Icarus Festival for Dialogue between Cultures

Icarus Festival for Dialogue between Cultures is an international music festival that began in the summer of 2006 in Ikaria. The festival is an annual event organized by all 3 municipalities of Ikaria, a Greek island in the northern Aegean that bears the name of the mythical flyer Icarus.

History

The festival's purpose is to host performances by artists or groups whose music is a product of multicultural participation or inspiration. The first festival took place in July 2006. The artistic directors were Vangelis Fampas and Klaudia Delmer.

The groups and artists that have participated in the Festival's functions, include:

The Festival has, since 2008, expanded to other forms of art, such as dance, theater, photography & painting exhibitions, dance lessons and cinema. In particular the Icarus Film Festival, supported by the Greek Film Center, the Mediterranean Film Institute and the cinema club of Agios Kirikos has been inviting a great number of film directors to Ikaria for an in person presentation of their works.

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