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“Στάση Ομόνοια” |Τρυπών(ον)τας στην Πλατεία!

Από τον Νοέμβριο του 2015, οι άνθρωποι του UrbanDig (καλλιτέχνες, αρχιτέκτονες, πολεοδόμοι, θεατρολόγοι) έχουν «κατασκηνώσει» στην Ομόνοια και την «ανασκάπτουν» πυρετωδώς. (more…)

By UrbanDig Project

All photos by Irina Vosgerau

“Dourgouti seems to have so many faces and moods as a community. Part of me worries that it will be ‘discovered’ and gentrified. But places are like people: they are born, change, grow old, and die. Only to be reborn again, in new ways.“

Triage Live Art Collective artistic director: Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy talks about her interaction with Dourgouti neighbourhood of Neos Kosmos.

Hotel Obscura is a four country collaboration project between Australia, Austria, France and Greece. The project was initiated by Triage Live Art Collective's artistic director Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy in 2013 and was funded by Creative Europe for two years (2014-2016).

The Athens project, Dourgouti Island Hotel was developed by George Sachinis and Eirini Alexiou of Ohi Pezoume (Urban Dig Project). Dourgouti Island Hotel is currently being presented in Dourgouti (a suburb of central Athens) in the final two weeks of October 2015. The project has developed three site-specific performance routes (Pegasus, Isithus and Proteas) using community stories and historical facts about the local area. More than forty artists have contributed works to the overall DIH festival. Guest artists of the project include Katrin Wölger (Austria), Pauline Huguet (France), and Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy (Australia).

For the final presentation Katerina (of Triage) was invited to work with six local performers to develop a suite of participatory live art works for sites on the Dourgouti routes. The six artists were: Agapi Douska, Nancy Boukli, Katerina Protonotariou, Stefania Kalomoiri, Anna Chanioti, and Katerina Chalkou. 

In the live art workshop each artist developed a site-specific work with teacher and dramaturge Kokkinos-Kennedy. Within each of the live art works the audience's role is central and the work is often built upon a series of contingencies that give the audience a great deal of freedom in terms of expressing themselves through the encounter and dialogue with the performer. In this context the performer is a facilitator of the audience's experience rather than an expert. Such works are often highly improvisational and require the performer to adapt to the needs and capacities of the audience. 

The result of the workshop was six one-to-one live art works designed for spaces such as the foyer of the Intercontinental Hotel, an abandoned courtyard, a white hearse, and a rooftop terrace. The overall frame was an invitation to audiences (on the three routes) to engage with an intimate work in a highly specific setting. Each work aimed to investigate an aspect of Dourgouti via a highly personal and tailored participatory performance event with a specific theme and/or story at its heart. Themes ranged from eternal love, sacrifice, and torture, to lucky escapes, and final journeys.

About Katerina:

Welcome to Hollywood! The second largest metropolitan in North America full of sun, fun, and the thickest traffic in the West. If you're looking to for off the beaten path experiences, this city has it all. And Urbandig is here to guide you along the way.

From the grungy back streets of Hollywood and Venice Beach to the ocean breeze of Santa Monica, we present to you the best venues, handpicked by our domain experts.

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Each venue on Urbandig has its own flavour, style and atmosphere. These venues are hand picked by Urbandig unique domain experts that know all the hidden gems in each domain they rule. 

To help our fans out, and keep everyone updated on what's happening at each Urbandig venue, we'll be rolling out Twitter lists for each city. Starting with the Urbandig's HQ: Vancouver. This will help you keep track of each place featured on Urbandig and get the skinny on some awesome daily deals. 

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Another Valentine's Day is here. For the true lovers out there, it’s time to take a tour with your favorite person and shower them with love. For the rest of us, we’ll be spending Valentine's day like any other Tuesday night: chasing down an Extreme Home Makeover marathon with a bottle of lonely wine.

If this isn't your idea of a hell-of-a good time, let Urbandig help you forget your loneliness, kickstart your heart or find the next Mr./Mrs. Right or Wrong. Follow along for our cross-city V-Day Guide for the Hopeless. Remember to download the Urbandig app to find these guides and experience your city like a true local.

LA

LA's Walk of Shame guide takes your 1-in-a-million chances of scoring, and brings your odds up to 102%. Curator, Lucas Dick checks in to the Belmont Cafe, Birds, and more. Download the app to experience this hook-up guide in full.

SF

In December, we featured San Fran's Heartbreaker guide to help lost souls deal with their breakups. It’s only appropriate that we give Amanda’s guide another shout out during the most romantic time of the year. 

Take yourself from the Redwood Room, to the Apple Store, and Zeitgeist. Let your friends spend their hard earned cash on flowers and chocolates, while you deck out your iPhone with a cover made of solid gold.

NYC

You’re down and wishing you had someone to share the night with. Everyone has been there, but you know what the next best thing is? Getting made fun of. The Chuckle Huts Urbandig guide by NYC curator, Mark Malkoff is a great way to get out there, have a good laugh, and forget everything else.

Portland

You’ve just finished watching the latest episode of Portlandia and want to put a bird on it. Instead of turning your apartment into an aviary that real birds are scared of, enter Porkland: your guide to finding romance in the pork you love. Don’t worry about getting greasy over this V-Day excursion, it’s all about you.

Tromp from Chop to Bunk Sandwiches in one of Portland’s most intense Urbandig guides.

Vancouver

Nothing says lonely like brown baggin it. This Valentines day, take a step out of the daily grind, head to the nearest liquor store, snag an OE, and tell them you’ll take paper, not plastic.  Vancouver's Brown Bag Special guide will take you down the best of the worst alleys in Vancity. User discretion is advised.

Washington

Spending Valentines Day alone was probably not on your New Years Resolutions list, but if you’re eating alone you might as well save some cash. Happiest Hour is one of Washighton curator, Kimberly Van’s masterpieces. She has the in to some of the most amazing local spots that’ll stretch your dollar further than you ever thought possible.  

Austin

It's true that laughter is the best medicine. Urbandig's Austin curator, Ryan Criswell, has a cabinet full of the stuff. Take her Laugh Track guide to get your laugh on this Valentine's day.

The guide will surely get you out of that funk. Be sure to cruise through the Urbandig app before you head out. It’s full of great tips on when/where to reserve seats and which places offer comedy classes. 

Not Only for One

Looking for a new spot to impress your partner this St. Valentines? Grab Urbandig from the app store, and get away from the crowded Italian restaurants and let us guide you and your Valentine on a day you won’t forget.