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Erofili play: photo report

Vincent Kooijman — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:14:44 +0000

Erofili by Georgios Chortatzis
The story is a tragedy about the Kings son falling in love with a farmersdaughter Erofili.
The King disagrees with their relationship and kills his son on their wedding-day,
sending Erofili his head and heart as a wedding gift. Erofili then commits suicide.

Open-air play ‘Erofili’ in the harbour

Vincent Kooijman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:29:26 +0000

On August the 4th 2009 the Horos Theater Company present the play ‘Erofili’ in Agia Galini.
The harbour of Agia Galini will be the stage for this open-air play with live music and actors. It is already the third year that they perform their works on the island of Crete. The Horos Theater Company will this year introduce a version of Erofili without choruses.

When: August 4th 2009
Where: Harbour of Agia Galini
Start: 21.30 (9.30 p.m.)

Beach Volley Masters final

Vincent Kooijman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:52 +0000

Beach Volley Masters day 3

Vincent Kooijman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:56:46 +0000

Beach Volley Masters day 2

Vincent Kooijman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:51:31 +0000

Beach Volley Masters day 1

Vincent Kooijman — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:33:34 +0000

The Beach Volley Masters 2009 started today with matches on both the beach and the harbour court. The beach volley matches will continue to be played until Saturday the 11th of July. Agia-Galini.com is proud to be one of the local sponsors of this tournament.

Preparations for the Volley tour

Vincent Kooijman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:31:54 +0000

The harbour volley court is being built as we speak. It takes a few parking spaces but from everything you can tell that this tournament is going to be a huge event. See the read-more page for continuous updates.

Saturday 4th of July

Sunday 5th of July

Monday 6th of July

Tuesday 7th of July

Poster

Help us improve the site

Vincent Kooijman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:00:20 +0000

To improve the site and make it even better for you we have made a small 5 minute survey about Agia Galini and this site.

Under those who leave their e-mail address at the end of the survey we raffle an unique Agia Galini t-shirt.

Take the survey here

Grigoris Faragitakis story: “The painter from Crete”

Robert de Booij — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:46:41 +0000

Grigoris Faragitakis (1927), was born in the village of Kastelli in the Xaniá district of Crete. Grigoris was a lively and unique communicative person, he spoke 5 languages. At the age of 33 he moved to the island of Idra and a year later he started a restaurant on the island Spetses. In his restaurant he met well-known artists and was inspired to paint. In 1972 at the age of 45 Grigoris started to paint as an autodidact.

Three years later he moved to Naoussa on the island of Paros where he dedicated his work to full-time painting. Not for long he got recognition for his special surrealistic and chromatic painting-technique and was invited to have big solo exhibitions in leading Art Centers in Paros, München, Berlin, Monaco, Hamburg and Xaniá.
In 1986 at the age of 59 Grigoris returned to Crete and settled in Agia Galini where he worked in his studio and became known as “the painter from Crete”.

Unfortunately, fifteen years later on the 5th of april 2001, Grigoris Faragitakis died at the age of 74.
Marilena, his daughter, now owns his legacy. She has made a small selection of his paintings printed on postcards. These postcards are available in her shop Multicolor in Agia Galini. If you are interested you can make an appointment with Marilena to see some of his brilliant paintings in the true format and amazing colours.

Jukebox Club open again

Vincent Kooijman — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:29:56 +0000

From many sides I received the news that the Jukebox Club will be open again as from today. The father and brother of Jeronimos (who used to DJ in the Jukebox Club before) decided to run the club this season taking over the management from Babis Papamatheakis. The Jukebox Club is the only real club in Agia Galini and in the old days it used to be pleasantly crowded til the late hours. Let’s hope they can revive the old days again!