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Invisible Languages ,Attentiveness of the Scent Comprehension of Culture through Olfactory Art.
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MASTER CLASSES 2020
SOS paradise calling!
Masterclass led by Victoria Vesna & Haytham Nawar
Who can go to vacation in paradise and ignore all the suffering going on above and below the earth, the water and the skies?
Meet a group of renowned artists and scientists to explore, learn think about the planet and come up with creative ways to address the urgent calls from people, animals and the invisible world.
Experience the gorgeous, mythical environment through field trips, lectures, workshops through hands on collaborative projects considering the myriad points of view.
Explore the mountains, gullies, lakes and the Ionian Sea.
SEE from a different perspective the planktons and micro-plastics.
HEAR the sounds of birds, the winds of change and the underwater noise pollution.
FEEL the air and get closer to your intuitive sensing.
TASTE the sea and the food that we will cook together and eat in community.
THE INSTRUCTORS:
VICTORIA VESNA, Ph.D.:Artist, Professor, Design Media Arts, founder and Director of UCLA Art Sci center, Visiting Professor at Empowerment Informatics Program, University of Tsukuba, Japan and Interface Cultures, University of Linz, Austria. Active since the early 1980s, she created early Internet art works and developed many projects in long term collaborations with scientists.
HAYTHAM NAWAR, Ph.D:Artist, designer, researcher, Assistant Professor and Director of the Graphic Design program, Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo. Founder and Director of the Cairotronica, Cairo Electronic, and New Media Arts Festival.
Dates July 14-28, 2019
Location Kefalonia Island, Greece
Venue Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
Deadline for applications: June 30th 2019
Capacity 15 participants
SOS!paradise calling!MASTERCLASSSUBMISSION POLICY, TERMS, CONDITIONS, FEES: please contact: ionionartscenter@gmail.com
ELIGIBILITY
Artists from all disciplines, scientists, researchers, philosophers, environmentalists, Minds seeking deeper meaning and connection between Creative Practice, Life and the World.
HOW TO APPLY?
If interested to know more details on general info, terms, conditions, fees, documentation, personal support, kindly email: ionionartscenter@gmail.com OR info@ionionartscenter.gr
The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture operates in a Global environment in the fields of Higher Education, Arts and Research. The International Strategy of the Institution in accordance to its Establishment Act, is embracing the Globalization needs of the Academic and Art’s World. Knowledge, Academic Research and Innovation in across borders model constitutes the core program of the Institution.
Come to Create, Present, Perform
Ancient Greek Theatre: The experience and importance of the theatrical performance
Master Class , Instructed by Christos Dimoulas : Archaeologist, Art Historian, Researcher in Social Psychology.
Contemporary Vision on the Ancient Drama, Creation & Performance. Poetry, Scenography, Acting, Social Impact and Interaction, Aesthetics.
Eligibility: Open to All with focus to Theatre and Performing Art’s Schools, Social Sciences and Humanities, researchers, educators, students, actors, artists all disciplines , directors, costume designers, scenery designers, authors, poets, film makers, philosophers, theatre practitioners – seeking deeper meaning and connection in their creative practice.
The Masterclass will focus on topics such as:
– What was theatrical performance for at the time of its creation?
– Understanding the medium of theatre through all participants and procedures involved in creating, putting on and experiencing an ancient play.
– The importance and contribution of the Theatre in the development of Athens as a city-state and hence in World History.
– Ancient Greek Theater & Global Theatre
– The experience of tragedy in performance through the eyes of the participants and the audience.
The participants are invited also to a series of individual and group encounters to present or perform works of their own art form, such as:
a. Perform their own theatrical works at the Ionion Center or at the Ancient Sites of the Island Kefalonia
b. Exhibit or present works related to the theme(costumes, masks, paintings, drawings, scenography etc.)
Dates: August 18th -24th 2019
Location: Greek Island Kefalonia
Venue: Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture and Ancient Sites of the Island Kefalonia
Opening date for applications: March 28th 2019
Deadline for applications: July 15th 2019
Deadline for completion of submissions/final participations: 5 days after the deadline
Application by e-mail : ionionartscenter@gmail.com or info@ionionartscenter.gr
Academic support :ch.dimoulas@ionionartscenter.gr
Information, terms, conditions, fees : ionionartscenter@gmail.com or info@ionionartscenter.gr
www.ionionartscenter.gr
https://www.ionionartscenter.gr/2019/01/01/master-classes
Modern Projections inspired by the Ancient World.
The Cathartic Narrative – Art as a Restorative force
Master Class, Exhibition and Performance
Instructed/Curated by Vicky Yiannoutsos
Dates : June 25th – July 1st , 2019
Location: Island Kefalonia, Greece
Venue : Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture & Ancient sites in Kefalonia.
Opening date for applications: March 28th, 2019
Deadline for applications: June 5th, 2019
Deadline for completion of submissions/final participations: 5 days after the deadlines
Eligibility : Stimulated by the richness and wisdom of the Ancient Greek World, this master class will appeal to researchers -creative artists – writers, film makers, poets, actors, story tellers, directors, philosophers, theatre practitioners – seeking deeper meaning and connection in their creative practice.
