ONASSIS STEGI | Season 2021-22 | ANNUAL PROGRAM by Onassis Stegi

Photo © Christos Sarris

I’d like oh how I’d like I want*

yes I’d like right away right now

we want / oh yes, we want all that is obvious but not yet a given./ want freedom from fear, to breathe and to forget ourselves – and if we forget something else along the way, no matter./ we’ve no more need for punishment to realize what’s important in life./ we want the promise of a happiness that never comes – waiting for it to arrive is just as sweet./ want a lightness that fits, as it turns out, inside such phrases as “yesterday together was nice” and “how did you like the show?”, “tipsy again, the lot of us…” and “how we all laughed!”, uttered in Athens and wherever it is we want./ up sand dunes or up scaffolding./ not like before / no more nostalgia./ as life is worth living now: free. Afroditi Panagiotakou Director of Culture at the Onassis Foundation

*From Matsie Hadjilazaros's poem “Reversed Dedication”.

OnAthens

Graffiti artwork by SAME84 at the renovated basketball courts in Neos Kosmos (39th Youth Center, on the corner of Sarkounidou Street and Kasomouli Street) Photo © Dimitris Michalakis

Athens will always be our city. A series of public interventions and works by contemporary Greek artists are bringing it a breath of fresh air. As part of its OnAthens initiative, the Onassis Foundation is partnering with the City of Athens to undertake the complete renovation and refurbishment of three basketball courts, a volleyball court, and two playgrounds in Onassis Stegi’s local Neos Kosmos neighborhood. Culture starts with play, and every child and adult – whether they live in Neos Kosmos or are just visiting – will have the chance to unleash their potential and be reborn through play.

10—30.10.21

THEATER

MAIN STAGE

NIKOS KARATHANOS

Prometheus based on Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound

“A roof overhead and a little fire is all humankind ever wanted – and it is captive to both.” Nikos Karathanos’ Prometheus is coming to bring us nothing but a blast of freedom.

There is no Caucasus here. No rock, no chain; nothing to keep Prometheus bound. Everything takes place inside a house. A house-cum-meteorite hanging in spacetime, engulfed by the four natural elements. Prometheus (Nikos Karathanos), Power and Hermes (Christos Loulis), Violence and Io (Galini Hatzipaschali), Hephaestus and Oceanus (Giannis Kotsifas) – all live here, like a family, making worlds. “To live is to devour light and darkness, every minute.” Nikos Karathanos gives us his take on this tragedy by Aeschylus, attempting – in his own words – to “mythologize daily life”: “I’ve always tried to understand how pain inside a room can escape those four walls, travel through the air, birth gods and monsters, and bring us myth.” This acclaimed artist – a perceptive observer of transcendence through readings of the familiar – directs, and performs as Prometheus. He recognizes each and every one of us in this character. “Prometheus represents you and me and everyone, in that moment where we look upon the reality of life and it looks back at us. There is something so very ancient inside every human being that makes time bend away in shame,” he notes. Nikos Karathanos is turning his hand to ancient Greek drama for a second time, after tackling Aristophanes’ Birds; it is a source material that moves him because "it seems to be telling me constantly that ‘the opinions I have are my tomb, and justness is my resurrection’”. This work is dedicated to the memory of our Elli – Elli Papageorgakopoulou.

NIKOS KARATHANOS

Digital Collage © Theodoros Koveos Original Photo © Christos Sarris

PROMETHEUS

10—30.10.21

THEATER

MAIN STAGE

Digital Collage © Theodoros Koveos

NIKOS KARATHANOS

PROMETHEUS

Translation/Text Yiannis Asteris Adaptation Nikos Karathanos, Yiannis Asteris Direction Nikos Karathanos Set Design Eva Manidaki Costumes Design Aggelos Mentis Lights Design Felice Ross Music Angelos Triantafyllou Movement Amalia Bennett Sound Design Yiorgos Poulios Sound Engineer Kostis Pavlopoulos Collaborator Director Marisha Triantafyllidou Assistant to Director Ioanna Bitouni Assistant to Set Designer Anna Zoulia Assistant to Costumes Designer Olga Evangelidou Production Assistant Nikos Charalambidis Rehearsals Assistants & Filming Dimitris Stavropoulos, Orestis Stavropoulos Music Rehearsals Assistants Alexandros Balaouras, Giorgos Braoudakis, Nikolas Sarlis Set Construction Lazaridis Scenic Studio Sculptor & Special Constructions Sokratis Papadopoulos Set Design Painter Nikos Karras Actors Nikos Karathanos, Yiannis Kotsifas, Christos Loulis, Galini Chatzipaschali Musicians on stage Angelos Triantafyllou, Yiorgos Poulios, and Dimitris Gkogas (trumpet), Yiannis Gounaris (horn), Yiannis Kaikis (trombone), Ntinos Triantafyllis (tuba) Line Production POLYPLANITY Productions/ Yolanda Markopoulou & Vicky Strataki Surtitles Translation Orfeas Apergis Simultaneous Surtitling Yannis Papadakis Produced by Onassis Stegi Touring is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn Program”

FALL '21

VISUAL ARTS

MAIN LOBBY FOYER

RENA PAPASPYROU

Vryaxidos 11 & Aspasias: Images behind matter An artist of the defiant ’70s generation with a long career teaching at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Rena Papaspyrou presents a unique art installation on the ground floor of Onassis Stegi: a reconstituted wall taken from a demolished Pangratineighborhood home. Can you activate your own history?

On view on the Ground Floor of the Onassis Stegi is an installation consisting of a number of panels attached to a corner wall of Rena Papaspyrou’s (b. 1938) own design. These panels are wall sections detached by Papaspyrou from an abandoned house, now demolished, formerly located on the corner of 11 Vryaxidos Street and Aspasias Street in Pangrati, Athens. Ranging in scale, these fragments reveal the unseen side of the exterior walls of the building; several show traces of graffiti, stratification, and marks accumulated over time. The detachment process began in 2015, then stopped, resumed in January 2020, and was completed on July of the same year. Most panels were detached during the time of the first lockdown. Reflecting on her experience while engaged in this work, the artist notes that detaching ‘was the main task of the day, the one that gave meaning to the day. It was a way to count days, a way not to lose oneself.’ Papaspyrou’s installation – the reconstruction of a wall that never was – is above all allegorical. A reflection on the female psyche and the condition of prolonged worry and social distancing which we have all experienced recently.

Organized by Onassis Foundation Curated by Christoforos Marinos, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis Architectural Design Maria Maneta Transfer Artlock Production management Cultópia Thanks to Kostas Valatsos, Dimitris Skourogiannis for the technical assistance

RENA PAPASPYROU

Digital Collage © Theodoros Koveos Original Photo © Nikos Alexopoulos

VRYAXIDOS 11 & ASPASIAS: IMAGES BEHIND MATTER

FALL '21

VISUAL ARTS

MAIN LOBBY FOYER

RENA PAPASPYROU

Photo © Nikos Alexopoulos

VRYAXIDOS 11 & ASPASIAS: IMAGES BEHIND MATTER

OnAthens

The Kiss by Ilias Papailiakis on Avdi Square in Metaxourgio Photo © Stelios Tzetzias Studio On

Through its OnAthens initiative, the Onassis Foundation is presenting a series of interventions and works by contemporary Greek artists set within the urban fabric that seek to reinvigorate how locals and visitors connect with their surroundings and this place, with yesterday and today. This series of works was inaugurated by “The Kiss”, a large-scale mural painted by Ilias Papailiakis on Avdi Square that is deeply humancentric and, at the same time, a complex piece situated inside a modern city. The artist Ioko Ioannis Kotidis presents Opus Just for One Person at the Athinaikon Theater on Dionysiou Aeropagitou Street, an emotional work inspired by the surrealist poems of Matsie Hadjilazaros.

ATHENS BIENNALE

ECLIPSE

Photo © Nysos Vasilopoulos

Onassis Culture × Athens Biennale AB7 is activating a cross-cultural discourse on alternative forms of coexistence in the here and now, from September 24 to November 28, 2021 in the historic city center of Athens, and with the support of Onassis Culture. ECLIPSE – designed to illuminate various facets of the transitional experience that is life in our times – seeks to guide the public imagination towards parallel worlds and variant versions of the future. ECLIPSE will be presenting more than 80 emerging and established artists from North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe, with 32 new commissions and premieres set inside landmark buildings in the heart of Athens. 7th Athens Biennale ECLIPSE Artistic Director Poka-Yio Co-curators Omsk Social Club & Larry Ossei-Mensah The 7th Athens Biennale – co-financed by the Hellenic Republic and the European Union through the “Attica” Regional Operational Programme, part of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2014-2020 – is being held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and the City of Athens and in partnership with Onassis Culture. AB7: ECLIPSE is produced by the Athens Biennale.

Judy Chicago, Smoke Bodies from Women and Smoke, 1972. Fireworks performance. Performed in the California Desert. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo courtesy of Through the Flower Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Salon 94, New York; and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.

24.09—24.10.21

VISUAL ARTS

EXHIBITION HALL -1

Steve McQueen End Credits The Oscar-winning director of Shame and 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen creates End Credits; an art installation at Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall. A tribute to the African-American singer, actor, social activist and American football star Paul Robeson (1898-1976), who in the 1950s will be on the FBI’s blacklist in his fight against racism.

Transcending video art, although a highly accomplished and decorated artist, Steve McQueen boldly moved to the mainstream film industry, confronting the collective angst, mastering the art of unearthing identity and race traumas. The horrors exposed, the tension and the drama in McQueen’s bold paint strokes not only do not cajole the public taste but usher it to the corners of human cruelty and absurdness. In his ongoing work End Credits he is creating an epic portrait of a man-symbol, Paul Robeson. A singer and social activist, Robeson became the blacklisted target of FBI when he started to crusade against lynching. His life and art career were destroyed. When his FBI files became partly declassified, Steve McQueen embarked on a long pilgrimage to assemble a monument of epic dimensions of the heroic man. The end credits in films are where all the contributing components of the film are credited. Through thousands and thousands of ever-scrolling pages, End Credits are a purgatory for our collective consciousness towards martyred individuals like Robeson. Like a fountain or a river, End Credits flows endlessly in dozens of hours of a visual and spoken-word sermon mesmerising in their dark matter and profound, compacted pain. End Credits, co-produced by Onassis Culture, is presented as part of the 7th Athens Biennale.

STEVE MCQUEEN

Photo © Thierry Bal

END CREDITS

14.10—14.11.21

VIDEO INSTALLATION ΤΗΕ MANDRA

DIONYSIOU AREOPAGITOU STR, 2

IOKO IOANNIS KOTIDIS

Opus Just for One Person - Part One “Reversed Dedication” to Andreas Embirikos by the great surrealist female poet Matsie Hadjilazaros. A profound confession of love uttered loudly in the visual artist’s Ioko Ioannis Kotidis’ work.

Walking up Dionysiou Areopagitou Street – next to the Onassis Library – a black box entitled “Terrarium” invites us to an intense experience. What does it mean to dedicate my most beautiful love song to someone no longer present? It means that I end up with an act of creation for My-One-and-Only-Human, while trying to put in order everything that I hold dear. The Opus Just for One Person is a trilogy – a combination of visual, musical and performance art on the theme of confession. Part One is inspired by Matsie Hadjilazaros’– the first Greek female surrealist poet – greatest poem. The human body as an intermediary; as an agent of memory, words, gazes, gestures and tears – an agent carrying remembrance to an acute present. The visual artist Ioko Ioannis Kotidis through a video installation and words firmly etched within us, goes against the tide of cynicism. He utters all that we struggle to say, every confession that was not made. He tries to preserve, in every possible way, the all but lost tenderness of today, leaving spectators and listeners to ask themselves about everything they didn’t have the chance to say. The resistance to convenience. The readiness of the eyes. The selflessness of smiles. Installation credits: Concept & Creation Ioko Ioannis Kotidis Construction Design & Supervision Eleni Stroulia Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou Construction Design & Supervision Collaborator Zaira Falirea Production Manager Yorgos Katsonis / Video art credits: Concept, Direction & Editing Ioko Ioannis Kotidis Video Performance Imiterasu Original Music Panú Assistant Director Iliana Kaladami Camera Christos Symeonides Special thanks to Christos Daniil

IOKO IOANNIS KOTIDIS

Photo © Panagiotis Mentzinis

OPUS JUST FOR ONE PERSON - PART ONE

16 & 17.10.21

PERFORMANCE LECTURE UPPER STAGE

ZIAD ANTAR

Bladder Diplomacy What do tomatoes have to do with war? Potatoes and harmful insects, civil wars and geopolitical games. Acclaimed Beiruti artist Ziad Antar presents a caustic thriller that blends international diplomacy with agribusiness.

