
Spread over 5 days, between the 7th and 15th of September, the largest International Women’s Festival will host Outview Film Festival in Eresos, Lesbos. Award winning features, with strong female leads, which made such a strong impression in their first screening in Athens, are expected to make waves again in Sappho’s birthplace.
The visitors will have a chance to see Maria Beatty’s groundbreaking film Bandaged which has travelled the festival circuit as well as award winning film ‘Dolls’ about three teenage girl’s sexual awakening. You will also get a chance to see the backstage from the Dinah Shore Weekend (one of the largest lesbian events in the world) through the film ‘A Lez in Wonderland’ by Anna Margarita Albelo and the first premiere of post porn activist Emilie Jouvet's 'Too Much Pussy' and many more which you can find out from the Festival program.
The opening of the 5-day Outview Film Festival is scheduled for the 7th of September in the Sappho Cinema.
You can now see the the program of the Outview Film Festial:
Day One - 7/9/2010
Day Two - 8/9/2010
Day Three - 9/9/2010
Day Four - 14/9/2010
Day Five - 15/9/2010
Dear artists,
We want to invite women artists to exhibit their work in this year’s Arts Route – the Rainbow Snake - as part of the International Women’s Festival brought to you by Sappho Travel.
The annual 2 week festival has proved to provide the opportunity for local and international artists, musicians, performers, entertainers, scholars and therapists to share their talents in all its forms with enthusiasts of all ages. This year promises to be another exciting event, not in the least celebrating its 10th year.
We want to invite artists for the following categories:
• TWO DIMENSIONAL ART
• THREE DIMENSIONAL ART
• LANDSCAPE ART
• BODY ART
• ART PERFORMANCES / INSTALLATIONS
• VIDEO ART
As you may understand this being the 10th Anniversary, there will be lots to organise and put in place, therefore this year we are asking people to apply for a place – the application form can be found here ART-FORM-V.1.1.pdf - and return the form no later than the 1st of August. You do not have to have the work being exhibited completed at this time, we just need to have an impression of your work and a brief concise bio history of you and your style of artwork.
• Please note that the decision to include your work is down to the organisers of the arts festival.
• The artists are required to show work that has not been exhibited before in Eresos.
• The organisers will decide the locations and the amount of pieces and will do their up most to display work in venues that compliment it. (Venues, times and dates for the hanging will be confirmed nearer to the time)
• The selected artists are at all time responsible for their art work, the hanging of the work in the location specified by the organisers and the transport to and from Skala Eressos. As the organisers of the arts festival we cannot take responsibility for this.
• The artists will take responsibility to display their art work in a professional and respectful way
• The organisers are at any time entitled to refuse artwork if it doesn’t meet the above criteria.
This year the International Women’s Festival will contribute to two local charities by organising several fundraising events. We therefore would also like to ask the exhibiting artists to donate 10% of their revenues to the charities of the festival.
Please fill out the form provided and return by email to
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. Please include 2 photos of your work and 1 photo of the artist.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us by email with your enquiry
Friendly regards,
Gerbien Fricke & Kath Hurley
TYPE OF ART: Contemporary Art/Mosaics
Diana has lived in the very rural area of the Kampos, situated between Skala and Eressos Village for the last 3 years. She was originally a headmistress at a full time ballet school in England. In her tiny little tumbledown cottage which she shares with various dogs and cats, not to mention budgies in an outdoor aviary and chooks in the garden, she is inspired by her beautiful surroundings and it is her hope to stay in Eressos for ever! Diana is particularly interested in experimenting with the use of colour, and finds the exceptional natural light here a complimentary partner to her first choice of medium – Acrylic paint Diana’s mosaics are produced mainly from the finest Italian tiles. She finds their outstanding colour, sheen and projective powers an absolute inspiration and loves to work with them
TYPE OF ART: Paintings and Prints
Painter and Artist Katerina Litsardopoulou was born on the Island of Corfu in Greece in 1968. She started her studies at the Fine Arts University of Thessaloniki - Department of Conjectural and applied Arts. Between the years 1990 - 1996 she successfully studied laboratorial lessons of painting specialization. Her particular specializations are; engraving, photography, sculpture and she succesfully finished 23 semesters of theoretical training in History of Arts, Art Philosophy, Rythmology of Architecture and Psychology of Education. Katerina lives in Eressos and is art teacher at the public school in the area.
The theme of Katerina's work in 2010 is 'LOVE AND SOUL'
TYPE OF ART: Acrylics on Canvas
Jan has been involved in the arts since the '70's, primarily as an acclaimed jazz vocalist, recording artist and award winning composer. As a painter her works are exhibited and collected internationally.
Jan is considered a 'Renaissance Woman' due to her involvement and experience in the arts spanning music, visual arts, writing, and design of interiors and gardens. She runs seminars on the power and relationship of colour and sound as frequencies, and teachers painting, singing, music and water-wise organic gardening.
Jan works in acrylics on canvas inspired by the love of Lesvos, painting portraits, figures, land, sea and skyscapes - figuratively and abstract. Her influences are impressionism, fauvism, expressionism, Bloomsbury group, and late 20th/21st century abstract
