Category: Reading Greece

📌 The first international edition of SOLOIKISMOS, an international interdisciplinary #poetry festival, will take place on 25–26 October 2025 in Elafotopos, Zagori, curated and produced by the artistic organisation Artivism.

Placing poetry at its core, the #festival seeks to weave together the traditional and the contemporary, the archetypal and the primordial with the postmodern. It also aims to create a safe, inclusive space for expression, cultivating a sense of community among diverse groups through shared artistic practice.

The inaugural edition of SOLOIKISMOS brings together: Yana Boukova, Alvina Chamberland, Sarah Ettlinger, Natalie Mariko, Vincent Moon, Irini Androulaki, Lena Gerothanassi, Alexandra K., Tasos Lagkis, Eva Papamargariti, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Lena Platonos, Melina Xenaki, Marios Chatziprokopiou, and representatives of the Zagori Ecomuseum.

📍For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/764717896406514/

Reading Greece bids farewell to the great song-writer and composer Dionysis Savvopoulos, who passed away today at the age of 81.

When Dionysis Savvopoulos burst onto the Greek music scene in the early sixties, his highly original songs defied classification. There were no precedents in the music genres then common in Greece. He was initially seen as part of the ‘new wave’ group of composers and singers who emerged at that time and who were influenced by their French counterparts. But Savvopoulos created a genre all his own with his mix of modern and traditional rhythms and with his lyrics at times tender, at times playful and at times filled with biting social criticism.

Αs Dimitris Karambelas put it, “in his work, sound, meaning, singing, yet also narration and stage performance, constitute a compact and inseparable whole”.

Learn more about his work in Reading Greece's BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Rock Song of our Tomorrow – Dionysis Savvopoulos English Edition
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-the-rock-song-of-our-tomorrow-dionysis-savvopoulos-english-edition/

📌It was on 21 October 1907 that Nikos Engonopoulos, one of the one of the most prominent representatives of Greek Surrealist #poetry and #painting, was born. Closely associated with Andreas Embeirikos, the “patriarch” of #Surrealism in Greece, and with Nicolas Calas, an influential figure of the European and American avant-garde, Engonopoulos developed highly experimental pictorial and poetic aesthetics.

On this occasion, have a look at Greek News Agenda's tributes to the great poet and painter:

🔸Poem of the Month: “Bolivar” by Nikos Engonopoulos
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/poem-of-the-month-bolivar-by-nikos-engonopoulos/

🔸Arts in Greece | A Journey Through the Surreal World of Nikos Engonopoulos
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/arts-in-greece-a-journey-through-the-surreal-world-of-nikos-engonopoulos/