoceros".Eugene Ionescoin audio performance by Stelios Karamanolisand herTula Plumi and his "Notes on a Modern Novel" videoMaki Malafekas. (Information on tel. 6945037687, 210 52 32 222, E: press@athensbiennial. org)

House of Letters and Arts – Onassis Foundation: At 14 December at the concert of the DissonART ensemble dedicated toIanni Xenakis (ten years after his death) there will be 200 free seats, in order of priority on the phones 2109005800 and 2130178036. www. sgt. gr
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Conference on translation from Turkish to Greek

Collaboration of the Study Society of Prof’ us of the East with the Kapodistrian
On the initiative of the Study Society of Prof’ us of the East, in collaboration with the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the University of Athens, a conference on the subject is organized: "Translation from Turkish to Greek. Theoretical and Practical Issues".

The conference will be held on 30 November 2011 Is the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar 10:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. in the New Amphitheater, in the central building of the University of Athens (University 30) and is an attempt to promote Greek-Turkish relations.
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Celebrations for the centenary of the birth of Elytis


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They are peaking these days, with events at the Athens Concert Hall, the celebrations for the centenary of the birth of the Nobel laureate poet Odysseus Elytis at 2 November of 1911. Themed symposium "The twentieth century in the poetry of Elytis – The poetry of Elytis in the twenty-first century» will be held on Tuesday 1 November and Wednesday 2 November with distinguished speakers from the field of philology, of literature and the arts. They talk (Tuesday 1 November, 5.00 p.m. etc.): Mikis Theodorakis: «Odysseus Elytis – The Greek Revolutionist", Dimitris Maronitis: "New Greek lyricism before and after Elytis", Marina Lambrakis Plaka: «The visual Elytis and the exercise of the senses", David Connolly: «The magic of Elytis», Michalis Kopidakis: ""Sun of Justice..." Another reading", George Babiniotis: "The meta-linguistic solver", Kostas Georgousopoulos: "Three Keys to Reading "Marina of the Rocks"", Aris Berlis: "Elytis today", Michael Livadiotis: "The crazy time, the small-minded weather and the lifetime moment", Paola Maria Minucci: "Greece beyond Greece in the poetry of Elytis" and (Wednesday 2 November, 5.00 p.m. etc.): Mario Vitti: "Elytis and the Greek public. Communication and Consent", Jeffrey Carson: "Elytis cannot be translated: The Elytis must be translated”, Ingemar Rhedin:"The voice beyond language – the inexpressible, the poetic intelligence and the metaphysical element in the work of Odysseus Elytis", Wrong Stétié: “Elytis the Sun Cultist”. At 7.30 p.m. will be followed by a themed round table "Poetry and Reality". The physicist will talk, academic Dimitris Nanopoulos, the psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Thanasis Tzavaras, the poet, academic Kiki Dimoulas, the composerGeorge Kouroupos and the visual artist Chronis Botsoglou. The poet presidesIoulita Iliopoulou. The events will be completed with the musical evening "The small world is the Great of Elytis", on Thursday 3 November, at 8.30 p.m. in which you will hear poems set to music from the entire poetry of Odysseus Elytis to original music byGeorge Kouroupou. Lyrics of Elytis will be recited by Ioulita Iliopoulou, while the actor will read prose texts Aris Lebesopoulos. Viewing film documentaries, visual and photographic material from various moments of Elytis' life will accompany the readings.