Theme: The Space Between

In a constantly ever-evolving and ever-altering environment, what’s tomorrow like?

This question sparks the imagination, especially since our daily lives prove the fluidity of things. Where there is change, there is risk. Where there is risk, there is also the fear of the unknown. Often the unknown frightens us, and other times the known is not fulfilling.

Centuries ago, Heraclitus stated that "Everything flows and nothing remains.” This was supplemented by Cavafy, who urges the reader to enjoy the journey to his own Ithaca, risking and learning from what "positive" or "negative" appears in his way. The decisive role of technology in our daily lives, the new social trends, the changes in the inner world of everyone, but also everything that changes form, and is far from, normal, constantly subverts the data so far.

How does one experience change? What are their feelings? What are their expectations? How do they react? How do they go from one situation to another? Where does their power come from? How ready are they? How receptive?

Small changes, big changes… Some conscious and others heterodetermined. Internal and external… Some have already happened, and others are about to happen. From the basis of evolutionary theory, to the most romantic view of change, we look for answers as to "Why" and "How" one fills…

↔️ The SPACE BETWEEN ↔️

Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa
Geor. Papandreou
Patera
Larisa, Larisa, 41222
Greece

Akis Restemis

Musician

O Άκης (Εγκόλφιος) Ρεστέμης γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1967.Από μικρή ηλικία δημιούργησε τα πρώτα «γκρουπάκια» σε μια μουσική διαδρομή που συνεχίζεται μέχρι σήμερα. Κυρίως αυτοδίδακτος μουσικός, με διαστήματα μουσικής εκπαίδευσης,ακολουθώντας τον αυτοσχεδιασμό,την κοινοτική και την ανθρώπινη σύνδεση καθώς και την ενέργεια που πηγάζει μέσω της μουσικής. Συνεργάστηκε με πολλούς αξιόλογους μουσικούς σε διάφορα μουσικά σχήματα σε Αθήνα, Ηράκλειο Κρήτης και σήμερα στην Λάρισα. Το 2006 δημιούργησε μαζί με Λαρισαίους μουσικούς τις Moonjoures δουλεύοντας προσωπικές μουσικές δημιουργίες. Στο ενεργητικό της μπάντας ήταν πολλές ζωντανές εμφανίσεις καθώς επίσης και opening act σε συναυλίες μουσικών με σημαντική παρουσία στο χώρο της ελληνικής σκηνής όπως ο Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος, ο Παύλος Παυλίδης. οι Xaxakes,Dear Atomic κλπ.Το 2012 ηχογράφηθηκαν τα κομμάτια τους σε ένα CD δικής τους παραγωγής.

Aris Chatzinikolaou

Manager of Environmental Management Office at UOM

Aris Chatzinikolaou is the Manager of the University of Macedonia’s Environmental Management Office and has participated as a Project Coordinator /Technical Staff in numerous European Programs. He holds an MSc in Regional and Urban Planning Studies from London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from University of Macedonia. His interests mainly focus on Environmental Education, Development, and Social Cooperation. His work focuses on the ‘greening’ of the University of Macedonia, while organizing the actions of the students' volunteer Environmental Team of UoM. He is a founding member and actively participates in many environmental and social initiatives, non-profit organizations, and social cooperatives.

Conor McGann

CSS Shopping Ads Consultant @Google

Conor McGann is a Mobile UX & Retail Specialist at Google Ireland. He has 8 years of digital marketing experience, beginning his career as a Google Ads Account Manager before becoming a Mobile Product Expert for the UK's top online advertisers. Prior to this, Conor studied French & Sociology in Trinity College Dublin before completing a Masters in Management in UCD's Michael Smurfit Business School. He currently works in the CSS Program as a consultant to CSS businesses & is based in Dublin.

Dimitris Grammatikoyiannis

Fashion Designer

Dimitris Grammatikoyiannis, Fashion Editor-Eco Stylist, really soon realized his affection for fashion sustainability and he has introduced the principles of ethical fashion, as well as, has edited and directed eco-ethical fashion editorials in the Greek fashion industry and magazines since 2001. Dimitris is the first stylist and fashion editor worldwide who engaged political, social and eco statements and messages into fashion editorials. The Russian edition of Numero, named him, eco makeover for the thematic environmental issue (TOXIC PLANET 2049), published in December 2018.

