Events 2019

For 2019, the lanterns of artist Georgina Drakouli-Solo, who has an international presence in the fields of visual arts, will have as their theme the houses of the villagers and they will be exhibited at the Opening Ceremony in a large stage setting. During the workshop the participants will be initiated into the art and secrets of the manufacture of the lanterns. With bright colors and natural materials, they will capture a fantastic, colorful, unfocused scenery inspired by Rokka and Kera villages. A small village made of lanterns will be created for Giortes Rokkas 2019.

Instructor: Georgina Drakouli – Solo

Participants: 

Maria Kataki, Roula Konsolaki, Maria Fountzouloglou, Sofia Arkouli Saridaki, Stella Maria Kastanaki, Maritina Freskaki, Argiro Orfanoudaki, Christina Dimopoulou, Hara Kastanaki, Ersi Meko, Stavroula Kokkinaki, Giannis Tsoutsias, Marina Tsekrezi, Eleni Rigaki, Lefteris Kastanakis, Markella Skalidaki, Marina Pavlopoulou, Eirini Tsoura, Haroula Fotaki

Biography

Georgina Drakouli Solo

Tzortzina Drakouli Solo is an independent artist with a wide range of skills in painting, sculpture, design and production. With many years of specialization in the visual arts, she has worked with a vast array of materials. Her love for what she has done has led to many projects of a social nature, the subject of which varies from immigration to sexual education to young people, or environmental education. She has been a member of Amnesty International for more than twenty years, participating in the campaign to liberate prisoners of conscience. She is a member of the environmental organization Extinction Rebellion, supports animal rights and is a member of Greenpeace.

For the third consecutive year, the stonemasons workshop of Aspasia Papadoperakis, with George Martsakis as the instructor, will attract international artists to the villages of Rokka and Kera. This year’s workshop consists of two parts. Students will sculpt the stone and give it shape, but will also be acquainted with the art of building traditional settlements, by studying both the theoretical background of this fascinating art and the practical side, creating their very first constructions! The ultimate goal of this village’s Stonemasons workshop is to organize an International Symposium with invited artists and scientists from around the world for 2020.

Participation Decleration

Deadline for application: July 21st, 2019

for you declaration of participation fill in the online form

Biographies

Aspasia Papadoperaki

Aspasia Papadoperakis, born in 1942, is a sculptor from Rokka. She studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts 1966-1972 with a first scholarship from IKY. From 1975 to 1978, with a scholarship of EOMMEX, she attended the Beaux Arts in Paris and the Vincennes Theater. For her sculpture she uses elements from her studies in the human figure and from the Aegean folk architecture and archaic sculpture. Her studies have been published in books, newspapers and magazines, and has taken part in World and Pan-Hellenic Symposia and Conferences. She has made scenes, masks and costumes for theatrical performances. In the theater she has collaborated with Yannis Tsarouchis, V. Nikolaidis, G. Hatzidakis and Th. Kittou. She has published the books. Cavafy, Studying Theotokopoulos, About Sculpture, The Epicurean poet KP Cavafy and Lucretios at the Erotokritos of Vitsentzos Kornaros. Some of them have been translated into English as well. She has published books: The Treasury of the Siphnians, The History of the Human Figure and Measuring Measures and the Human Body.

George Martsakis

He lives and works permanently in Livadia Inachorion, where he has been working for the last 19 years with stone and its forms, history, culture and architecture. In 2017 he participated in the stoneworks workshop and from 2018 he teaches the participants under the guidance of Aspasia Papadoperakis.

This year, for two weeks the village of Kera is transformed into a workshop of performing arts, with theater students and young aspiring actors who will have the opportunity to stay in the villages and attend intensive workshops, seminars and lectures by theoreticals and practitioners of Theater.  Sound, Motion, Theater, Body Theater, Percussion, with the following 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.

The goal is to empower young interpreters and the creation of a holistic experience – education in the art of Theater. The participants will also have the chance to work with the artists of the main theatrical action “Kera A Stage” and take part in the theatrical happenings.

Guest Artists:

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

Kera One 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 One 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.

Giortes Rokkas Opening Ceremony for 2019 will start late in the afternoon at Rokka Square, where guests will be able to stroll around the Lantern Villages, a fantastic, colorful, scenography inspired by the villages of Rokka and Kera, created and supervised by the artist, Georgina Drakouli-Solo. With the use of individual sound devices, the spectators will perform a mystagogical walk full of sounds and light just before the musical concert of Foivos Delivorias and his company.

