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Cultural Events

The Athens Centre hosts cultural events and activities year-round at its Athens facilities, on the island of Spetses and other venues.

Activities include guest lectures , exhibits and theatre performances.

Guest Lecture:

Ira Kaliampetsos
Repatriation, Restitution or Return? Legal aspects of the return of cultural objects.

Thursday September 16th

7.00 pm

Ira Kaliampetsos works and lives in Athens. Since graduating in law from the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum in Germany in 1992, she has worked both in law and in international development cooperation. Her work experience includes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Hellenic Aid) and the European Commission (Ankara Delegation). She is a founding member and director of the Hellenic Society for Law and Archaeology, an association established in 2006 which deals with antiquities law and all legal aspects of archaeology (www.law-archaeology.gr ). She is also a founding member of the Hellenic Wildlife Care Association (ANIMA www.wild-anima.gr ).

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Reading by Noted Authors

SOFKA ZINOVIEFF & PAUL JOHNSTON

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Thursday, June 17

7:00pm

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

Paul Johnston was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1957. His father Ronald was a successful thriller writer. He studied ancient and modern Greek at the University of Oxford, then added an M.Phil in comparative literature. He worked for shipping companies in London and Belgium and moved to Greece in 1987, working on a newspaper, in shipping and then teaching English. His daughter Silje was born in 1988. He started writing seriously in 1989 when he went to live on the small Aegean island of Antiparos. Paul returned to Edinburgh to do another master's degree in 1995 and then started studying for a doctorate. He remarried in 2005, his wife Roula is a Greek civil servant. Their daughter Maggie was born in Athens in January 2006, their son Alexander in January 2008. Paul has come through (touch wood) two unconnected bouts of cancer in the last five years and underwent chemotherapy until November 2008. That hasn't stopped him from writing or from studying for a PhD in creative writing. He still divides his time between Athens and the UK. He has completed the third novel in the Matt Wells series, entitled Maps of Hell.

Sofka Zinovieff was born in London and studied social anthropology at Cambridge. She came to Greece to carry out research for a PhD thesis on modern Greek identity and tourism and stayed for several years in Nafplio in the late 1980s. In the 1990s she lived in Moscow, London and Rome and worked as a freelance journalist for British newspapers and magazines such as The Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement and The Independent. Her first book, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens, was one of the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books” of 2005. Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life, came out in 2007 and has been translated into 10 different languages. Last year it was chosen as one of the Observer’s Best Paperbacks of the Year. Sofka is married and has two teenage daughters and has lived in Athens since 2001.

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AN EVENING OF

ALBANIAN POETRY AND MUSIC

· Contemporary Poetry/ Lecture and Reading: Ermir Nika

· Presentation of Gjergj Fishta, “Albanian Homer”: Leonardo Voci

· Guitar: Eno Kalo

· Photographic documents of Albanian culture and history from the National Picture Library “Marubi”

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Tuesday, June 22

7:30pm

In Collaboration with the Embassy of Albania

Curated by Floriana Odhise Paskali, Cultural Counsellor

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

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Guest Lecture

Former U.S. Diplomat and Economic Counselor Alec Mally

will lecture about

“Current Greek Economic Issues –

How we got there”

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Friday, May 21

7:00pm

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

Alec Mally, an Athens Centre alumnus, is currently Executive Director for Global Economic Affairs at Foresight Strategy and Communications, a local consulting firm, as well as at a local think tank, the Institute for Regional Dialogue and Strategy (IPEDIS). He is currently Vice-chair of Democrats Abroad Greece and a board member of a Greek NGO overseeing de-mining work in the Balkans. Prior to moving back to Greece, he was a career Foreign Service Officer for 27 years, with a range of assignments in Greek and Balkan affairs. He served as Consul General in Thessaloniki and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Office in Pristina, Kosovo. Stateside, he served as Economic Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and also as the State Department’s Senior Desk Officer for Greece. Previously, he worked in the Political and then the Economic Sections of the U.S. Embassy in Athens from 1995-99. Mr. Mally had earlier assignments in Romania, Poland and the Philippines, focusing primarily on economic affairs.

