On Friday, June 14, an occasion entitled “Iris: what about tomorrow?» and the problem of the way forward for the historic corridor and the presence of the Pupil Cultural Membership of the College of Athens (P.O.F.A.A.) in it.
Within the occasion coordinated by the movie editor Alexandros Papageorgiou, artists, teachers and other people of tradition mentioned, primarily based on the historical past of Iris and the scholar cultural teams which were lively there for many years, across the significance of tradition within the public college, creative schooling and the provide of P.O.F.P.A. within the scholar group and the cultural lifetime of town.
The occasion started with the studying, by members of the Cultural Membership, of a textual content associated to the historical past of the area and the cultural teams, in addition to the current, worrying developments that pose the continued presence of scholars within the historic cinema and the areas of the College Membership unsure.
It’s concerning the current notification to the scholars of an excerpt of the minutes of the assembly of the Pupil Welfare Committee, through which it’s said that the E.Okay.P.A. it should make the premises out there to exterior our bodies as properly, so as to generate earnings for the College.
This choice was adopted by the leasing of the Irida area, at a time scheduled by P.O.F.A.P.A. occasion, so as to maintain a trend occasion inside the Athens Style Week.
In response to a query from the coordinator, the scholars of the Cultural Membership referred to the chance of cancellation of the occasion, which arose on the finish of the earlier week, regardless that it had been introduced to the press and the College Administration.
The Group was invited by the Workplace of Cultural Actions of the Directorate of Pupil Affairs to now submit requests for the approval of occasions that it needs to carry in its premises. This, on the premise of a current choice of the Board of Administration which defines the formation of committees, which can look at the submitted requests to carry occasions on the premises of the EKPA.
The members of P.O.F.A.P.A. expressed their concern concerning the roads that such selections could result in, which result in the restriction of freedom of expression within the College premises.
Afterwards, dialogue and positions from the taking part audio system adopted.
Eva Stefani, director and professor on the Division of Communication and Media. of E.Okay.P.A., emphasised that at a time when the discourse of the College is turning into conservative, Irida presents one other take a look at tradition. Platon Mavromoustakos, dramatist and professor on the Theater Division of the Faculty of Fantastic Arts of the Aristotle College of Thessaloniki, made intensive reference to his private expertise as a member of the Theater Division of the College of Athens and the contribution of this cultural group of scholars that was created within the midst of the darkish interval of the dictatorship and the big variety of theater individuals who began from her.
Menelaos Karamaggiolis, director and radio producer, referred to the big variety of movie administrators and technicians who began from Iris and said that the corridor functioned as “an alternate and really efficient method of schooling, coaching and dialogue in cinema”. Varvara Kontoni, cinematographic editor of the journal “Cinema” and presenter of a seminar of the Cinematographic Division of the Greek Academy of Fantastic Arts of Athens, mentioned that Iris “is a form of landmark and refuge which should be preserved and stay open to fingers of the scholars in each doable method” and browse an excerpt from the announcement of the Panhellenic Union of Movie Critics.
Christos Politis, creator and administrator of the web site “Christos does not reside right here anymore”, mentioned that he “skilled Iris as a spectator in the course of the few years he was in Athens, considering that there was nothing prefer it in Thessaloniki” and talked about how vital it’s {that a} group of individuals has shaped across the corridor.
Lastly, Alexandros Papageorgiou talked concerning the “Iris enigma” and questioned “what it does and works proper” and “continues to be an instance to be imitated, not in museums, however as a dwelling organism and a dwelling ecosystem” and about its “tradition of self-organization”.
On behalf of the E.Okay.P.A. this was given on the occasion by the members of the College’s Board of Administration and professors Mr. Achilleas Chaldaiakis and Ms. Athanasia Smyrniotou. Mr. Chaldaiakis made a private assertion, because the Administration Council has not but taken up the problem of Iris. In his assertion he described Iris as “an integral area of the scholar membership”.
