Bridging Art & Culture in Athens: Inside the MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON - Highlights
/General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens
Art, Culture & History: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Athens
/General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor w/ DONALD ROBERTSON - Highlights
/Writer, Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist
Author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
At first when I began writing these books, people told me that they didn’t think there was an audience for them. They thought it was a kind of niche subject, nobody was really that interested in it. And then gradually it became clear that there’s a surprisingly big audience of people that really have a craving for Classical wisdom and are interested in history, in the relationship between history and self-improvement and philosophy and psychotherapy.
DONALD ROBERTSON - Writer, Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist & Author of Stoicism & the Art of Happiness
/Writer, Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist
Author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
At first when I began writing these books, people told me that they didn’t think there was an audience for them. They thought it was a kind of niche subject, nobody was really that interested in it. And then gradually it became clear that there’s a surprisingly big audience of people that really have a craving for Classical wisdom and are interested in history, in the relationship between history and self-improvement and philosophy and psychotherapy.
Exploring Music, Writing & the Cultural Life of Athens with KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Highlights
/Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer
This particular exhibition definitely had to do with my close relationship to dance. I have collaborated a lot with choreographers for contemporary dance theater, and I was often advising collaborators, so we would create the tasks and the content of the choreography together. We would exchange the tasks. We would create the score and narrative together. Also, because I’m a pianist, which is a very physically demanding instrument, you have this geography of the piano. I think this exhibitions links to my own experience as a performer and composer for dance and the relationship that music has with the body.
KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer
/Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer
This particular exhibition definitely had to do with my close relationship to dance. I have collaborated a lot with choreographers for contemporary dance theater, and I was often advising collaborators, so we would create the tasks and the content of the choreography together. We would exchange the tasks. We would create the score and narrative together. Also, because I’m a pianist, which is a very physically demanding instrument, you have this geography of the piano. I think this exhibitions links to my own experience as a performer and composer for dance and the relationship that music has with the body.
How Do We Inspire the Readers of Tomorrow? w/ Director UNESCO World Book Capital, Athens IOANNIS TROHOPOULOS
/What you say is very interesting. How do we make the readers of tomorrow?Because it’s true there are many children growing up who do not have the same relationship to books that we did. And so we have to reach them with social and educational initiatives like yours. We need libraries which are social spaces.One of my children, he was not so fond of books. He likes fashion. If it relates to fashion, he will find out everything about it. And so I believe if you reach them through their interests they will understand the importance of reading.
Director of Greek Operations for The Heritage Management Organization
Fmr. Director for Veria Central Public Library
Fmr. CEO, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Director UNESCO World Book Capital 2018-2019
Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process.
“As a child, music felt very natural for me" - LORENDA RAMOU - Pianist, Musicologist, Concert Curator at Onassis Cultural Ctr - Highlights
/Pianist, Musicologist & Concert Curator for Contemporary Music · Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
As a child, music felt very natural for me. I didn’t feel I needed to put any effort into learning the piano. I wanted to find all the musical information that was there. What was the purpose of studying the piano? Suddenly the whole thing became so creative. I felt that the sound is something malleable and you can have an infinite number of possibilities and ways of phrasing and expressing, so that opened a whole new area of possibilities and I found this just fascinating.
What Secrets Does Greek Piano Repertoire Hold? LORENDA RAMOU - Pianist, Concert Curator at Onassis Cultural Center
/Pianist, Musicologist & Concert Curator for Contemporary Music · Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
As a child, music felt very natural for me. I didn’t feel I needed to put any effort into learning the piano. I wanted to find all the musical information that was there. What was the purpose of studying the piano? Suddenly the whole thing became so creative. I felt that the sound is something malleable and you can have an infinite number of possibilities and ways of phrasing and expressing, so that opened a whole new area of possibilities and I found this just fascinating.