Παρακάτω ακολουθεί το κείμενο στα Ελληνικά.
In the Café, architect Stavros Sofianopoulos will present “Building the Chiapas Teachers Center” an initiative by the Greek Solidarity Team of support for the Zapatistas’ campaign “A School for Chiapas” [Centro de Capacitación de Promotores Culturales Compañero Manuel (Chiapas, Mexico)]. The initiative will be presented in the context of Community based-art.
Schools for Chiapas was created in 1996 and this year has begun to work with other indigenous communities that are facing similar government-inflicted pressures, seeking to support their own processes of building autonomy in education and preventive health. Informed and moved by the models demonstrated over years in Zapatista territory, these efforts are shared by the community to benefit everyone.
In community-based education, adults chosen by the community learn skills in popular education so that they can share responsibility of teaching the children. For communities whose schools have been closed or are not accessible (due to violence), this model allows for education to carry on despite often precarious external conditions.
The event will be hosted by Yannis Ziogas, WALC Project director and Artistic co-coordinator. The presentation will be made in Greek, with an English translation made available. At the event a pdf in English and Greek will be available from here. Although technology, and AI specifically, is making great strides in benefitting cross-cultural interchange, Zoom has not yet conquered the Greek language, so we are unable to offer real-time interpretation from Greek to English or closed captions in Greek.
Στο Café, ο αρχιτέκτονας Σταύρος Σοφιανόπουλος θα παρουσιάσει το «Building the Chiapas Teachers Center» μια πρωτοβουλία της Ελληνικής Ομάδας Αλληλεγγύης για την υποστήριξη της εκστρατείας των Ζαπατίστας «A School for Chiapas» [Centro de Capacitación de Promotores Culturales Compañero Manuel (Chiapas, Mexico) ]. Η πρωτοβουλία θα παρουσιαστεί στο πλαίσιο της κοινοτικής τέχνης.
Το Schools for Chiapas δημιουργήθηκε το 1996 και από τότε άρχισε να συνεργάζεται με άλλες αυτόχθονες κοινότητες που αντιμετωπίζουν παρόμοιες πιέσεις από την κυβέρνηση. Η βασική επιδίωξη ήταν να υποστηρίξουν τις δικές τους διαδικασίες για την καλλιέργεια αυτονομίας στην εκπαίδευση και προληπτική ιατρική. Εμπνευσμένες και επηρεασμένες από τα πρότυπα που αναπτύσσονται επί χρόνια στην επικράτεια των Ζαπατίστας, αυτές οι προσπάθειες μοιράζονται από την κοινότητα προς όφελος όλων.
Στην κοινοτική εκπαίδευση οι ενήλικες που επιλέγονται από την κοινότητα μαθαίνουν δεξιότητες στη λαϊκή επιμόρφωση ώστε να μπορούν να μοιραστούν την ευθύνη της διδασκαλίας των παιδιών. Για κοινότητες των οποίων τα σχολεία έχουν κλείσει ή δεν είναι προσβάσιμα (λόγω βίας), αυτό το μοντέλο επιτρέπει στη συνέχιση της εκπαίδευσης παρά τις συχνά επισφαλείς εξωτερικές συνθήκες.
Την παρουσίαση θα συντονίσει ο Yannis Ziogas, Διευθυντής και Καλλιτεχνικός Συντονιστής του WALC Project. Η παρουσίαση θα γίνει στα ελληνικά, με διαθέσιμη αγγλική μετάφραση. Στην εκδήλωση θα διατίθεται pdf στα αγγλικά και στα ελληνικά από εδώ. Αν και η τεχνολογία, και συγκεκριμένα η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, κάνει μεγάλα βήματα προς όφελος των διαπολιτισμικών ανταλλαγών, το Zoom δεν έχει κατακτήσει ακόμη την ελληνική γλώσσα, επομένως δεν μπορούμε να προσφέρουμε διερμηνεία σε πραγματικό χρόνο από τα ελληνικά στα αγγλικά ή υπότιτλους στα ελληνικά.
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.

We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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