Margarita Pita

Margarita Pita is a freelance lawyer/mediator and a social artist based in Αthens. She is a creative multi-hyphenate woman with a strong knowledge backbone in the legal field, a creative brain flourishing in the arts sector and a life-long commitment to physical theatre and martial arts. She is an unrepentant humanist and she believes deeply in the power of dialogue to change the world. She has a deep fascination with people from all walks of lives and she passionately creates opportunities for people to co-exist through participatory arts projects. She has been the creative producer of numerous projects in Greece and Europe spanning community arts, cultural integration, arts programming, research, management and non-profit sector consultancy. She has collaborated with the Goethe-Institut, the Οnassis Foundation, The Old Vic theater, the Kalamata:21-ECoC 2021 candidacy office, the Municipality of Αthens, the Αthens Biennale, Safe Place International, the UrbanDig Project and a number of organizations within the cultural and the non-profit sectors. She is the co-founder of Movement Lab, a safe space for physical theatre laboratory training and movement-based projects against gender-based violence. Her personal projects include ‘Lets' keep in touch’, a library project at the refugee camp of Skaramangas and ‘Daddies don't cry’, a performative research project in London on parental alienation through the eyes of a child of divorce. She is currently working on the translation of the book ‘Free, Fair and Alive: the insurgent power of the commons’ and she is conducting field research about the cultural diversity in the Athenian arts scene.

Margarita Pita is a participant of The School of Infinite Rehearsals of Οnassis AiR 2021-22 and of the Tailor-made Fellowships program 2022-23.