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"Pinocchio – The truth under our noses" about the SOS villages

From 27 until 30 December
The play "Pinocchio – The truth under our noses" with the shows he staged in October collected a sum of 12.000 euro, which were made available to the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Autistic People.
After the success he achieved, the show goes up for the second time, for Christmas days.
Based on the non-profit participation of its contributors, the proceeds of these performances are offered to SOS Children's Villages to support their operation. The show is organized by the Urban non-profit company "Anthropon Erga".
See the related videohere
Source : protothema.gr
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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.
Source : tovima.gr
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The legendary Black Sabbath at the Rockwave Festival

Thegreater musical wave, which still sweeps here and there 16 years, comes to officially confirm the great and long-awaited …
news that the: legendary Black Sabbathwill appear inGreece on Sunday July 1st 2012.
At 11.11.11 the legendary onesBlack Sabbathannounced that they are reuniting!
TheBlack Sabbath, with their original and authentic composition- the original line up- that is, the: OZZY OSBOURNE(voice), TONY IOMMI(guitar), GEEZER BUTLER(bass) and BILL WARD(drums)- announced that they will appear as headliners at the most famous and largest European festivals in 2012.
This is the reunion of the decade!
Their tour starts on Friday 18 May in Moscow and will bring Black Sabbath to the world audience, even in countries where they have never played before or others, who have been visiting for over three decades.
In Greece they will find it Sunday 1 Julyin theROCKWAVE FESTIVAL, TERRAVIBE PARK, ATHENA
The BLACK SABBATHis the band that invented themetal music. This line up gave birth, popularized and imposed heavy metal. The band's first self-titled album, Black Sabbath, changed the face of music forever. They took the hard music of their time, the hard blues, they changed their face, and turned them into something new that was later called heavy metal music.
TheBLACK SABBATH, this period, with their original and most successful form they record their first studio album after 33 entire years, produced by the legendary RICK RUBIN, which will be released worldwide in the fall 2012.
All musicians have been influenced by themBLACK SABBATHand have referred to them with their statements. Among them the great performer Henry Rollins: “BLACK SABBATH's music is the ultimate driving force. Any self-respecting band worth their weight in napalm wishes they had written 'War Pigs'. The critics never got it, but the fans loved it, they understood it and it still moves them. All of their music has lost none of its dynamism and spark over time. In fact now it resonates louder… I salute the mighty BLACK SABBATH now and forever.”
TheBLACK SABBATH, the fathers of heavy metal music, with more than 70 millions of records sold worldwide, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (they entered it 2006), the Grammy winners, they will be in Greece at the Rockwave Festival and will offer us moments of great emotion! Greek fans will witness a concert of epic proportions! A historic comeback, a night for true rock fans not to be missed!
Along with themBlack Sabbathher
 
will appear:
 
Machine Head
The musical road-paving machine puts on its wheels and returns to Greece, with perhaps his best album 2011, Unto the Locust, which manages to stand worthily next to the landmark record of their career, The Blackening.
With the furious guitars of the unbeaten duo Flynn-Demmel we are driven... Into glory we will ride! With their caustic debut album Burn my eyes they showed us what it means to get the blood pumping by sweeping the amps with hellish riffs!
TheMachine Headthey started where thrash metal was created and spread, following in the footsteps of bands like Metallica and Slayer. Dark ones, barbarians, extreme but at the same time accessible and modern, marked a younger generation of artists and are considered by fans as the "saviors of heavy metal". They are the most promising band of the 21st century. Maybe even the millennium.
The musical wave of New Metal will take them from the Bay Area of ​​California straight to our very own RockWave!
Paradise Lost
The beloved emperors of European doom/goth metal, they come back to our country stronger with their brand new album Tragic Idol to prove once again how masterfully they combine the melancholic atmosphere with the strong and hard sound.
They are the British metal elite who always have a complete aesthetic proposal in their live performances, which combines austerity with dynamism, lyrics and melodies that compete for first place, unfolding the darkest aspects of the mind.
The assembly has been driven to the top of the metal fixture, treating each new record as a fresh start, like a journey into the unknown on unexplored paths and always manages to leave an indelible mark on the evolution of music.
The Greek public will once again bow to the shadowkings, Paradise Lost!
Planet of Zeus
Our very own stoner band that has been very successful in Greece and abroad in recent years. The raw, their honest and constantly evolving stage presence, has secured them a loyal hardcore underground following. With the necessary dose of testosterone, their live performances are electrifying, heavy and headbanging give and take. Considered by many to be the next big band... They just have to prove it on the Rockwave scene.
Lucky Funeral
Lucky Funeral was formed on 2007. Starting out as a stoner band, now they combine an alloy of metal influences, grunge, sludge, and have already released two full length albums. They have performed over 120 live appearances within four years of existence and have shared the stage with major bands of the area.
This is a first taste of the Rockwave Festival line up 2012
ROCKWAVE! The most dynamic festival, the one that marked the summers of all of us, the reference point for music lovers everywhere, the circle in a calendar, the smile reading a press release. Always a pioneer, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, richer and bolder than ever ROCKWAVE will be here again this year, faithful to the appointment with his audience.
He carries passionate artists on his back, legendary bands and above all wonderful music that balances all together on one board.
ROCKWAVE! A musical wave that comes from afar and will take us even further. A promise that is always kept, an expectation that does not go unfulfilled, a relationship that grows stronger, an adventure that never ends...
 
