Let's Rock in Ancient Greek (EPILOGUE): “ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ, NOT EDUCATION”

Let's Rock in Ancient Greek: “From Philosophy... to Philokalia”

@ EPILOGUE (Act 16): “ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ, NOT EDUCATION”

@ Place (time): MINISTRY OF EDUCATION of Greece (Dec 4, 2017).

@ SUBTITLES of videos in the PLAYLIST:
--- EMBEDDED/Permanent: Ancient Greek (original text) + English (voiceover, comments)
--- OPTIONAL/Switchable: English (translation of Ancient-Greek text).

@ MUSIC / LYRICS: PINK FLOYD (Another Brick in the Wall / part 2).

@ SCENOGRAPHY:
The full-of-life presence of all student actors on stage throughout the performance.

@ COLLABORATING SCHOOLS:
--- 1st Lyceum of Agia Paraskevi
--- 3rd Lyceum of Agia Paraskevi
--- 3rd Gymnasium of Agia Paraskevi
--- Ecclesiastical Lyceum of Rizarios School (RIZARIOS Foundation)
--- Public High School of Agia Paraskevi for Hearing-Impaired Students.

@ EVENT:
--- PLACE: Jacqueline-de-Romilly Hall in the headquarters of the Ministry of Education of Greece
--- TIME: 4 September 2017, 9:30–11:50 am
--- OCCASION: International Day of Persons with Disabilities (A/RES/47/3 of the UN).

@ THEME:
A theatrical journey of Eros, at all its levels—i.e., love associated with the beauty of the form in harmony with all existence (Φιλοκαλία), measured love for fellow human beings (Φιλανθρωπία), passion for knowledge and wisdom (Φιλοσοφία), self-sacrificial love of the fatherland (Φιλοπατρία), unlimited love for the divine (Φιλοθεΐα)—in musical artistic form, under the guidance of our most trusted helmsman: the diachronic Greek language (Homeric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Modern).

@ LANGUAGE (Quadrilingual performance):
--- MODERN GREEK (Prelude / Act 1)
--- ANCIENT GREEK (Acts 2-12, 14)
--- ENGLISH (Epilogue / Act 16)
--- GREEK SIGN LANGUAGE (Acts 2-12, 14, 16).

@ INITIATIVE:
The entire 16-act performance (“From Philosophy... to Philokalia”)—the above video clip pertains to the final act, i.e. Act 16 (EPILOGUE: “ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ, NOT EDUCATION”), in English: student interpretation of “Another Brick in the Wall / part 2” (PINK FLOYD)—was given in the headquarters of the Ministry of Education of Greece, on kind invitation to the (5) collaborating schools by professor Constantinos Gavroglou, Minister of Education of Greece (2016-), and Mr. Panagiotis Kassianos, National Director of Special Education in Greece.

@ CAST:
Sixty (60) students participated in either performance (“Sophocles’ Antigone” in 2014-2016, or the follow-up rock-musical “From Philosophy... to Philokalia” in 2017-2018), as an international cast from seven countries (Greece, Albania, India, Libya, Russia, Ukraine, U.S.A.).

@ AFTERWORD (OFF-STAGE SURREAL EVENT):
Right after the performance, the performers (primary-school pupils, high-school students and university students), as soon as they stepped out of the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, were attacked physically by a group of about 20 unidentified perpetrators, who threw stones and incendiary improvised-bombs («MOLOTOV COCTAILS») to the student performers (several of them deaf and hard-of-hearing students). The Minister of Education (professor Gavroglou), administrators of the Ministry, and few (just 5) policemen present, took effective action to protect the students. Fortunately, NONE OF THE STUDENTS WAS HURT—an off-stage event that might be considered in itself as the true happy ending of the entire live performance:

---- News media reports:
---- News Bulletin (Dec 4, 2017) of the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION of Greece:

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