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“Yiannis Tsarouchis

among Modernist Poets and Painters”

by Stavros Deligiorgis

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Thursday, May 6

7:00pm

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

Stavros Deligiorgis, University of Iowa professor emeritus, educated in Bucharest, Romania and Athens, Greece, specialized in English and American Literature (M.A., Yale University); Comparative Literature (Classics, Old and Middle English: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Deligiorgis has taught at several U. S. and European universities. His work includes books and articles in literary theory and translation, performance and intermedia collaborations with Greek and American video and installation artists. Books by Stavros Deligiorgis:

Narrative Intellection in Boccaccio's Decameron, Iowa City: Iowa Univ. Press, 1975; URMUZ: Romanian modernist (Dum. D. Dumitrescu-Buzau, 1883-1923), Bucharest: Cartea Romaneasca (Romanian Writers Union), 1985 (a bilingual edition); Halo: Romanian Poems by Paul Celan, Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Coffee House Press, 1991 (A handmade book. Illustrations by Jeffrey Scherer); Thanassis Valtinos, Deep Blue Almost Black: Selected Fiction, transl. from Greek by Jane Assimakopoulos and Stavros Deligiorgis, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1997 (Hardbound). Paperback, February 2000. Tsarouchis in Hindsight, Athens, Greece: American College of Greece, Rare Books Library Publication No. 9, 1999, Matthew Jennett, ed.; in folder with title below: Kimon Friar and the Graphic Arts: A Catalogue of the Kimon Friar Collection at the American College of Greece, Athens, Greece: American College of Greece, Rare Books Library Publication No. 10, 1999. Thanassis Valtinos, Data from the Decade of the Sixties, transl. from Greek by Jane Assimakopoulos and Stavros Deligiorgis, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2000.

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The director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens

Jack Davis

will talk about

The Palace of Nestor of Pylos

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Thursday, April 15

7:00pm

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

Jack L. Davis has directed archaeological regional studies projects on the island of Keos, in the Nemea Valley, and in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Messenia. He participated in the publication of excavations on Keos and on Melos and, as an authority in the archaeology of the Aegean islands, is author of "Review of Aegean Prehistory: The Islands of the Aegean", Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston: Archaeological Institute of America) 19-94 and to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Other research interests include the history and archaeology of Ottoman and early modern Greece, and the history of Classical archaeology, in particular its relationship to nationalist movements in the Balkans. Currently Davis is directing regional studies and excavations in Albania, in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Durrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia, and is also engaged in a project to publish unpublished finds from Blegen's excavations at the Palace of Nestor.

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St. Patrick’s Day celebrating

Ireland’s National Day

with

♣ IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC,

SONG & POETRY ♫

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Saturday, March 13

7:30pm

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

Guitar: Betrus Boteas

Fiddle: Elli Costelatou & Ilias Gystonikolos

Flute: Allan Massey

Pipes: Scot Mavroudis

Voice/percussion: Peter O’Leary

Guitar: Fran O’Rourke

Electrical Piano: George Tsekouras

♣ In cooperation with and sponsored by the Irish Embassy, the Irish Insitute of Hellenic Studies, The Greek-Irish Society ♣

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POETRY READING

Adrianne Kalfopoulou & Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Wednesday, February 24

7:00pm

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

Adrianne Kalfopoulou lives and teaches in Athens, Greece where she is currently on the faculty of Hellenic American University. She has taught in the Scottish Universities' International Summer Schools Program at the University of Edinburgh, and various creative writing workshops in Greece. Her scholarly work has focused on Nineteenth and Twentieth-century American literature, particularly the contributions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. She is currently completing a collection of stories, and is at work on a monograph of Sylvia Plath's poems. An American poet, repatriated in the land of her ancestors, Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a consummate storyteller and poet, in whose books the history and lives of the people of Greece and its islands are honestly, memorably, and lovingly portrayed.

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens, Greece. She studied foreign languages and literature at the universities of Athens, Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerland), where she was graduated in 1962. She has received Ford Foundation Grants (1972 and 1975), was invited to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in the United States (1980-1981), during which time she lectured on Modern Greek Poetry and Nikos Kazantzakis at Harvard. She has subsequently lectured on other dimensions of modern poetry and given public reading of her poetry in English and in Greek in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. She won the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things on Their Own.

