Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Athens International Airport invites you to a very special, literary journey!
In cooperation with the literary magazine “Diavazo”, Athens International Airport holds the short story competition “Journeys by Air”. From March 29th through June 28th, 2011, short stories on this subject can be sent – in the Greek or English language – to “Diavazo” magazine (postal address Harilaou Trikoupi 38, 106 80 Athens –Greece or by e-mail to: [email protected]). The short stories will be assessed by a jury consisting of the authors: Κostas Μourselas, Thanassis Valtinos, Amanda Michalopoulou, Argyro Mantoglou, and Yiorgos Xenarios.
Following the judges’ assessment, the 6 winners of the competition (3 for the Greek 3 for the English short story) will each win a trip for 2 persons and their short story will be published in “Diavazo” as well as in the “2board” official airport magazine The results of the competition will be announce in October 2011.
A condition* for participation in the competition is that participants must be aged over 18 years and they may submit one short story only, no longer than 2,000 words. More information on the “Journeys by Air” competition, as well as the analytical terms and conditions, are available in Athens International Airport’s web page www.aia.gr/taxidistonaera, as well as in www.diavazo.gr .
Athens International Airport’s Literary Short Story Competition is part of the airport’s 10 year-anniversary cultural programme “Art & Culture Wishes”.
* Athens International Airport S.A. employees are excluded from the competition.
“Diavazo” magazine Κonstantina Polychronopoulou - Public Relations Tel: +30 210 3839020, 3388008 Fax: +30 210 3839047 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.diavazo.gr
Athens International Airport’s 10th anniversary - 10 years of cultural highlights at the airport During the 10 years since the airport’s opening in March 2001, Athens International Airport has hosted more than 50 exhibitions and cultural initiatives, presenting art and culture highlights to the millions of passengers and visitors passing from the airport every year. Art and culture is always present in airport areas, underlining the fact that, beyond its role as a modern, functional facility, the airport is also a crossroad of people and cultures.
AIA’s 10th anniversary programme “Art and Culture wishes” will run at the airport from the beginning of April through the end of December 2011. Expressing the notion of "the voyage" through their own identity, 16 cultural organizations participating in the action, will display at the airport photographic exhibitions, projections, art banners etc., along with their wishes on the airport’s 10th birthday. A literary short story competition is also organized in cooperation with the literary magazine “Diavazo”, while the National Theatre of Greece will also “travel” to the airport, with Sophocles’s “Antigone”, directed by Takis Tzamargias.
The cultural organizations participating in Athens International Airport’s anniversary programme, are: the Foundation of the Hellenic World, the Museum of Greek Folk Art, the Benaki Museum, the Goulandris Natural History Museum, the George Zongolopoulos Foundation, the National Theatre of Greece, the Museum of Greek Children’s Art, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Herakleidon Museum, the Museum of the Hellenic Nobel Collection, Militos Editions, the Cycladic Art Museum, the Onassis Cultural Centre, the Β&Μ Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, and the National Geographic Greece.