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4th International Science Film Festival, Athens, 4-31 May 2009
The International Science Film Festival gathers up to date and high ranking productions from all over the world for the fourth successive year.
CAID –Societas, Scientia et Ars, founder and organiser of the festival – in an attempt to reach an even wider audience, presents more films this year than ever before, in five different locations in Athens and changes its structure, bringing science closer to more people.
The whole idea of the International Science Film Festival is to put scientists and scientific productions in contact with the public. It's not about educating the public; it's about giving people access to a side of science and research that they're not normally given access to.
 Benaki Museum: “From the land of the Golden Fleece: Treasures of Ancient Colchis”
An impressive exhibition aiming to highlight the strong cultural ties that linked Ancient Greece with Colchis, (in the west of present day Republic of Georgia) is being presented at the Benaki Museum.
“From the land of the Golden Fleece :Treasures of Ancient Colchis” attempts to acquaint the Greek public with the East, introducing the civilisation that developed on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea from the 5th to the 2nd century B.C.
The exhibition, which showcases 140 works belonging to the National Museum of Georgia, in Tbilisi, has already been shown in major museums in Europe and the United States. The display runs from January 20 to April 6.
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 49th International Thessaloniki Film Festival - 14 - 23 November 2008
 The 49th International Thessaloniki Film Festival opens its doors on November 14 2008. This year’s Festival features 230 films representing 55 countries, including two world premieres, six international premieres and three European ones.
The Golden and Silver Alexanders, as well as a number of additional prizes, will be awarded during the Festival. Oliver Stone, Emir Kusturica, Takeshi Kitano, Theo Angelopoulos and Willem Dafoe will be among the guests to attend the 49th Thessaloniki Film Festival, while the various juries of the Festival consist of well-known personalities from all over the world.
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 The city of Athens has launched two modern, stylish and functional english-lagnuage web portals:
Breathtaking Athens (www.breathtakingathens.com) is geared towards a wide user audience and potential visitors to the city, providing comprehensive information on accomodation, transport, entertainment and sightseeing, as well as features such as an interactive map, athens in 3 days, athens top-10, etc.
acb (www.athensconventionbureau.gr) is aimed at the professional market for business and conference tourism.
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 "Josef Koudelka Retrospective" is the exhibion held at Athens' Benaki Museum from September 18 to November 23.This retrospective presents all the stages and themes of his creative output over 40 years in photography. In 1968 Koudelka witnessed and chronicled the Soviet invasion of Prague and the crushing of the Czech resistance. He was later forced to flee the country; now he lives in France. His pictures of the events became dramatic international symbols (though he published them anonymously at first), helping him to win the esteemed Robert Capa Gold Medal. The exhibition is one of a series of events organised by the French Presidency of the European Union, organised in cooperation with the Magnum and Apeiron photo agencies.
Josef Koudelka at Wikipedia
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 The 37th Book Festival opened its doors on Friday September 12 at the Dionisiou Areopagitou pedestrian street, under the Acropolis. The book festival is organised by the Association of Book Publishers under the aegis of the City of Athens. More that 50,000 titles representing 300 publishers will be exhibited at the 228 pavilions of the exhibition.
This year's festival is dedicated to inter-cultural dialogue. Several foreign embassies in Athens are contributing to the cultural program, which is being coordinated by the Danish Embassy. Every evening there will be literary events - readings and discussions highlighting the work of writers from Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Norway, Poland and Denmark. The 37th Book Festival will last until September 28.
Book festival begins Friday (ANA, 12.09.08)
Cross-cultural dialogue is focus of book festival starting tomorrow (eKathimerini, 11.09.08)
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 The 73rd Thessaloniki International Trade Fair took place at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre, HELEXPO, on September 6-14. The event is the largest trade fair in Southeast Europe, featuring exhibitors from 32 countries. SGC-SGI set up and operated the Press Center of the Trade Fair. in 2008 the Honored Country was Italy, while the main thematic was the Environment. During the Fair the Prime Minister gives his annual address at the Opening Ceremony. Events at the Fair included an Urban Street Festival and the Fashion Forward Exhibition.
