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Albert nobbs

ToAlbert nobbs is an Irish drama film, production 2011, directed by Rodrigo Garcia. Starring Glenn Close, who also wrote the screenplay with John Banville. Featuring Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson and Janet McTeer. The script is based on the short story “The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs” by Irish novelist George Moore.
A woman impersonates the man in order to work and survive in his Ireland 1910. Several years later, she will find herself trapped in a prison, which she made herself.
The film received mixed reviews from critics but praised Close's performance, which received an Oscar nomination, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe a’ female role. Glenn Close had played the same role many years ago in the theater.
Plot details :In 19th century Ireland, a woman pretends to be a man, named Albert Nobbs, so that he could work as a butler in a Dublin hotel for aristocrats. Maintaining its true identity for over two decades, Albert suddenly finds her dedication to the role challenged by the unexpected arrival of a painter, who turns out to understand Albert, better than he could have imagined. Meantime, Albert tries to help the beautiful maid Helen, when she gets close to a charming but tough handyman.

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Presentation of the project of the International University of Greece and new postgraduates

Regarding the presentation of the project of the International University of Greece and the presentation of the new postgraduate programs, a press conference was held today at noon, at the Onassis Foundation Letters and Arts Shelter.
In the interview given by the chairman of the Steering Committee, professor Kostas Grammenos, the Mayor of Thessaloniki also attended. Yannis Boutaris, who addressed a greeting and spoke with warm words about the International University.
Professor Grammenos during the interview presented the work that has been done since the foundation of the university and among other things he emphasized that the International University operates "with the standards of a University with an international presence, because only in this way will he be able to claim a place in the international arena."
Then followed the presentations of the schools: of Economics and Management by Professor Nikolaos Mousiopoulos, of Science and Technology by Professor Ioannis Vlahavas, of Humanities by Professor Vassilis Gounaris and of Masters in Law by Professor Athanasios Kaisis.
The International University of Greece (www.ihu.edu.gr) was founded on 2005 (Law 3391) and is the first public Greek University, which offers study programs exclusively in the English language. Three Faculties operate at the International University: the School of Economics and Management that offers the following Master's Degree Programs: Executive MBA, MSc in Management, MSc in Banking & Finance, MSc in Sustainable Development, MSc in Strategic Product Design, LLM in Transnational and European Commercial Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Faculty of Humanities offering the Master's Degree Programs: MA in Black Sea Cultural Studies, MA in Art, Law and Economy and the Faculty of Science and Technology offering two Master's Degree Programs: MSc in Information and Communication Technology Systems, MSc in Energy Systems.
Source : kathimerini.gr
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Goethe Institute: His Exarchies 2011 in his Berlin 2012

The strict economic austerity measures in Greece, just as the lens of two directors recorded them

 The film "Austerity Measures" (s.s. "Austerity measures") co-written by directors Ben Russell and Guillaume Caillot, selected by the Berlin Film Festival to screen during its 62nd edition (9- 19 February).
 
 The experimental aesthetic film which is a production of the Goethe Institute of Athens itself and the LabA film collective (LaborAthen) will be screened at the Berlinale on Saturday 11 and on Sunday 12 February in the Forum Expanded Section.
It is a "x-ray" of social life in Greece after the repeated austerity measures imposed by the Troika and is focused on the area of ​​Exarchia (the film's working title was 'Exarcheia, Red-Blue-Green»).
Shot in 16mm, the film was created in 5 days in September 2011 during the workshop "Hand over cinema Athens 2011".
Last year, for the first time, the "Hand over cinema Athens" workshop invited Greek and foreign film lovers, professional filmmakers, visual artists, students as well as amateurs to gather in Athens and make hand-made films with the aim of depicting various aspects of the city.
Its world premiere took place at the Institute's auditorium on 13 of last September.
"Austerity Measures" is the fruit of Greek-German cooperation in the field of culture supported by the German Institute of Athens. It is very happy that the creation of a network in the field of cinema has found a response not only in Greece and Germany, but also at an international level.
The film program of the Goethe-Institut Athen will continue its efforts to create a Greek-German film network and thanks all the creators who cooperate and support it.
Source : tovima.gr
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Wednesdays with Cinema at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation: Anti – Tribute to Saint Valentine

