Nikos Graikos, known in the Greek community in Paris as the man who teaches Greek as a foreign language, is one of the founding members of the Society Phonie-Graphie for the propagation of Modern Greek in France.
With Paminos we first met ten years ago at Piso Livadi, drinking mint liqueur with soda. Three years ago, I had the honour of living for one summer in one of his houses, the one that is above his own. This experience -a very edifying one for me was the important starting point of a visual quest. Paminos soon became a father figure; since his critique was not limited to the Sailors I was preparing but embraced every aspect of my life. Today I conclude the essence of his teaching; his insistence on Hellenism source of internal freedom.
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 settled at Paros ten years ago, simply because “it is paradise”, as he has told us. Soon afterwards he created Felix, a very distinctive toy shop and then the Felix Kid’s creative centre at which parents and children discovered a really creative way to enjoy themselves.
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.
Stella Fyrogeni has long been engaged in the tourism industry. She has been a member of the tourism committee of the Municipality of Paros for over 10 years, occupying various positions and representing a number of associations, and is the owner of the Margarita Hotel in Ambelas. The challenging current situation and the uncertainty brought about by the pandemic in the tourism sector has mobilized her creatively...
This year, the South Aegean has been designated as the 2019 European Region of Gastronomy, and Argiro Barbarigou, our own Argiro, is the Ambassador of South Aegean gastronomy. Representing the country, the Cyclades, our island, in this very significant institution, she answers our questions with a touching simplicity, reminding us that food mainly consists of three ingredients: homeland, love, and deeply-etched, indelible memories.
Katerina Moschou set up the first private dairy farm on the island two years ago. In this way, the delicious Parian cheeses become ambassadors of the distinct Cycladic cuisine, and female entrepreneurship sets the bar high on the island as more and more modern businesses with women at the helm come into shape and make the grade.
A secondary education teacher who worked at schools at Mykonos, Andros and Paros for many years, he is the Master not only for his students but for everybody. Born and raised at Paros, writer of several books, a student of the island’s flora, a founding member of Archilochos, a man inspiring in his speech and consistent in his deeds, Christos Georgoussis talks with us about culture, sports, education and his concerns about the island’s future.
