Theme: Mosaic

We are looking for one word, defined as: ‘a form of art consisting of small irregular pieces of various materials’. It definitely pops up often in your daily life, but is also found in many more places, well hidden and camouflaged. Our whole life is a ‘mosaic’, many different experiences and moments that create memories. In a constantly changing world that moves frighteningly quickly, we chose to pay attention to those small, almost insignificant, as we sometimes think, pieces that make up a much larger picture.

So this year, in Technopolis, on Saturday, 18 March, speakers and performers, will approach the ‘mosaic’ through many, unexpected aspects. Not only from the literal but also from the transport perspective, we will hear about the technique of the mosaic, different cultures, different characteristics internally and externally that create either an integrated personality or a unique appearance and a new geographical perspective that you never expected.

Technopolis
Piers 100 & Voutadon
Athens, Attiki, 11854
Greece

Fysalida

Dance Group

Fysalida is a dance group based in Heraklion, Crete. The company was founded in 2006 by Georgia Petrali with the aim of exploring, creating and producing any art form through collaboration between artists, educators, therapists and scientists. The objective of the Fysalida dance company’s activities is to move the public via the art produced and to raise awareness about various modern social issues which are highlighted via the art they produce. The dance company’s activities include dance and dance-theatre performances, solo performances, dance film and video art production, installation performances, experimental performances and video screenings, modern dance, movement, contact improvisation seminars, community work projects and community dance projects. The company’s research and creative materials are transformed into art through movement, dance, speech, theatre, photography, music, the visual arts and video art.

On Stage

Musical Group

On Stage musical theater was created in 2010 in order to aqcaint the art of musical theater. So, it became the door for anyone who loves the performing arts. Working with the culture of the music theater, the quality of art and the severity of the disciplined work, On Stage musical theater managed to train many talented people and lead them to their professional career in Greece and abroad. The aim is, this integrated form of art to be used as a way of approaching the inner world of the student, in order fot the performer to find the best part of himself and shine. The On Stage Ptofessionals is the official musical group of On Stage and the first professional musical theater group in Greece. The group consists of professionals singers and people with developed performance with singing, dancing and acting.

Antonis Ntzegkoutanis

Tattoo Artists

Antonis Ntzegkoutanis is a tattoo artist. He has worked in the FTW Tattoo Studio and has participated in two Tattoo Conventions in Thessaloniki and in Cyprus respectively. In 2016 he became the first graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) to show his tattoo work in his thesis exposition. This exposition constituted a recognition for the art of tattoo in our country while, at the same time, contributed to the expansion of the perception of what is considered to be modern art. His tattoos are characterized by a mixture of realism, abstract, patterns, writings and intense line drawings. He is also involved in photography and painting.

Antonis Tsapatakis

Paralympic Swimmer

He was ejected against the pavement, resulting in paralysis of the lower limbs. In 2009, he started swimming in the disabled team, under the coaching of Kostas Nikolantonakis. During this time, he has many excellences in national (holds two national records), European and global competitions, he posseses 17 gold, silver and bronze medals. Also, he conducted interviews and professional photographs in Magazines like, Life & Style (2011) and I WEEKLY (2010) .The power, passion and determination led him to the Paralympics in London in 2012, which added to his biographical material, the 4th place in 100m.

Click Ngwere

Migrant feminist Activist, Knitting artist

Click Ngwere is a migrant feminist activist and knitting artist. She was born in Zimbabwe and took part in the Mozambiki’s guerrilla war as a fighter. After the war, Ngwere continued with her education and she attended the Morgenster Teacher’s College. She became a history teacher and she was trained as a trainer of pre-school teachers in Alvord Training Center. Moreover, she did bee keeping at Henderson Research Station and became a professional bee keeper. Ngwere is a song writer and a gospel singer. She is a dancer of the Mandela Gals group (a female dance troupe from South Africa) in Athens. Since childhood, Ngwere’s dream was to establish a knitting workshop. After years of working in the domestic sector in Greece, she created her own knitting business, Click’s Collection, which produces knitted arts and crafts. Ngwere lives and works in Athens.

Eleutheria Zourou

CEO of Doctoranytime

Eleftheria Zourou studied Business administration and marketing in University of Piraeus and started her career in Procter and Gamble, where she learned that a good marketer should be in touch with the consumer and get in his shoes, a more formal way to put what she had early enough understood. Then she moved to DOL, where she did marketing for women magazines and having acquired interesting experience from the media world she moved to L’Oreal. Nothing compares to her entrepreneurial life, bringing into life a new fresh idea in the internet/health sector, DOCTORANYTIME.GR. It’s the idea that brings her closer to what she dreamt of: an easier, faster and more patient friendly access to the Greek healthcare system. Eleftheria ‘s first interaction with a “customer” was in the small toy shop of her grandfather, where she understood early enough that sales increase when you sell what consumer needs.

Fanis Kollias

Founder and Head of Media at Solomon

Fanis Kollias is 26 years old, coming from Tripoli. When in 2009 came in Athens to study Business Administration in OPA, the life outside University seemed more interesting, so he decided to start working on the industry before he luxuriated in it, which makes him still a student. He was occupied with events in the cultural sector, journalism in sites and print media, communication, advertising, copywriting and non profit sector, until he was found again at the Athens University of Economics and Business through the Fellowship Diploma of Social Entrepreneurship. This time, he was really devoted and graduated, while he simultaneously started the ”Solomon”, an initiative that focuses on social inclusion and uses the media as a tool.

