A Special Workshop for Adults Titled ‘Alki and Lenoula, Elli, Molly and the Egg-girls: cutting and sewing resistance in the kitchen on Leukosia Street’. The workshop is conducted by Iris Kritikou and Mary Dagianta as part of the group exhibition "A fairy tale for Alki".
Alki, Lenoula, Elli, Molly, and the the Egg-girls—a female fellowship in the kitchen on Leukosia Street—knit, sew, transform, and resist. Based on an insider’s depiction of a dynamic female world, as described in the autobiographical Faber Pencil No. 2 by Alki Zei, an experiential reading workshop was designed, which will symbolically conclude with an on-site attempt to transform small clothing elements. After a brief tour of the exhibition “A Fairy Tale for Alki”, participants, in circular conversation, share the experience of the atmosphere of Alki Zei’s autobiography. Then, they will transcribe the oral recordings of the workshop using needle and thread, depositing their own perception of the female collective.
As Iris Kritikou notes: "The workshop is dedicated to the hidden charm and the mythical haunts of a city suspended in architectural limbo, marked by the charismatic circles that inhabited it. A fellowship of people who moved through life inventively, finding ways to exist and enjoy amid fear and darkness. Sewing beauty from rags. Following Alki in Faber Pencil, we observed her emerging adolescent talent at the small table of an Athenian kitchen, realized her fervent belief in life, her talent for friendship, opening her perceptive embrace wide to the next generations. The workshop is dedicated to the resistant female strength of both herself and the young girls who lived or were lost, and to their love for life."
Spaces are limited. Advance reservation is required.
Bring your old fabric scraps, needles, and threads!