Wednesday in Chania: Just a glance or sustaining mystique

Wednesday 13.9.1995

Katerina Anghelaki Rooke @H.S.

9.00 Departure of the bus for ‘Old French School’

Third session chaired by Phil Cooke

Report about discussions of the previous day by Anna Arvanitaki and Hatto Fischer
Video presentation of ‘Voyage a Paris’ by Jef Cornelis & Rudi Laermans (Brussels / Paris). It was produced by BRTN – Television / Antwerp ’93. It is a film about the 19^th century myth of Paris as the first capital of consumption and Baudelaires’ ‘La vie moderne’. It is about how modernity slowly disappears out of Paris. With texts by Zola, Balzac, Rilke, Miller...with comments by Bart Verschaffel
The loss of mystery in Paris – in relation to the private and public spaces, functions of the city by Baptiste Marray
Sustaining the mystique: the myth of city by Sue Tilden

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 14.00

Fourth session chaired by Sofia Yannatou

Clarifications of terms of references with regards to cultural actions in specific cities by Hatto Fischer
The environmental constraints and ecological options when it comes to resource, wastage management of cities by Yannis Phillis

Technical options for cities and the cultural impact by Thanos Contargyris
Working out categories of cities

14.30 Bus departs for Old town. Afternoon free

Sue Tilden, Andriette Stathi-Schoorel, Bruno Kartheuser, Hatto Fischer, Phil Cooke, Theo Dorgan and Richard Meheux in Chania

Paula Meehan, Dimitri Stathakos, Eleni Ilioupoulo, Theo Dorgan

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

Eleni Ilioupoulo listening with others to poetry reading

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