Programme 2024
27 Αug19:00 / Κera
Oral History Workshop
free participation
Experiential Oral History Workshop “Voices, Oral History in the Spotlight”
This is an open discussion and experiential workshop focusing on oral history, the preservation, and the promotion of intangible culture through the program “Crete, Oral History” by the Cultural Society of Crete.
As part of this program, which has been active since 2010, recordings of oral testimonies, publications, training sessions (annual and intensive), documentary productions, exhibitions, and special educational events are conducted. The program is implemented in collaboration with the Regional Unit of Chania and other local authorities and cultural organizations in Crete.
During the workshop, excerpts from stories of the area’s residents will also be presented. These stories were collected during the 2021 recordings in Rokka and Kera, once again as part of the Giortes Rokkas festival.
Program designers: Hará Andreádou (MA, MEd, PhD candidate), historian, archaeologist, cultural scientist, educator, and scientific collaborator of the Chania Film Festival | Matthaios Frantzeskakis, mathematician, journalist, adult education trainer, Director of the Cultural Society of Crete and the Chania Film Festival.
>Free participation, reservation required.
PARTICIPATION DECLARATION: click here.
Instructions
Rokka and Kera villages are located in the northwest of the Prefecture of Chania, in the Municipality of Kissamos, 12 km from Kissamos, 39 km from Chania and 55 km from Chania airport. Following the E65 National Road from Chania to Kissamos, and turning to the Nopigia to Kera – Rokka hub, you will not have difficulty finding us. Giortes Rokkas area in Kera is located next to the church in the center of the village, on the main road from which you will come.