Presentation of the Penelope Gandhi Mission at the Greek Women’s High School of Volos

The  Greek Women’s High School of Volos  organized an open event, at the Park Hotel of Volos, on Monday, March 31, 2014, at 6.30 pm, with the aim of presenting the pioneering and extremely interesting Penelope Gandhi Mission – the Sacred Art of Weaving in Crete today.

The Mission was presented by Mrs. Varvara Terzaki-Pallikari, inspirer and coordinator of the Mission, and the members of the team, Mrs. Louiza Karapidaki, Art Historian of the Academy of Athens, and Mrs. Tina Daskalantonaki.

In between, short videos from the Mission experience were interspersed.

The following day, April 1, 2014, a) a visit was made by the members of the Mission to the Lyceum of Greek Women of Volos (a neoclassical listed building), where there is a permanent exhibition of authentic costumes of Pelion, the Sporades, etc., and b) a visit to the Folklore Museum of Kitsos Makris, an important researcher of the ethnography of the region.

Also, Yannis Platakis and Angelos Spahis, Cretan students of the Technical University of Thessaly, sang about the Penelope Gandhi Mission:

Good evening, Lords.

Welcome ladies.

Bees collected pollen

They brought her to the festival.

Bees ferment honey

My sun, eat and don’t be sad.

No matter what I say and no matter what you see

Don’t be surprised by me.

Whatever fits into the truth

Fairy tales are not rushed.