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Cavafy goes to school: Workshop for Educators

Dates

Prices

15 €

Location

Onassis Library

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Saturday-Sunday
Time
10:00 - 15:00
Venue
Onassis Library (Amalias 56)

Information

Addressed to

Educators in secondary education

Date and time

Saturday and Sunday, 25-26 April 2020, 10:00 - 15:00

Cost

15 € (for both meetings)

Application and selection process: Applications should be submitted to education@onassis.org by 6 March, 2020. Interested parties should send a c.v. as well as a brief cover letter stating the reason for their interest in the workshop, how they plan on incorporating what they learn into their pedagogy, any previous experience in educational workshops, and how they applied what they learned there when back in school.

For the educator who hopes to expand students’ learning experience, who seeks new approaches to Cavafy’s poetry. For that educator, “Cavafy goes to school.”

Suspended due to safety measures

Each time “Cavafy goes to school,” a new educational experience begins, one that is open to new practices. This program designed for educators is being offered for the second year in a row. It grows out of the program “Cavafy goes to school,” operating since 2013 in schools in Attica and other regions, which uses multi-media and experimental approaches to familiarize middle- and high-school students with Cavafy’s poetry and with the archival treasures in the Cavafy Archive collection.

In this workshop for educators, a series of presentations and seminars introduce various thematic units: from visual and photographic depictions of Cavafy’s poetry to the interpretive choices that shape songs based on Cavafy’s poems, and from the creative ways the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive can be used in educational settings, to the many possible interpretive approaches to Cavafy’s poems.

Over the course of two days, the Cavafy Archive’s digital collection is opened to this same educational process, as creative means and methods bring both poet and class to life.

Photo @ Christos Sarris

Credits

  • Philologist, Ph.D. at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA)

    Marili Douzina

  • Associate Professor in the Department of Musical Studies, Ionian University

    Panos Vlagkopoulos

  • Assistant Professor of Art Theory and Criticism, Theory and History of Art Department, Athens School of Fine Arts

    Kostas Ioannides

  • Michalis Chryssanthopoulos

    Professor Of General And Comparative Literature At The Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki

  • Illustrator

    Alexia Othonaiou

  • Poet

    Danae Sioziou

Oversight of this year’s program

  • Professor of Communications and Mass Media, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA)

    Elli Filokyprou

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