City Actions Program – 1st International Conference for Gestalt Therapy

5/02 – 1/03 TOPIKOI TROPIKOI

6/03 WALKING TOURS

13/03 – 14/03 THE MARILYN MONROE FILE: CODE ERASE

9/03 ABOLISHING GENDER AND EUGENICS

13/02 – 15/03 CRAVE

13/02 – 15/03 BUTTERFLIES IN THE STOMACH

23/03 – 24/03 THE PLATFORM

4/04 BODY.AUDIENCE

“TOPIKOI TROPIKOI”

5/02 until 1/03

“WALKING TOURS”

6/03

On the sidelines of the 1st International Gestalt Psychotherapy Conference, themed “Gender and Sexuality Today,” which will take place on March 13, 14, and 15, 2026, at the KEDEA premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in Thessaloniki…
The Hellenic Association for Gestalt Therapy (HAGT) invites you to a unique Walking Tour experience in the city, curated and guided by the excellent Evi Karkiti!
The theme of this specific tour will be: “With its marks upon them.”
We will search within the urban fabric for both the tangible and invisible traces left by the lives and works of the poets and prose writers of Thessaloniki, attempting to give meaning to unknown corners that hide great history.
Houses, offices, pharmacies, and bookstores that may no longer exist, squares, churches, apartment building entrances, and places we rush past today, will become stops on a tour seeking aspects of an unknown and literary Thessaloniki.
Along our route, we will look for the convergences and divergences among the city’s writers, their conversations with each other, as well as their dialogue with the trends and currents of their time. This aims to map out a literary landscape from the interwar period to the mid-20th century, from which neither polyphony nor the avant-garde was absent.
At the same time, we will seek out the hidden spots of the city connected to the people and events that shaped the complex identity of Thessaloniki and the adventure of its people through time.
The tour will take place on Friday, March 6, 2026. Participation is free for the public, and the duration will not exceed 2 hours!
The meeting point is set for 17:00 at Agia Sofia Square, outside the main entrance of the church courtyard.
ATTENTION: Spaces are limited, and reservations are required to participate. Please fill out the following participation form: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScsi7ZCjbh…/viewform…
Idea & Implementation: Evi Karkiti, journalist, author, creator, and coordinator of Thessaloniki Walking Tours.
We look forward to seeing you!
https://gestaltconferences.gr/gestalt2026/

“THE MARILYN MONROE FILE: CODE ERASE”

13/03 and 14/03

On the sidelines of the 1st International Gestalt Psychotherapy Conference, themed “Gender and Sexuality Today,” which will take place on March 13, 14, and 15, 2026, at the KEDEA premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in Thessaloniki…
The Hellenic Association for Gestalt Therapy (HAGT) is delighted to welcome the National Theatre of Northern Greece (NTNG) to the “Actions in the City” Program, and invites you to attend the play “The Marilyn Monroe File: Code Erase”, featuring the excellent Alexandra Palaiologou in the title role and Christos Papadimitriou as the narrator.
The play is staged to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the iconic Hollywood legend.
It is a new play about the glamorous star, written by Rodi Stefanidou and directed by Enke Fezollari.
A tribute to a unique personality who “died as she lived: A plaything. Devastated. Naked. With the telephone receiver on the pillow, pills nearby, in an empty house, alone in her room…”
Marilyn Monroe, as a global “sex symbol” and the “ultimate movie star,” continues to capture our attention even today. Rodi Stefanidou’s play attempts to illuminate both known and unknown aspects of Marilyn’s female nature, as it narrates the fragments of her life, balancing between documentary and fiction.
A performance that attempts to penetrate her fragile and fragmented heart, illuminating the “woman” beyond the “image.” A woman who thinks, worries, fears, agonizes, desperately seeks motherhood, battles her inner demons, but above all, seeks to be loved and to love.
For a few more performances, at the ARTBOX FARGANI THEATER, in a co-production with Politeia Politismou.
For more information and tickets, follow the link: https://www.ntng.gr/el/παραστασεις/31/ρεπερτοριο/14311/φακελος-μεριλιν-μονροε-κωδικος-erase
Please note that within the framework of the “Actions in the City” Program, special discount tickets will apply for the performances on Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14, 2026 (ticket price at 12 euros), by using the code “GESTALT2026”, subject to availability, at the NTNG theater box offices!
We look forward to seeing you!
https://gestaltconferences.gr/gestalt2026/

