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1952 - 2022
Let's Organize Our Archives!

On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, Goethe-Institut Athen is sifting through its archives, and opens their content to a wider public. Selected audiovisual material from the organization´s rich and diverse cultural activities in the city of Athens during the last seven decades shall be exhibited at the Goethe-Institut Athen building on Omirou Street, from October 2022 to January 2023.

The archives of Goethe-Institut Athen contain rare historical elements mapping the cultural life of Athens since the early 1950s. We would like to request your contribution and support in the Let´s Organize Our Archives! endeavor to enrich this archival collection with new material. We consider that the development and promotion of the archives of the Institute is of particular importance, as the materials that (will) comprise it are a significant part of the cultural heritage of the topos, and reflect the local social reality of the last 70 years.

In order to activate the archives – and perhaps re-invent the life and future of the archives – we will be organizing a public exhibition. Through the public display of rare material – which will be presented to the public for the first time in the form of an exhibition – we aim to shed light on the possible connections of the archive with society. During the quarterly exhibition, visitors of all ages will have the opportunity to rediscover cultural activities that took place in the past and to envision new ones.

Through a collective effort, the project Let´s Organize Our Archives! will attempt the narration of the multi-dimensional cultural action of Goethe-Institut Athen. For the Institute, the work of co-configuring the archives highlights our many years of co-existence and shows our desire to continue our fruitful collaborations with local agencies and individuals.

Your contribution

Looking for common meeting points in the field of culture, we invite you to contribute to the initiative of enriching our archives and to share with us material that you believe is an important evidence of the cultural activity of Goethe-Institut Athen: analog and/or digital photographs, videos, audio items/files, letters, but also printed matter (invitations, brochures, publications, catalogs) from cultural activities organized, co-organized and/or supported by Goethe-Institute Athen from the 1950s to 2010.

Collecting the archival materials

If you possess such archival material and wish to lend – or donate – it to Goethe-Institut Athen for the purpose of enriching and promoting its archives, it would be a pleasure if you contact us till July 15th, 2022 and inform us about the material you have.

You may contact us in one of the following ways:
-     Calling us at +30 210 3661 004 Tuesday – Thursday, 11:00 – 15:00
-     Sending an email to ATH-cultural-archive@goethe.de

We will then contact you back about the way and time of delivery of the material to us and the lending process (June–July 2022), as well as the return of the material to you (January 2023).
 

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