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A dance games workshop for fathers with children aged 6 to 12
The successful ballet workshop that enthralled children and…daddies comes back for one more season. Once again, the Learning & Participation Department invites daddies to dance with their children, perform ballet figures, find out their balance limitations and discuss with their partners through movement and dance. Two precious hours full of motor activities, improvisations and games.
An invitation to dance not to be missed!
Planning/ Implementation: TBA
Ages: 6 to 12 years old
Implementation schedule (dates): 10 & 17 April 2022
Implementation schedule (hours): 11.00 – 13.00
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Using Erling Eriksson’s animation box along with some more simple applications as a main instrument, this experiential workshop will introduce students to animation and teach them how to tell a short story in two or three dimensions with simple techniques (cut out animation, claymation, two-dimensional painting). Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker participants will create a short stop motion animation under the guidance of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People’s team.
Implementation schedule (dates): 18 & 19 December 2021
Implementation schedule (hours): 10.00-13.00
Participants: 12 students of the 4th, 5th and 6th Grade of Primary School
Workshop leader: TBA
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*Participants will have to attend the whole workshop cycle.
A co-production of the GNO Learning & Participation Department and the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People
Τhe GNO Learning & Participation Department in a co-production with the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People invites Junior High School students to participate in the new educational workshop titled Opera Filmmakers. It is an experiential filmmaking workshop during which children will peep into a real theatre backstage and capture on camera secrets from the different stages of the process of creating an opera performance.
The workshop will be conducted in four meetings (16, 23 October & 6,14 November 2021) of four hours each. Its participants will form a short film production group, and the film they will create will enter the 24th Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People (27/11-4/12/2021).
With a camera at hand participants will wander the backstage of the Greek National Opera at the SNFCC, will unlock the theatre costume and prop rooms, will observe the operation of the mechanisms supporting this grand-scale theatrical stage and will peep into a rehearsal.
During this process, children will get acquainted with the language of cinema, its means of expression, and the techniques and basic principles of directing. They will also be guided through the selected subject and will learn how to draft a screenplay. Moreover, they will be involved in the organisation of the shooting and will share the roles of a film crew before and behind the camera.
Planning & Implementation: GNO Learning and Participation Department & Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People
Implementation schedule (dates): 16, 23 October & 6,14 November 2021
Implementation schedule (hours): 12.00 – 16.00 (hours may change)
Participants: 12 Junior High School students
Workshop leader: Chrysanthi Badeka
A ballet workshop for children, teenagers, adults
For a second year children, teenagers and adults will experience the magical world of classical dance through a workshop that will be held on the occasion of the production of The Nutcracker, which is set to premiere in the GNO Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC on 17/12 with a new choreography by GNO Ballet Director Konstantinos Rigos. Meet the Nutcracker is a workshop held in collaboration with the GNO Ballet and led by the GNO Ballet principal dancers that aims at introducing participants into one of the most popular and enduringly enchanting ballets in the repertoire, for children and grown-ups alike. In its original two-act version, with a choreography by Lev Ivanov, a libretto by Marius Petipa, and music by Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker was first performed at the Mariinsky Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 18 December 1892.
Planning/Implementation: Elena Andreoudi & Vangelis Bikos
Implementation schedule (dates): 28 November & 5 December 2021
Ages: 28/11 12 to 14 years old & 5/12 15 to 18 years old
Implementation schedule (hours): 11:00 – 13:00
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An intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of 30 young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica.
The Co-OPERAtive programme, awarded with the Fedora Education Prize 2019, is an intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica. It is inspired by opera, which serves as a common language for the creation of the first intercultural opera hub for young people in Europe. Co-OPERAtive’s goal is to expand opera’s impact and make it more known to the younger audiences, while bringing out cultural diversity and social cohesion.
