Writers Edition

Athens: The international launch of ‘The Adventures of Roulis Nefroulis’ was held on July 2, at 8 pm at the Event Hall of Serafio of the Municipality of Athens under the auspices of the City of Athens. A number of prominent personalities, representatives of the literary field, the academic community, distinguished representatives from the field of Medicine and other scientific fields as well as representatives of the state attended the programme.

‘The Adventures of Roulis Nefroulis’ a tale by Elena Magiati-Karabi and Pantelis Hatzis tells the story of “Roulis Nefroulis”, which is available for free distribution to children undergoing treatment in nephrology units in the country. The national launching of the book published by Writers International Edition was held on June 4 in Naoussa, Greece.

The international launching event was coordinated by Saia Tsaousidou, International President of the Association of European Journalists AEJ. The former Minister of Insurance and Labor Dimitris Stratoulis, Dr. Theodoros Hiras, Nephrologist at Sismanogleio General Hospital of Attica, and Theofanis Apostolou, former President & current Scientific Associate of the Hellenic Nephrological Society, talked about the book. Eleni Barbalia, a graduate of the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory, recited dramatized excerpts from the book. Authors Elena Magiati-Karabi and Pantelis Hatzis talked about the tale, which touched the delicate strings of young and old, as well as the major issue of organ donation, while Linguist and litterateur Prof. Irene Doura-Kavadia spoke on behalf of the Editions.

The Award Ceremony of the Panorama International Literature Festival International conducted by Writers Capital International Foundation was also held along with the book launch. The world record-winning programme was held from 1-31 January this year gathering writers from 65 countries and 6 continents.

Secretary-General of Writers Capital International Foundation Prof. Irene Doura-Kavadia presented the awards to the Greek awardees. Along with the Panorama awards, the Golden Book Awards 2022, as well as the International Women’s Awards 2021-22 were also presented to esteemed Greek authors and Ladies who excelled in their field and placed themselves in the service of humanity.

Athens: The national launching of the much-celebrated Tale “The Adventures of Roulis Nephroulis, the Little Kidney” by Elena Magiati-Karabi and Pantelis Hatzis will be held at ERIA Hall, Naoussa on June 4. The event will host a number of prominent literary figures.

The event will host a number of prominent literary figures as well as honourable representatives from the field of medicine and other scientific fields. Stella Arabatzi, Pathology Specialist Maria Kolvatzi and nursing faculty Aphrodite Lapavitsa will speak during the event. Former Minister of Employment Dimitris Stratoulis, Co-author of the book Elena Magiati-Karabi, Nephrologist and the medical editor of the book Theodoros Chiras and Writers International Edition Editor-in-chief Irene Doura-Kavadia will address the event virtually. Georgina Athanassiou and Sofia Zisiopoulou will read the excerpts of the book.

The book that tells the story of Roulis Nephroulis is published for free distribution among children who are under treatment for various ailments in the country. “Reading books or engaging children in activities similar to this are inevitable while trying to bring them back to a healthy life,” said authors Elena Magiati-Karabi and Pantelis Hatzis. “While children are the future of any country, we believe that this project will benefit a number of children across the nation thus preparing the country with healthy citizens,” they added.

The Writers Capital International Foundation’s prestigious Global Icon of Literature Awards 2022 will be presented to the Greek poet, writer and cultural activist Antonis Samiotakis. In a press release, the jury said that the award is considering his overall contributions in the field of literature, arts and culture.

Antonis Samiotakis, a great litterateur, is a cosmopolitan monk from Greece. His mental and psychical placement towards life is, with holiness to human beings, dignity, human virtues and ideas. He has been brought up in a family coming as a refugee from Izmir, when it was Hellenic and a grandfather who had a textile factory.

After coming to Greece, they had a new factory again but after the German attack 1941-42 they lost it again, leaving his father a trainman while Antonis was brought up in Oinoi, near Athens, and then in the suburbs of Piraeus. Being in fact poor, he was “fermented” with poverty and human needs, in order to be educated and develop to a free person.

