From July 5 to July 12, Astypalaia plans to big the festival, an creator lawsuit that is trying to span people contented with today. The "tsula", the accepted amulet hung by the island's women connected the backmost of their costumes to support them from evil, is transformed into a awesome of creator expression, linking section civilization to modern municipality creativity.
The festival spreads each implicit the land with 5 antithetic scenes, bringing to beingness spaces and memories, abandoned buildings, courtyards, coasts, and schools. From Matoula Zamani, the shadows, Nefeli Fasoulis and Nalyssa Green, to Papazó, Kalogeraki Bros and Street Outdoors, the euphony programme is shaped arsenic an unfastened invitation to lively live, with guests. The quality of Lena Kitsopoulou, who prepares a nighttime unrecorded with rebetika and people songs successful a mystical tone, stands out.
On the axis of artists, Astypalaia becomes a canvas: Soteur transforms unrecorded nationalist spaces with his thoroughfare art, portion organizing a store for the public, and Harry Rigalo creates a imperishable monumental installation with materials from the island's earthy situation and waste, renovated by art.
The programme besides includes actions that invitation visitors and locals to authentic experiences: Chef Gogo Delogiannis is preparing accepted nutrient astatine a "Old" festival with everyone's participation, Thomas Zambras presents stand-up drama successful an outdoor setting, portion George Karamis is hosting a workshop.
The festival volition besides beryllium screened with Vasilis Kekatos' "The Wild Days", successful the beingness of the contributors, successful collaboration with the Cinobo platform. The lawsuit culminates with a formation enactment astatine sunset and closes solemnly astatine the larboard of St. Andrew, with Nalyssa Green and thoroughfare outdoors.
The festival is not constricted to a bid of events. It is simply a vibrant acquisition of coexistence, creation, and instrumentality to the collective, wherever the section is simply a planetary and the past is chosen with the future, connected the brightest land of the Aegean.
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