THURSDAY  29/09/2022
22:00 (UTC) [K8]
Splendid City - Athens Urban Stories  (Season Β )   (R)   
Documentary / Lifestyle


Year of production: (2021)




The documentary series "SPLENDID CITY - Athens Urban Stories" brings to light the unwritten story of the capital.

Today: «Street Artists»
Episode 11

Who are these people who fill with colours and music this dull urban landscape and why did the city itself became their gallery? Are "street artists" less artistic than those of the closed stages, galleries and theatres? How difficult, but also how tempting life can be when their art has to meet the unexpected, to find the audience among hurried passengers, to make herself comfortable in the dazzling daylight and in the shadows of the starry sky, to be thwarted by the police arrival or last "as long as the red light lasts"? Thiseio, Dionysiou Areopagitou, Ermou, Monastiraki, Mitropoleos, Aeolou, Fokionos Negri... The "street artists" are everywhere and they set up with passion, talent and happiness an open-air, artistic setting "open" and accessible to all. They are the jugglers with lantern fires, the musicians of the city, the actors and singers of the squares, the puppeteers of the pedestrian streets, the outdoor craftsmen, the performers of the underground crosswalks, the painters at the edge of the sidewalks. Being an integral part of the Athenian physiognomy, the beautify with the melodies, the sounds, the performances, their artistic works and their songs the strolls of passengers, they give smiles to young and old, accompany the tours of the tourists, pleasantly surprise the passengers, they keep company to drivers who wait for "the green light" and break the monotony of the bustling city. The episode of “TALES OF ATHENS” - Stories of the city "Street artists" focuses on the wonderful, "unknown protagonists" of the arts in the open, public, Athenian space that they enrich with their talent the life of the city without preconditions and ignoring whether eventually “their hat will be full od money at the end of the night”. Appearing and speaking on the subject in alphabetical order are: Fotis Athanasiou (Musician of Agia Fanfara), Kostas Vlachos (Musician), Kostis Voulgaris (Artist - Performer), Nikos Zachariou (Musician), Vasilis Kalpakis (Musician), Paraskevi Kanellatou (Research Director of ERKET), Fanis Katehos (Performer Fabrica Athens - Theatre Group), Nikoleta Kitsiou (Street Singer), Tonia Banila (Artist of Performing Arts - Juggler), Xanthos Papanikolaou (Musician Hermaphrodite's Child), Panos Papanikolaou (Musician Hermaphrodite's Child), Vasilis Paraskevopoulos (President of the Panhellenic Musical Association), Erato Sioropoulou (Puppeteer - Puppet maker - Theatrologist), Vasilis Tzelepis (Musician Hermaphrodite's Child), Dimitris Tzelepis (Musician Hermaphrodite's Child), Andromeda Psarou (Musician), Angelos Hatzimichalis (Handmade Artist - Artist of the Road), Laura Bray (Musician Agia Fanfara), Francisco Brito (Actor), Christian (Juggler), Pepe Peperonious (Musician Fabrica Athens), Alvaro Ramirez Marquez (Musician Agia Fanfara)




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