With a rich program he welcomes Lent, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, organizing a festive two -day, Sunday 2nd and Monday, March 3rd.

The two -day event events are held with free admission:

Sunday 2 March 11.30-15.00- Stavros Niarchos Park

On Sunday, March 2nd at Stavros Niarchos Park, a celebration is set up that gives us the opportunity to escape from everyday life and leave our imagination free with live music, percussion parades, dj set, laboratories for young and old, masquerades, fun, play and dance .

The slogan is given by Dj Palov mixing jazz, funk, hip hop, reggae, dub, while Los Petralonicos and Daniela Bolano take the baton with a unique mix of Latin, Swing, Jazz and traditional soundtracks. At the same time, the familiar multicultural percussion band Bloco Swingueira carries its explosive energy and its Brazilian rhythms to various parts of Stavros Niarchos Park.

Parade: Bloco Swingueira 11.30-12.00 and 12.40-13.00-CANAL starting point

Extravagant and exuberant, Bloco Swingueira is a percussion band created in 2014. Every appearance refers to a Brazilian carnival, with Samba Afro and Samba Reggae raising the public. From the very first Halloween in SNCP, they are an integral part of the celebration, giving endless energy and rhythm to the public. In addition to their dozens of live performances, they organize percussion lessons, as well as seminars with renowned Brazilian teachers.

DJ set with Palov 12.00-13.30 –

Dj Palov is a musician explorer who turns each set into an exciting journey combining Latin, Cumbia, Afro, Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop and Reggae sounds from around the world. If you don’t find him at the decks of major European festivals next to artists such as Quantic, Nickodemus and Bonobo, it is more likely that he is looking for rare sounds in the depths of world discography. As co-founder of the Labels Cast-A-Blast (as Palov & Mishkin) and Carnibal Records (along with Panama Cardoon), he has left his mark on music production, and today he continues his creative career through Spang Recordings, in collaboration with The long -lived friend and musical Angelos Angelidis (Los Tre, Patatititi).

Concert: Los Petralonicos 13.30-15.00- Graphic

The musical band of Los Petralonicos combines the psychedelic sounds of the Amazon- a unique mix of Latin, Swing, Jazz- with traditional Latin American sounds (Cumbia Psicodelica and Chicha Peruana) that travel the public on musical paths full of energy and nostalgia. In their live performances the audience becomes part of the concert, filling the space with songs and dance. From the corners of Athens to the big scenes, Los Petralonicos are able to convey their vibrancy and love for music at every opportunity.

Artistic Action: Ornithomamis 11.30-14.30 – Pine – for children aged 5 years or older

Action Open Flow / Free Participation in Priority order

On Sunday, March 2nd at Stavros Niarchos Park, children become artists-ornithologists and find out what it is like to be a bird! Focusing on the characteristics of various birds, they will create imagination masks and abstract moods: they will paint eagles beak, make colorful birds and tsalapete buns and wear them to dance at the carnival!

Face Painting 11.00-15.00- Park Kiosk

For children of all ages

Action Open Flow / Free Participation in Priority order

Children’s faces are filled with colors and imaginative designs inspired by Halloween.

Clean Monday, March 3, “WELCOME-THE SEARKOST, WELCOME AND SPRING!” 12.00-15.00 – GIFT, Stavros Niarchos Park

From 12.00 to 15.00, in the glade of Stavros Niarchos Park, Ethnomusicology Professor Lambros Liavas curates and presents a panorama of Greek music and dance tradition, in an open invitation to participate in the traditional ritual.
Knowing as few people as the codes of our traditional music, through studies, academic work and traveling in every corner of Greece, Lambros Liavas invites us to outburst the carnival in the traditional way.
Halloween mimicry dances are involved with Kalamatian, kangelia and chamic, continental pogonies, Macedonian dragons, Thracian zonatics, civic butapica, Smyrna Karsilamades, Cretan pentosal.

The tone is given by the dynamic company of Alexandros Arkadopoulos (in the clarinet and flute) and Yiannis Pavlopoulos (in the violin and song). Thanos Stavridis is involved with them, while Tasos Valkanis with his trumpet adds the festive sound from the Macedonian bands. In the company of Jordanis Kouzinopoulos in the lute and the song, with Manousos Klapakis in the percussion. Their song is accompanied by six excellent singers of the younger generation:
Sevastiani, Emmelia Damanaki, Marianthi-Pipletis Katsari, Golden Javla, Dimitra Tsagaraki, Varvara Tsivikis.
Also participating is Pontius Lyraris Elias Avramidis, as well as the Cretan lyricist Manolis Boudalakis.
The dance groups of the Folklore Club “Christendom” (curated by Vasilis Kafi and Maria Ziakas) and the Pontian Association “Argonauts Komninos” (curated by Kostas Savvinidis), invite us to catch on the circles.

Artistic Action: Kites Over City 11.00-16.00 – Buy

For children 4 years and older and their attendants. Action Open Flow / Free Participation in Priority order

In the SNFCC Market Children and Parents will create a large collective work on paper, inspiration from the dynamic compositions of Nikos Hadjikyriakou-Gika, where kites are hovering over cities and villages as eternal symbols of freedom and renewal.

Through collaboration and free expression, participants/hasses will paint their own colorful world, combining elements of Greek tradition with contemporary perspective. As creations complement each other, there will be a “living”, from above, a reflection of the world, as if we see the celebration and the city from the absolute freedom of the kite flying.