This session will look back at the experience and legacies of RESHAPE, a transnational project that sought to imagine alternative organizational models for the arts sector, to align them with artistic practices and the evolutions of society. Grounded in the…
A number of cities in the Attica region: Kaisariani, Haidari, Agioi Anargyroi and Eleusis are in the process of renovating large areas and turning them into multi-cultural spaces. Next to them, a Cypriot city, Larnaca, which bids for the title…
This theme includes the following activities: 1. Why Do We Do What We Do? Mission and Values of Cultural Organisations We are not used to reflecting on cultural organisations as “personalities”, as living beings with aspirations and values, that aim…
This theme includes the following working groups: 1. Festivals Are No Islands Festivals don’t happen in a vacuum but are connected to the world and what is going on in it. We are faced with many challenges today, from political…
This theme includes the following working groups: 1. Regional Cultural Policies: The Case of Western Greece What are the challenges that the cultural and creative sector faces in the Greek regions and what particularities do the cultural policy makers have…
This promenade walks on a narration that unfolds the vision, claims and protest of Eleusis’ civil society movements and activist with respect to the environmental problems of the city. It ends up at the much degraded bay of Vlycha, passing…
The Eleusinian fashion designer Nicoletta Pantazi welcomes us at her atelier, in the centre of the city for a lecture performance, which leads to a participatory artistic workshop during which a garment is being created. The relationship between person–body–clothing seeks…
Taking as our starting point the Museum of “Adrachti” (Spindle) Folk Local Association, we are being introduced to the history and traditions of the Arvanites community of Eleusis, meet some of the famous Eleusinians Arvanites and taste wonderful traditional delicacies…
There is a subtle (and important) difference between a memory and a remembrance. Throughout the years, the Eleusinians have chosen those narratives and events that are important to their common identity. The Sixth American Fleet, the poet Angelos Sikelianos, the…
The standing wave looks at the creative and artistic dimension of humans as individuals and as communities and examines how through their engagement with different art forms people go through a process of self-healing. Each and everyone of us hides…