Evangelos Tasopoulos

Emotional Intelligence & Creativity Coach

Vagelis Tasopoulos has studied Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Humanities & Social Sciences in Strasbourg and Communication & Advertising in Paris, France. He has a long, award-winning career in advertising as a Creative Director and as a Dep. General Manager in local and international advertising agencies. In parallel with his corporate career, he is actively involved in Personal Development, having been certified as a Personal & Executive Coach by True-Me Breakthrough Coaching Academy (ICF Continuing Coach Education). He has attended several specialized Emotional Intelligence trainings as well as other seminars and accreditations in the fields of psychological, spiritual well-being, and self-development.

iDance Company

Hip Hop Group

Η ομάδα από τη Λάρισα πρωταγωνίστησε το 2019 και βρέθηκε στις top 3 καλύτερες ομάδες Hip - Hop πανελλαδικά! Με crew leader την Ευανθία Ζαφειράκη η οποία, με φιλοδοξίες που ξεπερνούν τα Ελληνικά δεδομένα, έχει καταφέρει να αναπτύξει σημαντικά τη ποιότητα της ομάδας! Η ομαδικότητα και η επικοινωνία είναι το βασικό στοιχείο της και μοναδικός στόχος η συμμετοχή στο Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα χορού Hip Hop International που διεξάγεται κάθε χρόνο στην Αμερική! Το θέμα του Performance τους είναι το "The Space Between Attitude and Movement" και ομιλητές δε θα υπάρχουν! Μόνο χορός! Μόνο κίνηση! Μόνο έκφραση!

Ioanna Seymman Georgakopoulos

Founder of Owls Cultural Club

At the age of 9, Ioanna started her journey in Martial Arts. She likes to say that it is the ‘’steadiest relationship’’ she’s ever had. At the same time, music, theater, & debating games were part of her life. Αfter leaving military school, an inner search started. She passed her exams as a Primary School Teacher, as she was realizing her love for mentoring and teaching. After a set of challenging years in the Greek economic crisis, university, 2 jobs and winning 3 Greek National Championships in Kickboxing, she decided to create a community that included all her ‘’loves’’ in Larissa, her mother city. Being half Austrian and a part of the LGBTQ+ community meant diversity and alternativeness, an important part of that idea. Currently, she is the founder and manager of Owls Cultural Club, a trainer in Kickboxing and Muay-Thai & the creator of Boundaries, an initiative about Gender Based Violence that combines training, psychological support, legal consulting and constitutional awareness.

Lefteris Tsoukalas

PhD Nuclear Engineering

Prof. Tsoukalas is the founding director of Purdue’s Applied Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and considerable engineering experience in intelligent systems methods and applications. He has held faculty appointments as professor and head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University as well as at the University of Thessaly, Tohoku University, the University of Tennessee and Aristotle University. He has over three decades of experience in smart instrumentation and controls with over 300 research publications including a book titled “Fuzzy and Neural Approaches in Engineering,”. He has served in advisory positions for the International Atomic Energy Agency; the Agency for Science, Technology and Research of the Government of Singapore and the US Department of Energy. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and the 2009 recipient of the Humboldt Prize, Germany’s highest honor for international scientists.

Marianna Peppa

Founder of Deipno Agapis

Marianna, in parallel with her professional career in managerial positions of responsibility in the commercial sector, has established, in 2014, an NGO called "Deipno Agapis" which aims to care for the homeless, but also to raise awareness in relation to this vulnerable group facing poverty, in its most extreme form. "Deipno Agapis" started as something very small and now numbers more than 80 active volunteers, carrying out more than 54,000 separate "dinners of love" distributions annually. Almost bipolar, caught between the wider "Business" and "Deipno Agapis", Marianna aims to converge both worlds, with the active participation of the business community in their actions, and the instillation of a more humane approach which is the core of "Deipno Agapis". She has been, among others, Commercial Director of finance, business SBC TV Channel, while since 2019 he has undertaken the Development of Works in Company of Senior Business Executives (EASE).

Marios Giannakou

Long - distance Athlete

Marios Giannakou was born in the city of Drama in 1992. He served in the Special Forces as a trainer. He works as a marketer in his own company based in Thessaloniki. He is a long-distance athlete in extreme conditions and an explorer. He was one of 14 people in the world to complete the 150-kilometer Arctic race in 2018, the world's youngest athlete to complete the world's largest 270-kilometer desert super marathon in the Al Marmoum Desert, and in February 2020 completed the 250-kilometer race in the jungle of Central America. In October 2020, his team and him carrying Eleftheria Tosiou, a person with mobility problems on his back, took her to the top of Olympus! In the summer of 2021, he traveled by sailboat to the Arctic to document the problems arising from climate change and marine pollution. In February 2022, he is preparing to run a 10-day autonomous 500-kilometer race in the Arctic.

Mark Widdowson

Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist

Mark Widdowson is a psychotherapist and couples therapist based in Manchester, UK. He specializes in the therapy of trauma, depression, anxiety, sex and sexuality, and relationship problems and has over 25 years of clinical experience. He is currently a senior lecturer in counseling and psychotherapy at the University of Salford, associate director at The Berne Institute, and director of Manchester Psychotherapy Foundation. He also teaches psychotherapists around Europe.