The BMIin its context general offerof to her moviegoers of Athenswith the cooperation and support of the independent distribution company of selected films New Star and Velissarios Kossyvakis, has established an informal Film Club, every Wednesday at 21:30, with free entry, in his Cinema.
On Wednesdays with IMC Cinema, they have a place and films by established and new creators are screened, films that speak a unique cinematic language with the mark of each creator evident, films that have contributed to the special image and development of that cinema that captures the different,  opens up horizons, entertains and at the same time focuses on people and situations, relationships and events of wider interest.
February 2012 Anti – Tribute to Saint Valentine
Away from pink balloons, cards with hearts and bouquets the cities continue indifferently on their course. Cities divided in two, cities wild dark and haunted like the lives of their people, who seek and experience the obsessions of love, the contact, the brief flame of human life, and in the hope of happiness they form their own moral codes. Next to the pink happy ones, sweet pictures, they also project wild images in earthy colors, in sepia and black and white that reveal the secrets, the passions,  the pursuits of people in the eternal pursuit of happiness…
In February, in the month that usually celebrates a saint of lovers, the IMC has chosen and presents films about love that are unconventional, separate, away from hagiographies, even if some of them are dominated by angels, in a instead- tribute to Saint Valentine. Because life has many aspects as well as desires.
In addition and… suddenly, music is playing!
Young people, but also already established,  notable musicians and music students occupy the foyer of the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation and introduce themselves to the public through small concerts with various types of music. Through this cycle of events they find a platform for expression and present musical prologues for the film screenings of “Wednesdays with Cinema at IMC”,  about half an hour before the start of each screening with free entry for all.
In this context, on Wednesday 22nd and Wednesday 29 February 2012, the audience will have the opportunity to come into contact with musical works of the U. Kotzia, X. Samaras and N. Jiajiu, as well as recent compositions inspired by the film ta “Wings of love” of N. Mavraki, A. Mouzaki and G. Badass.
The works are interpreted by A. Tzigiannis (piano), A. Chaniotis (violin), N. Nikolopoulos (flute), P. Sioras (clarinet), M. Stellius (mandolin).
The Schedule of the next screenings
•Wednesday 8 February 2012, at 21:30
 Snake of June (Snake of June)
Direction:  Rokugatsu no Hebi (Japan, 2002) Thriller
 (not suitable for minors)
•Wednesday 16 February 2012, at 21:30
Bad Guy BAD GUY
Direction:  Kim Ki Duk (Korea, 2001), Drama
 (not suitable for minors)
•Wednesday 22 February 2012, at 21:30
Antares -( A study of Love)
Direction: Gotz Spielmann, (Austria, 2004) Social Drama
Music is echoing…
•Wednesday 29 February 2012, at 21:30
Wings of Desire (The wings of Eros),
Direction:  Wim Wenders (Germany, 1987)  Fantasy, Dramatic, Romance
 Music is echoing…
 Source : culturenow.gr
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CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP : Garbage Game

The work of the French painter Arman will be introduced to students from 5 to 12 years, through the "Adventure of Transformation" at the Concert Hall
We all have access to creation. We have it in us. And you and me, Armand was saying, the great French painter, founding member of the New Realists group, made famous by his series of works "Trash", where he used waste, displayed in a glass box, and "Accumulations", with similar items placed in a polyester box or device, plexiglass etc.
This creator who changed our perception of "trash" and gave the French answer to pop art in the decade 1960, they are invited to meet the children, aged from 5 to 12 years, and to "imitate" the ways of his artistic expression.
This is the visual children's workshop around Armand's work at the Athens Concert Hall, which constitutes the seventh consecutive collaboration of Megaron Plus with the Center Pompidou in Paris, after the workshops around the work of Matisse, Picasso, Brancusi, Calder et al.
"The Adventure of Transformation. Everyday objects: Look at them another way!» is the title of the workshop, with Odile Fayet in charge, from tomorrow until 18 Of March, in which children will experiment with the idea of ​​"transforming objects", as the neorealist Armand did, who was born in Nicaea on 1928 and died in New York on 2005.
There are three stages to the process: "The object's life cycle", where the child collects the objects and categorizes them, in the spirit of Arman who said that "the principle of accumulation changes our perspective on things".
In the second stage, "Object is being decrypted", the child discovers the ways in which the artist worked with the object. The third stage is about "inventing the object", where little aspiring artists assemble small colored boxes to build towers, mazes and walls, a large scale architecture.
Participation in the workshop, either for schools or individual children, it will be done in groups 30 persons. The program, with specially trained personnel, lasts an hour and a half. Information at 210-7282333
Source : ethnos.gr
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Struggle to save the Exarchia building

Mobilization to save an extremely interesting building of Exarchia, of the few examples of popular Athenian architecture of the 19th century, that have remained in the capital on Themistokleous Street 62 are done by the "Residents' Group" of the area with the support of the MOnuMENTA movement.

In this context, they organize Wednesday 15 February on 6,30 μ. μ. in the theater of Exarchion (Themistocleus 69) discussion on "The architecture of the Exarchia and the rescue of the building at 62 Themistokleous Street" in which the professors will speakEleni Portaliou, Stavros Stavridis, Konstantinos Dekavallas, Eleni Maistrou, Tassis Papaioannou, the architectTonia Katerinis, the actressAnita Decavallarepresentative of the "Residents' Group to Save the Building" and the archaeologistIrini Graciaby MOnuMENTA. Most of the speakers also live and work in the area, which they have studied thoroughly and have formulated proposals for its substantial protection.

In reference to the building of Themistocleus 62, which is actually a small building complex that develops around an inner courtyard, the way for its demolition seemed to open after the opinion of the Central Council of Newer Monuments of the Ministry of Culture, which did not consider it maintainable.

And that, despite the contrary suggestion of the Ephorate of New Monuments of Attica, which had requested its declaration for the aforementioned reasons but also because it is located in a building environment with many neoclassical buildings, eclecticism as well as buildings with the special architecture of the interwar period, a whole that is, which records the evolution of the residence in Athens.

