The Messinian Writers\u2019 Association is organizing an event on the occasion of World Poetry Day 2026, dedicated to the Messinian poet Giannis Tzanetakos and to his profound poetic relationship with the city of Kalamata.<\/p>\n
The event, titled \u201cKalamata Within Me \u2013 The Poet Giannis Tzanetakos and His Kalamata\u201d, will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 19:00, at the Rex Hotel, with free admission for the public.<\/p>\n
The program includes a welcome address and greetings, a presentation of the work and poetic journey of Giannis Tzanetakos accompanied by visual material, as well as a talk by the philologist and writer Antonia Pavlakou titled \u201cTime, Nostalgia and Image in the Poetry of Giannis Tzanetakos\u201d, and a talk by the philologist and writer Konstantinos Kostea titled \u201cAs if it were Sunday on Aristomenous Street\u201d \u2013 A Poetic Representation of a City.<\/p>\n
The poet himself will speak about the relationship between Kalamata and his poetry and will read selected poems.<\/p>\n
The event will be accompanied musically by the ensemble \u201cKallitechniko Steki\u201d, presenting the \u201cMain Theme\u201d and \u201cLove Theme\u201d from the film Cinema Paradiso, with Petros Katsoulis as the responsible musician.<\/p>\n
The event is organized in cooperation with the Municipality of Kalamata, while the coordination of the event will be undertaken by the president of the Messinian Writers\u2019 Association, Nikolina Lekka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":3462,"template":"","tags":[],"location":[],"event_category":[],"thematic_areas":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-3463","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"thematic_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic_areas?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}