“ABOLISHING GENDER AND EUGENICS”

9/03

On the sidelines of the 1st International Gestalt Psychotherapy Conference, themed “Gender and Sexuality Today,” which will take place on March 13, 14, and 15, 2026, at the KEDEA premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in Thessaloniki…
The Hellenic Association for Gestalt Therapy (HAGT) invites you to the presentation of the book “Abolishing Gender and Eugenics” (Καταργώντας το Φύλο και την Ευγονική), on Monday, March 9, 2026, at 19:00, at Ydro (11 Navarchou Kountouriotou St.).
Antonis Karitzis and Kalliopi Koutousi (Psychologist-Psychotherapist & Gestalt Supervisor) will speak about the book, followed by a discussion with the audience.
Gender has been, and continues to be, the dividing line between Western white (Protestant) humanity and the feminized, “imperfect” kind, promoting capitalist, petro-cultural, and patriarchal relations.
This process leads to the ongoing femicide and feminicide of knowledge, trauma, truth, science, and memory, while simultaneously securing the patriarchal family and the state, aiming at the breeding of an artificial, state-controlled, female womb. In this book, an attempt is made to interpret gender not simply as a classification between the two sexes or as a distinction between the biological and the social, but as a regime of truth.
Furthermore, it examines the forms of resistance that emerge among (Black) women/femininities of the lower classes, as well as the lives, bodies, desires, and truths that exist outside the white gendered and racial spectrum. At the center of the narrative is the need for the abolition, and not just the de-colonization, of gender, of eugenic hetero-sexo-racial patriarchal capitalism, as well as the need for the abolition of the classification of life into a human and a feminized kind. This process requires the abolition of white patriarchal and eugenic science and knowledge itself, along with the established “correct truth.”
Organized by: Akyvernites Politeies
We look forward to seeing you!
https://gestaltconferences.gr/gestalt2026/

“CRAVE”

13/02 until 15/03

On the sidelines of the 1st International Gestalt Psychotherapy Conference, themed “Gender and Sexuality,” which will take place on March 13, 14, and 15, 2026, at the KEDEA premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in Thessaloniki…
The Hellenic Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy (HAGT) is delighted to welcome the National Theatre of Northern Greece (NTNG) to the “Actions in the City” program and invites you to attend the performance “Crave” by Sarah Kane—a profound exploration of the human psyche when confronted with extreme conditions. The play is staged at the Foyer of the Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies, directed and dramaturgically adapted by Christina Chatzivassiliou.
Written just a few months before her suicide, Crave (1998) is Kane’s bold attempt to delve into the depths of her own fears and record them through a palimpsest of dramaturgical motifs and personal confessions.
Four voices complement one another in a distinctive narrative—suspended in time and space—in a text that speaks about the painful pathways through which the mind seeks escape from trauma.
How can one tame a memory that returns again and again?
“Crave remains Kane’s most enigmatic, nihilistic and dark work, in which she longs to be loved and to hold on to something until the very last moment. Minimalist, with a painful, motionless stillness compared to her previous works, and a loneliness that grows sentence by sentence until death appears almost as a balm.” (Christina Chatzivassiliou, Contemporary British Dramaturgy: In-Yer-Face Theatre as a Reading of the Social Topography of the 1990s, Epikentro Publications, Thessaloniki, 2020, p. 298).
*Suitable for audiences aged 16 and above

Content note: The performance touches on issues of mental health and sexual, physical, and self-directed violence.
For more information and tickets, please follow the link: https://www.ntng.gr/el/παραστασεις/31/ρεπερτοριο/3799/λαχταρω
Please note that within the framework of the “Actions in the City” program, special discounted tickets will be available (subject to availability) for the performances on Friday, March 13, Saturday, March 14, and Sunday, March 15, 2026 (ticket price: €7) using the code “GESTALT2026” at the NTNG theatre box offices.
We look forward to welcoming you!
https://gestaltconferences.gr/gestalt2026/

