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The Ethnographic Center has a particular sensitivity and orientation towards the Balkans and the Black Sea. It deals with and presents important findings from three major and popular topics. A. Anastenaria, where the natural space (konaki) is on the first floor of our Center. With special space for the konaki and the icons, we have put together a collection that is perhaps the largest inside and outside of Greece with more than 2,500 tamas of popular worship from Roman times to the present day. B. The Thracian Kalogero, a significant event of popular worship which was first recorded in 1879 by Georgios Vizyinos. The entire action with its performing troupe and its magico-religious masks in an interactive development with projections and information as it still survives in Meliki by the local Thracians from the village of Kosti in Thrace. C. Balkan Masks In the complete national collection of Greek masks and considering the area of the Balkans and the Black Sea as a common place of performative magico-religious actions in recent years, we have put together a collection with corresponding 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. The Giorgis Melikis Ethnographic Center - Mask Research Center has collaborated until today with exhibitions, announcements, synergies, installations with the Ministry of Culture (Archaeological Authority of Antiquities of Imathia, Halkidiki), National Bank Educational Foundation, Universities of AUT, Macedonia, Ioannina, Thessaly, Municipality of Thessaloniki, Salamina , Polygyrou, Kavala, Folklore and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, ART Thessaloniki, ERT, galleries etc. He has organized exhibitions with works by Professors of the School of Fine Arts of AUTH, an exhibition with engraving works by Vassos Katrakis, an exhibition in memory of Christos Tsolakis, an exhibition with masks at the Byzantine Museum of Veria, an exhibition with masks at the archaeological museum of Polygyros, an exhibition with masks at the Folklore Museum and the Ethnological Museum of Macedonia, an exhibition of masks at the Salamis Town Hall, an installation on the theme of Kavafis, etc.

Our Meliki Permanent exhibition with the musical instruments, the local costume, designs by Aggeliki Hatzimichalis, photos from the Benaki Museum, "the katsouli", Textiles - dowries, customs.

Events All the "events" of the region take place at the Ethnographic Center: Lazarines, Rogatsia, Kalogeros, Anastenaria, Helidonismata, Kalandistimos Other actions Cooperation with Primary and Secondary Education for issues related to local History-Folkography.

In recent years, an association "Friends of the Giorgis Melikis Ethnographic Center - Mask Research Center" was established, which organizes important events, such as screenings and workshops, lectures, musical evenings, etc. The aim of our actions is to generate greater extroversion and cooperation and to establish that Meliki, as a sample of the Greek province, can and does achieve goals, visions and cultural projects.

Donated Collections -Archive of Alkis Kyriakidou – Nestoros - Archive of Pantelis Kavakopoulos -Dimitris Ioannou -Iraklis Lappas

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.

"Masks" Its purpose is the presentation - revelation to the public with exhibitions in Greece and abroad, screenings, publications, constructions and presentations of a significant and special popular magical-religious-metaphysical and interactive cultural element and the employment of scientists, researchers, folklorists, archaeologists, visual artists , conservators, folk makers, musicians and makers of folk instruments, as well as the creative-educational employment and knowledge of pupils and students. ASTENARIA-OFFERINGS Here and in time and when the custom dictates it, the whole ritual of anastenaria begins and ends. "Thracian Kalogeros: From George Vizyinos to Dawkins and today's Kostilides of Meliki" "Alexander-Rigas-Cavafis"

The purpose of the "Ethnographic Center Giorgis Melikis - Mask Research Center" is the research, finding, evaluation, processing, enrichment, utilization and promotion of the single and integral body of our primary oral and artistic folk tradition, with procedures based on principles, rules and values beyond any casual commercialization. In particular, the approach with historical and aesthetic sensitivity of the thousands of personal and other on-site authentic records, which constitute the basic trusts and at the same time the diverse trunk of a long-standing intellectual, scientific and artistic research that moves at the limits of collective memory. The basic purpose is also that all this material processed, whether in primary form or enriched, returns through various technical means such as books, records, concerts, exhibitions, productions, etc. to the creator of the people. The purposes include, by way of indication and not limitation, the organization of concerts, workshops, conferences, training seminars, indoor and outdoor exhibitions with school visits, etc. as well as the editing of books, magazines and publications related to the subjects of our primary oral and artistic folk tradition. The connection with University andTechnical Foundations, Institutes or Research Centers abroad with the aim, through the exchange of persons, experiences, knowledge, materials and opinions, to improve the research and comparative field. To achieve its goals, the "Ethnographic Center Giorgis Melikis - Mask Research Center" cooperates with respective Centers or Organizations, scientific Societies or publishing houses, natural or legal persons of private or public law in Greece or abroad. At the same time, there is also the "Mask Research Center" whose purpose is to collect, research and study mainly the Greek folk mask, but also those of other countries. "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.

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"

The Giorgis Melikis Ethnographic & Masks Research Centre (Melikis Museum) is located in Meliki, Imathia (60 km from Thessaloniki, 20 from Veria, 8 from Vergina). With historic and aesthetic sensitivity we explore, record, collect, publish and exhibit, both here at the Centre and in major museums, institutions, cultural centres and universities, legacies and creations of our material and immaterial civilisation. Living tradition -applied ethnography- and · the two-way interaction between that tradition and individuals or groups is an important aspect of our work. INTERACTIVE GAMES TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS SPECIAL EVENTS AG.NIKOLAOU 4 MELIKI, 59031 IMATHIA TEL: 2331081274 , CEL: +306977211473 EMAIL: gmalikis@gmail.com