Omolio Folk-Agricultural Showroom Marinos Antipas
Omolio Folk-Agricultural Showroom Marinos Antipas
Omolio is a historical settlement of the Municipality of Agia surrounded by great natural beauty. Located in a central location, 40 km from the capital of the Larissa regional administration, just three kilometers from the Athens-Thessaloniki national road and at a minimum distance from the sea. According to Homer, the city participated in the Amphictyony of Delphi, while the mint of Ancient Omoli was one of the greatest in central Greece. The ruins of this ancient city and citadel still remain close to current Omolio.
Conditions brought the village back close to major historical events. This is the soil in which Marinos Antipas is buried, one of the most important figures of Greece in the fight to defend civil liberties. When Antipas came to Thessaly, where he took over as caretaker of the property of his uncle, he changed social conditions in the region. Although he was in a position of strength, he deleted agricultural debts, applied Sunday as a day off and set the remuneration of tenant farmers based on 75% of production (instead of 25% as was up to then in force). His murder was the natural consequence in a place dominated by lthe andowners of the time.
Μαρίνος Αντύπας / Marinos Antypas
Nowadays, the local community commemorates him, recognizing his contribution to changing social conditions, both in the region and across the country. It built a modest monument erected in Omolio where events are held every year in memory of the great fighter. At the same time, it gave his name to the small museum built in the village: Omolio Folk-Agricultural Showroom Marino Antipas, housed in the former Community chambers, located in the village square.
Today, the exhibition presents the tools used by the people for whom Antipas fought. Inaugurated on 18 March 2007 to mark the 100th anniversary of his death (murdered in 1907 in Pirgetos). Premechanical agricultural and foraging tools are hosted in the exhibition venue. Visitors can also admire tools of traditional occupations (fishermen, shoemakers, weavers, etc.) and objects from daily life of local people: handicrafts, embroidery and textiles, utilitarian household items (sofras (low tables), pots, pinakoti (bread levening boards)), local costumes, traditional clothing, woodwork items, postcards and engravings, coins, antique furniture, and a local bisiki (cot).
The collection includes artifacts that may be considered historical documents: a local’s military diary, which describes in detail the experience of the war in Asia Minor, but also photographs of social events and the occupations of the inhabitants. The showroom has a conference hall that holds 50-60 people.
Λαογραφικό-Γεωργικό Εκθετήριο Ομολίου Μαρίνος Αντύπας
Places like the Omolio Folk-Agricultural Showroom Marinos Antipas, although exhibiting objects from earlier times, alsoshow that traditional culture is not a static body of evidence that survives only in a museum. Because on the one hand, tools and materials actually bear witness to the immutable characteristics of an era (available resources, raw materials), however, they also reveal the basic principles of human creativity that lead to evolution. The name of the exhibition reminds us, at the same time, that this creativity should always be developed with concepts such as respecting the principles of human law and social justice.
“Oratos” Art Space, Thessaloniki| MEMORY GAPS: Visual Art Exhibition| 16 March-09 April 2025
The exhibition of artworks entitled "MEMORY GAPS" focuses on the engagement of young artists with issues of collective and individual memory, historical record and social differences. The exhibition is the result of the process of teaching and immersion in contemporary art at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. The exhibiting artists present works that explore the notion of the "memory gap" as a phenomenon that takes on a dimension in both individual and collective realms. Through a free approach to the subject, the artists were invited to present their position on ...More
Children and teenagers in crisis| Scientific two-day workshop – experiential workshops – discussions| 14-15 March 2025 at Kymi High School
A strong team from the Child Advocate, the KETHEA, from the University of Crete, educators, lawyers, psychotherapists, theatrologists and artists, comes to Kymi to talk to the students in the Gymnasium, teachers and parents. Teachers from the wider Evia and other regions of Greece can participate in the meeting. Aim: to create a safer environment for children. The programme on Friday 14 March includes experiential workshops with students of Kymi High School with George Moschos, Naya Boemi, Lia Lambrou and Evridiki Samara. On Saturday, March 15, 1) an experiential workshop for teachers and parents "Development of ...More
Greek Community of Melbourne| Greek history and culture seminars-Themistoklis Sofoulis – The man who could have saved Greece from the Civil War| 20 March 2025
Criminally forgotten in the modern era, renaissance man, archaeologist and social activist Themistocles Sofoulis was not only the architect of the union of Samos with Greece, but also a staunch proponent of democracy, playing pivotal roles in the development of Greece during the first world war, the national schism, the aftermath of the Asian minor catastrophe, the Metaxas dictatorship and the aftermath of the German occupation. Emollient, collegial and measured, always willing to include all sides of politics in the national conversation, had he been listened to, chances are the civil war never would have taken ...More
Anastasia Zissi| Interview with the Director of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme “Applied-Clinical Sociology and Arts”
Anastasia Zissi is a highly experienced researcher and Professor at the University of the Aegean, Department of Sociology, whose work focuses on community and mental health, the design and organization of psychosocial interventions, the diagnosis of needs and quality of life assessment of the general population and socially oppressed groups. Since 2004 he has been a founding member of the steering committee of the Postgraduate Programme of Studies in Social Cohesion and Community Development of the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean and today is a Directorof the M.Sc. course "Applied-Clinical Sociology and ...More
Creative Writing by OPANDA and the Hellenic Authors’ Society
The Organization for Culture, Sports and Youth of the Municipality of Athens (OPANDA), in the framework of its initiatives to support books and literacy, and in cooperation for the first time with the Hellenic Authors' Society, organizes a Creative Writing Program at the Creative Learning Centers of Alexandra Avenue and Evelpidon, which includes two courses. The aim of the Creative Writing Programme is, on the one hand, to give participants the opportunity to cultivate their skills in literary writing, and on the other hand, to allow the Athenian reading public to get to know contemporary Greek ...More
Results of the Systematic Archaeological Survey “Ancient Tenea” at Chiliomodi, Corinthia 2024
In October 2024, the systematic archaeological research in Chiliomodi, Corinthia, was completed within the framework of the research project "Ancient Tenea". This year, for the first time in Corinthia, a monumental burial building of the Hellenistic period was discovered in accordance with the models of the Macedonian tombs. The findings from the exterior and interior of the tomb clearly refer to its long-standing use and to a cult associated with healing. The funerary monument has an asymmetrical "T" shape in plan and consists of two sections, the access corridor measuring 2.80m × 1.20m and the main ...More
Leave A Comment