Threading stories of international diplomacy, the cultivation of potatoes and tomatoes in the eastern Mediterranean, and personal family stories, the lecture performance Bladder Diplomacy will explore radical interventions in the natural environment and nutritional habits that theories of modernization and the globalized agribusiness have sowed in these lands, blowback and the uncanny resilience of indigenous seeds. In this performance, acclaimed artist Ziad Antar collaborates with writer Rasha Salti again to a satirical drawing of a puzzle of malicious weeds and civil wars.

Concept & Performance Ziad Antar Artistic Collaborator Rasha Salti Production Assistant Nayla Mabsout Produced by Onassis Stegi

ZIAD ANTAR — BLADDER DIPLOMACY

09.21—06.22

PERFORMANCE

Poetic Consultations This is poetry calling. Book an appointment for the most heartening session of your life.

If someone were to pick out a poem specially for you, what would you like them to prescribe you? Onassis Stegi is continuing the Poetic Consultations that made Greeks the most fanatical listeners of this unique Théâtre de la Ville initiative in the world. For a second year running, renowned actors will be calling to engage you in a different kind of conversation. A simple idea unfurls to become a soothing ritual: listeners book an appointment and an actor calls to talk for 20 minutes before reciting a poem inspired by their conversation and, finally, suggesting a poetic remedy prescribed specially for them. Poetry shows us ways in which to live and to enjoy life, to feel and to survive. Please stay on the line with us.

The project was conceived by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota (Director of Τhéâtre de la Ville), Fabrice Melquiot (writer) General Co-ordination Alice Magdelénat, Julie Peigné, Loudice Gourmelon Organization of Production Τhéâtre de la Ville (Paris) Co-organized and co-produced by Onassis Stegi (Outward Turn Program) Co-ordination of Greek “Poet Consultations” Christina Liata Production Assistant Xenia Sotirchou

Original Photo © Panos Kefalos

POETIC CONSULTATIONS

Onassis AiR

Onassis AiR functions as something more than just an artistic research and residency program run by the Onassis Foundation. It is a space that invites artists to reexamine their practice, to take their time, and to think beyond entrenched expectations concerning frenzied artistic production. The Onassis AiR space takes up the top floor of a neoclassical building at 16A Frynichou Street in the area of Plaka, directly under the Acropolis. It is home to an ever-evolving and variable community of artists. And as this community grows, so this house constantly transforms.

Photo © Nefeli Myrodia

29.10—07.11.21

THEATER

UPPER STAGE

KATERINA GIANNOPOULOU

Paradise

flooding / starving / playing We are the children of a paradise lost. A requiem for western civilization, and for a planet being lost under the trash.

Floods have covered the entire surface of the earth, carrying off the few remaining survivors, who float in among the trash, amid their memories and thwarted hopes. Katerina Giannopoulou dreams up a not-so-distant future where the remnants of Western civilization rewrite their own history. In a work based on Austrian playwright Thomas Köck’s sweeping Climate Trilogy (Klimatrilogie) about the environmental destruction of planet Earth, this up-andcoming director casts her eye over a timeline of events that refute capitalist modes of production. From the rubber tree plantations of the Amazon in the 19th century through to 21st-century wars and conflicts for the control of the last remaining deposits of natural resources, the production seeks to trace the utter failure of the Western world. A theatrical chorus – of dashed dreams and broken promises – comes back from the future, appearing before us to lament our paradise lost. Text Thomas Köck Direction Katerina Giannopoulou Translation & Dramaturgy Greg Liakopoulos Original Music Yannis Veslemes Set Design & Costumes Niki Psychogiou Set Design / Costume and Light Design Assistant Marietta Pavlaki Set Construction Thomas Marias Lights Design Christina Thanassoula Live camera Yorgos Kyvernitis Video Kostis Charamountanis Scientific Consultants Dr. Christos Varvantakis, Efthimis Theou Assistant to Director Efi Christodoulopoulou Production Management Serafim Radis, Vasia Attarian Simultaneous Surtitling Yannis Papadakis Cast Giorgos Kissandrakis, Gogo Papaioannou, Dimitra Paraskelidou, Michalis Pitidis, Vasilis Safos, Maria Filini Produced by Onassis Stegi With the support of Goethe Institut-Athen Touring is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn Program” With the support of Goethe Institut-Athen

KATERINA GIANNOPOULOU

Photo © Panos Kefalos

PARADISE

03—07.11.21

DANCE

MAIN STAGE

ROOTLESSROOT

Stones & Bones How often are dance companies free to experiment with materials like marble? The world-class RootlessRoot choreograph the need we have to leave our mark on the world.

For their latest piece, Stones and Bones, RootlessRoot worked with the English sculptor Peter Randall-Page to create a performance about the transience of human existence. White marble – a material with metaphysical dimensions that constitutes the bedrock of European civilization – lies at the core of the work, even though its natural place lies inside majestic mountains, far outside theater convention. In Stones and Bones, five female performers – dancing to an original score by Vassilis Mantzoukis – carve out a poem about the fragile nature of human existence and the need to leave our mark on the world.

ROOTLESSROOT

Photo © Christos Sarris

STONES & BONES

03—07.11.21

DANCE

MAIN STAGE

Artistic Directors & Choreographers RootlessRoot - Linda Kapetanea, Jozef Fruček Performed by Linda Kapetanea, Elena Topalidou, Iro Konti, Dimitra Mertzani Music Composition Vassilis Mantzoukis Songs performed by Martha Frintzila Musicians on Stage Vassilis Mantzoukis, Kostas Nikolopoulos, Nikos Papaioannou, Lampros Papanikolaou Set Design & Visual Contributors Thomas Randall-Page, Peter Randall-Page Set Supervision Paris Mexis Sound Design Christos Parapagidis Sound Engineer Yiannis Skandamis Light Design Periklis Mathiellis Costume Design Isabelle Lhoas Texts Jozef Fruček Texts Editing Ioanna Nasiopoulou Photography Alexandros Papathanasopoulos The original piece is a collaborative creation of the dancers Linda Kapetanea, Elena Topalidou, Anna Calsina Forellad and Hyaejin Lee Additional Song "How Should I Your True Love Know" Lyrics: The first of Shakespeare's Ophelia's "Mad Songs", Hamlet, Act IV Scene 5 / Traditional Music of unknown author Production Management & Touring Cultόpια Supported by Iktinos Marmaron Produced by Onassis Stegi Touring is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn Program” and funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

Photo © Christos Sarris

ROOTLESSROOT

STONES & BONES

Photo © Christos Sarris

13—14.11.21

THEATER

MAIN STAGE

The Glass Menagerie BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DIRECTED BY IVO VAN HOVE WITH ISABELLE HUPPERT Welcome to the fragile world of Tennessee Williams, the world of people in a constant state of flight. Two stars of the dramatic arts – Ivo van Hove and Isabelle Huppert – make their return to Onassis Stegi.

“The scene is memory.” It is a scene inhabited by three characters: a mother, Amanda, and her two adult children, Laura and Tom. Amanda still pictures herself as a genteel Southern belle. Tom provides for the family, and slips off to the cinema every chance he gets. Laura spends endless hours with her menagerie of little spun glass animals… Three solitudes behind almost-closed doors; three human frailties; three ways to dream of a different life. The plot is simple, and elu-sive like a memory. “In The Glass Menagerie, I discovered a work without any discernible hero-ism, a world populated by fragile people. Our leads are filled with doubt and trauma and secrets,” notes Ivo van Hove, who returns to Onassis Stegi with a Tennessee Williams masterpiece in which Isabelle Huppert takes on one of the most thrilling roles in the American theater repertoire.

Directed by Ivo van Hove With Isabelle Huppert, Justine Bachelet, Cyril Guei, Antoine Reinartz French translation Isabelle Framchon Dramaturgy Koen Tachelet Artistic collaborator Mathieu Dandreau Scenography & Lights Design Jan Versweyveld Costumes An D’Huys Music George Dhauw Creation Odéon – Théâtre de l'Europe, March 6, 2020 Production Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe Coproduction Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale, Onassis Stegi (Athens), deSingel (Antwerpen), Barbican (London) Supported by Le Cercle de l’Odéon © 1945, renewed 1973, the University of the south, The Glass Menagerie. Published by arrangement with the University of the south, Sewanee, Tennessee. The author is represented by Renauld & Richardson, info@paris-mcr, in French and European countries in agreement with the Casarotto Ramsay Agency Ltd, London.

IVO VAN HOVE

Photo © Jan Versweyveld

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

12—14.11.21

THEATER

MAIN STAGE

IVO VAN HOVE

Photo © Jan Versweyveld

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Exterior view of the Matala Arcade at 99-101 Patission Avenue Photograph © Stelios Tzetzias

The Arcade on Patission Street

Photo © Stelios Tzetzias

The older generation remember it as one of their favorite city haunts. For the younger generation, it’s about to be reborn as an Instagram location. The Matala Arcade is changing, and contributing in diverse ways to the formation of Athens’ new, multi-ethnic identity. A new complex is being created by the Onassis Foundation in the urban heart of Athens, one that seeks to act as a catalyst for cultural and societal ferment. The Matala Arcade is expected to become a landmark space, both for people living in Athens and for those visiting the city. The new Matala Arcade will focus its attentions on two elements that bring people together: food and music. A multi-purpose hall will host exhibitions by artists of different nationalities, bringing the Athenian public in contact with the most powerful new voices in the arts. Lying between the Kypseli, Exarchia, and Patissia districts, the Matala Arcade is set to further the emergence of Athens as an up-to-the-minute, inclusive, and all-embracing metropolis.

17—21.11.21

MUSIC

EXHIBITION HALL -1

THANASIS DELIGIANNIS & I/O

Photo © Elia Kalogianni, Yorgos Kyvernitis

ENA ENA

17—21.11.21

MUSIC

EXHIBITION HALL -1

THANASIS DELIGIANNIS & I/O

ENA ENA

A unique musical journey set inside a provincial nightclub of decades past.

ENA ENA is the name of an imaginary Greek rural nightclub. Literally meaning ‘one by one,’ it reminds us of the phrases ‘step by step,’ ‘bit by bit,’ ‘piece by piece.’ A band, a singer, a waiter, and a security camera give life to the world of the performance, interacting with each other and the audience. The music is a microtonal amalgam of the Greek 70s to 90s culture of ‘klarina,’ blended with improvised parts, electronic music, and field recordings, while making use of the heavily amplified aesthetics of that era; an uncanny ‘panegyri,’ the Greek traditional party at the countryside. Concept, Stage Direction, Sound Design, Performance Thanasis Deligiannis Set & Light Design Roelof Pothuis Dramaturgy Yannis Michalopoulos Assistant Director & Production Assistance Danai Belosinof Costume Designer Vasiliki Sourri Voice Natasa Tsakiridou Violin George Dumitriu Keyboards Kaja Draksler Drums Onno Govaert Creative Coder David Jonas Sound & Stage Technician Kostas Chaikalis Light Technician Stijn van Kortenhof Project Development Frank van der Weij ENA ENA is created and produced by I/O and co-produced by the Onassis Stegi and Gaudeamus. With the support by the Performing Arts Fund (NL), Norma Fonds, and Giorgos Ignatidis

THANASIS DELIGIANNIS & I/O

ENA ENA

Photo © Elia Kalogianni, Yorgos Kyvernitis

DIMITRIS PAPADIMITRIOU

MOBY DICK

The Musical

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.” A thrilling adventure about life on the high seas is again being made a reality on stage, this time at the Christmas Theater. A simple fable or an inexhaustible generator of ideas? This classic tale by Herman Melville – a novel adapted more than any other since it was first published in 1851 –has been made into a musical, composed by Dimitris Papadimitriou, directed by Giannis Kakleas, and produced by Onassis Culture. The production, which enchanted Athenian audiences with its impressive holograms and 3D graphic effects, is returning to the stage once more, this time at the Christmas Theater (139 Veikou Avenue, Galatsi – www. ct.gr), from February 9 to April 10, 2022. This story of a captain who wants to take his revenge by killing an enormous white whale – that had, on a previous trip, attacked him and his crew and ship – seems to be the very same story that humanity, as we now know it, so badly needs in the present day. Let’s all take a trip to places not down on any map.