George Dassios

Applied Mathematics Professor

George Dassios is currently a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Department of Chemical Engineering in University of Patras, counting 44 years at all level of university teaching all over the world. He got a Diploma in Mathematics, Master's of Sciences in Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics and a Habilitation in Mathematics . Among other awards and nominations, he received a MARIE CURRIE CHAIR OF EXCELLENCE. He was the principal investigator or main participant in 33 Research Projects in Greece and abroad, he has more than 300 original publications and international conference reports and wrote 21 overall research and university textbooks both in Greek and English. He advised 24 Ph. D students and two thirds of those are today university professors in Greece, Europe and the USA.

Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis

Economic History and Entrepreneurship Professor, Founder of Take off Greece

Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economics at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). She has taught economic history and entrepreneurship courses at an undergraduate and graduate level at AUEB and the University of Athens. She is also the founder of Take Off Greece. At the moment her research is focusing on international comparisons in the history of the joint stock company and the new business model which is arising in Greece during the current economic crisis. She has served on the board of the European Business History Association and the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy. She has also served as a member of the board of the directors of the Greek Centre of Planning and Economic Research, 2010-2013. She is a mentor at the Athens Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Marie Halaka

Fundraising Manager at Praksis

Carrying a vast professional experience, Marie Halaka currently holds the position of Fundraising Director and Strategic CSR Development at PRAKSIS, major Greek NGO. Through excellent collaboration with bilateral funders for a variety of humanitarian interventions, including the JPMChase Foundation, the SNF, ICMC, IMC, the US Embassy, as well as corporate international key players (Roche, J&J, P&G, Mondelez, Philip Morris International, Inditex, Citibank, VISA, among others) she has mastered bridging of synergies to integrate innovative practices. She has also conducted a multitude of lectures on CSR, FR, and grass root NGOs capacity building (ALBA University, Citibank Leadership team, Patients Organizations, Higgs, among other). She has organized fundraising events such as the « Philellenes Hollywood Gala » in Los Angeles.

Nasia Pachaleri

Dietitian

Nasia Paschaleri is a dietitian specialized in Gerontology (MSc Gerontology). She completed her bachelor studies at the department of Nutrition and Dietetics of Alexander Technological Institute in Thessaloniki. Having achieved a scholarship, she then received her Master’s degree in Gerontology from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Currently she is a PhD candidate at the department of Medicine of University of Crete. She is the co-partner of nutrition and anti-aging center ‘Natural Health Clinic’ (www.naturalhealthclinic.gr) and she is also, an executive board member of the elderly care unit ‘Frontizo’ (www.frontizw.gr) in Thessaloniki. Since 2014, she is appointed as a dietician at the diagnostic centers of Euromedica group in Kifissia and Galatsi in Athens.

Olga Goulandris

Mosaic Media Artist

Olga Goulandris studied in London, History of Art (Birbeck College) and made relevant postgraduate studies (MA, Fine and Decorative Art and Design – Sotheby’s.) She also studied Byzantine and modern techniques of Mosaic in Greece, Italy and the United States. She has 7 solo exhibitions and has participated in several group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. She has numerous awards and recognitions for her unique style and personality in the world of the Mosaic. Olga Goulandris, has managed to highlight the art of mosaic in a way to create a work of art as she does not approach it simply as a folk art. She is the representative of contemporary art of Mosaic in Greece and her works of art are exhibited in museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. The visual artist teaches the art of the mosaic and has created a group of students entitled “Mosaic Κosmos“, which conducts several artistic and charitable actions.

Rain Dove

Androgynous Model, Gender Activist

Rain Dove is the androgynous/agender model who has been in many magazines like W, Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmo, Harper's Bazaar, etc. She has created several viral campaigns including a lingerie shoot challenging Victoria Secrets’ beauty standards which reached over 35 countries. She is also known for her humanitarian action. Her recent video combatting HB2 has garnered millions of views and has discovered a previously unexposed illegality to the bill. She also speaks about homelessness and hunger both of which she has experienced herself. Prior to her fashion career, she was a wilderness firefighter and also obtained a BA in Genetic Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Sebastian Erras

Photographer, Creator of “Parisian Floors”

Sebastian Erras is a German photographer. His interest in photography started with a trip to the Massai Mara in Kenya as he was trying to capture the local wildlife. Since 2009 he is a full-member of the GDT (German Wildlife Photographers) and CO-Founder of the GDT Youth Group. Meanwhile his work has been published in numerous nature and wildlife magazines and in 2010 he won the 2nd prize of the Fritz Pölking Nachwuchspreis der GDT. After his studies in International Marketing, he decided to become a fulltime photographer. Having always had a passion for design and architecture, he specialized in the field of interior and architecture photography. Erras has created “Parisian Floors”, an Instagram account in which he logs some of the most interesting floor designs he has spotted.

Thomas Zampras

Stand up comedian

Οur first performer is Thomas Zampras. Born and raised in Trikala. He came to Athens to study International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus but eventually, he chose comedy. Before he settled down, heσ worked on music criticism and filmmaking workshops, but it all became clear when he came first in a stand up comedy competition. He makes stand up performances all over Greece, writes in Oneman, while he was scriptwriting and playing at the TV show Cinelthete at SKAI .

Yanna Vasileiou

Musician

Yanna Vasileiou is a musician, singer, composer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Athens, but she also has Constantinople roots She is a graduate of the Music Department of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds “A” level diplomas in classical piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue. Her first original song is “Logia Agapis” (Words of Love), which she composed, wrote the lyrics and performs herself. Her complete album “Ola Osa Agapo” was on the Top spot in iTunes.From that stood out the songs “Miazei Apl0” and “Kathe Fora pou tha Rtheis Vrexei“. She undertook the lyrics rendition and the vocal teaching in the musical “Rocky Horror Show” and “Froutopia” at Rex theater and in the “As Erhosoun gia ligo” at Acropole.