“BUTTERFLIES IN THE STOMACH”

13/03 until 15/03

“THE PLATFORM”

23/03 until 24/03

On the sidelines of the 1st International Gestalt Psychotherapy Conference, themed “Gender and Sexuality,” which will take place on March 13, 14, and 15, 2026, at the KEDEA premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in Thessaloniki…
The Hellenic Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy (HAGT) is delighted to welcome, as part of the program “Actions in the City,” the Avlaia Theatre and the Antirrisis Theatre Company, and invites you to attend the performance “The Platform” by Nikos Nikitoglou, directed by Nikolas Maragkopoulos.
In the world of digital reality, there are more and more people who would like to free themselves from the noise of the internet. They long for the possibility of living in a world unburdened by their digital footprint. This is what the Platform undertakes to do. In a closed space without windows—where nothing can be proven to exist outside of it—everything that hurts, everything excessive, everything that is not “functional,” can be removed. What remains is oblivion. Within oblivion, everyone feels safe. Nothing can touch them. There is no escape. Only repetition. And repetition offers stability.
The play moves along the boundary between scientific dystopia and existential allegory. With elements of dark humor, irony, and the gradual deconstruction of reality, The Platform examines the contemporary need for safety, absence of pain, clarity of identity—and, of course, the price this entails.
The performance does not tell a story of salvation. It raises questions about the right to memory, trauma, choice, and the responsibility of consciousness. When everything can be “fixed,” what does it mean to remain human?
For the performances on Monday, March 23 and Tuesday, March 24, special discounted tickets will be available (€13).
FOR RESERVATIONS, you may send a message via inbox to the Facebook page Etairia Theatrou Antirrisis, writing:
Gestalt2026 – Full Name – Number of seats
You will collect your ticket at the Avlaia Theatre box office half an hour before the performance, which starts at 21:30.
Additionally, please note that on Tuesday, March 31, at 21:30, we will attend the performance, followed by an open discussion with the creators of the play and Liana Daktyla, Gestalt Psychotherapist.
For more information and tickets, follow the link: https://avlaiatheater.gr/
To become a “Friend of HAGT” and stay updated on our upcoming activities, leave your contact details at the bottom of the homepage here: www.hagt.gr
We look forward to welcoming you!
https://gestaltconferences.gr/gestalt2026/

“BODY.AUDIENCE”

4/04

The Hellenic Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy (HAGT), in collaboration with the “Actions in the City” program, invites you to the dance and music performance “Body.Common”, an experiential event that moves at the boundary between performance and ritual.

Description:
In a historic space deeply connected to the body and community—the Byzantine Bath of Ano Poli—“Body.Common” will be presented for one unique performance.
The piece draws inspiration from the hammam as a place of gathering and care. At its core lies the concept of the “porous” body: a body that is open,
breathing, sensing, and connecting. Through breath, voice, movement, and sound, the performers enter a shared process where the personal and the
collective coexist and intertwine.
In direct dialogue with the theme of the conference, the hammam functions as an in-between space—both private and collective—where social norms shift, creating room for a different form of coexistence.

Information:
Location: Byzantine Bath, Ano Poli, Thessaloniki
Date & Time: Saturday, April 4, 2026, at 18:00
Duration: Approximately 40 minutes
Admission: Free (reservation required)
Capacity: Limited number of seats (up to 40–45 people)

Reservations:
Reservations can be made via: https://forms.gle/aaLJeFb9oUogoopr8
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Credits:
Collective creation curated by Vicky Angelidou and Despoina Kouri (movement), Nikoletta Kyfonidou (movement), Vicky Angelidou (movement),
Atlantida Koutsovangeli Maliokapi (voice), Giorgos Kalamakis (oud, voice).
To become a “Friend of HAGT” and stay informed about our upcoming events, please leave your contact details at the bottom of the homepage: www.hagt.gr
We look forward to welcoming you!
https://gestaltconferences.gr/gestalt2026/