Main Stage performance act | TEDxAthens 2024 | X Machina Εva Theotokatou was born in Athens and has studied Finance, Art History, Piano and Advanced Music Theory. She started her career in Radio as a sound engineer and then as a Radio producer. In the past 26 years she has worked in the most established Radio stations (Kiss Fm, Athens DeeJay, Best, Nrg, Off radio, en Lefko 88,7). At the same time, she expressed her love for music through a daily TV music show on Mad TV, which lasted for 10 years. She developed herself as a radio producer and TV presenter by focusing on interviews and on identifying and presenting creative individuals and music bands through the Radio project 525 Live Sessions on En Lefko 88,7 but also through her TV shows Selfie on ERT2 and Mastoremata on Skai. She has also worked onMusic supervision for to shows and theatre productions; she has produced jingles and music which has been released in record labels in the UK. If you are not familiar with her work on the Radio or TV, then you most definitely have listened to her DJ sets in one of the plethora of night clubs and cultural events she has been invited. She had always been selective with main criteria being the music quality and artistic taste of the venues/events. Nowadays you can catch her daily at 20:00-23:00 on En Lefko 87,7, part of the frontstage radio corporation.Yannis Efthymiadis was born in Piraeus in 1969. He studied Classical Philology (University of Athens, Department of Classical Philology, 1991) and completed postgraduate studies in ancient Greek drama. He has published nine poetry collections (Stigma, private edition 2004; Kainos Diaritis, Nefeli 2007; Letters to the Prince, Mikri Arktos 2010; 27 or The Man Who Falls, Mikri Arktos 2012; On Your Body, Mikri Arktos 2014; Patreida, Ikaros 2018; Alkinos, Nefeli 2021; The Familiar Darkness, Nefeli 2022; Homo Erectus, Nefeli 2024), two plays (Achilles in Hades, Nefeli 2022 and Oidikasti, Nefeli 2023), and one literary essay (12 Texts in Dialogue with The Monogram of Odysseas Elytis, Kaligrafos 2014). He has translated works by English and American poets. His poems have been included in Greek and foreign anthologies and translated into English, French, German, Italian, and Arabic. Additionally, the poetry cycles The Crystal of the World (Metronomos 2016) and Alkinos (Metronomos 2021) have been set to music and recorded. He works as an educator, has published philological books for secondary education, and collaborates with literary magazines, both print and online. From 2015 to 2020, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (in the first engraving workshop under Professor Giannis Gourzis). He has presented his printmaking works in two solo exhibitions and participated in nine group exhibitions. His artistic focus is on lithography and watercolor. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx