The exhibition

Queer photography and video exhibition Civil Disobedience returns for its 6th installment and this year the theme is nature vs. technology.  Eighteen artists from Greece and all around the world will present their interpretation of the curator's dense statement. Photography and video works will be presented on the first floor of ROMANTZO in the heart of Athens.  The exhibition is a designated space for liberated queer expression.

Drag Queens Read Homo-Erotic Poetry #2

After last year's huge success Anna Goula and her gurls return for a second installment on Friday 24th of November.  Drag Queens from the new Athens drag scene will recite love poems and sing a few songs all for you....under the watchful eye and direction of the trash-pop priestess that is Anna Goula Vardinogianni.  With: Melita Scabeau, Zackie Oh, Vanessa Cardui ft. Holly Grace and Aphrodite HGW (doors open 21:30, tickets cost 5€)

The Neon Garden

On Saturday 25th come and tend your queer performative skills by participating in this playful bouquet of cultivating activities. 

14:00-16:00 Homoerotic Poetry: gender on performance and social media (in Greek). 

This interactive performance workshop by Tomas Diafas will examine gender issues on performance for the theatrical stage and also discuss social media as a stage. 

Workshop with limited participants, free but must book a place with organizers.

16:30-17:30 Queer Gothic and the Greek countryside(in Greek).  Cretan author Yannis Thomadakis will present the Queer Gothic genre interspersed with passages from his novel 'The Haunted Vale' read by performance artist Tomas Diafas.

18:00-19:00 How to Use Gay Nazis in Job Interviews: Facebook, Lust and Existential Sodomism (in English). Physically and intellectually provocative, this lecture-performance-delirium reflects on the relationship between Facebook, austerity-horror and queer desire – through words, images, short clips and acts of self-exposure. Dr. Alexandros Papadopoulos is once again set to provoke us.

Special Guest: EMMANUEL BARROUYER

Civil Disobedience is in close partnership with Balaclava.Q network with the goal to strengthen communication between international queer artists. After last year's successful attendance of the director of Balaclava.Q Stiofan O'Ceallaigh, we are happy announce the visit of performance and visual artist Emmanuel Barrouyer from Paris, France. Emmanuel looks forward to immersing himself in the Athens queer art scene and developing relationships and future collaborations.

Full Program

Thursday 23rd (open 21:00-24:00) - Opening Night, 21:00

Friday 24th (open 14:00-24:00) - Drag Queens Read Homo-Erotic Poetry #2, 21:30 (ground floor)

Saturday 25th-The Neon Garden (open 12:00-22:00)

Gender on performance and social media (workshop in Greek) 14:00-16:00

Queer Gothic and the Greek countryside (presentation in Greek) 16:30-17:30

How to Use Gay Nazis in Job Interviews (performance in English) 18:00-19:00

Sunday 26th (open 12:00-19:00)

All events are strictly for adults due to the sexual nature of the content. The exhibition is a designated space for safe and free queer expression without judgment.