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Periodicals : Exhibition of Contemporary Art Professors and teachers of the School of Fine Arts, A.P.Th. ( 2011), Meliki Exhibition with engraving works by Vasos Katrakis, Meliki (2012) Christos Tsolakis "Nekyia"- Painting exhibition, books, publications, documentaries, Meliki (2013) Political Cartoons, Vassilis Christodoulou- Nikos Terzis (2014), Meliki "Alexander & Rigas - The Map of Riga", authentic Maps for Imathia and antiques 1750-1830, 2021 Meliki Είμαστε χαρούμενοι! Μία ακόμη ενδιαφέρουσα συνέργεια εγκαινιάζει το Εθνογραφικό μας Κέντρο. Μετά την συνεργασία μας με το πανεπιστήμιο Climent Ohridski της Σόφιας, σειρά έχει το κορυφαίο πανεπιστήμιο Sapienza της Ρώμης, Laboratorio Studi Neogreci Mirsini Zorba και θέμα «Κρεβάτια. Από τον Κ.Π. Καβάφη στον Γ. Ιωάννου και στο ολοκαύτωμα». Η ελληνική ποίηση-λογοτεχνία μέσα από εικαστική-installation προσέγγιση! Πρόκειται για μία από τις συλλογές του Εθνογραφικού μας Κέντρου, η οποία σύντομα θα ταξιδέψει και σε άλλες χώρες της Ευρώπης, αλλά και στην Ελλάδα.

Conferences- Conferences Conference "Printmaking in education", Meliki 2012 Conference in collaboration with "Filologos" magazine: Christos Tsolakis "Nekyia" Conference "End of Agra. Nine months of struggle in Macedonia. September 1906- June 1907", Meliki 2021 Conference: "Rugatsia-Rusalia" Ethnographic Center Collaboration with University of Ioannina (Department of Folk and Traditional Music) & the "Rousalia" Association of Petritsiou Bulgaria, Meliki 2021. Speeches on the subject of "Zournas in the Balkans" - Rugatsia-Rusalia relations. "Rumlouki during the 19th and 20th centuries". Local History Day in collaboration with EMIPI, Meliki 2022 "A road mask. Works by students and teachers of the 3rd Sculpture workshop and Engraving group of the Visual and Applied Arts department of AUTH. Exhibition with works by Vassos Katrakis. Exhibition of masks from the popular event "Kalogeros" - G. Vizyinos, Meliki 2022 "Thracian Kalogeros. Historical-anthropological-literary approach. Dawkings Photography Exhibition 1906 and "Kalogeros" contemporary event in Meliki, 2023 "Heritages. From Mount Athos in Strandza. Sighs: Hereditary heterogeneities", Meliki 2023 "Aspects of Culture in Western Macedonia. The settlements of the Mouriki-Siniatsiko mountains. Markos Dragoumis : Recordings 1965 in the area - Presentation cd. Conference about "The kid in tradition".

Giorgis Melikis: Journalist-Researcher of Folk Culture-Producer of television shows - founder of the Giorgis Melikis Ethnographic Center - Mask Research Center.

They said about us Carolos Papoulias: "With your authentic and serious research into the tradition, the Greece of our Soul and heart is highlighted" Dora Stratou 1977: "It is very important for young people and in their youth to be recognized for their work, like you" Samuel Beau Bowie: "You're doing a great job, I'm glad you're teaching me about Macedonia. Remember me!" Phoebus Anogianakis: "My honey, you have passion and stubbornness" Markos Dragoumis: "I consider Melikis to be a leading scholar of traditional music in Northern Greece. His shows are the most interesting on Greek television" Domna Samiou: "My George, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I envy all your work. I admire you bro" Dimitris Pandermalis: "Melikis connects to today what I knew from antiquity". Manolis Andronikos: "You didn't become an archaeologist but you are a great recorder and folklorist" Dinos Christianopoulos: "I admire and envy Melikis at the same time. He does things that are not easily done in Greece, for things that are lost. He stubbornly persists" Dimitris Themelis: "I worked with Melikis. He is a great researcher and connoisseur of tradition. His offer for our music and dance things is great. His offer is priceless" Christos Tsolakis: "Melikis is tradition itself! She sings great, she talks to ease all the language idioms and clichés. My friend George does not record the tradition but nurtures and magnifies it. It is a significant and emblematic form for our popular culture. I can't find a truer exponent of it" Dimitris Dimitriadis: "Giorgis honors me with his friendship. He is not a man who is opposed to tradition and authenticity. He has her in him. He is a model researcher. It teaches us that we must dream of tradition. The past for Melikis is a continuous present" Thomas Korovinis: "Yorgis is a perceptive person who set goals and visions from a very early age, which he implemented. He created an original work. He is a primary researcher” Angeliki Kottaridi: "Yorgis is an operator himself. It is an element of the place. He does not describe rites, but he performs the rites himself. It overcomes limits by stepping on fire. It is the means to get in touch with ancient ceremonies and ancient events" Rena Loutzakis: "Laikos Chimonas and many of his recordings are exemplary. For everything good and different I was "forced" to buy his publications. It represents reality" Kate Kamilaki: "I have known Melikis as a folklorist since the 70s. I really appreciate him and he has had an enviable career so far" Kostas Tsianos: "Melikis' recordings are amazing, unique. She reminds me of Samiu, but he does more things now. It worthily continues the story of Merlieu, Dora Stratou, Simon Karras, Samiou, Anogianakis and Papantoniou" Alexandra Goulaki-Voutiras: "Melikis is also a good painter. He does not stay at the level of a naive performance or popular expression, but uses various means with comfort and ingenuity. A tambourine turns into a tree and resists the wind. Instruments play. The trumpet fills the blue of the sea, houses and instruments travel" Rula Alavera: "I met Melikis through my husband Telemachus Alavera, but mainly through Alki Kyriakidou-Nestoros who valued him very much not only as a folklorist, but mainly as a practitioner of ethnology" Agathon Iakovidis: "Melikis is a blessing for Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece" Philip Grapsas: "A big thank you, George Melikis, for all that you offer us. History without song does not exist and you write history" Achilleas Tsiaras: "Giorgis considers me one of his spiritual children"

