Open Call: A song about the pandemic

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In a short while, the emergence of the new coronavirus changed all our habits. Restriction orders, ranging from lockdown to the mandatory use of masks, provoke so many diverse reflections and feelings. How these feelings develop during puberty and adolescence? Which are the teenagers’ considerations concerning the Covid-19? How the pandemic has affected their everyday life? How do they imagine their post-Covid life?

At these hard-pandemic times, music proves to have a healing effect. The Onassis Foundation, through this open call, invites teenagers to write down how do they reflect upon, and feel about the current situation. The outcome will inspire a song, which the teenagers will pen along with the Greek urban pop group REC, while during a teleconference the physician Sandy Kolovos will inform the teenagers on important issues regarding the new coronavirus.

Credits

REC music group

Sandy (Kyriaki) Kolovos, Nephrologist & Intensive Care Specialist Nephrology & Kidney Transplant Clinic University of Athens Medical School Laiko General Athens Hospital

Meet the group REC

REC is considered the most popular and successful Greek urban pop group of their generation. Since their creation by Aris Loumakis, in summer of 2010, they have enjoyed many hits and various collaborations.

Core member of the group, Aris Loumakis is their producer and frontman, currently joined by Mike Vassiliadis, Xenia Evven, and Dj Robo.

The REC project, following many awards and distinctions over the years at the Social Media Awards, developed in 2018 their own record label, an IFPI official affiliate.

In 2016, Aris founded the REC Vocal Academy, joined by music partners Mike and Xenia, who serve as the academy’s teachers. The school, addressed to children, currently features about 50 students (taking vocal private lessons), many of them already distinguished singers. Two academy students have entered “The Voice of Greece” TV competition.

Meet Dr Sandy Kolovos

Sandy (Kyriaki) Kolovos is a nephrologist & intensive care specialist, currently working at the Nephrology & Kidney Transplant Clinic, University of Athens Medical School, ‘Laiko’ General Athens Hospital.

She graduated from the Medical School of the GR.T.Popa University, Iasi, Romania, in 2001. Following the degree recognition examinations at the Greek Inter-University Center for the Recognition of Foreign Degrees, that same year, she completed her rural service obligation at the Artificial Kidney Unit and the Intensive Care Unit of the Tripoli Regional Hospital. While waiting for her specialty training, she worked as an unskilled nephrologist and administration manager at the private clinic ‘Galinos’ Artificial Kidney Unit. In 2008, she had completed the two years of prerequisite training in Pathology at ‘KAT’ Hospital, Athens, and for nine months she worked as a non-specialty doctor at UK clinics working on behalf of the NHS, doing morning shifts and on-call time. She received a one-year training at the University Nephrology Clinic of the Ioannina Hospital, and completed her specialty training in Nephrology, in 2013, at the Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Clinic of ‘Laiko’ General Athens Hospital. In 2018, she received the title of Doctor from the University of Athens Medical School, with a grade of “excellence.” Afterwards, she completed her training in Intensive Care at the Intensive Care Unit of ‘Laiko’ Hospital and received the respective specialty title in 2019. Since 2013, she has been working as a skilled nephrologist at the Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Clinic of ‘Laiko’ – even while training at the ICU of the same hospital.

Her doctoral thesis was informed by her research on the pathogenesis of autoimmune kidney diseases. She also participates in seven multicenter clinical trials, phase I & II, as a co-researcher, and for two of them is a coordinator for all medical centers nationwide. She lectures and publishes independently at various conferences and educational events, in Greece and internationally, and takes part at the training program for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University of Athens Medical School.

Her writings have appeared in international journals and Greek collective volumes.

Information

Addressed to: Teenagers, 12 to 17-years-old

A song about the pandemic. Follow all dates

December 2020

Open Call – Applications are running

28 February, 2021: Applications deadline

March 2021: Meet & Greet / First online meeting between the teenagers and REC

Second online meeting between the teenagers and REC, along with the physician Sandy Kolovos, who informs on important issues regarding the new coronavirus.

Third online meeting between the teenagers and REC / Presentation of the lyrics and premiere of the song

April 2021: Production and release of the song

Submit your text and/or image:

https://form.jotform.com/203351555333348

https://www.onassis.org/el/open-calls/open-call-song-about-pandemic