WORM-LIKE
An evening of spaghetti, performance, worms, and a presentation of Frieda Ford’s research over her time with @lalaspiti Join at Pedion tou Areos at 20:30for a performance leading to Lala. Frieda has been researching artist-run spaces in Athens: gathering stories, running non-hierarchical workshops, exploring strategies of resistance, collaboration, sustenance. She considers the worm as the signifier of the artist-run space. Consuming chaotic matter and shitting out fertile soil. Writhing, wriggling, crawling over and under one another, creating connection to connection to connection.
Institutionalization, Foiling/Frustration, Positionality :: institutions, collectivities, individualities
Prompted by recent events at the National Theatre, where following direct anti-gentrification interventions and mobilizations by artists, actors, activists, and the Palestine solidarity movement, the event series “Is It Sinful?” was cancelled, we are opening a call for public discussion at the queer space LALA on Monday, June 8th (Monday: theatre artists’ day off).
AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)
As part of the two-day Festival of Art and Remembrance “Our Strength Is the Community,” marking the anniversary of the founding of AKOE (Greek Gay Liberation Movement) on April 25, 1977, we will screen the documentary AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…) by Iossif Vardakis.
Hollow Eve at LALA
In a rare chance to see their work in Athens, Hollow Eve will present and discuss selections from their videos, offering an intimate look into the creative process and the political urgency behind their art.
Itziar Barrio & Sarah Anderson
We are super happy about our current residents at LALA, interdisciplinary artists Itziar Barrio and Sarah Anderson!
Klappe by Jürgen Brüning with Q&A
On May 18th we are super happy to host Jürgen Brüning for the second time in LALA!
Amygdaliá by Christina Phoebe with Q&A
The director, Christina Phoebe, together with the film’s co-protagonists Lauretta Macauley and Gerta Dyle, will be at LALA to present the film and have a discussion and some music in a dj set after the screening.
The Lullaby of Twisted Toons: horror, comedy and obsession in animation and stop-motion film
We start the series with a screening of The Wolf House (La casa lobo, 2018), a Chilean stop-motion horror inspired by the real-life case of Colonia Dignidad.
Prokne @ LALA :: Films, Dreamland and Process Work
Part A:Screening of videos she has constructed – in collaboration or by herself:Trud (2019, 3’) Carmela’s Garden (2018, 6’) Itys, Praxithea and Me (2022, 26’) Now (2025, 4’) Part B:A presentation titled “The relationship with dreamland as a subversive act”, in which Prokne will present the theory of Process Work and how its theoretical and […]
H(E)AVENS
H(E)AVENS – A four-day festival on the role of private foundations in the field of culture ≡ Athens, 7-10 December 2023