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Slender-Thread-2

Slender thread 2

The fragile thread exhibition is the second part of a project that started with our acquaintance with the traditional textiles of Kythira. The first exhibition was intended to highlight the history of the local textile tradition and highlight a faded legacy and a forgotten art. Emerging from old chests, locked attics and public dustbins where handmade textiles and parts of damaged tools were...

Collectiva Kythiron 2023

Kytherian Collectiva

Follow Your Art Gallery Opening: Sunday11th of June, 2023, at 21:00 from11/6 to22/6/23 On Sunday, June11th2023, Follow Your Art gallery invites you to the third in a row exhibition titled “Kytherian Collectiva”. Artists participate: Angelos Angelidis, Angelos Antonopoulos, Joseph Delhomme, Kerri Evans, Jens Gottstein, JanTenHave, LizHerbert, Frank Hoorn, Pat Kaufman, VeniaKarolidou,...

first mariners kythira

Ancient travelers

In the rota of the sailors of antiquity, 10 oarsmen who, starting from Kythera, aspire to reach Crete with a raft of reeds are determined to march. 10 rowers of the first mariners group were inspired by the sailors of antiquity, who decided to start from Kythera on June 2, 2014, and reach Crete ending in Gavdos with a reed raft. Using the same materials and stone tools used by the first prehistoric...

Ναυάγιο Αντικυθήρων

Discovery of Antikythira shipwreck

May 1900 and the spongers from Symi, after having traveled the entire Mediterranean, make a stop at Antikythera, mandatory due to severe seas - something not unusual for the region. When the sea calms down, on Holy Tuesday, one of them, Ilias Lykopantis, will dive into the waters, where instead of sponges, he will face a shipwreck at a depth of about 50 m with bronze and marble statues scattered...

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