Sending along the spring schedule for celebrating the arts!
Happy Spring!
With the coming of spring, we invite you to our annual festival of
the arts!
May 1, 7:30 pm - Daphnis and Chloe, Greek silent film, based on the
famous Greek novel of the 2nd Century A.D. by Longus, thought to be
from the island of Lesvos. With the cooperation of the Athens Film
Archive, at the Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, Room B04,
Harvard University. Nikos Panou, PhD, will introduce the film. Open
to the public.
May 10-30 - A Return to the Homeland - 2 Greek American Photographers
- Garyfallia Pagonis and George Panagakos. Photographs of Greece in
the Gallery at The Greek Institute, 1038 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge. Opening reception May 10, 4-7 pm, Viewing times: Tuesday
through Friday 1-5 pm or by appointment.
May 12, 7:30 pm - "MORE EROS - GREEK SONGS" performed by The Greek
Music Ensemble at the Little Kresge Theater, MIT, 48 Massachusetts
Avenue, Cambridge. Cost: $20, General Admission, $10, Students.
Tickets may also be purchased by calling 617.547.4770
May 19, 7:30 pm - "Ships of Mercy: The True Story of the Rescue of
the Greeks, Smyrna, September 1922" presented by author, Chris
Papoutsy. Books will be available. Open to the public.
June, 2008 - HYPSIPYLE, play by Euripides in an English translation
by Athan Anagnostopoulos. This work is based on the reconstruction
and translation of the original Greek fragments into Modern Greek by
Tasos Roussos. Cover design and ink drawings by Catherine Kernan.
Published by The Greek Institute. Cost: $18. May be purchased online
by visiting www.thegreekinstitute.org
Maria Anagnostopoulos
Program Director
The Greek Institute
1038 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
ph. 617-547-4770
fax 617-661-9150
www.thegreekinstitute.org
Skopelos and Virgin
-by Skorda
when first you see it
across the water,
rising round and new above the mountain.
Open your mouth and swallow
while youth holds its roundness near,
and you are running fearless in the dark.
Hold it inside, it is still warm
and you will need its light,
there, inside you.
Down the road of time, somewhere
after you’ve aged, traveled,
Explored, discovered.
And the dust around your doorway
has been pounded hard and smooth under your feet.
When you find yourself growing weary and bored,
when your eyes see only ruins,
and your heart is empty.
You may believe, in your exhaustion,
that this is truth, at last.
That the mystery has unraveled,
leaving no wilderness to explore or tame.
All secrets have been shared,
the frontier has dissolved.
Know then, with these thoughts,
you have been swallowed.
The warm belly of the beast
comforts with confining darkness
and lulls with rhythmic sounds
Murmuring to you,
Curl up and sleep,
just go to sleep.
Shake your head,
stretch your legs,
do not sleep now.
Remember what you know.
You swallowed the moon,
you hold it inside you.
Not as a magpie hoarding shiny things,
or wearing the moon for beauty
or bartering the moon for wealth.
You swallowed the moon for this moment.
When you will walk to the water’s edge,
open your mouth, release the moon
and let its light build you a pathway
across the wine dark sea.
©Skorda 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Greek Institute, Cambridge, MA
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