Event & Festival Department

17, Kountouriotou Str.54625 Thessaloniki

2313 318 2112313 318 226 2313 318 2032313 318 229

www.thessaloniki.gr

The 51st Dimitria Festival is here, with a special, and always innovative, programme, sensitive to artistic and social issues, including drama, music, literary events, visual art events, dance, cinema, performance eventsand workshops. Once again this autumn, despite our introversion and the difficult timeswe are experiencing, the Dimitria Festival invites us and invites Thessaloniki to connect directly.Be there! This experience, with its fine arts and technology, set against a backdrop of streets, words, images, bodies, buildings and those points on the urban map where energy and communication are to produced, where exciting new horizons will open up and where “moments” will be recorded through multiple narratives and from a range of views.Cityval! This is our aim: a dialogue with the city through the arts,communication between people and trends, coexisting in thisfragmented world and partaking in this broader horizon and perspective. An attempt at coexistence through tuning in at 42 events, which will fearlessly venture to unite and rally Thessaloniki, within a broad spectrum of artistic anthropogeography and unconventional viewpoints-spectacles.Cosmopolitan, eccentric – literally and metaphorically – daring and sensitive, this year Dimitria Festival is venturing to make another “leap”, dreaming of a Thessaloniki that will not be beat. With a revisionist attotide, free of clichés, oriented to what is fresh and vibrant, yet invisible to most “at present”, this year’s Dimitria invites you to take it in through a kaleidoscopic art experience, participating in the here and now.This may, in fact, be the definition-challenge of this year's institution. This city as it is today, no longer the Thessaloniki of yesterday, nothing more than the Thessaloniki of tomorrow.

www.dimitria.thessaloniki.gr

No more yesterday, only tomorrow

Event & Festival Department

17, Kountouriotou Str.54625 Thessaloniki

2313 318 2112313 318 226 2313 318 2032313 318 229

www.thessaloniki.gr

The 51st Dimitria Festival is here, with a special, and always innovative, programme, sensitive to artistic and social issues, including drama, music, literary events, visual art events, dance, cinema, performance eventsand workshops. Once again this autumn, despite our introversion and the difficult timeswe are experiencing, the Dimitria Festival invites us and invites Thessaloniki to connect directly.Be there! This experience, with its fine arts and technology, set against a backdrop of streets, words, images, bodies, buildings and those points on the urban map where energy and communication are to produced, where exciting new horizons will open up and where “moments” will be recorded through multiple narratives and from a range of views.Cityval! This is our aim: a dialogue with the city through the arts,communication between people and trends, coexisting in thisfragmented world and partaking in this broader horizon and perspective. An attempt at coexistence through tuning in at 42 events, which will fearlessly venture to unite and rally Thessaloniki, within a broad spectrum of artistic anthropogeography and unconventional viewpoints-spectacles.Cosmopolitan, eccentric – literally and metaphorically – daring and sensitive, this year Dimitria Festival is venturing to make another “leap”, dreaming of a Thessaloniki that will not be beat. With a revisionist attotide, free of clichés, oriented to what is fresh and vibrant, yet invisible to most “at present”, this year’s Dimitria invites you to take it in through a kaleidoscopic art experience, participating in the here and now.This may, in fact, be the definition-challenge of this year's institution. This city as it is today, no longer the Thessaloniki of yesterday, nothing more than the Thessaloniki of tomorrow.

www.dimitria.thessaloniki.gr

No more yesterday, only tomorrow

Deputy Mayor for Culture,Education & Sports

Directorate of Culture -Tourism

Event and FestivalDepartment

Programme Organisation /Production Organisation

Programme Organisation /Administrative Support

Elli Chrysidou

Vasiliki Tsaousidou-MitrakaHead of the Directorate of Cultureand Tourism

Eleni TsevekidouHead of Events and Festival Department

Jenny ZaptieFotini KastanopoulouChristina SachinidouSophia SimeonidouAthanasios Fylaktos

Vasilis AdamopoulosSophocles KaltzidisDimitris KonstantinidisSoritia MichailidouNikolaos PapaeconomouSmaro Fanopoulou

General Coordinationof Artistic Programme

Head of Communication

Publication Editor

Visual Identity

Artistic Consultantsof the 51st Dimitria

Thouli Misirloglou

Stefanos TsitsopoulosJournalist, CommunicationsConsultant

Yiota SotiropoulouJournalist

MonoscopicArt Direction / Graphic Design

Dimitra KoroneouDance teacher, Director atthe Dance Department of the Music and Dance Centre of the Municipality of Thessaloniki

Thouli MisirloglouArt Historian, Exhibitionand Collection Curator

Savvas PatsalidisProfessor Drama Dpt., A.U.Th.

Yiorgos ChristianakisComposer, Musician

Deputy Mayor for Culture,Education & Sports

Directorate of Culture -Tourism

Event and FestivalDepartment

Programme Organisation /Production Organisation

Programme Organisation /Administrative Support

Elli Chrysidou

Vasiliki Tsaousidou-MitrakaHead of the Directorate of Cultureand Tourism

Eleni TsevekidouHead of Events and Festival Department

Jenny ZaptieFotini KastanopoulouChristina SachinidouSophia SimeonidouAthanasios Fylaktos

Vasilis AdamopoulosSophocles KaltzidisDimitris KonstantinidisSoritia MichailidouNikolaos PapaeconomouSmaro Fanopoulou

General Coordinationof Artistic Programme

Head of Communication

Publication Editor

Visual Identity

Artistic Consultantsof the 51st Dimitria

Thouli Misirloglou

Stefanos TsitsopoulosJournalist, CommunicationsConsultant

Yiota SotiropoulouJournalist

MonoscopicArt Direction / Graphic Design

Dimitra KoroneouDance teacher, Director atthe Dance Department of the Music and Dance Centre of the Municipality of Thessaloniki

Thouli MisirloglouArt Historian, Exhibitionand Collection Curator

Savvas PatsalidisProfessor Drama Dpt., A.U.Th.

Yiorgos ChristianakisComposer, Musician

1-23/10

1-3/10

2/10 - 30/11

2,3/10

4/10

4-7/10

4-23/10

Yoko Ono“Ex-It” installation,Films and Performance

+ Opening party

The Ignoramus and the Madman by T. Bernhard

by the Ch-aeretae Theatre groupdirected by Y. Perlegas

Nikolaos Gyzis - The designsExhibition of designs, sketches and notesof the great artist

Stavros GasparatosExpanded PianoSeminar & Concert

The Chamber Ensembleof Teatro alla Scala of Milan

Ultima VezIn Spite Of Wishing And WantingSeminar and dance performance

Exhibition of costumesof the NTNG

5/10

6,7/10

6-9/10

7-15/10

8/10

8/10

Compassion. The History ofthe Machine Gunby Schaubuhne Berlin Theatredirected by Milo RauA play-journey to the “hottest” political highlights of our times

The “other” homeby the En Dynami groupdirected by Eleni EfthymiouOn the border between theatre and document

Toolkit Designers’ Meeting2016Design ToolkitSpeeches, specialized workshops andexhibitions on design

7Ply Project FestivalCACT-SMCAStreet culture through exhibitions,activities, workshops, screenings and lotsof skateboards

Chauvinism Scannerby the God’s Entertainment groupInteractive performance on fear of the “other”

Hildur GudnadóttirConcert by the Icelandic cellist

8-10/10

9/10

10/10

11/10

11/10 - 19/11

And we will slaughter therabbit. Life is beautiful.Life is good. We willslaughter the rabbit.Performance by Sophia Koroniand Angeliki PapathemeliTheatrical game on the borderbetween reality and dream

Le rebétiko aujourd’hui -société et réalitéPliri DaxiA musical performance with songsinspired by social reality

Romain Collin TrioA concert by the jazz pianist

These gentle hearts are likeshot birds fallingFotis NikolaouDance theatre performance on love andcoexistence

The more you dance themore you getEvi DimitriouDance theatre performance emphasisingthe role of people in society

Gini CoefficientLydia DabasinaA series of works that all together composeone complete installation

12/10

13,14/10

14-16/10

15/10

15,17,19/10

16/10

Arve Henriksen & Jan BangDuoA concert by the Norwegian trumpeter

Philip Glass buys aloaf of breadby David Ivesby the Atonal groupA performance based on the one-act playsby American playwright D. Ives

Mirandaby Poria Theatredirected by Oscara KorsounovaA performance on the obsession with powerInspired by Shakespeare's 'The Tempest›

Hior ChronikPiano Music/Ambient/ElectronicConcert featuring older and unreleased works

Aidaby Giuseppe VerdiOpera in four acts directed byZamira Pasceri

GiannisPapatriantafyllou QuintetJazz concert

1-23/10

1-3/10

2/10 - 30/11

2,3/10

4/10

4-7/10

4-23/10

Yoko Ono“Ex-It” installation,Films and Performance

+ Opening party

The Ignoramus and the Madman by T. Bernhard

by the Ch-aeretae Theatre groupdirected by Y. Perlegas

Nikolaos Gyzis - The designsExhibition of designs, sketches and notesof the great artist

Stavros GasparatosExpanded PianoSeminar & Concert

The Chamber Ensembleof Teatro alla Scala of Milan

Ultima VezIn Spite Of Wishing And WantingSeminar and dance performance

Exhibition of costumesof the NTNG

5/10

6,7/10

6-9/10

7-15/10

8/10

8/10

Compassion. The History ofthe Machine Gunby Schaubuhne Berlin Theatredirected by Milo RauA play-journey to the “hottest” political highlights of our times

The “other” homeby the En Dynami groupdirected by Eleni EfthymiouOn the border between theatre and document

Toolkit Designers’ Meeting2016Design ToolkitSpeeches, specialized workshops andexhibitions on design

7Ply Project FestivalCACT-SMCAStreet culture through exhibitions,activities, workshops, screenings and lotsof skateboards

Chauvinism Scannerby the God’s Entertainment groupInteractive performance on fear of the “other”

