Programme 2024

Theatre, multi artistic group of performers, Echotopia_Rhizomes

Sound and motion are the mainstay of this year’s action KERA A STAGE. The viewers, with their maps at hand, will wander through the streets of the village and, along their journey, they will be accompanied by the sounds of the villages, the stories of their residents, their musical culture and their everyday life. Residents and artists create a digital library with technology and field recording that is revealed during the viewers’ wandering. A project in the cross-section of art, technology and sound research, which at the same time performs an opening to the anthropology-sociology of the villages, through interviews and life narratives, soundtracks, compositions and documentary.

The contents of the soundtrack (compositions, recordings, sounds, interviews, voice overs, texts) will come from Medea Electronique artistic workshop, while the action will be hosted by a multi-collector artisans of the performing arts. Artists with origin and / or action in Crete, artists with international presence in documentary events as well as foreign artists will constitute the multicultural team of the project. Their stay in the villages, the fermentations between them and the inhabitants, as well as  the exchange of ideas, they all will turn the village into a living core of performing arts. The walk will be a collective work of art and Kera one stage for theatrical events and dancing.

Artistic Direction: Mety Panagiotopoulou

Artist Support: Katerina Maragoudaki, Maria Dinou

Lighting Design: Nikos Papaevangeliou

Costume Designer: Vasiliki Sirma

Stage Design: Xanthi Kontou

Lantern: Georgina Drakouli – Solo

Artists:

Galanaki Sofia, Georgedakis Thodoris, Thesis Theater Company [Trifonia Aggelidou, Diamantis Adamantidis, Yannis Sampsalakis], Shoe on a tree Theater [Valentina Papadimitraki, Stellina Ioanidou], Koutsounaki Theoni, Lampropoulou Marilita, Nempavlaki Anna, Dalianis Yannis, Xanthopoulou Zoe, Papachristou Ioanna, Pisimisi Daniela, Pisimisi Phaedra, Simantiraki Ioanna, Stamataki Aria, Agalim Phonetic group [Anna Papagiannaki Divani, Katerina Zacharopoulou], Psarros Apostolis, Martin Natasha, Mihara Keisuke.

Musicians:

Lainakis Leonidas, Dimitris Tigas, Angeliki Kasda, Anthi Fourki, Giannis Papatzanis.

Soundwalk workshop

Conception and realization: Medea Electronique

Composition and sound planning: Manolis Manousakis

Dramaturgy: Aggeliki Poulou

Guest artists and researchers: Romanos Alemis Triantafillidis, Trifonia Aggelidou, Dimitris Mpampilis, Nantia Deligianni, Eleni Golfinopoulou, Dimitra Kousteridou, Thodoris Paraskakis, Georgia Pazarloglou, Alexander Solo, Elia Vardaki, Irene Papageorgiou, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Andreas Papageorgiou

Theater Workshop

Instructors: Hippo Theatre Group (Fotis Dousos – Alexandros Raptis), Theoni Koutsounaki, Phaedra Pisimisi, Valentina Papadimitraki, Aggelika Stavropoulou, Anna Papagiannaki Divani (‘Agalim’ Phonetic Group), Natasha Martin, Stella Skordara, Margot Newkirk, Io Asithianaki, Teti Aivatzidou, Yannis Papatzanis, Anthi Fourki, Yannis Dalianis, Marilita Lampropoulou

Guest Theater Artists: Avraam Andriana, Aliferi Georgia, Anastasiadou Alexandra, Vemmos Anastasios, Giannaraki Despina, Degleri Urania, Kavoukli Anthia, Mavriyanni Anna, Ntinou Maria, Stamataki Aria

Photography workshop Postcards from Home

Instructors: Photini Papachatzi, Lia Nalmpantidou

Guest Artists: Marika Tsouderou, Jenny Kariotaki, Mehran Khalili, Makaronas Matthaios, Alexandra Hatzidaki, Erofili Gagani, Anna Chronaki, Stella Manioudaki, Maria Pateraki, Efrosini Makedona-Pagkopoulou, Yorgos Kiropoulos, Maria Argiriou, Georgia Chaniotaki, Marisia Manola

Kera A Stage – Giortes  Rokkas

Giortes Rokkas [www.giortesrokkas.gr] is a meeting of society and culture in the hinterland of Chania, Crete [in the villages of Rokka and Kera], and it renews each year its appointment in August. It is a celebration of the arts organized by the residents themselves and attracts more than 8,000 visitors from Greece and abroad to an Augustan “journey” of events, that whoever lives, accompanies him forever.

In the summer of 2018, with “Kera A Stage” the whole village of Kera was for the first time transformed into a stage for theater and courtyards, balconies, streets, fields and houses were transformed into small stages. The main goal of the action is to change the conventional viewing frame of a show and to create a total experience for the visitor-viewer. The tribute of Vangelis Papaevangeliou “Kera One Stage – Footprint” can give you the feeling that this first event left to us all.

My City My Sound

My City My Sound was developed with the collaboration of Onassis Foundation and Medea Electronique within the INTERFACES project, co-funded by the European Creative Europe Program.

MEDEA ELECTRONIQUE

 With a cult wordplay – Medea and Media (from new media), Medea Electronique was presented in contemporary art in 2006 with the multimedia project Project 1 at the Benaki Museum (adaptation of Medea by Euripides). This year’s 10-year presence on the domestic and international scene of new media and improvisation, sparking the dialogue of the scene with technology / art of image and sound, art with research. During this period she has presented performances and festivals of electronic experimental music, animations, audiovisual installations, painting, multimedia, interactive technologies as well as multimedia performances and educational workshops. Her work has also been presented to the Center for Culture of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, the Benaki Museum, the French Institute, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, the Tannery at Booze, Greek and International Festivals and Events