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“Intercultural Dialogue with Yvette Jarvis:

An African-American in Greece”

Lecture and discussion with Yvette Jarvis

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Wednesday, January 27

7:00pm

Yvette Jarvis, a 1979 magna cum laude graduate of Boston University, came to Greece in 1982 as an accomplished basketball player, to play for Panathinaikos. She became the first African American to play in the Greek Women's Basketball League, while also being the first salaried female athlete in the league. She is the first African-American elected to public office in Greece in October 2002. An elected city councilwoman in Athens, Jarvis is a former professional athlete, model and actress. She is also a strong supporter of human rights, those particularly of Greece's women, children, immigrants, and the disabled. One of Jarvis' political accomplishments includes the establishment of a national toll free hotline for victims of domestic violence in April 2003.

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The Ambassador of Ireland Mr. Antόin Mac Unfraidh invites

POETRY EVENING

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Monday, November 16

7:30pm

Theo Dorgan

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 2107232771/2.

THEO DORGAN is a poet, prose writer, editor, scriptwriter, translator and sailor. His new collection, GREEK, draws on many decades of visiting Greece, which he considers his second home. It deals with the impact of classical and contemporary Greece on a sensibility firmly grounded in the Irish tradition. Mr Dorgan is a former Director of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, and he has worked extensively as a broadcaster of literary programmes on both radio and television. His prose book, SAILING FOR HOME, an account of a transatlantic voyage under sail, was praised by Nobel laureate Doris Lessing as "a book for everyone". His libretto JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, to music by Howard Goodall, was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 2005. His poetry collections include The Ordinary House of Love (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Rosa Mundi(Salmon Poetry, 1995); and Sappho’s Daughter (Dublin, wave Train Press 1998). He has also published a selected poems in Italian, La Case ai Margini del Mundo, (Faenza, Moby Dick, 1999), and a Spanish translation of Sappho’s Daughter La Hija de Safo, (Madrid, Poesía Hiperión, 2001). “The blend of street-warrior and muse poet is extraordinarily appealing… His is an Irish urban voice which can reach far into Russia as well as into the enchanted garden of Sufi love” —John Montague

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"Through the Greek Political Jungle with Trowel and Camera"

Lecture by Brady Kiesling

At the Athens Centre

Archimidous 48, Pangrati (Mets)

Thursday, November 12

7:00pm

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 210-7015242 or 210-7012268.

John Brady Kiesling was a U.S. diplomat for twenty years, with service in Israel, Morocco, Armenia, and Greece. He resigned as a public protest against Bush administration policies in February 2003. He holds a master’s degree in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archeology from the University of California at Berkeley, spent a year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and has taken part in archaeological excavations in Ancient Nemea (Greece), Aphrodisias (Turkey), Armenia, and Mallorca, Spain. Kiesling lives in Plaka with his partner Regina Tassitano. He is a columnist on political topics, and the author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower (Potomac Books 2006, Greek edition Livanis 2008). He is completing a book on the 17 November terrorist group. He has a grown daughter Lydia now living in Pittsburgh.

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POETRY EVENING

At the Athens Centre

Wednesday, September 23

7:00pm

Sofka Zinovieff

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

Sofka Zinovieff was born in London and studied social anthropology at Cambridge. She came to Greece to carry out research for a PhD thesis on modern Greek identity and tourism and stayed for several years in Nafplio in the late 1980s. In the 1990s she lived in Moscow, London and Rome and worked as a freelance journalist for British newspapers and magazines such as The Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement and The Independent. Her first book, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens, was one of the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books” of 2005. Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life, came out in 2007 and has been translated into 10 different languages. Last year it was chosen as one of the Observer’s Best Paperbacks of the Year. Sofka is married and has two teenage daughters and has lived in Athens since 2001.

POETRY EVENING

At the Athens Centre

Monday, September 28

7:00pm

Toi Dericotte

Wine and conversation follows the event.

The reading is free and open to the public.

Toi Derricotte was born in Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1941. She earned her B.A. in special education from Wayne State University and her M.A. in English literature from New York University. Her books of poetry include Tender (1997) which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize; Captivity (1989); Natural Birth (1983); and The Empress of the Death House (1978). She is also the author of a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W.W. Norton, 1997), which won the 1998 Annisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction. Together with Cornelius Eady, she co-founded Cave Canem, a workshop retreat for black poets, in 1996. About her work, the poet Sharon Olds has said, "Toi Derricotte's poems show us our underlife, tender and dreadful. And they are vibrant poems, poems in the voice of the living creature, the one who escaped—and paused, and turned back, and saw, and cried out. This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today." Her honors include the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes, the Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Guggenheim, and the Maryland State Arts Council. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

