The climate crisis and its consequences in our lives as well as in the cultural stock, material and immaterial, is this year the theme of the events “All Greece One Culture 2023”. In this context, 70 productions, with a total budget of 1,800,000 euros, were selected by the competent Evaluation Committee of the YPPOA. The chairman of the committee was the artistic director of ELLS, Giorgos Koumentakis.

The organization “invited artists and artistic groups to create new works on this theme, with readings that are not limited to the reproduction of dystopian predictions, but raise questions for a global view of the phenomenon” points out the announcement of the Ministry of Culture.

For her part, Lina Mendoni, speaking about the institution which was created in the summer of 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, emphasized that “it won the acceptance of the world, offering extremely high-level cultural productions, which combine cultural heritage with modern creation in an ideal way ». The organization of the events around a central thematic axis began in 2022 with the tribute to the 100 years of the Asia Minor Disaster. “For the fourth year in a row” added Mrs. Mendoni “the public will have the opportunity to enjoy quality performances, of high standards, in archaeological sites outside the Attica Region, creating at the same time, as every year, employment conditions for a significant number of Culture workers ».

Especially for the 2023 program, Lina Mendoni, stated that “it is composed of the proposals of the creators, following an open invitation from the Ministry of the Interior, and is oriented, in accordance with the philosophy of the institution, towards innovative and hybrid forms born from the dialectical matching of more than one art forms, per event. I believe that the public’s response to the institution’s new cycle of events will be particularly warm, as in the past” he concluded.

In more detail, the evaluation committee selected 18 theatrical performances, 18 musical performances, 13 performances/activities for children and teenagers, 9 dance performances, 8 performance/visual arts and 4 musical theater performances.

30 proposals were selected in the 15,000 euro category, 35 proposals were selected in the 30,000 euro category, and 5 proposals in the 60,000 euro category.

The members of the Evaluation Committee for 2023 were:

Dimitris Maragopoulos – Composer, Head of the “Bridges” Circle of the Athens Concert Hall, Emeritus Professor of Ionian University – Music and Performing Arts

Konstantinos Hatzis – Director

Dafnis Kokkinos – Dancer, choreographer, director of KSOT

Syrago Tsiara – Art historian, director of the National Gallery

Natasha Triantafylli – Director

Anastasia Gadolou – Archaeologist, head of the department of prehistoric and classical archaeological sites and monuments and archaeological works of the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Ministry of Antiquities.

The following participated in the Special Committee from the Ministry of the Interior, without the right to vote:

Prof. Anna Panagiotarea, journalist, advisor to the Minister of Culture and Sports

Dimitra Filou, archaeologist at the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.