Festival

2nd History Days Festival (Imeres Istorias) at the Mikis Theodorakis Theatre

Five days of talks, screenings and musical storytelling on Crete's and Greece's history. Free, evenings from 19:00, 22-26 Nov.

The History Days festival returns to Chania for a second year around one question: how much of the past is still in our present? From 22 to 26 November the Centre for Culture of Crete and its partners, the Region, the municipalities of Chania, Kandanos-Selino, Platanias and Sfakia and the Cultural Centre of Chania, fill the Mikis Theodorakis Theatre with open dialogues, documentary screenings, exhibitions, book presentations and musical storytelling. This year's threads run from the Cretan fighters of the Macedonian Struggle, the Exodus of Messolonghi and the Arkadi holocaust to the Battle of Crete, the fight in the Kandanos gorge and Operation Niki in Cyprus in 1974, plus the long story of the Parthenon Marbles. Three anniversaries anchor it: 200 years since Messolonghi, 160 since Arkadi and 85 since the Battle of Crete. Evening events start at 19:00 and entry is free; the detailed public programme is due on the festival's Facebook page.