Poetry Readings on the Island of Spetses

Friday June 19, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Thursday June 25,AE Stallings, Sofka Zinovieff

July 1: Tony Barnstone, Roger Green

July 3: participant reading (Location: Villa Alexia in Kounoupitsa area )

A. E. Stallings http://www.geocities.com/aestallings

All readings take place at 8pm, at the Bouboulina Museum , unless otherwise indicated. All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and conversation follows the events. For more information, please call 210.701.5242 /210.701.2268 , or 6976160133

Summer 2009 Spetses Literary Evenings:

Reader Biographies

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, born in Athens, is one of Greece’s foremost poets and a distinguished translator. She studied Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Nice, Athens and Geneva, and after graduating from Geneva in 1962 was awarded that city’s First Prize for Poetry. She has read poetry and lectured at major universities and literary festivals in the USA, Canada, Mexico and across Europe. In 1985 she was awarded the Greek State Award for Poetry. Her latest book is Translating into Love Life’s End, translated by herself.

Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College and has a Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature from UC Berkeley. His books of poems include The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008, winner, Benjamin Saltman Award)[ Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); and Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone (University Press of Florida, 1998), in addition to the chapbook Naked Magic (Main Street Rag). He is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose and an editor of literary textbooks. His books in these areas include Chinese Erotic Poetry (Everyman, 2007); The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor, 2005); Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan, 1993); Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei (UP of New England, 1991); The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala, 1996); and the textbooks Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Literatures of Asia, and Literatures of the Middle East (all from Prentice Hall Publishers). He is the recipient of many national poetry prizes and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. Recently, he won the grand prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in Ireland.

Roger Green is an English poet living on the Greek island of Hydra. Among his publications are several books of poetry, including With It or On It (2000). His translation of the Akathistos Hymn by Romanos the Melodist was published in 1987. His recent book, Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen (Basic Books), is a “fantastically discursive ode to obsession and myth, relayed in a series of digressions that prove far more illuminating-and life-affirming-than the facts laid bare.” He has also published a new collection, The Pyrofani Poems.

Adrianne Kalfopoulou lives in Athens where she teaches literature at the Hellenic American University. She also teaches in the Scottish Universities Summer Schools Program at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include a poetry collection, Wild Greens, and a critical study, The Untidy House, a discussion of women's subversive discourses in American literature. Her memoir, Broken Greek: a Language to Belong, is available from Plain View Press, and can be ordered at www.plainviewpress.net. Her second collection, Passion Maps, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2009, a Pavement Saw chapbook contest finalist, "The Ways We Do" will be also be published in 2009.

Alicia (A.E.) Stallings is an American poet who has lived in Greece since 1999. Her first collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her second collection, Hapax, received the 2008 Poets’ Prize. She was also recently awarded the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her new verse translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things, is out from Penguin Classics, and she has received an NEA translation grant for work on the Erotokritos. She is director of the Poetry Writing Workshop organized by the Athens Centre on the island of Spetses each summer.

Sofka Zinovieff was born in England and is of Russian extraction. She studied anthropology at Cambridge; then, after spells living in Russia and Italy, settled with her family in Greece, an experience which she describes in her first, highly acclaimed book, Eurydice Street (Granta Books). Her latest book is Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life.

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The Sudden Death of Everyone

A Solo performance in English
by Catherine Rogers

May 22, 7.30 pm

Catherine Rogers appears with the assistance of a 2008-2009 Fulbright Award

Long before terrorism became a daily headline, a young Catholic girl in upstate New York battled her own private terrors: Dante's Inferno, The Red Scare, high school love, the AIDS crisis and her first Argentine Tango lesson scheduled for September 11, 2001

Archimidous 48, Mets

Tel 201 7012268

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Guest Speaker:

Dr. Phil Stanley, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University

October 22

Apollo vs Dionysus The Rational and Irrational in Greek Myths

November 19

Persephone in Hades: Plants and Death

Phil Stanley is a Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at San Francisco State University , where he taught in the Department of Classics for over twenty years. During that time he worked as an academic director in several overseas study programs and tours, i.a. in Athens and London. Having done profound studies in Ancient Greek history and mythology, he won numerous awards and grants. He has travelled extensively throughout Europe and parts of the Near East and spends half of the year in his house in Athens.

