Theme: XENOS

Everything is unknown until someone takes the first step and sheds the light for the rest of us. Innovation, psychology, science, art and the list goes on.

But, is the light what we really need? Or is our way of thinking what keeps us in the dark?

Xenos is about the unknown. The unknown people, whose impact in our lives cannot be expected nor measured. The conditions we have not lived in but that attract or frighten us. It is about those things we named "limits", because we didn't know any better.

Xenos, as in the future we have yet not lived, the future that scares and excites us at the same time.
Xenos is the destination for which there is no ticket. The journey we always wanted to go but our luggage was holding us back. It is the possibility to which we closed our eyes. But now is the time to stare. To observe and absorb. It is the time to determine whether the unknown should intrigue or frighten us.

Now is the time for eyes wide open.

Cultural Centre of Chania
Andrea Papandreou 74
Chania, Kriti, 73134
Greece

Finale perf group

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Maria Mentez_Viktoria Kotsalou_Ntinos Manos

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Διαβάζω για τους Άλλους

Argyro Spyridaki, founder & President, and Theodoros Tsatsos, vice-President of the Non - Governmental Organization “Reading for Others”, which creates audio books for blind people in Greece and provides equal access to knowledge to those who cannot read on their own. Mrs. Spyridaki currently works as an Executive / Life Coach and also as a Kundalini Yoga Instructor in order to help people to create the ideal for them environment to develop themselves. Mr. Tsatsos is a licensed psychologist and life coach. At the moment he works with individuals as a counselor and also as instructor of personal development seminars for groups. His vision is through his life experience, his academic background and his work to motivate other people to live a life they love to live.

Anna Kouroupou

General secretary of the Transgender Support Association, columnist, author. Anna Kouroupou defines herself as a trans woman. She had a gender redefinition, 25 years ago. She managed to graduate only from middle school due to the usual social exclusion she was facing. She is fighter of the human rights of trans people since 2011 active as General Secretary of the Transgender Support Association. She considers herself as an activist, once she realized her diversity. She wrote a book - autobiography titled "Why, I don’t have like yours, Mom?" – Potamos Publications and continues writing often in various websites. The topics of her articles are usually referred to human rights. During the last year she joined voluntarily the group-organization called “Red Umbrella”, in order to empower sex workers in Athens.

Argyro Spyridaki

Co-Founder & President, "Diavazw gia tous Allous"

Constantinos Constantinou

Journalist, Volunteer

Konstantinos Konstantinou is 36 years old and lives in Cyprus. For the last 15 years he works as a journalist and he is now the chief editor of Alpha channel of Cyprus. Highlighting subjects centered on “man” always made him feel “full” professionally. The turning point of his life though was the decision to travel to Lesvos as a volunteer during the period of the large refugee flows from Turkey, in an effort both to help in every way he could and also to find his lost true self. Through that journey he reconsidered many things he believed regarding what is truly important in life. His initial goal was to go to Lesvos as a simple person and not as a journalist. The situation he was confronted with however, did not allow him to refuse his nature. He shared it through a documentary that he filmed titled “Waves of Hope”. He personally considers it to be a tribute to the people he met and in it's creation he devoted his soul.

George Papageorgiou

George Papageorgiou is a former officer and Air Force jet aircraft engineer, with additional experience in Intellectual Property, technology management consulting and entrepreneurship. He administrates the free Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on Digital Currency at the University of Nicosia, and co-lectures the MSc courses "Open Financial Systems" and "Digital Currency in the Developing world". He has been involved in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology since its early days, and he feels it can profoundly empower individuals and organizations. He has an MBA from Greenwich University and is pursuing a PhD on the business aspects of the technology.

Ioannis Aslanis

Born in Athens Greece John Aslanis is a serial entrepreneur running a London based business strategy consulting firm with special focus on e commerce projects. He started his business activity at the age of 20 as a small SME owner and at the age of 34 he acquired 5 Patent Diplomas and made his first attempt to launch his first startup. He is the founder of yourgreekoliveoil.com and exportsmanager.com and focuses on delivering innovative consulting and marketplace services combined in one unique solution to companies that wish to export their products to new markets.

Ioannis Aslanis

President, 2S PRO Limited

Born in Athens Greece John Aslanis is a serial entrepreneur running a London based business strategy consulting firm with special focus on e commerce projects. He started his business activity at the age of 20 as a small SME owner and at the age of 34 he acquired 5 Patent Diplomas and made his first attempt to launch his first startup. He is the founder of yourgreekoliveoil.com and exportsmanager.com and focuses on delivering innovative consulting and marketplace services combined in one unique solution to companies that wish to export their products to new markets.

