Company
Artemis Culture
ABOUT
We believe a new renaissance is upon us where past and present are evolving and reinventing the “Now”. We hope to unite people through art, ideas and imagination with thought provoking works, social conscience and the environment.
WHAT WE DO
Theatre: The Classics and the Modern
Performance Art
Grass-roots events
Multimedia Works
Webinars, seminars and workshops.
WHO WE ARE
We are artists who love to explore the unlimited dynamics of the arts. Founded by Fivi Fildissi and Nikos Dionysios, Artemis Culture is a non-profit company.
Nikos Dionysios (Mitrogiannopoulos) is an actor, director and choreographer. He has performed in Europe, North America and the ancient theatres including Herodeum and Epidauros with Theatre Technis, the Popular Experimental Theatre among others and he was critically acclaimed at the Festival of Athens for his performances in Greek Tragedy and Comedy
His signature play "Ephemera" was acclaimed Best Production of the Year in Greece and went on to become an international work which has been granted the poetry of Margaret Atwood, Nikos Engonopoulos and Harold Pinter who dedicated a singular poem to Nikos’ play. Original works “Masks”, “Ephemera”, “Bolero”, “Rite of Passage” and “Bread of Words” have been performed in Toronto, New York, London, Hong Kong, Edinburgh and “Repercussions” at the Royal Albert Hall.
At the Stratford Festival of Canada Nikos presented “The Birds” by Aristophanes for their 50 year anniversary. His work in Tragedy has been recently acclaimed with “Seven against Thebes” by Aeschylus, “The Bacchae” by Euripides (European program Interreg III Greece-Italy) and his performance "Light & Dark” opened the Ekklesiasterion of Ancient Messene after 2500 years.
Recent works include: “Ephemera” at the Cacoyannis Theatre, “Passage”, “The Persians”, “The Frogs”, “Iphigenia in Aulis” and an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Molloy”. He teaches acting and movement and was Director of the Center of Movement and Dance in Athens. As an expert in Greek Tragedy he has worked with: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), The Actors Centre in London, Central School of Speech and Drama, Italia Conti, London University, Lancaster University, etc.
Nikos is co-founder and Director of Artemis Culture and has 3 documentaries in development.
www.nikosdionysios.com
Fivi Fildissi
Fivi Fildissi is the Creative Director of the cultural company Artemis Culture.
She is a director and screenwriter and is currently working on a documentary that explores a unique natural environment and its history. Her short film "The Road" is an avant-garde work about a modern Diogenes.
www.fildissi.com
WHY WE DO THIS
Artemis Culture strives to help create social & environmental awareness, and harmony, through the Arts.
Artemida (until 1977 Loutsa) is a seaside resort town in East Attica, Greece. Since 2011 the local government was reformed and it is now part of the municipality Spata-Artemida, of which it is a municipal unit. The Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos is located on the Spata-Artemida Avenue.
Artemida has a population of over 30,000 residents and covers an area of 18.653 km2. Located on the Aegean Sea coast, in the eastern part of the Attica peninsula, Artemida lies 5 km south of Rafina, 8 km east of Spata, 9 km north of Porto Rafti, 12 km north of Markopoulo and 25 km east of Athens city centre. Greek National Road 85 (Rafina - Lavrio) passes through the town.
Well known for its beaches, the Artemida area has a rich and varied history. The city was named after the ancient goddess Artemis. Notable ancient sites are the temple of Tauropolos and the sanctuary at Brauron.
The Temple of Artemis Tauropolos is located on the beach, as well as a smaller temple to an unknown goddess about 262 metres (860 feet) south. According to sources, the founder of the sanctuary is Orestes, who transferred the wooden cult statue (xoanon) of the goddess from Tauris, disembarking on the eastern coast of Attica to build the goddess a temple.
Linked with a road between Artemis (Loutsa) and Markopoulo is the Temple of Artemis Brauron, (Brauron lies on the coast between Artemida and Markopoulo, about 20 km from Athens).
The ancient temple of Artemis Brauron is of Doric style and flourished in the 5th-4th century B.C. According to myth, Iphigeneia was brought here from the land of Tauris by her brother Orestes and was a priestess at the sacred sanctuary.
The area also has many notable churches in town and along the coastline. High on the hilltop is Agios Ioannis Prodromos with its spectacular view.
Artemida has much more history and folklore to discover. Recent findings prove it was an important ancient settlement which continues to thrive.