A strong global message about the urgent need for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures and the need to return to the values that this monument symbolizes was sent by the event held last week at the Acropolis Museum, on the occasion of International Women's Day, which was attended by the wife of the President of the Republic, Mrs. Andri Anastasiades.
The event, entitled "Hostesses of the Parthenon", was organised by the Acropolis Museum and the Marianna B. Anastasiades Foundation. Vardinoyannis, was also attended by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mrs. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who addressed the audience.
The keynote speaker at the event was the leading art historian Dr. Tom Flynn, while greetings were also given by the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Greece, Mrs. Maria Syrengela, on behalf of the Prime Minister, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Minister of Culture and Sports Mrs. Lina Mendoni, with a written greeting, the President of the Acropolis Museum, Professor Dimitris Pantermalis, the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Mrs. Marianna V. Vardinoyannis and the Director General of the Acropolis Museum, Professor Nikola Stambolidis.
In her address to the event, Mrs Anastasiades referred, among other things, to the duty for a "more just and equal society towards all women without exception: working women, mothers, single parents, immigrants, asylum seekers, women living in poverty, abuse, deprivation and violation of their rights. It is a day dedicated to women who excel, women who innovate, but even more so to women who struggle in obscurity, with meagre means and great adversity to survive, and who are role models and a source of inspiration for all of us. We must give women the hope of a better tomorrow, and this can only be achieved by providing truly equal opportunities for access to all areas of life without exception: education, work, health, justice, power.
The event concluded with the musical performance "Fragments of the Silent Ones", performed by Maria Farantouri.
(PM/EC/EXP)
Contents of this article including associated images are belongs PIO
Views & opinions expressed are those of the author and/or PIO
Source