Info
Location
Rockwave Festival, TERRAVIBE PARK, Athena
Date
Sunday 1 July 2012
Ticket prices
The first 3.000 Sunday tickets 1 July 2012 they cost 45 € The next ones 3.000 tickets cost 50 €. After they are sold out the ticket will cost 58 €. The ticket at the BOX OFFICE will cost 65 €
Ticket sales
From Wednesday 14 December 2011. TICKET HOUSE
Athena: Ticket House, University 42 (inside the gallery)
tel.: 210 3608 366 Online sales or credit card purchases, 24 hours/hour:
www.ticketpro.gr  | www.tickethouse.gr  
Source : culturenow.gr
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ALEXIOU-GALANI : 40 melodic years "In blue velvet"

"Because the future is planned through the past…», the two interpreters make an appointment at "Pallas" for 15 "ef’ of all matter" musical performances
"I feel like I was on’ a horse and I galloped…», says Haris Alexiou about the musical journey of life and is completed by Dimitra Galani, "A singer's face is the songs he chooses to sing"
Two women, two voices, two parallel stories… The two female names – symbol of the Greek song, Haris Alexiou and Dimitra Galani, they will be together on the stage of "Pallas", Is the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar 13 January, in order to give 15 joint musical performances under the general title "On Blue Velvet".
Fifteen "velvet" nights, Well, will offer the public the two interpreters who meet on the same stage after years. The strong relationship that binds them, however, the common and important experiences of the past, the love for the same faces and of course for good singing, he never let them get away. They were communicating, even when one was far from the other, they followed each other's steps, they were together for a while and then they each went their separate ways.
The route
Somehow forty whole years passed. Forty years full of great songs, important collaborations, thousands of hours in recording studios and even more on stage, in front of the microphone, face to face with all this world that adored them: "I don't know how most people imagine this route. I feel like I was on’ a horse and galloped and ran and passed through various places, I met various people, I was glad to meet them, that I was singing different things, which I had accepted…», says Haris Alexiou characteristically, referring to the musical journey of her life.
Dimitra Galani again describes in her own way the reason and value of this coexistence: “Because the dizzying speeds of the record market make the 40 years seem too many. Because it can be like that for an artist's career and certainly like that for a person's life. Because a singer's face is the songs he chooses to sing. Because success means that an artist can manage his past as if it were present and because through the past the future is planned…».
Through their significant past, Well, the two interpreters will lay the foundations for their future. And surely this meeting of theirs will provide an opportunity to escape from the harsh reality through music.
For the program that the two will present, they do not want to reveal many details. What is certain is that it will be based on simplicity and essence. Besides, big songs and big voices don't need special support.
YESTERDAY'S SONGS
The artistic chemistry between Haroula Alexiou and Dimitra Galani was shown in the best way through the joint album that the two recorded in 1981 entitled "Yesterday's Songs". Using their voices as their main weapon and accompanied by only a guitar and a harmonica, they performed a series of favorite songs by important composers: from Hadjidakis and Theodorakis to Loizos and Neo Kyma, and from folk to popular foreign ballads. In the repertoire of this disc which sold 100.000 the songs "Thalassa Platia" were also copies, "Jamaica", "The Road", "The Train", "Don't get tired of m’ you love", "Love that has become a double-edged sword", but also "The House of Rising Sun".
EXTENSION
From the beginning, the two performers intended to give ten performances, but after the great acceptance of the public they decided to extend their joint appearances for five more nights.
Source : ethnos.gr
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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.
Source : tovima.gr
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"Traveling with the Southern Cross"

A musical fairy tale at the Concert Hall
A different Christmas multi-spectacle with the participation of great singers, musicians, actors and dancers that appeals to the imagination and maturity of children but also to the sensibility of adults is presented by the Megaro Musikis.
The work "Traveling with the Cross of the South" in the poetry of Nikos Kavadias is a milestone and spearhead in the songwriting of Thanos Mikroutsikos.
The Christmas spectacle will be presented in the Christos Lambrakis Hall, which will have been designed especially for the event by Giorgos Vafias, like a big ship. The texts are signed by Maria Papagianni.
Thursday 22, Friday 23, Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 & Friday 30 December, time 20:30. Evening shows: Friday 23, Monday 26 & Friday 30 December, time 17:00
Source : newsbeast.gr
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Three women shared the Nobel Peace Prize

The award was given in Oslo

To three women, the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and activists Leima Gbowi, also from Liberia, and Tawakul Karman, from Yemen, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded yesterday, at a special ceremony in Oslo.

The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, awarded the top prize to the three ladies "for their non-violent struggle for women's safety and for women's rights to participate fully in peace-building efforts".

Liberia's president says she is honored to follow in the footsteps of Africans who have won the award before her, such as Desmond Tutu and Kofi Annan, and expressed her sorrow for the people of Norway, where 77 people died in 22 July from Anders Breivik's murderous rampage.

Source : newsbeast.gr