Category: Culture & Society

🍅🍅 Read GNA's tribute to #tomato, not only an integral element of the Mediterranean diet but also a key driver of the Greek economy and among the country’s top exported agricultural products.

Secretary General for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy Maira Myrogianni talks about the role of public diplomacy in promoting the country’s image globally, Greece’s comparative advantages, the importance of fostering links with the Diaspora, and the government’s initiatives in this regard as part of the Strategic Plan 2024-2027.

📚📚On the occasion of the publication of her first poetry collection "Πλάνης στην πλάνη της" [Errant in (her) error] (Τhines, 2024), architect and poet Katerina Gkiouleka spoke to Reading Greece about the book and her experimentation with language, as well as the convergence of #poetry and #architecture in their use of lived experience.

"Beyond the obvious mirroring between, on one hand, the poetic essence in architecture – the lyricism in its lines and the compositional form-shaping outcome, along with its dialogue with the landscape or broader environment, concepts which, incidentally, remain relatively ignored to the wider Greek public – and, on the other hand, architecture’s influence on the composition of writing, architecture and poetry converge in their use of lived experience. They grasp spatial and temporal qualities; they perceive, comment on, and respond to decay, entropy, the chiaroscuro of life; to the challenges of places and landscapes; to grounding and suspension; to the subtlety of shades; to the capacity to introspect the private and provoke the collective; to the staging of temporarily permanent habitats, and to the hosting of their visitors".

📷Vaggelis Tsiamis