The Memory of Water

Dates

07.08 — 08.08.2022

Venue

Description

Based on oral history and experiential-biographical material, The Memory of Water foregrounds the value of memory and the importance of its preservation for reasons of historical and cultural cohesion and continuity, bringing out traces of the refugee identity of the island of Lesvos through the eyes of the young generation.

The project consists of two creative parts. The first part is the planning and implementation of an experiential documentary-theatre workshop with the participation of adolescent students of Lesvos, in collaboration with the Model General High School of Mytilene of the University of the Aegean.

The second part includes the creation of a documentary-theatre performance, with the participation of the same teenagers as “experiential performers”, handing over the baton to them so that they can explore, own, and bring to life the stories of their ancestors through experiential research and performance art.

Contributors

Director, Social Anthropologist, Artistic Director of the International Documentary-Theatre Network (planning and implementation of the workshop, direction of the performance): Martha Bouziouri

Assistant to the director, Theatrologist: Paraskevi Lypimenou

Coordinator of educational programmes (workshop coordinator): Maria Makrynikola

Actor, director: Eva Oikonomou-Vamvaka

Theatrologist, dramaturgy consultant: Martha Koskina

Associate professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Specialist in refugee and migration issues (scientific consultant): Giorgos Tsimouris

NPO

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