20 artists, female artists and collectives from 13 countries explore how preconceived ideas about racism, social mobility, migrants’ rights and how our sense of belonging and coexistence exists within us through the diversity of class, race and gender.

Visit the NEON exhibition with free admission space of togetherness curated by Elina Kountouri at the Drama School of the National Theatre | Athens School – Irini Papa (Pireos 52, 185 47, Piraues) from Wednesday the 16th till Sunday the 20th of October. 

This week’s open to the general audience public program invites you to a multi-dimensional open day, talks, a NEON Late Night on Saturday night with a concert and dance battles and a gardening workshop!

– 16, 17 October, 12:00-16:00  | Together/Μαζί | The Melissa Network opens to the public part of its daily activities, a world made of care, solidarity, understanding, beauty, strength, resilience and autonomy, and invites visitors to participate and share this world. Activities include poetry, choir, workshops and more.

– 16 October 19:00 | No Person Left Behind | The event brought by DIANEOSIS will address issues of social and economic inclusion in Greek society, with the aim of highlighting the important need for inclusion and social cohesion in Greece. Registration Form

– 16, 17, 20 October| Curator’s Tours | Visit the exhibition space of togetherness with curatorial assistants Maria Tavlariou & Galini Notti.

– 19 October, 13:00 | Conversations Lydia Matthews + Antrea Tzourovits | ΝΕΟΝ + Fulbright Greece | Lydia Matthews, Professor Emerita of Visual Culture in the Parsons Fine Arts program and founder of the Curatorial Design Research Lab at The New School, meets artist Andrea Tzourovits.

– 19 October 17:00-23:00 | Singing + Dancing in the space of togetherness | The Afro-Greek protagonists of the collective work in progress the AfroGreeks present dance battles and a concert combining moving image, dance and music in a NEON Late Night with the exhibition open until 23:00.
With the Participation of:
> 35 street artists of the underground hip-hop dance scene from all over Greece in the dance battles organized by the dancers Mikel Ergar & Kofi Yiadom.

> The musicians and performers Jerome Kaluta, Angelos Angelou, Idra Kayne, Steven Aderinto, Tosin, Adédèjì, MC Yinka, The Roots, Gumboot Trio, Chocolate Muffin & Kofi, Monica Cabassele in the concert that will follow.

– 20 October, 12:00-13:30 | Gardening Workshop | The Papigion project invites you to a gardening and transplanting workshop for adults on the last day of the exhibition. Pre-registration is required. Registration Form

– 19, 20 October| Educational programme Is this Art? for families with children aged 8 years and older by the Hellenic Children’s Museum. Free admission | Pre-registration at the Hellenic Children’s Museum is required, T: 210 3312 995 | email [email protected].

Curation and organization of the public project space of togetherness | Elina Kountouri, Ioanna Mimi, Nausika Papadopoulou, Maria Tavlariou