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Paintelling: Travelling with the Symbols and Myths of Rigas’ Charta - 2021

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Online

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday
Time
10:30-12:00
Venue
Online

Information

Participation

Participation is free following online registration

Schools: To participate, please submit an application of interest

Parents: To participate, please submit an application of interest

More information:

210 3713000 & education@onassis.org

Hours

10:30-12:00

Addressed to

Students of Grade 3, 4, 5 and 6 of primary school and teachers

Venue

Through online platform

Rigas’ Charta becomes the starting point of a fun game of riddles, deciphering, painting, and history. Attending the program, you will have the opportunity to discover the secrets of a map created for the outbreak of the 1821 revolution.

Rigas Velestinlis, who wrote the martial hymn “Thourios” and prepared the Greeks for the 1821 Revolution, cleverly managed to “hide” his dream for an independent Greece in a map. Taking as their starting point a copy of the Charta of Greece found at the Onassis Library, students will solve riddles and decipher the messages that Rigas wished to give to the Greeks under Ottoman rule.

Get ready to journey through the map, following a route full of unknown stories about coins, ancient monuments, historic battles, mythical heroes, kings and philosophers. Drawing inspiration from them, you will then create your own meaningful symbols.

Photo: Nikos Katsaros

Credits

  • Author, Illustrator

    Lida Varvarousi

  • PhD in History of Cartography, Cartographic Heritage Archives, General State Archives, Historical Archives of Macedonia

    Maria Pazarli

  • Historian of Science and Technology, Onassis Library Coordinator

    Vicky Gerontopoulou

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