EVENTS
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EVENTS 〰️
FRIDAY
AUGUST 28
WOVEN myths: zen tangle workshop
Workshop
12:00-13:30
12:00–13:30 Woven Myths: Zen Tangle Workshop with Irini Michas. Discover the meditative power of Zentangle—a method where "no mistakes" are made, and every stroke leads to a state of calm focus. We transform the myth of Medusa into a structured artistic framework, using the graceful, winding forms of serpents to guide our patterns.
By replacing the fear of "making a mistake" with the simplicity of repetitive, deliberate lines, you will turn a blank tile into a complex, beautiful tapestry. This session invites you to embrace the flow, find stillness in the complexity, and create your own mythic masterpiece one stroke at a time.
Jewelry & Story Telling Workshop -kids
Workshop
14:00-15:30
14:00–15:30 Jewelry & Story Telling Workshop with Lilian Syrigouand Cristina Crăciun - Kids Edition. Every year, storyteller Cristina Craciun and jewellery designer Lilian Syrigou invite children and adults to dive into the experience of a myth from around the world through an interactive journey of storytelling and jewellery making.
In 2026, the 3rd year of KappArt festival, participants will interact with the Greek myth of Medusa through questions, imagination, play, and expression of four feelings: Hope, Fear, Anger, and Love. During the workshop, the myth becomes a personal amulet — a small piece of jewellery shaped by the feelings, symbols, and ideas discovered along the way.
A playful and imaginative workshop about feelings, transformation, self-perception, and the stories we weave together.
Heavenly Sessions
Sound Experience
16:00–17:30
Nikos Papaspyrou (aka Adjaxa) presents Heavenly Sessions is an immersive listening experience that blends Neoclassical and ambient textures within carefully curated, nature-adjacent spaces.
WelcomE
Opening Remarks
18:30–18:40
KappArt founders Sorin Draghici and Theodoros Kontopoulos welcome you to the festival.
WERA
Live Looping cello
19:15–20:00
WERA weaves live-looped cello, ethereal vocals, and beats into an immersive project. Her style comprises a highly experimental gameplay with the instrument, exploring its entire spectrum and infinite nuances. Her creation of collages of sounds, skillful looping performances and sampling combined with her voice give birth to an oniric, spacey and deep style. She describes her project as an avant cello that features dreamy psychedelic melodies, hinting to alternative, indie rock and ritualistic sounds under the influences of cinematic music.
EnstiTHESIS
Performative Visual Art Interaction
20:00–20:30
Sophia Kyriakouhas incorporated jewellery-making into her artistic practice, placing it within a broader framework of actions with environmental implications. Through these works, she connects thoughts, attitudes and phenomena of the contemporary era with her visual practice. Here, jewellery functions as a symbolic representation of the world. The pieces are wearable and, in some cases, can cover the entire chest, where the heart is located, the central organ of the human body, associated with the generation and transmission of electrical activity. For this reason, one of the jewellery pieces refers to the heart’s electrical activity, bearing markings related to the frequencies associated with its functioning in states of rest and alertness.
The other pieces incorporate elements of copper and components of electrical circuits, such as cables, cords and electrical network terminals and find objects. These materials carry and embody concepts associated with the organic processes of nature: polarity, magnetism, connectivity, and the storage or transmission of positive and negative charges.Through the coexistence of organic and artificial materials, the jewellery evokes archetypal concepts associated with a collective, universal principle—one that can be traced through the processes of transformation and fermentation that take place in nature. Body, material and electromagnetic element thus converge within a unified field, where jewellery moves beyond its function as an object and becomes a carrier of energy, connection and transformation.
The Inner Ritual Of Medusa
Performance
20:30–21:30
The Inner Ritual of Medusa
The Inner Ritual of Medusa is an interdisciplinary performance that explores the inner landscape of the human soul through the symbolic figure of Medusa—not as a monster, but as an archetype of transformation, reflection, and self-knowledge.
Through live music, spoken word, movement, ritual actions, and painting, the audience is invited to cross a symbolic threshold between the visible and the invisible worlds.
Four essential human forces gradually emerge from silence:
Hope | Fear | Anger | Love
Each becomes a living ritual, confronting both performer and spectator with questions that are intentionally left unanswered.
The mirrors carried by Medusa become symbols of introspection rather than judgment, inviting each spectator to recognize themselves within the performance.
The work unfolds as a journey from fragmentation toward connection, where music, movement, spoken word, and visual creation merge into a single ritual of transformation.
