Tuesday 05.11.2024 ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑ

Festival ΄Town-Stage΄ until 18 May

DIPETHE
10 May 2019 / 07:26

CORFU. DIPETHE (Municipal & Regional Theatre) is organising its annual festival ΄Town-Stage΄.

In collaboration with the Ionian University, DIPETHE actors, musical groups and artists we want to rediscover the Town - transform it, talk about it and look at its hidden parts with a new perspective.

Saturday 11 May

19:00
New Fortress entrance

'Our Foreigners' - A walk that will end in music and theatre with teenage pupils under the auspices of the Panhellenic Drama and Education Network, the 'What if it were you?' Programme and the UNHCR for refugees in Greece. With the support of the Antiquities Inspectorate and the Ministry for Culture.

50 pupils from four Corfu high schools put on a theatrical performance about refugees in Corfu in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Saturday 11 - Sunday 12 May

21:00
St. George's Church, Old Fortress

'Trilogy of Supplicants'
Performance of the 3 tragedies 'The Suppliants - The Suppliant Maidens - 'Heracleidae' by the actors Spyros, Sklavounos, Alexandra Payiataki and Sophia Tombrou with dance participation of actors and the public.
Percussion - Nikos Metallinos
Music:
'Mantzaros' Philharmonic Society
Camerata Vocalis conducted by Rosa Poulimenou, Soloists - Anastasia Tzilianou and Alexandros Komnas.

There will also be a performance of part of the mass 'The Armed Man' by Sir Karl Jenkins which was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations and dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. It is essentially an anti-war piece.

Sunday 12 May

18:00 - 20:00
Contra Fossa

Live Performance – Solo

Concept / Performance - Dimitra Nikolopoulou

Monday 13 May

18:30 - 20:00
People's Park

'Picture Postcard'

Workshop for children of all ages which will finish with a walk through the town accompanied by parents.

Discover the town and collect materials to create our own picture postcards and souvenirs of the town and its history.

Artistic Supervisor: Dimitra Nikolopoulou

Tuesday 14 May

19:00 - 20:20
Solomos Statue (next to Aktaion)

'The Poet and his Statue'

A guided tour of the busts of poets in Corfu Town.

Spontaneous performance art with the participation of the public.

Director: Dimitra Nikolopoulou

Wednesday 15 May

19:30
Georgaki Statue

Open discussion between students and the public inspired by Kostas Georgakis' sacrifice. Organised by Hellenic Students Community.

Inspired by student Kostas Georgakis' desperate act in Genoa on 19 September 1970, students from the Ionian University will be holding an open discussion with the public about the ideals and values that they are willing to fight for today.

Thursday 16 May

19:00 - 20:20
Annunziata Square

Audio tour of Corfu Town organised by the Ionian University History Department Artistic Group.

Artistic Director: Angeliki Poulou

Friday 17 May

21:30
Agia Eleni Square

Musical and theatrical performance 'The Shrew' by the Ionian University Musical Education Activities group.

Artistic Director: Zoe Dionysiou
Director: Alexandra Payiataki

Saturday 18 May

20:00
Old Town Hall Square

Closing ceremony

'Caesium 133 - An Essay on Time' performed by the DIPETHE Workshop 'Doc's Theatre'.

Artistic Director: Evgenia Zagoura

This will be followed by a concert from The Boombox Collective.