VILLAGES OF LIGHT, VILLAGES OF SOUND

An immersive lantern installation with accompanying soundwalk.

Duration: 10 min. 

Take a pair of headphones and begin an illuminated walk through Kera and Rokka, taking in village stories, ambience, poetry and music. 

The soundwalk begins at dawn in Kera and takes you to the Trouli of Rokka, before ending at night, looking out towards the bay of Kisamos. 

LANTERNS

Georgina Dracoulis-Solo, along with the lantern workshop participants: 

Maria Kataki, Roula Konsolaki, Maria Fountzouloglou, Sofia Arkouli Saridaki, Stella Maria Kastanaki, Maritina Freskaki, Argiro Orfanoudaki, Christina Dimopoulou, Hara Kastanaki, Ersi Meko, Stavroula Kokkinaki, Giannis Tsoutsias, Marina Tsekrezi, Eleni Rigaki, Lefteris Kastanakis, Markella Skalidaki, Marina Pavlopoulou, Eirini Tsoura, Haroula Fotaki

SOUNDSCAPE

Alexander Solo, Dan Beck

MUSIC

Stefanis Tsontakis (mantinades, vocals), Alexander Solo (electronics, bouzouki, guitar), Dan Beck (chimes, baglamas)

FIELD RECORDINGS

Medea Electronique, Dan Beck

INTERVIEWS/READINGS

Katerina Maragoudaki, Panagiotis Saridakis, Sofia Saridakis, Christos Maragoudaki, Christina Dimopoulou, Maria Foundoulaki, Antonis Giannarakis, Stefanis Tsontakis, Medea Electronique

POEMS/LYRICS

Apostolos Hatzichristos – ‘Dawn Minore’, Ionanis Polemis –’The Ancestral House’ , ‘I Want to Go to the Village’ – Alexandros Dadao, ‘Alfa my beautiful village’ – Dimitris Dais, George Seferis – ‘The House by the Sea’, Mantinades Kissamiotikes (trad.).

With thanks to the villagers of Rokka and Kera, Medea Electronique, Τhe Lantern Company, the School of Architecture and Mechanical Engineering (National Technical University of Athens), Jason Guy.

The Sidewalk Songs with Foivos Delivorias

Cooling down the sidewalk with water is a well known practice during summer. This is what Fivos Delivorias will do with his “Sidewalk Songs”, the performance that thrilled the crowds last winter in Athens and Thessaloniki. He will travel them and will rain them in all the waters of the Greek territory, looking everywhere for friends and “neighbors”. Fivos old songs, recent ones, unreleased, as well as his “brothers” songs, who also start from the sidewalk but end up somewhere else (Aggelakas, Pavlidis, Correia, Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Hatziphragetta etc.), form a concert in a form of a large song, like a breath, in perhaps the most personal live suggestion of the songwriter. With him are his permanently disturbed and notorious collaborators, Duvas, Christodoulou, Pantelis and Stamatakis, in their most creative partnership, as well as the sixth yet member of the band, Nefeli Fassouli, who gives her own strong signal in the show with her musical interpretations. In summer clubs, squares and open-air theaters, the “sidewalk” this year is watered, scattered and dancing!

Credits:
Fasouli Nefeli: Singing
Christodoulou Kostis: Keys
Douvas Sotiris: Drams
Pantelis Costas: Guitars
Stamatakis Stamatis: Bass
Sound: Yannis Petrolias
Artwork – photos: Dimitris Makris
Management / Production: PROSPERO, http://www.prospero.com.gr

Postcards from home makes the villages of Rokka and Keras in Kissamos, Chania, “its home” for a week with the summer workshop Postcards from home.

Theme

What does home mean? What does it symbolize and how is it defined? What is the role that a home can play in people’s lives? And, ultimately, what is home? Home as an origin, as a natural environment, the body itself, the neighborhood, the place, the country, the nation …

“Postcards from home” is a creative workshop within Giortes Rokkas. Participants are invited to explore the concept of home in the villages of Rokka and Kera in Kissamos, Chania, discovering the place and the people, visiting or living in their homes, and in relation to their personal choices: returning to the “fatherland”, the village, the familiar place and the uncivil, the nature as a home, etc.