Hildur GudnadóttirConcert by the Icelandic cellist

8-10/10

9/10

10/10

11/10

11/10 - 19/11

And we will slaughter therabbit. Life is beautiful.Life is good. We willslaughter the rabbit.Performance by Sophia Koroniand Angeliki PapathemeliTheatrical game on the borderbetween reality and dream

Le rebétiko aujourd’hui -société et réalitéPliri DaxiA musical performance with songsinspired by social reality

Romain Collin TrioA concert by the jazz pianist

These gentle hearts are likeshot birds fallingFotis NikolaouDance theatre performance on love andcoexistence

The more you dance themore you getEvi DimitriouDance theatre performance emphasisingthe role of people in society

Gini CoefficientLydia DabasinaA series of works that all together composeone complete installation

12/10

13,14/10

14-16/10

15/10

15,17,19/10

16/10

Arve Henriksen & Jan BangDuoA concert by the Norwegian trumpeter

Philip Glass buys aloaf of breadby David Ivesby the Atonal groupA performance based on the one-act playsby American playwright D. Ives

Mirandaby Poria Theatredirected by Oscara KorsounovaA performance on the obsession with powerInspired by Shakespeare's 'The Tempest›

Hior ChronikPiano Music/Ambient/ElectronicConcert featuring older and unreleased works

Aidaby Giuseppe VerdiOpera in four acts directed byZamira Pasceri

GiannisPapatriantafyllou QuintetJazz concert

17-22/10

18/10

18/10

18-19/10

18-21/10

Thessaloniki InternationalShort Film FestivalA tribute to the best short films of the last decade from Greece and abroad

Freedom: The most expensive capitalist wordby Maja Pelevic and Olga Dimitrijevic / Bitef TheatreDocumentary theatre with images-viewsof North Korean society

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.:From light to darkness /From orange to blackModified dogA performance / installation aiming at taking you ona journey at the end of the day

Hotelby Yota Argyropoulouby the Blindspot Theatre GroupPerformance-therapy for people with insomnia

From ACT to ACTINGDance seminarby Cedric CharronJan Fabre Teaching Group

20/10

20/10

22/10

22/10

22/10

22-23/10

23/10

Mother Courage and herchildrenby B. Brechtby the NTNGA timely antiwar playdirected by Nikita Milivojevic

AVS-AAPAlexandros PlomaritisAutobiographical performance through thehistory of Thessaloniki

Wot? Not Fishby the Bread & Circuses groupScenes from married life come aliveon stage

The nest-one route tofreedom/Trial 0neDance performance choreographed by Despina Kapoulitsa

Pavlos Pavlidisand the B-MoviesThe popular singer-songwriter andhis band return

Athens Video DanceProject (AVDP)A weekend filled with 30 videodance screenings

Closing ceremony / Disco Labattoir!with DJ Stefanos Tsitsopoulos

Prefestivaland parallelevents

Art nightAll the city's galleries and museums will...stay up late

Kapani ProjectMusic, street theatre and other actionsagainst the backdrop of Thessaloniki'sbusy market

A.U.Th. in the city /90 years of A.U.Th.The A.U.Th. goes out on the town

Parables and MartyrsPainting exhibition by Nikola Saric

27/9

5/10

8-9/10

20/10 - 30/12

17-22/10

18/10

18/10

18-19/10

18-21/10

Thessaloniki InternationalShort Film FestivalA tribute to the best short films of the last decade from Greece and abroad

Freedom: The most expensive capitalist wordby Maja Pelevic and Olga Dimitrijevic / Bitef TheatreDocumentary theatre with images-viewsof North Korean society

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.:From light to darkness /From orange to blackModified dogA performance / installation aiming at taking you ona journey at the end of the day

Hotelby Yota Argyropoulouby the Blindspot Theatre GroupPerformance-therapy for people with insomnia

From ACT to ACTINGDance seminarby Cedric CharronJan Fabre Teaching Group

20/10

20/10

22/10

22/10

22/10

22-23/10

23/10

Mother Courage and herchildrenby B. Brechtby the NTNGA timely antiwar playdirected by Nikita Milivojevic

AVS-AAPAlexandros PlomaritisAutobiographical performance through thehistory of Thessaloniki

Wot? Not Fishby the Bread & Circuses groupScenes from married life come aliveon stage

The nest-one route tofreedom/Trial 0neDance performance choreographed by Despina Kapoulitsa

Pavlos Pavlidisand the B-MoviesThe popular singer-songwriter andhis band return

Athens Video DanceProject (AVDP)A weekend filled with 30 videodance screenings

Closing ceremony / Disco Labattoir!with DJ Stefanos Tsitsopoulos

Prefestivaland parallelevents

Art nightAll the city's galleries and museums will...stay up late

Kapani ProjectMusic, street theatre and other actionsagainst the backdrop of Thessaloniki'sbusy market

A.U.Th. in the city /90 years of A.U.Th.The A.U.Th. goes out on the town

Parables and MartyrsPainting exhibition by Nikola Saric

27/9

5/10

8-9/10

20/10 - 30/12

“Ex-It” installation,Films and Performances

Yoko Ono

Visual artist, director, performer, activist and multimedia interactive artist, Yoko Ono is the “big gun” at this year's Dimitria, as she is taking over the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art for a month. John Lennon's eternal partner is still restless, undisciplined, unclassifiable, autonomous, using a language that is entirely her own; steadily orbiting the avant-garde and the conceptual,Ono touches upon and hovers between dreamlike fantasy and realism. With her Ex-it installation – a comment on life, death, return and reincarnation – excites audiences' imaginations, while her well-known interactive project, 'Skyladders', and many other performances regarding immigration, as well as her lifebefore and after the musical legend John Cage – because that is what Sky Piece to Jesus is – Lennon's muse will shake the Greek visual arts scene, and Thessaloniki even more so, in a dreamy and revisionist way. Because “Yoko Ono” means... destroy convention, release the energy. In the spirit of Fluxus and Imagine and mobilising the crème de la crème of Thessaloniki's art scene, we are certainly in for a unique exhibition.

Visual arts

1-23/10

Opening party

Admission free

MMCA

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday: closed, Wednesday: 18:00-22:00,Thursday: 10:00-22:00, Friday: 10:00-19:00, Saturday: 10:00-18:00 andSunday: 11:00-15:00

Co-organised with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

DJ Yiannis Tsoukalas on the decks presents a set inspired by Yoko Ono's long career in subversive art, visual and musical.

Performances

IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE!WISH TREEImagine a tree. It will wait there. Yoko made it. It condences within it life and the world. It hides within it the future. What will it be like? What will happen? Do not wonder, act and be quick! Decorate it by writing on it your own wish. And like the song Imagine goes..., you may say I'm a dreamer, but “we're” not the only one!

8/10, Agias Sophias Street walkway, 13:00-15:00 10/10, City Hall, 15:00-17:00

“Ex-It” installation,Films and Performances

Yoko Ono

Visual artist, director, performer, activist and multimedia interactive artist, Yoko Ono is the “big gun” at this year's Dimitria, as she is taking over the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art for a month. John Lennon's eternal partner is still restless, undisciplined, unclassifiable, autonomous, using a language that is entirely her own; steadily orbiting the avant-garde and the conceptual,Ono touches upon and hovers between dreamlike fantasy and realism. With her Ex-it installation – a comment on life, death, return and reincarnation – excites audiences' imaginations, while her well-known interactive project, 'Skyladders', and many other performances regarding immigration, as well as her lifebefore and after the musical legend John Cage – because that is what Sky Piece to Jesus is – Lennon's muse will shake the Greek visual arts scene, and Thessaloniki even more so, in a dreamy and revisionist way. Because “Yoko Ono” means... destroy convention, release the energy. In the spirit of Fluxus and Imagine and mobilising the crème de la crème of Thessaloniki's art scene, we are certainly in for a unique exhibition.

Visual arts

1-23/10

Opening party

Admission free

MMCA

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday: closed, Wednesday: 18:00-22:00,Thursday: 10:00-22:00, Friday: 10:00-19:00, Saturday: 10:00-18:00 andSunday: 11:00-15:00

Co-organised with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

DJ Yiannis Tsoukalas on the decks presents a set inspired by Yoko Ono's long career in subversive art, visual and musical.

Performances

IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE!WISH TREEImagine a tree. It will wait there. Yoko made it. It condences within it life and the world. It hides within it the future. What will it be like? What will happen? Do not wonder, act and be quick! Decorate it by writing on it your own wish. And like the song Imagine goes..., you may say I'm a dreamer, but “we're” not the only one!

8/10, Agias Sophias Street walkway, 13:00-15:00 10/10, City Hall, 15:00-17:00

The Ignoramus and the Madmanby Thomas Bernhard

by the Ch-aeretae Drama Groupdirected by Yiannos Perlegas

How interesting could it be for an opera diva to singMozart's 'Magic Flute' for the 222nd time? How long can she stand the discipline and tough rehearsals, as well as her repeated exposure to the judgement of the audience? Bernhard forces his protagonist to cancel her scheduled appearances and to retire to the countryside with her blind father. However, he, a drunk and a miser, has placed all his prospects in life on his daughter's career. With them, a medical examiner, passionate about human anatomy, but rather indifferent to human existence...

Admission 12€, 10€ (concessions)

Theater

1-3/10

Avlea Theatre, 21:00

Nikolaos Gyzis – The drawings

The exhibition of Nikolaos Gyzis' drawings from the collectionof the Municipal Gallery comes to fill in aspects of the work and personality of one of the most important Greek painters. In combination with the permanent exhibition of the artist's works at the same venue, this collection focuses on the wealthof themes, the soundness of the artist's technique, and the rarecharacter of his expressiveness. An exhibition, curated by art historian Konstantinos Didaskalou, that will certainly enchant you.

