Cultural meetings in Athens: Marilli Mastrantoni, artistic director for active citizenship
(by Simone Perotti) “It is hard to be poor in Countries without sunshine”. A good start to my conversation with Marilli Mastrantoni, about time. Actress and art director of cultural events, Marilli doesn’t know why her name and surname are Italian. “My grandmother [...]
Cultural meetings in Athens: Fabrizio Manili, writer from the island
(by Simone Perotti) And then there are the islands. Thousands of Greek islands on which the recession has had little, if any effect. Perhaps due to tourism, flesh coloured gold, perhaps because on the islands there is a different mentality, the history of [...]
Cultural meetings in Athens: Panayiotis Makris, ambassador and Chairman of Hellenic Foundation of Culture
(by Simone Perotti) “I’m just a boring civil servant…” That’s how, Panayiotis Makris, diplomat, ambassador and Chairman of the Hellenic Foundation of Culture introduces himself. And then apologises “sorry if I am so elegantly dressed, but I have an appointment this evening…”. It [...]
Cultural meetings in Athens: Katerina Kafentzi, the new face of Athens
(by Simone Perotti) I would like to show you a photograph of Kafka, nom d’art Katerina Kafentzi, but she does not like to be photographed. If you Google her, apparently you will get, at the most, one or two photographs. I ask her [...]
Meetings in Athens
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Mediterranea on Corriere TV
Antonio Ferrari, the editor of Corriere della Sera who was hosted by Mediterranea team during the cycle of cultural events in Athens, dedicates to the expedition a great video, broadcasted on Corriere TV. The column Voices from the Near East "is seduced by [...]
Cultural meetings in Athens: Maurizio De Rosa, philologist and translator
(di Simone Perotti) “Narrow-mindedness and double identity are the two main topics running through contemporary modern Greek literature, in particular in most recent times”. Maurizio De Rosa looks like an intellectual of the old days, cultured and learned as well as sensitive and [...]
Caretta caretta sea turtle: a 25 year-old juvenile
36° 46.014 N – 24° 36.660 E July 24th, 15:00 local time Polyaigos ”Just few words aboard Mediterranea, lots of tears of emotion, silence. It swam with us and we did with it. An hour long. Then it swam quickly to the bottom of the [...]
Mediterranea in Athens: the cultural programme
After months sailing and carrying out scientific projects, Mediterranea is landing at Athens on August 30th. In Athens it will be moored for a month to get in touch with the Hellenic cultural community, that warmly welcomed the invitations sent over the last [...]
Mediterranean Manifesto for the Italian Presidency of the EU
Mediterranea Project: this Manifesto was released by the scientific, cultural, nautical expedition sailing across the Mediterranean on the occasion of the Italian Presidency of the European Union. The semester of the Italian Presidency of the European Union starts today and Simone Perotti, captain [...]
Words (and cicades) on the Mediterranean
“The most unfathomable, indefinable thing about the Mediterranean is this atmosphere, the set of light, colors, the white.. in the Mediterranean, the white is a different color. Then there are the noises, the air, the quality of the green, the infinite blue shades of the [...]
