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Press Conference 10/10/2007

The City of Athens will fill with cheerful, colourful Hearts

A new Public Art Event will grace the city of Athens in January 2008.

"Loud Heartbeats will be heard throughout the city of Athens win the beginning of the new year with the opening of the Public Art Event Hearts in Athens 2008!"...

This was the first phrase of the greeting of Mrs Sophie Daskalaki - Mytilineou (Chairman of Cultural Organism of Municipality of Athens) in the first Press Conference that took place on Wednesday, 10 October 2007 for the Public Art Event Hearts in Athens '08, at the King George Palace Hotel.

Hearts in Athens '08 is a Public Art Event, whose aim is to familiarize the citizens with distinctive works of art, in the form of Hearts that will fill the streets, the squares, the parks and the underground stations of Athens with colour.

The Event's objectives and targets were developed throughout the Press Conference by the representatives of Hearts in Athens '08, the curator of the Exhibition Mrs. Iris Kritikou, representatives of the Grand Sponsors of the Event and the Chairman of the Charity Union "Together for Children", Mr Ioannis Papadatos.

During the Press Conference the two first sculptures that were designed for Hearts in Athens '08 were presented. The metal one was designed by the Sculptress Aphroditi Litti, who also drew the design of the Heart on which the Sculptures are based upon, and the other one, in a live performance, by the painter Eva Koliopantou.

The Event Hearts in Athens '08 has been placed under the auspices of the Municipality of Athens, with the collaboration of the Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Athens.

Hearts in Athens '08 has been embraced by two Grand sponsors: the brand DELTA Daily of Vivartia and the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center of Athens "Hygeia".

Hearts in Athens '08 exhibits will remain in the city from the 21^st of January until the 19^th of March 2008. On April 14^th, the Hearts will be auctioned with a big Farewell Party, donating the 50% of the auction's proceeds to the Charity Union "Together for Children".

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