23 Dec 2011
The last days I hear a lot about the 17th Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. As expected, there were no positive results, because countries like China, India and USA were not willing to make any commitments. However, all those references to Durban brought back some really nice memories!......
Read more → 22 Dec 2011
Artivist means art and action. Read the story of a person, who despite the difficult conditions continues dreaming; continues trying to make his dreams come true. Here is Panagiotis, his dreams and his song... I was born inThessaloniki in 1981. My passion for music came early into my life and I started...
Read more → 21 Dec 2011
Documenting their personal experience on the big screen, while avoiding the easy melodrama and not eliciting tears, Valerie Donzelli (as director) and Jeremie Elkaim (as co-writer) show us their own ordeal. They change their names, but they keep the leading roles. Because something so painful can be presented...
Read more → 20 Dec 2011
Female sexuality and its ways of expression have been the central preoccupation of female Gothic literature and its critical analysis since the eighteenth century. Female Gothic authors have often presented a conflict of the female identity with the boundaries of individualism and selfishness. (more...)
Read more → 19 Dec 2011
Now more than ever: Let’s Make Migrants’ Voices Heard Worldwide! (more...)
Read more → 16 Dec 2011
It is sure that everybody who lives in Thessaloniki has visited the junction of Frankon St and Valaoritou St, which is an entertainment place for people from different social and cultural backgrounds. But how many of us know the history of the area and how many have taken a break from the constant search...
Read more → 15 Dec 2011
Since April 2011 the dance group Fysalida has started a movement against fear, isolation and the perception that nothing can move on without money! So, one Sunday every month, the group invites you to stretch all together in open public spaces of our city! (more...)
Read more → 14 Dec 2011
Two months ago I followed a one-week seminar on the European Debt Crisis. I expected it to be a tiring week and it proved to be one, but it was also very surprising as the main topic among the participants was the Greek crisis and the Greek way of life. In the end of the seminar we had to make a presentation...
Read more → 13 Dec 2011
The term “Gothic” is related to frightening and horrifying stories. Stories about death, ghosts and mortality that scare people, but on the other hand present the tendency that people have to get attracted by anything mysterious. In literary tradition, Gothic is the stranglehold of the past upon...
Read more → 12 Dec 2011
Ned (Paul Rudd) is a kind and openhearted neo-hippie who makes a living by working in a grocery shop. His naivety combined with his good intentions, lead him to an unthinkable action - the idiot sells marijuana to a uniformed policeman - which leads him to prison. (more...)
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