This is the presentation our school prepared for the first meeting in Vienna (Comenius project "Young artists in emergency")

2. LET’S GET ORGANISED (a first plan)
FINAL RESULT
PRESENTATION
FIND THE ONES
INTERESTED IN
JOINING THE
TEAM
STIMULATE :
LET CRISIS
INSPIRE YOU
CREATIVE
WORK
DECIDE ON
WHAT, HO
W AND
WHEN.
FEEDBACK

3. Our school
OUR SCHOOL: a Vocational High School wich
offers 5 specializations (mechanics,
electricians, electrologists, nursery,
informatics)
-430 students (130 among them are foreigners,
mainly from Albania)
-60 teachers

4. Our school

5. Our team

6. Part 1

7. Let crisis inspire you
React

8. Economic Crisis in our lives:
An introduction and some statistics

9. HOW FINANCIAL CRISIS AND
RECESSION HAS AFFECTED GREEK
MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASS
FAMILIES
• The annual family income has been
dramatically reduced
• Huge tax burdens have been imposed on low
incomes and families
• Service cuts and declining quality in health,
education and social care is the new reality
• Unemployment rates raise to 29%

10. As a result some families …..
• cannot pay off their bank loan, their taxes or
even the house mortgage or the rent
• can’t afford expenses providing better health
care for their families
• can’t provide high level education to their
children
• Worry about the welfare of their children
now and in the future

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disappointed
weak
underprivileged
Inadequate
stressed
anxious
frustrated
angry
Indifferent
Passive
depressed
hopeless

12. HOW DO GREEKS FEEL
• 59% believe that things will get worse in the
following 2 years
• Emotional chart: 3% pathetic,11% afraid,18%
desperate,37% angry

13. Some of them can not cope with the
problem
Increasing rates of:
• Home violence
• Divorces
• homeless people
• Street violence
• Alcoholism
• Drug addicts
• Racism
• Suicides
(Hellenic Statistical Authority)

14. Suicides in the first 5 months of 2011 have increased
by 40% compared to the same period in 2010.
30% of the people who ended their lives were
unemployed
7,1% public servants
5,6% private employees
6,5 free launchers
5,5% University students
4,5% students in secondary school
39,2% of unknown professional status
(Hellenic Statistical Authority)

15. THE IMF SUICIDES
It seems that suicides committed under the pressure of bad
financial conditions is an international phenomenon first met
in S. Korea in 1998 when the country asked for the financial
support of the IMF (International Monetary Foundation).
Many citizens lost their jobs and money as a result of the
reforming policies imposed by the IMF and the rate of
suicides increased by 45%..The term “IMF suicides” soon
became international.

16. How do children feel during the
economic crisis?
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Do they share their parents feelings?
How do they react?
Do they still have dreams about their future?
How can they confront their fears?
How can they express their feelings?

17. What do the students think about
the crisis...
«…ζχω κουραςτεί και ςτενoχωρεκεί να βλζπω
ανκρώπουσ να ηθτιανεφουν και να κοιμοφνται
ςτο δρόμο, να μθν ζχουν να φάνε, ποιοσ κα
τουσ βοθκιςει αυτοφσ;»
“I’ m sick and tired of seeing everyday people
begging and sleeping in the streets, not having
anything to eat, who’ s gonna help them?”

18. “The crisis has stolen the smile from our faces.
The normal would be to react, to rebel. Not
violently, but with the right choices. To make the
responsibles for all these to live a hell. Not with
violence, but just rejecting them. But I’ m afraid
that we will just stay idle in the couch, choosing
again and again the same wrong people…”
«…Η κρίςθ ςτθν Ελλάδα είναι μια κατάςταςθ
ςτθν οποία ζχει κλαπεί το χαμόγελο από τα
πρόςωπα των ανκρώπων. Η κανονικι
αντίδραςθ που κα ζπρεπε να ζχουμε είναι να
αντιδράςουμε, αρχισ γενομζνθσ να κάνουμε

19. “What upsets me more is that people are loosing
themselves….may be that’ s the worst thing, they are loosing
hope. A simple financial crisis could be easily overpassed, but
something else is hidden behind that, and that scares me…”
«…Αυτό που με ςτενoχωρεί περιςςότερο είναι ότι βλζπω
ςυνανκρώπουσ μου να χάνουν τισ δουλειζσ τουσ, μετά
απελπίηονται και χάνουν τον εαυτό τουσ. Ίςωσ αυτό είναι το
χειρότερο, γιατί χάνεται θ ελπίδα ςτθ ηωι τουσ….μια απλι
οικονομικι κρίςθ κα μποροφςε να ξεπεραςτεί εφκολα και χωρίσ
ςτεναχώρια, όμωσ κάτι άλλο κρφβεται και ζχει γίνει ζτςι θ
κοινωνία μασ, αυτό είναι που με φοβίηει. Η οικονομικι κρίςθ
κα περάςει, όμωσ θ νοοτροπία που δθμιουργικθκε μζςα ςε
αυτι κα παραμείνει.» *Ηλιάδθ, ΓΦ1+

