The Love Boat

 

We invite you for a unique onboard experience of romance, blue waters, music and sunset on the maiden voyage of “The Love Boat“. Our mission is to provide our passengers with high quality services for their ultimate relaxation. Exclusively for this September's inaugural trip, our venture will be the fantastic unknown and its exotic, unexplored destinations. A three-night cruise that will make you explore and rejuvenate... Your senses will be stimulated through the wandering in the multiple levels of the hyper-modern ship and its advanced facilities. Take delight in the unique amenities of the specially designed pool area, the beauty & spa club, the ballroom, the shopping center. Enjoy unique tastes of international cuisines and delicious cocktails and leave it to our qualified staff for a journey of style, luxury and pure comfort. Departure from Pier 151 of Iera Odos Street in the center of Athens. Musical departure accompanied by the City of Athens' Philarmonic Orchestra. Our crew wishes you in advance a pleasant stay!  

Participating artists: Marilena Aligizaki | Margarita Bofiliou | Campus Novel | Errands | Florent Frizet | Greece Is For Lovers | Lakis & Aris Ionas / The Callas | Yorgia Karidi | Εric Stephany | Naira Stergiou | Valinia Svoronou | Iris Touliatou | Kostis Velonis | Eriphyli Veneri 

Concept-curated by: Naira Stergiou, Eriphyli Veneri  

 

Friday 18 September 2020 @ 20.00 p.m. 

Municipality of Athens  / Municipal Garbage Trucks’ Depot  

 

Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture

A vacuum cleaner, a hair straightener, a laptop, Christmas lights, an e-reader, a blender, a kettle, two bags, a pair of jeans, a remote-control helicopter, a spoon, a dining-room chair, a lamp and hair clippers. All broken.

It sounds like a pile of things that you’d stick in boxes and take to the tip. In fact, it’s a list of things mended in a single afternoon by British volunteers determined to get people to stop throwing stuff away.

This is the Reading Repair Cafe, part of a burgeoning international network aimed at confronting a world of stuff, of white goods littering dumps in west Africa and trash swilling through the oceans in huge gyres.

The hair clippers belong to William, who does not want to give his surname but cheerfully describes himself as “mechanically incompetent”. He has owned them for 25 years, but 10 years ago they stopped working and they have been sitting unused in his cupboard ever since.

By Kate Lyons

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/15/can-we-fix-it-the-repair-cafes-waging-war-on-throwaway-culture