The LOGOS Centre at Flinders University isn’t just presenting one, but two lectures for the Greek Community of Adelaide.
The First lecture, “Live arts & social unrest: the Greek crisis case”, will focus on how art can be re-defined in times of crisis. Eugenia Tzirtzilaki will present several ‘snapshots’ taken in the past five years in order to discuss how the crisis has made dominant morals more conservative and social reactions more extreme, ultimately polarising local communities.
Ms Tzirtzilaki will share her own experience as a Greek theatre-maker, presenting some of her latest work to show the effects of the crisis in live arts. Born in Greece in 1975, Eugenia Tzirtzilaki studied journalism, photography and acting in Athens. She later relocated to the US where she earned an MFA on Stage Directing from Brooklyn College CUNY, the recipient of scholarships from the Onassis Foundation and P.E.O. International.
In New York, she collaborated with artists Anne Bogart and Meredith Monk, became a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, and in 2003 earned the Zoel Zwick Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theater.
Her most recent directing credit was a performance installation entitled You go!, presented in March this year at the festival “Body & Politics” at Empros Theatre in Greece. She is currently developing a new play about the Greek crisis called Paralyzed. As part of the Libby Sacer Foundation, she is currently curating a season of events in Athens art space ‘Cheapart’.
The second will be two seminars presented on “Ageing in a foreign land”. The first of the two is entitled “Intergenerational perceptions of ageing well within the Australian Greek diaspora” and will be presented by Dr Helen Fiest of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre at the University of Adelaide.
The second “Lost in a foreign land? Investigating the linguistic and conceptual understanding of translated text for the aged people of Greek and Greek-Cypriot background” will be presented by Prof Michael Tsianikas, Director of LOGOS at the Australian Centre for Hellenic Language and Culture, Flinders University.
The public lecture “Live arts & social unrest: the Greek crisis in case” will be held on Monday 26 May at 6:30 pm in Room 2.1, Flinders, City Victoria Square, Adelaide.
The seminars on “Ageing in a foreign land” will be held on Wednesday 28 May at 5:00 pm in Room 1, Level 1, Flinders in the City Victoria Square, Adelaide.