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Do you know the riot dogs in Athens?

1/22/2016

Strolling in Athens if you are lucky enough you will meet this beautiful graffiti in a wall in Athens. Who is this dog on the wall? But of course the famous Loukanikos (sausage). Louk used to follow the street protesters in Athens, and became famous when the reporters discovered him
Loukanikos when he was puppie lived in the Economical Universityof Athens, and the students there called him Loukaniko, it was a stray dog.
A very good man who lived also in Athens took care of Loukanikos and he named him Thodoros.

Loukanikos or Thodoros liked so much to follow the street protesters and didn't care at all for the gas tears and chemicals Because of his way of life was getting sick and the good man took him home. He passed away few years ago. His friends three famous street artists decided to paint this wall for him, after all they were comrades in demonstrations and he sat with them when they were skating. Billy Gee, Alex Martinez and N_Grams offered to him and to all of us this beautiful graffiti, writing also "All good dogs go to heaven"

More for the riot dogs in Athens you can find in Wikipedia

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Greek Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, a pictorial narrative.

1/16/2016

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Greek Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, a pictorial narrative.

The Cervantes Institute and the Jewish Museum of Greece introduce a series of photographs - portraits of Greek Jewish survivors of the Nazi camps. These persons, now registered in the history of the Second World War, unfold their memory in front of a lens. Since 2012, the artist Artemis Alcalay investigates, travels in Greece and abroad and talks with the survivors of –before the war- flourishing Jewish communities. Building a bridge between historical documentary and art she combines, in the same shot, the man with her own work from the series “Home: a wandering”. The archetypal figure of house-home, a place of joy which manifests happiness and family warmth, recalls memories and starts a fruitful dialogue between past and present, wound and healing, speech and silence. In Cervantes, for the first time Sephardic portraits with Spanish nationality and documents from Thessaloniki and Athens are exposed which survived thanks to the efforts of the Spanish consul in Athens, Sebastián Romero de Radigales. Radigales risked his career to save them from certain death in the Nazi camps by issuing new passports and putting pressure for safe transport from the Bergen-Belsen camp to Spain.
The exhibition is accompanied by photographs of documents: citizenship certificates, correspondence, survivors’ passports with Spanish citizenship, as well as books written by survivors in various languages. Artemis Alcalay was born in Athens in 1957. She studied painting, set design and art history at the School of Fine Arts with D. Mytaras, G. Moralis, B. Vassiliadis. M. Lambraki-Plaka. She did postgraduate studies in Studio Art at New York University. At the same university she studied photography with Gerry Pryor and in Athens by Laura Dodson and Camillo Nola. She also studied weaving with Maria Leonidas. She exhibits in Greece and abroad and her work can be found both in public and private collections in Greece and other countries.
Opening: 1.20.2016, 19.30.
Exposure Duration: until 03.19.2016. Exhibition Hall of the Cervantes Institute of Athens, Mitropoleos 23.
Free admission.
Hours: Monday to Friday: 10.00-21.00. Saturday: 10.00-14.00. Closed: Sundays and 03/14/2016.

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Our neighbors in the next corner

1/15/2016

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_ Today was a special day we follow the steps of Gefyra/Bridge in its social street work. Impact Hub Athens and the people of Gegyra/Bridge invited us to cook together, a home made food for the people they need it most, the people who live in the streets, the homeless people of Athens Walking in Athens we get down on our knees to get them and this was the most important thing, to get down on your knees and see the life...

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The Blessing of Dionysos, National Archaeological Museum Athens

1/10/2016

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Beneath the bustling with life halls of the Museum an altogether different world is hidden.

Statues, gold jewelry, valuable bronze vessels, as well as personal everyday objects patiently await the moment to become the center of attention.

Antiquities selected from the unknown world of the storerooms, one after the other emerge every two months everfrom their secure state of obscurity into the light, inviting the fans of rare memorable moments to capture their stories and narratives.

Hall of the Altar (Νο 34)

The Blessing of Dionysos 04/01/-20/03/16 At National Archaeological Museum
National Archaeological Museum
44 Patission Street, Athens 10682

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Epiphany a Christian celebration, connected to the ancient Athenian celebration of "Plynteria."

1/7/2016

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Epiphany is celebrated by both the Eastern and Western Churches, but a major difference between them is precisely which events the feast commemorates. For Western Christians, the feast primarily
Celebrated every year on January 6, it is the third and last feast of the Epiphany is celebrated by both the Eastern and Western Churches, but a major difference between them is precisely which events the feast commemorates. For Western Christians, the feast primarily commemorates the coming of the Magi, with only a minor reference to the baptism of Jesus and the miracle at the Wedding at Cana. Eastern churches celebrate the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan. In both traditions, the essence of the feast is the same: the manifestation of Christ to the world (whether as an infant or in the Jordan), and the Mystery of the Incarnation
Twelve days of celebration beginning with Christmas. The name of the feast results from the revelation of the three Persons of the Holy Trinity, which, according to the Scriptures, happened at the Baptism of Jesus.