Admission free

2/10 - 30/12

Visual Arts

Municipal Gallery (Casa Bianca)

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10:00-17:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00Saturday, 11:00-17:00, Sunday and Monday, closed

Co-organised with the Administration of Libraries & MuseumsDepartment of the Municipal Gallery

The Ignoramus and the Madmanby Thomas Bernhard

by the Ch-aeretae Drama Groupdirected by Yiannos Perlegas

How interesting could it be for an opera diva to singMozart's 'Magic Flute' for the 222nd time? How long can she stand the discipline and tough rehearsals, as well as her repeated exposure to the judgement of the audience? Bernhard forces his protagonist to cancel her scheduled appearances and to retire to the countryside with her blind father. However, he, a drunk and a miser, has placed all his prospects in life on his daughter's career. With them, a medical examiner, passionate about human anatomy, but rather indifferent to human existence...

Admission 12€, 10€ (concessions)

Theater

1-3/10

Avlea Theatre, 21:00

Nikolaos Gyzis – The drawings

The exhibition of Nikolaos Gyzis' drawings from the collectionof the Municipal Gallery comes to fill in aspects of the work and personality of one of the most important Greek painters. In combination with the permanent exhibition of the artist's works at the same venue, this collection focuses on the wealthof themes, the soundness of the artist's technique, and the rarecharacter of his expressiveness. An exhibition, curated by art historian Konstantinos Didaskalou, that will certainly enchant you.

Admission free

2/10 - 30/12

Visual Arts

Municipal Gallery (Casa Bianca)

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10:00-17:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00Saturday, 11:00-17:00, Sunday and Monday, closed

Co-organised with the Administration of Libraries & MuseumsDepartment of the Municipal Gallery

Teatro alla Scala of MilanChamber Ensemble Cameristi Del Teatro Alla Scala

One of the most interesting and active Chamber Ensembles,that of Teatro alla Scala of Milan, is participating in this year'sDimitria. The ensemble, also known as the Cameristi della Scala, presents a programme that includes, inter alia, works by Vivaldi and Bach. Musicians include soloists Francesco Manara (violin), Yiannis Tsitselikis (cello), Massimo Polidori (cello), and Massimo Mercelli (flute), while during the concert the Scala Chamber Ensemble will to meet MOYSA, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall Youth Symphony Orchestra, who will join in during one of the works to be performed.

Admission 30€, 25€, 20€, 15€& 10€ (pupils, students, the unemployed)

TCH (Μ1), 21:00

Music

4/10

Co-produced by the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

Stavros Gasparatos Expanded Piano

Imagine a piano taking on the dimensions of a concert halland each one of the audience members experiencing the work as though they were inside the instrument. Is it possible for a musical work to simulate the experience of being inside a piano for each and every member of the audience? The answer is provided by award winning, new generation, Greek composer Stavros Gasparatos (well known for his theatre music and film scores) with his work 'Expanded Piano'. This installation – musical piece is inspired by the idea of the 'Prepared Piano': a mechanically altered piano that was made famous by John Cage and others, who inserted screws, springs and various other objects into the piano strings, distorting its sound.

The seminar on the 'expanded piano' project installation (inspiration and realisation) is addressed to musicians and artists working in the fields of art communication and technology.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations for unemployment card holders

Music

2,3/10

2 October (Seminar), Music Centre

3 October, 21:00 (Concert), TCH (M2)

In cooperation with the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

18:00-20:00 Admission free (Registration: 2313 318 222)

Teatro alla Scala of MilanChamber Ensemble Cameristi Del Teatro Alla Scala

One of the most interesting and active Chamber Ensembles,that of Teatro alla Scala of Milan, is participating in this year'sDimitria. The ensemble, also known as the Cameristi della Scala, presents a programme that includes, inter alia, works by Vivaldi and Bach. Musicians include soloists Francesco Manara (violin), Yiannis Tsitselikis (cello), Massimo Polidori (cello), and Massimo Mercelli (flute), while during the concert the Scala Chamber Ensemble will to meet MOYSA, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall Youth Symphony Orchestra, who will join in during one of the works to be performed.

Admission 30€, 25€, 20€, 15€& 10€ (pupils, students, the unemployed)

TCH (Μ1), 21:00

Music

4/10

Co-produced by the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

Stavros Gasparatos Expanded Piano

Imagine a piano taking on the dimensions of a concert halland each one of the audience members experiencing the work as though they were inside the instrument. Is it possible for a musical work to simulate the experience of being inside a piano for each and every member of the audience? The answer is provided by award winning, new generation, Greek composer Stavros Gasparatos (well known for his theatre music and film scores) with his work 'Expanded Piano'. This installation – musical piece is inspired by the idea of the 'Prepared Piano': a mechanically altered piano that was made famous by John Cage and others, who inserted screws, springs and various other objects into the piano strings, distorting its sound.

The seminar on the 'expanded piano' project installation (inspiration and realisation) is addressed to musicians and artists working in the fields of art communication and technology.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations for unemployment card holders

Music

2,3/10

2 October (Seminar), Music Centre

3 October, 21:00 (Concert), TCH (M2)

In cooperation with the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

18:00-20:00 Admission free (Registration: 2313 318 222)

In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting(Belgium)

Dance performanceUltima Vez

After almost three decades in action, the Ultima Vez dance group is still in the spotlight, attracting the attention of critics and audiences. When, in 1999, they first performed 'In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting' they caused a lot of discussion. Itwas the first time that the group's founder, choreographer, director and film maker Wim Vandekeybus had created a performance both about the chemistry between men and women and about primordial desire in an exclusively maleworld. Enchanting shots of dance supported by David Byrne’s sensual soundtracks, lead to “monologues” on fear,the longing for security and the magic of sleep. In 2016 a completely new cast has picked up the gauntlet of undertaking the challenge.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations for unemployment card holders

Dance

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

7/10

Co-organised with the Municipal Centre of Music and Dance of the M.T.

Ultima Vez (Belgium)

Dance Workshop

During the workshop by German Jauregui, participants will havethe opportunity to become initiated in the “vocabulary” of UltimaVez, so as to comprehend the most important parametersof their work. Participants will have the opportunity to explore and confront the active vocabulary of Vandekeybus through groundwork and group work, which is closer to “theatrical action” than “technique”.

The seminar is addressed to professionals and Higher Dance School graduates

Admission free (Registrations: 2313 318 222)

Dance

YMCATh

4-6/10

Co-organised with the Municipal Centre for Music and Dance of the M.Th.

In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting(Belgium)

Dance performanceUltima Vez

After almost three decades in action, the Ultima Vez dance group is still in the spotlight, attracting the attention of critics and audiences. When, in 1999, they first performed 'In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting' they caused a lot of discussion. Itwas the first time that the group's founder, choreographer, director and film maker Wim Vandekeybus had created a performance both about the chemistry between men and women and about primordial desire in an exclusively maleworld. Enchanting shots of dance supported by David Byrne’s sensual soundtracks, lead to “monologues” on fear,the longing for security and the magic of sleep. In 2016 a completely new cast has picked up the gauntlet of undertaking the challenge.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations for unemployment card holders

Dance

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

7/10

Co-organised with the Municipal Centre of Music and Dance of the M.T.

Ultima Vez (Belgium)

Dance Workshop

During the workshop by German Jauregui, participants will havethe opportunity to become initiated in the “vocabulary” of UltimaVez, so as to comprehend the most important parametersof their work. Participants will have the opportunity to explore and confront the active vocabulary of Vandekeybus through groundwork and group work, which is closer to “theatrical action” than “technique”.

The seminar is addressed to professionals and Higher Dance School graduates

Admission free (Registrations: 2313 318 222)

Dance

YMCATh

4-6/10

Co-organised with the Municipal Centre for Music and Dance of the M.Th.

Compassion. The History of the Machine Gunby Schaubühne Berlin Theatre (Germany) directed by Milo Rau

In this play, Swiss director Rau – perhaps one of the “biggest” names among theatre directors in Europe – and Schaubuhne Berlin Theatre - the largest subsidised German Drama Group - take us on a journey to the “hottest” political destinations of our times: To the Mediterranean routes followed by refugees from the Middle East and to the war zones of Congo. A documentary – performance in the form of a double monologue, based on interviews given by members of NGOs, as well as clerics and war victims in Africa and Europe. A performance that explores controversial issues: Why does one dead person at the gates of Europe overshadow the thousands of dead in the war zones of Congo?

Greek supertitles

Theater

5/10

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations for unemployment card holders

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

Co-organised with the Goethe Institute of Thessaloniki

Costume exhibition of the National Theatre of Northern Greece

In the framework of this year's Dimitria, the National Theatre of Northern Greece is opening its costume collection to reminds us all of important moments from its 55 years of operation. The costume exhibition, which presents costumes designed by major costume designers that have worked with the NTNG, features creations from emblematic performances staged by Greece's second national theatre. Impressive costumes, made with luxurious materials, as well as pioneering creations made from unexpected and imaginative raw materials, are here to underline once again the importance of... “appearances”.The exhibition was planned and curated by set and costume designer Ioulia Stavridou.

Admission free

Visual Arts

4-23/10

Alaca Imaret

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11:00-18:00, Monday, close

Co-organised with the National Theatre of Northern Greece

Compassion. The History of the Machine Gunby Schaubühne Berlin Theatre (Germany) directed by Milo Rau

In this play, Swiss director Rau – perhaps one of the “biggest” names among theatre directors in Europe – and Schaubuhne Berlin Theatre - the largest subsidised German Drama Group - take us on a journey to the “hottest” political destinations of our times: To the Mediterranean routes followed by refugees from the Middle East and to the war zones of Congo. A documentary – performance in the form of a double monologue, based on interviews given by members of NGOs, as well as clerics and war victims in Africa and Europe. A performance that explores controversial issues: Why does one dead person at the gates of Europe overshadow the thousands of dead in the war zones of Congo?

Greek supertitles

Theater

5/10

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations for unemployment card holders

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

Co-organised with the Goethe Institute of Thessaloniki

Costume exhibition of the National Theatre of Northern Greece

In the framework of this year's Dimitria, the National Theatre of Northern Greece is opening its costume collection to reminds us all of important moments from its 55 years of operation. The costume exhibition, which presents costumes designed by major costume designers that have worked with the NTNG, features creations from emblematic performances staged by Greece's second national theatre. Impressive costumes, made with luxurious materials, as well as pioneering creations made from unexpected and imaginative raw materials, are here to underline once again the importance of... “appearances”.The exhibition was planned and curated by set and costume designer Ioulia Stavridou.

