The theatrical performance “The Other Man” opened on the evening of Friday, July 5, in the outdoor area of the Educational Activities Center of the Municipal Plaza, the section of the Cultural Festival of Workers organized for the first time this year by the municipality of Patras and the Labor Center of Patras.
Workers, unemployed and not only, attended a performance that touched on the inhumanity of war. A timeless and deeply human text. A multi-awarded work, with the central idea of man’s attitude towards a powerful dilemma that resists power but also his own emotions. A view of universal values.
The play was staged under the direction of Alexandros Makrydakis – Dimitris Barlas. Written by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass, its messages always remain relevant.
At the event, the Municipal Authority was represented and spoke by the Deputy Mayor of Education, Katerina Simou, who pointed out that “The goal of the Festival is to become an institution, to enrich itself and to be able to become a pole of attraction for the workers and the people of our city in the coming years.
Along with this, the Student Festival that took place for the first time this year, in collaboration with the National Council once morest Drugs, with hundreds of students attending and sending a message once morest all drugs, proving that such actions and initiatives are needed by the people and our children.
But in these conditions where culture is a commodity – and with governments over time pushing even more its promotion as a product that is sold and bought, simultaneously degrading artistic education in schools, but also artistic education, the Municipal Authority of Patras, the Labor Center and the popular bodies of the city, know the need for free access to culture, expression through it, creation and the imprint it leaves on our consciousness, but also the interaction of art and society.
Especially in these conditions for workers, the self-employed, the unemployed and their families, art and culture can provide food for thought, inspire and make us better able to recognize reality so that we can change it according to our modern needs.
Many thanks to the Young Workers and Unemployed Shelter of Korydallos and its theater group, who with the performance “O Antriomenos” by Hall and Middlemas begin the journey of this institution, giving our city a show for workers, by workers. And because our workers and people know how to fight, but also how to sing, we hope that tomorrow’s evening with Vangelis Korakakis will give a breather to all of us, who all the previous time stood side by side in the struggles and claims of our people” .
The member of the Management of the Labor Center of Patras and the president of the Association of Employees in Commercial Enterprises and Service Providers of the Province of Achaia, Christina Panagogiannopoulou, emphasized that “Our new project is an effort by the young people, the workers and the people of our city as a whole, to he enjoys artistic creations that the day laborers themselves produce, wanting to express their concerns, anxieties, feelings and aspirations.
Through this festival we highlight the importance of this effort, to produce culture by the workers themselves, for the workers themselves.
We therefore call on all employees to support this project. We also invite you to strengthen the member unions of the Labor Center. The action of the EKP is alive, because the unions bring it to life, because the workers themselves bring it to life.
We would like to inform you that next week, on July 11, the election of one of the largest member unions of the EKP will begin. The Association of Employees in Commercial Enterprises and Service Provider Enterprises of the Prefecture of Achaia. All commercial and private employees can sign up for it.
Ahead of these elections, we call on every male and female colleague to participate by registering and voting, in the fight to put our lives above the profits of the few.
We seek that not a single colleague is left unorganized, alone, away from the struggle once morest unpaid and uninsured work, the arrangement of working time, the endless unpaid 10-hour and 12-hour days, the unacceptable regime of the new individual flexible and 6-day work contracts, which are an application of the Hatzidakis Law. In this battle we want you as fellow travelers.”
He spoke on behalf of the actors regarding the performance. Kostas Nikitakis, one of the protagonists.
Actors Dimitris Marnas/director, Kostas Nikitakis/priest, Spyros Dimopoulos/guard, Alexandros Makrydakis/Dike, Marialena Boi/girl participated (in order of appearance.
Climax and ending with Vangelis Korakakis
The Cultural Festival of Employees concludes today, Saturday July 6, with the realization at 9.30 in the evening at the Educational Activities Center of the Municipal Plaza of a large folk concert with Vangelis Korakakis.
The songs that will be heard come from the roots of the Greek tradition and remind us that the folk song continues its way.
The goal of the two-day Festival is to highlight the need that workers and their families have for access to culture and the barrier to the commercialization of cultural activities.
The entrance is free.
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