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.
Athenian Horror(s) – Summer Edition
Prokne and Tyfoid invite you to an evening of queer horror readings. Our guests will read on: heatwaves, creatures from hell, tourists and gentrification (again), terrifying love affairs, ghosts, sea monsters, wars and climate crisis, the horror of ‘having fun’, queer doom, seasonal work / summer jobs / labour in general, public transportation, the horrors of greece and greekness, weddings and baptisms, couples’ holidays (Amorgos), gut-wrenching summertime, please come quickly so we can catch the sunset together. Some of the readings and performances will be in Greek and others in English.
Diving into the Archive
As part of the two-day festival “Our Strength is Community,” marking the anniversary of the founding of AKOE (Liberation Movement of Homosexuals of Greece) on April 25, 1977, we’re holding an evening of readings and performances in which we choose to engage with our collective archive.
✞✞✞ QUEERTAFIOS III ✞✞✞
Impromptu happening of religious worship and paganism. Occult films, exorcisms, third eye, mount-athos lo-fi, christian-communism, drag show, avant-garde, entrails, deposition, satanic, inter-activists, fog, purifying snake oils, libidinous, sandikai, incense, drones, carols, lent-core, candles, poetry, illuminati, diamanda, chaos magick
Mr. Ethnika Mpoutia – Memorial
Mr. Ethnika Mpoutia(Greece’s very own “national thighs”)
We invite you to a memorial service for our beloved Giorgos Stavropoulos this Sunday 21/12 at 20:00 at LALA, Derigny 39!
Family Dinner at LALA, Christmas edition
With great joy, LALA invites you to the Christmas gathering and Love Feast, an event crafted with care and imagination — a night where fantasy meets reality.
Athenian Horror(s)
Our guests will read on themes such as: urban legends, spooky institutions, gentrification as horror, post-apocalyptic scenarios, existential dread, queer horror, the devil and his friends, relationships, nightmares, ghost stories, goosebumps, haunted buildings, cults, creepy folx, dark rooms, re-appropriation of monsters, pandemics and biological hazards.
Titled mourning progress 1,7,1000
An evening showcasing the work-in-progress film and performance by Spyros Patsouras — and his temporary (?) farewell to Athens.
This must be a glitch
An experimental exploration of people, spaces, and words that don’t fully fit.
✞✞✞ QUEERTAFIOS 2 ✞✞✞
after the first part of Queertafios at AMOQA in 2016, it returns to LALA 9 years later in the post-apocalyptic TODAY ♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆ occult films, byzantine music, new age, christian-communism, drag show, avant-garde, blood, tarot, satanic, inter-activists, fog, purifying snake oils, eggs, sandikai, incense, drones, carols, furby, candles, poetry, magick, illuminati, diamanda, squid-lent ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭ Screening of […]