Contributors

Eleni

Eleni Tsetsekou (Ελένη Τσετσέκου) is the festival's president. She is highly engaged in promoting her birthplace (Mycenae, Greece) sustainable development, civic engagement, and preservation of the cultural and natural heritage, mainly through the initiative of the festival “FichtiArt”.

Eleni founded the festival and since then, through strategic partnerships and diverse events and actions, more than 3000 persons have been engaged and supported Eleni’s vision for her region.

Moreover, Eleni Tsetsekou promotes several artists and transnational events, to reinforce a synergy between France and Greece.

Francisco

Francisco Moretti is the artistic director of the Festival. He works with painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, video art, installation, interior design, graphic design, advertisement.

He has exhibited in 17 solo and more than 40 group exhibitions in Italy, Greece, France, Switzerland, Hungary and Morocco.

His works are in public spaces and private collections in Italy, Morocco, Switzerland and Greece.

Nikos

Nikos Kontos (Νίκος Κοντός) has been for more than 25 years involved in the organization of cultural events in the region of Argolida (Nea Kios). His longstanding engagement in political mobilization and citizens participation in safeguarding the cultural and natural heritage in the region makes Nikos one of the main assets of the Fichtiart Festival

Tamires

Tamires Marinheiro has been engaged in many projects from a very early age. After the graduation in History, Tamires was as a coordinator for educational projects using sailing as a tool to empower youngsters, while creating awareness about the environment. She has years of experience in youth work, both as trainer and group leader, and was responsible for the ecological management of the biggest festival in Albania (UNUM), alongside the youth-focused activities in the region.

Fanny

Fanny Hoertz is from Strasbourg and in the past created and chaired the UnityRI international relations student association in Strasbourg. Committed to social and cultural issues, Fanny is keen to put her organisational and interpersonal skills to good use for this latest edition of the Fichti art festival in Greece.

Nancy

Nancy is a young talented chef from Messolonghi. She is specialized in zero waste cooking, a tactic that can be summarized in the notion of reducing, reuseing and ultimately recycling the minimal surpluses (e.g. through the creation of compost).

Nancy using her incredible talent and skills is responsible for cooking all the delicious food you will enjoy on your dish during our festival.

Domaine Manolakis

In Agios Vasilios Corinthia, just 25 kilometers from the PDO zone of Nemea is the Manolakis domaine, with vineyards located at an altitude of 300m to 450m. The involvement with nature and vines always existed in the family, but Dimitris and Thanasis' love for wine also came to create the desire to produce their own wine.

So starting with a small unit of wine production from organic crops and with a lot of personal work they managed to make ¨the dream...reality¨. The beginning was made with small areas of Rhodite and Agiorgitiko, and over the years Malagouzia, Assyrtiko, Moschofilero, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties were added.

The new additions to the product line are the semi-sparkling Eros and Elxis. Their enchanting bubbles make everyone fall in love with them.

The will to meet the needs of all consumers brought the idea of ¨vegan¨ and so the team of the estate decided that the new M series should also be vegan friendly. So nothing containing products of animal origin is added throughout the winemaking process.

For the domaine, the assurance of the quality of the products was crucial from the start. For this reason, all hygiene and quality assurance rules that are subject to the ISO 22000 standard are used.

The competitions in which it participates are always a great challenge for the domaine. And not without reason as it has been distinguished with gold and silver awards at the MUNDUS VINI and MEDITERRANEAN TASTE AWARDS competitions.

Always with the family as its pillar, the estate team tries to evolve, passing on the knowledge and know-how to the new generation of the family. So they all work together and the little ones learn from the big ones... but also vice versa!!

When love for farming and family becomes

A CHOICE

Domaine Skouras

George Skouras was born in Argos, one of the oldest towns of Europe with a 3,000 years long tradition of wine and culture.

His long-held vision, the creation of Domaine Skouras materialized in 1986. Initially, the small wine-making facility was in Pyrgela, a small village on the outskirts of Argos. The next logical step was the creation of a boutique winery in the Nemea Appellation area, in the village of Gimno.

The region of Nemea and the Argolida highlands is blessed viti-vinicultural land.

Domaine Skouras is located in the Northeastern Peloponnese, in Argolida, close to the provinces of Corinthia and Arcadia, just a few kilometres from Argos, in the village of Malandreni.

The winery is situated within the Nemea zone, the largest and possibly the most exciting Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) for red wines in Greece. Mantinia, another important PDO region for white wines, is in close proximity, while the surrounding areas have excellent terroirs, although not of PDO status. Across all of these locations, Domaine Skouras owns a number of very interesting vineyards.