Admission free

Visual Arts

4-23/10

Alaca Imaret

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11:00-18:00, Monday, close

Co-organised with the National Theatre of Northern Greece

Admission 12€, 7€

Avlaia Theatre, 21:00

Theater

6,7/10

Produced by the Onassis Cultural Centre

The “other” homeby the En Dynami Groupdirected by Eleni Efthymiou

What place does imagination have in the real world? Whatis home? Can a person with a disability freely shape the environment in which they live? Is the welfare system capable of serving individual needs and desires? And who can answer the torturous and persistent question of a parent asking:“What will happen to my child when I am gone?”The restless 'En Dynami' Group, its members with and without disabilities, explores the concept of space as a reflection of the identity of an individual. On the borderline between documentary-theatre and devised theatre, the performance is based on an idea by artistic director Eleni Dimopoulou and produced by the Onassis Cultural Centre. Created from a collection of personal stories of its members related to disability.

Toolkit Designers’ Meeting 2016Design Toolkit

For more information and ticket prices please visit www.designtoolkit.org

Visual Arts

6-9/10

Various venues

After two successful events, the Toolkit Designers' Meeting is back, expanded and more creative than ever! Materialising the vision of the Design Toolkit organising team, Toolkit Designers' Meeting 2016 addresses young people(and not just them!), whose common characteristic is their passion and involvement in design.This year's event aims at approaching the broader sense of design in its many practical and professional applications and includes lectures, specialised workshops and exhibitions. The subjects of individual events concern different forms of design: Graphic design, visual communication, architecture, motion graphics, branding, fashion, etc.

Admission 12€, 7€

Avlaia Theatre, 21:00

Theater

6,7/10

Produced by the Onassis Cultural Centre

The “other” homeby the En Dynami Groupdirected by Eleni Efthymiou

What place does imagination have in the real world? Whatis home? Can a person with a disability freely shape the environment in which they live? Is the welfare system capable of serving individual needs and desires? And who can answer the torturous and persistent question of a parent asking:“What will happen to my child when I am gone?”The restless 'En Dynami' Group, its members with and without disabilities, explores the concept of space as a reflection of the identity of an individual. On the borderline between documentary-theatre and devised theatre, the performance is based on an idea by artistic director Eleni Dimopoulou and produced by the Onassis Cultural Centre. Created from a collection of personal stories of its members related to disability.

Toolkit Designers’ Meeting 2016Design Toolkit

For more information and ticket prices please visit www.designtoolkit.org

Visual Arts

6-9/10

Various venues

After two successful events, the Toolkit Designers' Meeting is back, expanded and more creative than ever! Materialising the vision of the Design Toolkit organising team, Toolkit Designers' Meeting 2016 addresses young people(and not just them!), whose common characteristic is their passion and involvement in design.This year's event aims at approaching the broader sense of design in its many practical and professional applications and includes lectures, specialised workshops and exhibitions. The subjects of individual events concern different forms of design: Graphic design, visual communication, architecture, motion graphics, branding, fashion, etc.

Chauvinism Scannerby the Interactive performance

God’s Entertainment Group (Austria)

Are you xenophobic? Are you concerned with where peoples' ancestors were from? Beware, because 'Chauvinism Scanner' will reveal whether you are telling the truth or not. This is an interactive performance by ‹God's Entertainment'(Maja Degirmendzic and Boris Ceko) from Austria, with two supporting Greek actors (from the TheatrAction Drama Group).The test lasts approximately 20 minutes, but it always depends on the participant. There can be up to 2 people on “stage” at thesame time.

Admission free

Outdoor Venue (Intersection of Aristotelous Sq. & Tsimiski Str.), 11:00-17:00

Theater

8/10

Admission 3€, 1.5€ (pupils, students), 1€ (group-ticket)

Visual Arts

CACT (Warehouse B1, Port)

7-15/10

Co-organised by the CACT and SMCA

7Ply Project FestivalContemporary Art Centre of ThessalonikiState Museum of Contemporary Art

An exhibition, events, workshops, film screenings and lots of...skateboards are included in the '7Ply project 2016', organised for the 11th consecutive year by the Propaganda Rollin co. The 7Ply Project is a celebration of youth, a platform for artists and friends of street culture and music to meet and havean opportunity for dialogue and the exchange of ideas, skateboard tricks and self-expression, through modernmeans in the context of modern urban culture. The focal point of this year's event is the group exhibition organised at the CACT, while the programme also includes skateboard workshops, graffiti performances, skateboard contests and other events.

Chauvinism Scannerby the Interactive performance

God’s Entertainment Group (Austria)

Are you xenophobic? Are you concerned with where peoples' ancestors were from? Beware, because 'Chauvinism Scanner' will reveal whether you are telling the truth or not. This is an interactive performance by ‹God's Entertainment'(Maja Degirmendzic and Boris Ceko) from Austria, with two supporting Greek actors (from the TheatrAction Drama Group).The test lasts approximately 20 minutes, but it always depends on the participant. There can be up to 2 people on “stage” at thesame time.

Admission free

Outdoor Venue (Intersection of Aristotelous Sq. & Tsimiski Str.), 11:00-17:00

Theater

8/10

Admission 3€, 1.5€ (pupils, students), 1€ (group-ticket)

Visual Arts

CACT (Warehouse B1, Port)

7-15/10

Co-organised by the CACT and SMCA

7Ply Project FestivalContemporary Art Centre of ThessalonikiState Museum of Contemporary Art

An exhibition, events, workshops, film screenings and lots of...skateboards are included in the '7Ply project 2016', organised for the 11th consecutive year by the Propaganda Rollin co. The 7Ply Project is a celebration of youth, a platform for artists and friends of street culture and music to meet and havean opportunity for dialogue and the exchange of ideas, skateboard tricks and self-expression, through modernmeans in the context of modern urban culture. The focal point of this year's event is the group exhibition organised at the CACT, while the programme also includes skateboard workshops, graffiti performances, skateboard contests and other events.

Admission 10€, 5€ (unemployed)

Theater

8-10/10

Avlea Theatre, 21:00

And we will slaughter the rabbit. Life is beautiful. Life is good. We will slaughter the rabbit.Performance by Sophia Koroniand Angeliki Papathemeli

Angeliki Papathemeli and Sophia Koroni set off from F. Nietzsche's question 'Regarding truth and lies in a non-moral sense', and go on a journey through V. Woolf's 'Waves', following L. Carroll's Alice 'Through the Looking Glass', towards a 'Wonderland' where anything could happen.The two of them together embody a modern Alice and startplaying an adult game in which they feel out the limits of multiple realities and dreams.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

Music

8/10

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

Hildur Gudnadóttir (Iceland)

Hildur Gudnadóttir is a cellist, composer and performer who expresses herself in the genre of experimental pop and modernmusic – she was a member of the múm group – whose music seems to intently listen to and perfectly reflect the Icelandiclandscape. In her solo work she draws from a wide range of sounds made by her musical instrument, moving with ease from a mystical simplicity to endless audioscapes.Her partner... Ómar, a six string cello variant reminiscentof a modernised viola da gamba, never leaves her side.

Admission 10€, 5€ (unemployed)

Theater

8-10/10

Avlea Theatre, 21:00

And we will slaughter the rabbit. Life is beautiful. Life is good. We will slaughter the rabbit.Performance by Sophia Koroniand Angeliki Papathemeli

Angeliki Papathemeli and Sophia Koroni set off from F. Nietzsche's question 'Regarding truth and lies in a non-moral sense', and go on a journey through V. Woolf's 'Waves', following L. Carroll's Alice 'Through the Looking Glass', towards a 'Wonderland' where anything could happen.The two of them together embody a modern Alice and startplaying an adult game in which they feel out the limits of multiple realities and dreams.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

Music

8/10

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

Hildur Gudnadóttir (Iceland)

Hildur Gudnadóttir is a cellist, composer and performer who expresses herself in the genre of experimental pop and modernmusic – she was a member of the múm group – whose music seems to intently listen to and perfectly reflect the Icelandiclandscape. In her solo work she draws from a wide range of sounds made by her musical instrument, moving with ease from a mystical simplicity to endless audioscapes.Her partner... Ómar, a six string cello variant reminiscentof a modernised viola da gamba, never leaves her side.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

10/10

Music

Romain Collin Trio (France / USA)

Foreign Press characterises Romain Collin as “a visionary composer, an exceptional jazz pianist and a shining rising star in the jazz world”. His third album, 'Press Enter', in particular, released under the ACT label, was characterised by the New York Times as “a winning album”, while other critics talked of “an absolute masterpiece”.Collin continues to develop a unique “voice”, a crystal clear perspective, making his mark on the New York scene and internationally. If nothing else, Collin is an artist from the new generation of jazz musicians who will have people talking, as he has achieved a personal and modern perspective, combining the tradition of improvisation, modern approach and classical influences.

, 21:30Black Box

Music

9/10

Athonos Square(Intersection of Vatikioti Str. & Dimitsa Str.), 12:00

Le rebétiko aujourd’hui - société et réalitépliri daxi

'pliri daxi' are called “Successors of Greek popular musical tradition” through their own creation, by 'Le grand tour - La Grèce', a French documentary in which they interpret and, among other things, comment on the social context of their song 'Ta Daneia' (The Loans). This participation is also the spark that created the musical performance 'le rebétiko aujourd’hui - société et réalité'. Old songs and songs by pliri daxi, the main theme always being social reality (human relationships, employment, social exclusion, immigration,the financial and humanitarian crisis, etc.), compose this unique performance. This modern musical ensemble, with its dynamic instrumental technique and lyrical vocals, shows great promise.

