Thessaloniki Book Fair @ Helexpo Thessaloniki | 12-15.05.16

More info to be announced soon…

Beirut @ Fix Factory of Sound | 30.05.16

Beirut is an American indie-rock and world music band which was originally the solo musical project of Zach Condon (born Zachary Francis Condon in Santa Fe, New Mexico) and later expanded into a band. The band’s first performances were in New York, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar.

Condon recorded before Beirut was established: when he was fifteen and under the name of Realpeople, he made an electronic record, fashioned after his love for The Magnetic Fields. Condon was a straight-A student until he dropped out at the age of 17 to travel Europe with his cousin in a drunken haze, cavorting and partying with the locals wherever he ended up. It was during one of these evenings that he was first exposed to Balkan music (notably including the Boban Marković Orkestar and Goran Bregović), blasting from the upstairs apartment. Condon ended up with the Serbian artists all night, going through albums country by country, note for note.

The first album under the Beirut moniker, Gulag Orkestar (2006), was the direct result of what he learned that night. While it may sound like an entire Balkan orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, the album was performed and recorded almost entirely by Condon alone. He did so on Pro Tools while skipping school in Albuquerque and at Sea Side Studios in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Jeremy Barnes added percussion and some violin overlays.

After recording, Condon formed a full band which at times varies in the number of members, from six to ten. Live he is accompanied by Perrin Cloutier (cello/accordion), Jason Poranski (guitar/mandolin/ukulele), Nick Petree (drums), Kristin Ferebee (violin), Paul Collins (organ/keys/tambourine/ukulele), Jon Natchez (baritone sax/mandolin/glockenspiel), and Kelly Pratt (trumpet/euphonium).

In November 2006 Condon was “briefly hospitalized for extreme exhaustion”, the band’s website said, and as a consequence the band cancelled the rest of the tour. They resumed performing in March 2007 and released their second album, The Flying Club Cup the same year on October 9th. Parts of the album were performed and recorded by Condon in his bedroom again, but others were recorded with the live band, which resulted in a more organic, live sound. While writing, Condon said he was inspired by French music, like Jacques Brel (whose song Le Moribond he covered on his Elephant Gun EP), and he moved to Paris for a while. During the extensive tour in support of The Flying Club Cup, Condon and the band more or less fell apart from exhaustion once again and disappeared from the radar in April 2008.

Condon took a long break and returned in 2009 with a double EP, March of the Zapotec & Realpeople: Holland. The first was partly recorded in Mexico with the Mexican Band Jimenez and had a more South-American flavour to it than Condon’s previous efforts. The second EP ‘Holland’ was credited to Condon’s old name Realpeople and consisted of five electrotracks, once more in the vein of The Magnetic Fields.

Sivert Høyem @ Principal Club Theater | 21.04.16

Sivert Høyem (born 22 January 1976) is a Norwegian singer, best known as the vocalist of the rock band Madrugada. After the band broke up following the death of Robert Burås in 2007, he has enjoyed success as a solo artist and is also a member of The Volunteers with whom he released the album Exiles in 2006.

More info:

siverthoyem.com

principalclub.com

Matt Elliott @ Mylos | 29.03.16

With song titles like ‘An Even Harder Shade Of Dark’, ‘I’m Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired’, ‘I’ve Seen The Light And It Is Dark’ and ‘What To Do But Cry?’, Bristol, Avon, England-based, music concrete experimentalists the Third Eye Foundation attempt to articulate an unspecified dread. ‘It’s difficult to sum up in words,’ Matt Elliott (b. 10 March 1974, Bath, Avon, England) has said about the meaning of his awesome recordings, ‘That’s why I make the music I do.’ Despite Elliott’s claim to be happiest on his own, the Third Eye Foundation’s early releases notably included noise/sample contributions from Foehn’s Debbie Parsons. Dark, confused and sleeved with an image of a dead fox, Semtex was one of the 90s most astonishing debuts. On tracks like ‘Sleep’, queasy, guitar-generated white noise was cut-through with edgy, incendiary drum ‘n’ bass breakbeats. More than one critique of the album suggested that the project’s experiments with noise/breakbeats had pre-empted My Bloody Valentine ‘s probable new direction. The follow-up proper, Ghost – after a collection of Elliott’s remixes of Amp, Crescent, Hood and Flying Saucer Attack – nullified the last vestiges of rock in the Third Eye Foundation’s recordings. For Elliott, the sampler is the ultimate instrument and he applied the machine’s processes to archaic European and African folk recordings, merging the mutated noise with unidentified scrapes, clicks and shrieks. Although still cut through with a faintly disturbing edginess, Little Lost Soul appeared to shun the (largely undefined) terrors that had informed previous recordings. Elliott may simply be becoming more technically proficient in the construction of his neo-drum ‘n’ bass beats and less perverse in the choice of his samples (seemingly including opera and French torch singers) but the seven-track album was less harrowing than previous works. Thankfully, this implied increase in mental stability did not correlate with a creative demise: the 11-minute centrepiece ‘Lost’ was one of Elliott’s most evocative pieces.

18th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | 11-20.03.16

For more information visit the official TDF18 website…

Freskon, the International Fresh Fruits & Vegetables fair is taking place for the second consecutive time in April 21-23 of 2016 at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition & Conference Center. Goal of the organizer company, TIF HELEXPO is to designate Freskon as the sole commercial event concerning the fresh fruits and vegetables sector in the overall area of SE Europe and E. Mediterranean.

An additional goal of this year’s organization is to develop the business initiative, the extroversion of Greek production as well as to raise the primary sector. Consequently, in order for the international character of the fair to be enhanced, TIF HELEXPO follows a dynamic program of hosted buyers from 40 countries together with targeted promotion actions in Greece and abroad.

