On Thursday 1 May, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC) celebrates Spring in the blooming Stavros Niarchos Park. From the morning, music, dance and creative activities for children unfold in every corner of the Park, in an open celebration for all!

At 12.30 we meet at Xefoto for a special live performance by the Sakaraka Orchestra, who stir up the audience with an explosive musical mix of rebetika, Balkan rhythms and traditional gypsy music. At the same time, the Park is filled with children’s smiles with the soap bubble parade and face painting and invites us all to experience unforgettable moments and a first taste of summer.

The programme:

Concert

Sakaraka Orchestra

12.30

Xefoto, Stavros Niarchos Park

Free Admission

The Sakaraka Orchestra is an alternative music group with an international character and a local stamp, created by Florian Mikuta (Mode Plagal) and Nicolae Tatulescu (Locomondo), based on Greek traditional and rebetika elements, enriched with colours of Balkan and gypsy music from Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. Their musical adventures meet sounds of house, dub, ska, afrobeat and jazz, both through imaginative arrangements and original compositions, such as those of the album “Ilié Mou”, in which Argyris Bakirtzis and Dimitris Poulikakos participate.

The Sakaraka Orchestra members:

Nicolae Tatulescu – bass, buzuki, vocals

Florian Mikuta – keyboards, programming

Irini Gkoutzaki– singer

Stavros Patsikas– guitar, singer

Giorgos Bairamis– percussivr

Kids’ Activities

Bubble Parade 

12.00-13.30

Xefoto, Stavros Niarchos Park

Joy, dreams, smiles and countless moments of carefree fun come to life through a parade of thousands of soap bubbles. La Petite Marguerite invites young and old to a collective floating game.

Implemented by: La Petite Marguerite

Face Painting 

11.00-15.00

Park Kiosk, Stavros Niarchos Park

Open flow action – free entry on a first come, first served basis

On May Day the children’s faces are filled with flowers and spring designs!

Design-Implementation: Moutzoures

Artistic action: Hats of May

11.30-14.30

Pefkonas

Open flow action – free entry on a first come, first served basis

This May Day in Stavros Niarchos Park we celebrate the arrival of spring by painting our own flower hats!

Based on the tradition of the May wreath, we draw inspiration from the ecosystem of the field and decorate our hats with colorful daisies, grasshoppers, poppies, worms, and all kinds of favorite flowers and bugs.

Design-implementation: Maro Michalakakou, visual artist

Action support: Karolina Gandia – Konstantis Safos