Skopelos Film Festival
The Skopelos International Film Festival for Youth (SIFFY) was first organized in 2009 with the cooperation of Professor Wangtae Lim from Dong-Ah Institute of Media and the Arts and Jill Somer, Associate Director of the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts. Since then, nine festivals have been organized and were funded by private donors through Kickstarter campaigns.
The festival lasts one week to ten days with three days of educational classes based on the yearly theme and then for the next 7 days students work in teams of six to eight with a professional filmmaker to create a short film. The students do everything from creating the initial idea, writing the scenario, camera, directing, acting and then they partially edit the film with the assistance of the professional filmmakers. The last evening the films are screened to the townspeople to an audience of about nine hundred people. The films are then circulated to festivals throughout the world. Films from various years have been screened in America, Asia and Europe.
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Dance Festival
Dance festival In 2013 the Cultural Association of Glossa organized the First Festival of Traditional Dances with the guidance of Diamantis Palaiologos, a great dance teacher but also beloved principal of the Glossa High School. Since the response from island's community, friends, families and local and international dancers and folk groups was magnificent, the small ...
Glossa Festival
Glossa Festival Skopelitians love the dance and it is a way for them to express their connection with the island's tradition. Another Dance Festival is organized by the Cultural and Adornational Association of Glossa Village in the middle of July. For two days, Glossa hosts dance groups and dances at traditional rhythms. Dancers with traditional ...
Rembetiko Festival
Rembetiko festival Skopelos has a long history in music field and has breed great artists. The musical identity of the island was formed by "rebetiko", with the rhythms of which many generations have grown on the island and keep this magnificent kind of music alive. Every year, in the middle of July, a two-day festival ...
Skopelian Week
Skopelian Week The Cultural and Folklore Association of Skopelos aim to promote and highlight the local customs, traditions and products of the island and among other summer celebrations organizes the "Skopelian Week". It is a five-day event (during the middle of August), which includes the traditional way of cooking and taste of local products like ...