Get lost in Athens, Urban Athens Collective
Athens is a city with rich cultural inheritance, a city with a globally unique monument, the Parthenon, a city whose pace in today life is both intense and idle.
Is Athens only that? How can we get to know her better and love her?
Urban Athens is a collective consisting of people whose common characteristic is that they love their city and have deep knowledge of her.
Their vision is to offer their knowledge to those who are really interested in discovering the unknown Athens.
Following their steps, through the ancient roads, you will get to know the contemporary Athens. You will discover the, not so common, but of great historic importance ancient ruins, you will learn all the urban myths, you will visit secret caves and crypts, you will follow the paths of other religions, you will visit the open… museum of the streets, the young inhabitants neighborhoods, the smells, the tastes and the entertainment of a city that you are not afraid to get lost in its streets, a city that for thousand years integrates all the positive elements that people who inhabit her bring with them, no matter how they got here.
The Urban Athens Collective, among others, organizes strolls, for Greeks and foreigners, in order to get a deep knowledge of the city, the life and the history. It also organizes educational tours for groups, students and pupils.
Part of the revenue from the participation are used to support voluntary programs that give prominence to the cultural and architectural inheritance, voluntary groups that support vulnerable sets of the population and many others
Urban Athens Collective
Do you know that we are committed to create a social impact to our life and our city?
Athens is a city with rich cultural inheritance, a city with a globally unique monument, the Parthenon, a city whose pace in today life is both intense and idle.
Is Athens only that? How can we get to know her better and love her?
Urban Athens is a collective consisting of people whose common characteristic is that they love their city and have deep knowledge of her.
Their vision is to offer their knowledge to those who are really interested in discovering the unknown Athens.
Following their steps, through the ancient roads, you will get to know the contemporary Athens. You will discover the, not so common, but of great historic importance ancient ruins, you will learn all the urban myths, you will visit secret caves and crypts, you will follow the paths of other religions, you will visit the open… museum of the streets, the young inhabitants neighborhoods, the smells, the tastes and the entertainment of a city that you are not afraid to get lost in its streets, a city that for thousand years integrates all the positive elements that people who inhabit her bring with them, no matter how they got here.
The Urban Athens Collective, among others, organizes strolls, for Greeks and foreigners, in order to get a deep knowledge of the city, the life and the history. It also organizes educational tours for groups, students and pupils.
Part of the revenue from the participation are used to support voluntary programs that give prominence to the cultural and architectural inheritance, voluntary groups that support vulnerable sets of the population and many others.
Urban Athens Collective on You Tube
Athens is a city with rich cultural inheritance, a city with a globally unique monument, the Parthenon, a city whose pace in today life is both intense and idle.
Is Athens only that? How can we get to know her better and love her?
Urban Athens is a collective consisting of people whose common characteristic is that they love their city and have deep knowledge of her.
Their vision is to offer their knowledge to those who are really interested in discovering the unknown Athens.
Following their steps, through the ancient roads, you will get to know the contemporary Athens. You will discover the, not so common, but of great historic importance ancient ruins, you will learn all the urban myths, you will visit secret caves and crypts, you will follow the paths of other religions, you will visit the open… museum of the streets, the young inhabitants neighborhoods, the smells, the tastes and the entertainment of a city that you are not afraid to get lost in its streets, a city that for thousand years integrates all the positive elements that people who inhabit her bring with them, no matter how they got here.
The Urban Athens Collective, among others, organizes strolls, for Greeks and foreigners, in order to get a deep knowledge of the city, the life and the history. It also organizes educational tours for groups, students and pupils.
Greek primitive music in Athens
What a beautiful and primitiviness feeling! Walking around Acropolis and listening to the same sounds from thousands of years ago peformed during the feasts of Dionysos, the origin of the modern carnival...
The first spring night in Athens
When the millenials meet the tradition
Epiphany a Christian celebration, connected to the ancient Athenian celebration of Plynteria.
The celebration of Epiphany also includes many events which are connected to the ancient Greek customs. Sanctification, in Greece, also has the meaning of the purification of people and the exemption from the influence of demons. The latter concept is not strictly Christian, but has its roots in ancient worship.