Application by e-mail : ionionartscenter@gmail.com /or/ info@ionionartscenter.gr
Academic support : vicky.y@xtra.co.nz (Vicky Yiannoutsos)
Information, terms, conditions , fees : info@ionionartscenter.gr
www.ionionartscenter.gr
https://www.ionionartscenter.gr/2019/01/01/master-classes
ABOUT THE CLASS
What does the ancient world have to teach us?The Cathartic Narrative – Art as a Restorative force.
Catharsis; A purgation, purification, or clarification which comes from encountering and experiencing transformative emotional and personal connections through Art that result in renewal and restoration.
On the island of Kefalonia, participants will be invited on a series of individual and group encounters with the landscape, ancient sites, people, history and stories, to stimulate individual and collective responses and projections from their own artistic field.
Free to create individually or collaborate on collective projects, artists will have the opportunity to exhibit and perform their work at the Ionion Centre for Arts and Culture.
The Master class Instructor Vicky Yiannoutsos
Vicky Yiannoutsos is an award-winning director in theatre and film who has worked for 35 years in the film industry as a producer, director, writer and acting coach. She currently teaches screen acting to actors, writers and directors at the Performing and Screen Arts Screen Acting program at UNITEC in Auckland, New Zealand.
As an NZ born Greek artist, Vicky’s expression of her roots are at the core of many projects, which include writer/director on the internationally screened documentary Visible Passage, writer of the feature film script Kore, and assorted stories and poems. Her multi-media installation exhibition ‘Persephone’s Plight – The Four Seasons of Migration’ was mounted for Moving Image Centre in Auckland, New Zealand in 2010 and in 2012 was invited to the Kefalonia International Arts Festival, in Greece. It’s thematic motif of birth, separation, yearning and return continues to emerge in her work, as an archetypal template.
The Four Seasons of Migration: Birth, Separation, Yearning, Return

A metaphor for the migrant experience within the myth.
“I carry two cultures, two languages, two worlds
I belong to both, I belong to neither
I am Persephone
Destined forever to journey between them”
Master Class, Exhibition and Performance
Instructed/Curated by Vicky Yiannoutsos.
Dates : August 25th – 31th 2019
Location: Island Kefalonia, Greece
Venue : Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture & Ancient sites in Kefalonia.
Opening date for applications: March 28th , 2019
Deadline for applications: July 25th, 2019
Deadline for completion of submissions/final participations: August 3th, 2019
Eligibility : Stimulated by the richness and wisdom of the Ancient Greek World, this master class will appeal to researchers -creative artists – writers, film makers, poets, actors, story tellers, directors, philosophers, theatre practitioners – seeking deeper meaning and connection in their creative practice.
Application by e-mail : ionionartscenter@gmail.com /or/ info@ionionartscenter.gr
Academic support : vicky.y@xtra.co.nz (Vicky Yiannoutsos)
Information, terms, conditions, fees : info@ionionartscenter.gr
www.ionionartscenter.gr
https://www.ionionartscenter.gr/2019/01/01/master-classes.
Invisible Languages ,Attentiveness of the Scent
Comprehension of Culture through Olfactory Art.
International Art and Research Workshop instructed by Ellen Petruzzella.
https://ellenpet713.wixsite.com/smellinkefalonia
Time : May-June 2019
1st Session: May 2nd- 9th
2nd Session : June 20-27th
Location : Greek Island Kefalonia
Venue : Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture , www.ionionartscenter.gr
Applications : ionionartscenter@gmail.com
Deadlines for applications: 1st session, April 15th 2019
2nd Session May 30th 2019
Terms/Conditions : ionionartscenter@gmail.com /or/ info@ionionartscenter.gr
Contact &Information: ionionartscenter@gmail.com /or/contact@ionionartscenter.gr
Eligibility : The International Open Call is addressed to All with focus to artists & designers all disciplines, anthropologists, scientists, writers, wellness professionals, filmmakers, writers, photographers.
The Class Explores the possibilities of preserving and sharing cultural memories of place, time, and experience in different creative ways through plant-based ingredients in olfactory-focused artwork, answer to the globalization influences using uniformity in manufactured scents.
The Greek Island Kefalonia during Spring 2019 is ideal and inspiring location to communicate this awareness across boundaries of time, language and geography, and through the intersection of art, archaeology, science and mythology.
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Twisted Oyster Film Festival 2019 & New Media Art /Master class
Title: Vital Signs: 34.5531° N, 18.0480° E
Twisted Oyster to Open in Greece
For 2019 Twisted Oyster will continue its focus on the environment and the impact of climate change in Nature, Economy, Health, Migrations and all of Humanity.
DATES : May 3th-11th 2019
MASTER CLASS DATES : May 3th -9th 2019
LOCATION :Kefalonia Island, Greece
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all, all disciplines with focus to Film, Photography, Art installation and Media Art
INSTRUCTOR/CURATOR :Pía Cruzalegui
DEADLINES :Open , no deadline
For 2019 Twisted Oyster will continue its focus on the environment and the impact of climate change in Nature, Economy, Health, Migrations and all of Humanity. The festival will be a platform to drive awareness with an impactful exhibition that brings forward short and feature films to be included in the festival’s special edition in Greece. As it did last year, Twisted Oyster will present films and new media productions reflecting on the ongoing environmental crisis, the delicate state of the planet. We seek productions focusing on its magnificent beauty and paralleled decay through documentary, fiction, animation, virtual and augmented realities, installation, performance, sound and video art.
