Customary, New Year’s Day is a day for wishes, amendments and of course resolutions. Hopes for a better year after a disastrous series of years where every …year before was proven better than the one that followed. Still, here we are full of wishes, amendments and of course resolutions in front of a year that … More Be heard! Wishes by Thanos Kalamidas
Today was supposed to be the 19th Ovi magazine birthday. ‘Supposed’ because the dark contemporary online reality didn’t let Ovi magazine mature but I’m not sad or bitter and …every dark cloud has a silver lining. Always depends on the way you look at it. The new Ovi I mentioned before, needs to be online … More Was supposed to be Ovi magazine’s birthday
The year of 2016 was a very hard year. Individually, as individual societies, as a collective of societies, globally. A year that brought a lot of pain and insecurity for the future. 2016 also brought a lot of grief. David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Gene Wilder, Muhammad Ali, Ronnie Corbett, Prince, Michael George, Debbie Reynolds and … More Happy New …Old? by Thanos Kalamidas 2017-01-01
Ovi magazine has a number of certain unwritten traditions, which we follow year after year. One of them is the Christmas Day editorial, where we express wishes and hopes. That, as a beginning for what I should write. The last few weeks I have been overwhelmed with mails from all around the world from people … More Traditions and hope by Thanos Kalamidas 2016-12-25
Do you know the phrase: “it feels like it hasn’t gone a day”? Well, when it comes to Ovi Magazine I can count 4,384 of them; more than 4,300 in daily covers and over 18,000 articles. These numbers don’t include personal hours for all of us in the Ovi Team, who voluntarily contribute to what … More 12 years on the borders of history by Thanos Kalamidas 2016-12-20
A couple of weeks ago I dragged out the boxes containing our family’s decorations, which didn’t go unnoticed by my two young daughters. In a heartbeat, they were digging out all the baubles, lights and handicrafts made at playschool over the years when my eldest pulled out a stack of Christmas books. “Can we read … More Happy 12th birthday, Ovi! by Asa Butcher 2016-12-20
David Sparenberg is well known to Ovi readership so any introduction to him or his work will undermine everything he is and everything he has offered and keeps generously offer. In a world full of demands David only offers. This is a revised and expanded version of a book we published with David exactly three … More David Sparenberg’s new book: THE GREEN TROUBADOUR A Source Book of Performance Ecosophy by David Sparenberg 2016-02-28
From the Charlie Hebdo Attack in Paris in the beginning of the year to the Flood disaster in Chennai, India few days ago, 2015 was not a poor year regarding events with international impact. In January it was the traumatic Charlie Hebdo Attack which left all of us mourning under a sign “Je Suis Charlie”. … More United we should stand by Thanos Kalamidas 2016-01-01
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