Onassis

8 Athenians discuss: What does it mean to be an active citizen today?

Onassis Channel digital premiere on 12.01.2022 at 12:00 (UTC+2)

02.07.2021

The city and its citizenships are never fixed or finished, but always being reimagined and remade. By shifting focus away from citizenship as defined by the state, Athens becomes a testing ground of ideas, a song of solidarities, an amplifier of demands, an abundance of voices and languages.

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How are different citizenship struggles shared and related? Co-curated with the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum, an international activist movement based in Athens, Onassis Stegi brings together a variety of grassroots organizations engaged in practices of active citizenship. Different knowledges gather from multiple perspectives: community art, refugee-led activism, sex work, Black Studies, asylum law, environmental sustainability, education, and more.

With:

Michael Afolayan, ANASA African Cultural Center
Ayman Alkalaa, Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF)
Keira Dignan, ECHO Mobile Library
Elena Karagianni, Artist-Refugee Education Coordinator of the Greek Ministry of Education at Schisto camp, Founder of the association: Art and Action Network
Vaggelis Manolopoulos, Organization Earth
Chryssa Mela, Khora Asylum Support Team (KAST)
Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou, Victoria Square Project (VSP)

Moderator: Tom Western (UCL and SGYF)
Curation: Tom Western, Pasqua Vorgia
Heads of Production: Pasqua Vorgia, Smaragda Dogani

Filming and audiovisual materials overseen by Christos Sarris
Filming and Editing: ALASKA
Line Production: Evgenia Agkistrioti

An Onassis Stegi production
In collaboration with the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum

With subtitles in Greek and English

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