Cretan Diet Festival 2022
From
July 04, 2022 19:00
until
July 04, 2022 23:42
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Monday 4 July 2022
19:00 - 23:00 Local Food Trade Show
19:00 - 20:30 "Fairy tales that don't make children fall asleep and awaken the grown-ups"
Fairy tales are told not to make children fall asleep, but to awaken adults instead. The Greeks of Asia Minor had a distinct cultural identity, which they
carried with their uprooting. Fairy tales an sounds will be heard from other homelands such as: The snake tree from Smyrna, The shoemaker from Vourla,
Food is a custom from Choza stories, the ant and the camel, the snake from Smyrna.
Narration and interpretation: Maria Tsouknani
Music editing: Ifigenia Griniaraki
The narration will be followed by a Cretan wedding bread workshop, open to all ages!
The narration will be followed by a bread making workshop where young and old will participate.
20:00 - 21:00 Nekisia, for Grigoris Koukouvagia from Asia Minor
Mary Fragaki retrieves memories from the treasure box of a pure connoisseur of the old town of Rethymno. With the assistance of Michalis Hasikos, they
revive a traditional recipe, “Ta Maritakia”, characteristic of the cuisine preserved and promoted by Grigoris Koukouvagias.
21:00 “This is the way we had fun with music”
The Asia Minor Association of Rethymno presents a party with songs and music from Asia Minor.
In Asia Minor before 1919 a group of local people meets in a café. They start singing a song, then one more, then dancing comes along in a way that starts a feast with
traditional songs and dances of Asia Minor of nowhere.
Violin: Aris Siskakis,
Drums: Panagiotis Sfakianakis,
Guitar- song: Haris hatzimanolis,
Bouzouki: Anestos Deligiannis Oud: Michalis Kotis with the magical voice of Maria Kotti.
