Kilim
Topics
women’s histories, migration, cultural memory, community building through arts
Disciplines
feministic initiatives, arts, emotional understanding, oral stories
HUB IDEA
The Kilim hub focuses on a hybrid narrative that blends postmemory and oral history through a feminist lens, emphasising women’s roles, daily experiences, and gendered perspectives. The project examines migration and urban history through oral narratives, inspired by a hydrofeminist approach that explores the connections between water, humans, and the environment. Activities include a "Herstory" workshop with migrant women and their descendants, community dinners where women from Nea Ionia and Kypseli share food memories, and an "Embodying Nostalgia" workshop that explores memory and pain through somatic practices. All activities will be documented for a publication of recipes, oral histories, poetry, and scores. Yellow Brick will coordinate the project, manage dissemination, and host workshops, while Rizes Lab will conduct workshops and research, and Khora will organise dinners, expand its archive, and coordinate outreach.Nea Ionia
Yellow Brick
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Nea Ionia
Yellow Brick
yellowbrick.gr/
Yellow Brick is an independent contemporary art institution in Nea Ionia, Attica, active since 2016. Founded by artist Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, it fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and cultural exchange through engagement with writers, curators, and the local community. Its multimodal approach includes exhibitions, educational programs, artist workshops, publications, communal dinners, and experimental activities, encouraging research and cultural rethinking. Yellow Brick explores themes such as the body and community, healing and rest, labor politics, exhaustion, traditional women’s knowledge, migration, displacement, and language across borders, creating a space for artistic inquiry, exchange, and collective reflection.
Athens
Κhora Community Center
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Athens
Κhora Community Center
khoracollective.org/
Khora is a self-organised collective founded in 2016, with members coming from different continents and backgrounds, aiming to provide open, social and cultural spaces in solidarity with displaced people in Athens. It currently runs a social kitchen, a free shop and an asylum support office. All services are provided for free, to anyone that needs them. We value solidarity, autonomy, community, freedom of movement and the right of everyone to access the basic means to live in our city. Khora has over 30 members, one part-time admin, and two interpreters. The kitchen serves over 800 meals/week.
Athens
RIZES LAB
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Athens
RIZES LAB
www.instagram.com/rizeslab/
Rizes Lab is a non profit organisation based in Athens which was established in October 2024 by Dr. Stella Dimitrakopoulou (dance artist, educator and scholar) and Korina Kotsiri (arts educator and production manager). Our aim is to carry out innovative art programs that are designed and implemented through collaborations and synergies with social, cultural and educational agencies and groups. Our goal is equal access to art for everyone. Our projects so far are both artistic and educational and include dance, performance art, visual arts and therapeutic practices.
