The light fades at the edge of the city | Presentation of the new book written by Anastasia Voulgari

On Wednesday 3 February 2016, at 18:00, the new collection of poems by Anastasia Voulgari, The light fades at the edge of the city will be presented at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation. The presentation will take place with a theatrical reading by the actors Eugenia Apostolou, Aliki Zacharopoulou, Takis Natsis and Vasilis Paleologos, who will be reading extracts from the book. Stefanos Korkolis, at the piano, will be accompanying the readings with melodies inspired by the poems in the book and songs which will be interpreted by Sofia Manousaki. The event will be directed by the actor and director, Alexios Kotsoris.

The philologist, Manolis Chatzinakis, the poet, Vasilis Koumis and the artist and writer, Andreas Maratos will each talk about the book. The preface for the book is written by Andreas Maratos who also provided the image for its cover in the form of his work Anamoni III.

The book is dedicated to Mikis Theodorakis.

The artist and writer, Andreas Maratos, notes in his preface:

Anastasia Voulgari has composed an elegy for a shipwrecked nation. Her sources are obvious: The unraveling of a cultivated Hellenism, transformed into a poetic experience. Her poetry interacts and speaks with Mikis, Ritsos, Seferis, Kazantzakis and Elytis; it talks of defeat, expectations, memory and love and constantly oscillates consciously and without hesitation between the personal and the collective, seeking their intricate dialectic. Flustered, she turns to the past and asks of the promethean minstrel, who stands upon the rock of time and history, to keep well hidden his treasures and his rhapsodies for if they were to be heard he may be despised as who, in our days, wants to hear the truth? Outside the woman dressed in black is heard out in the street, no longer protected by the shadows of the moon but under the harsh light of day, she says to herself It cant be, I will find you somewhere All my life, a continuously postponed revolution and an unobtainable love. We are called to the crossroads of life, fueled by a Romiosyne insubordination and the fever of ultimate love. What is being crafted here is a protective womb a hideaway for wanderers but not for the misguided whilst outside the weather rages and from here a window is opened onto a world which is striving, which is able, which desires and still dreams. There are no illusions about what can hurt and this creates an inner strength and ambivalence. There where the road is seen to veer into an interminable cycle, a desperate cry is heard, pleading for time to be turned back, and there is not an instance of hesitation in following a deathly procession which descends on its course to a future resistance. Only in this way will this constant war cease. It would be wise if we too were to follow it as well.

Andreas Maratos

Artist Writer

Anastasia Voulgari was born in Athens. She completed her studies in the French language at the Centre Linguistique Appliquée, Besançon in France. She also attended the Greek Open University, department of Greek Culture, as well as studying fashion design and Quality Control Systems.

She was active for a number of years in Greece as an entrepreneur in the textile and clothing industries and abroad as quality consultant for the ISO 9000 systems. She is a collaborator of TÜV AUSTRIA HELLAS.

In March of 2011 she presented at the SYN-KATI Theatre the one-act play entitled Kapoios na me fonaksei, directed and interpreted by Eleni Tzagaraki, with musical accompaniment from works of Mikis Theodorakis. In May of the same year, the play was presented in Bucharest and other cities in Romania, translated by Elena Lazar, directed by Mihaela Boboc Manea, interpreted by Daniela Moldovan.

In 2013 her book Tha se lioso! was published by Aggelakis Publications.

In 2015 she presented Kapoios na me fonaksei at the METAXOURGEIO Theatre, directed by Alexios Kotsoris.

^Information:

^{Wednesday 3 February 2016, at 18:00}

^{The light fades at the edge of the city}

^{by Anastasia Voulgari}

^{from Petros Kakoliris Evmaros publications}

^{Hall: Black Box}

^{Duration: 150}

^{Free entrance}