Book Presentations I. Moschopoulos " Rumlouki (Campania) during the late Ottoman rule (1830-1900), 2019 "MASKS" Giorgis Melikis Collection. Photos by Dimitris Louzikiotis. Folklore & Ethnographic Museum of Macedonia-Thrace, 2019

GROUND FLOOR Center of Intangible Cultural Heritage. - Offices Exhibition: "The child in tradition". Exhibition: "Customs of our place". Our publications. Library with approximately 12,000 book titles and manuscripts of leading writers such as Kostis Palamas, Yiannis Vlachogiannis, Myrtiotissas, Delmouzou, Ritsou, Shaktouri, Vlachogianni, Papanoutsou, Christianopoulou, Negreponti, Hatzikyriakou-Ghika, M. Anagnostaki, Zyranas Zateli, Didos Sotiriou, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Sofias Mavroidi-Papadaki, M. Rasoulis, Elytis, Koumantou, Doras Stratou, Th. Fotiadis, T. Varvitsiotis, Nezeriti, Marcoglou, Panselinou, G.P. Savvidi, D. Loukatou, 'Alkis Kyriakidou- Nestoros, etc. COURTYARD SPACE Hall - multi-room with all the logistical infrastructure (lighting, sound, projector, seats, panels, speaker's platform, etc.) with a capacity of 70 seats for conferences, book presentations, small musical ensembles, screenings, teachings, seminars, educational programs, etc. Gallery for periodical exhibitions and installations. Rooftop for outdoor exhibitions of sculpture and other applied arts. Outdoor activities, such as a fixed large projection screen, lighting, and a space with a capacity of 250 people. Shop with the publications of the Center. FIRST FLOOR Exhibition: "Offerings of Worship - Human stories". "Anastenaria". This Collection is unique and counts over 2,500 tamas of popular worship from Roman times to the present day. It is the most famous natural area of Anastenaria, since it functions as a Konaki SECOND FLOOR Exhibition: 120 Masks. Warehouses of our collections.

MASKS "Mask" or "Face" are archetypal form and expression in Greek popular events. The core of the Mask Research Center is the collection of 120 so far functional "face" masks from all over Greece. Based and starting from the 120 masks that we have as a personal collection, scientific knowledge, documentation and popular know-how (photos, videos, narratives, descriptions, testimonies, publications, etc.) we set up the Mask Research Center (KEM). Balkan Masks In the full-national collection of Greek masks and considering a common place of performative magico-religious actions in the area of the Balkans and the Black Sea, in recent years we have put together a collection with corresponding to the Greek masks from events and ceremonies of the inhabitants of the Balkans. The common near-temporal performance of the folk events of the Twelve Days in the Christian world of the Balkans lends a pandemic celebratory atmosphere which may seemingly differ in its particularities, but the core remains the same. Research, record, interact and present.

Shop In our small shop, the publications of the Center are available as well as objects of folk tradition.

Maps Old maps from 1450 to 1930 where the main reference point is the Aigais.

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Painting exhibition with works by G. Melikis at Atrion, Thessaloniki (2005) Giorgis Melikis "...when the goulian met the susourada!!! In a Turkish-Jewish inn." Bensusan Khan, Thessaloniki (2010) Painting Exhibition of Giorgis Melikis "Erotic" Ianos (2011) Byzantine Museum of Veria "Masks" Byzantine Museum of Veria "My Lady" Gallery "Eirmos" Thessaloniki "the Minotaur" Khalil Bey Mosque "All of the Walls", Kavala Byzantine Museum of Veria K.P. Cavafy "Incomplete questions something uncertain memories" Archaeological Museum of Polygyros Halkidiki "Masks" K.P. Cavafy "Remember, Body... the beds you made sideways", ART Thessaloniki Exhibition of Masks at MIET Thessaloniki Masks Art Thessaloniki Masks in Salamis LEMTH masks Masks Elafonisos 2022