Admission free

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

10/10

Music

Romain Collin Trio (France / USA)

Foreign Press characterises Romain Collin as “a visionary composer, an exceptional jazz pianist and a shining rising star in the jazz world”. His third album, 'Press Enter', in particular, released under the ACT label, was characterised by the New York Times as “a winning album”, while other critics talked of “an absolute masterpiece”.Collin continues to develop a unique “voice”, a crystal clear perspective, making his mark on the New York scene and internationally. If nothing else, Collin is an artist from the new generation of jazz musicians who will have people talking, as he has achieved a personal and modern perspective, combining the tradition of improvisation, modern approach and classical influences.

, 21:30Black Box

Music

9/10

Athonos Square(Intersection of Vatikioti Str. & Dimitsa Str.), 12:00

Le rebétiko aujourd’hui - société et réalitépliri daxi

'pliri daxi' are called “Successors of Greek popular musical tradition” through their own creation, by 'Le grand tour - La Grèce', a French documentary in which they interpret and, among other things, comment on the social context of their song 'Ta Daneia' (The Loans). This participation is also the spark that created the musical performance 'le rebétiko aujourd’hui - société et réalité'. Old songs and songs by pliri daxi, the main theme always being social reality (human relationships, employment, social exclusion, immigration,the financial and humanitarian crisis, etc.), compose this unique performance. This modern musical ensemble, with its dynamic instrumental technique and lyrical vocals, shows great promise.

Admission free

Admission free

Yeni Cami

11/10 - 19/11Gini CoefficientLydia Dabasina

Lydia Dabasina exibits a series of works which, as a whole,make up a single installation. Her central work, 'The Bellybutton', presents the embalmed head of large deer, from which hangs a piece of paper with the phrase, “The 62 richest people in the world own the same wealth as half of humanity – that is, 3.5 billion people”. A series of black doors in conversation with two pictures, map the limits between the female and male condition, while the module consisting of scales, “weighs” experiences, truths and memories. Two videos are to project her innermost correspondence.At the opening of the exhibition, curated by art historianYiannis Bolis, musician J. Latarjet will perform some of his pieces in dialogue with the works exhibited.

Visual Arts

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 10:00-18:00,Saturday: 11:00-15:00 and Sunday, Monday: closed

Co-organised with the Administration of Libraries & Museums,Department of the Municipal Gallery

Admission 8€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

LABattoir, 21:00

11/10

Dance

The more you dance the more you getEvi Dimitriou

In her work Evi Dimitriou aspires to create small openings forcommunication, in the form of places where and times when she can come into contact with the audience.

These gentle hearts are like shot birds fallingFotis Nikolaou

This work concerns male tenderness and the need for love and coexistence.

Admission free

Yeni Cami

11/10 - 19/11Gini CoefficientLydia Dabasina

Lydia Dabasina exibits a series of works which, as a whole,make up a single installation. Her central work, 'The Bellybutton', presents the embalmed head of large deer, from which hangs a piece of paper with the phrase, “The 62 richest people in the world own the same wealth as half of humanity – that is, 3.5 billion people”. A series of black doors in conversation with two pictures, map the limits between the female and male condition, while the module consisting of scales, “weighs” experiences, truths and memories. Two videos are to project her innermost correspondence.At the opening of the exhibition, curated by art historianYiannis Bolis, musician J. Latarjet will perform some of his pieces in dialogue with the works exhibited.

Visual Arts

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 10:00-18:00,Saturday: 11:00-15:00 and Sunday, Monday: closed

Co-organised with the Administration of Libraries & Museums,Department of the Municipal Gallery

Admission 8€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

LABattoir, 21:00

11/10

Dance

The more you dance the more you getEvi Dimitriou

In her work Evi Dimitriou aspires to create small openings forcommunication, in the form of places where and times when she can come into contact with the audience.

These gentle hearts are like shot birds fallingFotis Nikolaou

This work concerns male tenderness and the need for love and coexistence.

Arve Henriksen & Jan Bang Duo (Norway)

Norwegian Arve Henriksen is probably one of the most multifaceted musicians of his generation. This subversive trumpet player is enthralled by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute with its minimalist expressive quality, the roots of which can be traced back to Buddhist tradition. However, Henriksen’s interests do not end there.He draws inspiration from every type of traditional music, including Norwegian, while he is now exploring more modern genres, more electronic approaches and different ways of utilising his trumpet. This is more or less how his collaboration with Jan Bang came about. Bang went from a successful pop producer in the '90s, due to his pioneering work in live remixing and electronic improvisation, to being in constant demand, even by the most conventional artists.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations available to unemployment card holders

TCH (Μ2), 21:00

12/10

Music

In cooperation with with the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

Philip Glass buys a loaf of bread by David Ivesby the Atonal group

Trotsky, with an axe lodged in his head, dies in... variations. Three apes write... Hamlet. Philip Glass buys a loaf of bread and a couple falls in love, while they ignore the wrong things said each time the ringing of a bell signifies that their date starts over. This is the performance staged by the 'Atonal' group, directed by Sophia Marathaki, co-produced by Theatro 104. The performance consists of four one-act plays by contemporary American playwright David Ives: 'Sure Thing', 'Variations on the Death of Trotsky', 'Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread', and 'Words, Words, Words'.

Admission 10€, 12€, 5€ (unemployed)

LABattoir, 21:00

13,14/10

Theater

Arve Henriksen & Jan Bang Duo (Norway)

Norwegian Arve Henriksen is probably one of the most multifaceted musicians of his generation. This subversive trumpet player is enthralled by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute with its minimalist expressive quality, the roots of which can be traced back to Buddhist tradition. However, Henriksen’s interests do not end there.He draws inspiration from every type of traditional music, including Norwegian, while he is now exploring more modern genres, more electronic approaches and different ways of utilising his trumpet. This is more or less how his collaboration with Jan Bang came about. Bang went from a successful pop producer in the '90s, due to his pioneering work in live remixing and electronic improvisation, to being in constant demand, even by the most conventional artists.

Admission 10€, 12€Invitations available to unemployment card holders

TCH (Μ2), 21:00

12/10

Music

In cooperation with with the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

Philip Glass buys a loaf of bread by David Ivesby the Atonal group

Trotsky, with an axe lodged in his head, dies in... variations. Three apes write... Hamlet. Philip Glass buys a loaf of bread and a couple falls in love, while they ignore the wrong things said each time the ringing of a bell signifies that their date starts over. This is the performance staged by the 'Atonal' group, directed by Sophia Marathaki, co-produced by Theatro 104. The performance consists of four one-act plays by contemporary American playwright David Ives: 'Sure Thing', 'Variations on the Death of Trotsky', 'Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread', and 'Words, Words, Words'.

Admission 10€, 12€, 5€ (unemployed)

LABattoir, 21:00

13,14/10

Theater

Hior ChronikPiano Music/Ambient/Electronic

Hior Chronik started working as a producer at Jazz FM and aneditor for various music magazines in the '90s. He startedexperimenting with making music about 7 years ago, focusingmore on cinema sound. His music is based on the piano andits long melancholic soundscapes that shape a sound beyond expressive commitments. Chronik’s first release, 'I'm a Tree', was with the Canadian label Les Enregistrements Variables. His new personal work was released last May by Kitchen.Label, and is titled 'Taking the Veil'. Numerous contributors (Field Rotation, Sophie Huchings, Familiar Trees, Yoshida Yashushi) were involved, and it was followed by a collaboration with Arovane (A Strangely Isolated Place) in July with the 'In Between' album and Mikael Delta shortly thereafter (Sun Sea Sky Records). Chronik’s 4th solo album will be released this autumn.

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

Music

15/10

T.S.S.O. Rehearsal and Concert Hall'Solon Michailidis' (formerly Pallas), 21:00

MirandaBased on Shakespeare's 'Tempest'by Theatro Poriadirected by Oskaras Korsounovas

It seems like a fairytale for adults with a lust for power,and the interminable battles they fight to conquer it. This is 'Miranda', the performance directed by Oskaras Korsounovas, based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. This reading of the play allows us to see the mythical events that take place on Prospero's island as a “repetition of the history of the world” and, indeed, from its farcical perspective.'Miranda' takes us on a journey to the time just before the end ofnthe Colonels' dictatorship in Greece, when a father lives “stranded”, “exiled” in his own flat, with his daughter’s company.Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' provides them with entertainment; its their recreation, a habit, but, at the same time, it becomes a confession, a torture, and, ultimately, redemption.

Admission 10€

Aneton Theatre, 21:00

14-16/10

Theater

Hior ChronikPiano Music/Ambient/Electronic

Hior Chronik started working as a producer at Jazz FM and aneditor for various music magazines in the '90s. He startedexperimenting with making music about 7 years ago, focusingmore on cinema sound. His music is based on the piano andits long melancholic soundscapes that shape a sound beyond expressive commitments. Chronik’s first release, 'I'm a Tree', was with the Canadian label Les Enregistrements Variables. His new personal work was released last May by Kitchen.Label, and is titled 'Taking the Veil'. Numerous contributors (Field Rotation, Sophie Huchings, Familiar Trees, Yoshida Yashushi) were involved, and it was followed by a collaboration with Arovane (A Strangely Isolated Place) in July with the 'In Between' album and Mikael Delta shortly thereafter (Sun Sea Sky Records). Chronik’s 4th solo album will be released this autumn.

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

Music

15/10

T.S.S.O. Rehearsal and Concert Hall'Solon Michailidis' (formerly Pallas), 21:00

MirandaBased on Shakespeare's 'Tempest'by Theatro Poriadirected by Oskaras Korsounovas

It seems like a fairytale for adults with a lust for power,and the interminable battles they fight to conquer it. This is 'Miranda', the performance directed by Oskaras Korsounovas, based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. This reading of the play allows us to see the mythical events that take place on Prospero's island as a “repetition of the history of the world” and, indeed, from its farcical perspective.'Miranda' takes us on a journey to the time just before the end ofnthe Colonels' dictatorship in Greece, when a father lives “stranded”, “exiled” in his own flat, with his daughter’s company.Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' provides them with entertainment; its their recreation, a habit, but, at the same time, it becomes a confession, a torture, and, ultimately, redemption.

