Balkans. Thessaloniki. Human Rights. Youth Participation.
Thess questions is a interview podcast dealing with a variety of topics. It’s all about hearing from different perspectives, in the houses and streets of Thessaloniki. The first episode deals with the topic introversion and extroversion. We will hear the scientific theory behind it, talk about stereotypes and prejudice as well as how it’s also […]
In this episode, we will talk about how the musicians who migrated from Anatolia to Greece in this period influenced the culture of music in Piraeus, Athens and Thessaloniki in the formation of rebetiko. Today, We will focus on Vangeliz Papazoğlu, one of the most important rebetiko artists of the period, and Rosa Eskenazi, one […]
What was special about the Rebetika song?Rebetika is a musical genre that turns into a cultural heritage element from the music of a marginalized group, as a lifestyle, a subculture and a life perspective. Rebetika can be defined as the musical state of life. Sometimes a sweet however often bitter kind of music. The lyrics […]
Rebetika was the music of the Greek underground. The lyrics reflected their surroundings, poverty, pain, drug addiction, police oppression, prison, unrequited love, betrayal and hashish. It’s the lifestyle and perspective of a subculture stretching from Asia Minor to Greece, from Smyrna to Piraeus… The aim of the program is to introduce the rebetika artists who […]
For more resources about suicide prevention go to:https://www.13reasonswhytoolkit.org/Today’s topic is a bit of a difficult one. We will talk about suicide and our personal stories. Venni is talking about his friend who committed twice with the second being sadly successful. Vaso will talk about her experience with depression, anxiety and being suicidal. Last but not […]
In this episode we talk about anxiety and how it affected our lives. Some of us are diagnosed with anxiety disorder, some of us take medication for it and chose psychotherapy others focused on a different approach. There is no right or wrong way, we are all different but if something isn’t effective we should […]
This podcast will dive in to the topic of covid and lonileness. The topics will address how an old lady in Finland lost it all and had to deal with so much pain all by herself, Vaso explaining of her own fear of people during Covid and Salome talking about how life changed for her […]
Mental Health Without Borders – Episode 1: Addictions This series of podcast will focus on different aspects of mental health such as addictions and loneliness and combine the different stories from Georgia, Greece and Finland. In this first episode we introduce ourselves and we talk about addictions: phone, cigarette and gambling and how they all […]
On 24th of February, history, with its merciless violence, opened the door to war in Europe. I cannot pretend not to see what is happening. I cannot pretend not to hear. But I’m afraid to take a stand because I’m afraid not to understand the reality. I’m afraid to take a stand from my privileged […]
I will share a little secret with you: you can volunteer abroad, get out of your comfort zone, learn a new language and live a unique experience…without any cost!How? With the European Solidarity Corps! Join Roberto Gentile’s journey and you will discover what makes this volunteer opportunity different through the fears and joys that arise […]