Miguel Cano

Filmmaker

Miguel (1987) is a Filmmaker, Photographer, Journalist & Activist. He runs his own production studio, Mr. Challenge Films, has produced 8 documentary movies and 5 of his films have been awarded at international film festivals. He also created and directed in Thailand a Meditation Retreat for artists. Miguel has traveled to 80+ countries making movies and social projects. During his travels, he often carries humanitarian initiatives, both on his own and in cooperation with NGOs. His journalist work has been featured several times at The Diplomat, as well as at his own author site at The Huffington Post, and at Deutsche Welle, where he currently serves as a video journalist. He has published several journalistic articles, both in Spanish and in English, as well as cooperated as a blogger with several media. He loves writing poetry, philosophy, and travel journals, which he often accompanies by short videos and photo galleries.

Theodora Hatziioannou

Virologist - Researcher for COVID19/AIDS

Theodora Hatziioannou is a virologist and Associate Professor at The Rockefeller University in New York, USA. She completed a BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Bristol, UK and an MSc in Biotechnology at Imperial College, London, UK.She obtained her PhD in viruses and gene therapy at the University Claude-Bernard in Lyon, France. She worked as a postdoc at Columbia University and later Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, USA. She has studied HIV-1 for many years focusing on the molecular biology of the interactions of the virus with the host cells and how those shape virus tropism. For the last year and a half her work has turned to SARS-CoV-2, how the virus evolves and how our immune responses fight it both after infection and vaccination. She is a member of multiple conference organizing and journal and grant reviewing committees and teaches virology. She is also an author of the 5th edition of the popular virology textbook Principles of Virology.

Thodoris Spiliotis

Electrical & Computer Engineer

Thodoris Spiliotis is 24 years old and lives in Chaidari and is originally from Ios. He is a graduate student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens with a degree in Electronics and Systems. He works for Solidus Assyst, a company that deals mainly with industrial equipment, but also gives him the opportunity to deal with his passion for biomedical technology. Ηe still loves basketball and plays in an amateur team, while also coaching the club's academy. Some of his hobbies are leisure travel, reading books, volunteering, and chess.

Tina Minaretzi

Founder of Kidoplanet & Tina's Lab

Tina Minaretzi is an Electrical Engineer and Computer Engineer and in 2011 she founded Kidoplanet, the only Greek e-kindergarten and one of the few globally. The kindergarten trained thousands of preschoolers during the coronavirus period. She has created educational applications in the App Store and writes science textbooks in collaboration with educational institutions. She is actively involved in teaching science, robotics and new technologies to both children and teachers. In her workshop, TinasLab together with children, they explore the world of science and become little inventors!

Vivian Gougoulia

Dancer & Instructor

Η Βίβιαν Γουγουλιά ασχολείται επί 28 συναπτά έτη με την τέχνη του χορού. Πτυχιούχος της Ανώτερης Επαγγελματικής Σχολής Χορού Καφαντάρη, σπούδασε μπαλέτο, σύγχρονο, τζαζ και ιστορικούς χορούς, ερμηνεύοντας ρόλους κλασικού αλλά και μοντέρνου ρεπερτορίου. Έχοντας πολλά project στο ενεργητικό της και μέλος διαφόρων χορευτικών ομάδων στην Θεσσαλονίκη, η τέχνη και οι γνώσεις της δεν σταματούν εδώ. Από το 2014 συνδυάζει τον σύγχρονο χορό με το pole dance ( ContemporaryPole ). Η ίδια ίδρυσε το 2015 την δική της ομάδα -το πρώτο στην Ελλάδα- experimental pole group, "DaDaDolls".

Zisis Apostolidis

Lead Singer

Ο Ζήσης Αποστολίδης και το μουσικό του project, We are the Clouds, πιστοί στη φύση των σύννεφων, αλλάζουν για ακόμα μία φορά και παίρνουν μία νέα μορφή. Μαζί με τους Κώστα Τσαβαλιά και Χρήστο Μήτρο, ετοιμάζουν μουσικές και ήχους που ταιριάζουν στην ψυχοσύνθεσή τους αυτόν τον καιρό. Ανάμεσα σε καουμποϊλίκια και ήχους του νότου μιας μακρινής ηπείρου, εκεί όπου έχουν πάει μόνο ως σύννεφα, και νιώθοντας μια χαρούμενη νοσταλγία για ανέμους που ποτέ δεν τους άγγιξαν, βρίσκουν την έμπνευση να επιλέξουν τραγούδια που ποτέ δεν θα έπαιζαν νηφάλιοι, ή έστω χωρίς να έχει βρέξει. Ανάλαφροι σαν καταιγίδα, οι We are the Clouds, αναρωτιούνται που θα τους οδηγήσουν αυτοί οι νέοι άνεμοι.