Fairy tales of winter and Christmas
How many little animals can fit into a house as small as a glove? How many pots of chickpea soup can fit into a goblin-basin? Who will pay the price for a goblin who was hit by himself? Ultimately, what is the best way to celebrate Christmas? Surely, the best way is through fairy tales! Join us in celebrating and preparing ourselves for Christmas with fairy tales about the cold of wintertime and the attendant advent of goblins, as well as with carols from all over Greece.
The narration is in Greek
Maya-Myriam Papageorgiou
A music and theatre educator, she works with groups of children. She is a graduate of the School of Music Technology of the Dept of Sound Technology & Musical Instruments of the Ionian Islands' TEI and holds a postgraduate degree in “Drama and Performing Arts in Education and Lifelong Learning” of the University of Peloponnese. She has trained in Theatrical Play and Theatre Pedagogy at the three-year workshop of sxoleiopaixnidiou.gr, and in Children’s Early Musical Development under the "Musica in Culla" (Music In Crib) method in Rome. She has also trained by Stathis Markopoulos in the construction and animation of puppets, as she loves using them as a tool for working with children as well as playing puppet theatre herself.
She has been a member of the Music Village international musical community and is a member of the aagigmakaioria.gr group against children’s sexual abuse, and is co-author of the fairy tale “Little shell, it’s not your fault”.
In recent years she works with institutions like the Athens Concert Hall, the Greek National Opera, Fougaro, Nefeli Publishing and the Anargyreos & Korgialeneios School of Spetses on shows for young children and as animator in educational programmes.
Angeliki Agalianou
Born in Zakynthos, Angeliki Agalianou has a diploma in classical piano (Nikos Skalkotas Conservatory), has trained in piano teaching at the Ionian University and is a graduate of English Language & Literature from the University of Athens. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Intercultural Communication & Education from Newcastle University, and is a graduate of the School of Narrative Art of e-mythos.eu. Since 2017 she runs music and narration shows, educational programmes and workshops based on storytelling for children and adults in collaboration with Greek and foreign institutions (Athens Concert Hall, Goethe Institut, Greek Embassy in Brussels, Music Village, Reading to Others, e-mythos.eu, etc.). She is a moderator for Tedx Zakynthos since 2024. From 2019 to 2021 she co-produced with Eleanna Hatzaki the radio show «Δώσ’ της φούρλα να γυρίσει». She is a founding member of Miliá, a non-profit society for folk tradition and contemporary art which has been collaborating since 2021 with municipalities and institutions in Greece and abroad on storytelling shows and festivals. In 2023, as part of the “Stories in the Air” programme funded by Erasmus+, Miliá and the French institution L’Arbre à Histoires, she conducted storytelling workshops at pek-amea.gr. In 2020-2021 she worked as researcher of oral history with istorima, where she is now an editor. From 2022 to this day she works with Eleanna Hatzaki in recording oral folk testimonies from the Malevizio region of Crete. Fairy tales she has edited are included in collections published by Apopeira. Her original screenplay for the production «Τριώ γενιώνε ριζικό, τριώ γυναικών ορμήνειες» of the Folk Theatre of Zakynthos was published by Periplous in 2018.