Bridges: A bookish music therapy in the central urban fabric

This activity is only available in the Greek language.

Τhe minimalist Book Space of the Municipality of Athens welcomes “Bridges” as part of the This is Athens City Festival, in a musical reading approach.

All book and music lovers are invited to the specially designed, for the day, Eleftherias Park. The artists Calliope, Marios Visvikis and Mister Enarto, in the role of musical travelers, will present their new projects live to the audience from early afternoon until 22:00, while the Athens Book Space will remain open late that day, actively participating in the entire event.

An exclusive interactive presentation of a book of three dark stories of love, passion and revenge, under the general title “Too much love kills”, by the authors Stella Karabakaki and Giorgos Giotsas, published by Lykofos editions, will be presented live to the audience.

The aim of the event is to achieve a link between two parallel worlds: The Book Space on the one hand, thriving in the serene shadow of Eleftheria Park as a dynamic cultural factor with the power of the book as its main axis. Music and vinyl with their acoustic spectra on the other hand, to make a decisive contribution to this.

Book and vinyl as the oldest means of information, communication, art and entertainment facing the new data of digital transition processes. Their refusal and insistence on abandoning their traditional nature, both makes them dynamic, timeless and traditionally modern means, which continue to evolve with the renewal, the empowerment of timeless processes and practices of the analog era of tangible productive editions.

Music Performers:
Calliope: The musician and performer Calliope lives and works in Athens. With a background in classical and operatic training, she creates soundscapes and chaotic loops, using synths, pedals, sampler, distorted voices, field recordings, textures, texts, and effects.

Marios Visvikis (GR): Marios Visvikis is a musician, composer and instrument builder based in Athens. He builds acoustic musical instruments, which he uses in his recordings and performances.

Mister Enarto: Mister Enarto, whose real name is Panagiotis Kontaris, a vinyl and culture lover, has been involved in the music scene of Athens and Greece for over 25 years.

Writing Team

Giorgos Giotsas: An award-winning author in Greece and America. All his books have collected awards and distinctions, but above all the love of the reading public, something for which he is grateful. In 2022 he received the 1st EVERLY award at the Fantasy Festival. In 2021, Athens Voice named “Το Κουτί” as the “Best Book of the Year” after a selection of the ten best books by its editorial team and a vote by readers for the final ranking. He is the only Greek Fantasy author with three back-to-back books in the top 10 of the Public Book Awards, as voted by thousands of readers.

Stella Karabakaki: Stella Karabakaki’s work has been included in an anthology of the best humorous short story writers of the last fifty years, while her main occupation in recent years has been screenwriting, as she writes for successful television series. This is her tenth book. She studied Communication and Media at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She writes, translates, edits and plays with words, satirizing everything and especially human relationships that she loves to hate