As part of HOME RESIDENCY 2026, we invite you at Technourgeio (Psaron 63, Athens) on Friday 28 of August at 20.00 for a first evening full of art!

Kinitiras and Chico’s Productions will share their work:

🏡Screening of the short film “ZONED OUT” by Sofia Maltezaki

🏡Screening of the performance “LIFESTYLE DRUG” by Antigone Gyra, with Ioanna Kampylafka and Stavros Apostolatos

🏡Live performance of the duo “I MADE YOU A MIXTAPE” by Nicole Maltezaki and Vita Vasilionokaitė

🏡 Live performance of the solo piece “DISCO BALL” by Nicole Maltezaki, performed by Orestis Godouni

Admission by free contribution.

We look forward to seeing you!

Information about the residency

In 2026, Kinitiras makes a strong comeback in the field of performing arts residencies in Greece and is teaming up with Chico’s Productions for a week-long creation residency in August, in Athens, Greece. During this week, Nicole and Sophia (Chico’s Production’s CEOs) are literally opening the doors of their home. This multidisciplinary residency aims to connect people across the world and across the art forms. Creators are invited to play and explore within the frame that the idea of “Home” inspires. 

The residency hosts 9 artists in total, providing each of them with the necessary space and tools to create within the span of a week. Four artists from abroad, a choreographer, a fine artist, a photographer, and a writer, will be staying with Sophia and Nicole at their family house. Five artists who live in Athens Greece, three choreographers and three fine artists will be residents from the comfort of their homes. 

Each artist is called to bring their own definition of the word “Home” into their craft, while experiencing first-hand the home of Nicole and Sophia or re-connecting with their own home from a new perspective. Throughout the week, participants will have access to a creative space, as well as the opportunity to receive guidance and engage in meaningful exchanges with professionals from different artistic fields. After 6 days of creation each artist will get a chance to share their work in progress with an audience at Technourgeio, a cultural space in a central deprived neighborhood of Athens.

Chico’s Productions is an entity designed by Nicole and Sophia Maltezaki, two sisters from Greece who have lived in and out of home for a few years now. Nicole is a dancer and actor based in London and Sophia a composer and film maker based in the Netherlands. The essence of home has been more and more present since they’ve been away and their home in Athens is the one they always come back to.  Everything Chico’s Productions has created and is creating has been with the hope of sharing a part of the family, a glimpse of their home with the rest of the world. It only feels right to literally open the doors of their home in the Southern suburbs of Athens for other people and their art. The aim is for the people participating in this residency to be artists from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds as an opportunity to connect and learn from each other.

“Our aim is to ensure that the selected artists feel supported both before and during their stay. We hope to guide them in a way that takes any unnecessary burden off, so their only focus is their artistic practice. Having done the necessary prior preparation to ensure “our home is ready to feel like home” for every resident (such as collecting documents, dietary requirements, accessibility needs), the support that our hosting offers will be in everyday needs, such as breakfasts in the house and transportation by car to the closest metro station each morning and afternoon. What we find most important though, is that our residents feel safe and mentally/creatively supported during their stay”. – Nicole and Sophia