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Spend the Summer with Us! Activities for Adults P Music p. 6-11 Movie screenings p. 10-17 08.2017 Activities for Children p. 18-23 Spend the summer with us! Activities for Adults p. 24-31 Exhibitions p. 32-33 Guided tours p. 44 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center 364, Syggrou Avenue 17674 Kallithea, Greece (+30) 216 8091000 [email protected] /SNFCC #SNFCC Organization: Exclusive donor: 1 We've known each other for one year now! One year ago, on August 16, 2016, the Stavros Niarchos We also extend our thanks to hundreds of volunteers, Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) opened its doors to entertainers, artists, technicians and other collaborators, the public. both internal and external, as well as the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutzos Museum and the Renzo Piano For this first year, we want to thank all of you who, by Building Workshop for our cooperation in organizing two being present and engaged on a daily basis, have made wonderful exhibitions at SNFCC’s Lighthouse during the last this space truly yours. year, and the Regeneration & Progress NGO for supporting Within these 12 months, we welcomed almost 1.5 million our sports, entertainment and wellness programs. visitors who came to explore the new facilities of the Finally, we thank all our partners for helping us keep Greek National Opera, the National Library of Greece SNFCC clean, safe and accessible. and the Stavros Niarchos Park, as well as to participate in our more than 2,500 open events: sports, music, art, Together, throughout this year, we experienced workshops for children and adults. meaningful and fun moments every single day – personal and collective experiences that prove that the Stavros We would like to thank the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is a destination for its exclusive grant, which makes these thousands of for culture, entertainment and learning for all without open and free events possible. discrimination; and most importantly, it is an open, common space. Twelve months of continuous operation. Thousands of moments. Millions of new friends. The first year was only the beginning. Every day, we continue to create new moments, new experiences waiting for you. Again and again. 2 August at SNFCC In August, the last month of summer, the Stavros Niarchos Summer means open-air cinema, and the Park Your Cinema Foundation Cultural Center celebrates one year since it screening series pays tribute to the heritage of French opened its doors and invites everyone in the city to take cinema, showcasing some of its most seminal films signed a break, enjoying music, sports, film screenings and by legendary directors, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Francois creative workshops. Truffaut, Louis Malle and Jacques Tati. Moreover, Park Your Cinema Kids awaits our little guests with big-screen surprises! Summer nights see us out and about, and music pours out of every SNFCC area. In August, Microclimata -the music As always, popular outdoor activities, including sailing, event series inaugurated in May- culminates in a concert by kayaking, family-friendly games, air hoop dance, and much Vasilis Dokakis at the Labyrinth. Each of these past months, more await us at various SNFCC locations, while we can also a different artist at an unexpected SNFCC spot evoked a enjoy the new food and beverage spots that opened in June. distinct auditory microclimate. Once again, admission to all SNFCC sports, educational Two favorite music series return at the height of the summer: and cultural events is free of charge thanks to the exclusive Jazz Chronicles presents the Christos Rafalides Trio: Near & grant of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, offering visitors Dear, taking us on a journey through the sounds of this free from Greece and all around the world the opportunity to be music language, while on August 26 at the Great Lawn, the actively involved in our daily activity. SNFCC once again welcomes the Parklife concert series, with favorite tunes from popular musicals performed by the Athens State Orchestra at the Stavros Niarchos Park! 2 3 Focus: Labyrinth August in the Labyrinth The labyrinth as a design motif is a symbol of unity During the last month of the summer, you can refresh body and convergence to a central focal point. Dating from and mind with Yoga (page 19, 24) and Tai-Chi classes 1500 BC, the earliest mention was found on a clay slab (page 27), and enjoy the magic of sound and image in the discovered near Knossos; in mythology, Ariadne helped Microclimata 4 installation on 25/08 (pages 8-9). Theseus by giving him a ball of thread to help him find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. Did you know that… The SNFCC Labyrinth is an integral part of the Stavros • This year's Summer Nostos Festival at the Labyrinth Niarchos Park. Planted with grass and surrounded by featured performances by the award-winning olive trees, it is a lush, peaceful circular area, where choreographer Elizabeth Streb’s STREB EXTREME visitors arrive following