date:
27.03-16.4.2014
venue:
Center for the Arts BETON7: Pydnas 7 (Metro “Kerameikos”), Votatnikos
tel.: 0030 210-7512625
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Beton7 presents from 27.03 until 04.16.2014 a tribute to Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) curated by Demosthenes Agrafiotis and under the auspices of the Embassy of Japan in Greece.

Programme

27/03/2014 | Opening
18.30 Greetings by Mr. Masuo Nishibayashi, Ambassador of Japanese to Greece and Mr. Argyrou, director of Beton7
Presentation of publications related to Lafcadios Hearn curated by Takis Efstathiou

Exhibition opening “Calligraphic impressions on parchment: Lafcadio Hearn” by Maria Genitsariou in the gallery space, (1 floor)

Exhibition opening “Hommage on Lafcadio Hearn” in the gallery space, (groundfloor). Artists: Demosthenes Agrafiotis “Non haunting images” (fotos projection) | Magenta (Katerina Sotiriou, Elena Timplalexi), “The gift is alone”, video art-installation | “Beuys in Japan” (video) | Frédéric Weigel, “40000×8 clouds”, (video) | Robin Perrey, “HI NO MARU NO CINEMA (video).

31/03/2014 | 18.30 | Talk by Ms. Shoko Koizumi, great-granddaughter-in-law of L. HEARN
Reception hosted by the Embassy of Japan in Greece

03/04/2014 | 18.30 Talk by Mr. Panagiotis Evangelidis, Works – bio – graphy by Lafcadio Hearn. “An evaluation”

04/04/2014 | 18.30 Talk by Mr. Sotiris Chalikias, “Lafcadio Hearn in Japan”

05/04/2014 | 18.00 Panel discussion with the participation of: Panagiotis Evangelidis, Sotiris Chalikias. Coordinator: Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Thema: “Lafcadio Hearn. A milestone for the future?”

08/04/2014 | 18.30 Lecture – Performance by Demosthenes Agrafiotis, “My first day in Japan”

10/04/2014 | 22.30 Japanese experimental music proposed by Nektarios Papadimitriou: and Poetical (multilingual) performance with the participation of Michele Valley, Panagiotis Evangelides, Demosthenes Agrafiotis

11/04/2014 | 18.30 Lecture by Maria Genitsariou on “the intertweaving of Greek – Japanese elements – symbols in the stories by L. Hearn. Hearn as a cultural transcriber”, and a talk by Dipl. Psych Euterpi Rizou “The extraordinary life of Lafcadios Hearn: a paradigmatic creative processing of a traumatic childhood”

12/04/2014 | 18.00 Reading of the work “A Living God” by Lafcadio Hearn – The text of Hearn and the real story, by Andriani Psaraki, and Tety Solou reads the Japanese Fairy Tale «The Old Woman who Lost her Dumbling» and proposes educational activities for children inspired by Japanese Fairy Tales of Lafcadio Hearn.

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