An invitation to the house of some friends, a piece of land on sale next to it, her love for sailing, her own house at Santa Maria, her 25 year old relation with the island. Eleni Philippopoulou paints idiosyncratically and admits that Paros always “slips into” her palette.
A middle-aged provincial doctor, a girl under the hot summer sun, youth, loneliness, a misunderstanding, Antiparos… Argyris Papadimitropoulos, director of the film Suntan, talks about his leads and the shootings on the island which for years now has been his chosen place.
He is a writer, journalist, founding member of the Greek Club of Detective Fiction Writers, a lover of Chandler and Hammet and a Parian on his mother’s side. Yiannis Ragos has told us that detective literature is not a literature of brain teasing and that a writer deserves to be called a writer if he is primarily a reader.
Paros Festival, for a second consecutive year, guides us to a different Paros through the stories, narratives, experiences, and memories of its inhabitants. The stories we’ve forgotten, the memories that didn’t get narrated, and the experiences that were never recorded in the official history will be the protagonists of the rich and original program of cultural events that have been carefully designed to welcome everyone, young and old, visitors and locals.
The archaeologist Yannos Koyrayos and his team posing at Mary Chatzaki’s camera. The photographer shot the restoration work in Despotiko in 2017-18. This project is presented in an artistic bilingual album published by Melissa editions under the title "THE PEOPLE OF DESPOTIKO".
A famous festival, two active associations and two museums at a village of 300 inhabitants, not to mention the renowned Performances on Good Friday – a good reason for celebrating Easter at Paros.
Achilleas Christidis started his career as a painter with an exhibition at the “Medusa” Art gallery of Maria Demetriades. He lived the Paros of the 80’s, adored the cuisine of Arghiro Barbarighou and this year he is coming to Antiparos for his third exhibition at the “anti” gallery of Mary Chatzaki on 8/6-3/7.
In Paros the word Routes means “Routes in Marpissa”. If you are from Marpissa you know the first name of everybody involved in this renowned festival. However, if you read articles or interviews with the mass or social media you won’t find even a single name. Here the ‘I” has given way to the “We”: the volunteer group of the Routes.
Archaeologist Dora Katsonopoulou got to know and love Paros thanks to Skopas. As President of the Paros and Cyclades Institute of Archaeology, she has done something very important: almost every year she invites here outstanding archaeologists and other scientists from Greece and abroad. The proceedings of these International Conferences - in excellently edited publications- make up an intellectual treasury, an invaluable source of information for the students of the island’s history.
She puts on Sartre, Genet and Camus, in packed halls. The notary Moschoula Kontostavlou always makes “difficult” play choices and the Parian spectators always ardently support them.
