In 2023 the first official Fringe Festival took place in Greece, in the city of Thessaloniki. This first edition of the ThessFringe was from May 25th to May 28th, featuring 14 events and 3 workshops. As they presented themselves: “The festival is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and culture, bringing together national and international artists […]
Rue elles is a project created by the French association Intercultura in 2015. Balkan Hotspot wants to contribute finding some “rue elles” in Thessaloniki too. The purpose of this project is to give space to some women that had a fundamental impact on the local, national, European or international stage. To do this, Intercultura is […]
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and have the potential to contribute constructively to the development and well-being of their societies, and that any doctrine of racial superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous and must be rejected, together with theories that attempt to determine the […]
On February 15, some of our volunteers participated in “vendors for an hour”, a call for action that the street paper Shedia organizes each year in February. They sold the magazine together with Vaggelis, a seller of Shedia magazine over the past two years. Don’t you know what a street paper is? A street paper […]
January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Every year we pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in order not to forget and to reaffirm, today and every day, our determination to oppose anti – Semitism and any other form of intolerance. However, sometimes […]