Bagpipes (Tsampounes) in Athens March 2016
International day of Bagpipes on Thursday 10th of March. We Joined the greek bagpipes& pipes at Thiseion metro station and head to Philopappos Hill through the pedestrian of Apostolou Pavlou, for a unique feast full of primitive sounds, while the day is leaving...
Oré and DjalouZ in Athens
Souvenir de notre exposition collective They come from the west à Athènes (Grèce) en décembre 2012...
Vidéo about our group show They come from the west in Athens (Greece) in december 2012...
13th Athens International Tattoo Convention
Athens Integral Cooperative: Building Alternative Economies in Greece
[CC] Anti-capitalists in Athens are creating alternatives to capitalism. In the summer of 2017, Unicorn Riot's Niko spoke with Theodore from the Athens Integral Cooperative about the alternative economy they are creating and how it works to integrate individuals, collectives, and social forces, that already make a social economy into a substantial, alternative, and autonomous economy.
Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2017/greece-alternative-economies-community-currencies-part-one-athens-integral/
Other stories from Greece: unicornriot.ninja/2017/greece-alternatives-neoliberal-capitalism-introduction/
Learn how to support our work: unicornriot.ninja/support-our-work/
Athens Video Art Festival 2013 Mural
Athens Video Art Festival 2013 included 3 symbolic actions of artistic interference at the civil area, under the spirit of the motto Living Athens. Particularly, with volunteers and artists' participation, Historic Center's streets were reconstructed, while street art decorated 15 stores.
Being a constant reminder of the upgrade resulting from the voluntary and creative activity of both the current situation dictates, we offered projects that enrich our senses color our lives and by extension our lives. The integration of planning the event held by a large mural that adorns most central building in the historical center of Athens.
The mural on Aghion Asomaton Street (JASON INN HOTEL) was created with the aim to motivate our perception as well as renew part of the Historic Center of Athens. Visual artist, Manolis Anastasakos by creating the artwork entitled «Some color for our city» is interested in triggering viewers and their critical thinking. This time he targets nature implying as tons of ink are wasted on sociopolitical events it would be good to shed a little color in the name of nature.
The artwork consists of a grey non-shaped environment that is colored highlighting the nature hidden in it. Each viewer is invited, through a dialogue with the artwork, to paint his/her own inner natural standard because nature, although forgotten, was, is and will always be the most hearten and the wisest teacher
Keep City Plaza Open. Refugee Hotel Athens
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City Plaza is a refugee accommodation and solidarity space in the heart of Athens, Greece.
What?
Following the closure of the borders when the EU trapped almost 65,000 refugees in Greece, the Greek government created more than 49 detention centers, hotspots and camps. City Plaza offers a safe and dignified alternative to these places where the conditions are wretched, unclean and inhumane.
On the 22nd of April 2016 refugees, volunteers and solidarity activists occupied City Plaza Hotel which had been closed for 7 years.
126 rooms on 7 floors. A reception, bar, dining room, kitchen, storage, play ground, health care center, roof terrace, classroom and library.
City Plaza is supported exclusively through political solidarity and individual donations.
Who?
400 people live together at City Plaza.
The numbers: More than 100 families 165 children, 100 men, 115 women, 35 locals, activists and volunteers.
Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan & Gambia
How?
Self-organisation is at the heart of City Plaza.
The philosophy: We live together. We work together. We struggle together.
The foundations of the day to day running of City Plaza lie in solidarity and collective participation. Refugees, locals, activists and volunteers work together in this way.
Your donation will go towards the essential working groups of City Plaza:
Kitchen
- 3 meals a day for all, that’s 1,200 meals a day
Health Care Center
- Daily appointments with doctors and nurses & coordination with public hospitals, working to resolve refugee-specific health care services
Storage space and distribution of supplies for basic needs
- Everyday the people of City Plaza are given supplies to provide for basic needs (toiletries, washing powder, supplies for babies etc) but supplies are currently low.
Maintenance of the building
- A team of volunteers working for maintenance. City Plaza has not yet had enough funding to provide heating for the building.
Language Classes
- Greek for children, English for adults and children, German for adults and children
YOU CAN HELP
However small or big your donation, every little will help. Everyone at City Plaza thanks you for your kindness and support in helping us to continue to live and work together in our home, to continue to live here in peace, togetherness and solidarity.
This campaign is organised by international volunteers who have spent the last months at City Plaza.
