The school can and should function as a source of joy and creativity. Love, mutual help, solidarity, friendship, involvement with the arts, play, teamwork, when integrated into the daily life of the school, are basic conditions to enable us, teachers and children, to feel joy and satisfaction. Can the school cultivate these skills? The pupils
Entry Category: Artistic Expression and Intervention
Waiting. A project in conversation
This book explores various forms of waiting on a global scale. Combining ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and literature, the work includes contributions from scholars, artists, writers, architects, and curators who analyze how waiting is connected to history, power, social class, and colonialism.
Small Fears
The film is the result of the film animation workshop for the inclusion of refugee and migrant children, which took place at the Refugee and Migrant Facility of Ritsona, in 2022 and was attended by Atena Rezaee, Parwaneh Najafi, Zaynab Najafi, Zahra Heydari, Sezara Jaffari, Fatema Wafai.
“Ritsona’s Children” – Painting Exhibition
The painting exhibition ‘The Ritsona’s Children’ was organized by the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in collaboration with the artists Efi Mouriki and Vladimir Kiriakidis, from 3 to 11 October 2022. The exhibition presented the paintings of teenage girls from the Refugee Accommodation Centre of Ritsona, who through art express their pains, fears and hopes.
The Quarantine Monologues – Refugee youth write during the COVID-19 pandemic
Τhe content of this book is the result of a series of online creative writing workshops, offered to 24 teenage refugees, both boys and girls, across Greece from April to May 2020, within the framework of “The Quarantine Monologues” action. The teenage boys and girls who participated in the action write about their experience during
Face Forward …into my home
This project comprises experiential storytelling workshops where refugees share their personal narratives, alongside an exhibition showcasing participants’ photographic portraits and audio recordings of their stories. It is an interactive art project focused on the stories of people who have been forced to leave their homelands and are rebuilding their life in Greece. The storytelling workshops
Unimaginable Dreams
Written and directed by Marzia Jamili, a Hazara refugee now living in Sweden, Unimaginable Dreams is an auto-ethnographic essay film that traces Marzia’s last days in Athens, Greece. Blending documentary and fiction, Marzia casts her best friends to recreate magically real versions of her dearest memories of Athens as she delivers a cutting address to
“The Journey”: Teenage refugees on the stage of the National Theatre
The National Theatre opens its doors to teenage refugees from five different countries (Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan). For the first time, 20 teenagers, 14 refugees and 6 Greeks, aged 14-19 years, present the performance “The Journey” on the stage of the Rex with the help of professional actors. The play emerged from an
Education through voluntary action: participation of female students in a literacy programme for refugee children using drama pedagogical techniques
During the action “Drama and Literacy”, female students-future kindergarten teachers were trained on Drama techniques and participated in educational interventions with children of refugee origin in the Mosa camp (Volos). The aim of the research was to explore the views of female students towards the use of “alternative” techniques to enhance communication between children and
Μonologues across the Aegean Sea – The journey and dreams of unaccompanied refugee children.
The content of this book is the result of a series of workshops that took place in accommodation centres for unaccompanied refugee children in the cities of Athens and Patras in Greece, from April to July 2016, in the framework of the action “Monologues across the Aegean Sea”. This action is part of the project