This theme contains the following working groups:
- RESHAPE: an experiment in collaborative change-making
Coordination: Milica Ilic, coordinator and one of the initiators of RESHAPE (Servia, France, Belgium)
Speakers:
Petr Dlouhy, Artist, Reshaper (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland)
Doreen Toutikian, Founding Director of Beirut Design Week, Co-founder & President of the Board of MENA Design Research Center (Lebanon)
2. Festivals are no islands
Coordination: Inge Ceustermans, General Director at The Festival Academy (Belgium)
Speakers:
Ellada Evangelou, Artistic Director of the Buffer Fringe Festival (Cyprus)
Mety Panagiotopoulou, Artistic programming’s Manager at Giortes Rokkas Festival
Aurélien Zouki, co-artistic director of Hammana Artist House (Lebanon)
3. When artists and citizens become co-creators
Coordination: Henk Keizer, Coordinator of Art in Rural European Areas (Netherlands, Denmark)
Christos Christopoulos, Producer of “Culture 2030 Meeting”
Speakers:
Beforight, Creative lighting group
Thomas Helie, Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at University of Reims (France)
Yolanda Markopoulou, Director
Georgia Mavragani, Director
Marios Spiliopoulos, Visual Artist, Professor at A.S.F.A. (School of Fine Arts)
4. The role and future of Municipal Regional Theaters (DI.PE.THE.)
Coordination: Dio Kagelari, Theatrologist, Assistant Professor at the Theater Department of the School of Fine Arts, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
Speakers:
Thodoris Gonis, Composer – Lyricist
Giannis Paraskevopoulos, Actor – Director
Haris Pehlivanidis, Artistic Director of Ioannina DI.PE.THE., Director, PhD candidate
Kyriaki Spanou, Artistic Director of Thessalian Theatre
5. Artistic practices of differentiation: a historical gaze at the Aeschylia Festival
Coordination: Kelly Diapouli
Curator of the Mystery 56_Culture 2030 Meeting – Artistic Director of Larnaka 2030 European Capital of Culture Candidate City
Speakers:
Sofia Adam, Vice President of the Public Benefit Enterprise of the Municipality of Eleusis (KEDE)
Sofia Laskou,Eleusinian citizen – philologist
Yiannis Moiras, Coordinator of the Aeschylia Festival (1986-2000)
Kalliopi Papageli, Head of the Department of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Western Attica
Giorgos Skianis, Curator of Visual Exhibitions of the Aeschylia Festival (2004-2017)
Sofia Laskou, Citizen of Elefsina
