Port Festival

The Port Festival is an initiative "Citizens for Citizens". This is a Music Festival, which takes place in recent years in the summer grove katakolo.

Started in 2012 as a weekend under the heading «Zero Port Festival», indicating the experimental character. After the great success and participation in the world next year held the first festival Port, with a total duration of five days -the not track lasted three days and was enriched with many events, such as theater, cinema, photography, graffiti, Dj set, art workshops, acrobatics, climbing, camping and environmental and artistic actions of groups and associations.

The Port Festival aims at highlighting the citizens-volunteers activities and strengthen social solidarity actions to support vulnerable groups. For this reason admission is free. Instead ticket, spectators are invited to bring along their long term food, clothing, textbooks and stationery.

So far, the festival has strengthened the Social Grocery Municipality Tower (2012 & 2013), the Social Tutorial Tower Municipal (2013), the 2nd EPAL Tower (2014) and the Social Grocery of the 1st Lyceum Tower (2014-2015). It also aims to raise awareness of the local community and expanding the volunteer network for further activities throughout the year.

To hold the festival, volunteers have completely taken the organization and financing. We work with the Directorate of Secondary Education Ilia, achieving the goal of following the example of the first High School Tower and create joint social micro groceries within the county schools to strengthen weak economic families. We aim to channel the goods would collect more readily and to a greater number of people who need them.

The Port Festival is a festival by citizens for citizens. Success depends not only on the success of artistic manifestations, but also help you gather. We invite the local community to actively support our efforts.

So far the festival have participated: Zero Port: Penny & The Swinging Cats - Miltos Pashalidis 1o Port: Babies in Fire - Leonidas Balafas - Imam Baildi 2o Port: Intruder - Bandamadara - Michael Tzouganakis 3rd Port: 1000 Mods - The Colors of Elis - Vasilis Kazoulis Nikos Ziogalas & Making on The Road

ENGLISH VERSION Port Festival is an initiative «by citizens for citizens». It's a music festival, which takes place every summer at the port of Katakolo, Ilia. Port Festival started in 2012 under the heading «Zero Port Festival», indicating its experimental character. After the great success and participation of the people next year the 1st Port festival was held -enriched with many events, such as theater, cinema, photography, graffiti, Dj set, art workshops, acrobatics, climbing, camping and environmental and artistic actions of groups and associations. Port Festival aims at highlighting the activities of its volunteers and strengthening social solidarity actions, in order to support vulnerable groups of people. For this reason admission is free. Instead of tickets, people are asked to bring long term food, clothing, textbooks, etc. It also aims at raising awareness at the local community and expanding the volunteer network for further actions throughout the year. The festival's volunteers are responsible for its organization and financing. We collaborate with the Directorate of Secondary Education of Ilia, in order to follow the example of the 1st Lyceum of Pyrgos and create joint social groceries within schools of the county, strengthening weak economic families. We set as a target to distribute goods more quickly and help a greater number of people who need them. Port Festival is a festival by citizens for citizens. Its success depends not only on the success of the artistic program, but on the help it provides. We therefore call the community to actively support our efforts.