8.00 pm

Archimidous 48, Mets

Alan Ansen Memorial Poetry Evening

Wednesday November 14, 8.00 pm

Alicia Stallings

Katerina Angelaki - Rouke

Iliana Sakeliou

Wine Reception After the Reading

Archimidous 48

Main Hall

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POETRY EVENING

Wednesday, October 17, A reading in English by Irish poet

MICHAEL HIGGINS

Wine reception after the reading. Meet the poet,

talk to him about his work.

Archimidous 48

Mets

Michael Higgins: One of Ireland ’s best-known politicians, Michael Higgins is the president

of the Irish of the Irish Labour Party, and member of Parliament for Galway West.

He was Minsiter of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993-97, and served as

Mayor of Galway on twice. Michael Higgins has campaigned for human rights in

many parts of the world, including Turkey , Western Sahara , Chile , Palestine , Peru

, Iraq and East Timor . In recognition of his work for peace with justice he was the

first recipient of the Sean MacBride Peace Prize, awarded in 1992 by the

International Peace Bureau in Helsinki .

He has written extensively, and is the author of three books of poetry.

In 2006 a selection of his academic, political and journalistic writing, Causes for Concern,

was published by the Liberties Press, Dublin , Ireland .

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The Athens Centre invites you to the talk

“Creating Health Through Feminine Wisdom”

by Rebecca Elia, MD

on Friday, September 28 at 7:00p.m.

· Dr. Rebecca Elia is a practicing Gynecologist in California with over twenty years experience including a past practice with renowned holistic Gynecologist Christiane Northrup. Rebecca has travelled to Greece annually for eighteen years. Using both her Greek and American experiences she will discuss how imbalances of feminine and masculine principles affect our health. She believes that “through recognizing and listening to the unique cycles and hormonal transitions of our body, we are able to gain accurate and clear information in creating health. By honoring the feminine principles, we are able to create healthier lives."

Informal reception will follow

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Theatre Festival 2007

Classic Theatre Company University of Detroit Mercy July 2007

A special Rock Musical version version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, directed by Arthur Beer

The plays will be performed in the Anargyrios Amphitheatre on the island of Spetses,
and in the open air theatre of the American College of Greece. ( Gravias 6, Aghia Paraskevi)

Dates:
Spetses, Anargyrios Amphitheater: July 6

Athens, Open - air Amphitheatre , The American College of Greece Gravias 6 Agia Paraskevi July 12

Invitations can be obtained by calling the Athens Centre at: 210 7012268
or by e mail at: athenscr@ath.forthnet.gr

Show times 9.15 pm

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Theatre Production:

The Women of Troy

Theatre Company of the New World School of the Arts

Adaptation by Kenneth McLeish
Directed by Andrew Noble

Dates/Venues:

Friday, May 25th : Nea Makri on Zouberi Beach
Sunday, May 27th: Spetses, Anargyrios Amphitheatre
Thursday May 31st: Athens, The Athens Centre Courtyard

All shows start at 9.00pm.
The production is in English

Information and invitations: 210 7012 268

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Guest Lecture

April 17, 2007

7.30 pm

Robert Price Memorial Lecture

Guy Sanders

Resident Director of Corinth Excavations, ASCSA (from 1.7.1997)

A Dorian Perspective on Chthonic Gods: the evidence for Dionysus and Helen at Sparta and for Kotyto at Corinth

Admissison Free

Reception Follows

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The Poetic World of Alan Ansen

Athens , Auden and the Beats

Feb 22, 2007 8.00 pm

The Athens Centre

Archimidous 48

Mets, 8.00 pm

Readers will include:

Yannis Zervos

Alicia Stallings

Matthew Jenette

Jonathan Sim

Alan Ansen

Το Αθηναϊκό Κέντρο θα τιμήσει τη μνήμη του Αμερικανού ποιητή Alan Ansen, επί χρόνια φίλου και συνεργάτη του Κέντρου, με μια ποιητική βραδιά, την Πέμπτη 22 Φεβρουαρίου.

Η βραδιά με τίτλο «Alan Ansen: ένας Αμερικανός ποιητής στην Αθήνα» θα ξεκινήσει στις 7:45μμ, στο Αθηναϊκό Κέντρο, στην οδό Αρχιμήδους 48 στο Μετζ. Μια πληθώρα ομιλητών θα μιλήσει για το έργο του Ansen και την συνεισφορά του στην μοντέρνα ποίηση· θα γίνουν αναγνώσεις έργων του, απομνημονευμάτων του, καθώς και εκθέματα των βιβλίων του Ansen και του ευρύ κύκλου των φίλων του. Η βραδιά είναι ανοικτή για το κοινό. Θα ακολουθήσει δεξίωση.