It is not known with certainty when Epiphany was established to be celebrated.

John Chrysostom admits and describes the celebration as an ancient festivity in Antiocheia the Great. In the fourth century, the celebration of Epiphany is celebrated by Church as a whole as a feast of the humanity’s enlightenment through the Holy Baptism.

Two are the main celebrations of the Epiphany:
- The Great Blessing, which takes place within the Churches.
- The Diving of the Holy Cross, following the Great Blessing.

The Cross is thrown by the priest in the sea area in ports, rivers or lakes shores and, in some cases, into water roman cisterns in Athens and Chania , imitating the Baptism of Christ and the purify of water

Traditions

Carol of “Lights”. They are sung by children at the eve of the celebration in many variations.

Τhe "grip of the Cross" from swimmers, divers, during the ceremony of the Holy Cross Diving. Young, mostly, people dive into the icy waters to catch the Cross first and receive the blessing of the priest and also accept the wishes from the rest of the citizens.

Blessing of the houses from the priests. In Greece the sanctification takes place for the first time at the Epiphany Eve and it is called "Little Blessing" or "Protagiasi"(first sanctification) or "Enlightenment".

During the Protagiasi, the priest goes to all the houses and with the Cross and a branch of basil sprinkles all the houses with holly water so that the evil will leave. Previously, folklorists connected the illumination of houses with the disappearance of goblins, which are imagined to leave the house full of fear and screaming when the priest arrived.

The celebration of Epiphany also includes many events which are connected to the ancient Greek customs. Sanctification, in Greece, also has the meaning of the purification of people and the exemption from the influence of demons. The latter concept is not strictly Christian, but has its roots in ancient worship.

The immersion of the Cross, according to popular belief, gives water cleansing and sanitizing capabilities. The inhabitants of many areas, after diving for the cross, run to the beaches or along rivers and lakes to wash their agricultural tools and icons even. According to popular belief, even the icons with the passage of time lose their original strength and value, but they gain it again from the holy water.

It is this process that is strongly Epiphany is a celebration of Christianity, in commemoration of the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by St. John the Baptist.
Celebrated every year on January 6, it is the third and last feast of the Twelve days of celebration beginning with Christmas. The name of the feast results from the revelation of the three Persons of the Holy Trinity, which, according to the Scriptures, happened at the Baptism of Jesus.

Two are the main celebrations of the Epiphany:
- The Great Blessing, which takes place within the Churches.
- The Diving of the Holy Cross, following the Great Blessing.

The Cross is thrown by the priest in the sea area in ports, rivers or lakes shores and, in some cases, into roman cisterns, in Athens and Chania, imitating the Baptism of Christ.

Traditions

Carol of “Lights”. They are sung by children at the eve of the celebration in many variations.

Τhe "grip of the Cross" from swimmers, divers, during the ceremony of the Holy Cross Diving. Young, mostly, people dive into the icy waters to catch the Cross first and receive the blessing of the priest and also accept the wishes from the rest of the citizens.

Blessing of the houses from the priests. In Greece the sanctification takes place for the first time at the Epiphany Eve and it is called "Little Blessing" or "Protagiasi"(first sanctification) or "Enlightenment".

During the Protagiasi, the priest goes to all the houses and with the Cross and a branch of basil sprinkles all the houses with holly water so that the evil will leave. Previously, folklorists connected the illumination of houses with the disappearance of goblins, which are imagined to leave the house full of fear and screaming when the priest arrived.

The celebration of Epiphany also includes many events which are connected to the ancient Greek customs. Sanctification, in Greece, also has the meaning of the purification of people and the exemption from the influence of demons. The latter concept is not strictly Christian, but has its roots in ancient worship.

The immersion of the Cross, according to popular belief, gives water cleansing and sanitizing capabilities. The inhabitants of many areas, after diving for the cross, run to the beaches or along rivers and lakes to wash their agricultural tools and icons even. According to popular belief, even the icons with the passage of time lose their original strength and value, but they gain it again from the holy water.

It is this process that is strongly connected to the ancient Athenian celebration of "Plynteria."

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Do you know the riot dogs in Athens?

Greek Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, a pictorial narrative.

Our neighbors in the next corner

The Blessing of Dionysos, National Archaeological Museum Athens

Epiphany a Christian celebration, connected to the ancient Athenian celebration of "Plynteria."

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