Athens anti-tagging initiative issues open call for artists

Initiated by Athens Partnership (a non-profit organization founded by the Mayor of Athens, Giorgos Kaminis), a program titled "This is Athens - Polis," aims to clean up the city's historic center by eliminating tags and other vandalism on the city's walls, and at the same time add a new creative touch, for which an open call for artists has been issued.

A similar project carried out by the organization, launched in February 2017 and titled the "Athens Trigono Project," resulted in the cleaning of 8,300 square meters of walls, the creation of 6 new pedestrian streets and seven abandoned buildings being brought back into use; it also included 30 art events.
This time, sponsored by the A.C. Laskaridis Foundation, Beat, Constantine M. Logothetis, Cosmote, Ionian Hotel Enterprises and Lampsa Hellenic Hotels, the organization aims to clean 20.000 square meters of walls, some...