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Michalis (Heraklion)
Daulute: as tabor, flute and lute
Ancient instruments for primordial music, reinvented through endless experimentations and improvisations for the modern world.…
Ploumi: a cooperative cafe & grocery store ‘blooms’ in Archanes
In spring flowers bloom and with them blooms love, dreams and ideas. "Ploumi" blooms, the…
Cretan music reviews vol.1
Four +1 new releases from the Cretan discography that deserve a place in your collection.
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Video - time machine: Crete in the 60s
A vintage doc by British Pathé takes us back to Crete in the '60s
Cretazine presents: The revolution of the loom!
From the time when Penelope longed for the return of Ulysses, furiously embroidering in her…
Manolis Mavrokostas, a cook in Anogeia
Whoever saw a lonely tree...
Counting stars...
Counting stars...
Chrissanthi Michelaki (Katalagari)
The kids of Zoniana dance 'a capella'
A cute, surrealistic dance...the things you may see at a 'Shepherd and Cheese Festival'!

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Katina, Lakkos district, Heraklion

Katina (Lakkos, Heraklion)

Published in "Humans of Crete"

A short documentary about George, a shepherd on Asterousia Mountains

The Shepherd of Asterousia

Published in "Cretan Tales"

The isle of Zeus across Iraklion

Dia* on the canvas

Published in "Snapshot"

Golden hour, in the vineyards of Archanes

Golden hour

Published in "Snapshot"

Farewell August

Farewell August

Published in "Snapshot"

Beyiri is situated on the pedestrian street under Fortezza fortress

"Beyiri", a cooperative grocery store in Rethymno

Published in "Cretan Tales"

‘Self-organization’, ‘autonomy’, ‘horizontal structure’...these terms we hear more and more often in Greece inspired a group of young people in Rethymno to create ‘Beyiri’, a…

Somewhere on a dry slope of Asterousia mountains

Whoever saw a lonely tree...

Published in "Snapshot"

A spongy wallpaper in the sea of Sitia

Underwater chromotherapy

Published in "Snapshot"