Twisted Oyster Film Festival aims to raise awareness and expand knowledge about the human condition as a whole. The works created by culturally diverse artists and filmmakers from around the world open doors artwork that speaks about global social issues today. The festival presents an annually themed-based film and new media art exhibition that showcases and promotes the works of both aspiring and established professionals. The goal of the festival is to bridge culture, society and technology through powerful content programming, while focusing on engagement, enhancing access, and shedding light on contemporary issues.
https://twistedoysterfilmfestival.com/
http://piacruzaleguiart.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/piacruzalegui
Contact : info@ionionartscenter.gr
Master class info & applications :info@ionionartscenter.gr
MIGRATION SEAS Class led by Salma Zulfiqar
May 12th –May 18th 2018
‘’The Seas are vehicles for building understanding and peace between communities around the World. The Seas are a vehicle for transporting and connecting people and cultures. They allow people to experience and immerse themselves in different cultures so that we can learn from one another and learn to live with one another in peace,’’ Salma Zulfiqar
https://www.ionionartscenter.gr/2018/03/29/migration-seas/
”CHANNELING LANGUAGE”MASTER CLASS LED BY IMAN PERSON
https://www.imanperson.com/somatic-lexicon-greece-2018
AUGUST 16th– 30th 2018
SOUND AND SPACE RESEARCH:RESOUND KEFALONIA 2018
MASTER CLASS LED BY SANDRA VOLNY &JACOB KIRKEGAART
MAY 4th-MAY 11th 2018
MASTER CLASS IN ART &TECHNOLOGY
LED BY CRAIG DONGOSKI
MAY 13th- JUNE 9th 2018
”IN CONVERSATION WITH THE LANDSCAPE”
MASTER CLASS LED BY EMMA PAPADOPOULOS
JULY 25th -31st ,2017
https://emmapapadopoulos.wordpress.com/
MIGRATION & SEAS/SEAWORLD -BUILDING PEACE THROUGH THE OCEANS
LED BY SALMA ZULFIQAR , http://www.salmazulfiqar.com/
http://seas.ionionartscenter.gr/
SEA, EARTH, FIRE
LEADING MASTER CLASS ON CERAMICS
LED BY ALEX P. NORDEN. Website: airbgr.com
THE TRIANGULAR PROJECT
EXPERIMENTAL MODELS
EXPLORING SPATIAL AWARENESS
JUNE 26 JULY 2 2017,A 7 days Master Class exploring experimental models enhancing our awareness to space, led by TRIANGULAR PROJECT www.triangularproject.net
Sandra Volny : http://sandravolny.com
Florine Leoni : http://www.florineleoni.net
Macarena Ruiz-Tagle : http:// www.macarenaruiztagle.com
CRAIG DONGOSKI ” 2017 Master Class In Art and Technology – Craig Dongoski”
Website: http://radionion.com
JOHN HUGHES ”Quantum Landscapes, Animation Space and Consciousness of the Frame – John Hughes” Master Class
Website:http://www.hobarthughes.com/
SCOTT TOWNSEND ”Expanded Social Documentary: Strategies, Techniques & Experimental Forms – Scott Townsend” Master Class
Website: http://www.imaginarycountry.org/www_09/greece.html
‘’Concert Acqui Memory’’Danilo De Luca &Andreas Zafiropoulos
MIGRATION SEAS
MIGRATION SEAS Class led by Salma Zulfiqar
‘’The Seas are vehicles for building understanding and peace between communities around the World. The Seas are a vehicle for transporting and connecting people and cultures. They allow people to experience and immerse themselves in different cultures so that we can learn from one another and learn to live with one another in peace,’’ Salma Zulfiqar
British artist & Activist, Salma Zulfiqar, will hold an exploratory creative workshop on the relationship between Migration and the SEAS.
Participants will identify strands they would like to document through art and will be invited to create artwork in the form of paintings, films, videos or photography on the issue of Migration and the Seas.
Participants will brainstorm and discuss current issues related to Migration and the SEAS. What Migration means to all taking part and how this can be interpreted into different forms of creative communication and artwork through a creative storyboarding process. The creative sessions will also explore the impact art can have in raising awareness of an issue such as migration and also how art as a whole can help build prosperous & tolerant societies around the world.
LOCATION : Greek Island Kefalonia
VENUE : Greek Island Kefalonia at the Iakovateios Library ,town of Lixouri & Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
DATES : May 12th –May 18th 2018
EVENT May 16th, International Day of Living Together in Peace
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all, all disciplines with focus to Film, Photography, Painting
APPLICATIONS :info@ionionartscenter.gr
DEADLINES: April 25th 2018
Application information
Web Application form : http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk
Email Application : info@ionionartscenter.gr
Contact & Fees : info@ionionartscenter.gr