After last year’s great success Full Moon Sleepoverthis year the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)keeps her awake Sunday, July 21, at the Full Moon of the Deer, and welcomes the public for an evening unlike any other. All-night movie screenings, silent disco parties, mystery group games, pedal boat rides on the Channel, a night reading club, meditation, yoga and many more activities await those who are in the mood for a night out with a view of the full moon!
All activities are held with free admission thanks to the donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
The program in detail:
Cinema from dusk to dawn
Daylight, from 21.00
Free entrance
In the clearing of Stavros Niarchos Park, an unforgettable cinematic marathon that will last from dusk to dawn awaits cinephiles: one of the most beloved animated tales, an unexpected (and Oscar-winning) love born under the enchanting light of moonlight, a peaceful family that stays awake when their house is haunted by demonic forces, a hardened convict in a dystopian New York of the future who takes on an overnight rescue mission in exchange for his freedom, and a young gang fighting for her life in an agonizing midnight odyssey that culminates with the first light of the sun. On such an exciting night is there anyone who will want to wink?
Program editor: Athens Open Air Film Festival
Screening schedule:
21:00 ALADIN | ALADDIN (1992, 90′)
Directed by: John Musker, Ron Clements
The film will be shown dubbed in Greek.
22:35 UNDER THE GLOW OF THE MOON | MOONSTRUCK (1987, 102′)
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Starring: Sir, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis
00:20 THE SPIRIT OF EVIL | POLTERGEIST (1982, 114′)
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O’Rourke
02:15 ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK | ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981, 99′)
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Adrien Barbeau
04:00 THE FIGHTERS | THE WARRIORS (1979, 92′)
Directed by: Walter Hill
Starring: Michael Beck, Deborah Van Valkenberg, James Remar
Silent Disco party & Face Painting
Mediterranean Garden, 22.00-02.00
Free entry on a first-come, first-served basis
In the SNFCC’s Mediterranean Garden, a different kind of party is set up with lots of music, no speakers, fluo make-up from Moutzoures and lots of wireless headphones! The DJs Panos Dimitropoulos (The Steams) and SoulSeduction they mix different genres of music live and the audience can choose what to listen to on their headphones at the touch of a button. An original way of expression where everyone dances together (and alone) and has fun in an outdoor club where – when the headphones come out – absolute silence prevails. Silent Disco parties became widely known in the mid-2000s when they appeared at the Glastonbury Festival, and from there mobile ‘silent’ parties began to spread around the world with great success.
Night of Mystery in the Dome | The last Dance
Tholos, 23.00-00.30 & 01.00-02.30
Free entry on a first-come, first-served basis
Yannis Sarakatsanis presents a mystery game specially made for SNFCC’s Full Moon Sleepover.
On the big night of the Dance, in the Dome, the guests dance carefree waltzes, tangos and fox trots. The red deer moon, however, has disturbed “someones”, who have come uninvited, intruded into the crowd and intend to spoil the beautiful evening.
Will you be able to discover them?
Will you find their secret way of communicating?
Will you survive?
Or are you one of them?
One hundred players will have to survive for 60′, while among them there are five “assassins”.
Night Reading Club | Bram Stoker, Dracula
Water jets, 22.30-00.00
Free entry on a first-come, first-served basis
As part of SNFCC’s Full Moon Sleepover, the “Reading Club” returns for a special, nightly meeting. The “Night Reading Club” coordinated by the writer Demosthenes Papamarkos and the participation of the actress Sofia Kokkalis, will present for the first time to the Greek public excerpts from Bram Stoker’s work, Draculatranslated by Alexandros Papadiamantis.
Bram Stoker, Dracula
On May 26, 1897, Archibald Constable and Company of London published a book that was to so drastically influence mass culture in all its expressions that it achieved something that few works of art in the centuries of human civilization have accomplished. · to transcend the limits of its word creation and synchronicity, and to claim a place as an organic part of the folk tradition of diverse cultures and societies. This work is nothing more than a novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, whose eponymous hero displaced with his appearance all previously known versions of the “vampire” myth and recreated him “in his image and likeness”. This novel, “the strangest novel ever published in a Greek newspaper”, was presented for the first time in Greek by the newspaper “Neon Asty”, in whose pages it was published daily from January 27 to June 24, 1903. Its publication has outstanding importance not only because it is the first recommendation of the work to Greek readers, but also because it is done through the words of one of the greatest modern Greek writers, Alexandros Papadiamantis. This translation, unknown to the older Papadiamantis bibliographers, was discovered and attributed with certainty to the author-translator only in 2002 by Lamprini Triantafyllopoulos together with N. D. Triantafyllopoulos.
The specific translation, edited by N.D. Triantafyllopoulos and Lamprini Triantafyllopoulos, is to be published by Kichli publications. Many thanks to Kichli publications for granting permission to read the excerpts.
Game Zone
Park Kiosk, 21.00-03.00
Free entry on a first-come, first-served basis
Discover the world of group games and experience exciting moments with your friends or family.
The Say Find quiz game combines knowledge, wit and competition, offering plenty of laughs and fun for the whole group. The Say Find team designed a game especially for the Full Moon Sleepover at SNFCC: the questions will be projected on a screen and a presenter will moderate the audience.
In addition, top board games of strategy, imagination and skill aimed at all ages will keep visitors engaged for hours, combining thinking, creativity and entertainment.
Water Bikes
Channel, 19.00-03.00
Free entry on a first-come, first-served basis
Enjoy an idyllic ride, with a pedal boat, under the moonlight, in one of the most characteristic parts of the SNFCC, the Canal.
Morning Hatha Yoga class
Southern Paths, 05.30-06.30
Free entry on a first-come, first-served basis
As soon as dawn breaks, on the Southern Paths of Stavros Niarchos Park, the body connects with the mind with Hatha Yoga classes with the Yoga teacher, Yiannis Yaple.
The class will start with gentle stretches of the body, continue with some body positions (Asana) that will balance us energetically and end with “Sun Salutations” (a combination of body positions in continuity/flow that has a mild aerobic character and activates the body).
The class will have gentle and moderate rhythms so that it enables those who are not familiar with yoga classes to be able to follow along comfortably and for advanced students to deepen their technique.
Design-Implementation: Yiannis Yaples, Yoga Teacher
Meditation in the sun
Southern Paths, 06.30-06.50
Free entry on a first-come, first-served basis
The sun is the life-giving force of the world we live in. Sun meditation acts as a catharsis. It brings us back to the basic characteristics that nature has given us. The Light has the ability to burn away anything negative about us, to heal us, to comfort us, to create warmth, to activate us, to inspire us, to give us the power to become creators of our dreams.
In this particular meditation participants will “breathe in” light through a specific meditative visualization technique and have the opportunity to experience the vital effects of light.
Design-Implementation: Yiannis Yaples, Yoga Teacher
INFO
Full Moon Sleepover
Sunday 21/07
Stavros Niarchos Park, SNFCC
364 Syngrou Street, Kallithea
Free entrance
More information can be found on the SNFCC website snfcc.org/FullMoonSleepover2024 and on the pages of social media @SNFCC.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is an international, environmentally sustainable public space for expression, culture and entertainment created with the initiative and exclusive donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and RPBW, it was handed over to the Greek State and citizens in February 2017. It includes the new central facilities of the National Library of Greece and the National Opera, as well as Stavros Niarchos Park. Through the continued support of the SNF, the SNFCC continues to fulfill its role as a space open and accessible to all. From conception to February 2026, the SNF will have allocated a total of €633 million ($764 million) to the SNFCC.
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Additional information on the SNFCC:
- The current opening hours are:
o Stavros Niarchos Park: Mon-Sun: 06.00-00.00
o Central Reception: daily 09.00-21.00
- Free WiFi is available in all areas of the SNFCC: SNFCC-FREE-WIFI.
- There is a parking lot within the SNFCC, with a capacity of 1000 spaces. For more information and a price list visit SNFCC.org.
- The premises of the SNFCC, including the parking lot, are accessible to people with disabilities and wheelchairs.
- In the premises of the SNFCC there are focal points in the Agora, the Lighthouse, the Canal and the Stavros Niarchos Park.
- On the 5th level of the ELLS building, the award-winning DELTA restaurant operates – with two MICHELIN Stars in the Athens Guide for 2022 and 2023 and a MICHELIN Green Star for Sustainable Gastronomy.
- The SNFCC Store operates at the SNFCC with a large and constantly evolving collection of utilitarian and decorative items.
- The SNFCC has achieved LEED platinum Green Building Certification, the highest possible distinction for environmental and sustainable buildings. The system provides certification that a building has been designed and constructed based on the principles of sustainable construction, with environmentally innovative practices aimed at saving energy, the rational use of water, the reduction of CO2 emissions, the improvement of the quality of the internal environment, the rational managing resources and addressing their impacts. The platinum certification of the SNFCC is the first distinction of this kind for a cultural project of this scale in Greece and Europe.
Source: www.axianews.gr