ACTS OF ENGAGEMENT, C.A.S.A. public program at the Athens Biennale AB5to6 OMONOIA
ACTS OF ENGAGEMENT | CYCLE 1, was organised and curated by Contemporary Art Showcase Athens in the context of the Athens Biennale AB5to6 Omonoia
The project results from a ten day collaborative work cycle with the participation of researchers, artists, and curators from 9 countries.
The ACTS OF ENGAGEMENT work cycles aim at setting up a series of encounters between artists, researchers and local collectives from Greece and elsewhere, which aims at collapsing the distance between research and practice. The program focuses on cultivating a discoursive environment, providing a collaborative platform for research, and in-situ project develoment, as responses to specific sites or contexts, set within the frame of the public sphere in Athens. Through 10 day production cycles, the program aims to foster collaborative working, synergy, participatory methodologies and dialogue. The participating research-based projects converge around the topics of social engagement and experimentation on collective working methodologies, while broadening the scope of engagement, collaboration and exchange between local and visiting artists, local independent collectives, organisations and networks that engage with the public sphere in multiple ways, and the broader public.
Establishing a temporary collaborative base at the Bagkeion on Omonoia square, and pening up to models of direct public participation, through interventions, performance, ephemeral installations, cartography and participatory actions, the participants engage with the public sphere in the center of Athens, for the development and the materialisation of artistic projects, while exploring alternative environments for artistic production. Through their activities, the area of Omonoia square and the surrounding areas, are responded to reflexively as a field of conflicts and negations, within which their work is embodied and performed.
ACTS OF ENGAGEMENT | CYCLE 1. in September takes place with the collaboration of err* collective, from Master of Arts In the Public Sphere (MAPS), École Cantonal d’Art du Valais (ECAV), Switzerland. *err was formed while many of it's memners were completing a Master degree at Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais (ECAV) in the program Master of Art in the Public Sphere (MAPS). Others have completed independent study programs at Ashkal Alwan, others still have received Master degrees in the Critical Cross-Cultural Cybermedia (CCC) program at the Haute Ecole d’Art et Design (HEAD) in Geneva. Together they are a group of writers, thinkers, artists and curators, all deeply concerned with engaging social issues through creative practices.
Participants:
Nikos Stathopoulos, Anna Papathanasiou, Thodoris Trambas, Thomas Diafas, Emilia Bouriti, Vilelmini Andrioti, Javier Gonzalez Pesce, Madeleine Dymond, Andreas Papamichail, Camille Kaiser, Erika Pirl, Alexandros Kyriakatos, Erasmia Tsipra, James Simbouras, Yiannis Antoniou, Camilla Paolino, David Esteban Romero Torres, David Gregory Rees-Thomas, Eleni Zervou, Orestis Karalis, Efthymia Athanasodimitropoulou, Margarita Amorova, Nuno Kassola
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STREET ART IN EXARCHIA - Movie-doc, Greece [EN SUBS/FULL MOVIE/HD]
For a form of art so misunderstood as street art, it is only natural to find roof within a neighborhood equally - for many people- misunderstood. A lively area, constantly alerted and restless, mysterious and colorful. Exarchia, located in the centre of Athens. In this film we collect moments of the urban scenery of Exarchia and the culture behind it. Exarchia's walls and streets, interviews with art specialists, residents of Exarchia and of course street artists who talk with us about this subculture and controversial subject. A long but fast movie (42 minutes), dressed with underground greek music, which apart from the presentation of the participants' opinion, is an archive (2013-2015) of beautiful, ugly, imaginative and politically oriented graffiti in Exarchia. Freedom of speech or vandalism?