The concept of home provides a framework for a wide variety of photographic approaches. The resulting material will be presented in an open-air exhibition with the care of the instructors in the context of  “Kera One Stage” of Giortes Rokkas.

Time and place of the workshop

4 to 7 August 2019 – Rokka and Kera villages in Kissamos, Chania.

Each meeting will last 5 teaching hours.

Total hours: 25

Number of participants: 15 people

Start: Sunday, August 4, hours will be announced.

Day and time: daily 12 – 5.30pm with a break for a short meal.

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 One Stage – Giortes  Rokkas

n the summer of 2018, with “Kera One Stage” the whole village of Kera was for the first time transformed into a theater stage, where courtyards, balconies, streets, fields and houses were transformed into small stages for short happenings and performances. The main goal of the action is to change the conventional viewing context and to create an integrated experience for the visitor-viewer. The tribute of Vangelis Papaevangeliou “Kera One Stage – Footprint” conveys the feeling this first event left us with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IszWNTzUly8

WHAT IS “Postcards from home”

of Home as a concept. It was created in October 2016 by Fotini Papachatzi and since then it has been developed in two directions: as an online platform for collaboration and creativity, open to all those who are interested in becoming part of it, as well as a non-formal educational community.

Visit the site www.postcardsfromhome.net and facebook group @ postcardsfromhome.net

Biographies currencies

Photini Papachatzi

Photini Papachatzi is a cultural manager, adult educator and photographer. She is a member of the Bosch Alumni Network and a contributor of START Create Cultural Change (2016). She designs and implements educational and socio-cultural projects through European and other programs based in Epirus. Founding member of Artifactory. From 2016 she organizes the “Postcards from home” project. Her works are in private collections in Greece and abroad. She has participated in workshops with Michael Ackermann and Ed Kashi. She holds a master’s degree in Management of Arts and Cultural Management, City University of London (2001) and is a graduate of the Department of European Culture of the CR (2016). She holds certification in adult education and teaching experience in Non-Typical Education – General Adult Education (2008-2018) and she teaches at the Cameroon Photographic Group from 2013.

Lia Nalbantidou

She studied photography at Columbus College of Art & Design (USA). Postgraduate Scholar at Body Academy – Internationale Frauenuniversität, Hannover (EXPO 2000). The photographic section “The Safe, Private Field of My House (1996 – 2001) – Zero to Five” was released as an artist’s book with the courtesy of the Iph Foundation. Kostopoulos. The first edition of Urban Secret Garden was included in the short list for the 6th Dummy Award Kassel. Her books belong to International Libraries Collections in Greece, Germany, Italy, Ireland, France, Portugal, Buenos Aires and New York. Her photographic work is represented in private and public collections of contemporary art. Active artist for more than 25 years • lives in Thessaloniki and teaches photography since 1994 to young photographers of all ages.

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

Concert of Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra, Municipality of Heraklion, with projects of Manos Hatzidakis

The CRETAN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,  Municipality of Heraklion, will perform a concert with the works of Manos Hatzidakis: “The Smile of the Jokon” and excerpts from the music from “Ornithes” by Aristophanes, edited for orchestra by Haris Veneris, under his direction International Reputation Chief Miltos Logiadis. Preparation of Orchestra, Dimitris Chandrakis.

The concert includes the Youth Choir of the Municipality of Heraklion, under the artistic direction of Ioannis Idomeneos, the Choir of Chania “Cantilena” under the direction of Giorgos Kaloutsis, the  Traditional Music Choir of the Holy Metropolis of Kissamos and Selino under the direction of George Hahlakis, and the Choir of the Parents and Guardians Association of the Music School of Chania under the direction of Georgia Nikoloudaki.