The unpleasant developments, that will turn the complex into a five-story building have stopped anyway, following the appeal of the "Residents' Group" to the Council of State against the decisions, which have been received and against the demolition permit issued by the Athens Urban Planning Department. Every mobilization therefore advocates the fight to save the building of this historic neighborhood.
Source : tovima.gr
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3rd World Magic Festival at the Badminton Theatre

The Badminton Theater presents the spectacular 3rd World Magic Festival, whose theme this year is comedy,
Is the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar 8 until 12 February 2012.
So impressive, so incredible now and of such "mathematical" precision that they reach the limits of science. But it is everything, what better does the art of modern magic have to offer and indeed from its most iconic representatives. The fact that the top six wizards and magicians in the world right now, they share the same stage for a few days - something that rarely happens- makes the 3rd International Festival of Magic a completely unique experience.
Just as unique is the way each of the "provocateurs of the real" who will occupy the stage of the Badminton Theater, will attempt to reach their limits, or even beyond them, our senses and take us to the most fascinating regions of consciousness, where you will question - and revise- what is ultimately real and what is imaginary. Having his own personal style and "specialty", each member of this special Dream Team will hold your breath as they do in the world's greatest theaters and music halls. But the magic doesn't stop there...
Humor and many surprises for the audience create a unique performance that captivates people of all ages. Theatrical effects and elements of stand up comedy and pantomime make the 3rd International Festival of Magic what many call A Lifetime Experience. An experience that will remain etched in your memory. And in your imagination.
One by one...
Jeff Hobson
The host of the 3rd International Festival of Magic (but also of the 1st!) he is also one of the most sought-after magician-comedians of our time. The original and clever combination of comedy and magic that makes it so special, has made his agenda the most expensive place to book even the most aspiring theater or music hall some of his dates. His library faces a similar problem of space as he has won countless awards for his skills most recently Best Comedy Magic from the World Association of Magic Awards and Best Magic Review from the World Magic Awards for his role as star and producer of the legendary Carnival of Wonders presented at the Reno Hilton Hotel and Casino in Reno, in Nevada. His television appearances include HBO, Showtime’s Comedy Club Network, Fox Family’s Masters of Illusion, NBC's World's Greatest Magic as well as the Magic Comedy Strip, a show he ran for 16 weeks on English television.
Michael Giles
Let your senses marvel at the Magic of one of America's most famous magicians, by Michael Giles, as it will take your imagination to the most forbidden depths. Immerse yourself in a celebration of fantasy and myth, as much as Michael Giles, the fastest and most charismatic magician of our time, presents a combination of intricate magic and spectacular illusions, something you've never seen before. Michael Giles reinvents himself by drawing on his amazing career, from his travels and from his mysticism, which lead him to his newest and most exciting endeavor.
Arcadia
Spanish born Arkadio is an accomplished artist in the field of magic and illusionism, with more than fifteen years of experience, and participation in international competitions and many festivals. His keen skill in the art of juggling has earned him countless nationals, but also international awards. If you want to watch a high impact spectacle with visual effects, intoxicating beauty, pigeons, parrots, papers, apparitions… set yourself free to follow the rhythm dictated by Arkadio's magic.
Michael Holly
Michael Holly has long been a crowd favorite, both in Las Vegas, as in the rest of the world. One reason is…he's funny! What more could anyone ask for, when he invites him to his house…and laughs. Action and reaction, yin and yang, automatically and de facto. We need to say more;  Okay, we will say! With the motto of Oscar Wilde "Life is too important to be taken seriously", Michael makes sure to present his amazing tricks with lots of humor and audience participation. Friendly, resourceful, the perfect partner, uses chains, bowling balls, musical instruments and presents a magical, but also a hilarious program.
David Kaplan
Phantasmagoria, music, juggling and deadpan comedy collide in Kaplan's variety show. Inspired by Keaton's jokes, Sellers, Victor Borge, the Smothers Brothers and the illustrious Wile E. Coyote, including, "The Great" David Kaplan welcomes viewers, big and small, to a fan, strange world that they will never forget.
Perhaps Kaplan's most impressive feat is walking out of the show physically intact. As his world seems to be falling apart, he manages to tame a rogue bowling ball, to juggle furniture, to juggle and play tunes with a balloon, a plastic pump and his grandfather's ukulele, much to the delight of the enthralled audience.
Glenn Singer
The man is a laughing stock. Never before, in human history, saying something like that, could not be so honorable - and true -, as in the case of Glenn Singer, of the man who (απ)showed, that magic, it can also be hilarious. Also known as el Gleno Grande, Glenn is all about visual comedy and illusionism, that Dali for surrealism. We need to say something else; A, Yes. That, here and above 20 years, his shows travel all over the world (on all five continents), in venues such as Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas or Universal Studios in Hollywood, that they also have elements of Circolan tradition, addressed, equally, at all ages and that is distinguished, for the way he makes the audience participate and have a magical time. That's not the point;
Source : culturenow.gr