It worth mentioning that plenty of parallel events are scheduled to take place, forming once again, the main factor that will give prominence to the exhibition product, aiming at attracting more visitors. Special attention is paid to the invited foreign trade visitors from various countries of the world who will have some truly important contacts with the Greek exhibitors.

On your marks… at Sportexpo Marathon 2016

Sportexpo Marathon aspires to become a landmark sports exhibition in Greece and the Balkans.

From 31 March to 2 April 2016, all the latest developments in sports and the most modern sports products and services will be presented at Thessaloniki International Exhibition & Congress Centre of TIF-Helexpo, the National Exhibition Agency.

The exhibition is addressed to anyone exercising any form of athletic activity.

Sports agencies, athletic clubs, athletes, coaches, sports medicine physicians and physiotherapists involved in all sports categories from Greece and abroad and sports-loving members of the public are the prospective visitors to the exhibition.

Visitors to Sportexpo Marathon will have the opportunity to view and purchase sports products, see their favourite clubs, become acquainted with new sports services and technologies, receive information on developments and trends in the sports that interest them and meet famous athletes representing all categories of sports.

Numerous parallel events, tournaments on colloquiums on athletic subjects will enable visitors to become active and interactive participants in Sportexpo Marathon.

The guarantee for the successful organisation of Sportexpo Marathon is the collaboration between TIF-HELEXPO, the organiser of the International Marathon ‘Alexander the Great‘, the ‘MEAS TRITON‘ athletic club and the associated company ‘Be Best‘, which boasts long experience in the organisation of exhibitions and conferences and in communication strategy.

YOUTH TODAY @ Convention Centre “Ioannis Vellidis” | 04.12.15
Empowered by AIESEC in Greece

Are you a university student or a graduate and you aim to explore business world and the opportunities it can offer you?

Conference Youth Today started by the initiative of AIESEC in Greece last year and continues for the second one. Successful individuals from business world conduct speeches and workshops to university students and graduates, that desire to get into the mentality of the market.

The goal of Youth Today is to activate and inspire young people change their way of thinking, take initiatives and explore the attributes they need to bring positive impact to their daily life and universities.

The conference is going to take place on Friday, 04.12.2015, at Convention Centre “Ioannis Vellidis”, at 11:00 am. In order to attend, you must register to the below electronic platform: . Free entrance. Due to limited capacity, priority order will be followed. Apply NOW.

AIESEC in Greece, having already a history of 60 years, continues offering opportunities to young people with the goal to develop their leadership skills and become global citizens.

ΤΑΚΕ ΤΗΕ LEAP AND BECOME THE LΕADER OF TOMMOROW

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Reworks 2015 | 18-20.09.15

REWORKS festival, the sun-filled music gathering which takes place in Thessaloniki, Greece every September, is happy to announce the first wave of acts for its 11th edition. Despite the economic crisis, which still after 5 years still remains in Greece, Reworks expands once again and for second year it will last for 3 days. An eclectic mix of 70 acts will perform on 12 music rooms from the 18th -20th of September. On the first wave of acts announcement, Reworks this year is excited to welcome back a series of acts who have graced with their presence the festival on its first 10 years. Tale of Us, Dubfire, Pan-Pot, Art Department, Ellen Allien, Carlo Lio (Rawthentic), will all return to Thessaloniki alongside an exciting line up of acts which will be presented for the first time in Thessaloniki with acts such as Mano Le Tough, Nastia, Daniel Miller, Maher Daniel and Cleveland. The Hellenic scene will also be presented vastly with Ison/Actor One, Larry Gus, Mr.Statik, Giganta, Dreamachinery to be a small but indicative taste on what is going to follow.

A symbol on the city’s modern Culture

Bringing together contemporary culture and forward thinking music in an urban environment, Reworks is considered a touchstone for the music and creative arts in Greece and a showcase for new trends and emerging talent. It is a national meeting point for the musical youth of the country, and celebrated for its good value and quality programming, but is less familiar with audiences in the UK and beyond – Since it is listed among the best festivals in the world every September by the influential online independent music magazine Resident Advisor for the past 8 years in a row. It has also been voted as the 3rd best event in the Balkans on SEEME awards.

Based around the close connection and ties between music, art and e-culture, Reworks presents new musical and artistic paths and directions in one of the most historic parts of the Byzantine city of Thessaloniki. Each of its previous editions has been a landmark in the evolution of forward thinking entertainment, featuring influential musicians, creative artists of both local and international origin and a great party atmosphere augmented by the amazing weather that Greece still experiences at the end of the summer.

We define our Future

With over 800 artists experiencing the festival to date, Reworks resists and tries to stand still on a difficult cultural environment. Today having the economic crisis being a social crisis the need to step up is more necessary than ever before. Hence the festival encourages its audience to “Define their Future” by resisting on the current difficulties and to follow their dreams and ambitions trough musical and artistic creativity.

A meeting point throughout Greece and beyond

For the past few years Reworks gathers friends of music from all around the country and throughout Europe and welcomes them in Thessaloniki giving them 3 days of joy and happiness.

12 stages in total will present a broad spectrum of electronic music. House & techno, Freestyle, Neo-Classical, electronica which will be presented on the 3 outdoor and 9 indoor rooms/stages.

Thessaloniki is naturally a great holiday destination with summer temperatures during September, and the city surrounded by exceptional landscapes and beaches. Reworks is therefore an attractive combination of entertainment, art and holiday.

Full schedule to be announced soon on reworks.gr