Contributors:

Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra:

First Violins

Papadakis Nikos, Hatzaki Kiriaki, Zaimakis Orpheas, Kiagiadakis George, Tsilianis Giannis, Zaimakis Ion, Petrakis Giannis, Koundouraki Phoebe, Daoudakis Stavros

Second Violins

Papadopoulos Constantine, Papadakis Angelos, Grivakis Kirillos, Spania Amantha, Sopi Leonardo, Vaigousis Pantelis, Giannarakis Raphael

Violas

Chrisoulakis Alexandros, Dimopoulou Georgina, Dalipi Agron, Vaigousis Eleftherios

Cellos 

Zaimakis Angelis, Spiridakis Kostas, Efklidou Sophia, Vaigousi Despina

Contrabass

Polichronakis Giannis, Deligianni Stavroula

Horns

Kalogeraki Annie, Fotopoulos GIannis, Skouras Evangelos

Clarinettes

Maniadaki Gogo, Siragakis Constantine, Mailet Michaella

Oboe

Grammatikaki Rodanthi, Sakarelis Kostas

Fagoto

Dimitriadi Marina

Trumpets

Ayoutaki Ioanna, Stamoulis Thanos, Anthis Socrates 

Trompones

Leontakis Thanasis, Vortelinas Elias

Tuba

Regas Nick

Flutes

Strataki Constantina, Kondilis Giannis, Kteniadaki Marina-Katerina, Spanias Angelos, Kokkinidis Giorgos

Piccolo

Anninou Natassa

Percussion Instruments

Griniezakis Emmanuel, Grammatikaki Margie, Papadakis Manolis, Papadaki Natalia

Harp

Tsaousaki Helen

Electric Guitar

Suranakis Theodoros

Mantolines

Diamantidis Vasilis, Romanos Nick

Classic Guitars

Mourtzakis Giorgos, Skandalaki Olia

Piano – Pocket

Kokkinis Nick

Drums

Skiadas Nick

Youth Choir of the Municipality of Heraklion:

Soprani Ι

Eleni Karagani, Elia Sfakianaki, Eva Aggelaki, Evaggelia Korozoni, Evi Aspropotamiti, Zoe Souliotaki, Katerina Stefanaki, Niki Papaggeli, Pelagia Sifaki

Soprani ΙΙ

Andrianna Georgoulaki, Eleni Vardoulaki, Eleni Konstantinidi, Kristallina Ntaouti, Sophia Tsala, Christina Salamani

Alti

Valeria Veseli, Theodora Tontorovits, Lenia Dandouti, Maria Kantzaridou, Maria Potidou, Maria Tsirakoglou

Tenori

Lefteris Papaggelis, Nikos Koutsomarkos, Giannis Mavromatis

Bassi

Vasilis Mourtzakis, Giorgos Fanourakis, Elias Papavasileiou, Stavros Kiagias, Philipos Sfirakis 

Conductor

Ioannis Idomeneos

Pianist

Nikos Kokkinis

Cantilena:

Soprano

Gioula Ailamaki, Sofia Vardaki, Georgia Karalaki, Despina Kouraki, Anna Makraki Karella, Renia Marinaki

Alto

Antonia Koraka, Vivi Koutsogiannaki, Alki Malekaki, Maria Mpilika, Nafsika NIkolakaki, Aristea Xanthoudaki, Anna Xiradaki, Olga Tsivouraki, Lina Haziraki

Tenors

Aleksis Vezoniarakis, Giannis Giannakakis, Thodoris Korakas, Anna Malekaki, Giannis Manousakas

Bass

Giannis Manitakis, Ilias Pantelis

Traditional Music Choir of the Holy Metropolis of Kissamos and Selino:

Eleni Verikaki, Aristea Garofalaki, Urania Karampatsaki, Maria Kastanaki, Voula Mpargotaki, Eleni Skaraki, Irene Tsourounaki

Choir of the Parents and Guardians Association of the Music School of Chania:

Karazepounis Stavros, Gourgouras Iakovos, Theodorakis Elias, Peltekis Akis, Mpiaskos Vasileios, Kokologiannakis Constantine, Rettos Constantine, Aligizakis Michael, Simandirakis Ioannis, Figelt Aphrodite, Papadimitriou Eleftheria, Kateharaki Areti, Mastoridi Helen, Kontadaki Despina, Kanteraki Mirto, Mpourneta Maria, Mpourneta Kaiti, Ntagkounaki Michaela, Tzagkaraki Zoe, Skoula-Johnson Yvonne, Katsanevaki Despina, Konstantoudaki Anastasia, Alamagou Despina Mirto, Gouma Chrysoula, Bakirtzoglou Irene, Louka-Loukopoulou Theodora, Papadogianni Ioanna, Tzitzikalaki Lila