Admission 10€

Aneton Theatre, 21:00

14-16/10

Theater

Giannis PapatriantafyllouQuintet

Admission 8€

16/10

Music

T.S.S.O. Rehearsal and Concert Hall'Solon Michailidis' (formerly Pallas), 21:00

Giannis Papatriantafyllou, one of the most important bassists on the jazz music scene, will present his first record, titled 'Absence', containing 10 original compositions. It is a personal journey of emotional conflicts that arise from unforeseen changes and twists in the artist's existential quest through the imagery and sounds of mainstream jazz.The record will be presented by the Quintet, consisting of Giannis Papatriantafyllou (contrabass), Kostis Christodoulou (piano), Dimitris Tsakas (saxophone), Dimitris Angelakis (vibraphone) and Nikos Vargiamidis (percussion).

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

The 51st Dimitria, in collaboration with Thessaloniki Concert Hall and Skull of Yorick Productions, presents Verdi's popular opera in four acts (libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni), directed by Zamira Pasceri. The opera is about the passions of a lovetriangle, and the way these come into conflict with patriotismbetween two peoples, the Egyptians and the Ethiopians. Dariusz Mikulski/Haris Iliadis are the musical directors and costumes and the set are designed by Athanasios Kolalas. Starring: Sophia Mitropoulou (Aida), Kassandra Dimopoulou (Amneris) and Philip Modinos (Radames). Also participating: 'Mary Konstantinidou' Mixed Choir of Thessaloniki (Choir Mistress, Mary Konstantinidou), the Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and members of MOYSA – TCH Megaro Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Greek supertitles

Admission 30€, 25€, 20€, 15€& 10€ (pupils, university students and the unemployed)

TCH (Μ1), 20:00

15,17,19/10

Music

Co-produced with Thessaloniki Music Hall

Giannis PapatriantafyllouQuintet

Admission 8€

16/10

Music

T.S.S.O. Rehearsal and Concert Hall'Solon Michailidis' (formerly Pallas), 21:00

Giannis Papatriantafyllou, one of the most important bassists on the jazz music scene, will present his first record, titled 'Absence', containing 10 original compositions. It is a personal journey of emotional conflicts that arise from unforeseen changes and twists in the artist's existential quest through the imagery and sounds of mainstream jazz.The record will be presented by the Quintet, consisting of Giannis Papatriantafyllou (contrabass), Kostis Christodoulou (piano), Dimitris Tsakas (saxophone), Dimitris Angelakis (vibraphone) and Nikos Vargiamidis (percussion).

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

The 51st Dimitria, in collaboration with Thessaloniki Concert Hall and Skull of Yorick Productions, presents Verdi's popular opera in four acts (libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni), directed by Zamira Pasceri. The opera is about the passions of a lovetriangle, and the way these come into conflict with patriotismbetween two peoples, the Egyptians and the Ethiopians. Dariusz Mikulski/Haris Iliadis are the musical directors and costumes and the set are designed by Athanasios Kolalas. Starring: Sophia Mitropoulou (Aida), Kassandra Dimopoulou (Amneris) and Philip Modinos (Radames). Also participating: 'Mary Konstantinidou' Mixed Choir of Thessaloniki (Choir Mistress, Mary Konstantinidou), the Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and members of MOYSA – TCH Megaro Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Greek supertitles

Admission 30€, 25€, 20€, 15€& 10€ (pupils, university students and the unemployed)

TCH (Μ1), 20:00

15,17,19/10

Music

Co-produced with Thessaloniki Music Hall

Freedom: the most expensivecapitalist wordby Maja Pelevic and Olga DimitrijevicBitef Theatre (Serbia)

Two daring playwrights risked taking a “dangerous” journey to North Korea, and, through the vehicle of documentary-theatre, narrate their experience, mixed with personal prejudices, as well as harsh and revealing imagery of North Korean society, where western society's eyes have no access. At the same time they attempt to answer, in drama game terms, the question regarding whether what we see in Northern Korea is more (or less) dangerous than what we can see in the rest of the world.

Greek supertitles

Admission 10€, 8€ (concessions)Invitations available for unemployment card holders

18/10

Theater

LABattoir, 21:00

Thessaloniki InternationalShort Film Festival

The Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival has returnedfor another year of the best moving images, under the guidance of indefatigable visionary Yiannis Zachopoulos.The 10th TiSFF (anniversary event) includes, Inter alia, the best Greek and foreign language short films of the last decade and an homage to Achilleas Kyriakidis.Let us not forget that the TiSFF has been included in the top 44short film festivals in the world, 28 of which are European, such as those in Cannes, Berlin, Clermont-Ferrand, and others.

Admission 5€

'Alexandros' Cultural Centre, 17:00 - 24:00

17-22/10

Cinema

Co-organised with the Cultural Centreof the Region of Central Macedonia

Freedom: the most expensivecapitalist wordby Maja Pelevic and Olga DimitrijevicBitef Theatre (Serbia)

Two daring playwrights risked taking a “dangerous” journey to North Korea, and, through the vehicle of documentary-theatre, narrate their experience, mixed with personal prejudices, as well as harsh and revealing imagery of North Korean society, where western society's eyes have no access. At the same time they attempt to answer, in drama game terms, the question regarding whether what we see in Northern Korea is more (or less) dangerous than what we can see in the rest of the world.

Greek supertitles

Admission 10€, 8€ (concessions)Invitations available for unemployment card holders

18/10

Theater

LABattoir, 21:00

Thessaloniki InternationalShort Film Festival

The Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival has returnedfor another year of the best moving images, under the guidance of indefatigable visionary Yiannis Zachopoulos.The 10th TiSFF (anniversary event) includes, Inter alia, the best Greek and foreign language short films of the last decade and an homage to Achilleas Kyriakidis.Let us not forget that the TiSFF has been included in the top 44short film festivals in the world, 28 of which are European, such as those in Cannes, Berlin, Clermont-Ferrand, and others.

Admission 5€

'Alexandros' Cultural Centre, 17:00 - 24:00

17-22/10

Cinema

Co-organised with the Cultural Centreof the Region of Central Macedonia

Hotel by Yota Argyropoulouby the Blindspot Theater Group

A man walks down the 'HOTEL' steps. He is tired from his chronic insomnia and he is about to check in to the sleep service, which will help him feel better that night so as to manage to get some sleep. 'HOTEL' is an artistic fiction project in which the action takes ona theatrical and cinematic aspect, and unfolds in a night-time resort that caters for those who have sleeping disorders and insomnia. In the 'HOTEL' the man is given another chance:to relive the moments he misses, to see his loved ones, tochange things for the better. However, what is the man's secret?

Admission 12€& 8€ (Disabled, students, unemployed)

Aneton Theatre, 21:00

18,19/10

Theater

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

18/10

Music

Black Box, 21:30

8:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.: From light to darkness / From orange to blackModified dog

A performance / installation aiming at taking a journey to the end of the day, a journey from light to darkness, fromthe visible to the invisible and a transition from reality to thedreamlike, has been prepared by the 'Modified dog' musicalensemble. The composition consists of original music and, simultaneously, lighting / 3D video mapping, aspiring to offeran integrated audiovisual experience.A significant part of the narration during the performance is made up of excerpts from the poetry of Jack Kerouac and texts by William S. Burroughs, heard from recordings of the authors’ voices.

Hotel by Yota Argyropoulouby the Blindspot Theater Group

A man walks down the 'HOTEL' steps. He is tired from his chronic insomnia and he is about to check in to the sleep service, which will help him feel better that night so as to manage to get some sleep. 'HOTEL' is an artistic fiction project in which the action takes ona theatrical and cinematic aspect, and unfolds in a night-time resort that caters for those who have sleeping disorders and insomnia. In the 'HOTEL' the man is given another chance:to relive the moments he misses, to see his loved ones, tochange things for the better. However, what is the man's secret?

Admission 12€& 8€ (Disabled, students, unemployed)

Aneton Theatre, 21:00

18,19/10

Theater

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

18/10

Music

Black Box, 21:30

8:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.: From light to darkness / From orange to blackModified dog

A performance / installation aiming at taking a journey to the end of the day, a journey from light to darkness, fromthe visible to the invisible and a transition from reality to thedreamlike, has been prepared by the 'Modified dog' musicalensemble. The composition consists of original music and, simultaneously, lighting / 3D video mapping, aspiring to offeran integrated audiovisual experience.A significant part of the narration during the performance is made up of excerpts from the poetry of Jack Kerouac and texts by William S. Burroughs, heard from recordings of the authors’ voices.

Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brechtby the National Theatre of Northern Greece

Putting on Bertolt Brecht's topical antiwar masterpiece, writtenin 1939, when the author had exiled himself to Sweden, marksa double comeback to the National Theatre of Northern Greece.On the one hand Serbian director Nikita Milivojevic is returningafter 13 years to direct one of Brecht's most topical works in a new translation by George Depastas. On the other hand, actress Lydia Fotopoulou is returning to play the title role, 8 years after her last collaboration with the NTNG.Anna Fierling, also known as Mother Courage, is Brecht's anti-heroine. A mother of three children from different fathers, an ingenious trader struggling, during the Thirty Years’ War(1618-1648), to survive along with her children, using every means at her disposal.

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

20/10

Theater

Admission from 5€ to 13€

Organised by the National Theatre of Northern Greece

From ACT to ACTINGDance seminarby Cedric Charron (Belgium)

Jan Fabre Teaching Group

Cedric Charron is a member of the teaching team ofsubversive director Jan Fabre. Charron will be presenting amodern dance and improvisation – performanceworkshop expected to cause a stir. He will teach the 'From ACT to ACTING' method as devised and implemented by Jan Fabre himself. During the workshop the body becomes an instrument that explores the transition from action to acting. The imagination and consciousness of the entity of the individual is gradually enhanced and the performer is called to live up to the challenge of bridging the gap between the two until they reach a condition of physical transformation.

The seminar addresses professionalsand Superior Dance School graduates, actors and performers.

Admission free (Participation registrations: 2313 318 222)

18-21/10

Dance

YMCATh

Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brechtby the National Theatre of Northern Greece

Putting on Bertolt Brecht's topical antiwar masterpiece, writtenin 1939, when the author had exiled himself to Sweden, marksa double comeback to the National Theatre of Northern Greece.On the one hand Serbian director Nikita Milivojevic is returningafter 13 years to direct one of Brecht's most topical works in a new translation by George Depastas. On the other hand, actress Lydia Fotopoulou is returning to play the title role, 8 years after her last collaboration with the NTNG.Anna Fierling, also known as Mother Courage, is Brecht's anti-heroine. A mother of three children from different fathers, an ingenious trader struggling, during the Thirty Years’ War(1618-1648), to survive along with her children, using every means at her disposal.

Theatre of The Society for Macedonian Studies, 21:00

20/10

Theater

Admission from 5€ to 13€

Organised by the National Theatre of Northern Greece

From ACT to ACTINGDance seminarby Cedric Charron (Belgium)

Jan Fabre Teaching Group

Cedric Charron is a member of the teaching team ofsubversive director Jan Fabre. Charron will be presenting amodern dance and improvisation – performanceworkshop expected to cause a stir. He will teach the 'From ACT to ACTING' method as devised and implemented by Jan Fabre himself. During the workshop the body becomes an instrument that explores the transition from action to acting. The imagination and consciousness of the entity of the individual is gradually enhanced and the performer is called to live up to the challenge of bridging the gap between the two until they reach a condition of physical transformation.

The seminar addresses professionalsand Superior Dance School graduates, actors and performers.

Admission free (Participation registrations: 2313 318 222)

18-21/10

Dance

YMCATh

Wot? Not Fishby the Bread & Circuses group (UK)

Just imagine 55 years of married life recorded on more than 3,000... love notes: From the pride experienced at the birthof their first child, to the acrobatics of a rich love life and theirautistic second son's confinement and subsequent death, up to London's WWII blitz and marital nagging, because one wanted to buy a fur coat and the other always looked scruffy. It all started in 1926 when shoemaker Ab Solomons unconsciously doodled a sketch on the brown envelope in which he gave his wife, Shelley, his weekly wages. During their marriage until 1982, Abe developed his art, drawing something on the envelope for Shelley every week.

Greek supertitles

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

22/10

Theater

Aneton Theatre, 21:00

AVS-AAPAlexandros Plomaritis

Through an autobiographical performance, Alexandros Plomaritis is searching for his roots and a kind of identity through his family environment, as well as through the city of Thessaloniki. Using audiovisual means (video) where audio and video documents are utilised, Plomaritis locates the places that connect him both with his grandfather, as well as with the city itself, where his ancestor settled and lived. That very same city where the artist lives and creates today.

Admission free

Visual Arts

20/10

MMCA, 20:00

Co-organised with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

Wot? Not Fishby the Bread & Circuses group (UK)

Just imagine 55 years of married life recorded on more than 3,000... love notes: From the pride experienced at the birthof their first child, to the acrobatics of a rich love life and theirautistic second son's confinement and subsequent death, up to London's WWII blitz and marital nagging, because one wanted to buy a fur coat and the other always looked scruffy. It all started in 1926 when shoemaker Ab Solomons unconsciously doodled a sketch on the brown envelope in which he gave his wife, Shelley, his weekly wages. During their marriage until 1982, Abe developed his art, drawing something on the envelope for Shelley every week.

Greek supertitles

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations available for unemployment card holders

22/10

Theater

Aneton Theatre, 21:00

AVS-AAPAlexandros Plomaritis

Through an autobiographical performance, Alexandros Plomaritis is searching for his roots and a kind of identity through his family environment, as well as through the city of Thessaloniki. Using audiovisual means (video) where audio and video documents are utilised, Plomaritis locates the places that connect him both with his grandfather, as well as with the city itself, where his ancestor settled and lived. That very same city where the artist lives and creates today.

Admission free

Visual Arts

20/10

MMCA, 20:00

Co-organised with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

Pavlos Pavlidisand the B-Movies

After a concert-filled summer in Greece and abroad, Pavlos Pavlidis & the B-Movies return to their beloved Thessaloniki.Bringing back with them their latest album, 'Mia Pyrkayia S'EnaSpirtokouto' (Blaze in a Matchbox), which was released in earlyApril (Inner Ear), they will present a programme based on theentire musical career of the popular singer-songwriter, from histime with 'Xylina Spathia' (Wooden Swords) to date.

Admission 11€ (pre-sale), 13€ (at door)

22/10

Music

Principal, 22:00 (doors open at 21:00)

The nest-one route to freedom/Trial 0neDance performance choreographed by Despina Kapoulitsa

A three-dimensional comic book in a futuristic mood that draws from manga aesthetics. The body becomes the comicbook artist's pencil and designs, in real time, the atmosphereof the frames. The protagonist, Jiyū, is searching for her identityin a world of inner conflict, so that she may start over. She travels, wondering where her freedom is hidden, searching for it on her maze-like journey. This performance has been choreographed by Despina Kapoulitsa – who is also one ofthe dancers along with Evanthia Sofronidou – and explores the concept of freedom. Sets and costumes designed by Eliza Moschopoulou and original music composed by Sakis Abatzidis.

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations for unemployment card holders

22/10

Dance

LABattoir, 21:00

Pavlos Pavlidisand the B-Movies

After a concert-filled summer in Greece and abroad, Pavlos Pavlidis & the B-Movies return to their beloved Thessaloniki.Bringing back with them their latest album, 'Mia Pyrkayia S'EnaSpirtokouto' (Blaze in a Matchbox), which was released in earlyApril (Inner Ear), they will present a programme based on theentire musical career of the popular singer-songwriter, from histime with 'Xylina Spathia' (Wooden Swords) to date.

Admission 11€ (pre-sale), 13€ (at door)

22/10

Music

Principal, 22:00 (doors open at 21:00)

The nest-one route to freedom/Trial 0neDance performance choreographed by Despina Kapoulitsa

A three-dimensional comic book in a futuristic mood that draws from manga aesthetics. The body becomes the comicbook artist's pencil and designs, in real time, the atmosphereof the frames. The protagonist, Jiyū, is searching for her identityin a world of inner conflict, so that she may start over. She travels, wondering where her freedom is hidden, searching for it on her maze-like journey. This performance has been choreographed by Despina Kapoulitsa – who is also one ofthe dancers along with Evanthia Sofronidou – and explores the concept of freedom. Sets and costumes designed by Eliza Moschopoulou and original music composed by Sakis Abatzidis.

Admission 7€, 10€Invitations for unemployment card holders

22/10

Dance

LABattoir, 21:00

Closing ceremony / Disco Labattoir!

Admission free

23/10

LABattoir, 22:00

Goodbye 51st Dimitria Festival, until next year; it could also be the end of Cityval 2016. Prepare yourselves for a partywhere the artistic committee, the volunteers, the participatingartists and thousands of other fine people, seeing as entry toLABattoir will be free and open to anyone who wants to attend and dance, are going to share their impressions and memories and celebrate till the early hours of the morning. Stefanos Tsitsopoulos will be on the turntables, which meansnon-stop world rhythms and free style mixing of excellent rhythms. The screens of... disco LABattoir will remind us of the best images and visuals from everything we enjoyed thisyear and the dance floor will fill with the whole of Thessaloniki, bidding farewell to another October during which art and joyflooded the city.

Athens Video Dance Project (AVDP)

A weekend filled with videodance screenings. In the frameworkof the AVDP, the production team has curated a special cinematic schedule for each day, so that the audience ofThessaloniki can enjoy the art of videodance. This year's AVDP brings to Thessaloniki 24 works from 15 countries (Greece, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Great Britain,Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Israel, India, the Netherlands, Norway and China), while each night will close with two shortdance films.

Admission free

22-23/10

Dance

LABattoir, 22/10 - 22:3023/10 - 20:30

Closing ceremony / Disco Labattoir!

Admission free

23/10

LABattoir, 22:00

Goodbye 51st Dimitria Festival, until next year; it could also be the end of Cityval 2016. Prepare yourselves for a partywhere the artistic committee, the volunteers, the participatingartists and thousands of other fine people, seeing as entry toLABattoir will be free and open to anyone who wants to attend and dance, are going to share their impressions and memories and celebrate till the early hours of the morning. Stefanos Tsitsopoulos will be on the turntables, which meansnon-stop world rhythms and free style mixing of excellent rhythms. The screens of... disco LABattoir will remind us of the best images and visuals from everything we enjoyed thisyear and the dance floor will fill with the whole of Thessaloniki, bidding farewell to another October during which art and joyflooded the city.

Athens Video Dance Project (AVDP)

A weekend filled with videodance screenings. In the frameworkof the AVDP, the production team has curated a special cinematic schedule for each day, so that the audience ofThessaloniki can enjoy the art of videodance. This year's AVDP brings to Thessaloniki 24 works from 15 countries (Greece, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Great Britain,Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Israel, India, the Netherlands, Norway and China), while each night will close with two shortdance films.

Admission free

22-23/10

Dance

LABattoir, 22/10 - 22:3023/10 - 20:30

8-9/10A.U.Th. in the city / 90 years of A.U.Th.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki goes out on the townand presents its work. The programme is made up of, inter alia, creative workshops, sports events, exhibition of Aristotle Racing Team's sing-seater race car and A.U.Th.'ssailing vessel, as well as film screenings (tribute to Nikos Chourmouziadis, A.U.Th., The presence of women at A.U.Th., With a hammer and a loop).

Aristotelous Square, Olympion8/10: 11:00-22:00 & 9/10: 10:00-20:00

Organised by A.U.Th.

20/10 - 30/12Parables and MartyrsPainting exhibition by Nikola Saric

Through the work of the Serbian painter we can see the contemporary iconographic representation of the Parablesof Christ, the Martyrs and the Prophets, in compositions thatsurpass the traditional concept of such subjects andimbue it with a completely contemporary visual approach,which, however, is based on early Christian painting. The exhibit has been curated by Anastasios Douros.

