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Cultural Events

The Athens Centre hosts cultural events and activities year-round at its Athens facilities, on the island of Spetses and other venues.

Activities include guest lectures , exhibits and theatre performances.

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Phil Stanley,  Department of Classics, San Francisco State University

October 22

Apollo vs Dionysus The Rational and Irrational in Greek Myths

November 19

Persephone in Hades: Plants and Death

Phil Stanley is a Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at San Francisco State University , where he taught in the Department of Classics for over twenty years. During that time he worked as an academic director in several overseas study programs and tours, i.a. in Athens and London. Having done profound studies in Ancient Greek history and mythology, he won numerous awards and grants. He has travelled extensively throughout Europe and parts of the Near East and spends half of the year in his house in Athens.

8.00 pm

Archimidous 48, Mets

Summer 2008 Spetses Poetry & Prose Evenings

All readings take place at 8pm, at the Villa Alexia in the Kounoupitsa area, unless otherwise indicated.  All readings are free and open to the public.  Wine and conversation follows the events.  For more information, please call 210.701.5242 /210.701.2268

Wednesday June 18

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Tryfon Tolides

                                                    Friday June 20

Ellie Evans

Roger Green

Mark Sargent

  Monday June 23: At the Bouboulina Museum

Sofka Zinovieff

  Wednesday June 25

A.E. Stallings

Stephen Yenser

  Friday June 27: At the Bouboulina Museum

Nicholas Papandreou

  Monday June 30

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Stephanos Papadopoulos

  Wednesday July 2

Tony Barnstone

Dinos Siotis

  Friday July 4

The Muses Workshop Students

Poetry Bios  

Ellie Evans was born in Wales and read English at Oxford .  She is doing a Creative Writing Doctorate at Bath , with a special study on Pascale Petit.
 
 
Sofka Zinovieff was born in England and is of Russian extracton.  She studied anthropology at Cambridge ; then, after spells living in Russia and Italy , settled with her family in Greece , an experience which she describes in her first, highly acclaimed book, Eurydice Street (Granta Books).  Her latest book is Red Princess:  A Revolutionary Life.
 

Stephen Yenser, Distinguished Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at UCLA, took his B.A. from the University of Wichita and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison .  His most recent volume of poems is Blue Guide ( University of Chicago Press ).   The Fire in All Things (LSU Press) received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets .  His other awards include the B. F. Connors Prize from the Paris Review, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, two appearances in the Best American Poetry series, and two Fulbright Fellowships, one to France and one to Greece .  He has also taught for a year at the University of Baghdad .  He has written three critical books (Circle to Circle:  The Poetry of Robert Lowell;  The Consuming Myth:  The Work of James Merrill;  and A Boundless Field:  American Poetry at Large) and has just completed a fourth (Extravagant Engagements:  American Poetry beyond the Pale).   He is co-editor of Merrill’s Collected Poems, Collected Prose, Collected Novels and Plays, The Changing Light at Sandover, and (forthcoming in 2008) Selected Poems.    

Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in North Carolina and raised in Paris and Athens .  He is the author of Lost Days published by Leviathan Press in the London and Rattapallax in New York . His work appears in journals such as The New Republic, The Yale Review, Poetry Review, Stand and numerous international journals and anthologies. He has translated works of the Greek poets, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Yiannis Ritsos and Kostas Karyotakis.  His own work had been translated into Greek by Katerina Anghelaki–Rooke. He is the editor and co-translator of Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems published in Greek by Kastaniotis Editions in 2007.  His second collection, Hotel-Dieu, is forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press and he is at present completing a collection of poems about the Black Sea Greeks, following a motorcycle trip through the region in 2007.

Tryfon Tolides was born in Korifi Voiou , Greece . He has completed a BFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maine , and an MFA at Syracuse University . He has received a Reynolds Scholarship, the 2004 Foley Poetry Prize, and his manuscript, An Almost Pure Empty Walking, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection, was published by Penguin in  July 2006. His work has appeared in America , Atlanta Review, Mondo Greco, Poetry Daily, Worcester Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Farmington , Connecticut .

 Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, born in Athens , is one of Greece ’s foremost poets and a distinguished translator.  She studied Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Nice , Athens and Geneva , and after graduating from Geneva in 1962 was awarded that city’s First Prize for Poetry.   She has read poetry and lectured at major universities and literary festivals in the USA , Canada , Mexico and across Europe .  In 1985 she was awarded the Greek State Award for Poetry.  Her latest book is Translating into Love Life’s End, translated by herself.

 Tony Barnstone is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English at Whittier College and has published his poetry, fiction, essays and translations in dozens of major American journals.  Among his translations are The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry, and The Art of Writing:  Teaching the Chinese Masters.  His latest collection is Sad Jazz:  Sonnets, out from Sheepmeadow Press.

Richard Cecil has published four books of poetry, Einstein’s Brain (University of Utah Press 1986); Alcatraz (Purdue University Press 1992), selected by Gerald Stern as the winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Competition; In Search of the Great Dead (Southern Illinois University Press 1999), winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series; and Twenty First Century Blues (Southern Illinois University Press 2004).  His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Georgia Review, Southern Review, New England Review and many other magazines.  His work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac.  He teaches in the Department of English and the Honors College of Indiana University, as well as in the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program.

Roger Green is an English poet living on the Greek island of Hydra .  Among his publications are several books of poetry, including With It or On It (2000).  His translation of the Akathistos Hymn by Romanos the Melodist was published in 1987.  His recent book, Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen  (Basic Books), is a “fantastically discursive ode to obsession and myth, relayed in a series of digressions that prove far more illuminating-and life-affirming-than the facts laid bare.”  He has also published a new collection, The Pyrofani Poems.

 Dinos Siotis was born in Tinos in 1944, studied Law at the University of Athens and Comp Lit at San francisco State . He lived in San Francisco from 1971 to 1982 where he worked as a janitor, journalist, printer while being a political activist againt the junta in Greece . He worked as Press Counselor for the Embassy of Greece in Ottawa (1982-1988), New York (1988-1990) and  Boston (1997-2004). He published and edited ten political and/or literary magazines, 15 collections of poetry in Greek, English and French, a novel and two collections of short stories. He now edits (de)kata a literary review in Greek.

 A.E. (Alicia) Stallings is a widely-published, award-winning American poet residing in Greece . Her work has twice been included in the Best American Poetry series (1994, 2000), and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her collection, Archaic Smile, won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award.  She has a verse translation of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura just out from Penguin Classics, and a second collection of verse, Hapax, out from Northwestern/TriQuarterly.

 Nick Papandreou has published a novel called Father Dancing with Penguin UK (1996). In the United States it appeared under the St Martins/Picador imprint (1998) and was shortlisted for the 1999 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Stories and essays have appeared such journals as The Threepenny Review, Agni, Quarterly West, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, as well as in Canadian journals such as Quarry and Wascana Review, and in Greek journals - LEXI, Nea Poreia, Entefktirion, and elsewhere. His third book is KLEPTOMNEMON. He lives in Greece.

Nick Papandreou at a poetry reading 

 

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Alan Ansen Memorial Poetry Evening

Wednesday November 14, 8.00 pm

Alicia Stallings

Katerina Angelaki - Rouke

Iliana Sakeliou

Wine Reception After the Reading

Archimidous 48

Main Hall

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The Athens Centre invites you to the talk

“Creating Health Through Feminine Wisdom”

by Rebecca Elia, MD

on Friday, September 28 at 7:00p.m.

·        Dr. Rebecca Elia is a practicing Gynecologist in California with over twenty years experience including a past practice with renowned holistic Gynecologist Christiane Northrup.  Rebecca has travelled to Greece annually for eighteen years.  Using both her Greek and American experiences she will discuss how imbalances of feminine and masculine principles affect our health.  She believes that “through recognizing and listening to the unique cycles and hormonal transitions of our body, we are able to gain accurate and clear information in creating health.  By honoring the feminine principles, we are able to create healthier lives."  

