The Book Publishers’ Association, as every year, will present a series of events in the framework of the Book Festival at the Pedion tou Areos. The programme from 13 to 15 September 2024 is structured as follows:

CENTRAL STAGE 13.09.2024 /at 18.30

“World Peace”

Poems on the theme of World Peace will be recited by poets-writers members of the Panhellenic Writers’ Union, as well as by award-winning students who participated and excelled in the Panhellenic Writers’ Union’s Panhellenic Student Competitions.

CENTRAL STAGE  13.09.2024 /time 21.15

Concert of Student Music Ensembles:

Cosmos Band & Solo 16

Two student ensembles from the Music School of Piraeus present traditional rhythms through the prism of their youth.

The Cosmos Band, has an ethnic character and performs both arrangements of traditional songs, adding a more electric sound, and arrangements of foreign and Greek art songs using traditional instruments.

Solo 16 has Greek traditional and art repertoire, which it performs with European instruments, achieving a calm and harmonious result.

CENTRAL STAGE 14.09.2024 /time 21.00

Concert with

Sofia Arvanitis, Nikos Kallinis and Makis Psaradellis

Sophia Arvanitis, with favorite songs such as “Mi mou milas gia kalokairia”, ” Moni perpato”, “Zoi san portokali”, and Nikos Kallinis, from the band Εκείnos Ki Εκείnos with hits such as “Logia Kommati” and “De Thymasai… ” meet the songwriter Makis Psaradellis, who among others has collaborated with George Dalaras, Manos Eleftheriou, Yannis Spanos, Gerasimos Andreatos, among others.

The artists will perform songs that have been loved and have stood the test of time and poems set to music by Greek composers. Also, new songs will be performed for the first time on the stage of the 52nd Book Festival.

Accompanying them: Vangelis Kostopoulos– piano, Nikos Kordelis– guitar.

The Music – Vocal Ensemble of Corinth “Echoroi” also participates.

CENTRAL STAGE 15.09.2024 /time 18.00

“Secret Mission: Cystic Fibrosis”

On the occasion of the World Cystic Fibrosis Day, in an innovative effort to shed light on the issues surrounding the most common hereditary disease, the Panhellenic Cystic Fibrosis Association and the author-illustrator, Liana Denezaki, are organizing a special event.

The “Secret Mission: Cystic Fibrosis.”, the first interactive children’s book about Cystic Fibrosis in Greece available free of charge from the Panhellenic Cystic Fibrosis Association, comes to life at the 52nd Book Festival with interactive games, gifts and many surprises for young and old.

At the opening of the event, the Minister of Health, Mr. Adonis Georgiades, will address the audience, while experts will then inform the attendees about Cystic Fibrosis and the power and benefits of the book not only for patients, but also for the general public.

Throughout the event, visitors will have the opportunity to purchase the book and souvenirs for free. The event will culminate with the fun “C.F. PartyTime!”, featuring interactive activities, games, music, prizes and surprises for visitors of all ages.

CENTRAL STAGE 15.09.2024 /time 20.15

“Youth and youth clubs in post-war Greece:

Politics, culture, civilisations”

A protagonist of developments in the first post-war decades, the “youth” stamped the developments. Societies in the aftermath of the Great War are defined by young people; terms such as the “generation gap” shape the social climate; moral panic will leave its imprint on the cinema and press of the time. The emergence of youth, and especially its self-identification, beautifully summarizes many developments in the post-war world, from consumption in the age of prosperity to May ’68, and from the age of social democracy to particular youth cultures and the explosion of contestation.

Researchers, historians and experts who have dealt with youth, or more precisely youth in the post-war period, will present their thoughts and reflections in an attempt to map some of the interconnections between youth and politics, culture and civilizations in the second half of the twentieth century.

Introduction and Coordination και:

Kostas Katsapis (historian, Panteion University of Athens).

Speakers: Anna Maria Droumpaki (historian, University of Munich), Hilda Papadimitriou (author, translator), George Ikaros Babasakis (author, translator), Dimitris Maniatis (Journalist, author).