Photo © Andreas Simopoulos

Photo © Christos Sarris

19—21.11.21

MUSIC

MAIN STAGE

DIRECTION: RAED YASSIN MUSIC: ALAN BISHOP

The sea between my soul Dark humor from Lebanese artist Raed Yassin. A rock musical punctuated by the high-strung voice of Alan Bishop, in which taxidermy animals sing of their deaths to reveal the long history of murder in the Mediterranean region.

A rock musical performed by taxidermy animals, Raed Yassin’s The Sea Between My Soul promises to cross boundaries between installation and theater, music and light, and even life and death. A morbid reflection on the long standing history of fatalities in the Mediterranean sea, the work will punctuated by the high-strung notes of Alan Bishop’s singing voice, adding a whiff of absurdity to the otherwise apocalyptic scenario that surrounds us in the world today. Concept & Direction Raed Yassin Music & Lyrics Alan Bishop Scenography Hussein Baydoun Lighting Design Charlie Åström Technical supervisor Vasilis Saltas Assistant Raisa Hagiu Lyrics translation in Greek Lenia Safiropoulou 3D modelling & buildings manufacture George Loukrezis Set construction & installation Panagiotis Lazaridis Electrical equipment & installations Nikos Papathanasis Production management Delta Pi Production design Konstantinos Sakkas Line production assistant Angelika Stavropoulou Produced by Onassis Stegi Very special thanks to Afroditi Panagiotakou, Christos Carras, Christina Pitouli, Monira Al Qadiri, Said Baalbabki, Ash Bulayev Music/Instrumentation/Credits Piano, Organ, Harpsicord, Clavinet, Backing Vocals Adham Zidan Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Alto Saxophone Alan Bishop Cello Amelie Legrand Vocals, Percussion Aya Hemeda Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals Cherif El Masri Viola Eyvind Kang Vocals Jessika Kenney Drums Morgan Mikkelsen Vocals Nadah El Shazley Mastered by Mark Gergis Produced by Alan Bishop & Adham Zidan Touring is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn Program”

RAED YASSIN — ALAN BISHOP

THE SEA BETWEEN MY SOUL

Left: Alan Bishop, Photo © Hans van der Linden Right: Raed Yassin, Photo © Kiki Papadopoulou

Onassis Renti

In September 2020, the Onassis Foundation transformed the former factory of the KOCH plastics company into an unexpected space for artistic experimentation and exploration. It is a vast industrial building in a borderline uncharted part of the Renti area, set among housing project blocks, dirt roads, and scrap yards. The first “residents” of Onassis Renti (7A Legaki Street) arrived to breathe new life into the former factory. Actor and director Vassilis Bisbikis found a new home for the most successful Greek theater production of recent times – Of Mice and Men – which has also been made into a film. Meanwhile, his “room-mate” Lena Kitsopoulou is creating her new performance there, inspired by Mary Shelley’s legendary Gothic novel “Frankenstein”, to be presented this year at Onassis Stegi. The collective of co-resident artists at Onassis Renti is growing day by day, and the building will soon be filled with lots of light and people. Main image: View of the Onassis Renti space, © Afroditi Panagiotakou Top: In rehearsal at Onassis Renti – which now houses the new Cartel Artspace – for the upcoming production of The Red Lanterns by Alekos Galanos, directed by Vassilis Bisbikis. The work will premiere in November 2021, © Vangelis Grammenos Bottom: Still from Vassilis Bisbikis and his company’s landmark production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, which is continuing its run this October at Onassis Renti, © Elina Giounanli

Geometry of Ideas II by Maria Papadimitriou. A work in the Onassis Collection, on display at the Onassis Stegi offices in Neos Kosmos. Photo © Christos Sarris

22.12.21—16.01.22

DANCE

MAIN STAGE

DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU Transverse Orientation Let’s keep our balance, so as not to lose our way. Dimitris Papaioannou’s new work orientates us towards the source of light.

Dimitris Papaioannou has garnered rapturous acclaim in the first international press reviews for his new Onassis Stegi production: “If Michelangelo had been active in this era, would he not have left such a work?” wonders the Korean auditorium.kr; “A jewel, of ingenuity and of beauty,” writes the French Le Progrès; “A long act of artistic magic created before our eyes by the superbly precise performers,” notes the New York Times. This December at Onassis Stegi, the curtain will rise on Transverse Orientation, a work set to dazzle us all once more. Each new work that Papaioannou creates is something you want to experience. Because “Papaioannou is without doubt one of the four most important choreographers in the world,” as noted by Le Figaro in June 2021. His images, movements, and sounds launch us towards the source of life and of creation, of imagination and play, and call on us to discover our own truths, closer to the light. Transverse orientation is the method by which insects keep a fixed angle on a distant source of light for orientation – this is why they fly towards all that shines. This latest Onassis Stegi – Dimitris Papaioannou production, co-produced by more than 20 major international venues and institutions, began touring the globe in June 2021.

DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU

Photo © Julian Mommert

TRANSVERSE ORIENTATION

22.12.21—16.01.22

DANCE

MAIN STAGE

Conceived, Visualized & Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou With Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Šuka Horn, Jan Möllmer, Breanna O’Mara, Tina Papanikolaou, Łukasz Przytarski, Christos Strinopoulos, Michalis Theophanous Music Antonio Vivaldi Set Design Tina Tzoka & Loukas Bakas Sound Composition & Design Coti K. Costume Design Aggelos Mendis Collaborative Lighting Designer Stephanos Droussiotis Music Supervisor Stephanos Droussiotis Sculptures, Special Constructions & Props Nectarios Dionysatos Mechanical Inventions Dimitris Korres Creative - Executive Producer & Assistant Director Tina Papanikolaou Assistant Directors & Rehearsal Directors Pavlina Andriopoulou & Drossos Skotis Assistant to the Set Designers Tzela Christopoulou Assistant to the Sound Composer Martha Kapazoglou Assistant to the Costume Designer Aella Tsilikopoulou Special Constructions - Props Assistant Eva Tsambasi Photography & Cinematography Julian Mommert Technical Director Manolis Vitsaxakis Assistant to the Technical Director Marios Karaolis Stage Manager, Sound Engineer & Props Constructions David Blouin Props Master Tzela Christopoulou Lighting Programmer Stephanos Droussiotis Costumes Construction Litsa Moumouri, Efi Karantasiou, Islam Kazi Stage Technicians Kostas Kakoulidis, Evgenios Anastopoulos, Panos Koutsoumanis Lighting Constructions Miltos Athanasiou Silicone Baby made by Joanna Bobrzynska-Gomes Props Team Natalia Fragkathoula, Marilena Kalaitzantonaki, Timothy Laskaratos, Anastasis Meletis, Antonis Vassilakis Executive Production 2WORKS in collaboration with POLYPLANITY Productions Executive Production Associate Vicky Strataki Executive Production Assistant Kali Kavvatha Props Production Manager Pavlina Andriopoulou International Relations & Communications Manager Julian Mommert We would like to thank the team at Lemon Poppy Seed for styling the performers’ hair. A production of Onassis Stegi Created to be premiered at Onassis Stegi (2021) Co-Produced by Festival D’avignon (Avignon), Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2021 (Lyon), Dance Umbrella / Sadler's Wells Theatre (London), Fondazione Campania dei Festival - Napoli Teatro Festival Italia (Naples), Grec Festival de Barcelona (Barcelona), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Luminato (Toronto) / TO Live (Toronto), New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (Recklinghausen), Saitama Arts Theatre / ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Kyoto), Stanford Live / Stanford University (Stanford), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto),Théâtre de la Ville - Paris / Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (Los Angeles) With the support of Festival Aperto (Reggio Emilia), Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid, (Madrid), HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts (Dresden), National Arts Centre (Ottawa), New Baltic Dance Festival (Vilnius), ONE DANCE WEEK Festival (Plovdiv), P.P. Culture Enterprises Ltd (Tel Aviv), TANEC PRAHA International Dance Festival (Praha), Teatro della Pergola – Firenze (Florence), Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale (Torino) With funding from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. Dimitris Papaioannou is supported by MEGARON – THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL.

DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU

Photo © Julian Mommert

TRANSVERSE ORIENTATION

10—27.02.22

THEATER

MAIN STAGE

ARGYRO CHIOTI

Chalepas The lives and deaths of Yannoulis Chalepas, in a dream-like experience. A contemporary music tragedy about the sculptor who was artistically reborn in the twilight of his years.

Yannoulis Chalepas, that ascetic figure of Greek sculpture – whom some called “the Rodin of Greece”, others “a saint, a madman, a genius, an artist cursed”– encounters the gaze of Argyro Chioti. From his birth in the village of Pyrgos on the island of Tinos – amid the marble slabs and plentiful dust of his family’s stone cutting workshop – through to his legendary sculpture of the Sleeping Maiden that stands inside the First Cemetery of Athens. And from his breakdown, his committal to a psychiatric hospital, and his many years spent in isolation up in the mountains of his island, through to his spiritual awakening and the sweeping renaissance that characterized his old age. As he himself said: “The new (old man) Chalepas outdid the old (young man).” Through dream-like illusions, Argyro Chioti walks to the difficult path that was the sculptor’s life, always between silence and absurdity, stillness and creativity, presenting the contemporary music tragedy Chalepas with a libretto by Alexander Voulgaris / The Boy, music by Jan Van Angelopoulos, set designs by Efi Birba and an exceptional ensemble cast. Direction Argyro Chioti Text The Boy Music Jan Van Angelopoulos Set Design Efi Birba Lights Design Tasos Palaioroutas With Georgina Chriskioti, Simos Kakalas, Chara Kotsali, Antonis Miriagos, Giorgos Nikopoulos, Dimitris Sotiriou, et al. Assistant Director Katerina Kotsou Line Production Maria Dourou Simultaneous Surtitling Yannis Papadakis Produced by Onassis Stegi Coproduced by ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro (Italy) Touring is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn Program”

ARGYRO CHIOTI

Movie Still © The Boy

CHALEPAS

10—27.02.22

THEATER

MAIN STAGE

ARGYRO CHIOTI

Left and main images © The Boy Right: Maquette of the “Hecatoncheira” (“The Hundred-Handed One”), a sculpture by Yannoulis Chalepas in the Onassis Collection.

CHALEPAS

Photo © Christos Sarris

24—25.11.21

MAIN STAGE & UPPER STAGE

I’M POSITIVE It’s time to talk about a society of acceptance. Sharing truths, overcoming fears, being positive. In partnership with Positive Voice – the Greek Association of People Living with HIV – Onassis Stegi is holding a two-day event raising awareness and acceptance as part of the fight against HIV prejudice.

For a fourth year running, people with real-life stories to tell will be speaking at Onassis Stegi about diversity, visibility, and acceptance in an open discussion chaired by Positive Voice. Through their own personal stories, people living with and without HIV will be talking candidly and bravely about their experiences, and taking a stand against both stereotyped notions and attitudes rooted in fear. And members of the scientific community will be providing children and teenagers with information on sexual health matters. Our aim: to combat stigma and open up a better society for all.

In collaboration with

I’ M POSITIVE

Photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

03—05.12.21

MUSIC

IN & OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

Tectonics Athens ’21 The renowned new music festival – presented in 27 editions across various cities – is coming invited by Onassis Stegi for the third time to Athens.

