World Poetry Day at FOUGARO
FOUGAROARTCENTER celebrates World Poetry Day on Saturday 21 March 2026, at 7pm with musician, lyricist, and songwriter Pavlos Pavlidis, who comes to the city of Nafplio to present his first poetry collection “This is my neighborhood, dude”, published by Kastaniotis Editions. He will be joined in conversation by writer Giannis Palavos.
In the trees that had words, I placed birds
As if they would ever fall silent
In the rivers that carried meaning, I placed waters
As if they would ever run dry
I destroyed them
And found peace
Since then, life has been so good and fair to me
I see a girl leaning on a bicycle
By a tree next to the riverbank
I hear the birds and don’t understand a word
Pavlos Pavlidis’ book is a journey beyond space and time. A thread connecting the past with the present, and the present with the future. Images and words spiral, memories, events, and experiences from known and unknown worlds. An adventure between love and fear, a journey along the trajectory of life.
At the end of the event, Pavlos Pavlidis will sign copies of his book, followed by a DJ set in the Fougaro square with Christos Lainas.
Saturday 21 March 2026 | 7pm | LIBRARY
free entry
info:
27520 47300 | info@fougaro.gr | www.fougaro.gr
The book This is my neighborhood, dude (Kastaniotis Editions, 2024) will be available at the FOUGARO LIBRARY on the day of the event.
Photographer:
Pepi Loulakaki
Pavlos Pavlidis
Pavlos Pavlidis is a musician, lyricist, and songwriter.
He was born on October 13, 1964, in Bremen, Germany, to immigrant parents, and grew up in Veria.
From 1987 to 1988, he participated in the band "Mora sti Fotia", which released their first self-titled album in 1988.
In 1989, he moved to Paris and, together with Nikos Kantaris, created the studio "Brancaleone". There, the initial material for the album Xessaloniki (1993) was created, marking a new era for Greek-language rock as the debut album of the band "Ta Xylina Spathia".
He participated in Ta Xylina Spathia as a singer, composer, and lyricist until 2003. In 2003, he began his solo career with the album Afou Loipon Xehastika…, and in 2004 he formed the band "B-Movies", releasing six albums with them.
He composed the music for the performance "Beyond Collapse", choreographed by Evi Souli, at the Contemporary Theater (2016). He starred alongside Maria Skoula in the performance "Odysseus", based on James Joyce’s masterpiece, by the theatrical group Elephas Tiliensis at the Athens Festival 2018. He composed music for Sophocles’ play "Philoctetes", translated by Giorgos Blanas, for Elephas Tiliensis (2019–2021). He also wrote the music for the theatrical adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s "The Spook", directed by Magda Korpi.
At the end of 2021, he released the album "The Black Box" with his new musical project "Hotel Alaska". In 2024, his most recent record "Brancaleone" was released.
This is my neighborhood, dude is his first poetry collection (Kastaniotis Editions, 2024).
Giannis Palavos
Giannis Palavos was born in 1980 in Velvento, Kozani.
He studied Journalism at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and Cultural Management at Panteion University. He has written the short story collections True Love and Other Stories (Intro Books, 2007), Joke (Nefeli, 2012), which won the State Short Story Award and the Short Story Award of the online magazine O Anagnostis, and The Child (Nefeli, 2019).
In collaboration with Tasos Zafeiriadis, he wrote the scripts for the comics The Corpse (Jemma Press, 2011) and Gra-Grou (Ikaros, 2017), illustrated by Thanasis Petrou; Gra-Grou received awards for Best Comic and Best Script at the Greek Comic Awards. He also curated the reissue of Athanasios Th. Gravalas’ stories titled Broken Columns (1930) as part of the “Our Prose Tradition” series by Nefeli Editions (2019) and has translated works by Tobias Wolff, Alden Nowlan, Brice D. Pancake, Wallace Stegner, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, among others.
