Open presentation of the new educational programme “Thessaloniki remembers”

An open presentation to inform School Counselors (for all teachers) about the tools, objectives and areas of action of the new educational programme “Thessaloniki Remembers” will take place on Tuesday 24 October, at 6 pm, at the City Hall of Thessaloniki. The programme is co-organised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), the British Council, the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, and the War Museum – Thessaloniki Branch.

The “Thessaloniki Remembers” programme, which is under the auspices of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, invites schools in the city and the wider region to visit and explore the exhibition entitled “The Macedonian Front of World War I” at the War Museum – Thessaloniki Branch. Then they visit the Foundation of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, where students are given the opportunity to approach the topic of “memory” in an interdisciplinary way, using information from both the exhibition and the research area (KEMIT).

In addition, after their visit to the two Museums, the schools are invited to visit the cemeteries of the Commonwealth Commission of Military Tombs in Greece [in Mikra, Lembet Road – on Lagada Street, the Indian Cemetery in Monastiriou, the Military Cemetery in Chortiatis, as well as the cemeteries of Lemnos, Doirani and Polykastro (Karasouli)].

Children travel through history and creatively manage the commemoration of men and women and their personal stories during World War I.

At the same time, through our collaboration with the British charity Never Such Innocence, which aims to raise young people’s awareness of the history of World War I through the arts, students will be invited to draw inspiration from the 12,000 British soldiers who fought alongside the Greeks, but also the French, Serbs, Russians and Italians for the freedom of Greece and to enter their own participation in a major poetry and music competition.

Program Managers:

For the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle: Stavroula Mavrogeni, General Secretary of the IMMA 

For the British Council: Maria Tsakali, Head Education Greece / Head Thessaloniki Office