On Sunday 10th November 2024, omilos Eksipiretiton (The Servers’ Society) received an award for its social and cultural work!
The International Cultural Non-Profit Organisation “TO KAFENIO TON IDEON” (The Café of Ideas) held its 41st awards ceremony, where it awarded the golden medals “Alexander the Great” and “Vergina” to eminent entities and personalities of Literature, the Arts, the Sciences, Sports and Contribution to Society, from Greece and from all around the world.
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In a beautiful event at the Town Hall of Salamina, 希腊, the President of the “Kafeneio ton Ideon”, wisdom and clay”, distinguished writer, journalist and director, along with his associates, awarded the “Alexander the Great” medal to Omilos, thereby recognising the work Omilos does and its contribution to society.
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先生. Nasos Maniatis, the Secretary of Omilos’ Board of Directors, received the award for Omilos and read the greeting – thank you speech of the President of Omilos, as he himself was unable to attend.
“Good evening to all,
Unfortunately, due to unforeseeable circumstances, I was unable to attend tonight, but I would like to share some thoughts with you.
omilos Eksipiretiton (The Servers’ Society) has a multifaceted and multifarious activity. We work in many fields and at various levels, 总是无私地, but today I would like to focus primarily on our cultural work.
Our country – like any other country – cannot develop and evolve without the continuous expression of its culture in all its forms.For this reason, 在OMILOS Eksipiretiton, we work steadily for the establishment and expansion of the Greek culture, showcasing the work of contemporary Greek poets and writers through events we carry out both in Greece and abroad, at which events we not only present their work but, more importantly, we deepen into it, thus bringing out the hidden wisdom that exists in the words and meanings. 先生. Koubatis, in fact, is one of the distinguished spiritual people of our country whose work we have presented.
But the work of older writers has also been featured and continues to be featured through the analyses of their poems and short stories in our books, while at the same time, we are constantly publishing new books, which we are happy to tell you are being translated and distributed worldwide. We have already reached agreements for the exclusive translation and distribution of our books in Arabic for the entire world, for the co-publication of our books with a well-known publisher in India and all of South Asia, and we are also in talks with publishers from the United States and various European countries who are interested in our books.
There is a lot that is happening… We are participating in international conferences, writing academic articles, our method for analysing poetry is being used by teachers in schools, and we give talks and presentations on the Arts, the Sciences and Philosophy.
然而, I would like to take a couple of minutes to focus particularly on one of our activities within the scope of Omilos’ selfless offer. And that is our theatrical group. A group that, since the founding of Omilos in 1980, has been preparing and presenting selflessly children’s theatrical performances in institutions, orphanages, children’s hospitals, homes for people with autism, intellectual disabilities, mobility issues, 等等. The group goes to those places where children who, for whatever reason, cannot easily access entertainment, setting up an entire theatrical performance, bringing to them the magic of theatre and fairytales, not because we are doing some charity work, but because we see and believe in the inner strength of each child, regardless of the difficulties they may be facing at that particular moment.
所以, I would like to greet tonight’s event and thank you for this award, 因为, in addition to honouring us by recognising the work of Omilos, this institution gives prominence to the work of individuals and entities working for Greek culture and the evolution of the Human Being.
The President of Omilos Eksipiretiton”
We warmly thank Mr Koubatis, President of the “Kafeneio ton Ideon”, and his associates for the acknowledgment of our work and the honour!
