The Nightmare of Persephone

Dates

05.07 — 06.07.2023

Venue

Holy Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Exomvourgo, Tinos How to get there

Description

A special two-day event by Kairos Politismou on the island of Tinos, including a visual arts exhibition in the Holy Monastery of the Sacred Heart at Exomvourgo and experiential workshops for children in the Tinos Book Workshop at the Chora of Tinos. The exhibition titled The Nightmare of Persephone – named after Nikos Gatsos and Manos Hadjidakis’ song of the same title – features 22 modern Greek visual artists (many of whom have a close relationship with the island) and their works made especially for it. Sculpture and photography installations as well as performance art events will also be presented in the Monastery’s courtyard.

The experiential workshops titled How are children’s books made and what are the consequences for our environment? explore book as an object. A creative venture through which children will be called upon to answer questions such as: “Have we realised that for every book printed, a tree has been cut down?”

Contributors

Curators:

Christophoros Marinos, Christos Chrysopoulos

With the participation of the artists:

Filippos Vasileiou, Phoebe Giannisi, Giannis Theodoropoulos, Valerios Kaloutsis, Katerina Katsifaraki, Zisis Kotionis, Alexandros Laios, Christina Mitrentse, Margarita Myrogianni, Lefteris Naftis, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Giorgos Palamaris, Nikos Papadopoulos, Anna Papathanasiou, Kostas Pappas, Kostas Roussakis, Kostas Tzimoulis, Petros Touloudis, Leonidas Tsirigkoulis, Maro Fasouli, Zoe Hatzigiannaki, Vangelis Hatzis

Children’s workshops leader:

Periklis Douvitsas

Workshop leaders:

Maya Myriam Papageorgiou (theatre and music educator), Goni Louka (theatre educator, animator), Kostas Markopoulos (illustrator, primary education teacher)

NPO

Kairos Politismou