The students of the fifth and sixth grade of the Primary School "Joseph Nissim" of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki participated in the annual competition of the Centropa Institute (2023) in the category "My Community".
The audiovisual project of the students entitled "The Sephardic Heritage of Thessaloniki", won first place, out of a total of 88 projects from 7 countries.
The video of the project is available at: https://shorturl.at/pqAPW
The school of the Community of Thessaloniki has won several times in respective competitions of previous years of the organization Centropa.
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The presentation of the book «Modiano Market Thessaloniki», of Capon editions, took place in the impressive area of the Modiano Market, on the evening of Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in the presence of a large number of people and officials.
The collective project, edited by Dr. Leon Nar, contains texts by politicians, academics, businessmen, athletes, institutional bodies of Thessaloniki, scientists who share moving memories but also authentic testimonies, which are outlined with humor and in a unique way "the era that left an era" and was so engraved in the mind as well as in the soul of many Thessalonians.
The event was coordinated by journalist Stavros Tzimas. They spoke about the project: Evangelos Venizelos, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, former president of PASOK and professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of Athens University of Athens. Anastasios Kotsiopoulos, emeritus professor of Architecture at Athens University, corresponding member of the Academy of Athens. Angelos Redoulas, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Gastronomos" and the culinary editions of "Kathimerini" and the President of MEVGAL S.A. Mary Hatzakou.
The theater group Entremosotros of I.K. Thessaloniki, presents the play "Cloudy Sunday", an adaptation of the film "Uzeri Tsitsanis", on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June at 20:30, at the Aneton Theatre.
On 26.5.2023, the opening of the photography exhibition "The Aim is the Frame" organized at the Glass House (former nursery school) in the Port of Thessaloniki as part of the European educational program took place with great success. #eTwinning
The exhibition was hosted at MOMus - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and was organized by seven departments of five schools in Thessaloniki, including the Primary School "Joseph Nissim" of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki and one in Brussels, and lasted from the 26th to the 28th May 2023.
The exhibition hosted 147 photographs taken by the young artists and in them, through their eyes, aspects of the three themes (Professions, Environment, Diversity) with which they dealt with during the last eight months are captured.
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On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, as part of the International Museum Day, remained open to the public from 14:00 to 20:00 with free admission. Two guided tours were held for the public and the visitors had the opportunity to browse the exhibits and exhibitions of the EMTH and get to know the rich cultural heritage and the long history of the Jews of Thessaloniki.