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Summer Arts Festival
With the Renaissance Festival having taken on a new identity, the traditional Summer Festival is still not to be forgotten. Exhibitions, theatre performances and concerts will be taking place at several locations in town.
ADVANCE BOOKING AND INFORMATION
1. Municipal Info Kiosk on Four Martyrs Square
From Monday to Saturday 09:00 -14:00
2. Erofili Theatre, Fortezza
One hour prior to each performance. Tel. 28310 28101
The 2010 Programme
Please note that all performances take place in the Erofili Theatre, and that the theatre productions are in Greek unless stated otherwise.
04/07/2010 - Sunday
Concert: The art and passion of the Cretan dance with the dance group of Giannis and Giorgos Megalakakis
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €12 - €10 (Students)
05/07/2010 - Monday
Theatre: "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife", by Frederico Garcia Lorca.
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €17 - €10 (Students)
08/07/2010 - Thursday
Concert with Michalis Frangkiadakis and Pyli tou Ihou -
Traditional Cretan and Greek music
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €15 - €10 (Students)
28/07/2010 - Wednesday
Theatre: "Homer's Odyssey, the fairytale of all fairytales"
Starts 21.00hrs - Entrance €13
29/07/2010 - Thursday
Theatre: "Homer's Odyssey, the fairytale of all fairytales"
Starts 21.00hrs - Entrance €13
30/07/2010 - Friday
Concert: Alice Russell and Band, support by DJ Cayetano
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €20
31/07/2010 - Saturday
Theatre: "Bakalogatos", by Christos and Giorgos
Giannakopoulos
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €24 - €18 (Students)
01/08/2010 - Sunday
Theatre: "Bakalogatos", by Christos and Giorgos
Giannakopoulos
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €24 - €18 (Students)
04/08/2010 - Wednesday
Concert: "The Sea, my Sister" - a production by Babis
Pramateftakis, with Fereniki Valeri, Nikos Markantonis,
Mariella Vitorou, Romanos Skoubourdis and the dance school
Ballet & Dance.
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €10
05/08/2010 - Thursday
Theatre: "Daskalogiannis", life of the famous 18th
century Cretan resistance fighter.
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €15 - €10 (Students)
06/08/2010 - Friday
Concert: "The Tale of a Town", by Hroes (Χροες), based on
the novel by the Rethymnon writer Pantelis Prevelakis.
Starts 21.30 - Entrance free
07/08/2010 - Saturday
Theatre: "Oresteia", by Aeschylus.
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €20 - €15 (Students)
08/08/2010 - Sunday
Music - Honouring early 20th century masters of Cretan
music from the Rethymnon Prefecture.
Starts 21.00 - Entrance Free
09/08/2010 - Monday
Theatre: "Caveman", by Rob Becker
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €23 - €18 (Students)
10/08/2010 - Tuesday
Theatre: "The Taming of the Shrew", by William Shakespeare
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €24 - €17 (Students) - €12 (Kids)
11/08/2010 - Wednesday
Theatre: "My Friend Lefterakis", by Alekas Sakellarios
Starts 21.15 - Entrance €22 - €17 (Students)
12/08/2010 - Thursday
Concert: "The Sound of the Laouto", with Stelios
Stamatoyiannakis and Manolis Verdinakis
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €10
13/08/2010 - Friday
Tzanidakia 2010 - An evening of Traditional Music and
Dance by the Varkoforon Kritis Group
Starts 21.30 - Entrance Free
16/08/2010 - Monday
Concert: "Against the Time", with Michalis Tsouganakis
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €18 - €15 (Students)
17/08/2010 - Tuesday
Theatre: "The Milk", by Vasilis Katsikovouris
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €22 - €15 (Students)
18/08/2010 - Wednesday
Theatre: "Avgerinos & Poulia", by Dimitris Adamis
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €12
19/08/2010 - Thursday
Theatre: "The Trojan Women", by Euripides
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €22 - €15 (Students and Unemployed)
20/08/2010 - Friday
Cossacks Dance Show (with live music) by the Russian
Cossacks State Dance Company
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €20 - €10 (Students and Kids)
22/08/2010 - Sunday
Theatre: "Dinner at Iokasti's", by Akis Dimos
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €22 - €17 (Students) - €12 (Kids)
23/08/2010 - Monday
"Cretan Music and Dance, Yesterday and Today" by Giannis
Kriarakis and Erofili, Traditional Music and Dance Group
Starts 21.00 - Entrance Free
25/08/2010 - Wednesday
Theatre: "King Oedipus", by Sophocles
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €22 - €17 (Students)
26/08/2010 - Thursday
Theatre: "Γκολφω Ala Kreta...2010", adapted by Manos
Manias from the 1892 original Γκολφω by Spyridonas
Peresiadis
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €12
27/08/2010 - Friday
Musical: "Mazoo and the Zoo", by Manos Vafeiadis
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €18
28/08/2010 - Saturday
Theatre: "The Other Don Juan", by Eduardo Manet
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €15
29/08/2010 - Sunday
Concert with the Heraklion Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Panayiotis Fournarakis
Starts 21.30 - Entrance Free
30/08/2010 - Monday
"Pass...a tempo in the moon" - concert with the band
Pass...a Tempo
Starts 21.30 - Entrance Free
31/08/2010 - Tuesday
Theatre: "Love Needs Skills", by Vittorio Karnoutsi
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €15
01/09/2010 - Wednesday
Theatre: "The Persians", by Aeschylus
Starts
21.30 - Entrance €10 - €5 (Students)
02/09/2010 - Thursday
Musical Fairy Tale: "O Gargalistis", by Dimitris
Baslam
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €14 - €10 (Students)
06/09/2010 - Monday
Theatre: "Dangerous Ordinary Days", by Kirki Karali
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €12 - €8 (Students)
07/09/2010 - Tuesday
Concert: Solo performance by Alkinoos Ioanidis
Starts
21.00 - Entrance €20
09/09/2010 - Thursday
Satire: "Ti Tous Koitate Re"
Starts 21.30 - Entrance
€15
12/09/2010 - Sunday
Concert by Aptalica - Traditional and Modern Music
Starts 21.30 - Entrance €7
19/09/2010 - Sunday
Concert by the Franciskos Leontaritis Guitar Quartet
Starts 21.00 - Entrance €5
25/09/2010 - Saturday
Concert by Maraveyas Ilegal
Starts 21.00
Exhibitions
01-10/07 - Artillery Building in the Fortezza
Group exhibition with works by Anastasia Koutaki, Eleni
Gialitaki and Maria Trigotaki
Open 10am-2pm /
5.30pm-8.30pm
30-31/07
The Athens Video Arts Festival 2010 comes to Rethymnon
20/08-16/09 - Artillery Building in the Fortezza
"Meeting Through Art" - group exhibition with works by
Ukrainian artists
Open 10am-2pm / 5.30pm-8.30pm