20. “What I see is that parents are doing everything
for their children, and the state does not let
them make them happy…”
«…Αυτό που βλζπω είναι ότι οι γονείσ κάνουν
τα πάντα για τα παιδιά τουσ όμωσ το κράτοσ δεν
τουσ αφινει να τα κάνουν ευτυχιςμζνα…

21. “I’ m trying to see a world in colors, but
unfortunately I see only grey…”
…Προςπακώ να δω τον κόςμο με χρώμα αλλά
δυςτυχώσ τον βλζπω γκρι…» *Κλάρα}

22. Don’t keep me at the door
First of all
what we’ll say
is between you and me
Come on now, you know me
Life soothes the craven
so it is difficult to express yourself
in difficult times. Locked myself
in my mold from now on
and I don’t ask to get out
Because I’m afraid
of the world outside
I got used to the bars
surrounding me
Around school, around work,
around the garden.
Let’s focus on the facts
I see misery in the streets
and wonder:
how the privileged ones
can sing while hanging
their laundry on the rope
Marianna St.

23. Answering a questionnaire at school
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1. How much did the crisis affect you?
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a. a lot
b. enough
c. not much
d. not at all
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2. How did the crisis affected your family?
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Both my parents have lost their job
One of my parents has lost his job
One (at least) member of the family had to emigrate (in the country or abroad) to find a job
Our financial situation is bad
My parents may times don't give me money anymore
Several times we eat thanks to the common organized by the church or other organizations
We have limited our daily shopping to the absolutely necessary
The crisis did not affect us at all
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I worry about the future
There is a lot of tension in the family
There is violence all around me
I had to quit many things I used to love
I feel insecure
I feel scared
I feel angry
I feel frustrated
I feel injustice
I feel more optimist than before
I realized that I have to lean on my own
OTHER

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a. They became more indifferent
b. They became more passive
c. They became more aggressive
d. They became more suspicious
e. Now they care more for one each other.
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a. find a good job
b. study
c. be unemployed
d. marry and have a family of my own
e. go abroad to work or study
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a find a good job
b. study
c. be unemployed
d. marry and have a family of my own
e. go abroad to work or study
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a. The politicians
b. democracy
c. the syndicat representatives
d. The immigrants that have come to greece
e. the governments
f. European Union
g. The Germans
h. The world conspiracy wanting to destroy Hellenism and the Orthodox curch
i. Ourselves
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8. Do you believe that if you emigrate abroad you will face a racist behaviour?
YES
NO
9. Which of the following statements describe best your point of view?
a. we ate it all together
b. Europeans are envious of us because we are the best
c. We' ve got to bend the head and don' t ask for more
d. I want the immigrants out, they contaminate our country
e. Greeks are racists
f. Greeks are not racists
g. Just to have a job, that' s all I want even if I get paid only 200 euros per month

26. Results
• 42% of our students are in a
very bad financial condition
• 31% have a parent who
has lost his/her job

27. Results
• 63% of them worry about their future
• 37% feel angry or frustrated
• 31% have realised that they cannot
depend on the State anymore
• 60% think that people have become
more aggressive and violent
• 32% of them believe that they can find a
good job after graduating (before crisis
54% believed the same)

28. Results
• 26% are determined to go to College
(46% before crisis)
• 35% have decided to emigrate (16% before)
• Only 6% thought they would be unemployed
before crisis ( now 28% of students are
pessimistic about finding a job after
graduation)

29. Results
• 71% think that politicians are responsible for
the financial crisis.
• 51% believe they will face racist behavior if
they live as immigrants abroad

30. Some more numbers
• 77% of the homeless Athenians are men
• 54% are Greek and 48% immigrants
• 24% have no family
• 61% are drug addicts
• 76% are between 26 and 75
• 20000 people are supported by the
Municipality of Athens which provides food ,
clothes and a place to sleep

31. Numbers are
devastating…………

32. But always keep in mind that
WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, NOT NUMBERS

33. the role of school

34. School against crisis
• Encourages optimism and fresh ideas

35. School against crisis
• Stimulates creativity

36. (Our students…. recycling and creating)

37. School against crisis
• Inspires

38. School against crisis
• Fights violence, hostility, racism and bullying

39. Art against crisis

40. ART helps us
• Express our feelings, our fears, our hopes, our
dreams
• Communicate and share
• Change ourselves and change the others’
point of view

41. ART against crisis
of
A
Reaction
Tool

42. Our visit to Athens Biennale
AGORA

43. GREEK MODERN ART IN THE TIMES
OF CRISIS
Many modern greek artists, such as Stelios
Faitakis, deal with the contemporary situation.
Athens streets nowadays are a real laboratory
for many talented graffiti artists.

48. KEY WORDS
We think it’ s important to RE-DEFINE and talk
about:
-DEMOCRACY
-FREEDOM
-PROTEST and PARTICIPATION
-EUROPEAN UNION
-….

