Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
Photography / Text: Antonios Chrysakis
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
Events
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20/01/2019 - 20/01/2019
Ethiopian Epiphany day in Athens
Location: Greece / Attica / Athina
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Epiphany day at the Ethiopian church in Athens. A different mass compared to the Western Christian ones, with lots of music and dancing.
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02/02/2019 - 03/02/2019
San Simeon festival, winter season
Location: Greece / Western Greece / Missolonghi
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
The winter edition of San Simeon festival of the city of Missolonghi. All nighters inside huts in the woods around the monastery of San Simeon.
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02/02/2019 - 03/02/2019
Winter festival of Saint Simeon
Location: Greece / Western Greece / Iera Poli Messologgiou
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
An ecstatic festival of drinking and dancing to Dionysian rhythms takes place in the historic city of Missolonghi.
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13/02/2019 - 14/02/2019
Procession of Valentine's relics at Lesvos island
Location: Greece / North Aegean / Mytilene
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
The relics of Saint Valentine are guided in a litany through the town of Mytilene on his name day. One of the few Catholic litanies taking place in Greece.
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24/02/2019 - 24/02/2019
Annual traditional dance in Athens
Location: Greece / Attica / Pireas
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
The World Epirus gathering takes place every year in Athens. People from Epirus from all over Greece would come to show off their costumes and dances.
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24/02/2019 - 24/02/2019
Bell Roads of Thessaloniki
Location: Greece / Central Macedonia / Thessaloniki
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Every year in Thessaloniki there is help the Bell roads festival. Many groups of people bearing bells (20 to 30 teams each year) from Greece and abroad take part. There are more than 1500 people active. Disguised dancers, musicians, will parade on the streets of the city.
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01/02/2019 - 12/02/2019
Circo Di Barcelona
Location: Greece / Attica / Athens
Photography / Text: Antonios Chrysakis
The atmosphere in a circus should be dark, b&w, and mystical.
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02/03/2019 - 02/03/2019
The Ghost of Charmaina Carnival of Amfissa
Location: Greece / Central Greece / Άμφισσα
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
A custom related to a very old local legend, regarding a ghost protecting a local fountain, Charmaina. The legend said that there were more ghosts protecting other places and they would fight amongst them many times. The locals would hear the screams and hide in their homes. A quite spectacular event which gets very crowded.
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02/03/2019 - 03/03/2019
Carnival day at Amfissa
Location: Greece / Western Greece / Amfissa
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
An annual pagan custom takes place at the Town of Amfissa. The night of the sprites, takes place on the Saturday just before Ash Monday. A custom that can be combined with flour wars of Galaxidi, taking place on Ash Monday.
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03/03/2019 - 03/03/2019
Carnival day in Athens
Location: Greece / Attica / Athens
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Firecrackers, music, drinking and dancing in all the streets of the area until night falls and we always end up in the central square where the maypole is installed.
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07/03/2019 - 07/03/2019
Koudounati (bell bearers) custom in Aperathos village
Location: Greece / South Aegean / Naxos
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
An ancient Dionysian custom taking place in one of the most beautiful villages of Naxos island, Aperathos. Men are getting dressed in fur and goat skins and hang bells around their waist to send away evil spirits.
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10/03/2019 - 10/03/2019
Tirnavos Carnival. The forbidden festival
Location: Greece / Thessaly / Tirnavos
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
The phallus is the main subject of the festival. It symbolizes reproduction and fertility.
