A trip to the Greek Seas!
Art and Dance Workshop 18/5/2024, 4:30-7pm
We are thrilled to be hosting a special ART and DANCE workshop on Saturday 18 May 2024, from 4:30 until 7 pm. As the summer is approaching, along with Ithaca, the Greek Cultural Society of Birmingham, and our member and artist presbytera Dionysia Kollia, we thought that a "Trip to the Greek Seas" would be the ideal theme and we hope that it will inspire us all!
The workshop will take place at the space of Armonia Music Tuition, Martyrs Church Hall, 19 Westcotes Drive, LE30QT and booking is essential until Saturday 11th of May. To reserve your space call Popi on 07814566336. The cost is £12 per person.
Meet the workshop facilitators
Presbytera Dionysia (Denise) Kollia, Passionate Artist
Dionysia or Denise for the English speakers, was born and raised in Athens. She moved to the UK in 1991 and studied photography. She has been volunteering at schools in Peloponnese, Corfu, and Kilby school in Leicestershire giving art lessons and many theatrical sceneries for school plays. Dionysia was working as a scenery producer for a children’s musical for the national theatre of Corfu. She lives in a small village in Leicestershire with her husband Presbyter father Ioannis Provatas and their nine children. Dionysia is a full-time mum and at the moment you can find her at the Greek Orthodox Church of Leicester every Sunday from 9:00-15:00.
Lola Spetsioti, Ithaca's Greek Dancing teacher
Lola was born and raised in the centre of Athens. She studied History and Theory of the Theatre at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She joined the students’ union dance group during her studies. As a member of the performance team, she took part in numerous Greek dance performances in Greece and abroad.
Lola moved to the UK for her master’s degree in Drama and Theatre Education at Warwick University in 2010 and as soon as the Greek Cultural Society of Birmingham Ithaca was established in 2018, she started teaching Greek dances to them, Lola lives in Stratford upon Avon with her husband Antonis and their one-year-old son Dimitris.
She works at Holy Trinity Church, the burial site of William Shakespeare, as a Visitor and Marketing Manager. You will find Lola teaching Greek dancing in Birmingham, every Friday evening.