dROP 'N' GONE
MICRO PUBLIC SPACE RECLAMATION
27.06.25
BE EARLY STARTS AT 21.00
PL. TASSOU VOURNA
PUBLIC SPACE IS BEING ENCLOSED
Parks, squares, and entire neighborhoods are reshaped to serve the needs of investors, businessmen, and tourists. Spaces that once nurtured communal life are now privatized, commodified, or pacified through hyper-policing, surveillance infrastructure, and hostile architectural design. What was once lived is now consumed – reduced to a backdrop for profit-making, branding, and staged urban “experiences.”
Athens has undergone a violent transformation under the guise of “development,” “revitalization,” and “urban innovation.” But beneath the surface of this narrative lies a coordinated assault on the right to the city – an aggressive restructuring of urban life driven by real estate speculation, mass tourism, state repression, and the monetization of every square meter of social fabric.
GENTRIFICATION IS ENGINEERED
The state facilitates this displacement through targeted policies, selective permits, zoning changes, and deliberate inaction – allowing rents to skyrocket while long-standing residents are expelled.
Parallel to this, a domestic class of small landlords and speculative actors – often locals – actively fuel this machinery, transforming entire buildings into short-term rentals. Under the banner of the so-called “sharing economy,” a shadow housing market has emerged – unregulated, extractive, and violent. The result is a city increasingly uninhabitable for its own people, where stability is replaced by precarity and belonging is replaced by transaction.
REPRESSION INTENSIFIES
Police forces saturate public space under the pretext of “safety” and “cleanliness.” Migrants, youth, the poor, and dissenting bodies are systematically targeted. Autonomous spaces are raided, squats are evicted, walls are bleached of memory, and surveillance becomes permanent. What emerges is not safety – but control. A city without contradiction, without memory, without resistance. Even the most basic expression of public life – a live music event, a gathering, a celebration – is nearly impossible unless curated, permitted, and branded by cultural institutions with the power to take over entire districts. The informal is criminalized. The uninvited are erased.
MICRO RECLAMATION SESSIONS
We affirm the right to live, dwell, and struggle – not as consumers, investors, or data points, but as persons with histories, desires, and futures. Reclaiming public space means refusing its marketization in every form: resisting displacement, the transformation of neighborhoods into branded zones of consumption, and the aesthetic and economic violence of touristification. Spontaneous interventions – like small hit-and-run music gatherings – carve temporary cracks in the logic of control. These actions reclaim visibility, sound, time, and relation. They rehearse a city where the street returns to its rightful use: encounter, risk, collectivity, dissent, care, and play.
BACK THE CAUSE
All proceeds will go to Sector 93, a DIY space that supports underground culture, free expression, and self-organization. By joining and supporting this event, you’re helping keep alive a space made by and for the community — with no sponsors, no bosses, and no commercial control.
To ensure that all individuals who interact with us feel safe and comfortable, we operate under a no-tolerance policy against any form of discrimination, including but not limited to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism.
If you experience discomfort or come across any behavior that is reproachable, please contact an organizer as promptly as possible.
DJSETS
ΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΟ
APOSTOLO
3 v 4