The festival, which is travelling in many Greek cities and towns throughout July and August, includes political as well as cultural events.
In the country's second largest city and a major port, Thessaloniki, the festivities will take place on September 16-18 at the open space of Karatasios multidisciplinacy park. Kyrillos Papastavrou, member of the KKE Political Bureau, will deliver a speech on the last day.
The 47th KNE-Odigitis festival will conclude its journey with a three-day events on 23, 24 and 25 September at Athens' Tritsis Park. The General Secretary of the CC of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas and the Secretary of KNE Nikos Abatielos will be the speakers at the major political event on Saturday 25 September.
For
the protection of the visitors and participants, the park’s premises
will be formed accordingly, while KNE will take all the necessary
measures of health protection (social distancing, antiseptic material,
regular cleaning, etc).
The Athens' festivities will include numerous political and cultural events, including music concerts by popular Greek artists, such as George Dalaras, Maria Farantouri, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Natasa Bofiliou, Miltos Paschalidis, Manolis Mitsias, Christos Thiveos, Pantelis Thalassinos, Ioulia Karapataki, Giannis Kotsiras, Giorgos Margaritis, Stavento, Rita Antonopoulou, Pegky Zina, Fivos Delivorias and others.
Being one of the country's most significant annual cultural events, the KNE-Odigitis festival spans a history of 47 years. The 1st festival of KNE and her newspaper "Odigitis" took place on September 1975, just months after the collapse of the 7-year old military dictatorship.
