The Lotus-Eaters, or Responsibility
Start of reservations: 24.07
07.08 — 08.08.2026
21.00
Description
Memory is not merely a repository of events; it is the mechanism through which human beings construct their identity. In the Odyssey, Ithaca constitutes the very condition of human existence—it is both a responsibility and a choice. But what happens when one disavows them?
Composer Lina Zachari collaborates with Elli Paspala, the resident creators of the Kournos Music Festival in Lemnos, as well as local amateur ensembles, for the music-visual performance “Lotus-Eaters or Responsibility”. An audio and visual gesture that traces the paths of collective memory on our own island of the lotus-eaters, of burden and duty, presented at the seaside settlement of prehistoric Myrina, forty years after it was brought to light.
A key point of reference for the project remains the landmark work The Island of the Lotus-Eaters (1990) by Stamos Semsis, based on poetry by Vasilis Nikolaidis, a work indelibly associated with Elli Paspala’s celebrated interpretation. Thirty-five years later, as the urban landscape transforms into an island of disconnection and the island itself increasingly assumes the characteristics of an urban environment, does there still remain space for the transcendent dimension of art as a catalyst for change and transformation?
Contributors
VENTUS ENSEMBLE
Information
The event is offered for free by the Ministry of Culture.
Advanced booking is necessary.
Audience members are only requested to pay for the entrance fee to the archaeological site (€5).
60'
Up to 10 years old