Mount Athos Centre

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Monday-Tuesday: 9:00-16:00,Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 9:00-20:00, Saturday: 9:00-14:00

Organised by Mount Athos Centre

Pre-festival and parallel events

27/9Art night

The night is asking for art and on 27 September 20 galleries,museums and art venues of the city will stay up late,offering people the chance to enjoy a night-time visual art tour. Art critics and curators take on the roles of tour guides through the modern visual art landscape. Artistic direction is by visual artist Marios Teriade Eleftheriadisand head of the event is museologist Thalia-Maria Alexaki.

City museums, cultural bodies and galleriesAdmission free, 18:00-23:00

Co-organised with the Administration of Libraries & Museums, Department of the Municipal Gallery

5/10Kapani ProjectMusical performance

Against the backdrop of the Thessaloniki market, with all of itsshops open – fishmongers, greengrocers, butchers, general stores and clothes shops - the old and the new meet in a place filled with memories, stories and human footprints...Thus begins the 'Kapani Project' at …. Kapani. Through music, street theatre, performances and after-midnight events, young people will get a chance to become acquainted with the district and its significance, and the older generation will have the opportunity to remember nostalgically.

Admission free / Duration: 24 hours, 00:00-23:59

8-9/10A.U.Th. in the city / 90 years of A.U.Th.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki goes out on the townand presents its work. The programme is made up of, inter alia, creative workshops, sports events, exhibition of Aristotle Racing Team's sing-seater race car and A.U.Th.'ssailing vessel, as well as film screenings (tribute to Nikos Chourmouziadis, A.U.Th., The presence of women at A.U.Th., With a hammer and a loop).

Aristotelous Square, Olympion8/10: 11:00-22:00 & 9/10: 10:00-20:00

Organised by A.U.Th.

20/10 - 30/12Parables and MartyrsPainting exhibition by Nikola Saric

Through the work of the Serbian painter we can see the contemporary iconographic representation of the Parablesof Christ, the Martyrs and the Prophets, in compositions thatsurpass the traditional concept of such subjects andimbue it with a completely contemporary visual approach,which, however, is based on early Christian painting. The exhibit has been curated by Anastasios Douros.

Mount Athos Centre

Opening: 20:00Opening hours: Monday-Tuesday: 9:00-16:00,Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 9:00-20:00, Saturday: 9:00-14:00

Organised by Mount Athos Centre

Pre-festival and parallel events

27/9Art night

The night is asking for art and on 27 September 20 galleries,museums and art venues of the city will stay up late,offering people the chance to enjoy a night-time visual art tour. Art critics and curators take on the roles of tour guides through the modern visual art landscape. Artistic direction is by visual artist Marios Teriade Eleftheriadisand head of the event is museologist Thalia-Maria Alexaki.

City museums, cultural bodies and galleriesAdmission free, 18:00-23:00

Co-organised with the Administration of Libraries & Museums, Department of the Municipal Gallery

5/10Kapani ProjectMusical performance

Against the backdrop of the Thessaloniki market, with all of itsshops open – fishmongers, greengrocers, butchers, general stores and clothes shops - the old and the new meet in a place filled with memories, stories and human footprints...Thus begins the 'Kapani Project' at …. Kapani. Through music, street theatre, performances and after-midnight events, young people will get a chance to become acquainted with the district and its significance, and the older generation will have the opportunity to remember nostalgically.

Admission free / Duration: 24 hours, 00:00-23:59

CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE OF THESSALONIKIWarehouse Β1 (Port)2310 593270 Buses: 3, 5, 6, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35www.cact.gr

THESSALONIKI CONCERTHALLIntersection of 25th Martiou Street & the Seafront Road2310 895800Buses: 5, 6, 8, 33, 78www.tch.gr

MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART154, Egnatia Streeton TIF-HELEXPO Premises2310 240002Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58www.mmca.org.gr

OLYMPION THEATRE10, Aristotelous Square2310 378400Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58

THESSALONIKI PORTAUTHORITY4, Navarchou Votsi Street2310 593393Buses: 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 33, 39, 58www.thpa.gr

PRINCIPAL CLUB THEATERMylos – Art & Culture Multispace

56, Andrea Georgiou Street2310 428088Buses: 31www.principalclub.com

ALEXANDROSCULTURAL CENTRE1, Ethnikis Amynis Street2310 270073Buses: 11, 58, 8

LABATTOIR35, 26th October Street2313 318203Buses: 31, 40

YMCATh1, N. Germanou Street-YMCATh. Square2316 001000Buses: 3, 5, 6, 12, 33, 39, 58, 78

MOUNT ATHOS CENTRE109, Egnatia Street2310 263308Buses: 8, 10, 11, 27, 31www.agioritikiestia.gr

T.S.S.O. REHEARSAL AND CONCERT HALL'SOLON MICHAILIDIS›Formerly 'Pallas' Cinema

73, Nikis Avenue2310 257900Buses: 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 58www.tsso.gr

ALACA IMARET91-93, Kassandrou Street2310 278587Buses: 15, 16, 23

YENI CAMI30, Archeologikou Mousiou Street2310 857978, 2310 425531 Buses: 3, 5, 6, 8, 33, 39, 76

ANETON MUNICIPALTHEATRE42, Paraskevopoulou Street & Konstantinoupoleos Street2310 869869Byses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 33, 39www.thessaloniki.gr

MUSIC CENTREMUNICIPALITY OF THESSALONIKI17, Kountouriotou street2313 318222Buses: 3, 5, 6

MUNICIPAL GALLERY(CASA BIANCA)180, V. Olgas Avenue2310 425531Buses: 3, 5, 6, 8, 30, 33, 76

AVLEA THEATREYMCATh Square (Tsimiski Street)2310 237700Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58www.avlaiatheatre.gr

BLACK BOX65, V. Olgas Avenue2310 829254Buses: 3, 5, 6, 8, 33, 39, 78www.facebook.com/ blackboxthessaloniki

THEATRE OF THE SOCIETY FOR MACEDONIAN STUDIES2, Ethnikis Amynis Street2315 200200Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58www.ntng.gr

Event venues

CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE OF THESSALONIKIWarehouse Β1 (Port)2310 593270 Buses: 3, 5, 6, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35www.cact.gr

THESSALONIKI CONCERTHALLIntersection of 25th Martiou Street & the Seafront Road2310 895800Buses: 5, 6, 8, 33, 78www.tch.gr

MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART154, Egnatia Streeton TIF-HELEXPO Premises2310 240002Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58www.mmca.org.gr

OLYMPION THEATRE10, Aristotelous Square2310 378400Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58

THESSALONIKI PORTAUTHORITY4, Navarchou Votsi Street2310 593393Buses: 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 33, 39, 58www.thpa.gr

PRINCIPAL CLUB THEATERMylos – Art & Culture Multispace

56, Andrea Georgiou Street2310 428088Buses: 31www.principalclub.com

ALEXANDROSCULTURAL CENTRE1, Ethnikis Amynis Street2310 270073Buses: 11, 58, 8

LABATTOIR35, 26th October Street2313 318203Buses: 31, 40

YMCATh1, N. Germanou Street-YMCATh. Square2316 001000Buses: 3, 5, 6, 12, 33, 39, 58, 78

MOUNT ATHOS CENTRE109, Egnatia Street2310 263308Buses: 8, 10, 11, 27, 31www.agioritikiestia.gr

T.S.S.O. REHEARSAL AND CONCERT HALL'SOLON MICHAILIDIS›Formerly 'Pallas' Cinema

73, Nikis Avenue2310 257900Buses: 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 58www.tsso.gr

ALACA IMARET91-93, Kassandrou Street2310 278587Buses: 15, 16, 23

YENI CAMI30, Archeologikou Mousiou Street2310 857978, 2310 425531 Buses: 3, 5, 6, 8, 33, 39, 76

ANETON MUNICIPALTHEATRE42, Paraskevopoulou Street & Konstantinoupoleos Street2310 869869Byses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 33, 39www.thessaloniki.gr

MUSIC CENTREMUNICIPALITY OF THESSALONIKI17, Kountouriotou street2313 318222Buses: 3, 5, 6

MUNICIPAL GALLERY(CASA BIANCA)180, V. Olgas Avenue2310 425531Buses: 3, 5, 6, 8, 30, 33, 76

AVLEA THEATREYMCATh Square (Tsimiski Street)2310 237700Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58www.avlaiatheatre.gr

BLACK BOX65, V. Olgas Avenue2310 829254Buses: 3, 5, 6, 8, 33, 39, 78www.facebook.com/ blackboxthessaloniki

THEATRE OF THE SOCIETY FOR MACEDONIAN STUDIES2, Ethnikis Amynis Street2315 200200Buses: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 20, 33, 39, 58www.ntng.gr

Event venues

Available at the ticket stalls of the Municipality of ThessalonikiAristotelous Square2310 272022Monday, Wednesday, Saturday: 10:00-15:30Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 10:00-14:00 & 17:30-20:00

At event venues

Dimitria Cards andinvitations for unemployment card holdersare available at the Administration of Culture-Tourism17, Kountouriotou Street, 54622, Thessaloniki2313 318222

For e-tickets please visit www.dimitria.thessaloniki.gr

To find which affiliated bars-restaurants will be providing10% discount or the €10 menu when you present your 51st Dimitria card or your day-ticket, please visit www.dimitria.thessaloniki.gr

Tickets Collaborating Bodies

Available at the ticket stalls of the Municipality of ThessalonikiAristotelous Square2310 272022Monday, Wednesday, Saturday: 10:00-15:30Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 10:00-14:00 & 17:30-20:00

At event venues

Dimitria Cards andinvitations for unemployment card holdersare available at the Administration of Culture-Tourism17, Kountouriotou Street, 54622, Thessaloniki2313 318222

For e-tickets please visit www.dimitria.thessaloniki.gr

To find which affiliated bars-restaurants will be providing10% discount or the €10 menu when you present your 51st Dimitria card or your day-ticket, please visit www.dimitria.thessaloniki.gr

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