He found himself as a newspaper delivery boy and during the years around 1985-1990, he became a councilman at the most densely populated municipality of Athens, the city of Kokkinia. He played a major role in establishing important cultural centres, musical school and theatrical school departments, spiritual centres and many more schools of literature and Arts.

In this way, Kokkinia became the “lighthouse” for other towns which started creating such departments and educating people in all aspects, and this became a bright period of time for Municipal activities. With his inner culture and sensitive heart he started to examine his own world. He became a mentor for people who studied Poetry, a Critic, and a Director too, as he has written theatrical plays as well.

A philanthropist by nature, he deals with African organizations to alleviate people’s pain in addition to other individual activities. He is the founder of the Peiramatic Museum of Literature, which has stood with his own money for the last 10 years, with private collections of paintings and sculptures dedicated to the Poetry and the history of Kokkinia, the town he adores. As a journalist for many years, he has acquired an unmistakable criterion for things remarkable about culture and humanization. The emblem of the museum is the owl, which in Greece is the symbol of wisdom.

The prestigious Panorama International Literature Awards for the year 2022 was announced today. The awards instituted by the Writers Capital Foundation are dedicated to the best entries during the Panorama International Literature Festival held from 1-31 January this year.

The awards are instituted in 4 categories – Panorama Golden Award for the best presentation, Panorama Literary for the best 15 entries, Panorama International Youth Awards for  10 writers from the youth category, Special Jury Awards for 10 writers and Panorama International Prodigy Award for the best in children’s category.

Panorama Literary Awards 2022

Panorama Golden Book Awards 2022

Along with Panorama International Literary awards, winners of Panorama Golden Book Awards were also declared. Check the results here:

“Compared to previous years, the competition was tough this year, and so was the selection process,” said the jury. “There were more than four hundred participants from across the world where most of the works exhibited superior quality with reference to the theme ‘Shoonya: The Celestial Void’,” the jury added.

The Panorama International Literature Festival and Panorama International Arts and Sculpture Festival (PIAF) are signature programmes of the Writers Capital Foundation to help spread humanitarian values across the globe. PIAF 2022 will be conducted from 1-31 of July with the theme War & Peace, said the organisers.

The Penteli Children’s Hospital welcomed warmly the tale “The Adventures of Roulis Nefroulis, the Little Kidney” by Elena Karabi and Pantelis Hatzis.

The Doctor who supported the tale from the very beginning and also adapted the texts in the most proper way, the Nephrologist of Sismanogleio Hospital, Dr. Theodoros Hiras, in cooperation with the Pediatrician Ms. Mylona Fani who runs the Nephrology Clinic at the said Hospital, offered the book to the young patients.

According to Ms. Mylona, ​​the fairy tale impressed her because “it conveys the message of hope with absolute success and in fact in a literary perfect and above all true way, unexpectedly offering a ray of light inside the stone buildings in these difficult years of the life of our little friends.”

The search for aliens has been as old as the human race itself. Scientists from across the world have been trying to find traces of life on another planet. Latest in the series of experiments, NASA is doing something that no one might have ever done!

According to reports, NASA scientists are planning to send naked pictures of humans into space. The scientists believe that a proper contact can be established with another life form, which has been tried and failed for 150 years, by sending a pixelated illustration of a naked woman and man waving “hello”, in an attempt to look inviting.

The ongoing experiment is a part of a project called the ‘Beacon in the Galaxy’ (BITG) which aims to send a message to other space civilisations inviting them to contact humans. Apart from the pixelated illustrations, the scientists have also included a portrayal of gravity and DNA. Scientists believe a binary-coded message is most likely to be understood by aliens.

“Though the concept of mathematics in human terms is potentially unrecognizable to extra-terrestrial intelligence, binary is likely universal across all intelligence. Binary is the simplest form of mathematics as it involves only two opposing states: zero and one, yes or no, black or white, mass or empty space” the scientists said in their official project document.

The proposed message includes basic mathematical and physical concepts to establish a universal means of communication followed by information on the biochemical composition of life on Earth, the Solar System’s time-stamped position in the Milky Way relative to known globular clusters, as well as digitized depictions of the Solar System, and Earth’s surface,” they added.

