October 2024 | Invited to talk about feminist presses at the Athens Art Book Fair.

May 4, 2024 | Invited to participate in the reading series “a poetics” at Haus am Wadsee in Berlin along with Ed Luker. The series is curated by Beatrice Hilke and Vera Lutz.

“In her reading ‘The New Present Tense,’ Dimitra Ioannou will compile a poetic assemblage comprising poems that respond to contemporary political and economic issues, contemplating language as a tool of propaganda, and suggesting ways of healing and resistance.”

February-March 2024 | Residency at Work in Progress Studios, Athens.

January 18, 2023 : I won’t be at the reading: A Brooklyn Rail Reading Curated by Tony Iantosca. Featuring Iantosca with Natalee Cruz, Dimitra Ioannou, and Lisa Rogal

https://brooklynrail.org/event/2023/01/18/wednesday-poetry-reading-118-curated-by-tony-iantosca/

Nov. 17, 2020 | Presentation of Electric Sarcasm and discussion about the other pamphlets printed in the series. Montez Press Radio https://radio.montezpress.com

September 7, 2019 | Athens Art Book Fair: Read my poem essay for two voices with the artist Nana Sachini. It is about the New narratives for the Now, zophos (which means melancholy, the dark side of the horizon), poetic deviance and good omens.

May 17–19, 2019 | Aphrodite* festival: I gave a talk on Somatic Poetry during the workshop “Queer(s´) Talk(s) Translating, transwriting, transreading” which was organized by artists Anna T. and Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis.

April 17, 2019 I Athens Municipality Center: Co-hosted with Theo Chiotis a reading night as part of the exhibition Voyage Around My Room curated by Kika Kyriakakou. “The exhibition embarks from Virginia Woolf s legendary essay “A room of one s own” and its relevance to newly introduced sociological and political concepts like digital feminism and the #metoo movement.” Poets, performers, writers, and artists (Anna Lascari, Jeane Graff, Antonis Katsouris, Mochi, Maria Dolores, among others) performed either their own works which are also featured in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, or works by others (Nat Raha, So Mayer). I read my poem MY DOPPELGÄNGER, which is published in the catalogue.

January 19, 2019: I participated at the poetry slam/spoken-word event which was organized by Queer Ink Lab in Athens | Queer Ink Presents: Ποίηση ΜΕΤΑ

June 15, 2017 | Radio Athènes: I recorded the poems Untitled & Centuries Are Far From Definitive Texts both in English and Greek for All: Collected Voices which was produced by the Goethe-Institut Athen as part of ‘apropos documenta’, in collaboration with Radio Athènes. Curated by Helena Papadopoulos and Thomas Boutoux.

May 4, 2017 | AMOQA (Athens Museum of Queer Arts): I gave a talk on Feminism and Experimental Writing invited by Queer Ink Lab | QueerInkLab: Φεμινισμός και Πειραματική Γραφή

December 19, 2015 | State of Concept: I participated in the poetry reading “Athenian Nights,” a row all-night event organized by Βarbara Polla, Maro Michalakakos, and Ellie Paxinou. | http://stateofconcept.org/event/athenian-nights/