School Visits / Workshops and Seminars for Students

‘Alex in Name-It-What-You-Like-Land’, Theatre Workshop designed for the students of the Second Chance School of Diavata Prison in Thessaloniki. The workshop was conducted on 13 December 2019, by students who attended the class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Alice in ChristmasLand’, Interactive workshop designed for the students of the 8th Elementary School of Neapoli. It was conducted on 19 December 2019, by students who attended the class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Midsummer Night’s Dream (the beginning and the middle in brief)’, Experiential workshop for 11-16 year-old students. Organized by the Municipal Library of Ermioni, 30 July 2019. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘The Winter’s Tale’, Theatre Workshop designed for the students of the Second Chance School of Evosmos in Thessaloniki. The workshop was conducted on 20 December 2018, by students who attended the class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Rudolph’s Red Runny Nose’, Interactive workshop designed for the students of the 15th Elementary School of Evosmos. It was conducted on 13 December 2018, by students who attended the class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Christmas with Grinch’, Theater workshop designed for the students of the 1st Elementary School of Nea Mihaniona. It was part of a project comparing educational systems of the 19th and 21st centuries in the context of the class ‘Realism and the English Novel’. The workshop was conducted on 21 December 2017, by students who attended the class. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Constructing Gender: From Woolf’s Orlando to Judith Butler and from Butler to Us’, presentation, discussion and experiential workshop, 4th Sexuality Festival AUTh, Faculty of Science, 21 May 2016. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘As We Like It: From Shakespeare’s England to Modern Greece’, Theater Workshop for high school students organized by first year students of the English Department. The workshop was part of the program ‘The Aristotle University Open on Sundays’, May 2015. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Sea Changes’, Theater workshop for adults based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It was designed in the context of the class ‘Theatre Workshop’ and conducted on 28 May 2014, by the students who attended the class. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Dancing with Austen! Pride and Prejudice 200 Years after Its Publication’, talk and dancing event with the participation of students from the School of English in the Panhellenic PALSO conference, 29 August 2013. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Jane Austen Today’, Experiential workshop designed for the students of the Arts High School of Thessaloniki. It was conducted on 11 January 2013, by students who attended the class on ‘Realism and the English Novel’. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Á Tale of Two Cities: Dickens Today’, Experiential workshop designed for high school students. It was conducted in Serres, on 28 April 2012, at the invitation of the Association of State School English Teachers in Serres. Students who attended the ‘Theater Workshop’ class participated in the workshop. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Training Seminars for Teachers in Primary and Secondary Education

‘“Girls Babble, Tattle, Prattle … Boys Talk”: Poetry, Language and Gender in the EFL Class’, Poetry Seminar for teachers of English. Event organized by the Association of State School English Teachers in Northern Greece. 5 February 2020. Trainer: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Exploring Gender Roles in the EFL Classroom through Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Experiential Workshop for Teachers in Primary & Secondary Education. Event organized by the Association of Ôeachers of English in Serres, 15 April 2019, Serres. Trainer: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Playing with Poetry’, Poetry Seminar for Teachers of English in Primary and Secondary Education. Event organized by the Association of English Ôeachers of Eastern Thessaloniki and Chalkidiki, 6 November 2017. Trainer: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘“Be not afeard’: How to Invite Shakespeare to your class!” Seminar for teachers of English. Event organized by the State-School English Teachers in Imathia, 21 February 2017, Veria. Trainer: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Teaching with Literature and Drama’, Seminar for teachers of English. Event organized by TESOL Macedonia-Thrace, Northern Greece, 15 January 2017. Training Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘“Sweet Airs that Give Delight and Hurt Not”: Playing with Fear in Shakespeare’s The Tempest’, Drama Workshop for Teachers in Primary & Secondary Education. Part of the 2-day Symposium on Shakespeare, organized by the Arts School of Thessaloniki, 16 December 2016. Trainer: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

‘Shakespeare’s Black Holes’, Drama Workshop for Teachers in Primary & Secondary Education. Part of the 2-day Symposium on Shakespeare, organized by the Macedonian Teachers of English Association in Serres, 16 April 2016. Trainer: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Theatrical Performances and Other Events

Experiential Workshop on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, National Theater of Northern Greece, 16 December 2018. Trainer: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Alternative Dickens: Tales of Two Cities, presented on May 29 & 30 in Thessaloniki & May 31, 2012 in Serres (https://epp.web.auth.gr/?p=662, https://www.typosthes.gr/culture/28377-2012-05-18-18-39-47, https://www.facebook.com/events/385637691486507/, https://englishteachersinserres.blogspot.gr/2012/06/31-05-2012.html, www.balddickens2012.blogspot.com). Coordinator: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Barker + Bald: 4 + 2 Objects of Submission, June 8 & 9, 2013

'Don't Like It? Change It!', September 27, 2012, a poetry happening with students from the Bald Theatre and the poetry group 'Breathe in Experience, Breathe out Poetry', in cooperation with the ‘100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE’ organization in California. Coordinator: Professor Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

As We Like It, theater project based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It, with the participation of the first year students of the ‘Drama Workshop’. It was presented at Pinewood American International School, on 20 February, 2012. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Lysistrata: Rehearsal for Peace’, participation in the ‘Lysistrata Project’, an international peace protest reaction to the Iraq disarmament crisis, 3 March 2003. Coordinating Professor: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou