One male Common Kestrel and a young Eurasian Collared Dove were set free on Saturday April 13th at the River Axios.

A 33 seconds video from the release
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On Sunday 10 April, 2011 “Action for Wildlife” participated in the cleaning of the riverside forest of Valmada.

On a beautiful day, crowded with people and especially kids, we joined  other authorities and individuals in the cleaning of the bank of Axios river at the village of Anatoliko.

One performance that combines piano music and painting with charcoal where the picture changes, moves and comes to life.

Saturday 9 April 2011

Artists: Alaveras Christos(painter), Papa Olimbia(musician)

Saturday night and the combination of music and painting at Mikropolis has surprised all the attendants, reminding everyone that music isn’t only for fun and painting only for decoration of walls. Congratulations to both artists that despite lack of time have collaborated wonderfully to convey to the people attending, “the sounds of migration” that, even though related to birds on that particular occasion, bring in mind reasonable connotations related to human and every living being on the planet.Initially the image depicts migratory birds on a cloudless sky. The image is then blackened by Sounds of devastation (war; atmospheric pollution ;) that try to get across the message of threat for the environment. The image changes again and we see wounded birds coming out of the devastation, maintaining  though a hope as they ultimately turn into an angel. In the end, the migratory birds reappear this time on a grey dull sky.However,they leave us on a positive note: the circle of life will always prevail against all odds and the journey will never end.

Christos Alaveras has used charcoal with great skilfulness exhausting all the paper at his disposal. He managed to indicate forms keeping at the same time the balance between full and empty, black and white, form and line.Olimbia Papa employed her music to impose tension and tranquillity, movement and stillness, unruffled flight or struggle with the weather conditions. Together they’ve succeeded in heightening emotions to a point that neither music nor image alone ever could.

We would really like to thank them for the help they provided to our team, “Action for Wildlife” and for reminding us that Art can and should stimulate our rigid minds that  constantly break down in our intricate everyday life.

Maria Papadimou

Watch instances of the performance

Την Τετάρτη 6 Απριλίου 2011 η «Δράση για την Άγρια Ζωή» συμμετείχε στο “The green project”, μια δράση περιβαλλοντικής ευαισθητοποίησης που διοργάνωσαν η Parallaxi με την ομάδα «Η Θεσσαλονίκη Αλλιώς», το Κύταρρο Εναλλακτικών Αναζητήσεων Νέων (ΚΕΑΝ) σε συνεργασία με το δημοτικό συμβούλιο Ν. Ευκαρπίας.

Το project έγινε στην αυλή του Γυμνασίου Ευκαρπίας. Συμμετείχαν τέσσερα τμήματα της Β' Γυμνασίου (περίπου 100 μαθητές/τριες) οι οποίοι αφού ενημερώθηκαν για το έργο της ομάδας έπαιξαν περιβαλλοντικά παιχνίδια ρόλων, χρησιμοποιώντας τη φαντασία και τη δημιουργικότητά τους. Τα παιδιά ανέπτυξαν διαλόγους παίρνοντας τον ρόλο των πουλιών από τη μία και των κυνηγών ή παγιδευτών από την άλλη. Μια άλλη ομάδα μαθητών παρατηρούσε και σχεδίαζε δράσεις παρέμβασης στα ζητήματα άγριας ζωής της γειτονιάς της. Στο τέλος τα παιδιά εκφράστηκαν ζωγραφίζοντας και γράφοντας τα δικά τους μηνύματα και συναισθήματα.

Απολαύσαμε την πηγαία έκφραση των παιδιών και το ευχαριστηθήκαμε όλοι μας.

Παρακολουθήστε στιγμιότυπα από τη δράση:

Monday 28 March, 2011 Mikropolis social space- 18 Venizelou & V.Irakliou street -2nd floor.