Cavafy goes to school: Workshop for Educators

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.