Company
Artemis Culture
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.
WHY WE DO THIS
Artemis Culture strives to help create social & environmental awareness, and harmony, through the Arts.
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 is an actor, director, choreographer, acting teacher and coach. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Central School of Speech and Drama, Goldsmiths University of London, Lancaster University, London Actors Centre (Equity), Italia Conti Academy, Stratford Festival of Canada, etc. At the Petras Drama School, in Athens, he created an intensive three year program on Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy. The unique program ran successfully for 10 years (until covid).
In 2007 and 2008 he directed and choreographed Aeschylus’ “Seven against Thebes” and Euripides’ “The Bacchae” which toured Italy (European Interreg IIIa program) with the Regional Theatre of Corfu. The play “Light and Dark” was presented in 2010, opening the ancient amphitheatre Bouleuterion of Ancient Messene, after 2,500 years. He directed Aeschylus’ “The Persians” at Petras Festival, “Ephemera” at the Central Stage of Michael Cacoyannis, and an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Molloy” at Petras studio theatre. In 2024 he directed “Waiting for Godot” at the English-speaking Theatre of the No in Athens.
As an actor and director, he has given performances in Europe and N. America. His signature play “Ephemera” was honoured with the poetry of Margaret Atwood, Harold Pinter and Nikos Engonopoulos. In 2003 he directed and choreographed Aristophanes’ “The Birds” for the 50th anniversary of the Stratford Festival of Canada. He has written plays which have been presented in Toronto, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Edinburgh. The performance art piece “Repercussions” was presented at the Royal Albert Hall for Amnesty International.
NIKOS DIONYSIOS Mitrogiannopoulos was born in Athens and studied at the Art Theatre of Karolos Koun. As a lead actor in the Popular Experimental Theatre and other groups, he has performed Orestes in Euripides' “Orestes”, Eteocles in “Seven against Thebes”, Alcibiades in Shakespeare’s “Timon of Athens” with Dimitris Horn, Euripides in Aristophanes’ “Women of Thesmophoria”, Slink in "The Jungle of Cities" by B. Brecht (honorary distinction for acting), Marcel Cerdan and Yves Montand in “Edith Piaf” by Pam Gems, Robert in James Joyce's “The Exiles”, Dionysus in Euripides' "The Bacchae" and more. In 2018 he performed Dionysus, "Frogs" by Aristophanes, in 2019 Menelaus, "Iphigenia in Aulis" at Petras Festival Theatre and in 2023 the role of the Musician in Jose' Saramago’ s "About Death . . . Life" at the Argo Theatre.
He assisted and co-organized the cultural agreement between Canada and Greece. He has collaborated as a cultural advisor with: Canadian Ministry of Indigenous Affairs, Canadian Ministry of Culture, Ontario Ministry of Culture and Multiculturalism and the Council of Native Americans. As co-founder of Artemis Culture, Nikos believes in the direct relationship between environment and art.
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
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.
