The short documentary “Don’t Break My Stones, stories from the Parian katikes,” produced as part of the project “Study and Promotion of Everyday Life in the Parian ‘Katikia’,” by the Non-Profit Organization “Routes in Marpissa,” is now accessible on the organization’s YouTube and Vimeo channels. The documentary, directed by Katerina Patroni in 2021, follows the…

Digital tours, atmospheric concerts, exciting workshops, contemporary art works, and experiential activities that provided food for thought were some of the highlights of the 14th "Routes in Marpissa" Festival, held this year with the theme of the elements of nature, on the island of Paros. For three days, from August 23rd to 25th, a strong…

In her text "Ecofeminism as decolonial and transindividual ecology”, philosopher Chiara Bottici discusses the need to rethink the perception of nature as a mere provider of "raw material" that must be subjugated to the capitalist mode of production, as well as the very separation between "living" and "non-living matter." She focuses on the transindividual idea…

“Homelands! Air, earth, water, fire!  Elements unbroken and the beginning and end of all creatures (…)”*  Kostis Palamas   The elements of nature, the source of life, eternal allies, and sometimes adversaries of humanity have always shaped our journey on earth. Fire, air, earth, and water, universal symbols and driving forces of civilization, inspire the…

Research in the context of the festival “Routes in Marpissa” by the Department of Tourism Studies of the University of Piraeus. The research was conducted in August 2023 by the Department of Tourism Studies of the University of Piraeus, under the scientific supervision of Professors Dr. Georgia Zouni, Assistant Professor of Tourism Marketing and Dr.…

In a traditional walk with tsambouna and tumbaki music and an authentic Cycladic feast with Nikos Economides and Kyriaki Spanou, which lasted until early in the morning, the 13th festival “Routes in Marpissa” was completed on Sunday, August 27, saying goodbye to the last weekend of summer. As every year, the "protagonist" was Marpissa, even…

“What is born out of the ground? The stones are burning in July, my eyes are burning too.” *   As the lime melds the Cycladic forms into a harmonious expanse of purest white – an embodiment of the Greek summer – the bleach, employed to cleanse the spaces awaiting eager visitors, silently infiltrates the…

Marpissa in Paros will welcome us again this year in its welcoming courtyards, paving alleys, squares and church forecourts, on the occasion of the 13th Routes in Marpissa festival that will take place on August 25, 26 and 27. This time having the route map as a guide, the bougainvilleas as signposts and the scents…

One more festival of Routes in Marpissa has come to an end. For the 12th year, residents of the village and of Paros, visitors from Greece and all over the world walked through the traditional settlement, which for three days celebrated the end of harvest with concerts, music and dance performances, workshops, events, lectures and…

The mouth fills with words *   Group art exhibition Artists: Phoebe Giannisi, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Maria Sideri, Chara Stergiou Curated by Despina Zefkili.   “The mountains are still nice today (…), that is, we see them as nice, they themselves have no self-consciousness, as Hegel said. To walk again today a path lost by the…