NEWSLETTER 05 | 2019 EVENTS IN MAY Athens, „Reigen“ by Arthur Schnitzler at the Municipal Theater of Piraeus, from 3rd May The Municipal Theater of Piraeus presents the stage play "Reigen" by Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Thomas Moschopoulos. Ten people meet in pairs and conduct ten dialogues. As a structural principle Schnitzler uses the dance form of Reigen, in which a figure always joins hands with a new figure for the next scene. WHERE and WHEN: At the Municipal Theater of Piraeus (32 Leof. Ir. Politechniou, 185 35 Piraeus). On Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 20:30, On Saturdays at 18.00 @Municipal Theater of Piraeus and 21.00 and on Sundays at 19.00. Newsletter May 2019 Athens, Calliope on Tour meets Tricky Women: “Women and Culture - An Austrian-Greek perspective”, B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music Athens, 10th May On the occasion of the 100th introduction of women's suffrage in Austria, the Austrian Embassy Athens in cooperation with the "European Union of Women", Greek section, organizes an event on the topic of women and culture on 10th May at 18:30 at B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music Athens. During the event the "Tricky Women" film series will be shown and an Austrian expert from the Institute of History (University of Vienna) Prof. Dr. med. Brigitta Bader-Zaar will deliver a speech on the historical perspective of women rights. The event will be held in cooperation with the European Union of Women. Greek participants will be Prof. Giouli Rapti and Pepi Mavroudi. Athens, Festivities on the occasion of Europe Day, 11th May On 9th May every year the European Union celebrates Europe Day. The day is dedicated to peace and unity in Europe. The day refers to the speech of the then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman on 9th May, 1950. His vision: A new form of political cooperation in Europe - a collaboration that should make war between European nations unimaginable. This speech is considered as the starting point of European integration. For this reason, around 9th May Europe will be the focus of attention in all EU member states. In Athens, festivities will be held in the garden at Zappeion on Saturday, 11th May. The ÖSD Institute Greece and the Austrian Embassy will be present, representing Austria. Newsletter May 2019 Thessaloniki, Opening of the Austrian-Greek Music Summer, 13th May This year's opening concert of the Austrian-Greek Music Summer will take place on 13th May at 19.00 in the auditorium of Aristotle University. The Austrian conductor Karolos Trikolidis, who founded the Neo Odeio 40 years ago, will conduct the first performance of C. Saint Saëns - Messe de Requiem in Greece at this jubilee concert. The concert is a collaboration with "Giannis Mantakas" choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki, more particularly with music graduates of Neo Odeio Thessaloniki. INFORMATION: www.neo-odeio.gr 2310277251, 2310281100 The program of the whole Austrian-Greek Music Summer 2019 can be found here (German) or here (Greek). @ Karolos Trikolidis Athens, LATRA, „CUT THROUGH THE NOISE“ LATRA is a socially-innovative non-profit agency, enabling Cultural and Creative Industries to respond at the frontlines of global humanitarian, environmental and societal challenges. LATRA’s vision is to BUILD THE WORLD BETTER, by empowering marginalized communities to utilize culture in addressing the adversities they face, and build a future society which is inclusive, adaptive and resilient. For its practice in Greece, LATRA was awarded the Intercultural Achievement Recognition Award by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2018), won the International Newsletter May 2019 UNCOVER Design Prize (2018), and first place in the Global Be.Creative Competition (2017). LATRA is a member of the global UNICEF Design Pool, and has produced projects in Greece, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South Africa & Qatar. Projects are financed by the European Commission, European Cultural Foundation, European Union National Institutes of Culture, Creative Industries Fund in the Netherlands and Nordic Council of Ministers amongst others. CUT THROUGH THE NOISE, is a series of 7 diverse cultural events taking place in 3 locations across Greece (Athens, Lesvos, Ioannina), during the week of the European Elections (20-26 May). The aim is to use culture as a driving force, to reach out to a wide segment of voters during the EU elections, with a particular focus on underrepresented and undervoiced groups, communities and individuals. Further information: https://www.latra.gr Athens, Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin with concertmaster Rainer Honeck at Megaro Mousikis, 20th May On 20th May at 20.30 the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin with the Austrian concertmaster Rainer Honeck and the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will perform a concert at Megaro Mousikis. Program: - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211 Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, ‘Strassburg’ Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, ‘Turkish’ Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Κ. 16 Information and tickets: http://www.megaron.gr/default.asp?la=2&pid= 5&evID=4234 @ Rainer Honeck Newsletter May 2019 Athens / Preveza: JAZZ CONCERTS „Month of Sundays“, 30th and 31st May Within the framework of the Austrian-Greek Music Summer 2019, the Jazz Quartet "Month of Sundays" will perform on 30th May at 22:00 at Technopolis Jazz Festival (100 Peiraios, 118 54 Gazi, Athens) and on 31st May at 21:00 at Preveza Jazz Festival (Ethinikis Antistasis 121, 48100 Preveza). The ensemble, founded in 2013 and based in Vienna, perform minimal @Alexander Mairhofer music, post-rock and decelerated jazz. Alexander Kranabetter, Philipp Harnisch, Ivo Fina and Johannes Wakolbinger create perfectly balanced instrumental music at the interface of acoustic and electronic sound aesthetics. In the spring of 2015 the quartet released its debut album and was pleased to receive many positive press reviews. This was followed by invitations to well-known festivals, including the Jazz Fest Wien, the Jazz and the City Festival in Salzburg and the Jazz-November Bayreuth. They joined the finals of the BAWAG Next Generation Awards in Vienna's Porgy & Bess and performed numerous concerts in Austria and abroad. The highlight of the concerts abroad were shows at the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City. The quartet was selected for the two-year young talents promotion program New Austrian Sound of Music 2018 – 2019. Further information: 2130109300, www.technopolisjazzfestival.com (Athens), 6937/414233 and http://prevezajazzfestival.wixsite.com/(Preveza). Newsletter May 2019 Athens, Maerzbuehne – “Walking in Athens for Bauhaus”, 30th & 31st May and 1st June The new production of the MAERZBUEHNE is Walking in Athens for Bauhaus. Performances will take place on 30th and 31st May, as well as 1st June 2019. More information will be available from 15th May on the following homepage: www.maerzbuehne.eu Democracy Award 2019, Margaretha Lupac Foundation’s call for submission of applications – Application deadline: 15th June The Austrian Embassy Athens informs that the Austrian Parliament’s non-profit organisation Margaretha Lupac Foundation has invited to apply for the 2019 Democracy Award. The call is addressed to persons and institutions that stand for extraordinary civil society commitments to democracy and parliamentarism in Austria. Applications should be sent electronically to the jury of the Margaretha Lupac Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, E-Mail: [email protected]. Both personal applications and submissions for other candidates are allowed. Applications are submitted electronically and are possible up to and including 15th June 2019. Further information about the call for submission of applications as well as the documents can be found at www.lupacstiftung.at or may be requested at [email protected]. Newsletter May 2019 International Composition Competition "Sound of Children´s Rights" - Submission deadline: 15th July, 2019 On the occasion of this year's 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Section V - Families and Youth in cooperation with the University of Music and Performing Arts - mdw and UNICEF Austria organizes the International Composition Competition "Sounds of Childrens Rights". The invitation to this competition is aimed at young composers and musicians who are willing to deal with the topic of children's rights in a musical form. Eligible for participation are young people from all nations with a later date of birth than the 15th of July, 2001. The deadline for participation in the competition is 15th July, 2019! Website: https://www.kinderrechte.gv.at/ APRIL REVIEW Athens, Morning meeting with ND-MP Giorgos Koumoutsakos, 2nd April During the meeting between ND- Shadow Foreign Minister and MP George Koumoutsakos and Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm on 2nd April a broad range of issues, including the European elections and the future of the EU, the regional developments in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean and the relations between Austria and Greece were discussed. © Austrian Embassy Athens Newsletter May 2019 Ioannina, Courtesy visits of Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm, 4th April © Austrian Embassy Athens © Austrian Embassy Athens On 4 April Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm, accompanied by Ms. Maria Maroussi (Austrian Embassy Athens), traveled to Ioannina for a courtesy visit. She had talks i.a. with the Governor of the Epirus Region Alexandros Kachrimanis, the Mayor of Ioannina Thomas Begas, the Protosyncellus of the Metropolis of Ioannina Archimandrite Thomas Andreou, the Newsletter May 2019 President of the Jewish Community Prof. Moses Elisaf and the Director General of Police Konstantinos Skoumas (in the order of the photos). Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm was impressed by the beauty of the city and thanked for the warm welcome and the interesting exchange of views with her interlocutors.