Informal reception will follow

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Theatre Festival 2007

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Theatre Production:

The Women of Troy

Theatre Company of the New World School of the Arts

Adaptation by Kenneth McLeish
Directed by Andrew Noble

Dates/Venues:

Friday, May 25th : Nea Makri on Zouberi Beach
Sunday, May 27th: Spetses, Anargyrios Amphitheatre
Thursday May 31st: Athens, The Athens Centre Courtyard

All shows start at 9.00pm.
The production is in English

 Information and invitations: 210 7012 268

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Guest Lecture

April 17, 2007

7.30 pm

Robert Price Memorial Lecture

Guy Sanders

Resident Director of Corinth Excavations, ASCSA (from 1.7.1997)

A Dorian Perspective on Chthonic Gods: the evidence for Dionysus and Helen at Sparta and for Kotyto at Corinth  

Admissison Free

Reception Follows

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The Poetic World of Alan Ansen

Athens , Auden and the Beats

Feb 22,  2007 8.00 pm

The Athens Centre

Archimidous 48

Mets, 8.00 pm

 Readers will include:

Yannis Zervos

Alicia Stallings

Matthew Jenette

Jonathan Sim  

Alan Ansen

Το Αθηναϊκό Κέντρο θα τιμήσει τη μνήμη του Αμερικανού ποιητή Alan Ansen, επί χρόνια φίλου και συνεργάτη του Κέντρου, με μια ποιητική βραδιά, την Πέμπτη 22 Φεβρουαρίου.

Η βραδιά με τίτλο «Alan Ansen: ένας Αμερικανός ποιητής στην Αθήνα» θα ξεκινήσει στις 7:45μμ, στο Αθηναϊκό Κέντρο, στην οδό Αρχιμήδους 48 στο Μετζ. Μια πληθώρα ομιλητών θα μιλήσει για το έργο του Ansen και την συνεισφορά του στην μοντέρνα ποίηση· θα γίνουν αναγνώσεις έργων του, απομνημονευμάτων του, καθώς και εκθέματα των βιβλίων του Ansen και του ευρύ κύκλου των φίλων του. Η βραδιά είναι ανοικτή για το κοινό. Θα ακολουθήσει δεξίωση.

ALAN ANSEN was born in New York , educated at Harvard, and traveled extensively in the U.S. and in Europe .  He was secretary to W. H. Auden for seven years in New York , and was an intimate friend of the Beat poets andwriters, including Alan Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and others.  He died in Athens in November, 2006.  

EVENING OF POETRY

At the Athens Centre

48 Archimidous Street Mets, Athens

  Thursday, January 18, 2007 19:30

Alicia Stallings and Adrianne Kalfopouliou will read from their books of poetry.

A reception follows the reading....meet the poets and enjoy a glass of wine.  

ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU has taught American Literature in Athens at several colleges.  She has had award-winning poems in Nimrod, The Atlanta Review, and Whisky Island Magazine.  Her book of poetry, Wild Greens, was a 1999 finalist for the Red Hen Press first book award.  She also has a book of criticism published by the Mellen Press. Her memoir, Broken Greek, a Language to Belong, was recently published by Plain View Press. Adrianne participates each summer as a guest reader in the Athens Centre’s Poetry Seminar in Spetses.

ALICIA STALLINGS is an American poet who has been living in Athens for several years.  Her first collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award.  Her work has also received a Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Teitjens and Frederick Brock Prizes from Poetry magazine, and the James Dickey Prize from Five Points.  She recently published a second collection, Hapax.  She is Dlirector of the  Poetry Writing Workshop organized by the Athens Centre on the island of Spetses each summer.

Organized by the Athens Centre.

Information: 210 7015242, 210 7012268.

ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗ ΒΡΑΔΙΑ

στο Athens Centre

Αρχιμήδους 48, Μετς, Αθήνα

Πέμπτη, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2007, 19:30΄

Οι ποιητές Alicia Stallings – kai Adrianne Kalfopoulou θα διαβάσουν έργα από τις ποιητικές τους συλλογές.

Μετά την ανάγνωση θα ακολουθήσει δεξίωση και θα δοθεί η ευκαιρία να συναντήσετε τους ποιητές και να μιλήσετε μαζί τους.

Οργάνωση: Αθηναικό Κέντρο Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού.

Τηλέφωνα επικοινωνίας: 210 7015242, 210 7012268.

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EVENING OF POETRY

AND SHORT STORIES

At the Athens Centre

on Tuesday, October 10, 7:30pm
48 Archimidous Street, Metz, Athens

American poet Marilyn Stablein will read from her books of poetry and short stories.

