Theatre Company Mneme and the magazine “Neo Planodion”, organize for the sixth consecutive year this year, in the atrium of the Kydonia Theater, the “Nights of July”.
According to a relevant announcement, “our friends and visitors this summer will have the opportunity to attend a wide range of performances, concerts, discussions, lectures and honorary events with leading representatives of music, theater, literature, philosophy and science. thinking.
Among them are Argyris Bakirtzis, Thodoris Gonis, Pantelis Boukalas, Vassilis Kalfas, Nikos Stampolidis, Vassilis Vertoudakis, Stefanos Kaklamanis, Margarita Melmberg and others.
This year’s program is particularly ambitious, as it includes, among other things, events on the current fate of classical antiquity, Cretan Renaissance literature and folk song. His focus, as always, is this year’s summer production of Theatre Company Mneme “Parodos”, a show dedicated to the memory of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and based on the emblematic novel of Kosmas Politis in Hadjifrangos.
The program is curated by Michalis Virvidakis and Costas Koutsourelis. All the prescribed sanitary measures will be observed “.
EVENTS SCHEDULE
All events start at 9.30 pm.
Saturday 2 | Round table discussion “We and the Ancients”
What is left of Antiquity today? Is her legacy still a source of inspiration for the modern world? Or has its invocation become an atavistic habit, a meaningless ritual of memory?
They discuss four of our leading archaeologists: Vassilios P. Vertoudakis, professor of classical literature at EKPA, Vassilis Kalfas, professor of philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Pantelis Boukalas, poet, essayist and translator, and Nikolaos Chr. Stampolidis, archaeologist, director of the Acropolis Museum.
Coordinated by Costas Koutsourelis, author, editor of Neo Planodion magazine.
Sunday 3 | Vassilis Kalfas guides us to Plato Philosophical walk in Apokoronas
Vassilis Kalfas, professor of philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki and a diligent scholar of Aristotle and Plato, invites us to an original tour of the Cretan land in the steps of the walking tradition. His subject: “For Plato’s Phaedrus”.
The walk will start at 10 in the morning from Platanakia in the area between the villages of Stylos and Nio Chorio Apokoronas. It will last about an hour, on shady rural paths, next to the river Koiliari, easily accessible for all ages.
The event is organized with the participation and assistance of the Mountaineering Association of Chania. Registration for the bus that will serve the event until Thursday 30 June at 28210 92395.
Monday 4 | Pantelis Boukalas for the folk song “Kokkin ‘acheili epilisa”
A magnificent work, which was unanimously recognized by the critics and honored with the State Essay Award, the four-volume series of studies by Pantelis Boukalas for the folk song (Agra Publications 2018 etc.) opens new avenues in the study and reception of the fascinating of this chapter of Greek culture.
Starting from the recent release of the fourth volume of the series, Kostas Koutsourelis talks with the author. Characteristic excerpts are read by actors of the Kydonia Theater.
Friday 8 Theatrical premiere of “Parodos”
Theatre Company Mneme, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, returns to the atmosphere of those days through the masterpiece “Parodos” by Kosmas Politis, a chapter inserted in the middle of his emblematic novel “In the Great Hatzifrangos” and tragedy experienced by Hellenism since the birth of the Greek state.
Directed by Michalis Virvidakis, Original performance music by Dimitris Droumbogiannis, Visual intervention by Giannis Markantonakis, Sound compositions by Dimitris Iatropoulos, Lighting by Mikaela Papa, Assistant Director Michalis Naxakis
Actor George Railakis, Musicians on stage: Dimitris Droumbogiannis, piano, Bella Lionaki, accordion, Panagiotis-Christos Tsopelas, lafta, guitars.
General admission 12 euros
The production takes place in the framework of the 2022 program of the institution “All Greece a Culture” of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Saturday 9 | Theatrical performance “Parodos”
From the novel of Kosmas Politis In Hadjifrangos – The centenary of a lost state.
Sunday 10 | Conversation with Stefanos Kaklamanis Poetry in the years of the Cretan Renaissance
For almost three centuries, Crete has been at the forefront of modern Greek literature, being its main point of contact with the renaissance literature of the rest of Europe. The three-volume work of Stefanos Kaklamanis Cretan poetry in the years of the Renaissance (14th-17th century) (MIET 2020) is a panorama of its evolution that introduces the reader to its hinterland and anthologizes its top moments.
Giannis Dimitrakakis, professor of modern Greek literature at the University of Crete, and Costas Koutsourelis talk to the researcher.
Wednesday 13 An evening with Theodore Gonis “Let the words be easy”
Actor and director of the theater, a very special novelist, lyricist of cosmopolitan songs, head of important cultural institutions, Thodoris Gonis has come a long way in our letters and arts.
On the occasion of his recent book The black dress of the crow (Agra 2021) he discusses with Kostas Koutsourelis about his work. Excerpts from his books are read by actors of the Kydonia Theater.
Saturday 16 | Music concert “Summer passed like a shiver” – Argyris Bakirtzis in Chania
Creator and performer of iconic songs that have been etched in our collective memory for decades, a feature familiar to us and from the cinema, the Summer Chief Swimmer Argyris Bakirtzis does not need further recommendations.
With him in Chania in a concert with new and old songs the new composer and pianist George Kostogiorgis and the accordionist Costas Vombolos.
General admission 12 euros
Sunday 17 | Theatrical performance “Parodos”
From the novel of Kosmas Politis In Hadjifrangos – The centenary of a lost state.
General admission 12 euros
Monday 18 | Theatrical performance “Parodos”
From the novel of Kosmas Politis In Hadjifrangos – The centenary of a lost state.
General admission 12 euros
Wednesday 20 Presentation of the book “The List of Leporello”
A series of murders with its victims disturbs the Athenian publishing world. The author and Costas Koutsourelis discuss Leporello’s List, the recent detective novel by Fotis Dousos that was praised by critics (Nefeli 2021).
Friday 22 Music concert “Rebotika”: With Michalis and Pantelis Kalogerakis
Studying the famous letters exchanged by Arthur Rembo and Paul Verlaine, the Kalogeraki brothers had a bold idea: to match them with rebetika songs, popular but also less known to the general public. A musical-technical performance that comments on the stormy relationship of the two great poets through the erotic themes of classical rebetikas.
With them the musicians Stratos Grinzalis, bouzouki, mandolin, and Alexis Stenakis, clarinet.
General admission 12 euros
Wednesday 27 | Theatrical performance “Parodos”
From the novel of Kosmas Politis In Hadjifrangos – The centenary of a lost state.
General admission 12 euros
Friday 29 Honorary evening for Margarita Melmberg From the world of Strindberg
Recently honored with the enviable Swedish Strindberg Prize, Margarita Melmberg takes us on a tour of the world of the Swedish playwright and of Swedish theater in general, to which she has dedicated her decades of translation work.
Swedish novelist and translator Jan Henrik Schwan and playwright Maria Sechopoulou talk to her.
Saturday 30 | Theatrical performance “Parodos”
From the novel of Kosmas Politis In Hadjifrangos – The centenary of a lost state.
General admission 12 euros
Friday 5 August Ancient Aptera Theater “Parodos”
From the novel of Kosmas Politis In Hadjifrangos – The centenary of a lost state.
Start time 9.00pm
General admission 12 euros
Saturday 6 August Ancient Aptera Theater “Parodos”
From the novel of Kosmas Politis In Hadjifrangos – The centenary of a lost state.
Start time 9.00pm
General admission 12 euros