Direction: George Fiorakis
Editing: Alexander Haritakis
Graphics: Afroditi Bitzouni- Indivisuals Design Collective
Music selection: Manolis Fiorakis
Proofreading: Lila Tzamousi, Nana Kanakaki
English subs: Dimitra Fasfali
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Contact for press realease & photos: info@inexarchia.gr
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Music - underground greek scene
Acid Baby Jesus-tomboy
The Last Drive - the bad roads, killhead therapy
Deus eΧ Μachina-execute
Drog_A_Τek-territorial pissings
Dtaeys/ ft.Eni D - Μια παλιά φωτογραφία
FFC - πάρε λίγο φως
Fundracar - της γης τα τέρατα, είναι πολλές φορές, άνθρωπε
Κακό Συναπάντημα - απαγορεύεσαι
John Melik - blue flee
Monovine - jesus son
Soul Resistance - θέλω να μιλήσω, αφορμές
The Spaceguest - space kid
Tango with Lions-right from the start
Three Way Plane-let's pretend you don't exist
Vodka Juniors - king of the street, bong, rise up
Greek Photo Enthusiasts - Street/ Urban Photography
Ακούγοντας Smokie και What can I do, έπαιξα :) με τις φωτογραφίες μας από την κατηγορία Street/ Urban Photography και δημιούργησα αυτό το βιντεάκι με τη βοήθεια του Proshow Blue.
Farida El-Gazzar, Glory, Kalfayan galleries, Athens
Kalfayan Galleries (11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki, Athens) present the solo show of the Greek-Egyptian artist Farida El Gazzar titled ‘Glory’. The opening will be held on Thursday, 21 January 2016, 20.00 – 22.00.
The works featured in the solo show of Farida El Gazzar are a visual journal in which the artist attempts to convey the sublime character of her birthplace, Alexandria, where Greek and Egyptian cultures have co-existed for centuries. It is a special journal in which personal memories, family photographs and photographs taken of her trips to Alexandria are imprinted on paper from a clearly idiosyncratic point of view. With bold colors or with monochromatic pencil drawings, Farida El Gazzar traces the charm of the past, the beauty that is concealed in scenes of everyday life, in human interaction, in the partial details of an image that are captured by the camera lens or through memory.
Through a multifaceted and often painstaking process merging the past with the present, reality with the ideal image of the city, and driven by an inner need to preserve cultural aspects that are fading, Farida El Gazzar pays homage to the features which, for her, shape the contemporary identity not only of Alexandria but of Egypt as well. The transformation of the landscape through successive rows of uniform red brick building complexes, the details of a plant in her grandmother’s apartment, a policeman standing guard at a hotel, four small trees in a park that are painted with the colors of the Egyptian flag after the fall of Mubarak’s regime, details of antique furniture in her aunt’s home, the Art Deco entrance of a house where a friend of hers lives, these are some of the “banal”, as she describes them, elements and objects that catch her attention and become the protagonists in her works.
Aside from the interlacing of collective and personal memory, the artist examines social and cultural identity through the multifaceted architectural character of the city. In the “Vitrines” series, particular emphasis is given to the window displays of old shops – such as those selling clothing or shoes – in the center of the city. In an urban landscape that is constantly changing, these small shops survive, preserving their special character. This idea of “resistance” is found throughout the work of Farida El Gazzar. A different portrayal of the meaning of timelessness is present in the paintings and gold, which she uses successfully in order to emphasize the earth colors of the landscape, the light, dust and sand. At the same time, gold is used allegorically to symbolize power and glory, with which El Gazzar clothes the landscapes and scenes of daily life in the cities. There is also a strong element of kitsch. Often, with a strong sense of irony, the artist lends a monumental character to common small objects by depicting them outside of their natural environment, against a gold background.
The portrait of urban life that is depicted in the works of Farida El Gazzar, with a particular commitment as an alter ego, is at the same time an x-ray of the human condition where solemnity goes hand in hand with lightness and glory co-exists with kitsch.
From Athens to WallSt vimeo 360p
From Athens to Wall Street: Reflections on Occupy Movements in Greece and the U.S.
March 19, 2012
The CUNY Graduate Center
A discussion on the past, present and future of uprisings and occupy movements in Athens and New York City.
With Special Guests:
Dimitris Dalakoglou is co-editor of the book Revolt and Crisis in Greece, and a member of the Occupied London Collective. He works as a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex (UK).
Manissa McCleave Maharawal is a writer, activist and a doctoral student in the anthropology department at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been involved with and written extensively about the Occupy movement since it started.
Isham Christie is a student at the CUNY Graduate Center studying critical social theory, philosophy, and film. He has been involved with Occupy Wall Street since before the occupation began, in a range of working groups.
ZEKTCLCTV // URBAN PLAYGROUNDS
Over the past few months, ZEKTCLCTV have been exploring and documenting some of Europe's eerily beautiful decaying and dilapidated structures and spaces.
