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SUMMARY:The Music of Asia Minor: Violin Legends Semsis & Ogdontakis
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Refugee Week London\, in the 2025 iteration of Rebetiko Carnival Festival\, violonist Kyriakos Gouventas and a group of brilliant musicians present the work of master violinists Dimitris Semsis (Salonikios) and Ioannis Dragatsis (Ogdontakis). Reviving the precious music of Santourovioli\, the combination of violin\, santur and guitar\, this evening will introduce you to the early rebetiko music of Asia Minor.  \nDuring the great population movement in the southern Balkans in the early 20th century\, seminal artists from Constantinople\, Smyrna and the coasts of Asia Minor settled on the Greek islands and ports. Among them\, great music masters such as Dimitris Semsis (Salonikios) and Ioannis Dragatsis (Ogdontakis) came to Greece\, bringing along their sound and becoming leading figures in the local music scene.   \nTheir captivating performances and recordings made them legendary figures in the history of world music. The main instruments in Early Rebetika are violin\, santur\, guitar\, kanun\, oud and tampoura. Santurovioli is a minimal combination of violin\, santur and guitar. These three form an impressively functional musical system where the microtonal use of the violin shines brightly in the rich harmonics of the santur over a solid bass-guitar rhythmical background. Today\, there are only a few grand masters in the genre and Kyriakos Gouventas is considered the leading figure worldwide. \n \n  \nTickets\n£16/12 concession or £20 at the door\nBooking via Ticket Tailor or 020 7487 5060 \n \n  \nCo–organised with The Hellenic Centre and Rebetiko Carnival Festival 2025.\nPart of London Refugee Week Festival 2025. \nCounterpoints Arts is proud to continue its collaboration with The Hellenic Centre and be part of the Rebetiko Carnival\, a community organisation dedicated to widening access to music and supporting people in need. \n  \nAdditional information \n\nKyriakos Gouventas\nKyriakos Gouventas records hundreds of performances from China to America\, Africa and Australia\, as well as collaborations with world famous artists from all over the world. Gouventas\, the “Genius of the violin” has been teaching modes and maqams to international top-class musicians creating a musical scene of his own and a great following worldwide.  \nHaving studied violin at the State Conservatory he then worked with the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki and in various chamber music ensembles. At the same time\, he was active in Greek music (dimotiko\, rebetiko\, smyrnaiko\, etc) and recently decided to turn his attentions entirely to traditional music. He is a member of the Ensemble of Traditional Music of the municipality of Thessaloniki. He has participated in over 100 recordings/CDs of traditional Greek music and modern ‘entechno’ (a genre of Greek music). He frequently collaborates with the most acknowledged traditional Greek dance groups\, such as the Lykeion Ellinidon\, and plays in regional traditional festivals all over Greece. He is a founding-member of the group Primavera en Salonico\, the group which since 1996 has played with the well-known Greek singer Savina Yannatou all over the world. He is the preferred violinist of the best Greek singers and musicians\, for concerts\, recordings and world tours. Last year seminars in Weimar\, Granada\, London (SOAS)\, Ydra rebetiko conference. He teaches in Thessaloniki at Macedonia University of Popular Music Department and in Athens\, at Athens Conservatoire.  \n  \n\n         \n \n\n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-music-of-asia-minor-violin-legends-semsis-ogdontakis/
LOCATION:Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington Street\, London\, W1U 5AS
CATEGORIES:Music,Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Who has the Right to Speak and Act in the Public Space?
DESCRIPTION:Who has the right to speak and act in public space?  \nReflecting on a series of public artworks commissioned by Counterpoints Arts in Greece\, the artists Tamara Al Mashouk\, Eirini Linardaki and Adrian Paci engage in a conversation with the co-curators Almir Koldzic and Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou. The artists and curators share insights and experiences relating to the process of artistic practice in the public space; community engagement; implications of the lack of transparent public art policy and strategy; and the social and political reactions generated when contemporary art comes into the urban landscape.  \nThis conversation will also reflect on the questions arising through the public programme that accompanied the commissions. Why is it so difficult to negotiate an artwork’s right to exist? What are the artistic and curatorial responsibilities\, and do we need a public policy for the arts in Greece?  \nAbout Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou \nNiovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou\, is an independent curator and Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts in Greece\, working on socially and politically engaged art projects relating to themes like national identity\, citizenship\, memory and reclaiming public space. Her curatorial work revolves around the question “Who is the Contemporary Athenian?”\, a project that she initiated as the Director of Victoria Square Project in Athens.   \nAbout Adrian Paci \nAdrian Paci was born in Shkodër\, Albania in 1969. Paci lives and works between Milan and Shkodër. Using his own experience of immigration from Albania to Italy\, and stories of family and friends\, Paci addresses issues such as exile\, identity\, memory and collective history. Paci’s body of work looks back on those tumultuous times\, addressing the radical political shifts of his homeland as it transitioned away from communism to a chaotic free market economy and his subsequent experiences as an artist in exile.   \nAbout Eirini Linardaki \nEirini Linardaki is a visual artist based in New York and Crete. Linardaki is also known for her community-based art projects\, particularly through workshops on accessibility and multiculturalism in several different countries like Liberia and France\, where she lived for more than 20 years. In 2019\, she initiated the “Occupy Art Project\,” a collaborative art research group that involves artists and curators from the US\, France and Greece. Linardaki’s activist work was recognised with the Sing For Hope Artivist Award in 2022. She is mother to two children.   \nAbout Tamara Al-Mashouk \nTamara Al-Mashouk is a London based Palestinian/Saudi artist and organizer. Through multi-channel video\, performance\, and architectural installation\, her work negotiates the relationship between home (both physical and metaphysical); the movement of people across societal and geographic borders; and memory\, with specific focus on the expansion of epigenetics beyond the body into place and matter. As a socially engaged practitioner in her organisational capacity\, she has been producing events for the past ten years. These have included: a BLM poetry night where the stage was the roof of a boat\, a fundraiser for the Lebanese thawra\, and most recently\, gatherings that feature food\, poetry\, music and discussion and carve vital space for connection within the diasporic Arabic communities in London.  \nReserve a spot at this event here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/who-has-the-right-to-speak-and-act-in-the-public-space/
LOCATION:Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington Street\, London\, W1U 5AS
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning
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