Concept: Sorin Drăghici
Harp: Theodoros Kontopoulos, Flutes: Gudrun Kassik , Sorin Drăghici, Background Electronic Music: Jurgen Breedijk
Performers: Medusa: Maria Salouvardou, Hope: Katerina Vraka, Fear: Cristina Crăciun, Anger: Antony Gastaldi, Love: Recep Kahveci
Choreography assistance: Ageliki Gouvi
Sculptures: Lego Medusa: Nadiya Spiller. Statue of Medusa: Theodoros Kontopoulos
DJ Anestis Becker
DJ Set
00:15–02:00
Anestis Becker plays a selection that draws on classic, soulful and vocal house, with gospel harmonies, disco rhythms.
Saturday
AUGUST 29
Jewelry & Story Telling Workshop -ADUlts
Workshop
14:00-15:30
14:00–15:30 Jewelry & Story Telling Workshop with Lilian Syrigouand Cristina Crăciun - Adults Edition. Every year, storyteller Cristina Craciun and jewellery designer Lilian Syrigou invite children and adults to dive into the experience of a myth from around the world through an interactive journey of storytelling and jewellery making.
In 2026, the 3rd year of KappArt festival, participants will interact with the Greek myth of Medusa through questions, imagination, play, and expression of four feelings: Hope, Fear, Anger, and Love. During the workshop, the myth becomes a personal amulet — a small piece of jewellery shaped by the feelings, symbols, and ideas discovered along the way.
A playful and imaginative workshop about feelings, transformation, self-perception, and the stories we weave together.
FESTIVAL BUNTING workshop
Workshop
12:30–15:30
12:30–13:30 Festival Bunting Workshop with Mirja Gastaldi. Her work explores the expressive potential of materials, combining painting with textiles, fabrics, and mixed media to create layered, tactile compositions. In her workshops, she encourages participants to experiment freely, sharpen their observation, and discover their own visual language through an intuitive and playful creative process. In this workshop participants will create and paint bunts for the festival.
Book presentation
Book presentation
18:30-19:00
Book presentation by editor Avrokomi Zavitsanou & Artists photographers Maria Boucaouri & Leonidas Germenopoulos
Marry & The Grateful Deaf
Live Music
19:15 - 19:45
Live music set by Marry & The Grateful Deaf
Lefteris Andriotis
& Areti Koltsida
Live Music
20:00 - 21:15
Live contemporary music of the eastern Mediterranean by Lefteris Andriotis & Areti Koltsida, Special Guest: Maroulita de Kol
Built around Areti's original compositions, the Cretan lyra with sympathetic strings and the classical guitar come together in a musical dialogue that draws from the modal traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean, contemporary art music, and improvisation.
The two musicians explore a more intimate and flexible musical interaction, where improvisation and interplay become essential elements of the performance.
The performance also features special guest Maroulita de Kol, who appears on arrangements from the musical traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean. Her vocals and synthesizer enrich the ensemble's sound with atmospheric textures and subtle electronic elements, opening new sonic landscapes while remaining rooted in the modal character of the repertoire.
Pollux
Live Electronic Music
21:30 - 22:15
Sound wizard from the duo Droplift — who played Kappart’s first edition in 2024 and co-initiated its Sunday collective closing jam — Pollux returns -without Castor- along with gritty, yet groovy sound experiments. Invoking the combined power of the goddess of electricity and Androsian heat, he will lock curious minds into uncharted cosmic frequencies.
Labyrhythm
Live Concert
22:30–23:30
Labyrhythm is a four-piece soul band with gospel and R&B influences, born out of jam sessions and with improvisation at the core of its sound. Featuring three vocalists, keyboards, bass, and drums, they create original music that moves between the warmth of soul, the collective energy of gospel, and the freedom of live jamming.
SUNDAY
AUGUST 30
Eirini Folerou
Spoken Word
12:30–13:00
Spoken word by Eirini Folerou
Santouri in Verse
Live Music
13:10 - 13:45
Augustina Mastori performs a poetic dialogue between voice and strings, where timeless verses meet the evocative sound of the santouri. Through spoken poetry and delicate musical interludes, words and melodies intertwine, creating a space where poetry is not only heard, but felt.
Jam Session
Live Music
14:20 - 15:00
Everyone is welcome to join us as we come together in a collective jam.
Closing remarks
Closing Remarks
15:00 - 15:40
Closing remarks by KappArt founders Sorin Draghici and Theodoros Kontopoulos
Heavenly Sessions
Sound Experience
16:00–17:30
Heavenly Sessions is a sound experience by Nikos Papaspyrou (aka Adjaxa)
OPEN AIR CINEMA
Film
21:00–22:30
“Pencil Knife Baton” by Konstadinos Kakogiannis & Atopia Collective is presented in an open air cinema