Enjoy these clips taken from abandoned theme parks, derelict monuments and neglected buildings from Germany to Bulgaria.
Track: Felix Bernhardt - Da Mi Basia Mille (Wahrlich & Carbon Hollow Remix) [Der Hut]
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What is MYCENAEAN GREECE? What doe MYCENAEAN GREECE mean? MYCENAEAN GREECE meaning & explanation
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Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under license.
Mycenaean Greece (or Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece (c. 1600–1100 BC). It represents the first advanced civilization in mainland Greece, with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art and writing system. Among the centers of power that emerged, the most notable were those of Pylos, Tiryns, Midea in the Peloponnese, Orchomenos, Thebes, Athens in Central Greece and Iolcos in Thessaly. The most prominent site was Mycenae, in Argolid, to which the culture of this era owes its name. Mycenaean and Mycenaean-influenced settlements also appeared in Epirus, Macedonia, on islands in the Aegean Sea, on the coast of Asia Minor, the Levant, Cyprus and Italy.
The Mycenaean Greeks introduced several innovations in the fields of engineering, architecture and military infrastructure, while trade over vast areas of the Mediterranean was essential for the Mycenaean economy. Their syllabic script, the Linear B, offers the first written records of the Greek language and their religion already included several deities that can also be found in the Olympic Pantheon. Mycenaean Greece was dominated by a warrior elite society and consisted of a network of palace states that developed rigid hierarchical, political, social and economic systems. At the head of this society was the king, known as wanax.
Mycenaean Greece perished with the collapse of Bronze Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean, to be followed by the so-called Greek Dark Ages, a recordless transitional period leading to Archaic Greece where significant shifts occurred from palace-centralized to de-centralized forms of socio-economic organization (including the extensive use of iron). Various theories have been proposed for the end of this civilization, among them the Dorian invasion or activities connected to the “Sea Peoples”. Additional theories such as natural disasters and climatic changes have been also suggested. The Mycenaean period became the historical setting of much ancient Greek literature and mythology, including the Trojan Epic Cycle.
The Bronze Age in mainland Greece is generally termed as the Helladic period by modern archaeologists, after Hellas, the Greek name for Greece. This period is divided into three subperiods: The Early Helladic (EH) period (c. 2900–2000 BC) was a time of prosperity with the use of metals and a growth in technology, economy and social organization. The Middle Helladic (MH) period (ca. 2000–1650 BC) faced a slower pace of development, as well as the evolution of megaron-type cist graves. Finally, the Late Helladic (LH) period (c. 1650–1050 BC) roughly coincides with Mycenaean Greece.
The Late Helladic period is further divided into LHI and LHII, both of which coincide with the early period of Mycenaean Greece (c. 1650–1425 BC), and LHIII (c. 1425–1050 BC), the period of expansion, decline and collapse of the Mycenaean civilization. The transition period from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in Greece is known as Sub-Mycenaean (c. 1050–1000 BC).
The decipherment of the Mycenaean Linear B script, a writing system adapted for the use of the Greek language of the Late Bronze Age, demonstrated the continuity of Greek speech from the 2nd millennium BC into the 8th century BC when a new script emerged. Moreover, it revealed that the bearers of Mycenaean culture were ethnically connected with the populations that resided in the Greek peninsula after the end of this cultural period. Various collective terms for the inhabitants of Mycenaean Greece were used by Homer in his 8th century BC epic, the Iliad, in reference to the Trojan War. The latter was supposed to have happened in the late 13th – early 12th century BC, when a coalition of small Greek states under the king of Mycenae, besieged the walled city of Troy. Homer used the ethnonyms Achaeans, Danaans and Argives, to refer to the besiegers. These names appear to have passed down from the time they were in use to the time when Homer applied them as collective terms in his Iliad. There is an isolated reference to a-ka-wi-ja-de in the Linear B records in Knossos, Crete dated to c. 1400 BC, which most probably refers to a Mycenaean (Achaean) state on the Greek mainland.
Refugees living on the streets of Thessaloniki
Paul Carr the founder of Collective Calling, visits an abandoned building in Thessaloniki to asses needs and finds the conditions that the refugees are enduring their, shocking.
Collective Calling are providing emergency aid to various sites across N Greece including refugees living on the streets.
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