We suggest interesting ones free walks for her Tuesday, April 23, in various events, meetings and visual events, held in the city by cultural organizations, well-known galleries and institutions.
THE April 23 has been established internationally by UNESCO as World Book Day, dedicated to two great creators of world literature who “departed” on the same day (April 23, 1616) from life, the William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Starting from 2016, the Greek Book Association also established April 23 as Book Day in Greece, with central message “read & change”.
Here are some opportunities to be entertained today (4/23) with free admission.
Free walk with reference book
For the planning of the coming weekend, Book Day for 2024 will be celebrated on April 27, a Saturday. On this day will be organized the Book Walk in Athens and in every city that will participate through its library and/or one or more bookstores and publishing houses that will want to host events related to the book.
Through this walk, readers will have the opportunity to attend interesting events, meet favorite authors, participate in events, feel a different experience from their contact with the book and above all… find each other. For more information browse all the events at greekbookday.gr.
Regardless of the “celebration” of book day, Tuesday, April 23 at 18:00 the IANOS Culture Chain and Psychogios publications are organizing a presentation of the new book by Maria Panagopoulos, entitled “The Widow of Lake Blend”. Excerpts from the book will be read by actress Eleni Karakassi, while soloist Zoe Teganouria will play a traditional Slovenian polka on the accordion and a song she composed especially for the book.
At the event, a video of a trek to Lake Bled, signed by Kostas Hardavellas, will be shown. The event will take place at IANOS in Athens, Stadium 24 and will be broadcast live on the IANOS YouTube channel and Facebook page.
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Free Festival of Volunteering “Voluntary Action” 2024
For the seventh time, skywalker.gr – Work in Greece organizes the Voluntary Action Festival at the Old Railway Station O.SY. on 23, 24 and 25 April 2024 (Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 April 10:00-22:00, Thursday 25 April 10:00-17:00).
The festival will be a natural meeting place for Non-Governmental Organizations, volunteers and citizens in a celebration of giving, cooperation and gratitude.
The purpose of the festival again this year is the convergence of the volunteering ecosystem and the promotion of the production of social goods in today’s Greece. More at voluntaryaction.gr.
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Free art walk in the Blender Gallery
The Blender Gallery presents the new solo exhibition of Konstantinos Patsios entitled ‘My father had a big nose’, Objects and toys from an aggressive childhood, curated by Christina Dougeropoulou.
In his new solo exhibition, the artist forms a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art that includes wall works, sculptures, videos and NFTs. Patsios enriches the painting process with the techniques of collage and decollage, creating a palimpsest of symbols and images that connect the adult world with the child’s, the microcosm with the collective unconscious. In his sculptures, complex ready mades, a sarcastic mood dominates, sometimes autobiographical, describing the relationship with the natural but also with the heavenly father.
Patsios’ collages are diaries of everyday life, but also of another, internal, unexperienced one. Newspapers, posters, tickets, old photos, turn into something new. Following his need to connect with the great tradition of painting, he succeeds in marrying incompatible images and inviting the viewer into a strange, socio-political association. The aim of his work, as the artist himself states, is the transformation of an image, in which all the conflicting and inappropriate parts of the human condition will harmoniously coexist.
At the same time, the project – a 100% silk scarf, of the artist’s collaboration with the Greek brand Mantility, specially designed for his solo exhibition – will be presented.
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Free photo exhibition
Blank Wall Gallery presents works by Vangelis Vasalakis, in his solo exhibition entitled “People” curated by him. The artist himself writes about his work: “In the daily flow of life, we meet people in various situations – times – moods.
Some of them, unwittingly, spark my curiosity to observe them more, to reflect on their existence, on where they might be coming from and where they might be going, on how they exist – on what their modus operandi is their. The presences of these people act as little ephemeral enigmas, which challenge me to imagine what entities they are, what they do in their lives beyond the space-time point where I have met them..”
Vangelis Vasalakis was born in Athens in 1969 and this year, in 2024, he turns 41 in the field of photography. He has many years of teaching experience in photography schools, private companies, foreign government agencies and commercial organizations, as well as individual professionals and artists. For the last three decades he has been involved in advertising photography. He was the editor of well-known photography magazines and for many years a partner of the Nikon, Fujifilm and Olympus companies in Greece.
