We would like to inform you that in the next 2 days (Friday 30 and Saturday 31 July 2021) we will be ELOUNDA to talk about the program “Crete, Oral History”.
All this at the invitation of the Library “Manolis Fountoulakis” which completes this year 10 years of operation and celebrates with actions for the community, in collaboration with the Cultural Society of Crete.
The program of the two-day event:
Friday, July 30, 2021, 8:00 pm old school of Epano Elounda
· Presentation of the Cultural Society of Crete and its actions
· Presentation of the program “Crete, Oral History” and discussion on Oral History
· Screening of the film “Marika… why should you be afraid” directed by Matthaios Frantzeskakis and excerpts from unscrupulous material from recordings of oral narratives.
Saturday 31 October 2021 , 9:00am – 9:00 pm
· Recordings of stories of residents of Elounda
If the road takes you off we will be glad to see you up close!
- Matthaios Frantzeskakis, founding member of the Cultural Society of Crete, Director of the Chania Film Festival, Coordinator of the program “Crete, Oral History”
- Chara Andreadou, historian-educator, scientific collaborator of the Chania Film Festival, Coordinator of the program “VOICES – oral history in the foreground”.
Elounda, Oral History
The Library “Manolis Fountoulakis” completes this year 10 years of operation and celebrates with actions for the community, in collaboration with the Cultural Society of Crete.
The Cultural Society of Crete was founded in 2002 with the aim of cultivating and promoting cultural, educational, informative, artistic and related publishing activities. Since its establishment, it has developed actions focusing on cinema, education, agrotourism, the Cretan diet, local history and sustainable development. The monthly newspaper and the publications “Compass of the City”, the action “Villages with Lights Open”, the Chania Film Festival and its educational programs, the documentary film productions, the research activity “Images from Lost Professions”, are among others interventions-institutions for Crete and beyond.
The program “Voices – Oral History in the Foreground” of the action “Crete, Oral History/ Crete
Oral
History
» of the Cultural Society of Crete, with the collaboration of the production team of the Chania Film Festival, travels to Elounda and offers to the local community, in collaboration with local institutions, collectives and natural persons, the environment for recording and saving the memory of the people of the place and their stories, as well as their promotion through the use of a variety of audiovisual media.
The educational-educational program “VOICES – oral history in the foreground” focuses on the exploitation of oral history and documentary as an environment for recording and highlighting the stories brought by the community and proposes local synergies of research and promotion. Thus, Oral History emerges as an opportunity to strengthen the relations of citizens / residents, of all ages, with their local history and cultural heritage and to understand their collectives, their multiple identities, the past and the present that unites them.
On Friday 30/07/2021, at 8 p.m., at the old school of Epano Elounda, we will talk about the stories of the place we need to hear and rescue and the ways of organizing an archive of oral narratives about the place and its people.
Within the framework of the meeting, the new production of the Festival will be screened, the short film “Marika… why should you be afraid”, which already participates in 6 international festivals and excerpts from unedited material from recordings of oral narratives on the occasion of the themes of the Action “Crete, Oral History/ Crete Oral History“.
Also, publications of the Cultural Society of Crete – “Compass of the city” will be exhibited in the area. Reservation of a seat is required at tel.: 6978530384
The Saturday 31/7/2021, 9.00 a.m. – 13.00 p.m., at the Community Store of Elounda, will take place 4 hours a day Oral history workshop. The workshop will focus on general principles and procedures receiving an oral testimony, its function as an element of intangible cultural heritage, in basic principles of creation digital thematic repository of oral testimonies and other sources related to them and the possibility of using them for the creation of a thematic, anthropocentric Documentary.
Registrations at tel.: 6978530384
The Saturday 31/7/2021, after 5.00 p.m. and Sunday 1/8/2021, from 9.00 a.m. Interviews and audio-visual recordings of stories by local residents will be organized by appointment on the subject of:
Memories of Elounda of the last century, Spinalonga-School life-Alykes-Akonies-Weavers
. Expression of interest in storytelling at tel.: 6974792688
The actions will be coordinated by members of the educational program team of the Chania Film Festival:
- Matthaios Frantzeskakis, founding member of the Cultural Society of Crete, Director of the Chania Film Festival.
- Chara Andreadou, historian-educator, scientific collaborator of the Chania Film Festival, Coordinator of the program “VOICES – oral history in the foreground”.
- Kostas Kosmadakis, sound/filming/editing curator, Coordinator of the Creative Team of the Chania Film Festival.
During the implementation of the actions, all the protection measures provided for the non-spread of covid19 will be observed.
Elounda , July 2021
The President and the Members of the CW
of the Non-Profit Library “Manolis Fountoulakis”
