2024 Festival Participant, Tales of X Cities
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Tale of X Cities aims towards the creation of community through art, creativity, networking and the collaborative production of culture. This is achieved through annual cycles of non-formal education seminars and workshops, a series of hybrid Festivals where the workshops' results are presented, as well as other public participatory activities. Tale of X Cities puts emphasis on participation and community-building as a dynamic process, which is co-developed by all those involved —organisers, partner institutions, participating citizens.
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The content of the programme and the final Festival are co-developed by all those involved —organisers, partner institutions, participants, the public— creating an engaged community that acts collectively to produce culture.
The Festival takes place offline and online. The Festival's digital presence increases the audiences and strengthens the sense of community. The digital presence functions complementarily and independently from the physical presence.
2024 Content Creator, Eduki
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Involved in creating educational resources about Theatre, History and Literature
2019 Freelance Art Curator, Online Theatre Mail Art Exhibition
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Conceptualized, planned and installed the exhibition
Acquired, collected, and cataloged all works of art
https://mariachristakou.wixsite.com/theatremailart
2018 Instructor, United Societies of Balkans NGO
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Seminar 1: Theatre behavior guidelines for actors, audience and staff
2018 Theatre Assistant, Ulysses Artistic and Cultural Conscience Festival
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Interactive project narration
2nd Literary Contest Awards
2017 Performer, In our Image and Likeness: performance of Filippo Berta, Thessaloniki 6th Biennale of Contemporary Art ''Imagined Homes'', State Museum of Contemporary Art
Short description of the collective performance
A heterogeneous group of people is ordered around the perimeter of the exhibition space with the face turned on the wall. Every individual has a hammer, a nail and a crucifix. The performance begins when everybody gets up on the tips of their feet trying to fix to the wall the nail on the highest point that their body can provide. At this moment, the noise caused by the hammer blows saturates the space, becoming as a metaphor of the crucifixion. This enveloping noise makes the action almost carnal on the spectator’s skin.
Then, when all the nails are fixed on the wall, each one places the crucifix, and at that moment becomes visible an irregular line, which defines an above and a below, like the insurmountable limit of a wall that separates the perfect from (above) the imperfect (below).
It becomes essential the height difference of the crucifixes, because it shows the bodily limits of each involved person, becoming a metaphor of the limits that lead to desire what does not belong: perfection.
The performance will produce the final result (the line composed by crucifixes on the wall) that will remain permanently in the days after the inauguration like an installation.
2017 Instructor, Aristotle University Student Week
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Seminar 1: Basic principles of designing a theatrical program
Seminar 2: Communication and Social Media in Theatre
2016-2017 Social Media Manager, Amalia Theatre
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Involved in the day-to-day curation, management, promotion and distribution of blog content (Facebook)
Managing video, text and photographic material
2015-2017 Social Media Manager, Blackbox Theatre
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Involved in the day-to-day curation, management, promotion and distribution of blog content (Website, Facebook, Twitter).
Managing video, text and photographic material.
2017 Ensemble at Yale Digital Volunteer, Digital Humanities Laboratory at Yale University Library
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Transcription of 90 years of programs from the Yale School of Drama, Yale Repertory Theatre, and other theatrical groups on campus.
2017 Ensemble Digital Volunteer, Billy Rose Theatre Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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Transcribing historical theatre programs. Capturing key information about the performances these programs represent. Stuff like: theater name, location, show title and date, as well as details such as cast lists, production staff and the antiquated advertisements found throughout.
2017 Transcription Center Digital Volunteer, The Frank Schiffman Collection: Apollo Theater Cards Project (Set 1) Smithsonian Institute
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The project consists of transcribing information on the cards into 4 columns: Artist, Name, Payment, Comments
2015-2016 Social Media Manager, Avlaia Theatre
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Involved in the day-to-day curation, management, promotion and distribution of blog content (Website, Facebook, Twitter).
2015-2016 Contributor, Shakespeare's World Project by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., Zooniverse.org at Oxford University and the Oxford English Dictionary of Oxford University Press
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Transcribing handwritten documents by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. In the first phase of the project only letters and ‘receipt’ (recipe) books. Later, miscellanies, family papers, legal and literary documents.
2015 Performer, Public Square: performance of Mischa Kuball, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art ''Make it New III'', State Museum of Contemporary Art
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Concept, Direction: Mischa Kuball
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The German artist Mischa Kuball, draws inspiration from Kazimir Malevich's painting "Black Square" and the exhibition of the State Museum of Contemporary Art "Kazimir Malevich and his students. 100 years since the Black Square. Russian Avant-Garde Works from the Costakis Collection of the SMCA"". On September 16, he presented the performance "Public Square", an action in the public space that requires the participation of the public in order for the city to participate in the celebration of Malevich's Black Square, as well as in a demonstration, a political act. A large group of people dressed in black and white formed a black square on a white frame as they parade down the city center.
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You may visit the link http://www.public-preposition.net/projects/thessaloniki/
2014-2015 Assistant Director, Let's Dance Ensemble, Sofouli Theatre
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Organising and running the backstage environment during the running of the show, assisting rehearsals (rehearse in parts, run-through the whole play, technical rehearsal), taking notes, participating in weekly production meetings, customer service/patron greeting, ticketing and seating issues.
2009 Administrative Assistant, 11th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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Public Relations and Customer Service.