1 JUN
MYSTERY 127
HORSES IN LOVE
(theatre)
OLD OIL MILL FACTORY AMPHITHEATRE
Horses in Love, the third part of a trilogy titled The Other Normal, was created after many months of research. It is a paean of a performance that pays tribute to uninhibited vitality, and to all the senses that have been barricaded in by a strictly rationalistic view of life. It overcomes social barriers in order to talk about the non-rational, the forbidden and the imagination, about the soul that insists on questing after all-consuming, requited love.
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1, 10, 11, 18 JUN
MYSTERY 32
OPEN ELEUSIS
(education)
OSE – ELEFSINA OLD RAILWAY STATION
The workshop “Elefsina narrates its memories” aims to create a group on the city’s oral history, where participants will be introduced to oral history and will be taught interview techniques in order to create an audiovisual archive of oral testimonies by the residents. The group will have access to all the necessary technical means for the audiovisual recording of the interviews.
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1 – 28 JUN
MYSTERY 134
PERSEPHONE, THE RED CARPET
(interdisciplinary art project)
PUBLIC SPACE
A work of urban scenography and social art: the red carpet updates the myth of Persephone with its mystical appearance-disappearance and the ritual of its movements as the participants take it from neighbourhood to neighbourhood. Actions will follow each transition at the place of arrival.
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1-29 JUNE
MYSTERY 37
VOICES OF ELEFSINA
(interdisciplinary art project)
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS 3 & 4, 10 & 11, 17 & 18, 24 & 25 JUNE (pre-booking required)
OPEN DAYS 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 JUNE (free entrance to the public)
EKEDA – ELEFSINA / WEST ATTICA LABOUR UNION BUILDING, OSE – ELEFSINA OLD RAILWAY STATION
Mystery 37 Voices of Elefsina is a participatory activity during which the city’s residents create a radio station and an artistic peripatetic installation in the form of a radio walk. The first educational workshops will take place in May and June, while every Thursday the studio of the radio station, in the Old Railway Station, will be open to the public and will host a series of discussions, talks and screenings on radio-related subjects.
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5 JUN
MYSTERY 62
NUITS DE LENTEUR – A PROPOS DU TEMPS
(interdisciplinary art project)
AGIOS NIKOLAOS CHAPEL
The activity Nuits de Lenteur − Speeches About Time began in 2018 in cooperation with the French Institute of Greece and takes place in the atmospheric courtyard of the church of Agios Nikolaos since 2021. This time it focuses on the concept of the time of abandonment which, according to the curator, Ilias Kounelas, is that interval when the body, together with the consciousness, moves from one state of certainty to another. Additional presentation date: 27 OCT
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7 – 9 JUN
MYSTERY 79
BEYOND THE OBVIOUS CONFERENCE 2023
(meetings / conferences)
X-BOWLING ART CENTER, EKEDA – ELEFSINA / WEST ATTICA LABOUR UNION BUILDING
Mystery 79 Beyond the Obvious Conference 2023 on “Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being” aims to collectively explore the importance of care as a moral and political obligation for our societies and the role that cultural practitioners can play in this. (Pre-booking required.)
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9 – 28 JUN
SYNIKISMOI – A FESTIVAL ^
(festival)
PUBLIC SPACE, ELEFSINA NEIGHBORHOODS
SYNIKISMOI – A Festival ^ sheds light on unknown aspects of various neighbourhoods in the city of Elefsina. Extending across more than one district at a time, it focuses on their different features, and on bringing various parts of the city together. It is a complex festival that includes the performing and visual arts, installations, in-situ performances, symposiums, and participatory initiatives, as well as other informal and unexpected modes of engagement.
Find out the detailed programme here.
21 – 27 JUN
MYSTERY 45
ATELIER ELEFSINA 2023
(education / training)
EKEDA – ELEFSINA / WEST ATTICA LABOUR UNION BUILDING
Thirty-five emerging festival managers from all over the world will have the opportunity to spend seven days with a group of experienced festival leaders, cultural activists, cross-sector experts, and artists in Elefsina, where they will engage in a global conversation on culture.
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29 JUN – 2 JUL
MYSTERY 59
U(R)TOPIAS ACADEMY OF CHOREOGRAPHY
(dance)
PUBLIC SPACE
The second year of U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography by Patricia Apergi and the contemporary dance group Aerites will conclude in June 2023 with a peripatetic site-specific performance. Under the auspices of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, the six choreographers, who have been working systematically in Elefsina for two years, present their works in different locations and invite the audience to participate in a re-mapping of the city.
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JUNE – OCTOBER
MYSTERY 65
REFRAME ELEUSIS
(education / training)
Reframe Eleusis is a collective social activity featuring art, education and research. It invites young people from Elefsina and other areas of the Region of Attica to participate in a programme focusing on photography and visual culture, in order to create original photographic works inspired by the Elefsinian landscape.
Learn more here.
CONTINUING
UNTIL 18 JUN
MYSTERY 139
ALIENATION
(visual arts)
A photographic project by Vangelis Gkinis, who travels to various parts of the country to photograph workers in all the main industries. The aim of the project is to investigate the physical toll of work on the people, as the numerous occupational diseases and accidents at work are ultimately the price of labour.
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12, 19, 26 JUN
MYSTERY 7
FREE UNIVERSITY OF ELEFSINA – IN SITU
(education / training)
EKEDA – ELEFSINA / WEST ATTICA LABOUR UNION BUILDING
LEGACY PROJECT
2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture is partnering with the University of Patras to launch and run the Free University of Elefsina – IN SITU, an initiative designed for the citizens of Elefsina and its environs. The aim is to cultivate freedom of thought in broad and varied sections of the public – socially diverse groups across a range of ages and educational levels – and to provide them with access to science-based knowledge. Free participation.
MYSTERY 66
VOICES IN THE CITY
OSE – ELEFSINA OLD RAILWAY STATION
PARTICIPATORY PROJECT
Οn the occasion of the 2023 European Capital of Culture, the Cultterra youth group (formerly Youth Labs) presents its own project Thirstdays. Its structure progresses from the most informal activities to events that are most formal and open to the public. Specifically, the project begins with araxovolin (anchorage), continues with cafene (coffeehouse), and ends with γνωριmeet them, in two parts: γνωριmeet 2023 and γνωριmeet the locals.