Implementation: Themelis Glynatsis, Andys Skordis
Music workshop leaders: Nikos Ziaziaris, Katerina Gevetzi
Theatre workshop leaders: Panagiotis Exarcheas, Eleni Moleski
Movement workshop leader: Katerina Gevetzi
Starts: 28 February 2022
Ages: 14-18 years old
Final performance: Untitled For Now: An Old Fable, 3 July 2022 at 20.30, GNO Alternative Stage
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Music theatre performance
Untitled For Now: An Old Fable
Greek National Opera Alternative Stage – SNFCC
Sunday 3 July 2022
Starts at: 20.30
Musical composition, conductor: Andys Skordis
Director: Themelis Glynatsis
With the participation of a mixed group of Athenian teenagers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors from the accommodation facilities of Kinoniko EKAV and European Expression
Sets & costume designer: Christina Spanou
Video: Marios Gampierakis, Chrysoula Korovesi
Lighting designer: Stella Kaltsou
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In collaboration with the Embassy of Indonesia in Greece
The GNO Learning & Participation Department in collaboration with the Embassy of Indonesia in Athens continue the Gamelan Orchestra workshop, which first started in January 2020 and was abruptly interrupted due to the pandemic.
The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the Gamelan musical tradition through its unexpected conversation with the contemporary classical music repertoire, and to create the first Indonesian orchestra in Greece. Participants will get to know the musical instruments of a Gamelan ensemble and will familiarise themselves with the particularities of the form and rhythm of this musical tradition by performing Indonesian traditional folk songs as well as a contemporary Gamelan music work written by composer and workshop leader Andys Skordis.
Starting from the Gamelan musical tradition and focusing on its social dimensions, interaction and communication among the participants will be the key ingredient for the workshop’s musical outcome, which is expected to give a new form and style to the Indonesian traditional folk music.
The workshops will run for two weeks, after which the Gamelan orchestra will give a single concert in the hall of the Parnassos Literary Society, on Sunday 17 April 2022 at 20.00.
More information about the concert will be announced soon.
Workshop leader / score: Andys Skordis
A new intercultural workshop is born from the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Its members will have a background in intercultural, traditional and folk dance genres, but also in genres such as street dance, jazz, tap dance etc. Under the guidance of the workshop’s leader/choreographer the members of the Intercultural Dance Group will work together to exchange experiences and skills and to form an original dance group, in which traditions from diverse cultures will converse with contemporary creation.
Planning/Implementation: Polina Kremasta
Assistant to the choreographer: Thenia Antoniadou
Starts: 15 November 2021
Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.00 – 21.00
More information as well as an open call for participants will be announced soon.
The Intercultural Choir project of the GNO Learning & Participation Department continues for a sixth year. After a long pause in live meetings, old and new members from every corner of the earth will once again join their voices into a unique musical journey without borders. For this year’s season the Intercultural Choir will be conducted by distinguished singer Anna Linardou. The Intercultural Choir already has more than 30 members. Ukraine, Cameroon, Slovakia, Tanzania, New Guinea, Syria, Cyprus, United Kingdom, France, USA, Iran, Kenya, Iraq, and Greece are only some of the countries of origin of those who have participated in the Choir. Its repertoire is getting constantly expanded and enriched with wonderful songs from the traditional folk music of its members’ homelands.
Choir mistress: Anna Linardou
Assistant choir mistress/Piano accompaniment: Dimitra Kokkinopoulou
Start of the programme: 4 October 2021
Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.30 – 20.00
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The GNO Intercultural Orchestra continues its journey into the world of music, while serving as a crossroad for different beliefs and cultures. With performances on prestigious stages of Athens and through a series of collaborations with acclaimed artists in the field of Eastern Mediterranean Music, this year’s season the more than 30 members of the Intercultural Orchestra will take a step further by actively participating in Greek National Opera’s production Inland, to music by Angelos Triantafyllou and directed by Nikos Karathanos, which will be presented in 8, 10, 12, 13 July 2022 in the Stavros Niarchos Hall. Information: nationalopera.gr
Orchestra coordinator: Harris Lambrakis
Starts: 4 October 2021
Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.00-21.00
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A guitar, positive mood and much-loved songs are all you need to join the company of Guitar Express. During the weekly meetings of this successful programme time and current obligations stay out of class. It is the time to play the guitar, time for our favourite songs, joy and relaxation. It is the time to make music in the present with ingredients from the past so as to conquer the future.
