Public benefit Digital game for adults - Web-based activity for people aged 65+ in collaboration with the Seveneleven Theatre Group
Educational workshops in child-care foundations and NGOs all over Greece in collaboration with Aegean
The Foundation, sustaining its successful collaboration with Seveneleven and with the support of the TIMA Charitable Foundation, continued to offer the “Digital game for adults” activity, a series of web-based guided tours of works from the Foundation’s Collection, specifically designed for people aged 65+. “Digital game for adults”, which takes place via Zoom, offered people aged over 65 all over Greece the opportunity to become acquainted with the Foundation’s Collection via an innovative game, taking advantage of technology which opens up new paths for people who are unable to travel to Athens and get to know the Collection in person.
During the Christmas period, the Foundation and the volunteer group from AEGEAN offered moments of joy and presents to over 300 children who are currently living in or are supported by child-care foundations and NGOs throughout Greece. Members of the Foundation’s Education Department delivered educational programmes with the help of special museum props and, alongside AEGEAN volunteers who offered presents, entertained the children by making Christmas decorations and artistic constructions inspired by the Foundation’s Collection of art works. Children from the Melissa orphanage in Thessaloniki, the Greek Childrens’ Village in Filyro, the SOS Childrens’ Village in Alexandroupolis, the Ark of the World on Chios, the Child Protection Centre of the Dodecanese on Rhodes, the “ILIACHTIDA” Pan-Cretan Association of Parents and Friends of Children with Cancer on Crete and the Corfu orphanage took part in this very special activity.
Support of Greek Public Libraries with 2,300 art books In December 2021, the Foundation donated 2,300 art books to public libraries all over Greece, with the aim of supporting their work and helping the public to become familiar with important Greek and foreign artists. The activity was realized with the support of Courier Company ACS which undertook the delivery of the books to a total of 45 public libraries all over Greece, from Crete to Northern Greece and from the Ionian Islands to the Dodecanese. The books were detailed editions dedicated to foreign and Greek artists who left their mark on the 19th and 20th centuries, from the numerous exhibitions organized by the Foundation from 1990 to the present day. The donation was completed under the auspices of the Ministry for Education and Religious Affairs.
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