The Greek organist Ourania Gassiou is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Nicolas Kynaston, receiving scholarship of the Onassis Foundation. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed across the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as at major international festivals, including Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Riga Cathedral, Barcelona Cathedral, the Women of the World Festival (Royal Festival Hall, London), and was a prize winner at the International Organ Competition in St. Moritz. Since 2011 she has been curator and organist of the Athens Concert Hall. In the Basler Münster, she will play a versatile program with works by Charles Tournemire, Louis Vierne, Einojuhani Rutavaara and Yannis Konstantinidis within the framework of the ‹In-ternational Organ Concerts› series.
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The Greek organist Ourania Gassiou is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Nicolas Kynaston, receiving scholarship of the Onassis Foundation.
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Clean City
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The Great Tamer
«He never denies his culture or roots, or the fact that he is a accomplished artist, a tragic and a Greek in his heart.» (Il Sole 24 ORE) Dimitris Papaioannou is internationally known for his distinctive style of body-toned picture theater.
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What Europe owes Greece
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The Meaning of Occidental Classicism in the Educational Canon of China
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Greek serenade
The main focus of the CULTURESCAPES classical music program is the work of the Greek com-poser Nikos Skalkottas; alongside Dimitri Mitropoulos the most important representative of New Music in Greece. He studied violin at the Athens Conservatory, and from 1927 to 1932 he studied under Arnold Schönberg at the Prussian Academy of Arts.
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Athens Talking
In the framework of CULTURESCAPES Greece 2017, on 19 October, The Decline of Heroes exhibition opens in Antikenmuseum Basel. Curated by Kateryna Botanova, this is a group show overlapping contemporary artistic visions of the roles of heroes with the ancient ones.
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Docs and Shorts
As part of Culturescapes Greece, Christian Hörack and Kostas Tzouflas present several current short films and one documentary: the first three films revolve around shopping for goods and for happiness.
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Money Piece 1 (Comedy)
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The small Asian Disaster of Greece in the Ottoman Cataclysm (1912-1922)
Lecture Series from the School of European Global Studies, every Wednesday, 18.15-19.45, Hörsaal 115 in the Kollegienhaus of the University of Basel
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READING THE WORLD: The Women of Andros
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Songs of hope and nostalgia
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Learning from Ancient Athens: “Learning from Sorrow” or Food for Thought about Polis, Freedom and Debt
Lecture Series from the School of European Global Studies, every Wednesday, 18.15-19.45, Hörsaal 115 in the Kollegienhaus of the University of Basel
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Eastern wind
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Black field
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The Lobster
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The Attack of the Giant Moussaka
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Schwierige Nachbarschaft: Migration und Konflikt in den Türkisch-Griechischen Beziehungen
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Crisis with no end?
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Offshore
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Internationale Babelinstrumillustrationalisierung
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Candlelight-Odyssey
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Lecture Series from the School of European Global Studies, every Wednesday, 18.15-19.45, Hörsaal 115 in the Kollegienhaus of the University of Basel
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Hyms from Mount Athos
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Contemporary Greek Literature: The Beautiful Unknown
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Traditional greek pasta – grandmothers recipe Cooking class
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Harris Lambrakis Quartet
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Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet
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Institute of Global Loneliness
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Sonntags-Matinée Extra
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Final destination desire: Greece calls out to Europe
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Evros Walk Water 1 & 2
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Rembetiko, Music Between Orient and Occident
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Plato, «Without the Body the Soul is Free»
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The Greek Crisis and its Consequences
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Wasted Youth
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Understanding Greece. Trying to Approach
Wednesday, 8th November 2017, 19.30, University of Zürich Zentrum
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Shaping Europe - Beyond the Parliament?
In 2017 Switzerland and Greece celebrate 100 years of diplomatic relations - in the shadow of fenced off borders, debt crises and right-wing populism. What is the true re-lationship between North and South?
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Interruption
A post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out.
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Divine desire. The Love Lives of Olympians in European Art - Lecture
Thursday, 18th January 2018, 19.30, University of Zürich Zentrum
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Aristotle’s, «On the Soul» - reading course
The event is fully booked. It will be offered a second time from 1 March 2017.
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The Clubs of Hercules – ancient Art and Mythology - Seminar
Tuesday and Wednesday 21st/22nd and 28th/29th November 2017, 19.30, University of Zürich Zentrum
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Adam Szymczyk
The lecture will be part of the series «Curating ... Lectures from the Practice of Exhibition Making». A cooperation of the Instituts Kunst, HGK FHNW and the Kunstmuseum Basel.
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Food and drink
For the first time as part of CULTURESCAPES we are dedicating ourselves also to the culture of dining.
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The heirs of fire
In his solo-show «The Heirs of Fire» the Athenian street artist WD, Wild Drawing, questions the role of fire in the history of man kind.
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The decline of heroes
In Antikenmuseum, the group show intervenes into the part of permanent collection of Anikenmuseum, called «The Greeks and Their World».
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Greek music festival
At the two-day Greek Music Festival you can discover and experience Greek music in its rich variety:...