ALAN ANSEN was born in New York , educated at Harvard, and traveled extensively in the U.S. and in Europe . He was secretary to W. H. Auden for seven years in New York , and was an intimate friend of the Beat poets andwriters, including Alan Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and others. He died in Athens in November, 2006.

EVENING OF POETRY

At the Athens Centre

48 Archimidous Street Mets, Athens

Thursday, January 18, 2007 19:30

Alicia Stallings and Adrianne Kalfopouliou will read from their books of poetry.

A reception follows the reading....meet the poets and enjoy a glass of wine.

ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU has taught American Literature in Athens at several colleges. She has had award-winning poems in Nimrod, The Atlanta Review, and Whisky Island Magazine. Her book of poetry, Wild Greens, was a 1999 finalist for the Red Hen Press first book award. She also has a book of criticism published by the Mellen Press. Her memoir, Broken Greek, a Language to Belong, was recently published by Plain View Press. Adrianne participates each summer as a guest reader in the Athens Centre’s Poetry Seminar in Spetses.

ALICIA STALLINGS is an American poet who has been living in Athens for several years. Her first collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her work has also received a Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Teitjens and Frederick Brock Prizes from Poetry magazine, and the James Dickey Prize from Five Points. She recently published a second collection, Hapax. She is Dlirector of the Poetry Writing Workshop organized by the Athens Centre on the island of Spetses each summer.

Organized by the Athens Centre.

Information: 210 7015242, 210 7012268.

ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗ ΒΡΑΔΙΑ

στο Athens Centre

Αρχιμήδους 48, Μετς, Αθήνα

Πέμπτη, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2007, 19:30΄

Οι ποιητές Alicia Stallings – kai Adrianne Kalfopoulou θα διαβάσουν έργα από τις ποιητικές τους συλλογές.

Μετά την ανάγνωση θα ακολουθήσει δεξίωση και θα δοθεί η ευκαιρία να συναντήσετε τους ποιητές και να μιλήσετε μαζί τους.

Οργάνωση: Αθηναικό Κέντρο Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού.

Τηλέφωνα επικοινωνίας: 210 7015242, 210 7012268.

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EVENING OF POETRY

AND SHORT STORIES

At the Athens Centre

on Tuesday, October 10, 7:30pm
48 Archimidous Street, Metz, Athens

American poet Marilyn Stablein will read from her books of poetry and short stories.

A reception follows the reading....meet the poet and enjoy a glass of wine.

Students and friends of the Centre are welcome to attend.

Marilyn Stablein received her BA from the University of Washington, and her MA from the University of Houston . She has traveled and lived in India , Tibet and Nepal , where she stayed for some time in caves in the Himalayas and where she studied Buddhist teachings.

Her many published poems, stories, essays and travel writings include Night Travels to Tibet; The Census Taker: Tales of a Traveler in India and Nepal; Sleeping in Caves: a Sixties Himalayan Memoir. Her poems and stories have been published in numerous periodicals, anthologies and reviews. She received awards in the Southwest Writers contest, was an exchange artist in Belfast , Ireland , and received an SOS artist grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. She was twice a resident writer at the Yaddo Centre in Saratoga Springs , NY , received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was winner of a University of Houston Cullen Fellowship .

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Poetry Events on the Island of Spetses

Reading Schedule 2006

Wednesday, 21st June: Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke & Stephanos Papadopoulos

Friday, 23rd June: Nick Papandreou

Monday, 26th June: David Mason & Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Wednesday, 28th June: Becky Sakellariou, Christopher & Kelly Bakken

Friday, 30th June: Jeffrey McDaniel

Monday, 3rd July: Aliki Barnstone & Alan Michael Parker

Wednesday, 5th July: Tony Barnstone & Alicia Stallings

Readings take place at Villa Alexia in Kounoupitsa at 8.00 pm

Poetry Bios

Aliki Barnstone was educated at Brown University (B.A. and M.A.) and at the
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.). Her volume of poems, The Real
Tin Flower, introduced by Anne Sexton (Macmillan), was published when she
was twelve years old. Her volumes of poetry include Blue Earth (Iris,
2004), and Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002). She has a new translation of
Cavafy out from Norton. She teaches at the University of Nevada at Las
Vegas.

