Babybird Babybird by Dimitris Mpampilis goes to the 56th Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki

Photo: Andreas Simopoulos

An Onassis Stegi production travels to Thessaloniki. After the digital premiere of Babybird Babybird on the Onassis Channel on YouTube, the performance created by Dimitris Bampilis in the context of FUTURE NOW is presented for the first time in front of a physical audience at Aneton Theater, on October 15 and 16. The breaths of performers and audience merging in space, breaths of culture, art, and life at the 56th Dimitria.

The Dimitria Festival is back with an outstanding program for its 56th iteration, after a year marked by confinement, isolation, and loss. For twenty days, different forms of arts creatively intertwine at the venues of the festival. More than 150 artists, including acclaimed directors, choreographers, musicians, and visual artists from Greece and abroad, interact with the audience that wants to know their work, and also to dream, to feel the scent of the stage again, and to experience the lively creativity it was deprived of for so long.

About the performance

“Why do we (not) have children?” Prospective parents, a young mother, a midwife, a journalist, a sociologist, a neuroscientist and a youtuber-activist against childbirth take a stand on the sexiest existential question of all. A documentary-theater play about the complicated relationship between our love life and our reproductive ability, using interviews statistics, personal confessionals, scientific studies, confidentiality and humor.