"A breath of Corfu colour and sound" in People΄s Garden - an evening of poetry, art and music
12 Aug 2022
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CORFU. An ambitious project in the People΄s Garden last Wednesday night.
On Wednesday 10 August Elvira Metallinou and image Publications invited the Corfu public to an event with a difference in the moonlit People's Garden.
The immediate impression was of a poetry and literary evening with image Publications poets reading from their collections - an opportunity for the public to get to know the work of the publishing company, which for the last ten years has published a significant number of works by Corfiots.
Publisher Elvira Metallinou during the event with 7 Corfu poets and artists.
However, Elvira Metallinou's relationship with the art world provided another stimulus for the audience. Each poet connected with the work of an artist based, or had been based (Dimitratos, Alamanos) in Corfu and added to this was the contribution of the composer Vassilis Abdelas who, although unable to be present personally, provided the background of sound for all the readings.
Photo: Giorgos Andriotis
The idea of the project and the technical production was ambitious. Elvira Metallinou told us that the idea came during a visit to Paxos for the annual festival. Since last summer she had been planning a presentation of the publishing company's poets but at the festival she saw the incredible presentation by the Irish poet Paul Muldoon who, with the musical group Horslips delighted the audience by combining poetry with hard rock. The combination of music and poetry is, of course, nothing new, but Elvira has close connections with the art world and was able quite naturally to add artistic works into the mix.
The works of seven Corfu artists were exhibited at the event.
Thus the general idea was to have an artistic dialogue between the different media and those who are involved in them.
During the readings the musician Fiori-Anastasia Metallinou, Elvira's sister, enchanted the audience with Greek songs accompanied on the guitar by Eftihi Seleari. The surprise of the evening was the appearance of the poet and publisher Evripidis Kleopas, who read his own poetry.
Sound and light engineer Theodoros Korakianitis did an amazing job and the evening ended with the artist Pinelopi Voltera taking on the role of poet and reciting some of the poems that had been presented.
The immediate impression was of a poetry and literary evening with image Publications poets reading from their collections - an opportunity for the public to get to know the work of the publishing company, which for the last ten years has published a significant number of works by Corfiots.
Publisher Elvira Metallinou during the event with 7 Corfu poets and artists.
However, Elvira Metallinou's relationship with the art world provided another stimulus for the audience. Each poet connected with the work of an artist based, or had been based (Dimitratos, Alamanos) in Corfu and added to this was the contribution of the composer Vassilis Abdelas who, although unable to be present personally, provided the background of sound for all the readings.
Photo: Giorgos Andriotis
The idea of the project and the technical production was ambitious. Elvira Metallinou told us that the idea came during a visit to Paxos for the annual festival. Since last summer she had been planning a presentation of the publishing company's poets but at the festival she saw the incredible presentation by the Irish poet Paul Muldoon who, with the musical group Horslips delighted the audience by combining poetry with hard rock. The combination of music and poetry is, of course, nothing new, but Elvira has close connections with the art world and was able quite naturally to add artistic works into the mix.
The works of seven Corfu artists were exhibited at the event.
Thus the general idea was to have an artistic dialogue between the different media and those who are involved in them.
During the readings the musician Fiori-Anastasia Metallinou, Elvira's sister, enchanted the audience with Greek songs accompanied on the guitar by Eftihi Seleari. The surprise of the evening was the appearance of the poet and publisher Evripidis Kleopas, who read his own poetry.
Sound and light engineer Theodoros Korakianitis did an amazing job and the evening ended with the artist Pinelopi Voltera taking on the role of poet and reciting some of the poems that had been presented.
