Educational visit to Thessaloniki. May 09, 2019

Today we made an educational day trip to the city of Thessaloniki! We started travelling by intercity bus from the town of Katerini at 08:30 and returned at 21:30.

Firstly we visited the experimental centre of arts where we visited two exhibitions hosted there under the “Thessaloniki Design Week” festival. To be more specific, we visited the following exhibits: Projects from the international open call & Greek product designers’ exhibition.

Afterwards we visited the Photography Museum. There we visited the photography exhibition “Young Greek Photographers 2010-2019”.

Our next visit was at the “Which body is mine” exhibition by Ioanna Skantzheli which is hosted at the Bensousan Han under the “SKG Bridges Uprising Art & Culture Festival” which is co-ordinated by the Ministry of Culture & Sports in co-operation with the “Thessaloniki Concert Hall” organization.

Then, each member of our team separately, walked along the esplanade and practised at street photography.

Lunch time followed.  Most of us preferred Chinese food.

We spent our afternoon hours at the International Book Exhibition. We wandered for quite a few hours at the exhibitors’ stalls and bought the books that we liked.

We could not miss the chance to visit the photographic exhibition “Roads of hope & desperation”, in memory of the news agency Reuters photographer, Yiannis Bexhrakis, which was displayed in the balcony of a booth.

Then we went for a coffee...

We were accompanied by Mrs. Maria Papathanasiou, who followed us as a chaperone and withstood this busy schedule, for which we are especially thankful for!

Here are some more photos from today’s visit.