The Tectonics Festival started out in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2012. Since then, it has been presented in 27 editions across a series of different cities. Its main curator has been the acclaimed conductor Ilan Volkov, who launched the event with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Its main focus is on new music, from classical orchestral music to solo improvised performances, electronic music, newly-invented instruments, installations, and much more. Besides fostering a broad international network of artists and digging deeper into their work, the festival also concentrates on local scenes, providing new and unexpected opportunities for artists and audiences to meet and form new relationships. Curated by Ilan Volkov, Anne Hilde Neset, Michalis Moschoutis

TECTONICS ATHENS ‘22

Photo © Christos Sarris

08.01—27.02.22

CINEMA

EXHIBITION HALL -1

ROMAIN GAVRAS

Gener8ion French-Greek filmmaker Romain Gavras – who has directed some of the most subversive music videos for the likes of Kanye West, M.I.A., Jay-Z, and Justice – presents his new work, Gener8ion inside the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall. Surfers, freedom fighters, and Charlize Theron are brought together in a multimedia pop installation about a future that feels like the present.

“The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. Dystopia is also here, it’s just unevenly distributed, too.” So said the American science fiction writer and cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson. These words form the perfect backdrop to Gener8ion, the new project by filmmaker Romain Gavras. Set in the year 2034, the installation – made up of three short films – traces the story of a future that feels very much like the present. Charlize Theron is an AI scanner out collecting emotions. An allied air squadron poses with a captured spacecraft in a propaganda video. Youths enjoy themselves on flying surf boards in an industrial area on the outskirts of Athens. There is no sudden non-human threat, no end-of-the-world scenario, just a seemingly “normal” setting underpinned by, and threaded through with a slow, invisible violence of the kind we’re experiencing today, in the midst of a pandemic. Redrawing the boundaries between cinematic genres, the installation generates a vision for the co-existence of human creativity with human failure.

Direction Romain Gavras Written by Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly and Elias Belkeddar With Charlize Theron, Dali Benssalah, Anthony Bajon, Alexis Manenti, Ouassini Embarek, Sami Slimane Produced by Iconoclast

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Photo © Christos Sarris

GENER8ION

08.01—27.02.22

CINEMA

EXHIBITION HALL -1

ROMAIN GAVRAS

Still: Romain Gavras, Gener8ion

GENER8ION

Movement Radio

Photo © Voltnoi Brege

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Movement Radio – Onassis Stegi’s online radio station curated by DETACH (Voltnoi & Quetempo) – records, broadcasts, and unites past, present and future with its daily live shows, DJ sets, thematic music programs, interviews, talk shows, and live events. A comprehensive fusion of elements drawn from the lively, outward-facing Greek DJ, hip hop, and electronica scenes, and from scenes and hybrid fields emerging in every corner of the globe. Movement Radio shares stories that have not yet been told, speaking through sounds and ideas, tracing current political and critical thought, and crossing an imaginary archipelago beyond borders and dates. Tune in at www.movement.radio

Onassis Podcasts

Listen in. Artists, philosophers, activists, and people with bold ideas from all over the world discuss everything shaping society today. Through Onassis Podcasts, discussions are triggered, stereotypes are challenged, and dialogue is struck up on issues that are important but by no means self-evident. All via the true stories of eminent people in the time of quarantine in The Quarantine Tapes, mythical beings narrating the journeys of Perseus in Live from Mount Olympus, young people giving advice to their peers about all the things they aren’t taught about sex in school in Sex Education, the 431 pages of Heidegger’s seminal Being and Time across ten episodes of Apply-Degger, the interesting people who have appeared on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage over the last ten years in Onassis Encounters, and the people who have been brought together to talk, openly and directly, about crucial and timely social and political issues in “Society Uncensored”. From Athens to New York, and from there to Los Angeles, the Onassis Foundation is speaking with everyone who is ready and willing to listen, and forming strategic partnerships with international stakeholders such as dublab and PRX.

From left to right: Margaret Atwood, Paul Holdengräber, Simon Critchley, Werner Herzog, Isabella Rossellini, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Henry Rollins, Sonny Rollins, and Naomi Klein

02—04.03.22

MUSIC

PANTEION UNIVERSITY

Music Connects the Onassis Stegi and the Panteion University vol. 7 This musical initiative, which bridges Syngrou Avenue to connect Onassis Stegi with Panteion University, is celebrating the centennial year since the birth of Iannis Xenakis with new commissions, young musicians, and world-first performances.

The project Music connects the Onassis Stegi and the Panteion University brings together the two institutions for the seventh consecutive year. Following the online 2020 version, due to the pandemic, we come back to live performances with a program where wind instruments have a major role, while we also celebrate the 100th anniversary of Iannis Xenakis’s birth (1922-2001). We will listen how the composer encompassed material derived from Greek traditional music, but also how he applied the mathematical game theory using the brass instruments' sound. A new generation of composers pays tribute to his memory, through techniques that expand his thinking, but also with unexpected fusions between Xenakian fragments, classical compositions, and electronic sounds.

Project Head Lorenda Ramou Professor in charge (Panteion University) Andromache Gazi

MUSIC CONNECTS THE ONASSIS STEGI AND THE PANTEION UNIVERSITY VOL. 7

Onassis New York ONX Studio

The Onassis Foundation is seeking out innovation in a future that is already with us. The ONX Studio is a new space for artists working with extended reality (XR) where they can create and present their works. Operating out of the Onassis Gallery at Olympic Tower – the headquarters of Onassis USA, in Midtown Manhattan – the studio opened in the fall of 2020, and is a partnership initiative between Onassis USA and the New Museum’s NEW INC. It is currently hosting twelve artists and producers whose practice involves mixed reality (MR) for a year-long term to develop significant works for the public realm. The studio held its first annual showcase in the summer of 2021, with the Tribeca Festival as its official creative collaborator, presenting works by ONX artists, some of which had already been shown at such festivals as Sundance and SXSW. Constantly exploring new courses of action for hybrid digital and physical experiences, the ONX Studio will also be in close dialogue with the Onassis Foundation’s Digital Development and Innovation Department in Athens, that seeks to support innovation and disruption across disciplines. The interactions between the two initiatives are expected to lead to the formalization of an exchange program in the near future. Main Photo © Afroditi Panagiotakou

IF NOT NOW, by Kordae Jatafa (Direction), Henry & Jeremy Kamal (Artistic Direction)

Anti-Gone, by Theo Triantafyllidis

Photo © Afroditi Panagiotakou

Onassis Los Angeles

A house among the palm trees, a ping pong table, and a passion for conversation. The Executive Director of Onassis LA (OLA), Paul Holdengräber – who has to date spoken openly with some of the most famous people in the world as part of the “LIVE from the NYPL” series hosted at the New York Public Library – is now continuing his extraordinary encounters on behalf of the Onassis Foundation in Los Angeles. Connecting with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Henry Rollins to Maira Kalman and Margaret Atwood, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, and Werner Herzog to Mike Tyson, both in person and via his podcast series The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is increasingly reducing the distances between LA and the rest of the world.

Illustration © Theodoros Koveos

03—04.03.22

DESIGN — DIGITAL CULTURE ONASSIS STEGI

Circular Cultures For the 4th year, the Onassis Stegi and the British Council are exploring the issue of circular economy in the fields of design, fashion, entrepreneurship and digital culture.

How can we rethink and, more importantly, redesign our world so that we can have environmental justice, produce and use sustainable technologies, and have the resilience that our era demands? Through the collaboration of the Onassis Stegi and the British Council, we continue and expand the Circular Cultures program in the fields of design, fashion, entrepreneurship and digital culture. In an event that includes participants from all over the world, interactive physical and digital workshops and synergies with organizations, companies and collectives from Greece and abroad, we set the basic parameters of the issue and seek applied and applicable best practices in our daily lives. Because circular economy is also a matter of culture. Program Management Maria Papaioannou (British Council Greece), Prodromos Tsiavos (Onassis Foundation) Production Management Katerina Galani (British Council), Ioanna Margariti (Onassis Stegi) In collaboration with British Council

CIRCULAR CULTURES

10—13.03.22

DANCE — PERFORMANCE

IN & OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

ONASSIS NEW CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL 9

Photo © Petros Hytiris

10—13.03.22

DANCE — PERFORMANCE

IN & OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9 — ONC 9 International and Greek. On stages and on screens. In the city and on the Internet. With dance artists, and multimedia artists too. This year, the Onassis Stegi festival that shows us the future of dance will be as live as it is online. Tune in to its pulsing rhythm.

The foremost festival for a new generation of Greek dance artists. Now in its ninth year, with live works presented on Onassis Stegi’s stages alongside digital works dropped on the Onassis Channel on YouTube. With works liberated from notions of pop culture versus high art. Works that go beyond the limits of contemporary dance, opening themselves up to the broader, hybrid arts landscape. Works dealing with the here and now, with what once was and what will always be. Works by artists who are not necessarily just choreographers or new on the scene in terms of age, who do not censor themselves when it comes to their artistic backgrounds, their temperament, and their conceptually complex or even rarefied content, but who are instead ready to throw dance balls in the heart of Athens and to enter into international synergies at the ends of the earth, and who never hesitate when it comes to being highly personal, reactionary, and political, yet effortlessly emotional at the same time. And all this because when we talk about dance, we’re talking about a multisensory, collaborative, physical, experiential, and public experience.

ONASSIS NEW CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL 9

Photo © Andreas Simopoulos

Let’s talk openly

Reflections on Greek society, on the Onassis Channel on YouTube. Speaking openly about all that is obvious but not yet a given. Greek society is a constant point of focus for Onassis Stegi – always has been, and always will be. People, coming together to talk openly and without intermediaries, take center stage in the Society Uncensored online discussion series that forms part of the Onassis Stegi Talks & Thoughts program. A crosssection of citizens – representatives of highly active organizations, members of academic and artistic communities, individuals from the worlds of activism, civil society, journalism, research, legal representation, and governance, people of various ethnicities and drawn from communities that call Athens home – all take a stand on major social issues of our time and place. Thanks to the Society Uncensored series, a plethora of voices have already been heard, discussing such issues as Black Lives Matter, sexism and gendered violence, cultural identity, hate speech, present-day parenthood, and body shaming.

Still from the online discussion Eight Athenians Discuss: What does it mean to be an active citizen today? Photo © Pavlos Fysakis

15.03.22

TALKS & THOUGHTS MAIN STAGE

Fran Lebowitz IN DISCUSSION WITH AFRODITI PANAGIOTAKOU On New York and Athens, urban coolness, and the importance of saying what’s on your mind. When maverick New York writer and critic Fran Lebowitz meets the Onassis Foundation’s Director of Culture, Afroditi Panagiotakou, no one knows what the evening will bring.

If New York were a woman, it would be Fran Lebowitz. Unorthodox and intellectual with a wry sense of humor, a voracious smoker and reader, a writer who – by her own admission – has had writer’s block lasting decades, an associate of Andy Warhol (whom she didn’t like), a figure both provocative and fractious. The limitless Fran Leibowitz, now more widely known in Greece thanks to the Netflix documentary series Pretend It’s a City made by her close friend Martin Scorsese, is coming to Onassis Stegi to take part in an unpredictable conversation with the Onassis Foundation’s Director of Culture, Afroditi Panagiotakou, about the contemporary cultural landscape, life in the world’s metropolises, and the importance of being oneself today. A discussion where the audience will get the most incisive answers to all their questions.

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Original Photo © Cybele Malinowski - Sydney Opera House

18—20.03.22

THEATER

MAIN STAGE

GUS VAN SANT Trouble In his first work for the stage, this Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated American director presents an unconventional musical portrait of the father of pop art, Andy Warhol.