In the context of the initiatives of the Race for the cure in Rome (Circo Massimo, 5-8 May 2022) on 5 May – 5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m., at the Conference Area will take place THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS AND WORDS. Presentation of the Sixth Edition of the Poetry Competition “Fino in Fondo”.

The initiative aims to promote poetry as a tool to support those who live in painful situations related to illness, loneliness, death, suffering, abandonment, because it allows them to represent, process and transform to share with others even the most intimate and painful thoughts, thus reducing their destructive force.

The meeting is open to all. Special guests are “women in pink”, women who have faced or are experiencing breast cancer.
In the first part of the meeting, Maresa Berliri (volunteer, Komen Italia), Marinella Linardos (psycho-oncologist, Centro Integrato di Senologia Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli) and Arianna Saggio (Libero Pensiero) will address the theme of the “therapeutic” use of writing and poetry and will present the Sixth Edition of the poetry competition “Fino in Fondo”, open until 10 September 2022. The competition, organised by the Libero Pensiero association in support of the Komen Italia initiatives, intends to valorise Poetry remembering Francesca Voi, a young girl who fought for a long time against a terrible disease “Fino in Fondo”. The promotion of this Sixth Edition is supported by the Writers Capital International Foundation, the Cultural Association “Di Terra e di Parole”, the National Association of War Invalids and Mutilated – Barletta Branch, the National Association of Fighters and Veterans – Barletta Branch.

In the second part of the meeting, the participants will be given the opportunity to write one of their emotions, one of their thoughts using the form that each of them will prefer (a motto, a short poem, an aphorism, a sentence, etc.). The writings will then be shared with those present and subsequently published on the Fino in Fondo – https://www.facebook.com/premio.finoinfondo Facebook page.

After the grand success of the first Poetry Box, winner of the “Maestri a Milano 2022” award, the artist Filippo Papa in collaboration with the poet and writer Joan Josep Barcelo presented “Poetry Box 2” in Italy. The performance attracted hundreds of lovers of poetry and arts.

The performance aims to represent love, the contact and the strength of poetry, basing its solid roots on the concept of “FREEDOM”. Papa with the expression of his body and Barcelo with the power of the word will tell a story steeped in “soul”.

Poetry Box 2 = Poetry Box al quadrato

The addition of the number 2 on the title indicates the second edition of the performance and also the “al quadrato” evolution towards a higher concept. Historical facts tell us about prisons of ideas and freedom, which paradoxically can lead the individual to a prison of inner solitude. The art within this scenario can make us reflect on society, its dynamics and tell us about them. Papa and Barcelo take the performative act already expressed with the first “Poetry box” to the next level. A “universal” message is born from the complaint of violence against women. A “SCREAM AGAINST VIOLENCE”.

The performance took place within the edition of the “1st Biennale Internazionale di Asti”. In the event organized by Pablo Toussaint and Romina Tondo together with the critic Roberto Portinari, Papa remained closed again in the transparent box, already signed by the passage of the first poets who wrote on it, accompanied by Barcelo’s poems, where instinctively perked up upon hearing his words. Unlike the first performance, we saw a new element take over as the performer entered the box with his smartphone and photographed the outside world from inside his transparent prison.

The act of photographing has a double interpretation, the first linked to the professional figure of Papa who in addition to being a performer is a photographer, while the second mentions the world of social networks and the daily act of sharing the world around us. Paradoxically, if they are abused, social networks can become a prison of being as reality and the way of life is distorted and the boundary between fiction and reality becomes more and more unstable. Freedom of thought and speech are incorporated in this so-called “metaverse”.

At the end of the performance, after Barcelo’s readings, all the guests of the event in a choral act of love wrote a meaningful sentence on the box, also becoming an indelible trace in which time, body and soul have merged.

Poetry Box remains as an installation

The “Box” remained as an installation within the exhibition spaces of the Asti art gallery in Asti. All visitors to the biennale will be able to leave a message of love, peace and freedom both inside and outside the box itself.