A reception follows the reading....meet the poet and enjoy a glass of wine.

Students and friends of the Centre are welcome to attend.

Marilyn Stablein received her BA from the University of Washington, and her MA from the University of Houston .  She has traveled and lived in India , Tibet and Nepal , where she stayed for some time in caves in the Himalayas and where she studied Buddhist teachings.

Her many published poems, stories, essays and travel writings include Night Travels to Tibet; The Census Taker: Tales of a Traveler in India and Nepal;  Sleeping in Caves: a Sixties Himalayan Memoir.  Her poems and stories have been published in numerous periodicals, anthologies and reviews.  She received awards in the Southwest Writers contest, was an exchange artist in Belfast , Ireland , and received an SOS artist grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.  She was twice a resident writer at the Yaddo Centre in Saratoga Springs , NY , received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was winner of a University of Houston Cullen Fellowship .

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Poetry Events on the Island of Spetses

Reading Schedule 2006

Wednesday, 21st June:  Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke & Stephanos Papadopoulos

Friday, 23rd June:  Nick Papandreou


Monday, 26th June:  David Mason & Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Wednesday, 28th June:  Becky Sakellariou, Christopher & Kelly Bakken

Friday, 30th June:  Jeffrey McDaniel

Monday, 3rd July:  Aliki Barnstone & Alan Michael Parker

Wednesday, 5th July:  Tony Barnstone & Alicia Stallings

Readings take place at Villa Alexia in Kounoupitsa at 8.00 pm

Poetry Bios  

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, born in Athens, is one of Greece’s foremost poets and a distinguished translator.  She studied Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Nice, Athens and Geneva, and after graduating from Geneva in 1962 was awarded that city’s First Prize for Poetry.   She has read poetry and lectured at major universities and literary festivals in the USA, Canada, Mexico and across Europe.  In 1985 she was awarded the Greek State Award for Poetry.  Her latest book is Translating into Love Life’s End, translated by herself.

  Aliki Barnstone was educated at Brown University (B.A. and M.A.) and at the
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.). Her volume of poems, The Real
Tin Flower, introduced by Anne Sexton (Macmillan), was published when she
was twelve years old.  Her volumes of poetry include Blue Earth (Iris,
2004), and Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002).  She has a new translation of
Cavafy out from Norton.  She teaches at the University of Nevada at Las
Vegas.

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and
most recently The Splinter Factory. His poems have appeared in dozens of
periodicals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Ploughshares,
New (American) Poets, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He is a
recipient of grants from the NEA and the DC Commission for the Arts. He
teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Alan Michael Parker is the author of a novel, Cry Uncle, and three books of
poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, and Love Song with Motor Vehicles. He
is also editor of The Imaginary Poets, co-editor of The Routledge Anthology
of Cross-Gendered Verse, and Editor for North America of Who's Who in 20th
Century World Poetry.  The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships
from the Arts and Science Council, the Eastern Frontier Society, the
MacDowell Colony, and the Seaside Institute, Alan Michael Parker teaches at
Davidson College, where he is Director of Creative Writing, and at Queens
University, where he is a Core Faculty member in the low-residency M.F.A.
program.



Nick Papandreou has published a novel called Father Dancing with Penguin UK (1996). In the United States it appeared under the St Martins/Picador imprint (1998) and was shortlisted for the 1999 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Stories and essays have appeared such journals as The Threepenny Review, Agni, Quarterly West, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, as well as in Canadian journals such as Quarry and Wascana Review, and in Greek journals - LEXI, Nea Poreia, Entefktirion, and elsewhere. His third book is KLEPTOMNEMON. He lives in Greece.

Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in North Carolina and raised in Paris and Athens.  Educated in the US and Edinburgh, he holds a degree in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His poetry has been published in major periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic, and attracted the attention of Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott, who invited him to attend the Rat Island Foundation’s first program on St. Lucia.  Lost Days, his first collection, is published by Leviathan in London and Rattapallax Press in New York.

Becky Denison Sakellariou was born and raised in New England, but has lived all her adult life in Greece.  She has raised a family and worked inpublishing, teaching, and counseling; she is also a feminist, an advocate for cross-cultural awareness, and a peace activist.  She enjoys her plot of land in Euboia, which is filled with fig, olive, pomegranate, apricot, lemon eucalyputs, almond, mulberry, orange, cherry, and apple trees.