the Western Walks. These natural ACTION dance company, and Garry Kasparov qualities, enhanced by its location in a relatively isolated, confronted young chess players in a simultaneous elevated part of the Park, make for an ideal setting for chess exhibition? escaping from the rush of everyday life. Unlike the three- dimensional labyrinths aimed at disorientation, in SNFCC’s • The labyrinth has been used as a motif for public and one-dimensional labyrinth there is only one trail, leading dancing ceremonies in Greece and appears on ancient to its center. The Labyrinth invites visitors to walk on it and Greek coins? spend some time in serene reflection. • Many hospitals have outdoor labyrinths so that patients can find peace and tranquility walking them? 4 5 Christos Rafalides Trio: Near & Dear Wednesday 02/08 Christos Rafalides studied classical percussion in Greece 21.00 and jazz vibraphone performance in Boston and New PANORAMIC York. He is the founder of Manhattan Vibes, a band with Jazz STEPS numerous appearances in prestigious New York venues, such as the Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Smoke Jazz Club, and Dizzy's Club Coca Cola. Chronicles He has appeared with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), featuring Wynton Marsalis, and has toured with the A tribute to the contemporary Greek jazz scene, Charles Mingus Epitaph band, featuring bassist Christian the Jazz Chronicles series returns to SNFCC, showcasing McBride and conductor Gunther Schuller. He has also different manifestations of this free music language in participated in recordings with Harmonie Ensemble/New Greece, proposing old and new sounds – funk beats and York and played on Chaka Khan’s Christmas single. standards, instrumental and vocal ensembles. With bassist Gianluca Renzi from Italy and drummer Mauricio Zotarreli from Brazil, they formed the Christos Rafalides Trio. At SNFCC, they are presenting their latest project, Near & Dear, featuring standards from the Great American Songbook, as well as Rafalides’ own compositions, proposing a prismatic musical experience combining lyricism, passion, expertise and virtuosity. Visitors are advised to bring with them mosquito repellent. 6 7 Microclimata 4 Microclimata Vasilis Dokakis In August, Microclimata, the music event series inaugurated Friday 25/08 On Friday 25 August, Vasilis Dokakis brings this summer’s in May, comes full circle. Each month, ambient sounds and 21.30 Microclimata to completion, presenting a circular sound lighting by different artists evoke specific moods, creating LABYRINTH and light installation at SNFCC’s Labyrinth. Mainly using audiovisual microclimates at an unpredictable SNFCC 4 a virtual modular synthesizer that he has designed and location. developed over many years, he conjures an open-ended ‘healing music environment’ specifically adapted to the site Concept, design: Yannis Iassonidis of the Labyrinth. Lighting design: Stella Kaltsou Vasilis Dokakis Vasilis Dokakis is a self-taught music composer and producer. An active member of No Clear Mind, Fleeting Sun and The Running Blue Orchestra, he tours with Theodore and has signed productions including Nalyssa Green, Melentini, and Leon of Athens. Visitors are advised to bring with them mosquito repellent. 8 9 Parklife: Musical in the Park Athens State Orchestra A series of concerts at Stavros Niarchos Park Saturday 26/08 The Athens State Orchestra is the oldest orchestral music 20.30 ensemble in Greece and a leading symphonic orchestra SNFCC once again welcomes Parklife, the series of GREAT LAWN with a broad range of activities. Especially for the concert concerts at Stavros Niarchos Park, inviting the audience 1 at the Great Lawn, the Orchestra will be directed by to a unique experience where music animates nature, distinguished Greek conductor Vladimiros Symeonidis, and nature enhances music. featuring the young and talented Vassia Zacharopoulou and Spyros Klissas in covers of classics, such as The Music Back to the city with a unique concert by the Athens of the Night and I Could Have Danced All Night. State Orchestra: Favorite melodies from popular musicals will pour out of Stavros Niarchos Park! Songs from West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, South Pacific and Girl Crazy by composers such as Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Andrew Lloyd Webber will enchant young and old in a concert you can enjoy lying down on the grass. Visitors are advised to bring with them mosquito repellent. 10 11 Park Your Cinema: Τhe French Connection Before the popularity (or not) of the easily digestible French comedies flooding open-air summer cinema theatres in Greece in recent years, film buffs of earlier decades enjoyed (often in annually repeated screenings) some of French cinema’s classic masterpieces. In a tribute to those times and to the French cinematic tradition, Park Your Cinema showcases some of the films that left their mark on French filmic language, signed by legendary directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Louis Malle and Jacques Tati.
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