WE STAY CLOSE, NOT CLOSED 24-30.4

Photographic material from the productions

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Promo video: https://youtu.be/pBzgXs0jGX4

We stay home, but we are not alone. And this is confirmed in practice by the thousands of people, from all parts of the world, who “cohabit” every week in the YouTube digital channel of the Onassis Foundation, breathing new life into significant instances of speech, movement, music, thoughts and ideas. From April 24, new productions are added to the active digital channel, which already hosts works of great creators and thinkers, such as Akram Khan, Werner Herzog, Guerilla Girls, Paul Giamatti, Dimitri Nanopoulos, Maira Kalman, Paul Holdengräber, Simon Critchley, Lena Kitsopoulou, Dimitris Karantzas, Argyro Chioti and Vasistas, Aris Biniaris, RootlessRoot, Patricia Apergi, Blaine Reininger.

Until Sunday, April 26, we sit comfortably on our sofas and dream that we are in Epidaurus, together with Aristophanes’ “Birds”, directed by Nikos Karathanos. On that same evening, Sunday, April 26, at 21:00, the Onassis Foundation takes us to another captivating and symbolic space, the Ancient Theater of Delphi, where we will attend a YouTube live premiere of Euripides’ intercultural “Troades (The Trojan Women)”, uniquely directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos (the show will be available on our channel until the 6th of May).

On Saturday, April 25, at 21:00, you can enjoy a one-of-a-kind artistic collaboration: K. Bhta and ARTéfacts ensemble’s “Cohabitation” in 2013, when contemporary music and pop-electronica “cohabited” on the Main Stage of Stegi.

On our channel, from Friday, April 24, Lenio Kaklea in her latest work, “Practical Encyclopedia. Detours”, traces, through the body, the social landscape of Europe, as it was just before the outbreak of the pandemic. Aris Laskos and Anastasia Yannaki bring teenage students on stage, in the theatrical performance “A Few Square Meters”, presented at the Onassis Youth Festival 2019 and lasting almost as long as a class period, during which the teenagers’ bodies might be restricted to a few square meters, yet their minds travel great distances.

And, since people were always attracted by the unknown, selected incunabula books of the Onassis Library trigger a historical analysis of their exploration efforts –from the dawn of the modern age to the great challenge of space– by professors of Space Physics and History & Archaeology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the event “The Attraction of the Unknown”.

Last but not least, this week is dedicated to our Alexandrian poet, C. P. Cavafy, since the 29th of April is the anniversary of his birth and death. We get to know how academic researchers, students and artists have approached the poet Cavafy, through programs and actions of the Onassis Foundation, and we explore instances of the poet’s life. From Friday, April 24, you can watch Daniel Mendelsohn in an exciting conversation with Dimitris Papanikolaou, you can learn how the Cavafy archive is linked to the archives of other writers in the interwar period at the seminar “The Cavafy Archive and the Literary Scene of the Interwar Period”, you can discover original artistic works by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Maria Varela, Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos, Bill Psarras, inspired by Cavafy’s work, at “Visual Dialogues 2013”, and get inspired yourselves by the educational program “Cavafy goes to school”. And actions do not end here.

PROGRAM FROM 24 APRIL 2020

THEATRE

Theodoros Terzopoulos, "Trojan Women" by Euripides (2018) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Live premiere: Sunday 26 April at 21:00 GMT +3 (available until Wednesday 6 May at 21:00 GMT +3)

Onassis Youth Festival (2019) | A Few Square Meters | Direction by: Aris Laskos & Anastasia Giannaki | 1st & 2nd Nea Filadelfia Vocational Colleges

DANCE

Lenio Kaklea, Practical Encyclopedia. Detours (2019)

MUSIC

K.BHTA | ARTéfacts ensemble | Cohabitation

Live premiere: Saturday 25 April at 21:00 GMT +3

EDUCATION

Onassis Library: The Attraction of the Unknown

CAVAFY ARCHIVE

Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Dimitris Papanikolaou

The Cavafy Archive and the literary scene of the Interwar Period

Visual Dialogues 2013

Lists of artist

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Waiting for the barbarians, 2013

Maria Varela, And so much intensity in Greek phraseology, 2013

Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos, Oracle, 2013

Bill Psarras, Urban Halo, 2013

Cavafy goes to school

Cavafy International Summer School

Still on

THEATRE

Nikos Karathanos, Birds by Aristophanes (2016) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Available until Sunday 26 April at 21:00 GMT +3

Dimitris Karantzas, Ρομπ/Rob by Efthimis Filippou (2018) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Argiro Chioti, Vasistas, Emata by Efthimis Filippou (2014) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Antigone in Ferguson, Antigone Now Festival, Onassis USA (2016)

Lena Kitsopoulou, Little Red Riding Hood – The First Blood (2014) (with Greek subtitles)

Aris Biniaris, Bacchae by Euripides (2018) (with Greek and English subtitles)

High School (Kato Patissia)

Onassis Youth Festival (2019) | Green Line | Directed by: Martha Bouziouri & Erifili Yiannakopoulou | 1st Piraeus High School

Onassis Youth Festival (2019) | Summer Rain | Directed by: Vassia Attarian & Myrto Makridi | 41st Athens

DANCE

Akram Kan, XENOS (2018)

Available until 16 May 2020 at 21:00 GMT +3

Patricia Apergi, Aerites Dance Company, Cementary (2017)

RootlessRoot, Kireru (2012)

MUSIC

Klangforum Wien, Happiness Machine (2019) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Lena Kitsopoulou, Rebetika: The Blues of Greece, Onassis USA (2019))

Tuned City (2018)
Blaine Reininger, Secret Concert (2018)

TALKS & THOUGHTS

Werner Herzog (2019) (with Greek subtitles)
Christina Karafyllia, the Onassis Scholar that solved two unsolved math problems (with Greek subtitles)

Guerilla Girls (2017(with Greek subtitles)

Daniel Mendelsohn, Narcissus Now Festival – Onassis USA, Podcast (2015)
Narcissus & Acting with Paul Giamatti and Vanessa Grigoriadis (2015)

CONFERENCE
Crafting The Future Part A' (2019) (with Greek subtitles)

Crafting The Future Part B' (2019) (with Greek subtitles)

EDUCATION
“Elliniki Nomarchia” or “Hellenic Nomarchy” by an Anonymous Hellene, Italy 1806
Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, From Enlightenment to 'Enphotonment' (2016)
Cavafy Archive: Organization and Access Policy Workshop "An Unsigned Watercolor" Part A' (2019)

Cavafy Archive: Organization and Access Policy Workshop "An Unsigned Watercolor" Part B' (2019)

Cavafy archive: Organization and Access Policy Workshop "An Unsigned Watercolor" Part C' (2019)

Onassis Library "Erotos apotelesmata", Vienna 1792

PODCAST
“The Quarantine Tapes” by Paul Holdengräber | Maira Kalman

Simon Critchley on Looking at the Contemporary World Through the Lens of Punk, Greek Tragedy, and Humor At a Distance

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