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The 7th COSMOPOLIS Festival
decided to experiment in all its actions. It made innovations suggested
by its audience, and their success proved that this communication was to
bring about only good results. There were changes in the use of space,
more stages, new activities, new sounds were tested and discussed. New
ideas were brought up to discussion. More and more ideas… and all of
them were appreciated. The aim remains the same: each year we all
together make a celebration which gets bigger and bigger year by year,
and which shall remain unforgotten in the best album of our
remembrances.
The countries that joined the festival were:
Armenia, Bulgaria, Yakutia (Russia),
Israel, China, New Zealand, Slovakia, Chile and Greece
(represented by Livadia).
Music Groups brightened the
festival:
Sergent
Garcia
(France/ Spain)
DJs
Nikko Mavridis & Akylla
(Greece)
Ihteis
& Drugstore Men (Greece)
Arash
(Iran)
Reamonn
(Germany)
Lavrentis
Mahaeritsas – Sakis Bulas – Dimitris Starovas (Greece)
Dance Groups created a celebrating atmosphere:
Geghard
National Dance Ensemble (ARMENIA)
Nevrokopski
Ensemble (BULGRAIA)
Kitalik
Folk Dance Group (YAKUTIA / RUSSIA)
Ensemble
“Kramim” (ISRAEL)
Shenzhen
Experimental Art Group (CHINA)
Whitireia
Performing Arts (NEA ZEALAND)
Folklore
Ensemble “Omladina” (SLOVAKIA)
Ballet
Folklorico de Chile “Bafochi” (CHILE)
Syllogos
Sarakatsaneon Nomou Viotias (GREECE)
Movies were played as well:
“Alsino
and the Condor” by Miguel Littin
“The
Promise” by Kaige Chen
“Sugar
Town” by Kimonas Tsakiris
“The
colour of pomegranates” by Sergei Parajanov
“Closely
watched trains” by Jiri Menzel
We were also informed by non-governmental organizations:
Medicins
du Monde
National
Centre for Social Solidarity
International
Organization of Folk Art
General
Secretariat for Youth
Callisto
Hellenic
Society of Social Pediatrics & Health Promotion
Center
of Social Support and Training for People with Disabilities
Migration
Observatory
New stages were put up:
In
Dardanelion Str. where Stathis’s Panagiotopoulos and Dimitris’s
Starovas “Nistiko Arkoudi” (= hungry teddy bear) revealed
secrets of the ethnic cuisine and “Bon vie” through a two-days’
cooking presentation, that took place with the cooperation of
the chefs from the participating countries.
In
Falirou Park with “Cosmodances Plus”, where visitors to
COSMOPOLIS had the chance to attend complete dance performances
by folk dance groups from the participating countries.
At
the junction of Psaron str. and Kriezi str., where a small
ethnic music stage was put up.
The little friends of Cosmopolis went up to the Old Castle
where:
Attended
fables by Aesop with the “Athenian Marionettes” up the Castle
Enjoyed
Anhel de la Cruth’s movie “Magic Forest” in the small open-air
cinema put up in Agios Nikolaos quarter
Attended
the shadow performance “Alexander the Great and the cursed
snake” by Mihalis’s Chatzakis Hellenic Shadow Theatre in the
Castle
Joined
in the COSMOworkshops of creative occupation, which were held in
the streets of Agios Nikolaos Quarter
Participated
in the Puppet & Improvised Fairy Tales Workshop, organized by
Theatre Fournos in the Castle
Attended
the performance by the music theatre “Our friends the
music-makers” by Kroustofono in the Castle
Discovered
the historic streets in Agios Nikolaos Quarter through
“Street-battles”
Played
world games like “Escape the ball”, “Relay Race”, “The four wood
pieces”, “Handkerchief hunting”, etc.
“Closely
watched trains” by Jiri Menzel
People got a taste of delicious meals from many countries:
Pastel de Choclo and Empanadas from Chile,
Pork with vegetables from China, Lamb Stew from Livadia,
Bryndzove Halusky from Slovakia and Shashlik from Armenia. |
