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Days in Chania

Monday


After arrival and settling in at the Iphigenia apartments of Michalis Boulakas in the Old Town of Chania people hat the time to explore their surroundings till the evening.

 

 

19.30 The bus departed from the square in front of the ‘Xenia’ hotel

20.00 Visit of the dance studio of Effie Caloutsi: Performance by the K.E.R. Workshop to see the dance performance:

The dance of the Vulture

Dance: Maria Stratinaki

Music: Dimos Tsigakos

The performance was filmed by Leonidas Manolikakis from Crete 1

Television to start a PR campaign to save the vultures in Crete from extinction.

This event was supported by the ecological group ACTION NOW which undertook studies for the protection of vulture birds. The group was represented by Gina Trapazali.

 

21.30 Departure by bus for restaurant and reception by the head of the Prefecture of

Chania: Mrs. Aleka Markogiannaki

Aleka Markogianni speaking to Eleni Iliopoulou and Hatto Fischer with Maya

Photo: Hartmut Schulz

 

Tuesday 12.9.1995

Breakfast in old Town of Chania

Photos: Hartmut Schulz

 

9.00 Departure of bus for “old French School” of Technical University of Crete

Hatto Fischer introducing the assistant of Yannis Phyllis responsible for the organisation of the Technical University in support of the conference in Chania

9.30 Welcome by the Head of Prefecture of Chania: Mrs. Aleka Markogiannaki

Opening of conference


Priest of Chania

First Session: Presentation of problems of cities as perceived by poets differently from planners

Chairpersons: Bart Verschaffel (University of Gent) and Hatto Fischer (Touch Stone / Dialogos)

Hatto Fischer with Bart Verschaffel, and Nikos Stavrolakis in the foreground (on the left)

Aim of this discussion between urban experts, including regional / urban planners and poets was to seek an understanding and dialogue between the two groups. The aim was to examine whether or not poets are stuck to a negative myth about life in cities as exemplified by recent trends in poetry while urban planners are facing questions of sustainability.

a) for the analytical group: urban planning and urban concepts

Juergen Eckhardt: Key concepts for a discussion about the possibilities of city planning to solve problems of the city

Pavlos Delladetsima: The rhetoric of urban planners

b) poetic observations about life in cities

Anna Borne “The city – ‘gemme of all joy or the place where houses thick and sewers annoy the air – with Reference to the Reith Lectures”

c) first attempt at a cultural synthesis

Voula Mega

Eleni Ilioupoulou: Introduction into the realities of Chania

11.30 Coffee break

12.00 Start of the second session

12.00 – 14.00

 

Second Session - Part a): Discussions on nine questions put to the planners

Chairing:

Juergen Eckhardt (architect) and Sue Tilden (planner)

Introducing the questions: Hatto Fischer

Answers, Responses, Interpretations

 

Participants of the analytical group:

 

Second Session - Part b): poets and the city to following themes


Introducing the poets: Hatto Fischer

Poets:

Opening the discussion:


14.30 Bus returns everyone to ‘Old town’ – afternoon free

19.30 Bus departs for evening program

20.00 Reception at the Technical University of Crete held at the French School

Introduction by Yannis Phillis

Followed by poetry reading

 

Emer Ronan in Chania  Photo: Hartmut Schulz

wednesday 13.9.1995

9.00 Departure of the bus for ‘Old French School’

Third session chaired by Phil Cooke

 

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 14.00

Fourth session chaired by Sofia Yannatou

 

City

Analytic perspective

Poetic inscription

Berlin

Juergen Eckhardt

Hartmut Schultz

Athens

Pavlos Delladetsima

Liana Sakelliou-Schultz

Antwerp

Bart Verschaffel

Maja Panajotova

Paris

Thanos Contargyris

Baptiste Marray

Dublin

Theo Dorgan

Brendan Kennelly

Nature and cities

Emer Ronan Assimakopoulou

Paula Meehan

Historical cities

Nikos Stavrolakis

Anne Born

Art cities

Richard Meheux

Andriette Stathi

American – European cities

Sue Tilden

Hatto Fischer

Strangers in cities’ streets

Socrates Kaboroupoulos

Pedro Mateo

Minorities in cities

Jakovos Tsourounakis

Bruno Kartheuser

Poetic cities

Yannis Phillis

Katerina Anghelaki Rooke

Large and small towns

Eleni Ilioupoulo

Jose Reina J. Palazon

Invisible cities

Anna Arvanitaki

Sofia Yannatou

 

14.30 Bus departs for Old town. Afternoon free

 

Paula Meehan, Sofia Yannatou, Theo Dorgan and Juergen Eckhardt

with shop keepers of Chania

Photo: Hartmut Schulz

 

20.00 Cultural evening at “old French School” followed by evening dinner offered by the Mayor of Municipality of Chania: Mr. Jorgios Tzanakakis

 

thursday 14.9.1995

9.00 Bus departs for the “old French School”

9.30 Fourth Session

 

Debate with the youth of Chania about

Violence in cities – violence against cities

Chaired by Dimitri Stathakos

The discussion is organised together with the Municipality of Chania (Centre for the Youth) and the Technical University of Chania. This session is under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Youth in Athens, Greece.

Main presentation:

Nikos Stavroulakis: “The city as victim of revisionism – with examples of

Thessalonika and Jerusalem and references to Sarajevo”

 

11.30 Press conference according to the motto:

If there is peace between cities, then there is also peace in the countryside –

Slogan of the Renaissance period

Followed by lunch reception

12.00 Return to Old Town, packing up and departure for Kissamos and Milia


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