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This weeks lecture was amazing featuring a multimedia, performance installation live presentation by into the pill and an amazingly informative, intense and performative presentation about Sierra Leone by Anthea Zervos… so lets begin… with the gathering crowd who defied the odds of a general strike making Lecture #3 the largest lecture to date.. well done folks…
all smiles as i introduce the nights lecturers..
I SAID.. ALL SMILES EIRENE
Thats better.. thanks Katerina
SO… lights off.. and we begin.. with Yiannis behind the screen starting to juggle a soccer ball as Yiannis speaks over the microphone…
in the space are two video projections.. one of an interchange in Greece and the other the fans of Panathinaikos carrying on.. 
an installation shot through the mirror.. showing the general setup and crowd…
So.. Yiannis stops juggling the football (soccer ball just to clarify to those across the Atlantic).. and Yiannis comes out and starts writing graphs and statistics while Yiannis takes his turn on the microphone reading some Theory…
as the lecture/performance/presentation carries on Yiannis and Yiannis take turns on the mic.. and alternate juggling the football and writing on the screen…here is Yiannis juggling behind the screen of growing statistics
Yiannis again adding to the density of the screen…
mirror install view…
Hey there Jennifer…
Another Yiannis… aka De Niro listening attentively.. “YOU TALKING TO ME?”
and the attentive crowd…
Thanos intensly listening 
so with the screen density arriving at a maximum..
and Yiannis juggling the ball.. i think he hit 100 without the ball touching the floor..
the lecture ended.. Time for intermission.. 
the crowd appreciating the work of Into the Pill NICE WORK GUYS…
Fellow Fulbrighter Tracy obviously inspired by the lecture… FANCYYYYYY WORK!
Yiannis helping reset the kafeneon for Antheas lecture.. CANT WAIT…
Without further ado .. Anthea Zervos shows that you dont need projectors.. microphones.. or theater lights to deliver a message… when you have theatricality and intense experiences…I am attaching links throughout this post, curtsey of Anthea for further information check them out.
Anthea starts out explaining the trajectory in her life that led her to Freetown Sierra Leone…and jumps right into war crimes.. poverty.. and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which Anthea informs me that this link “also has links to other info on SL, as well as the full final Report. There is a chapter in the Report on the National Vision which I co-authored with one of my colleagues. ” 
The crowd all ears as Anthea delivers….
Anthea also talked about the Special Court For Sierra Leone and the talented and concerened citizens who shared their visions mostly through artistic means (due to massive illiteracy) people like the Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars who Anthea tells me “This is an amazing band that came together in the refugee camps in Guinea. An awesome documentary film was made about them. “
An amazingly honest and emotional lecture you can see the passion in Antheas face..
One more link for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia which Anthea also worked for. From what we learned Sierra Leone is an amazingly catastrophic place with its people wanting and begging for change.. one more of Anthea fielding great questions from the audience…
Well thats it for this episode of kafeneon… I hope you all enjoyed it.. here i am with the fantastic participants… thanks to all for coming and remember to donate (to the right) towards the wonderful cause of the kafeneon “Month Book”.. and dont forget.. to check back often only 2 weeks left and tons of events including an opening for Eva Michalaki Friday the 21st of March at 8:30… PEACE…
closing time… wheeewwwwww… tired…..
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