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• Irish Wings, July 2017

  

  Irish blackbird / flying free / rides her song / across the sea
  Under the olive / turtle dove / answers from / its shady grove.
  Theo Dorgan . The village of Loggos, one of the sites of the Irish week in Paxos - photography by Dimitris Kintzios . Irish Wings is an exciting festival of Irish music, poetry, art and cuisine presented on the Greek island of Paxos. The festival explores ways in which artists transcend disciplines and national and geographical boundaries and showcases (...)

• Mark Ottaway, 1939 - 2016

  

  Mark Ottaway in the 1960s - Mark Ottaway was an integral part of The Sunday Times Insight team that exposed the great British wine-labelling scam.
  Dear friends,
  Mark Ottaway, celebrated Times journalist, great lover of Greece, long time Paxos resident and dear friend to many of us died in England on 22 December 2016, aged 77.
  He will be immensely regretted by all his friends on the island.
  Please find below the very moving obituary published in the London Times on 6 January 2017. (...)

• Acting Workshop by Ken Rea, October 2016

  

  Workshop participants concentrating on their text
  Ken Rea, renowned theatre director, acting teacher, one of Europe’s top presentation skills trainers and a FOP member offered a one day workshop on acting to amateur actors on Paxos.
  The all-day workshop with eleven participants, many from the Paxos Theater Group, including two children, took place in Greek and English on Saturday 29 October 2016 at the Multiple Use Hall of the School Center in Bogdanatika with Faye Lychnou acting as (...)

• DIDIMANES, a Paxos "Opera"

  

  Didimanes performance at the Ionian University in Corfu, April 2016.
  Didimanes is a Paxos-inspired musical and theatrical production by Corfu-based composer Dimitra Trypani, based on a short story by author and former mayor of Paxos, Spyros Bogdanos, adapted by Faye Lychnou, and performed in April 2016 by the Phonetic Ensemble of the Ionian University as part of the Paxos Festival. The cd of the April 2016 performance at the Ionian University in Corfu will be available for purchase during (...)

• Paxos Footpath Project

  

  Paxos footpath - Photograph by Garbriel Stauffer 2014
  Many FOP members share a common ambition: The creation of a footpath network on Paxos, cleared and signposted according to European standards.
  A first contact with the European Ramblers Association made in November 2015 was followed by a contact between FOP and Andros Routes, the only island footpath project in Greece that has received E.R.A. certification. The Paxos Volunteer Group (Εθελοντική Ομάδα Παξών)) was created in 2015 by website (...)