The cultural summer of the program 2024 of the Ministry of Culture’s institution ” All of Greece one Culture” was completed with great success, attracting for 2 months a significant number of Greek and foreign visitors. With “conflict” as the central theme, the public had the unique opportunity to enjoy a total of 140 events of theatre, music, performances/actions for children and teenagers, dance, visual arts/performances and musical theatre in ancient theatres, castles, monuments, museums, monasteries, churches, mosques and caves all over Greece.

In the regional condition that sites of archaeological interest throughout the country are subjected to, proposals must creatively engage with the past as a concept, as a metaphor, as a historical legacy, as a creative condition. How can the reception of the past fertilize the present of art, without binding it to past-love? How can the past be seen through new ways of perceiving it? From its (often sterile) reverence, to its (often barren) deconstruction, the reception of the past is a site to which art constantly returns creatively. “All of Greece One Culture” looks forward to proposals that will creatively confront the above questions or pose new ones.

The 2025 programme of the Ministry of Culture’s institution “All of Greece One Culture” will be composed of the proposals selected by a Special Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Culture, following an open call for proposals addressed to cultural institutions operating in the form of Non-Profit Urban Companies (NPCs).

Proposals will be submitted electronically through the Register of Cultural Bodies (https://drasis.culture.gr/index.php/allofgreeceoneculture-gno) from Thursday 03 January 2025  through Monday 03 February 2025.

Each proposal must combine at least two of the six areas:

• Music (all genres: classical, contemporary, traditional, etc.)
• Theatre (all genres: prose, puppetry, shadow theatre, etc.)
• Dance (all genres: classical, contemporary, etc.). Requires original music or adaptation/expression of existing music
• Musical theatre (original music required)
• Visual arts/performance (all genres: painting, sculpture, photography, etc.)
• Performances/acts for children and teenagers.

For the visual arts proposals, the exhibition may cover the entire period of the programme, while the second required art will be presented up to two times.

The Special Evaluation Committee for 2025 covers the whole spectrum of the arts and is as follows:

• Giorgos Koumentakis – President of the Committee, Composer and Artistic Director of the GNO
• Dimitris Maragopoulos – Composer, Head of the “Bridges” Cycle of the Athens Concert Hall, Professor Emeritus of the Ionian University – Music and Performing Arts

• Konstantinos Hatzis – Director

• Daphnis Kokkinos – Dancer, Choreographer, Director of CSOT
• Syrago Tsiara – Art Historian, Director of the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum
• Natasha Triantafylli – Director
• Anastasia Gadolou – Archaeologist, Director General of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

On behalf of the Ministry of Culture, they participate in the Committee without the right to vote:

Prof. Anna Panagiotarea, Journalist, Advisor to the Minister of Culture

Dimitra Filiou, Archaeologist at the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture.

The evaluation of proposals will start on Tuesday 4 February 2025 and will end on Tuesday 4 March 2025. The results will be announced by 11 March 2025.