Piraeus - Athens

Installation and Printing workshops by Katerina Stefanidaki and Zafos Xagoraris. Outdoor, printing workshops at the Piraeus port, with the use of magnetic surfaces and the participation of school students and other visitors

“Open Mediation Tours at Art Explora in Piraeus” by Scola Society is a collaboration with EMST and a continuation of the action that is taking place in 2025 within the Museum. It proposes the research, outreach and implementation of mediation tours by a team of three people. The intercultural mediators from Iran, Egypt and China, will guide audiences from their respective communities in their native languages, thus Farsi, Arabic and Mandarin, through the method of situated mediation.

The sounds, images, and flavors of the Cyclades islands unite in a sensory journey celebrating the maritime cultures of the southern Aegean Sea today. Evoking the spirit of the traditional wooden boats that have connected the region for centuries, a radio broadcast of folk music and coastal soundscapes accompanies the screening of historical films tracing maritime life across ten Cycladic islands. Gathered around a communal table, ingredients from the land and sea mingle in homage to the region's culinary heritage.

In 2019, no fewer than 13,785 Greek caiques were In 2019, as many as 13.785 Greek caiques were scrapped and lost from the Mediterranean Sea. Seeking to combat overfishing and protect fish stocks, the EU program for subsidising the destruction of traditional fishing boats was introduced in 1991. The directive funded decommissioning of fishing vessels and returning fishing licences; in 2014, scrapping of caiques was also introduced.

*Verse from “Axion Esti” by the Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseas Elytis. The Odyssey meets the musical tradition of the islands. In the universal history of the written word, the Homeric epic has always been a constant point of reference. There is no author or poet of major or even minor importance who has not been inspired or influenced by the rhapsode's work. Many other stories have fallen into oblivion, many adventures sunk. But the Homeric epic has not ceased to be sung in antiquity, in Byzantine times, right up to recent times. These sung verses express the gradual path to virtue, the thread that connects each man with his soul and then with the divine.

As part of the annual “Read Aloud” campaign of the online magazine “Kokkini Alepou”, Zoe Koskinidou reads The Secret of Parents by Nicolas Mathieu, illustrated by Pierre – Henry Gomont and translated by Katerina Schina.