He particularly mentioned that the area “is by definition supposed for the usage of college students and it’s unthinkable that one thing comparable doesn’t proceed to occur” and that “it will be as if the scholar membership not capabilities as a scholar membership”. He referred to the necessity to fully renovate the area to make it a “good College area that can proceed to perform for the advantage of college students”.
He additionally referred to the existence of artwork colleges of the College and their inseparable reference to the scholar teams. Lastly, he expressed the hope that there could be cooperation and collaboration between the scholars and the administration of the EKPA, whereas he didn’t point out in any respect the problems raised by the scholars relating to the perspective of the College administration in the direction of the Cultural Membership and the choice of the Pupil Welfare Committee for the long run use of the corridor.
The occasion was additionally attended by representatives of creative associations and cultural organizations who expressed their assist for the scholars’ wrestle.
The Municipality of Abdeliaiodis, spoke on behalf of the Union of Greek Administrators and said that “Iris represents the intangible spirit of Greece”. Nektarios Sakkas, programmer of the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant, member of P.E.Okay.Okay. and of the Hellenic Movie Academy mentioned that he wouldn’t have personally been within the room with these qualities, if within the troublesome instances of the disaster he had not attended the seminars as a member of the Movie Division.
He believes that the teams within the area have created generations of filmmakers and individuals who love cinema and that “P.O.F.P.A. it’s a pillar for the College as we imply information, schooling and literacy”.
Nikos Karagiorgis, president of the Union of Greek Actors, referred to his private experiences from the corridor such because the efficiency “Musical act in Brecht” by Thanos Mikroutsikos with Yiannis Koutras and the rehearsals held in Iris by the Pupil Choir of Mikis Theodorakis. He additionally mentioned that “in a metropolis that’s turning into an enormous Airbnb, hostile to Athenians… we are going to run each three or so instances to cease privatizations of public areas and public possessions”.
Aris Tsouknidas, president of P.O.F.A.P.A., additionally made a presentation. in the course of the 80s, which referred to the Membership as an area for social experimentation and the significance of the College Membership for scholar social struggles.
He additionally spoke concerning the college students’ struggles for the Rivoli cinema and the everlasting struggles for the safety of Iris. Zenos Panagiotidis, creator of the distribution firm Rosebud 21, referred to the screenings that came about in the course of the navy dictatorship within the student-filled Iris, till 1972, when the police stopped them. He additionally talked about that if it weren’t for Iris, he himself wouldn’t have labored within the cinema.
Anna Antonopoulou, member of the board of administrators of the Hellenic Documentary Union, conveyed the assist of the Union to the continuation of the operation of P.O.F.A.P.A. in its premises. In his presentation, Sakis Baibos, from the “Clacketa” Audiovisual Employees’ Union, linked the problem of Iris to the overall political context and social struggles. Manos Cizek from the Union
Administrators and Creators, after referring to his private relationship with P.O.F.A.P.A., learn the assist textual content entitled “Iris” cinema in peril” which the Union co-signs with the Greek Actors’ Union, the Panhellenic Music Affiliation and the Union of Workers within the Audiovisual Sector “The Claketa”.
Kelly Papaioannou, a member of the Tradition Division of the Central Committee of the Communist Occasion of Greece, in her assertion linked the wrestle of the scholars with the current struggles of the artists.
Additionally current on the occasion have been representatives of scholar associations of the College of Athens who expressed their assist and spoke concerning the significance of P.O.F.A.P.A. and Iris for the scholars.
On the finish of the occasion, a supporting textual content was learn by Babis Kontarakis, proprietor of the ASTOR cinema and the Bizarre Wave distribution firm, and college students, representatives of the Cultural Membership, answered questions from members of the press.
Within the context of the solutions, it was clarified that P.O.F.P.A. considers the precedence to make sure the presence of the Group’s groups of their areas of exercise and never the beautification of those areas, particularly if this isn’t achieved with the goal of the areas remaining for the usage of college students, however to make it simpler to hire them out for the needs of third events.
Reference was additionally made to the beneficiant assist that the members of P.O.F.A.P.A. provide at E.Okay.P.A. occasions. or his colleges held in Iris.
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