Insider Weekly Newsletter – CULTURE LOADING!
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The house where Cohen lived on Hydra, in November 2016. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP /Getty Images
The new FOMO of our isolation age is Fear of Not Doing Enough! It’s almost as if we’re expected to pack every minute of our confinement with more information, more entertainment. Cultural venues, chefs, concert halls, Greece’s Tourism Ministry (Insider too!) have all scrambled to create more content to keep us ‘engaged’. How transporting then to dive into poet Alicia Stalling’s TV-free Angistri and Polly Samson’s bohemian Hydra where peacocks and creative geniuses hold their own!
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A Time Outside of Time
Pulitzer shortlisted poet and MacArthur Fellow Alicia E. Stallings mines the surrealities of the pandemic to evoke insights into life on a tiny island where the raucous mating dance of its “pullulating population of feral peafowl” substitutes Netflix! READ MORE
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Join Diane Kochilas’ Greek Easter webinars
Acclaimed chef, cookbook author, TV host and passionate culinary ambassador Diane Kochilas dons her apron to create an Easter menu. Zoom in on Saturday, April 4 at 9pm Greek time, 2 pm EDT. READ MORE
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Alban Berg’s Lulu
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Why you should read Polly Samson’s book on Hydra, A Theatre for Dreamers
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In The Blink of an Eye –
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The Corona Viriade
GREEKISM OF THE WEEK |
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Stories for savages(Ιστορίες για αγρίους) (Istories gia agrious) Meaning: lame or preposterous excuses |
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![]() Closer, not Closed: The Onassis Cultural Centre goes digitalFrom April 3, the Onassis Foundation uploads and shares images, discussions, sounds, emotions, sold-out shows, new podcasts, educational programs, virtual cinematic experiences, online courses, secret concerts on its YouTube channel. READ MORE
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![]() TIFF ‘Spaces #1’ Short Films Online PremiereThe Thessaloniki Film Festival ingeniously pivots the postponement of its Documentary Festival due to the coronavirus pandemic by assigning eleven Greek directors to shoot short films on their new quarantine reality at home. READ MORE
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FOOD & DRINK |
Greece from Home: Fall in love with Greece wherever you areA unique, engaging interface that allows visitors to relive their holidays in Greece by offering a glimpse of what this ancient yet contemporary destination can offer “Greece from Home’ developed by Greece’s Tourism Ministry, the Greek National Tourism Organization, Marketing Greece and Google aims to promote Greece in the hearts and minds of visitors. READ MORE
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