c.p.cavafy@days_of_2013 – European Cultural Centre of Delphi

Cavafy in Athens in the year of 2013!

More than a hundred and twenty years following his first journey during the summer of 1901, the poet visits afresh the Greek capital for three days, on December 13th, 14th and 15th, at Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.

The “host” of the great Alexandrian in Athens is the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. During the three-day festival c.p.cavafy@days_of_2013 renowned artists as well as artists of the younger generation approach Cavafy’s poetry through the performing and the visual arts, cinema and literature:

–    It goes on being Alexandria still Video installation by Despina Meimaroglou
–    16.9.1902 Video art by Nikos Navridis
–    The Old Man of Alexandria Concert by Thanos Mikroutsikos
–    Cavafy and Music: Songs and Reflexions Recital with the mezzo soprano Alexandra Gravas
–    Beyond the Shadow of the Word Poetry night with young poets curated and presented by the poet Thomas Tsalapatis
–    Morning Sea A narrative wandering in Cavafy’s poetry by the storyteller Sassa Voulgari
–    I’m more in the mood for looking than for writing Short & feature film screenings on the life and work of C.P. Cavafy

With this varied cultural festival, curtain falls on the programme “With Exquisite Music, Voices – 150 years since the birth of C. P. Cavafy” (eccd-etoscavafy.gr) that was organized by  the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, co-financed by Greece and the European Union, Attica Regional Operational Programme,  NSRF 2007-2013

• Music

THE OLD MAN OF ALEXANDRIA
Concert by Thanos Mikroutsikos
Friday 13 December | 20:30| Theatre Hall

Poems by C. P. Cavafy set to music by Thanos Mikroutsikos.

Participating:
Kostas Thomaidis – song, mandolin
Thymios Papadopoulos – flute, clarinet, bansuri, soprano saxophone
Dimitris Papanikolaou – narration
Thanos Mikroutsikos – piano

> www.mikroutsikos.gr

^{Tickets for the concert by Thanos Mikroutsikos are available at the Foundation’s Box Office (Piraeus 206, Tavros) Mon-Fri 11:00 – 14:00 as well as one hour before the performance. Ticket pre-sale available also at PUBLIC Stores: Syntagma Square, Piraeus, Glyfada, Ag. Dimitrios Metro Mall, Athens Mall Maroussi.}

Entrance fee: € 12,00 / € 7,00 (Students, Persons under 26 years old / over 65 years old, Holders of Unemployment Card, Disabled People).

CAVAFY AND MUSIC: SONGS & REFLEXIONS
Recital with poetry set to music with the mezzo soprano Alexandra Gravas
Sunday 15 December | 20:30 | Theatre Hall

The mezzo soprano Alexandra Gravas and the pianist Pantelis Polychronidis perform poems by Cavafy set to music by Greek, American, Spanish and French composers.
Actor Costas Zografopoulos recites poems by Cavafy
> www.alexandragravas.com

^{FREE ENTRANCE}

• Poetry

BEYOND THE SHADOW OF THE WORD
Poetry night with poets of younger generation curated and presented by the poet Thomas Tsalapatis
Saturday 14 December | 20:30| Theatre Hall

Six poets of the younger generation read their poems and prove in their own way  that the best way to honour a great ancestor is not by  imitation but by the quest of someone’s personal poetic expression

Presentation: Thomas Tsalapatis
Poets Participating: Anna Griva, Thomas Ioannou, Lena Kallergi, Stergios Mitas, Giorgos Prevedourakis, Thodoris Rakopoulos

www.tsalapatis.blogspot.gr

^{FREE ENTRANCE}

• NARRATION/ STORYTELLING

MORNING SEA
Saturday 14, and Sunday 15 December |18:00 – 19:00| Theatre Hall

Based on a selection of poems by Cavafy, biographical data as texts from other, often unexpected, sources, storyteller Sassa Voulgari  narrates in her own special way the world of C. P. Cavafy. Live music by Spyros Pan.

^{FREE ENTRANCE}

• Cinema

I’M MORE IN THE MOOD FOR LOOKING THAN FOR WRITING
Friday 13, Saturday 14, and Sunday 15 December | 16:00 – 23:00| Cinema Hall

Twelve cinematic works of documentation and fiction on the life and work of C. P. Cavafy and his home city, Alexandria. The program includes documentaries (Yorgos Avgeropoulos, Eglal Errera, Mary Koutsouri, Tasos Psarras et al.), fiction feature films (Yannis Smaragdis, Stelios Charalampopoulos), as well as short films which transliterate Cavafy’s poetry into their own cinematic poetry (Konstantinos Yannaris, Phyllis Katrapani, Franssou Prenant). The new documentary produced by the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, The Byzantine Cavafy (2013, Panos Kyparissis & Fanis Douskos), under the scientific supervision of Hélène Ahrweiler will be screened in loop on Saturday 13th and on Sunday 14th in the Video Room.

^{FREE ENTRANCE}

Friday 13 December 2013 | 17:00 – 19:30

17:00
The Byzantine Cavafy* (45 mins)
Panos Kyparissis & Fanis Douskos / Greece, 2013

18:00
Trojans (35 mins)
Konstantinos Yannaris / Greece – United Kingdom, 1990

Reviens et prends-moi (14 mins)
Franssou Prenant / France, 2004

Ithaque (35 mins)
Phyllis Katrapani / Canada, 1997

Saturday 14 December 2013 | 16:00 – 22:30

16:00
C.P. Cavafy: 50 Years Since His Passing (58 mins)
Mary Koutsouri / Greece, 1983

17:15
A Century of Writers: Constantine Cavafy 1863 – 1933 (45 mins)
(Un siècle d’écrivains: Constantin Cavafy 1863-1933)
Eglal Errera / France, 1998
The screening takes place in cooperation with the Embassy of France in Greece and the French Institute

18:15
Modern Greeks: C .P. Cavafy (58 mins)
Dimitris Anagnostopoulos / Greece, 2007

19:30
Eras and Writers: The Universality of Constantine Cavafy (53 mins)
Tasos Psarras / Greece, 2002

21:30
C.P. Cavafy: Enclosure and Entrapment (18 mins)
Giorgos Koumouros / Cyprus, 2004

Egypt: The Other Homeland (50 mins)
Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Greece, 2011

Sunday 15 December 2013 | 17:00 – 20:30

17:00
Cavafy (85 mins)
Yannis Smaragdis / Greece, 1996

19:00
The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy (90 mins)
Stelios Charalampopoulos / Greece, 2007

* The Byzantine Cavafy will also be screened in loop in the Video Room, on Saturday 14 and on Sunday 15 December, 16:00 – 23:00.