April 24/25: Egypt in Athens Festival

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We are very pleased to invite you to the ‘Egypt in Athens’ festival organised by the Intercultural Centre of Immigration Service of the municipality of Athens in cooperation with the Muslim Association of Greece with the support of the Cultural Centre of the Egyptian Embassy in Athens.

The festival will be held in the amphitheatre of the radio station Athens 9.84, Peiraios 100 in Gazi on Saturday 24 April 2010.

The festival is under the auspices of the Cultural Centre of Egypt, the Embassy of Egypt and the Egyptian Community in Athens.

During the events, the visitors will have the opportunity to taste the Egyptian culture and in particular discover the common elements between Greece and Egypt. The festival includes three parts: information, art and children.

In the morning during the informative session of the festival, the visitors will have the opportunity to attend a conference with the subject of Egyptian folklore, literature and the coexistence of the Hellenic and Egyptian community with guest speakers. Also a documentary of ERT with the title Egypt of Greeks in the Area of History will be shown.

The afternoon’s artistic events will begin with the projection of the film The Yacoubian Building of Marouan Hamendi.  The chef Aymal El Habachy will demonstrate live Egyptian delicatessens.  There will be a concert featuring the traditional Arab music with of the Al Mahabba band.

Reception will follow.

On the 24^th and 25^th of April there will be a children’s area

In the Shadow Theatre Museum Haridimos (Melina Cultural Centre of the municipality of Athens), Iraklidon 66 and Thessalonikis, Thiseio hours 14.00-17.00.  During the two days, spectators of all ages will have the opportunity to learn the secrets of shadow theatre figures, to watch two  performances, Karagiozis in the Amusement Park and Karagiozis Baker, by the group of S. Haradimou, learn about the traditional Egyptian puppet and Aragoz and to watch two original puppet performances by Egyptian artists Nabil Mohamed Bahgat, Moustafa Osman Moustafa Osman and Aly Abu Zeid Souleiman, a courtesy of the Ministry of Culture of Egypt in cooperation with the Cultural Centre of the Egyptian Embassy in Athens.

The entry for the public is free

As supporters are involved, the Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Athens, ΄Technopolis΄ of the municipality of Athens. Communication sponsors include the radio station Athens 9,84 and the foreign language radio station of the municipality of Athens Air 104.4 FM which broadcasts in 16 languages.

For more information please contact the Intercultural Centre of Immigration Service of the Municipality of Athens at 210-5225284.