2024-06-05 02:40:24
Sunday, June 2 at 8.00 pm”
Honored individuals:
Yannis Pappas – Deputy Minister of Transport and Island Coverage
Stefanos Korfias – Professor of Neurosurgery EKPA
For the primary time in Rhodes, a folklore, cultural present on the theme of spongalia. A present with variety, primarily based on actual occasions, on occasions from the laborious lifetime of spongers, who gave their lives, thus providing a high-level economic system in Greece, creating Homes of Greek Sponge Retailers in London, Paris, Odessa, America.
The historical past of sponges is misplaced within the depths of the centuries, since they steadily used, from essentially the most archaic, to essentially the most trendy technique of sponging. The historical past of sponging, it’s assumed, begins from the time of Homer…
The legends of the Aegean are revived by historic components, folklore, dances and custom, within the historic Theater of Rhodes “Melina Merkouri”.
All excessive… Excessive feelings, anguish, tears, ache, lack of family members, but additionally joys. Unspeakable joys!
Few professions on this planet have triggered as a lot awe as that of the standard sponge, which required the diver to achieve the bounds of his endurance day-after-day, placing his life at risk at any second.
Few professions in historical past gave Greece such a excessive financial increase, since spongalia was basically the Service provider Transport of the time.
The moppers fought, unaware of hazard, however with toil, mute ache for the misplaced buddy or relative and the maimed
submerged and everlasting insecurity, for his or her very lives. The nervousness within the islands, in Kalymnos, Symi, Nisyros, Leros, Halki, Patmos, Kasos, Kastellorizo, Samos, Lemnos and different islands, day-after-day, ready for the letter from their father or baby, which, generally they arrived very late and generally they by no means arrived… however generally, they by no means got here again themselves…
For the lifetime of the sponges, a variety of ink was used up. Few, nonetheless, knew these excessive emotions, so long as those that lived them knew them.
The efficiency “Sponges of the Aegean” is held in co-organization with the Area of the South Aegean, the Municipality of Rhodes – DOPAR, is beneath the auspices of the Ministries of Industrial Transport, Tradition – Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese of the Worldwide Dance Council of UNESCO and the “Greek Dances of Dora Stratos” Theater ».
Honored individuals are the Deputy Minister of Transport and Insular Coverage Giannis Pappas and the Professor of Neurosurgery of the Nationwide Kapodistrian College of Athens, Mr. Stefanos Korfias.
Texts, Modifying, Efficiency Path – Chrysoula Koutouzou.
Coordinator – Teris Hatziioannou
Presentation – Maria Manioti, Evangelos Gliatas.
The Associations of: Kalymnia, Patmia, Nisyria, Villanova Paradisiou, Girls’s Koskinou, Embona take part.
Maria Valla
Chairman of the Board of Administrators Division of Rhodes
Council Worldwide Dance UNESCO