Controversial artist, celebrity mentor, outrageous filmmaker, capitalist philosopher – the impossible-to-pin-down Andy Warhol served as the inspiration for acclaimed auteur Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, Elephant, and more) to try his hand at theater for the first time, reviving one of his abandoned cinematic projects. Taking a Campbell’s Condensed soup can as his “banner”, Warhol shook up the 1960s art world. Van Sant traces his career and the birth of pop art by means of a hybrid narrative that combines song with fictional and documentary elements, reminiscences and imaginings. Such legendary figures as Truman Capote, Edie Sedgwick and Clement Greenberg are played by a young cast who reformulate notions of image and identity. Text & Music & Direction Gus Van Sant With Carolina Amaral, Diogo Fernandes, Francisco Monteiro, Helena Caldeira, João Gouveia, Lucas Dutra, Martim Martins, Miguel Amorim, Valdemar Brito Artistic Collaboration & Dramaturgy John Romão Musical Direction Paulo Furtado / The Legendary Tigerman Vocal Direction João Henriques Set design José Capela, assisted by António Pedro Faria, with images by José Carlos Duarte Portraits Bruno Simão Costumes Joyce Doret Light Design Rui Monteiro Sound Design João Neves Choreographic Support Sónia Baptista Assistant direction Teresa Coutinho Sound Technician Rui Antunes Stage Manager Inês Carvalho e Lemos Technical Director Gi Carvalho Executive Production Francisca Aires Production BoCA (Lisbon) Coproduction National Theatre D. Maria II, deSingel, Festival Romaeuropa, Onassis Foundation, Kampnagel, La Comédie de Reims, Théâtre de la Cité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie, Teatro Calderón Supports Teatro Thalia, Suspenso Trouble is a commissioned project by BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts.

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Photo © Bruno Simão

TROUBLE

18—20.03.22

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Photo © Bruno Simão

TROUBLE

Photo © Christos Sarris

30.03—03.04.22

DANCE

MAIN STAGE

CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS Larsen C Dancing, like an iceberg. A celebration of the movements that define the natural order of things.

An iceberg or an ice shelf. This is how scientists describe the massive frozen volume of water in the Antarctic that is the 10,000-year-old Larsen C. Twice the size of Wales, Larsen C’s movements are so slow that they cannot be perceived by the human senses – it’s as if the pace of its movement gets absorbed by time and space. In this new choreography by Christos Papadopoulos, which also takes the name Larsen C, human bodies tune in to this same everlasting pace in a dream-like sequence where they increasingly appear as otherworldly as a polar landscape. Three years after Ion, which had its world premiere at Onassis Stegi, Christos Papadopoulos is once more a close observer of minimal movements which, through immanence and repetition, generate life. Larsen C is a celebratory homage to the silent transference of bodies. In the artist’s own words, it is “a metaphor for life that moves ahead, invincible”.

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Photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

LARSEN C

Concept & Choreography Christos Papadopoulos With the performers Maria Bregianni, Chara Kotsali, Georgios Kotsifakis, Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Alexandros Nouskas Varelas, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Adonis Vais Music & Sound Design Giorgos Poulios Set Design Clio Boboti Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou Costume Design Angelos Mentis Dramaturgy Consultant Alexandros Mistriotis Choreography Consultant Martha Pasakopoulou Assistant Set Designer Filanthi Bougatsou Production Management Rena Andreadaki, Zoe Mouschi Tour Lighting Head Stavros Kariotoglou Set and Sound Technician Michalis Sioutis Tour Manager Konstantina Papadopoulou International Distribution Key Performance A project by Christos Papadopoulos // The Lion and the Wolf Produced by Onassis Stegi- Athens (GR) Supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program, NEON Organization for Culture and Development Coproduced by A-CDCN (Les Hivernales - CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture - CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, L’échangeur CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège I CDCN Falaise Normandie, Le Pacifique - CDCN Grenoble - Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Touka Danses - CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix - Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse - CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne) (FR); Théâtre de la Ville , Paris (FR); Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE); Julidans, Amsterdam (NL); Romaeuropa Festival (IT); Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine (FR); Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia (IT); Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid (ES) In collaboration with Département du Val-de-Marne, as part of the creation residency aid (FR), the Lavanderia a Vapore choreographic residencies projects (IT) Touring is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn Program”

Photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

17—20.03.22

MUSIC

ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE

Georges Aperghis

Decoding his music universe Featuring a music theater performance adapted for the first ever time in the Greek language, a masterclass, and concerts, Onassis Stegi and the Athens Conservatoire honor the distinguished Greek composer, who in 2021 received one of the most prestigious composers’ awards worldwide, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.

Onassis Stegi once again joins forces with the Athens Conservatoire on a tribute to Georges Aperghis’s music theater universe, following the event’s postponement due to the pandemic in 2020, but also the lasting impression made by the tribute to Olivier Messiaen in 2019 – a collaboration between the two institutions. The composer Nicolas Tzortzis, who studied under Aperghis and masterminded the entire program for the tribute, will lead a team of musicians, actors, and dancers in creating a new version of Énumérations (1988), based of course on Aperghis’s original work (17/3). Françoise Revalland, percussionist and Aperghis’s longtime collaborator, will teach a master class on the composer’s music theater works, while she will also participate in a concert for voice, percussion, and accordion, along with Angèle Chemin and Vincent Lhermet (18 & 20/3). Lenio Liatsou, who recently recorded Aperghis’s works for piano, will perform a recital (18/3); finally, a concert will be held by the participants in the master class (19/3). General Supervision of the Tribute Georges Aperghis Tribute Planning Georges Aperghis, Nicolas Tzortzis, Françoise Rivalland Coordination Lorenda Ramou Coordination (Athens Conservatory) Nikos Athineos With the Participation of Georges Aperghis, Nicolas Tzortzis (seminar tutor), Françoise Rivalland (percussion/ cimbalom/masterclass tutor), Angèle Chemin (Soprano), Vincent Lhermet (accordion), Lenio Liatsou (piano), Athina Alexopoulou (actress), Aggelos Mitsios (editing)

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Digital Collage © Theodoros Koveos Original Photo © Suzanne Doppelt

01.04—15.05.22

EXHIBITION — TALKS & THOUGHTS

UPPER STAGE & EXHIBITION HALL -1

DAPHNE DRAGONA & JUSSI PARIKKA

Weather Engines The Weather Engines exhibition explores the poetics and the politics, the aesthetics and technologies of the environment, from the ground to the sky, and from the air to the atmosphere.

Curated by Daphne Dragona, Jussi Parikka Weather Engines is realized within the framework of Studiotopia network, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union

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WEATHER ENGINES

The weather is a dynamic system of pressure, temperature and humidity. It manifests through maps, media, and simulations while it touches the skin. Weather is felt unevenly, from extremes to mundane mildness of a breeze. Some are exposed, some are sheltered; weather wears some down, some gain profit. Weather Engines is an art exhibition and a program of workshops, talks, and readings. It explores weather as a complex system, as an object of observation and control, and as a lived experience. The projects and events refer to natural phenomena and climate change, past and contemporary strategies of engineering the weather. Approaching the models and systems of art as techniques of knowledge, Weather Engines addresses the need for climate justice, and for embracing the surrounding more-than-human world(s). The exhibition is accompanied by the publication Words of Weather: A glossary that maps terms for a political ecology of experience.

Film still: Matterlurgy, Hydromancy (2021)

08—10.04.22

MUSIC

IN & OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

Borderline ’22 Do notions of what is normal, accepted or non-accepted exist in music? The Borderline Festival is always at the outer edges. Give yourself over to the here and now of sound.

Do notions of what is normal and standard, accepted or non-accepted exist in music? And at the end of the day, how much do we really want to be surprised or to have our expectations upended through sound and the listening experience? When it comes to borders, what falls inside of them and what falls outside? And what is really the point of dividing lines between different music genres and artistic practices? In recognition of the political dimensions of musical expression, the Borderline Festival invites listeners to question established borderlines and give themselves over to the here and now of sound. Loud and soft, gentle and aggressive, and above all disparate, this three-day festival focuses on live music practice and aims at inclusiveness, and audience-artist interaction. Borderline presents a series of unique music experiences that could never fully be captured by sound and image recording media: concerts, installations, workshops, screenings, and talks held at Onassis Stegi and beyond as part of a festival now synonymous with the Greek and international music avant-garde. Curated by Michalis Moschoutis

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Original Photos © Pinelopi Gerasimou

Photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

15—17.04.22

MUSIC

MAIN STAGE

MICHAIL MARMARINOS JANI CHRISTOU Once to be realised

Jani Christou: Six encounters with his work ENSEMBLE DISSONART

Michail Marmarinos and six contemporary music theater composers contend with the unsorted archives of Jani Christou’s works in a performance that resembles ancient drama, but also social sculpture. In the last years of his life Jani Christou created nearly 130 sketches for compositions to be realized later on. He was only able to work out a few of them before his untimely death in a car accident in 1970 on his 44th birthday. Most of these visionary drafts were never realized in the just under 50 years following his death, and only now will become the foundation of a new music theater work. Together with the renowned Greek director Michail Marmarinos, six composers, who are among the most distinguished creators of contemporary music theater, will tackle Christou’s designs. They encounter them with their own musical language, explore them, let themselves be inspired, and work their way through them, in order to use their own means and their own ideas to continue and write on into the future. The result is a music theater that is as much an ancient drama as a social sculpture.

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Six encounters with the unclassified project files of Jani Christou by Beat Furrer, Barblina Meierhans, Olga Neuwirth, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Christian Wolff Stage Director Michail Marmarinos Assistant Stage Director Lea Theus Set Design, Costumes & Videos Yorgos Sapountzis Assistant Set Designer Martin Ku Dramaturge Sebastian Hanusa Conception Lenio Liatsou Conductor Cordula Bürgi Light Design Steffen Hoppe Video Nicolai Roloff Sound NN Pia Davila: Mezzo soprano, Matthew Cossack: Baritone, Marius Böhm, Meik Van Severen: Perfomers (Schauspiel, NN: Dance, Robyn Schulkowsky: Percussion (Olga Neuwirth piece) Ensemble dissonArt Yannis Anisegos: flute , Alexandros Stavridis: clarinet, Theodoros Patsalidis: violin, Hara Sira: viola, Vassilis Saitis: cello, Lenio Liatsou: piano, Yannis Hatzis: double bass, Kostas Argyropoulos: percussion Cantando Admont Friederike Kühl: Soprano, Elina Viluma-Helling: Soprano, Annika Westlund: Mezzo soprano, Helena Sorokina: Mezzo soprano, Hugo Paulsson Stove: Tenor, Bernd Lambauer: Tenor, Matias Bocchio: Baritone, Christoph Brunner: Bass Composition commissioned by the City of Munich for the Munich Biennale A coproduction of the Munich Biennale with Deutsche Oper Berlin and Onassis Stegi Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation Composition commissions to Olga Neuwirth, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Younghi Pagh-Paan and Christian Wolff funded by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Funded by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council

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BELTRÃO Grupo de Rua Dance as movement. Dance as a resistance movement. From the neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his company react against the far-right practices and barbarity of the Bolsonaro administration.

In Niterói, on the south-eastern edge of Rio de Janeiro, the dancers of the group Grupo de Rua – Bruno Beltrão’s company –are trying to comprehend the violent world around them. Grupo de Rua gives its own response to Bolsonaro administration and its repressive practices. Internationally recognized as a refreshing innovator of the hip hop scene, Beltrão pays close attention to the intense tremors emanating from the political realities of his homeland in order to translate them into extreme pulses of bodily energy. Enriching the dialectics of urban dance with the principles of contemporary dance, he delivers high-powered works of immense dancerly skill that have seen him described as the William Forsythe of hip hop. His latest choreography confirms that to inhabit movement is a consciously political act. Artistic direction Bruno Beltrão By and with Grupo de Rua A production Grupo de Rua (Niterói - BR) Coproduced by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt - DE), Centquatre & Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris - FR), Kampnagel (Hamburg - DE), Sadler Wells (London - UK), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels - BE), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht - NL), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna - AT), Onassis Stegi (Athens - GR), Culturgest / Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Lisbon - PT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto - PT), Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg Scène Européenne (Strasbourg - FR), Cité Musicale Metz (Metz - FR), Romaeuropa (Rome - IT), Charleroi Danse (Charleroi - BE) Management and Distribution Something Great (Berlin - DE) Commissioned by the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm within the framework of the German Alliance of International Production Houses

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Onassis Documentaries

Onassis Culture is facilitating dialogue between the world we live in and the worlds in which we’d like to live. A series of new documentaries will be bringing us closer to issues that concern us all, guiding our gaze towards individual and collective realities, towards personal stories that deserve to be told, towards dreams and experiences and new narratives. Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens, a documentary by Tassos Langis and Yiannis Gaitanidis based on the book of the same title by Ioanna Theocharopoulou, sheds light on the history of the Athenian apartment block. Girlhood, by Vania Turner and Maria Sidiropoulou, transports us into fragile teen realities through the stories of three 17-yearold girls in central Athens. Clean Cities – a documentary directed by Marina Danezi, Kostas Mandilas, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, and Christos Sarris – tells the stories of various women who clean the world’s cities, and springs from the international tour of the Onassis Stegi production Clean City directed by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris. Onassis Documentaries present everyday heroes, both women and men, from every corner of the planet – everywhere from Athens to Chile, and from New York to Istanbul – talking openly and taking a stand on issues relevant to the here and now.

