This year, we celebrate the 200-year anniversary of the Greek revolution of 1821, in which the Greeks liberated themselves from the Ottoman Empire and paved the way to the formation of modern Greece as we know it today. It\u2019s in honour of this event that the theme of this year\u2019s festival is LIBERTY – art, science and philosophy being its direct consequence.<\/p>\n
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Every human action is based on a vision. No vision however could exist without the concept of liberty, an idea that originated in ancient Greece and gave birth to the first European culture.<\/p>\n
It\u2018s in the spirit of liberty as a common cultural purpose and ideal that we embark upon this year\u2019s musical journey. The Greek term \u201eELEUTHERIA\u201c is derived from the two words \u201e\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03cd\u03b8\u03c9\u201c \/ \u201eto move towards\u201c and \u201e\u03b5\u03c1\u03ce\u201c \/ \u201eto love\u201c, meaning the ability to consciously pursue what our heart desires. Freedom of the mind and of the heart are equally necessary to live in liberty. This is best illustrated in the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, the creator of mankind, who – at great sacrifice – steals fire from the Gods and brings it to the people, thereby spreading the very spark that would create human intellect, ingenuity and creativity. In short, he gave them the gift of freedom. Without freedom, any form of artistic expression would be unthinkable. In history and today, music is the first place in which the spirit of liberty is manifested and the last bastion to fall when freedom wavers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1864,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1844","festival","type-festival","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molyvosfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molyvosfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molyvosfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/festival"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/molyvosfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molyvosfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molyvosfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}