The programme includes live meetings in small groups, weekly video courses, extra material for practice and auditory training, and online group meetings.
Planning/Implementation: Kiki Kerzeli
Scientific consultant: Ioanna Etmektsoglou
Starts: 2 November 2021
Implementation schedule: Tuesdays 10.00 – 12.00
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*In line with the restrictive measures for the protection of public health against the spread of COVID-19 and the guidelines of the Greek State, persons aged 65 and over can only participate in the workshops by presenting a certificate of vaccination against or recovery from COVID-19.
The 65+ Choir workshop continues its intensive rehearsals of the repertoire worked on during the pandemic-induced remote meetings. The 65+ Choir takes us on a musical journey through different countries around the world and different regions of Greece, always with the goal of promoting the socialisation of its members and the development of emotional bonds and communication between them through singing and speech.
From January 2022, the 65+ Choir will focus on acquainting its members with the world of opera on and off stage. The workshop will start with the teaching of the songs of Angelos Triantafyllou’s opera Inland, which will feature the members of the Choir. The opera that will be directed by Nikos Karathanos will be presented on 8, 10, 12, 13 July 2022 in the Stavros Niarchos Hall.
Choir mistress: Dimitra Papastavrou
Piano: Konstantinos Papathymnios
Start of the programme: 1 November 2021
Implementation schedule: Mondays 14.00 – 16.00
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*In line with the restrictive measures for the protection of public health against the spread of COVID-19 and the guidelines of the Greek State, persons aged 65 and over can only participate in the workshops by presenting a certificate of vaccination against or recovery from COVID-19.
An experiential educational programme for people aged 65 and over, which creatively connects musical and theatrical education, promoting group creativity and active musical and theatrical involvement. Its goal is to form an active group that will give its members the chance to socialise and have a sense of “belonging” to a collectivity – each of them as a necessary link of a musico-theatrical chain–, to evolve and be able to know their own selves better through the others.
Planning/Implementation: Kiki Kerzeli, Eva Oikonomou Vamvaka
Starts: 19 January 2022
Implementation schedule: Wednesdays 10.00-13.00
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*In line with the restrictive measures for the protection of public health against the spread of COVID-19 and the guidelines of the Greek State, persons aged 65 and over can only participate in the workshops by presenting a certificate of vaccination against or recovery from COVID-19.
Melisma is the new year-long cycle of educational and artistic activities for persons of all ages introduced by the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Its pilot implementation has already started since June 2022 in the wider region of Northern Evia that has been severely affected by the unprecedented wildfires of summer 2021. The project, centered around the villages of Limni and Aghia Anna, focuses on man’s relationship with the natural environment and includes a series of experiential artistic workshops of theatrical expression and creative writing, music, movement, dance, and visual arts, targeted both at already existing and new intergenerational community groups that deal with the customs and traditions of Evia. In the first stage, each workshop will aim at familiarising participants with the key concepts and techniques of each respective art form, and in the second stage, the fertile dialogue and the collaboration between the different art forms will lead to the creation of an original music theatre performance. The performance will be mounted for the first time in Evia in summer 2023, while in September of that same year it will also be presented at the GNO Alternative Stage in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
Theatrical Expression And Creative Writing Workshops
Wonderful improvisations, plenty of games, interaction exercises, narrations and spontaneous writing of stories, poems and songs will be the ingredients of a project aiming at cultivating imagination, communication, collaboration and team building through a creative process. During the workshops, participants will be called upon to discover the practical applications of theatrical expression and creative writing as a free space of artistic expression within a group. In the second phase of the workshops, focusing on man’s relationship with nature, participants will collaborate with the groups of the rest of the artistic workshops (creative movement and dance, music, visual arts) of the Melisma activity cycle to co-create an original theatre performance, in which everyone will actively participate, onstage or backstage.
Visual Arts Workshops
The visual arts workshops revolving around the planning of a theatre performance are targeted at all ages and aim at introducing participants to all the stages of the set and costume design process. Participants will experiment with new and old methods of artistic creation and design, crafting techniques, costume and special theatre effects design, as well as photography and video. The workshop will offer children and grown-ups a creative experience that will give them the chance to come in contact with the world of visual and performing arts.