Film still from the documentary Clean Cities

Onassis Cinema

New cinema. New worlds. The Onassis Foundation is pursuing lasting investment in Greek cinema and playing an active role in artistic creation. From Vasilis Kekatos to Panos Koutras, and from Yannis Economides to Evi Kalogiropoulou, Onassis Cinema is supporting established filmmakers and rising talents through screenplay development and the production of both shorts and features. It is partnering with such major institutions as the Hellenic Film Academy, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the Drama International Short Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival – Opening Nights, and the Oxbelly Screenwriters & Directors Lab to bolster Greek film, both at home and around the world. In 2022, as part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s Meet the Future initiative, Konstantina Kotzamani and Jacqueline Lentzou will be travelling to New York and Los Angeles as Onassis Fellows to meet with members of the US film industry in person.

Left: The director Yannis Economides Right: The visual artist and director Evi Kalogiropoulou, © Panos Giannakopoulos

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Frankenstein Lost Paradise And the creator gave form to the monster. Lena Kitsopoulou brings Frankenstein and his monstrous creation to the stage, and ponders the price paid for creativity. Is the monster maybe me? Or is it you?

The Victorian myth of Frankenstein – the creator who gave form to a humanoid monster – brings Lena Kitsopoulou back to the Onassis Stegi stage. Romanticism and nihilism, eugenics and ruthless satire, all inspired by a story written in 1820 by the 19-year-old Mary Shelley – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus – forever haunting world literature with the story of a doctor and anatomist who gathers human body parts, constructs a humanoid creature, and gives it life through the power of electricity. The young scientist Victor Frankenstein, like a new Prometheus, creates life out of death – and is relentlessly punished for his act. With her new work of dramatic composition and direction, the writer, director, performer, visual artist, and Greek theater luminary Lena Kitsopoulou draws her source material from the world’s most celebrated horror story to talk about the monsters that arise in contemporary daily life. To talk about loneliness and narcissism; violence and infamous murderers; instigators and abettors seen as innocents; the lost paradise of youth; and above all, the nature of creation. All handled with unbridled irony, and performed by a fearless ensemble cast that carries us away to look the “monster” – each and every monster – right in the eye. Concept, Text & Direction Lena Kitsopoulou Set Design & Video Design Theo Triantafyllidis Costumes Design Magdalini Avgerinou Music Nikos Kypourgos Lights Design Nikos Vlasopoulos With Christina Antonaraki, Lena Kitsopoulou, Emily Koliandri, Υiannis Kotsifas, Ioanna Mavrea, Panos Papadopoulos et al. Assistant to Director Marilena Moschou Line Production POLYPLANITY Productions/ Yolanda Markopoulou & Vicky Strataki Produced by Onassis Stegi

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Onassis Channel

Still from the ATH Kids Stages A/Live gig, with special guest Marina Satti, on the Gagarin 205 stage, © Pinelopi Gerasimou

The Onassis Foundation’s online channel was created to fill the gap left by the closure of performance spaces, and has proved itself a means for democratizing culture. The Onassis Channel was born during Greece’s first lockdown and became the number one online channel of any cultural organization in the country. In a short space of time, the Foundation digitized all the productions presented at Onassis Stegi during its first ten years of life, and made them freely available to the public. But it didn’t stop there. It created new content, filmed specially for YouTube. It sparked a series of online discussions that had a positive and wide-reaching impact on Greek society. It offered young artists space, time, and an online performance platform, connecting them with broader audiences. It brought life back to music stages in Greece shut down due to the pandemic by creating Stages A/ Live, a series of online concerts watched by audiences across the globe. Racking up more than 61,000 subscribers from 92 different countries, 5.3 million views, 510,000 viewing hours, and 39,210,000 impressions, the Onassis Channel is getting bigger by the day, and is constantly evolving to embrace the digital future.

Still from the DJ set by Charlotte De Witte at Ancient Messene © Andreas Simopoulos

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28—29.05.22

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Big Bang 6 For the 6th year, this European music festival designed especially for kids aged 0–12 is turning Onassis Stegi, and the entire neighborhood around it, into an endless musical adventure.

At this festival, every question has the same answer: music. On stage, in the foyers, corridors and elevators, but also outdoors – far beyond the walls of Onassis Stegi and out into its neighborhood. Musicians come from all over the world to engage with children, parents, and friends. This sixth edition of Big Bang does away with every “don’t” and invites youngsters to try out new things – to listen and play, dance and sing. Besides, no-one knows how to have fun and let go to the sound of music better than kids do – so come aboard! Onassis Stegi is opening its doors to high-decibel sounds, and encouraging the active participation of each and every child. Curated by Christos Carras, Myrto Lavda, Wouter van Looy Members Onassis Stegi (GR), Zonzo Compagnie (ΒΕ), Centro Cultural de Belém (PT), Opéra de Rouen (FR) & Opéra de Lille (FR), BOZAR (ΒΕ), Insitituto de la Cultura y las Artes Sevilla – ICAS (ES), Childrens' Cultural Centre LTD - The Ark (IR), Wilminktheater & Muziekcentrum Enschede (NL), Eesti Kontsert (EST), City of Reykjavik (IS), AAP-Μedia (BE) Big Bang Festival is a coproduction of the Onassis Stegi and Zonzo Compagnie and is part of the European Network of BIG BANG Music Festivals. Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union

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Xenakis Alive

Musicians drawn from the experimental and electronic scenes reinterpret the multifaceted practice of Iannis Xenakis using the sounds of tomorrow. A tribute to the influential composer marking the centennial of his birth.

Iannis Xenakis was among the greatest artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century, and by far the most influential composer of Greek origin. In 2022, on the centennial of his birth in Braila, Romania, many anniversary events will take place across the world paying homage to his work. It is of great interest that Xenakis’s work inspires to this day young musicians, and that many of them are not involved in the academic field of ‘new music,’ but rather in the more experimental, underground, electronic scene. Maybe this has to do with the way he shaped the sonic textures as an architect himself, or maybe it was the compositions’ engagement with ways of thinking that were far away from classical tradition, or even a sense of emergency stemming from his uncompromising writing. Onassis Stegi, following the principle to engage with anniversaries only looking forward towards the future, will commission new compositions and performances to experimental and electronic musicians that will render Xenakis’s versatile energy into tomorrow’s sounds. Curated by Christos Carras, Orestis Karamanlis, Dimitris Maronidis In partnership with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Université Paris 8 – MUSIDANSE, the Friends of Xenakis Association, and the University of the Peloponnese

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Learning at Onassis Stegi

An open society, equal access to education, constant and collective curiosity. The Onassis Foundation’s educational programs are continuing to fulfil its longstanding values. Yet again this year, we’re coming just a little closer thanks to more than 80 educational programs across dozens of different fields. Creative music-learning workshops for children that make use of digital apps, Cavafy Archive research seminars for educators, dance for the over-65s and for mixed groups of disabled and non-disabled participants – the Onassis Foundation’s educational programs are for everyone. The Onassis Foundation has been unleashing people’s potential since 1978, awarding more than 7,000 scholarships to students, researchers, artists, and scientists to date. The Onassis Foundation Cavafy Archive consists of more than 2,000 archival items in both Greek and English, including manuscripts of Cavafy’s poems, hand-compiled printed editions, prose literary works, articles, studies, and notes by the poet. A new space in the center of Athens housing all these C. P. Cavafy documents and personal effects is set to open in 2022. Until then, you can discover the Cavafy Archive digital collection at cavafy. onassis.org.

AntetokounBros Academy

A basketball and educational academy open to everyone is continuing its mission. The AntetokounBros Academy is heading back out onto the courts. One hundred girls and boys aged 12 to 16 are training in Athens’ Lambrini and Ellinorosson neighborhoods, with international athlete Evina Maltsi as their Head Coach. At this academy that combines basketball with education and training with inspiration, young players are unleashing their potential and setting their sights high, far beyond their neighborhood. An Onassis Foundation partnership with Nike and Eurohoops.

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From Athens to Europe. Continuing our mission of being extrovert and connecting with important institutions abroad, Onassis Stegi actively participates in international networks for exchanging ideas and artistic practices, encouraging creativity and innovation in the field of culture.

EUROPEAN PROGRAMS

ART – SCIENCE – TECHNOLOGY

S+T+ARTS Regional Centers: Repairing the Present Everything towards repairing the future, together. Onassis Stegi collaborates with eleven European organizations and together they propose a program consisting of S+T+ARTS Expert Meetings, S+T+ARTS Academies, S+T+ARTS Exhibitions and Prototyping Parks, and S+T+ARTS Fellowships, with the main objective to work on their shared mission. The program fosters the development of methodologies and frameworks for long-term cross-disciplinary collaborations that can lead to products, tools, and processes positively impacting society. By creating the right synergies from the start and thoughtfully match-making artists with local stakeholders, the consortium partners will set the stage for the definition of shared goals and the exchange of knowledge. Artists will step into the labs of research institutions and R&D departments of companies, and researchers will be invited into artists’ studios. Together they will develop new concepts, tools, and products and analyze their potential impact across governments and businesses. The results will be showcased in Prototyping Parks and exhibitions set up across Europe. Other programs will engage citizens and youth in S+T+ARTS Academy events ranging from education workshops, field expeditions, school visits, and hackathons, to conferences and networking activities in parallel to artistic residencies.

The “S+T+ARTS Regional Center: Repairing the Present” project brings together the following partner organizations: Snowball (Belgium), MAXXI (Italy), Art Hub Copenhagen (Denmark), STATE FESTIVAL (Germany), Onassis Stegi (Greece), In4Art (The Netherlands), MEET (Italy), CCCB (Spain), Ars Electronica (Austria), Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris (France), Kersnikova (Slovenia), and CYENS (Cyprus). S+T+ARTS is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of science, technology, and the arts, that effectively implement a European approach to technological innovation centered on human needs and values.

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Studiotopia Where art meets science, an intellectual and creative journey begins. STUDIOTOPIA is a residency program designed for a new generation of artists who are interested in collaborating with scientists, as well as in participating in processes of creative engagement with specific audiences. The program aims to challenge technological and scientific determinism and the hierarchy between the arts and empirical sciences, by actively encouraging artists and other communities to experimentally try out their own creative, critical, and structural ideas through a range of artistic residencies, improvised workshops, research activities, exhibitions, lectures, and cultural events. As part of STUDIOTOPIA, the Onassis Stegi implements two residency programs: one that explores the ecosystem of marine caves and the seabed landscape as a stage for the reversal of anthropocentric civilization, by marine biologist Markos Digenis and the artist team Hypercomf, and the other concerning a model of circular economy and the ways in which it can be applied to our daily eating habits, by the scientist Audrey-Flore Ngomsik and the artist group 3 137. The results of the above residencies will be presented in the programming of Onassis Stegi for 2021–2022, while an exhibition, discussions, and a series of educational workshops (pop-up labs) will be organized in collaboration with the Educational Programs Department of the Onassis Foundation.

