Fast Forward Festival 4 – Visual Arts, Theater, Dance 2-14 MAY 2017

A contemporary festival, reclaiming public and private spaces in Athens and Piraeus, taking place within a fortnight. The 4th Fast Forward Festival explores the notion of home, of forced displacement and global strategies of precarization through socially engaged artistic practices. Can art imagine an alternative to our dominant models for living? Can an artistic project … The post Fast Forward Festival 4 – Visual Arts, Theater, Dance 2-14 MAY 2017 appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

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IMF denies the Fund in existential crisis over one more bailout for Greece

Spokesman of International Monetary Fund, Gerry Rice, dismissed a New York Times report the Fund was split over its participation in the Greek program. Rice categorically denied there was an internal division within the Fund on how to approach the Greek program. The spokesman recalled that the IMF has been funding the Greek bailout program … The post IMF denies the Fund in existential crisis over one more bailout for Greece appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

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IMF Communications Director Rice denies reports Fund is split on approach to Greek issue

He denied a New York Times article

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Greece sends back 60 migrants to Turkey

(MENAFN) Greek authorities returned almost 60 people to #Turkey under and Ankara-EU deal, as proclaimed Athens's Public Security Ministry. Accordingly, the group was taken from Kos Island under the supervision of FRONTEX, the EU border security agency.

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Island hopping in Greece’s Dodecanese

There is a blueness of sea that seems feasible only via Photoshop or an Instagram filter, but which is made real around the south-east Aegean’s Dodecanese islands. The star players of the archipelago are Rhodes, Lesbos and Kos, but there are 12 large ...

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Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki attacked by Molotov cocktail

The Turkish consulate in Greece’s Thessaloniki was attacked by a small group with Molotov cocktails early on April 23, Doğan News Agency has reported

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Give Greek wines a chance

Give Greek wines a chance. Winemaking in GREECE goes back 6,500 years, so why don't its wines get the love they deserve? By Nellie Ming Lee.

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