POETIC ROADS-Creative Writing Workshop

On Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, writers and literary figures Polleta Psychogyiopoulou and Eleni Kofterou will participate in the action with a three-hour Creative Writing Workshop that has inspired and animated. This workshop is entitled “Talking Buildings of Kalamata: Poetic Stories of Memory, Stone and Love” and is held in collaboration with the organiser KALLIERGON syn and the Kalamata Public Library. It will take place in the Reading Room of the Public Library (5th floor), lasting from 17.00 to 20.00. It is a game of historical empathy and artistic interpretation of the past, through the eyes of those who... do not speak, but have a lot to say.

NOTE: Participation is free. The number of places is limited; for this reason, it is necessary to reserve a seat by sending a message to [email protected] with the indication "Participation in the Creative Writing Workshop". Priority is respected.

MAIN IDEA OF THE WORKSHOP: Participants are invited to choose a historical, old or special building in Kalamata and give it a voice: to express themselves poetically as if the building itself were speaking. Through the power of personification and creative imagination, the building comes to life: What has it seen? What does it remember? What does it feel like? Which people have passed by it? Who loved it and who has forgotten it?

Poetic expression can take various forms: trolleto, villanelle, tanka (Japanese poetry), acrostic in free verse, free verse, prose.

PAEDAGOGICAL AND CULTURAL VALUE: cultivation of creative writing and imagination, connection of literature and especially poetry with local history and culture, strengthening of observation, empathy and poetic expression, opportunity for an interdisciplinary approach (Literature, History, Aesthetic Education)

More about the action "POETIC ROADS", as well as the program of parallel events, can be found at the link: https://poiitikoidromoi.gr