The “Studiotopia” network brings together the following partner organizations BOZAR (Belgium), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Ars Electronica (Austria), Gluon (Belgium), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain), VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands), Centrul Cultural Clujean (Romania), and Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Poland). Co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

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DANCE & DISABILITY

Europe Beyond Access Artists with disabilities break the boundaries of contemporary theater and dance. “Europe Beyond Access” is a five-year program (2018–2023) between seven leading European theaters and dance organizations, which aims to bring performing artists with disabilities to the forefront of the European cultural scene. The organizations participating in this network are committed to commissioning and presenting works of high artistic level and to developing European audiences interested in pioneering high quality work by artists with disabilities, while developing tools and insight in the wider performing arts market. As part of “Europe Beyond Access” and for the 2021–2022 artistic period, Onassis Stegi has designed an inclusive artistic program consisting of new Greek productions and transfers from abroad, an artistic residency of one dancer with disability, an international dance workshop for dancers with disabilities, training workshops for cultural professionals, as well as supporting the tour of the production “Re-Call (Reloaded)” in Italy and Sweden.

The following organizations participate in the “Europe Beyond Access” network British Council (United Kingdom), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Holland Dance Festival (Netherlands), Kampnagel (Germany), Per.Art (Serbia), Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), and Oriente Occidente (Italy). Co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union

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Dance On, Pass On, Dream On International Lab The collaborative project “Dance On, Pass On, Dream On” comes with the aim to eliminate ageism in dance and in society. Eleven renowned European dance cultural organizations work together for a Europe where older dancers will be able to engage in meaningful, creative activities surrounding our shared dance heritage with love.

The “Dance On, Pass On, Dream On” network brings together the following organizations DIEHL+RITTER (Germany), Codarts Rotterdam – University of the Arts (Netherlands), Compagnie Jus de la Vie | Age on Stage (Sweden), Holland Dance Festival (Netherlands), Nomad Dance Academy (Slovenia), Sadler’s Wells (United Kingdom), STUK House for Dance, Image & Sound (Belgium), Mercat de les Flors (Spain), Station Service for Contemporary Dance (Sweden), KUMQUAT Productions (France), and Onassis Stegi (Greece). Co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

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MUSIC

Sounds Now A network of people and organizations in contemporary sound art can change the way we listen to the world. “Sounds Now” is a network of European music festivals and cultural institutions that promotes contemporary classical music, experimental music, and sound art by developing a project on how curatorial practices reproduce the same patterns of power and social exclusion. Through a wide range of activities, with workshops for curators, learning programs supervised by artists, composers, and experts, new productions, symposia, and research, the network aims to actively encourage diversity within the professional cultural field. In this way, it aims to open the range and possibilities for different experiences, conditions, and perspectives to emerge in shaping the sound art that reaches today’s audiences.

The “Sounds Now” network brings together the following organizations Musica (Belgium), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (United Kingdom), Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (Norway), November Music (Netherlands), SPOR Festival (Denmark), Time of Music (Finland), Transit Festival – Festival 20·21 (Belgium), and Wilde Westen (Belgium). Co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

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Transmissions What happens when contemporary music and sound art travels? The Transmissions residency exchange program brings together two partners from the opposite ends of Europe (Greece & Norway) in a series of actions that involve an extended ecosystem of large and small institutions. Through a three-year program of residencies, educational and cultural events, the project enables artists and cultural professionals in contemporary music and sound art to learn from their counterparts and present their work in a new context. The Transmissions residency exchange program involves collaborative encounters between Norwegian and Greek sound artists and researchers, emphasizing remote or geographically isolated landscapes and their audible and inaudible past in partnership with Syros Sound Meetings & The North Norwegian Art Centre (NNKS). The Transmissions residency exchange program proposes a collaboration between Anna Papaeti, a Greece-based researcher and practitioner focusing on the relationship between sound and trauma, especially in situations of detention, and Maia Urstad, a Norway-based artist working at the intersection of audio & visual arts, with a special interest in archive-based art and obsolete technologies. The Transmissions university exchange program will involve six students from the University of Oslo and six students from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Music Studies) to explore the theme of transmission in musical communication. Through a series of workshops, the students will take as a creative point of departure the slight deviations, limitations, possibilities, and processes of change that occur in communicating ideas from one person to another in a modern technological context, and will attempt to identify and explore what happens when musicians with different cultures and musical backgrounds meet and exchange ideas that could result in new works by the students.

The project is coordinated by Onassis Stegi in partnership with Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival with the support of the EEA Grants and the Norwegian Financial Mechanisms 2014–2021.

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MUSIC

Big Bang The European Big Bang network seeks to substantively enhance the quality of music produced for children in Europe through exploration and adventure. The network comprises twelve cultural organizations from across Europe that are willing to work together to achieve a common goal: to present the wonderful world of music in imaginative and adventurous ways, through the colorful music programming of concerts, installations, and workshops involving Big Bang musicians with expertise in a variety of genres and styles. As part of this network, Onassis Stegi will be connecting with all its young friends again in the coming year, holding its Big Bang Festival in May 2022.

The “Big Bang” network brings together the following organizations Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium), Centro cultural de Belém (Portugal), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Opéra de Rouen, Opéra de Lille (France), BOZAR (Belgium), Insitituto de la Cultura y de las Artes Sevilla – ICAS (Spain), Childrens’ Cultural Centre LTD – The Ark (Ireland), Wilminktheater & Muziekcentrum Enschede (Netherlands), Eesti Kontsert (Estonia), City of Reykjavik (Iceland), and AAP-media (Belgium). Co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

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EUROPEAN PROGRAMS

Alexandria: (Re)Activating Common Urban Imaginaries With a view to the multitude of challenges that art and our cultural heritage face today, Onassis Stegi presents a new network in which it participates. “Alexandria: (Re)Activating Common Urban Imaginaries”, brings to the surface all the emerging issues in culture and art of the recent years, through the symbolic and historical prism of the city of Alexandria and its influences in the Mediterranean and beyond. The program enhances the mobility of artists interested in comparative interpretation of the contemporary urban fabric in Alexandria and other European cities. As part of the “Alexandria” network, Onassis Stegi collaborates with Theatrum Mundi and designs the multi-scientific nomadic artistic residency program titled “The School for Sonic Memory”. In this residency, international artists collaborate with local urban planners, artists, and researchers to form a “school” for sound memory and the ways in which three Mediterranean cities – Athens, Alexandria, and Marseilles – communicate with each other through elements of the interconnected and conflicting past that unites them. At the same time, again within the framework of the “Alexandria” network, Onassis Stegi participates in the “Caravan Residency Program” where the residents hosted in Athens will have the opportunity to explore the cultural heritage of Alexandria through the work of K. P. Cavafy. The program is implemented in Athens, Brussels, Marseille, Nicosia, and Alexandria in coordination with the UNIDEE of Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy and is co-curated by Edwin Nasr and Sarah Rifky.

The following organizations participate in the Alexandria network Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium), BOZAR (Belgium), Cittadelarte of the Pistoletto Foundation (Italy), Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations – MUCEM (France), Onassis Stegi (Greece), University of Leiden (Netherlands), Kunsthall (Denmark), and Undo Point Contemporary Art Centre (Cyprus). In addition, the project benefits from the support of a network of partners in various parts of Europe and Egypt. Co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

EUROPEAN PROGRAMS

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES & TEENAGERS

Pass the Mic! The microphone is in your hands. The international network “Pass the Mic!” improves, for the first time, the access to higher education for adolescents from communities exposed to structural inequalities and re-emerging forms of racism directly linked to migration. Through the creation of a Southern European network that bridges regional schools and organizations for immigrants and refugees, “Pass the Mic!” connects teenagers with contemporary art professionals and European universities. As part of “Pass the Mic!”, the Educational Programs Department of the Onassis Foundation implements two residency programs between artists and immigrant teenagers in which they develop their own works of art through online workshops. Through creative dialogue and continuous interaction with the participants, the artists are inspired to design and implement two new artistic creations presented in collaboration with the cultural organization Centrale Fies at an open event in Italy in September 2021, while the works of teenagers will be presented at an open event in January 2022 at a venue to be announced.

The following organizations participate in the “PTM_Pass the Mic!” network IUAV – University of Venice (Italy), Onassis Education (Greece), Ebano Collective (Portugal), Centrale Fies (Italy) Co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union

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EUROPEAN PROGRAMS

Grand Luxe The one-of-a-kind European Grand Luxe Network has put powerful support structures in place for emerging choreographers seeking to develop new projects in constructively supportive settings. Providing educational resources, networking opportunities, advisory support, and regular seminars on matters relating to professional development, the Grand Luxe Network makes best use of the experience and technical expertise of its industry-leading member organizations to build a support network that meets the specific needs of participating artists. As part of the 2021–2022 season, the choreographer and dancer Konstantinos Papanikolaou – who appeared as part of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival last year (ONC8) with the work The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies – will be taking his place among a select group of artists set to benefit from the network’s professional support for the development and realization of their next ideas.

The following organizations participate in the “Grand Luxe” network The Grand Studio (Belgioum), Ballet de Lorraine (France), Ballet de l’Opera national du Rhin (France), Pole-Sud (France), TROIS C-L (Luxemburg), Freiburg Theater (Germany), L’Abri (Switzerland), Onassis Stegi (Greece)

WHO WE ARE

ONASSIS FOUNDATION Board of Directors Anthony S. Papadimitriou President and Treasurer of the Board Costas Grammenos Vice-President of the Board Dennis Μ. Houston Vice-President of the Board Florian Marxer Vice-President of the Board Marianna Moschou Secretary of the Board Stefanos P. Tamvakis Member of the Board Dimitri Nanopoulos Member of the Board Michael-Spyros Sotirhos Member of the Board Simon Critchley Member of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Member of the Board James Stavridis Member of the Board Paul Holdengräber Member of the Board Nikolaos Karamouzis Member of the Board Panayotis Touliatos Member of the Board

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Content

Afroditi Panagiotakou Director of Culture

Christos Carras Executive Director Onassis Stegi

Alexandros Roukoutakis Content Leader

Dimitris Theodoropoulos Deputy Director of Culture

Chronis Lillis Chief Operating Officer

Christina Kosmoglou Content Manager

Alexandra Chrysanthakopoulou PR Executive

Despina Bourdeka Project Manager

Iliana Dimadi Dramaturg

Dimitra Dernikou Production Manager

Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou Valia Papadimitraki Copy Editors

Konstantinos Tzathas Curator Maria Vasariotou Creative & Program Producer Pasqua Vorgia Talks & Thoughts Program Coordinator Nikos Athanasopoulos New Projects Advisor Evangelos Constantis Special Events Manager

Vasilis Panagiotakopoulos Christina Pitouli Akis Chontasis Producers Christina Liata Touring & Co-Productions Coordinator Xenia Sotirchou Touring & Co-Productions Assistant COMMUNICATION & CONTENT Demetres Drivas Group Communication & Content Manager Campaign Managers Kanella Psychogiou Senior Campaign Manager Haris Giakoumakis Elisavet Pantazi Daniel Vergiadis Campaign Managers Commercial Nikos Rossolatos Commercial Manager Dimitra Pappa Audience Development Coordinator Ioanna Tousiadou Sales Executive

Yiota Loura Website & Publications Editor Vasilis Bibas Social Media Manager Margarita Grammatikou Social Media / Copy Editor Sylvia Kouveli Social Media Editor Creative Studio Christos Sarris Head of Creative Constantinos Chaidalis Senior Graphic Designer Theodoros Koveos Georgia Leontara Jilian Viglaki Graphic Designers Elena Choremi Smaragda Dogani Aggelika Stavropoulou Onassis Channel Assistants Media Office Katerina Chortaria-Tamvaki Vaso Vasilatou Media Officers Nefeli Tsartaklea-Kasselaki Media Office Assistant

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FINANCE & ACCOUNTING

Polydoros Karyofyllis (Poka-Yio) Visual Culture Executive Consultant

Harry Gkizas Finance Manager Onassis Foundation

Marina Troupi Program Coordinator Dimitra Bouzani Project Coordinator Myrto Kontoni Project Facilitator DIGITAL & INNOVATION Prodromos Tsiavos Head of Digital & Innovation Iraklis Papatheodorou Digital & Innovation Coordinator Katerina Varda Digital & Innovation Assistant Ioanna Margariti Digital Programs Executive

