“Elefsina is shaping its modern identity” said the President of the Republic during her greeting
The ecumenical celebration in Eleusis continues tonight until late with dancing, singing, musical concerts. In the streets, in the squares, in the inactive industrial buildings, outside the Old Olive Mill, transforming for one night the coastline of this small European Capital of Culture with its history and contradictions into a coastline of culture. The Opening Ceremony designed by the artistic director Michael Marmarinos with his collaborators gave flesh and bones to the vision of the Capital of Culture 2023.
The imposing event of the Ceremony at sea, directed by the British Chris Baldwin, gave an impressive impression of history and tradition with the ships and the inhabitants of the maritime city as protagonists, extensions of the mythology of the Lower and Upper world with the alternation of darkness/light by beams of light of the spotlights in the sky, to the sounds of Marina Satti’s choir “Chores”. The celebration of the transition to life and culture was given experientially by the groups of women who welcomed the visitors from the open windows singing polyphonically, the Pontic and Cretan lyres with the dancers of the local clubs in the streets, the philharmonic of the municipality of Elefsina with the legendary song “In the Elefsina once”, even parked cars with young drivers and the music playing in the background. The Stereo Nova concert at the former Iris factory continues in full swing.
The Opening Ceremony was greeted by the President of the Republic, the European Commissioner Margaritis Schinias, the Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni, the Deputy Minister of Culture Nikolas Giatromanolakis, the Regional Governor of Attica Giorgos Patoulis, the Mayor of Elefsina Argyris Oikonomou. The Panhellenic Federation of Performing Arts, the Union of Greek Actors and drama school students were present outside the Old Olive Oil Mill, with banners and slogans for the withdrawal of Presidential Decree 85/2022.
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