TITLE: Alkistis Michailidou “Ney Matogroso: Beautiful as a Greek - The Greek Mythology inspires a Revolutionary”

VENUE: The Municipal Library of Chania, 30 Ypsilandon Street, 73135 Chania, Crete

OPENING: Tuesday, 2 October 2018, at 19:30

DURATION: 2 October 2018 to 30 March 2019

OPENING HOURS: Monday to Saturday 10: 00-13: 00 and Monday and Thursday 18: 00-20:00

CONTACT: Chania Municipal Library, 30 Ypsilandon Street, Town Hall, Chania , Crete, GR 73100, Tel: +30 28210 58500, 92000 (ext. 177), E-mail: library@chania.gr, URL: www.chania.gr/eldocs/dhm_bibliothikh.html

The Municipal Library of Chania was founded in 1953 in the mayoralty of Nicholas Skoulas and is housed in 800 sq.m. on the 1st floor of the Town Hall in the centre of the city of Chania. It includes reading rooms, bookstores, recording workshops, meeting rooms, interactive projection sites, online communication offices and special collection rooms. Its collections of books include about 80,000 volumes and in addition to the printed material include audio-visual material, rare photographs, old maps and works of modern art.

The Municipal Library of Chania is one of the largest and most remarkable Municipal Libraries in Greece and its collections have been developed and are constantly enriched with purchases and donations. A special part of the collection are the books of local interest that is exhaustively updated with all the publications concerning Crete. Of particular historical value is the personal library of Eleftherios Venizelos that includes 8,500 books and is housed in a special room with museum specifications.

The non-profit cultural organisation “Olivepress - Art Factory” was created in order to save the Old Olivepress of the Agricultural Co-operative of Zymbragou from desolation and disappearance. The goal is to house cultural events in its premises, transforming it to a place of memory and a field of action in the island’s inland terrain.