akin

In parallel to the exhibition Akin, TAVROS is initiating a public programme with a series of film screenings, guided tours of the exhibitions and panels.

Schedule

Saturday 4 November, 12:00 Guided exhibition tour in Greek with Manto Psarelli

Saturday 11 November, 12:00 Guided exhibition tour in Arabic with Nardine Meshreky in collaboration with the organisation Melissa Network

Wednesday 22 November, 20:30 Film screening Digger, dir. Georgis Grigorakis, 2020, 101 min. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Maria Kadoglou, who is involved in the movement against the extraction of gold in Chalkidiki and is a member of the Hellenic Mining Watch

Saturday 25 November, 12:00 Guided exhibition tour in Greek with Eirini Fountedaki and in Greek sign language with liminal

Wednesday 29 November, 20:30 Film screening Infractions, dir. Rachel O’Reilly, 2019, 60 minutes. The film will be introduced by Fotini Tsibiridou (Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies University of Macedonia, Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB) and Iris Lykourioti (Architect, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly – A Whale’s Architects) who will also lead a post-screening discussion around the film’s themes

Thursday 7 December, 20:00 In collaboration with Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, there will be an open conversation around the themes emerging from the exhibition Akin

Saturday 9 December, 12:00 Guided exhibition tour in Greek with Maria-Thalia Carras

Saturday 16 December, 12:00 Guided exhibition tour in Albanian with Pati Vardhami

INFRACTIONS, 2019, 1:03:00, HD video, split screen with text, Dolby 5.1 Settlers fishing on Gooreng Gooreng country, Yallarm (Gladstone harbour, where large scale gas infrastructure was first approved for onshore CSG in 2008). Voiceover, Professor Irene Watson: “As Western Europeans you are so long in your disconnection from your own stories or laws of the land…At the critical time that we are now, globally, with climate change and the destruction of local ecosystems, when we think about what we have, to hold on to the future, to care for country, we have a Western European legal system that has no concept of those responsibilities.”