49. Part 2

50. CREATIVE
WORK

51. MOBILITIES

52. Our trip to Vienna, Austria
• We are excited about our trip to Vienna
• Our students are also enthusiastic even though
they know they won’t participate in this first
meeting
• Their enthusiasm
inspired us to give them
some further information
about Vienna and more specifically about periods
of crisis in its recent history

53. Vienna during 1857 to 1919
1857
City walls are demolished to make way for the creation of
the monumental architecture of the Ringsrasse
1900
Vienna becomes the center of art nouveau movement
through the association with Otto Wagner and other
artists called Vienna’s Secession
1910-1914
Vienna’s population breaks the two million barrier,the
greatest it has ever been . The rate is mainly due to
exceptionally high immigration numbers-the majority of
immigrants were czechs-.

54. 1914-1918
WWI rumbles through Europe and Vienna experiences
shortage of food and clothes . War induced inflation
destroys the income of many middle class Viennese.
1918
Austrian Republic is declared . Austrian flag too.
1919
The treaty of S. Germain is signed . The Social Democrats
take control of the Vienna City Council marking a period
known as Rose Wien (Red Vienna)

55. Viennese coffee shops:
places where writers, poets,
philosophers, artists meet
Café Central

56. Peter Altenberg poet 1859-1919
Peter Altenberg (pen name of
Richard Engländer) was born in 1859
in Vienna and died there in 1919. He
studied law and medicine. Book
dealer, freelance writer, prominent
member of the Viennese coffee
house scene, bohemian. Discovered
by Arthur Schnitzler in 1894,
appreciated by Hugo von
Hofmannsthal and Karl Kraus. One
of the main proponents of Viennese
Impressionism. Master of short,
aphoristic stories based on close
observation of everyday life events./
Peter Altenberg portrait by Gustav Jagerspacher
1909, watercolour and pastel applied wet on woven cream paper applied to board

57. Peter Altenberg
My Ideals
The adagios in Beethoven's violin sonatas.
The voice and laughter of Klara and Franzi Panhans.
Speckled tulips.
Franz Schubert.
Asparagus by itself, spinach, fried potatoes, Carolina rice, crackers.
Knut Hamsun.
The intelligence, the soul of Paula Sch.
The blue “Kuhn 201” nib.
The spice sauce “Cat-sup”.
My room, no. 33, in the Graben Hotel, Dorotheergasse, Vienna, First District.
The looks of A. M.
Lakes Gmunden and Wolfgang.
The full-sized swimming pool in Vöslau.
The Schneeberg railroad.
Boxed Mondsee cheese, curdsy and young.
Sole, pikeperch, young pike, whitefish.
Money.
Hansy Klausecker, thirteen years old.
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(Meine Ideale, from the collection Nachfechsung, 1916)

58. Poems addressed to Peter Altenberg
My ideals
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Colorful make up
Grandmas food
A call for evening coffee
My favorite sport
A good advice
Unique memories
Unexpected news
Your song on the radio
Surpassing a barrier
A smile from your closest human being
Having fun without money
D.R.E.A.M.S…..
Christina V.

59. Poems addressed to Peter
Altenberg
My ideals
Stars like diamonds on the sky
Ice cream, chocolate and cake
fried potatoes (Undoubtedly)
My cute teddy bear
Family, friends and my boyfriend
My dog
My neighborhood, my school, my village
My MP3’s,my colorful pen, my camera
My room, my books, my diary
My perfume, my earrings
Jackets, funny boots and blue jeans
Helen A.

60. Poems addressed to Peter Altenberg
My ideals
Keep smiling when everything goes wrong
Hanging out with a friend
Buying a pair of jeans that you love
A walk on the beach all alone
A friend trying to make you feel better
when you are blue
Singing a song aloud and
Let the world be
Drinking a hot cup of chocolate
on a rainy day
The taste of ice cream on the hottest summer day
Keep dreaming big
Push a little harder when you are about to give up
A kiss of a loving person
“I miss you” when you need to hear it
“I love you” when you mean it
A hug the time you want it
Keep your mind open
And most of all BE YOURSELF, BE UNIQUE
Danae L.

61. Walking on a long beach.
Kings of Leon, Rolling Stones.
Shamen Doherty.
Pasta, fries, pizza, cheeseburger, mousakas, chocolate.
Constance M.Burges’ serial.
My city Ilion, Athens. Greece
Antonis Tritsis Park.
Souvlaki from Fantastico spot (recently closed).
Get Greece out of crisis.
Go to College, be an expert of IST
Antonis

62. BIUTIFUL……ATHENS
We saw the Spanish film
It had a great impact on our
students
Here are some of their
comments:
“I thought that illegal immigrants were only in
Greece” “Athens looks the same”
“So, crisis and poverty can inspire an artist”
“At first I thought the film was cynical but soon I
realised it was a humanistic ode “

63. Ismini’s portfolio

91. to be continued………..