Theofilos Nikolaou Accounting Manager Gerasimos Vardaramatos Finance Associate Antonis Seitelmann Supplies Manager Vasia Filippopoulou Pinelopi Kermerli Nancy Stavropoulou Dimitris Tsokali Accountants Myrto Giannakopoulou Anna Hirceaga Accountant Assistants Evangelia Aggelidou Food & Beverage Manager HUMAN RESOURCES

Konstantinos Diamantis Software & Media Administrator Ioannis Chazakis Network Administrator Theodoros Giannakopoulos System Administrator Giorgos Panagiotou Technical Support Engineer LINE PRODUCTION Despoina Sifniadou Marianota Giannaki Line Producers Ioulia Stamouli Iordanis Chatzivasilakis Zenia Agkistrioti Danai Giannakopoulou Line Producer Assistants NETWORKING Theodora Vougiouka Networks & Strategic Partnerships Coordinator

FACILITY MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT

Sotiris Stamatiou Group HR Director

Vera Petmeza Networks & Strategic Partnerships Assistant

Giorgos Raptis Facility Maintenance Manager

Eleni Mpragia HR Business Partner

ONASSIS AiR (ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE)

Antreas Branis Panagiotis Generalis Mechanical Engineers

Ioanna Ziampa HR Analyst

Ash Bulayev Onassis AiR & Fellowship Program Manager

Eleni Keratsa Facility Maintenance Department Administrative Assistant Dimitris Bougioukos Nikos Issis Electricians Vasileios Chatzieleutheriou Assistant Electrician Petrit Mula Iraklis Zervas Technicians Vaios Mammos Plumber / General Duties

Evi Kateva Senior HR Administrator FRONT OF HOUSE

Nefeli Myrodia Creative Producer & Program Dramaturg

Niovi Polychronidou Visitor Experience Coordinator

Georgia Giannakea Onassis AiR Administrator

Emmanouil Chatzakis Visitor Experience Assistant

OFFICE SERVICES

Konstantinos Iacovou Visitor Experience Facilitator INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Dimitris Tolias Group ICT Director Manos Karteris IT Manager Onassis Foundation

Vasilis Korobilis Office Services Coordinator Christos Giakoumis Anastasios Dimitroulakos Giannis Kouros Panagiotis Stergiou Ihor Davyda General Duties / Office Services Assistants

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Giorgos Gaitanos Nikos Mitilineos Messengers THEATER TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT Lefteris Karabillas Theatre Technical Manager Philip Hills Deputy Technical & Touring Manager Revekka Stamou Theatre Technical Department Administrative Assistant Vasia Christodoulou Katerina Georgoudaki Giannis Ntovas Stage Managers Konstantinos Alexiou Antonis Kokoris Lighting Technicians-Operators Dimitris Christaras Pantelis Michas Sompchy Mochament Ali Pavlos Pappas Giannis Psarros Lighting Technicians Assistants Iakovos Darzentas Chief Theater Engineer Stelios Bourdis Stage Engineer Nikos Nizamis Konstantinos Petronanos Aris Ragkavas Platonas Tsamados Stage Engineer Assistants Angeliki Dimitrakopoulou Fly Operator-Programmer Leonard Cela Thanasis Ntako Fly Operators-Assistants Panagiotis Hajisavas Efstratios Toganidis Production & Video Engineers Giannis Gkliatis Alexios Politis Theodoros Tsachalos Sound Technicians-Operators

Stefanos Papoutsakis Dimitris Samaras Alexandros Tzovaras Audio Assistants Fotis Andiranopoulos Kyriakos Xanthopoulos House Electricians Areti Antonatou Maria Beraha Hospitality SAFETY & SECURITY Andronikos Pandis Group Safety & Security Director Dimitris Stamatopoulos Safety & Security Coordinator Anastasia Sabani Safety & Awareness Officer Ioanna Aggelopoulou Dimitris Aspiotis Alexandros Bechlivanidis Evangelos Chalikias Eleftherios Charalampakis Ioannis Giannakos Nikos Kampanis Dimitris Karykis Anastasios Korobilis Spyros Kostoulas Konstantinos Koutentakis Lefteris Loukatos Afendra Mparola Athanasios Nikiforakis Dimitrios Oikonomou Georgia Oustabasiadou Stefanos Panagopoulos Christina Prentzia Eleftherios Saganis Antonis Stavropoulos Spyridoula Takopoulou Spyridon Triantafyllakis Vaia Tsitakidou Konstantinos Vlachos Safety & Security Agents

VISITOR GUIDELINES

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VISITOR SAFETY GUIDELINES

VISITOR ARRIVAL GUIDELINES

In accordance with Greek government guidance, and as part of measures combatting the spread of Covid-19, everyone entering the Onassis Stegi venue must present either a vaccination certificate (valid 14 days after final dose) or a recovery certificate (valid for six months after diagnosis).

Face masks must be worn everywhere inside Onassis Stegi.

MAIN STAGE

An ID card or passport must also be presented, for verification purposes. Specially appointed staff will check these certificates by scanning the relevant QR code using the official “CovidFreeGr” app. Here at Onassis Stegi, everyone’s safety is our prime concern.

Hand sanitizer stations are provided throughout the building.

To ensure public safety, audience arrivals have been staggered into four 15-minute time slots, starting from 19:30.

Visitors must make their way directly to the auditoria and are not allowed to linger in the venue’s public areas (such as the foyer).

Specifically:

To avoid congestion, visitors will be assigned specific arrival time slots. Tickets must be brought printed out, or presented in digital form.

Arrival Time Slot B: 19:45-20:00 – Mezzanine (Level 1)

Tickets are strictly for personal use and are non-transferable. Performances have no intermission. The ground floor cloakroom and bar (Liquid Bar) will remain closed. Audience members must sit in the seats indicated on their tickets – no seating changes are allowed. Please follow the instructions of our security staff and ushers as you enter and exit the auditoria. Onassis Stegi reserves the right to eject any ticket holder refusing to follow the rules and regulations set out here. For Main Stage, Upper Stage, and Exhibition Hall (-1) events, use of the elevators is restricted to two persons at a time. Face masks must be worn. Access to the underground car park is limited to drivers of vehicles. Face masks must be worn. The Onassis Stegi ticket office will remain closed. Tickets cannot be printed out on-site. Tickets can be purchased on our website (onassis.org) and via our call center. Visitors must print out their own tickets before arrival, or present them in digital form. HYTRA restaurant patrons are subject to these same Onassis Stegi entry regulations.

Arrival Time Slot A: 19:30-19:45 – Balcony (Level 2)

Arrival Time Slot C: 20:00-20:15 – Stalls, Rows Μ-Τ Arrival Time Slot D: 20:15-20:30 – Stalls, Rows Δ-Λ UPPER STAGE To ensure public safety, audience arrivals have been staggered into two 15-minute time slots, starting from 20:30. Specifically: Arrival Time Slot A: 20:30-20:45 – Rows Ε-Θ Arrival Time Slot B: 20:45-21:00 – Rows Ι-Ν

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TICKETS INFO

TICKETS Onassis Stegi supports unlimited access to culture for everyone. More tickets at €7 have been made available. Residents of areas neighboring Onassis Stegi are eligible for tickets at €7. Tickets for the unemployed, and people with disabilities available at €5 for all productions. Concession tickets available in all seating zones. Early bird tickets available for selected productions. Combo tickets (to see multiple shows at a discounted price) available for selected productions. CONCESSION TICKETS Those studying at Greek and international state-run and private educational institutions are eligible for student concession tickets. Special ticket prices are available for young people up to the age of 26, people with disabilities and their companions, people aged over 65, parents of three or more children, and serving Greek soldiers. Specially discounted tickets are available for the unemployed. Specially discounted tickets are available for Onassis Stegi Friends. Holders of a European Youth Card are entitled to 20% off all Onassis Stegi productions (not including third-party productions or external bookings). TICKETS FOR ONASSIS STEGI NEIGHBORS Available for residents of Neos Kosmos, Koukaki, Nea Smyrni, Paleo Faliro, and Kallithea. Ticket purchases are subject to availability at time of booking; there are no limitations regarding choice of seat. When the regular ticket for an event costs €7 or less, the special local resident price does not apply. Each local resident is entitled to purchase one (1) ticket per production. TICKET PRESALE INFO General public: three weeks before each event. Onassis Stegi Friends exclusive presale: one week before the general public. Early bird presale: begins simultaneously for both the general public and Onassis Stegi Friends, approximately two months before each premiere. Offered for selected productions only. Specific presale dates are announced on our website, onassis.org. Presale dates are indicative, and Onassis Stegi retains the right to modify them at any time.

TICKET SALES TICKET LINE

With the support of ticketmaster

Tel.: 210 9005800 | Mon.-Fri. 10:00-21:00 & Sat.-Sun. 17:00-21:00 ONLINE TICKET SALES Tickets are issued online, over the phone, and at third-party points of sale up until 30 minutes before the start of each event. Amex, Visa, Mastercard and Diners credit and debit cards are accepted. Onassis Stegi Friends can purchase their tickets via their online account, logging in with their username and password to access their discount and presale options.

GENERAL INFORMATION GENERAL PERFORMANCE START TIMES

The digital ticket/print@home service is available for all tickets purchased online. Access the PDF file using your smart device, save your ticket to your Android or iOS wallet, or print it out and proceed directly to the auditorium. (This service is not available for certain categories of concession tickets.)

MAIN STAGE 20:30 UPPER STAGE 21:00 These start times apply for all performances unless otherwise stated in our program or on the Onassis Stegi website, onassis.org. No-one is allowed to enter the auditorium after the start of a performance. The taking of photographs with or without flash, recording of any kind (sound and/or video), and the use of cell phones are all prohibited during the course of a performance. Smoking is prohibited everywhere inside Onassis Stegi. Children under the age of six (6) are only allowed entry to attend children’s productions. The tipping of Onassis Stegi staff is not allowed.

ONASSIS STEGI BOX OFFICE

ACCESS

Here at Onassis Stegi, the safety of the visiting public and all staff is our prime concern. This is why we are enforcing measures throughout our venue that are designed to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In light of this, the Onassis Stegi Ticket Office will remain closed until further notice.

By bus or trolley-bus: Panteios stop

TICKET COLLECTION DIGITAL TICKETS

For more information, please consult the Onassis Stegi website, call us on 210 90058800, or email us at infotickets@ onassis.org. TICKET RETURNS In the event a performance is cancelled, in whole or in part, ticket holders will be informed about how to claim refunds via an announcement on the Onassis Stegi website. Tickets can only be cancelled and refunded up to thirty minutes before the start of the event for which they were issued. Tickets that have been lost, stolen, or destroyed are not covered by Onassis Stegi.

By metro: Syngrou-Fix station Line 2 (red line) Anthoupoli – Elliniko By tram: Kasomouli stop Line 4: Syntagma – SEF Line 5: Syntagma – Voula ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair access is via a ramp leading up to the building’s side entrance, at the corner of Leontiou Street and Syngrou Avenue. Upper storeys are accessible via elevators, and all Onassis Stegi event spaces are wheelchair accessible. 107-109 Syngrou Avenue Athens 117 45, Greece Tel.: 213 017 8000 E-mail: info@onassis.org οnassis.org

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PUBLICATION CONTRIBUTORS

Director Afroditi Panagiotakou Consultants Dimitris Theodoropoulos Demetres Drivas Publication & Coordination Editors Alexandros Roukoutakis Christina Kosmoglou Creative Director Christos Sarris Design Georgia Leontara Jilian Viglaki Theodoros Kovaios Konstantinos Chaidalis Texts Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou Margarita Grammatikou Iliana Dimadi Vaso Vasilatou Translations Kyriacos Karseras Content Coordinators Kanella Psychogiou Yiota Loura Elisavet Pantazi Nefeli Tsartaklea-Kasselaki Elena Christopoulou Content Implementation Matina Nikolaidou Print Management Yiannis Alexandropoulos © 2021-2022, ONASSIS STEGI

Cover image: From the discussion Body Shaming: What makes you ashamed of your body? which premiered online on the Onassis Channel on July 29, 2021 as part of the Society Uncensored discussion series. Original photograph © Andreas Simopoulos

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