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and
most recently The Splinter Factory. His poems have appeared in dozens of
periodicals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Ploughshares,
New (American) Poets, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He is a
recipient of grants from the NEA and the DC Commission for the Arts. He
teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Alan Michael Parker is the author of a novel, Cry Uncle, and three books of
poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, and Love Song with Motor Vehicles. He
is also editor of The Imaginary Poets, co-editor of The Routledge Anthology
of Cross-Gendered Verse, and Editor for North America of Who's Who in 20th
Century World Poetry. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships
from the Arts and Science Council, the Eastern Frontier Society, the
MacDowell Colony, and the Seaside Institute, Alan Michael Parker teaches at
Davidson College, where he is Director of Creative Writing, and at Queens
University, where he is a Core Faculty member in the low-residency M.F.A.
program.

Nick Papandreou has published a novel called Father Dancing with Penguin UK (1996). In the United States it appeared under the St Martins/Picador imprint (1998) and was shortlisted for the 1999 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Stories and essays have appeared such journals as The Threepenny Review, Agni, Quarterly West, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, as well as in Canadian journals such as Quarry and Wascana Review, and in Greek journals - LEXI, Nea Poreia, Entefktirion, and elsewhere. His third book is KLEPTOMNEMON. He lives in Greece.

Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in North Carolina and raised in Paris and Athens. Educated in the US and Edinburgh, he holds a degree in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poetry has been published in major periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic, and attracted the attention of Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott, who invited him to attend the Rat Island Foundation’s first program on St. Lucia. Lost Days, his first collection, is published by Leviathan in London and Rattapallax Press in New York.

Becky Denison Sakellariou was born and raised in New England, but has lived all her adult life in Greece. She has raised a family and worked inpublishing, teaching, and counseling; she is also a feminist, an advocate for cross-cultural awareness, and a peace activist. She enjoys her plot of land in Euboia, which is filled with fig, olive, pomegranate, apricot, lemon eucalyputs, almond, mulberry, orange, cherry, and apple trees.

A.E. (Alicia) Stallings is a widely-published, award-winning American poet residing in Greece. Her work has twice been included in the Best American Poetry series (1994, 2000), and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her collection, Archaic Smile, won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poetry appears in many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Five Points, Hudson Review, New Criterion, Poetry, the Yale Review, and Poetry Daily (www.poems.com). She has a verse translation of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura forthcoming from Penguin Classics.

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Theatre Festival 2006

Classic Theatre Company University of Detroit Mercy June/July 2006

The Classic Theatre Company of the University of Detroit will present
two plays in June/July 2006 in cooperation with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece

A special version of Euripides' Hippolytus, directed by Arthur Beer and a musical based on Aristophanes' Frogs ,directed by Mary Bremer.

The plays will be performed in the Anargyrios Amphitheatre on the island of Spetses,
in the Ancient Theatre of Argos and in the open air theatre of the American College of Greece. ( Gravias 6, Aghia Paraskevi)

Dates:
Spetses, Anargyrios Amphitheater: July 6 and 7 ( Frogs,Hippolytus, )
Argos, Ancient Theatre: July 9 and 10 ( Hippolytus, Frogs)
Athens, July 13 and 14 Frogs,Hippolytus,)

Invitations can be obtained by calling the Athens Centre at: 210 7012268
or by e mail at: athenscr@ath.forthnet.gr

Show times 9.15 pm

University of Florida, School of Theater and Dance, June 2006

Lysistrata , a special version, by Ranjit Bolt directed by Judith Williams

Argos, Ancient Theatre, June 22
Spetses : Amphitheatre, Anargyrios Foundation, June 24
Athens: Open air theatre American College of Greece, June 27
( Gravias 6 Agia Paraskevi)

Show times 9.15 pm

Invitations can be obtained by calling the Athens Centre at: 210 7012268
or by e mail at: athenscr@ath.forthnet.gr

( not suitable for children)

Poetry Reading

April 13, 7.30 p.m.

American poet Craig Arnold

Craig Arnold's book Shells was the 1998 volume
of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems have
featured in three volumes of Best American Poetry
(1998, 2004 and 2006) and widely elsewhere. Among his
honors are an NEA Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry
Traveling Scholarship, the Hodder Fellowship from
Princeton, and a residency at MacDowell. Most
recently, he was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize
Fellowship by the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. He teaches poetry at the University of
Wyoming.