73rd Thessaloniki International Trade Fair
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 Greece’s most high-profile dance event, the Kalamata International Dance Festival, organised by the city of Kalamata and considered one of the leading dance events in the Mediterranean, is scheduled to take place from July 18 to 27. Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, enfant terrible of the London scene, opens the festival. Other important performances include South African Gregory Maqoma, Chinese Ushio Amagatsu, and British choreographer-dancer Jonathan Burrows.
For more info on events in Greece for the summer of 2008 see the Greek News Agenda Special Issue
www.kalamatadancefestival.gr
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 The Athens and Epidaurus Festival, one of Europe's largest summer festivals and a favorite among audiences and critics alike, is underway. The Festival runs from June until August, taking place in several venues: The ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, new venues Peiraios 260 and Scholeion, as well as the mobile "Caravan Theatre" which takes the Festival to the streets.
The Festival higlights the work of young artists, presents contemporary trends in dance, music and theatre and aims to fall in line with the major European festivals of this kind, a purpose well achived, as last year's Festival was described as "A vibrant arts experience" by the New York Times.
www.greekfestival.gr
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 Ninety works from the famous Costakis Collection are displayed in the Museum of Cycladic Art from 14 May to 20 October 2008. The exhibition is entitled Five Seasons of the Russian Avant-garde and includes some of the most significant works of the collection by artists such as Malevich, Popva, Tatlin, Rochenko, Nikritin, Lissitzky, representing all the groups and movements of the Russian avant-guard (1900s-1930s).
www.cycladic.gr
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 From 14 to 18 of May 200 composers, performers, video artists & sonic artists come together at Art Factory in Athens for ElectroMediaWorks '08 Festival. The main aim of this festival is to get contemporary Greek artists in touch with recent international developments in the fields and to combine the academic research with the alternative music scene.
www.emw.gr
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 Τhe Athens Summit on Climate Change and Energy Security will strive to demonstrate that Climate Protection and Energy are not contradictory or separate objectives. Its purpose is to bring together the energy and environmental communities in order to forge a common understanding of the challenges facing the Mediterranean region's sustainable development, as well as to provide a unique networking opportunity for all interested parties (5-7 May 2008).
www.athens-summit.com
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 The PhotoBiennale/ 20th International Photography Meeting, organised by the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography has grown into a varied event consisting of multiple exhibitions and parallel festivities. A true festival on photography, it introduces some of the most renown international names to the Greek public (April - May 2008).
www.photobiennale.gr
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 The Athens Video Art Festival 08 will be held on April 11-13, at the Technopolis of Athens. The event, already celebrating its fourth birthday, aims at the support of digital culture and the promotion of this modern and innovative form of expression. Furthermore, it gives the artists additional motives to create and a platform to share their artistic vision with the public.
www.athensvideoartfestival.gr
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- Greeka.com, a company licensed by the Greek National Tourism Organization, is rated as the most popular website dedicated to Greece and the Greek Islands. Greeka.com is a comprehensive guide offering information and advice on destinations (things to see and to do) and travel services (accommodations bookings, transfers, car rentals, ferry tickets, island hopping packages) in Greece.
www.greeka.com
- Greek News Agenda - 2008 Events in Greece: A Mini Guide: Always admired for its history, cultural heritage and beautiful landscape, Greece is now respected for the whole spectrum of its comparative advantages. A variety of exhibitions, conferences, business fairs, cultural events and research colloquiums are taking place throughout the country on a yearly basis.
This special issue of Greek News Agenda presents a selection of such events during 2008.
