Creative Exchange is a community-driven event hosted by Until Sunday Studio in Syros.
Each session, a guest brings their work into the room and shares the story behind it. Open to working creatives and anyone curious enough to come.
“An exclusive ‘happy hour’ that merges networking and inspiration within a vibrant atmosphere.”
Chiara Aliotta, Until Sunday Founder
Where it happens
Creative Exchange takes place in Hermoupolis, inside the Until Sunday Studio office. Your host is Chiara Aliotta, an Italian designer who has made Syros her home and runs the studio from here.
It is a small room for around thirty people: an evening at human scale, where the speaker and the audience sit in the same circle.
Free to attend, free to speak
Creative Exchange runs on hospitality.
Entry is free for everyone in the room, including the speaker, and the studio lays out the nibbles. There is no ticket and nothing to sell, only an evening together.
The bar next door
Plastico Gallery keeps its bar open during every Creative Exchange.
Drinks are theirs to serve and yours to buy. Take one before we begin, and stay on after the talk for the slower part of the evening, when conversations open up.
Our last Creative GuestPekka Pönkänen
Helsinki, Finland
SATURDAY23 May, 2026 @6pm
Pekka is an Engineering Team Lead from Finland who has spent his career living between engineering and design, precision and feeling, what a product does and how it makes people feel.
He grew up in Finland, where things are built to work. Quietly, reliably, without fuss.
Over the years, working closely with engineers, testers, and product teams, he began noticing something that no spec sheet ever captures: the moment a user loses trust. Not with a crash. Not with an error. But with a hesitation. A detail that felt just slightly off.
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Meet the past Creative Guests
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![Portrait of creative consultant Antonio Aricò, a featured speaker at the Creative Exchange by Until Sunday Studio, standing in a warm, minimalist design space wearing a tan jacket with a bright red collar.]()
Antonio Arico
Calabria, Italy
17.02.2024Antonio Aricò is a creative consultant based in Calabria, Italy. Over the past ten years Antonio, along with his team and family, have developed products and innovative ideas for international companies like Dolce & Gabbana, Seletti and Barilla, private collectors and cultural institutions.
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![Black and white photo of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony at Kanjoan, Kyoto, featured by Until Sunday Studio's Creative Exchange. The close-up captures a tea master using a wooden ladle over a traditional iron kettle next to a ceramic matcha bowl.]()
Tea Ceremony Kanjoan
Kyoto, Japan
30.03.2024Tea Ceremony Kanjoan is a well-known tea house in Kyoto, Japan.
Michael, the master of the tea house, guided us through the fascinating art of the tea ceremony, delving into the fundamental principles known as the 7 Rikyu principles.
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![A fashion design showcase featuring matching apparel from M2Patterns for Until Sunday Studio's Creative Exchange. The photograph captures knit sweaters and shorts patterned with abstract blue graphic shapes.]()
M2Patterns
Athens, Greece
11.05.2024The M2P (metoo patterns) brand forms a field of research, artistic and commercial activity for the graphic design team known as metoo. The first thing the team agreed on was that "it's not just design itself that is important".
The true essence of M2P is repurposing the past to make it future-proof. In recent years, M2P has taken great interest in creating patterns inspired by Greek folk art, and applying them to quotidian objects.
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![An artist holding a paintbrush behind a restored grey wooden chair from Wood Tales, featured by Until Sunday Studio's Creative Exchange.]()
Wood Tales
Athens, Greece
04.12.2024The creative project and workshop, "Wood Tales", was founded by Fotini Noti.
Once an accountant, Fotini is now a creative restorer who believes in the magic of transformation and giving things a second chance, just as she gave herself the opportunity to become an artist and a creative individual.
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![A dramatic close-up photograph of a clenched fist representing the Carob platform, featured by Until Sunday Studio's Creative Exchange.]()
Carob
Chicago, USA
03.04.2025
Christina Stamatoukos is the founder of Carob, a bold platform reimagining how activism, economics, and community power intersect.Christina’s journey spans architecture, refugee support in Athens, and a deep questioning of traditional philanthropy. Carob is her answer: a system built on solidarity, not hierarchy, turning everyday transactions into acts of shared empowerment.
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![A stack of black books titled "i WRITE WHAT YOU WRITE" by Pink House Press, featured by Until Sunday Studio's Creative Exchange.]()
Pink House
Antwerp, Belgium - Hermoupolis, Syros
15.11.2025Pink House (Pink House Press & Pink House Studio) is an artist initiative founded by Ersi Varveri and Gijs Waterschoot, based on the island of Syros, Greece.
Pink House began in 2017 at The Pink House, an artist-run space in Antwerp. In 2020, Ersi and Gijs relocated to Syros to live and work alongside painter and poet Kostas Varveris, Ersi’s father.
The Pink House space functions as a working studio throughout the year and opens to the public a few times annually for exhibitions and gatherings. -
![A grainy black and white fine art photograph by photographer Marina Detsch, featured by Until Sunday Studio's Creative Exchange.]()
Marina Detsch
Brazil - Syros
18.04.2026Marina is a Brazilian photographer based in Syros whose work lives at the threshold between tension and intimacy.
Marina grew up in the Brazilian countryside, and from a very young age, she built an interior world to survive the one outside. That inner space became her shelter, her language, her way of making sense of things that had no easy name.
Today, she photographs herself.
Not for vanity. For voice.
Creative Exchange is open to creatives of every kind.
Join us in person on Syros, or live on Zoom from anywhere in the world!
Here is what we look for in a speaker.
Something real to share.
Work you have made, or a question you are still trying to answer, not theory borrowed from elsewhere.
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A willingness to talk with the room.
This is a circle, not a stage. Expect the conversation to keep going after the talk ends, whether you are sitting in it or beaming in.
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Honesty about how it came together.
Share the doubts and detours, not only the polished outcome. The audience will lean in for the truth, not for a pitch.
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Voices from the room
“I came not knowing what to expect and left having made three real connections. There is no other room like this on the island.”
Eleni
"I spoke about something hard, and I felt understood. The room listened with care, and I left feeling at home in a way I had not expected."
Marina Detsch
“It is the evening of the month I do not want to miss. You leave with your head full of beautiful ideas.”
Laura
Speak at the next
Creative Exchange
The room is open to creatives of every kind: makers, designers, writers, musicians, ceramicists, photographers, people who work with their hands and people who work with code.
If you have built something worth showing, or a question you cannot let go of, the room is yours for an evening. You can join us in person on Syros or join us live on Zoom.
Apply through the form below with a short pitch of what you would like to share.