Atlantis Books, one of the most renowned bookstores in the world, is organizing the 4th Caldera Arts & Literature Festival. The festival is supported by the Onassis Foundation and is hosting Cavafy Archive as a main participant. #2015Caldera Festival will be held between the 11th and 13th of September, 11.00am to 2.00pm, at the main space of the bookstore at Oia, as well as at Panigirospito - Agios Georgios Cultural Center at Oia.

This year’s festival is joined by interesting guests, among which are: David Sedaris, Billy Collins, Ross Daly, Julian Gargiulo, Soti Triantafyllou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Auguste Corteau. The festival will also stage Cavafy poetry reading, as well as Cavafy inspired screenings, organized by the Cavafy Archive. Previous Caldera festivals had the chance to host guests such as Paul Murray, Ali Smith and Eugene Trivizas, as well as artists, musicians and chefs, generously sharing their talents in events that were open and free for the public.

“He had come there to read”: Cavafy readings
The Cavafy Archive/Onassis Foundation and the Onassis Cultural Centre invite you to a special event honoring Cavafy’s work at the Atlantis bookshop. A special evening of one-to-one C. P. Cavafy readings and video and media art screenings inspired by the poet‘s work.  Katerina Iliopoulou, Orpheas Apergis, Panagiotis Ioannides and Theodoros Chiotis will be reciting the poems to the public.

Alongside the reading, the screening will feature works by contemporary Greek and international artists:

Athanasios Argianas, Pinna
Maria Varela, And so much intensity in Greek phraseology
Yiannis Theodoropoulos, Antioch
Rick Myers, An Excavation / A Reading (Before the Statue of Endymion)
Erica Scourti, Out of Time
Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos, Oracle
Joana Hadjithomas – Khalil Joreige, I stared at beauty so much...
Bill Psarras, Urban Halo
Theo Prodromidis, Towards the Bank of the Future
Marianna Christofides, Here let me stand


Note by Craig Walzer
“Our Caldera Festival 2015 will be our biggest yet. We hope the event will spearhead our major fund-raising push for the coming decade: to purchase the most beautiful building on Santorini, a hand-carved compound of caves in the village next-door to ours, and to transform it into a Writers’ and Artists’ Residency. More on this coming soon as well. For the moment, we begin with a WELCOME and GET EXCITED!”

(Craig Walzer, Founder, Atlantis Books)

ATLANTIS BOOKS
Atlantis Books is an independent bookshop on the island of Santorini, Greece. Founded in 2004, it has since been a home to fiction and non-fiction books, rare editions, cats and dogs. In 2010 Atlantis Book launched its own independent publication, Paravion Press. It has been organizing the Caldera Festival of Art & Literature since 2012 and it has been featured several times at the New York Times, Times of London, Guardian and others. Atlantis Books has also been included in numerous –best world bookshops - lists.   


The Cavafy Archive
The Cavafy Archive, the ownership of which was transferred to the Onassis Foundation in 2012, currently encompasses Cavafy’s manuscripts, photographs and personal objects. The Cavafy Archive/Onassis Foundation through its multiple initiatives (educational, academic and artistic) in a variety of platforms seeks to initiate new channels of dialogue and interaction between contemporary readers and Cavafy’s life and work.

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