The Athens Centre, Archimidous 48, Mets
Reception follows
Entrance free

April 14, 7.30 p.m.

Antartica- The Ends of the Earth

An Evening of Slides from a Journey by:

DEREK MONTGOMERY

The Athens Centre, Archimidous 48, Mets
Entrance free

The Athens Centre invites you to a friday night showing of

"The Unspoken"

A 25 minute documentary film portraying the struggles of Kosovan women in the face of war and oppressive traditions and their fight for redemption in post-war Kosovo.

Friday, October 14th, 18:00

The Athens Centre, 48 Archimidous Street, Mets.

A short introduction by Filmmaker, Cloee Cooper, at 17:30.

Discussion will follow.

Filmed, edited and directed by Antoneta Kastrati, Cloee Cooper & Sevdije Kastrati in 2002, The Unspoken has been circulated throughout the Balkans and Europe even stretching to the middle east including: The National Cinema of Prishtina - Kosovo, Radio Television Kosovo, The Bahai World Center in Haifa, Israel, Womens gatherings in Germany, Stage Door of Mt. Shasta, California and has been included in film festivals throughout the Balkans.

The Unspoken was fully supported by:

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) - Kosovo, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - Kosovo, and Kosova Women´s Network (KWN)

May 24, 2004, 7.30. pm

Guest Lecture

Dr. John Anton

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The Athens Centre

Invites you to the

Robert Price Memorial Lecture

by

Professor John P.Anton

entitled

The Special World of Cavafy's Poetry:From Symbol to Reality

Monday,May 24,2004,7.30 p.m.

Reception will follow

Archimidous 48,Mets

116 36 Athens

Tel.(+30)210 7012-268

John Anton is a well-known professor of philosophy, and a founding member of the Modern Greek Studies Association. Educated at Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D., he went on to teach in the philosophy departments of colleges and universities such as Columbia, Emory, SUNY Buffalo, and Mills College. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Greek Philosophy and Culture at the University of South Florida, where he is also the Director of the Center for Greek Studies. Dr. Anton received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Athens, and will also receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Patras in May. Among his many academic honors, Dr. Anton is a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens and of the Parnassus Literary Society, and an honorary member of the Hellenic Society for Philosophical Studies. He has been named Outstanding Educator of America, has received awards for professional excellence from the University of South Florida, and the Papazoglou Award for Literature. In addition to hundreds of published articles and monographs, Dr. Anton is the author/editor of many books, including Aristotle's Theory of Contrariety, Critical Humanism as a Philosophy of Culture, The Poetry and Poetics of Constantine Cavafy, and Categories and Experience: Essays on Aristotelian Themes.

December 19, 2003

Harpsichord Concert

by Arlys Masson-Gingold

in aid of the Palini Animal Farm.
Date: Friday, Dec. 19
Time: 9:00pm
Ticket donations: 10 Euros
Information: 6937-515-632

October 17, 2003

Poetry Reading: Irish Poet Desmond Egan

In conjunction with the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies

8.00 pm

The Athens Centre, 48 Archimidous Street, Athens

October 1, 2003 7.00 p.m.

An Evening of Madrigals. Heloise Pilkington and her group from London
will sing a selection of English Madrigals.

Leighton House Museum
12, Holland Park Road
London W14

July 2, 2003
8.30 p.m. Athens Centre Courtyard
48 Archimidous Street ,Mets
An Evening of Madrigals. Heloise Pilkington and her group from London
will sing a selection of English Madrigals.

The Bacchae 2001

Monday, June 25th: Keynote poetry reading by Annie Finch, American poet and critic

Past Events

April /May 2001

April 25: 8.30p.m.

Theatre production. Seneca's Trojan Women, Directed by Fred Ahl from Cornell University.

April 27: 7.30p.m.

Poetry Reading. Rebecca Byrkit, Adrianna Kalfopoulou, Alicia Stallings

May 5: 8.30p.m.

Irish-Greek Society talk on Jonathan Swift, by Norman Powers, followed by refreshments and a performance of chamber music.

The above events will take place at the Athens Centre, 48 Archimidous Street, in Mets. Details and reservations at 701-2268. There is no admission charge, but reservations are necessary for the theatre production.

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