- Invest in Greece Agency is Greece's official Investment Promotion Agency that offers assistance, analysis, advice and aftercare to investors who would like to grow their business in Greece and Southeast Europe. Services include sourcing potential partners for joint ventures and strategic alliances, supporting investors during implementation stages, and providing assistance to secure licenses.
www.investingreece.gov.gr
- Wine Roads of Northern Greece is a tourism programme that grew out of the joint efforts of the members of the Wine Producers Association of the Northern Greece Vineyard, with support from the European Union Leader II Initiative. Through this programme, visitors discover and explore the lush vine-growing areas of nothern Greece and engage in local cultural activities. As well as wineries, the programme includes selected hotels, restaurants and producers of local products.
www.wineroads.gr
- Since 1983, the primary objective of ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, has been to protect the sea turtles and their habitats in Greece through monitoring and research, developing and implementing management plans, habitat restoration, raising public awareness and rehabilitating sick and injured turtles. ARCHELON works closely with state agencies, the local authorities, institutions, other NGOs, fishermen and local inhabitants in order to mitigate and reverse population reduction of sea turtles.
www.archelon.gr
- The 7th Ecocinema International Film Festival will take place in Piraeus between 21-27 February, at Atticon and Cineak cinemas, both located at the Town Hall Square. The films cover a wide range of vital issues the world is facing today - man and the environment, globalization, societies in crisis, and war – and the creative ways that people have found to deal with them. This year the festival pays tribute to the French pioneer of scientific film, Jean Painlevé (1902-1989). Also, in collaboration with SOS Live Earth, the campaign against climate change, Ecocinema Film Festival shall host the SOS Short Films Program.
www.ecocinema.gr
- Synch Festival, the electronic music, moving image and new media Festival that has been taking place in Athens since 2004, has activated "Synch On Line events", a series of "live on demand " events, including live and dj sets from Synch 2007, as well as a "podcast" section where users can subscribe or download Label showcases, Artist's exclusive live and dj sets & music from the Synch office in Athens.
www.synch.gr
- Dimitris Papaioannou’s ground-breaking creative direction of the Athens Olympics 2004 Opening Ceremony - hailed a "triumph" by Time magazine and The Times of London - is widely considered a high-water mark for large scale spectacle. Co-founder of Edafos Dance Theatre in 1986, he conceived, directed and choreographed all of the company's productions. Papaioannou’s work is presented on his new website at:
www.dimitrispapaioannou.com
- Hearts in Athens 2008, a massive outdoor art exhibition will grace the city of Athens. Starting Monday, 21 of January, 115 hearts/ works of art will be displayed around Athens: painters, sculptors, graffiti artists, architects and fashion designers have contributed by creating their own heart. After the end of the exhibition, the hearts will be sold at auction, with a significant part of the proceeds being donated to the charity "Together for Children".
www.heartsinathens.gr
- According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Report 2007/8, published on November 27, Greece ranks 24th in the world, thus maintaining the exact same position as in last years' respective report.
The report's Human Development Index (HDI) ranks 177 countries according to their levels of human development. The HDI is a composite index, gauging countries’ average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development: life expectancy at birth, adult literacy and school enrolment, and GDP per capita.
hdr.undp.org
UNDP Human Development Report: Greece - Data; Greece - Fact sheet
- The International Hellenic University, based in Thessaloniki, is Greece's public university where teaching will be exclusively in English. On offer, are undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from three faculties: Economics & Business Administration, Humanities, and Science & Technology, while an Executive MBA programme starts on February 2008.
Set to become one of Europe's foremost research institutions, it is focused on attracting leading academics and outstanding students from Southeast Europe and across the world
www.ihu.edu.gr
View the special GNA issue on Studying in Greece
- The Hellenic Institute in Venice covers a wide range of research topics, relating in particular to the period of Venetian rule. The Greek areas under Venetian rule (13th - 18th century) became a crossroads where Byzantine humanist thinking was able to come in daring contact with the movements in Renaissance Europe.
www.istitutoellenico.org
- The Brigde is a quarterly publication about successful business ventures of Greek origin that are being established in the Balkans area, as well as in South-Eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean. The Bridge presents both the limits and the prospects of bilateral initiatives that can lead in the consolidation of multiple and interrelated communal interest
www.bridge-mag.com/magazine
ENERGY 2008 – PHOTOVOLTAIC 2008, 20-23 November 2008
From September 19 to 21 the island of Syros will be the home of the First International Animation Festival in Greece "