Creative Movement And Dance Workshops
Creative movement and dance workshops are targeted at all age groups and aim at promoting experimentation with movement through dance exercises, movement games and improvisation. Participants will form three different and complementary practice groups: a teenagers’ group, a women’s group, and a mixed group with persons of all ages. In their meetings, which will be held once a month throughout the project cycle, the groups will improvise through movement, while they will all together explore how an everyday movement can be transformed, through collaboration, into a dance act and a collective composition.
Music Workshops: Orchestral Ensemble, Choir And Hip Hop
The music workshops will be divided into three categories: an orchestral ensemble, a choral ensemble, and a hip hop/rap music workshop for young people and teenagers. The goal of these workshops is to create groups that will converse with the rest of the programme’s workshops, to accompany the original music theatre performance that will complete the Melisma project. The musical and choral ensembles will include musicians and choristers of all ages and levels and with all types of instruments, while the hip hop/rap workshop will motivate young people and teenagers to write lyrics and compose their own music pie
Music Score and Planning & Implementation of Music Workshops: Yorgos Dousos
Stage direction: Eleni Efthymiou, Marilena Katranidou
Texts: Eleni Efthymiou, Marilena Katranidou , Giota Kouitzoglou, Theatrical Expression and Creative Writing Community Group
Research: Marilena Katranidou, Giota Kouitzoglou
Dramaturgy: Eleni Efthymiou
Sets, Costumes, and Planning & Implementation of Visual Arts Workshops: Dido Gkogkou
Choreography and Planning & Implementation of Creative Movement and Dance Workshops: Polina Kremasta
Assistant to the directors: Giota Kouitzoglou
Artistic Coordinator of the Workshops: Marilena Katranidou
Planning & Implementation of Theatrical Expression and Creative Writing Workshops: Marilena Katranidou, Giota Kouitzoglou
Recording of Educational Methodology: Giota Kouitzoglou
3d Bell Opera, the exceptionally successful pilot programme of inter-artistic, multimedia and pedagogical action for Primary Education Schools, continues for a third consecutive year.
This season, the programme expands its boundaries and is not only aimed at schools in Attica but also in the rest of Greece and abroad, under the guidance of composer Alexandros Mouzas.
Through contemporary music theatre practices, 3d Bell Opera aspires to bring educators and primary school students in contact with the fascinating world of music theatre. The goals it has set for this year are to promote creative and critical thinking, cultivate skills and knowledge about the inter-artistic field of music theatre, and also introduce the educators and students that will take part in the programme into the creative process of the making of a contemporary music theatre work titled Drop…I / Ocean…TOGETHER.
The workshops will come complete with a final presentation to the wider audience in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in June 2023.
Creative team
Programme design, original score, instrumental ensemble conducting: Alexandros Mouzas
Director, theatrical texts, song lyrics, theatrical training: Anna-Moscha Kambosou
Choreography, movement training: Artemis Ignatiou
Assistant to the choreographer: Afroditi Vervenioti
Vocal and chorus training: Eirini Patsea
Video projections, animation: Spyros Rasidakis
Filming, video editing: Andronikos Dimopoulos
Sound engineering, musical and technological support, sound editing, audiovisual material processing: Fotis Papatheodorou
IT – Interactive music systems, sound engineering: Nikos Kazazis
Singers: Villy Kyriakopoulou (mezzo-soprano), Dimos Vlachos (tenor)
Instrumental ensemble: Vanessa Athanasiou (violin), Dionysis Vervetsiotis (violin), Giannis Athanasopoulos (viola), Alexandros Botinis (cello), Oswald Amiralis (contrabass), Marilena Dori (flute), Grammenos Chalkias (clarinet), Stefanos Dafnis (trumpet), Renato Kousi (trombone), Kostas Seremetis (percussion), Apostolos Palios (piano)
Start of the programme: 5 November 2022
Day & time: Saturdays, 11.00-14.00
Applications can be submitted by 5 October 2022 exclusively via the form you will find here.
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