Wednesday, October 29, 2025
15:00–18:00 Opening of the festival.
Seminar on Wild Seed Collection at the Patoinos Estate in Groikos.
Free transportation provided by the Patmos community bus.

Thursday, October 30, 2025
08:30–16:30 Seed ball production and sowing on Koumas Hill, tree planting, school seminars, and area cleanup at Koumas.

Friday, October 31, 2025
08:30–16:30 Seed ball production and sowing on Koumas Hill, tree planting, school seminars, and a special workshop on seed ball techniques by Nikos Tsompanoglou.
18:30 Spyros Geravelis, agronomist, Head of the Department of Environment and Urban Greenery of the Municipality of Rhodes.
Lecture topic: Our Disconnection from Nature and Our Collective Neurosis
19:30 Sabrina Dalla Vale, eco-poet and professor of philosophy.
Lecture topic: Ecopoietics: The Continuum of the Human Environment

Saturday, November 1, 2025
09:00–10:00 Forest of the Apocalypse: Fieldwork Practice session with Sabrina Dalla Vale, applying the concepts from her lecture on ecopoetics.
Participation registration will take place the day before, after her presentation.
10:30–11:30 Forest of the Apocalypse: Experiential practice session following Spyros Geravelis’ presentation.
Registration the day before, after the talk. Maximum participants: 10.
12:00–16:30 Seed ball production and sowing on Koumas Hill, tree planting, general maintenance work.
18:30 Tribute to Ioannis Nikolaou, co-founder of the Community of Trees: A presentation on his life and work, with screenings of excerpts from his films and documentaries.
20:00 Tribute to photographer Sebastião Salgado – screening of The Salt of the Earth.

Sunday, November 2, 2025
09:30 5 km running race : Skala Square – Koumas (via main road) – Skala Square (via Meloi).
10:30–17:00 Treasure Hunt all around Patmos!

Monday, November 3, 2025
12:00–16:00 Completion of works at Koumas, irrigation system inspection.
20:00 Patmion Cultural Center: Screening of a film by Giannis Nikolaou.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
17:00–18:30 Pernéra Vegan Restaurant Garden, Skala:
Workshop on Ecological Mediterranean Cooking – “Blue Zones”
19:00–22:00 Closing Ceremony & Celebration Dinner marking the conclusion of the 4th Patmos Ecology Festival.
(Please confirm your participation early so we can prepare the right quantities of food.)

Throughout the Festival

A photography exhibition will be held at Patmion featuring works by Pavlos Nastas, Eva Tsagkaraki, and Emily Mesko, with nature-themed photographs primarily from Patmos.

Participation in all events of the Patmos Ecology Festival is, as always, free of charge.

For more information, follow Community of Trees – Κοινωνία των Δέντρων on Facebook and Instagram, or visit our website: trees.life

The action is implemented with the support of [Foundation] within the framework of the “Points of Support” program, co-funded by the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, the TIMA Charitable Foundation, the Captain Vassilis & Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation, the Costas M. Lemos Foundation, The Hellenic Initiative Canada, the Athina I. Martinos Foundation, the Helidoni Foundation, and the Bodossaki Foundation.