A.E. (Alicia) Stallings is a widely-published, award-winning American poet residing in Greece. Her work has twice been included in the Best American Poetry series (1994, 2000), and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her collection, Archaic Smile, won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poetry appears in many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Five Points, Hudson Review, New Criterion, Poetry, the Yale Review, and Poetry Daily (www.poems.com).  She has a verse translation of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura forthcoming from Penguin Classics.

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Theatre Festival 2006

Poetry Reading

 April 13,  7.30 p.m.

 American poet Craig Arnold



Craig Arnold's book Shells was the 1998 volume
of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.  His poems have
featured in three volumes of Best American Poetry
(1998, 2004 and 2006) and widely elsewhere.  Among his
honors are an NEA Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry
Traveling Scholarship, the Hodder Fellowship from
Princeton, and a residency at MacDowell.  Most
recently, he was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize
Fellowship by the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.  He teaches poetry at the University of
Wyoming.

The Athens Centre, Archimidous 48, Mets
Reception follows
Entrance free

April 14, 7.30 p.m.

Antartica- The Ends of the Earth

An Evening of Slides from a Journey by:

DEREK MONTGOMERY

The Athens Centre, Archimidous 48, Mets
Entrance free

May 24, 2004,  7.30. pm

Guest Lecture

Dr. John Anton 

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John Anton is a well-known professor of philosophy, and a founding member of the Modern Greek Studies Association. Educated at Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D., he went on to teach in the philosophy departments of colleges and universities such as Columbia, Emory, SUNY Buffalo, and Mills College. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Greek Philosophy and Culture at the University of South Florida, where he is also the Director of the Center for Greek Studies. Dr. Anton received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Athens, and will also receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Patras in May. Among his many academic honors, Dr. Anton is a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens and of the Parnassus Literary Society, and an honorary member of the Hellenic Society for Philosophical Studies. He has been named Outstanding Educator of America, has received awards for professional excellence from the University of South Florida, and the Papazoglou Award for Literature. In addition to hundreds of published articles and monographs, Dr. Anton is the author/editor of many books, including Aristotle's Theory of Contrariety, Critical Humanism as a Philosophy of Culture, The Poetry and Poetics of Constantine Cavafy, and Categories and Experience: Essays on Aristotelian Themes.

December 19, 2003

Harpsichord Concert 

 by Arlys Masson-Gingold

in aid of the Palini Animal Farm.
Date:  Friday, Dec. 19
Time: 9:00pm
Ticket donations:  10 Euros
Information:  6937-515-632

October 17, 2003

Poetry Reading: Irish Poet Desmond Egan

In conjunction with the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies

8.00 pm

The Athens Centre, 48 Archimidous Street, Athens

October 1, 2003  7.00 p.m.

An Evening of Madrigals. Heloise Pilkington and her group from London
will sing a selection of English Madrigals.

Leighton House Museum
12, Holland Park Road
London W14

July 2, 2003
8.30 p.m. Athens Centre Courtyard
48 Archimidous Street ,Mets
An Evening of Madrigals. Heloise Pilkington and her group from London
will sing a selection of English Madrigals.

The Bacchae 2001

Monday, June 25th:  Keynote poetry reading by Annie Finch, American poet and critic

Past  Events 

April /May 2001

April 25:  8.30p.m.

Theatre production. Seneca's Trojan Women, Directed by Fred Ahl from Cornell University. 

April 27: 7.30p.m.

Poetry Reading. Rebecca Byrkit, Adrianna Kalfopoulou, Alicia Stallings

May 5: 8.30p.m.

Irish-Greek Society talk on Jonathan Swift, by Norman Powers, followed by refreshments and a performance of chamber music.

The above events will take place at the Athens Centre, 48 Archimidous Street,  in Mets. Details and reservations at 701-2268. There is no admission charge, but reservations are necessary for the theatre production.

The Amphitheatre on Spetses

 The New World School of the Arts : UR Faust, Athens 1998

Ancient Greek Drama on Site 

Theatre Company of the University of Detroit Mercy, Summer 2000

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