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2025

Venue: Mikri Skini

Performers: Ortak Toprak

Eastern Medditerannean music

9.58 fm ERT3
Interview and live concert with Ortak Toprak
Program: Eastern Mediterranean music

Vocal Performance

Festival: Ano Polis World Music Festival, Thessaloniki
Performers: Ortak Toprak
Vocal Performance

Kalyva Festival – Olympus Mountain
Performers: Thymios Atzakas, Periklis Vrahnos, Valasia Dodulu
Experimental performance mixed with vinyl set

Animated music video: Little Tree
Music: Christos Psaromiligkos
Performer: Nikos Stratakis
Direction & Animation

From the Silence of the Sea

Animated visuals

2019-2015

Film: The land out of tune (animation short, 2019)
Direction, Animation & Music

Festival: Alhambra Festival, Granada, Spain(2018)
Performers: Jeronimo Maya (flamenco guitar), David Heredia (flamenco guitar), Valasia Dodulu (vocal performance)

Contemporary flamenco concert

Venue: Duende Jazz bar (2017)

Performers: Caja Secreta, Valasia Dodulu

Nuevo Flamenco

Performance: Musical Performance – Mindful Listening – Interactions (2016)
Venue: Teloglion Foundation of Arts, Thessaloniki
Department of Musicology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Instructor: N. Zafranas

Performance: Artistic Crossroads
5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

Award: Award – Future Library
For innovative visual and musical projects with children at the Municipal Library of Thermi

2014

​Animated film: The Water of the Sun
Platform: GNO TV (Greek National Opera, online)
Direction, Animation​​, Vocals

Selected Artist -“REVIVE” Cultural Program

Municipality of Neapoli-Sykies, Thessaloniki, Greece

Sculpture Project

2024

Festival: Balkanik Festival, Bucharest
Performers: Rumeliko
Greek & Turkish traditional songs

Venue: Green Hours, Bucharest
Performers: Valasia Dodulu Trio
Rebetiko & traditional Greek/Turkish songs

Animated music video: Dawn
Music: Manolis Christodoulou
Direction, Animation & Visual Concept

Festivals:
CINERGO International Film Festival (2025)
ICONA Animation Festival (2024)

First-Time Filmmaker Sessions Vol. 10 (2024)
Chania Film Festival (2024)
Chaniartoon International Comic & Animation Festival (2024)
ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival (2024)
Nazra Palestine Short Film Festival (2024)
Kuala Lumpur International Film Awards (2025)

Member of the Organizing Committee:
National Conference “Reflections on Childhood”, Thessaloniki
Music and visual art activities

Group exhibition: Stone engraving, tribute to Vasso Katraki
Venue: Teloglion Foundation of Arts, Thessaloniki

Sculpture Symposium: Marble works
Venue: Myro Antiques House, Agios Antonios

International group exhibition: Marble sculpture
Venue: Myro Gallery, Thessaloniki

2013

Initiative: Clay sculpture workshop with the School for the Blind, Thessaloniki

Guest artist: Marble international sculpture exhibition, Myro Gallery, Thessaloniki

Lectures at the Dept. of Early Childhood Education, AUTh: “The Child Within Me”. Four sculpture & drawing classes with students of the Dept. of Early Childhood Education, AUTh

Participation: Vocal ensemble performance, Thessaloniki Concert Hall
Tribute to Vasilis Tsitsanis with Yiannis Parios

2012 - 2008

2023

Film: Amaro Drom (animated music video)
Direction, Animation & Music

Festivals (selected):
ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival
Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People
First-Time Filmmaker Sessions
Animation Day in Cannes
Animart Festival
Balkan Film and Food Festival
SWIFF Film Festival (Finalist)
AniMate Australia Animation Film Festival (Semi-Finalist)
New York Animation Film Awards (Semi-Finalist)
RAM Film Festival – Rovereto
ICONA Festival (1st Place & Audience Award)
Best International Film Festival – Bucharest (Honorable Mention)
TAF Festival
Video Art Miden
Annecy MIFA Market (ASIFA Hellas Pavilion)

Greece International Film Festival (Best Music Video)
MONSTRA – Lisbon Animated Film Festival
Comicdom Athens
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
UFFS
PBISFF

Awards:
1st Place & Audience Award – ICONA Festival
Best Music Video – Greece International Film Festival
Honorable Mention – Best International Film Festival, Bucharest

Venue: 4th Meeting of Young Traditional Music Groups
Technopolis, Athens
Performer: Valasia Dodulu with Synbanda Orchestra
Piece: Amaro Drom (composition)

Solo exhibition: Humanscapes
Venue: Cycladia, Naxos
Medium: Sculpture, drawing, video installation

Performer: 30th ISME World Conference - 2012 (International Society of Music Education)
Venue: Thessaloniki Concert Hall

2010–2013: Four first prizes in interschool painting competitions

2008: 1st World Prize – 4th Children’s Biennale Painting Competition

2022-2021

Film: The Fisherman (animation short)
Direction & Animation

Festivals (selected):
ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival (2022)
ICONA Festival (2022)
Chaniartoon International Comic & Animation Festival (2022)
Balkan Film and Food Festival (2022)
TAF Thessaloniki Animation Festival (2022)
Athens Digital Arts Festival (2022)

Venue: Hola Flamenco Festival, Athens
Performer: Valasia Dodulu & Giota Peklari (choreography)

Animated music video: Funeral of Ego
Direction & Animation

Festivals (selected):
ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival (2022)
TAF Thessaloniki Animation Festival (2022)
ICONA Festival (2022)
Balkan Film and Food Festival (2022)

Performance: Invisible Citizens (2021)
Project: Urban Spaces, Thessaloniki
Site-specific performance in public space

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