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Greek President and the Olympic Flame

grhomeboy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:48:02 +0000

This evening, President of the Hellenic Republic H.E. Karolos Papoulias, will be attending a ceremony at the Athens Concert Hall to mark the beginning of an international conference by the Athens Academy’s Center for Research into Greek Folk Art, to mark its 90th anniversary.

The subject of the conference is "Traditional Music and Modern Creativity".

Tomorrow afternoon, the President will be at the Panathenaic Stadium for the handing over of the Olympic Flame to the organizers of the Beijing Olympics.

Painter Mytaras elected member of Athens Academy

grpresspoland — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:00:56 +0000

(ATHENS NEWS AGENCY) Painter Dimitris Mytaras was elected on Thursday as regular member of the Athens Academy. Mytaras was born in 1934 in Halkida and after his secondary education he arrived in Athens to study at the School of Fine Arts. During his studies he was awarded with two prizes. After completing his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, he received a scholarship which allowed him to study popular art in Mytilini. He later received another scholarship and continued his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris.

After his return to Athens from Paris, he became director of the Workshop of Internal Decorations at the Athenian Technological Institute of the Doxiadis Foundation. In 1977 he became professor of painting at the Athens Fine Arts School.