Konstantinos Siomos

Konstantinos Siomos is a Child and Adolescent psychiatrist with a PhD from the School of Medicine in the University of Thessaly entitled: “Adolescent addiction to personal computers and the Internet: psychiatric symptoms and sleep disturbances”. He holds a masters degree from School of Medicine of Ioannina University in Social Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry. He was responsible for the planning and organization of the first specialist outpatient unit in Greece for Internet addiction in the Child and Adolescent Unit of the Hippocration Hospital of Thessaloniki (2008). Since 2011 Dr Siomos has been involved in educating the public in cooperation with the Cyber Crime Unit of the Hellenic Police force. He is a founding member and President of the Greek Association for the Study of Internet Addiction Disorder based in Larissa (www.hasiad.gr).

Ksanthoyla Ntakovanou

Xanthoula Dakovanou graduated from the Athens Medical School, the University of Paris V (MA Music Therapy) and also from the French Homeopathic School (Hôpital St Jaques). She is a Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology PhD candidate at the University of Paris VII and a member of the “Association Internationale Interactions de la Psychanalyse” based in Paris. She is also singer, composer and lyricist, having international discography and filmography (2 personal records, 9 discs as guest singer).

Kyriakos Kotsoglou

Kyriakos Kotsoglou got his PhD from the Department of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete and is the Chief Executive of the Caldera Group. He has been elected at the regional council of Crete and provides advice for issues related to eGovernment. He is also a member of the financial committee of the Regional Administration of Crete.

Lia Zampetoglou

Η Λία Ζαμπέτογλου από μικρή ηλικία ήθελε να ασχοληθεί με τη σκηνοθεσία και την ηχοληψία μέχρι τη στιγμή που ο Τουρισμός και η Φιλοξενία την κέρδισαν. Σήμερα, ούσα πλέον Διευθύντρια Εκπαίδευσης στο Ινστιτούτο ΣΕΤΕ, τονίζει ότι η επιτυχία στον Τουρισμό και τη Φιλοξενία ξεκινάει από την αβίαστη ευχαρίστηση που νιώθει κάποιος όταν ο ίδιος προσφέρει ευχαρίστηση.

Maria Papathanasopoulou

Maria Papathanasopoulou was born in Patras. First memory she has of herself is swimming. She spent all her childhood training in the swimming pools and reading. Then came languages. Then came travelling. Haven’t stop doing these ever since. Chartered translator herself, she is running her translation agency from Luzern, Switzerland. By travelling, she wants to place herself somewhere within a bigger frame. Within the borders of her microcosm, her ego grows to gigantic dimensions. Travelling makes her feel small. She thinks it helps her complain less. It is through translation and travelling that she became mother. Not surprisingly.

Nikos Kiousis

Passionate with the idea of volunteering, Nikos Kiousis started his activity with the environmental school team and continued at the age of 18, by founding the Environmental Association "Time for Action" for environmental awareness among young people of Attica. Nikos Kiousis is the Founder and Coordinator of “Let’s do it Greece", the most rapidly growing voluntary campaign in Greece!

Orestis Omran

Orestis Omran is a corporate attorney in New York, Brussels and Athens and a Constitutional Law Scholar. Born and raised in Athens, Greece, and a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School where he was a Fulbright Scholar, Orestis is a Counsel with Dentons in Brussels and is considered to be one of the most preeminent young legal practitioners in Europe. A co-founder of Consensus and Brain Gain, civic initiatives to modernize Greece and enhance the role of Greeks abroad in the country, Orestis speaks in legal and business conferences around the globe and is often invited as a guest lecturer by various Universities.

Sakis Tanimanidis

Sakis Tanimanidis was born in Thessaloniki. He has studied Marketing in Greece and got a Master’s Degree in USA. After he finished his studies he started traveling because of his family’s enterprises. The experiences that he gained enabled him later, along with his good friend Giorgos Mavridis, to create television shows related to traveling around the world.

Vagelis Karathanos

Vagelis Karathanos is the inventor of Geabit, the first AI-based monitoring system for agriculture, the founder of Stegme, an online platform which enables you to make your voice heard, the creator of Tsuz, an app to help those who suffer from Decision Fatigue and the founder of Protasiology, a movement which aims at improving the world by proposing detailed solutions to existing problems.

Vasilis Vasiliadis

Vasilis studied Computer Science at University of Portsmouth and currently is the Creative Training Director at OTEAcademy. He is a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of Customer Experience Professionals Association and a Master Practitioner in Psychodrama and Sociodrama. His previous working experience in companies such as Pouliadis & Associates, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, turned him into an experienced professional coach in business training. He loves to study people relationships and to facilitate individuals and organizations to develop their capacity for self-awareness, co-existence, growing, business & life efficiency.