STAGES A/LIVE present ATH Kids and Marina Satti as a special guest at Gagarin 205

Online premiere at Onassis Channel on 24.01.2021 at 21:00

Do you remember the feeling of dancing among strangers? The feeling that carries you away with music, lights, and the energy at live music spaces? The Onassis Foundation supports music venues of the local independent music scene with another digital concert μat Gagarin 205. After the Nightstalker, the stage comes to life with ATH Kids and Marina Satti as a special guest.

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The first concert in the STAGES A/LIVE series – performed by Nightstalker – enjoyed more than 30,000 views in one week. On Sunday, January 24, the Gagarin torch is being passed to a music collective unlike any other that talks about Athens like no-one else. ATH Kids will be joining us on the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel to prime us in the contemporary rap and hip hop scene as it stands in 2021. The filmed concert includes a special guest appearance by Marina Satti, further broadening the musical discourse between music forms and cultures.

A phrase by William S. Burroughs best encapsulates everything ATH Kids represent: “Write about what you know.” Since 2014, the rappers, beatmakers, video artists, and performers that make up the ATH Kids collective have been documenting Athenian life with rhymes and rhythms, videos and concerts – everyday life as organically experienced by restless kids of various nationalities who were born here. For ATH kids, to be young and living in Athens means to assimilate everything you hear, see and feel – both the experiences that thrill you and the ones that disappoint you – and to use it all as your raw material, as a knowledge base to create a kind of untamed creative dignity. Everyone has a duty to find a way to face their circumstances. The ATH Kids way – through a rap that is all their own – involves the sounds and images of a new and youthful Athens. This is the only Athens that exists. The city is what inspires the collective; it is their common thread. Their music – rap / hip hop in genre – is hugely influenced by a Greek, and moreover Athenian spirit, despite its English lyrics. ATH Kids operate not only as a collective but also as a family. They create everything on their own initiative, based on their personal taste and resources. The final result – everything from their music and lyrics to their music videos – emerges solely from their collective work and resources. In the five years they have been working together, they have performed at various music festivals and venues across Europe as representatives of an emerging Greek rap and hip hop music scene.

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Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou

STAGES A/LIVE

STAGES A/LIVE is a series of concerts without audiences but with lots of music, hosted by the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel. An alternative digital world tour featuring our favorite bands and artists, and everything we’ve experienced with them at legendary past lives held at landmark venues such as Gagarin 205, AN Club, and other music stages in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Until we can all be together again at a live concert, music will be bringing us closer, even though we’re far apart, helping us to relive memories and concerts shared with thousands of people – both friends and strangers – via our screens. Greece’s indie music stages were created to support young artists, and have supported yet more audiences with bands once unknown that went on to become legends, in no small part thanks to their performances at historic concert venues. Fuzzy memories that today spark nostalgia, and a need for these stages to pull through – places where we feel safe and full of energy.

In this difficult time for people working in the arts, the Onassis Foundation is actively supporting these spaces that, due to the pandemic, are close to shutting their doors for good. Stages drained of artists, of technicians, of audiences – and of life.

Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou

GAGARIN 205 LIVE MUSIC SPACE

Gagarin 205 took its name from cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin – the first human to journey into outer space and orbit the Earth, in 1961. This major concert venue opened its doors to the public in September 2002. It sits at the heart of the Greek capital, at 205 Liosion Street and, at capacity, can host 1,200 people standing, or 600 seated. Inaugurating its activities on September 27, 2002 with Barry Adamson’s first solo appearance in Greece, the venue has now been operating for 18 seasons. In overview, the last 18 years have seen more than 1,400 different events held in the space, including: concerts from across the spectrum of the contemporary Greek and international scenes, DJ sets, music and film festivals, tributes to directors and film screenings, record label parties, and more. An average of more than 100,000 tickets each year marks the Gagarin 205 Live Music Space as the undisputed benchmark leader among concert spaces – and arts spaces more generally – in the Greek capital.

Backstage Photos

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Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou

Credits

Concept & Curation: Christos Sarris
Production Coordinators: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi
Production: Onassis Stegi

ATH Kids

Kareem Kalokoh: Musical Artist
Valentin Rivera: Creative Director
Joseph Mouzakitis: DJ
Majin Cost: Musical Artist
Complex Shadow: Musical Artists
Dazedboi: Producer
Taj Jamal: Producer

Complex Shadow: Vocals - Motion
Pangiotis Georgopoulos: Guitar
Christos Bekiris: Keys

Stylist: Olivia Kaifa
Special Thanks: Dangerous Minds, Sneaker 10

Special Guest: Marina Satti
Keys: Orestis Benekas

GAGARIN 205

Gagarin 205 Manager: Marina Danezi
Light Engineer: Melina Zervaki
Sound Engineer: Grigoris Prassas
Production Manager: Steven Elpiziotis
Production Assistant: Philip Zamidis

Filming

Director - Camera: Christos Sarris
Director of Photography: Evan Maragoudakis
Cameras: Dimitris Zivopoulos, Orfeas Kalafatis, Koralia Dogani
Recording Engineer - Mixing Engineer: Jacopo Fokas
Editor: Tryfon Karatzinas
Colorist: Manthos Sardis
Photography: Pinelopi Gerasimou

Onassis Stegi

Technical Manager: Lefteris Karabilas
Technical Director & Project Support: Phil Hills
Lighting Technicians: Antonis Kokkoris, Giannis Psarros, Pavlos Pappas
Assistant Lighting Technician: Giorgos Tsitsigos
Stage Technicians: Aris Ragavis, Nikos Nizamis
Production Manager – Production Management Consultant: Dimitra Dernikou
Production Coordinators: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi
Line Production: Irilena Tsami, Nikitas Vasilakis

Director of Culture: Afroditi Panagiotakou
Culture & Strategy Advisor – Deputy Director of Culture: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Communication & Marketing Manager: Dimitris Drivas
Campaign Manager: Kanella Psychogiou

Ηead of Content: Alexandros Roukoutakis
Social Media Manager: Vasilis Bibas
Copywriter: Margarita Grammatikou

Onassis Creative Studio
Head of Creative: Christos Sarris
Motion Graphics: Constantinos Chaidalis
Graphic Design: Jilian Viglaki

Onassis Media Office: Vasso Vasilatou, Katerina Tamvaki