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EU Project “ open here: ConsTRUCKtions –ConNEXTions”
Events Program
Venue:
Conference: Greek Forum of Migrants, Ferron 18, Athens
Exhibition: Cosmos of Culture, multicultural center, Andrea Metaxa 20, Athens
Date:
Conference: Saturday 29/09/2007 from 5-8.30
Exhibition: 29/09/07-13/10/07
Aims:
The events are held as part of the European Project with the title “open here: ConsTRUCKtions –ConNEXTions”, where Cosmos of Culture is a partner. The above events are activities programmed to be held in Greece. More information for the EU Project in the webpage: www.open-here.eu
Description
- Conference with the title : “ Creating in another place”
The participant speakers transfer in the audience their experiences as artists and as human beings. How everyday life, and the problems that accompany it, when residing in a different country from their country of origin, allows or influences their expression as artists. Different origin and translocation as meanings influence their work?
Does the place they have selected (forcibly or not) allows them to continue their work or they have to find a job in order to live?
Program
Registration: 5-5.30
1st panel: 5.30-6.45 “Europe, Common Place for Artistic Creation”
Moderator: Andriana Mardaki, Director of “Cosmos of Culture”
Speakers:
- Anouar Iqbal, Founder Member of the “Greek Forum of Migrants”
- Charles Ofoedu (Austria) writer with Nigerian origin who works and lives in Vienna
- Evangelia Basdekis (Greece) artist who works in several European countries
Presentation of the parallel events that are held in Munich through internet
Questions and Conversation with the audience
Coffee Break: 6.45-7.15
2nd panel: 7.15-8.30 “ Migrant Artist in Greece”
Moderator: Adla Shashati, information officer of “Cosmos of Culture”
Speakers:
Michael Afolanyo, Musician with Nigerian origin
Moiz Salman, Artist from Sudan
End of the conference
- Exhibition with the title: “open here: ConsTRUCKtions –ConNEXTions” community, art and diversity in a common Europe.
Duration of the exhibition: 29/09/2007-13/10/2007
The exhibition relates and reflects the specific project through photographs, video art and performance with the contribution of the Artists who participated in the Project. In specifics:
- Photo exhibition: the photos concern the journey of the truck-mobile museum- through Europe. It is the documentation of the journey.
- Audio Art from Evangelia Basdekis with the title: “Whistling Dogs”
- Video art from Stefanos Pavlakis
- Painting Exhibition from Moiz Salman
The exhibition is accompanied by live music with uti from Nabil, poem recitation from Zikri Al Azabi (Libya) and a multicultural buffet
There is a free entrance for both events.
This project is funded by the European program 'Culture 2000' 
Thursday
20-10-05.
Event on the subject: "Legalization of immigrants: the new
lost chance?"
Antiracist organization SOS Racism, the Greek Department of ENAR
(European Antiracist Network) in collaboration with "Cosmos
of Culture” organize an event on the subject of the new process
of legalization of immigrants, that is attempted. The aim of the
event is for the speakers and the participants to discuss if this
really constitutes a new chance for the immigrants, with criticism
on the relative law but also with presentation on the first results
of the process.
Title: “Today’s discrimination – 15 years
of anti-racist activities”
· The subject of racism today and what is happening
in Greece and the other European countries.
· Immigration and Refugee laws; laws that affect them and what is
happening in practice.
· SOS Racism: Account of 15 years of existence.
In cooperation with the non-governmental association
“SOS Racism” and the European Network Against Racism – ENAR.
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