Icarus Festival for Dialogue between Cultures
Icarus Festival for Dialogue between Cultures is an international music festival that began in the summer of 2006 in Ikaria. The festival is an annual event organized by all 3 municipalities of Ikaria, a Greek island in the northern Aegean that bears the name of the mythical flyer Icarus.
History
The festival's purpose is to host performances by artists or groups whose music is a product of multicultural participation or inspiration. The first festival took place in July 2006. The artistic directors were Vangelis Fampas and Klaudia Delmer.
The groups and artists that have participated in the Festival's functions, include:
- Etnika (Malta)
- L' Ham de Foc (Spain)
- Motion Trio (Poland)
- Mimis Plessas - Klaudia Delmer (Greece - Poland)
- Encardia (Greece - Italy)
- Tangarto - Tanguero (Greece - Argentina)
- Maria Bermudez - Chicana Gypsy (USA - Spain)
- Vassilis Lekkas - Giannis Spathas (Greece)
- George Psihogios (Greece)
- Theros - Lamia Bedhioui (Greece - Tunisia
- Christos Tsiamoulis - Halil Karaduman (Greece - Turkey)
- Fabien Ballejos - Gina Nikolitsa - Novitango Quintet (Argentina - Greece)
- DROM (Romani - Greece)
- Ship of Fools (Holland - Europe)
- Djamel Benyelles - Djam & Fam (Oran, Algeria - France)
- Marta Sebestyen - Kostis Avyssinos (Hungary - Crete)
- Voces Del Sur (Chile - Scotland)
- Sotiria Leonardou - Vangelis Fampas - Panos Fourtounas (Greece)
- Ypogeia Revmata (Greece)
- Makis Seviloglou - Kaiti Koullia (Greece - Balkans)
- En mia Nykti - Fide KÖksal - Cihan Turkoglu - Solis Barki (Turkey - Greece)
- Margarida Guerreiro (Portugal)
- Luna Piena Trio (Italy - Sicily)
- Quartaumentata (Calabria, Italy)
- Leonardo Gomez - Amor Latino - Janet Kapuya (Chile - Greece - Uruguay)
- Monika (Greece)
- Cabaret Balkan (Greece - Balkans) etc.
The Festival has, since 2008, expanded to other forms of art, such as dance, theater, photography & painting exhibitions, dance lessons and cinema. In particular the Icarus Film Festival, supported by the Greek Film Center, the Mediterranean Film Institute and the cinema club of Agios Kirikos has been inviting a great number of film directors to Ikaria for an in person presentation of their works.