19th Peliti Seed Festival &
3rd Olympic Seed Festival 1- 4 May 2019
at Mesohori Paranesti Drama, Greece
Schedule
Wednesday 1 May 2019
| 19:00 |
Opening Ceremony of the 3rd Olympic Seed Festival and the 19th Peliti Seed Festival at Peliti land. |
| 19:00-19:10 | Welcome time |
| 19:10-19:30 | Story telling by Eirini Marna |
| 19:30-19:45 | Olympic Flame Lighting |
| 19:45–20:45 | Music Program by Cyprus Songs Association,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBA2vvlek0A Thirty musicians and singers, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots sing folklore songs from Cyprus |
| 21:00 | Dinner at Hospitality Settlement of Paranesti |
Thursday, 2 May 2019
| First day of the 3rd Olympic Seed Festival.
Participation only with registration. Conference of registered participants. Morning and afternoon sessions at Peliti land. |
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| 06:30-08:00 | Breakfast at Hospitality Village of Paranesti |
| 09:00-09:05 | Morning song |
| 09:05-09:45 | Acquaintance with Peliti, its actions and its people |
| 09:45-10:00 | Questions – discussion |
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10:00-10:45 |
Subject: Cultivation of food and people – Gardening in the Community Findhorn Ecovillage. https://www.findhorn.org/ Speaker: Mary Cooper (United Kingdom) Georgios Neveskalos (Hellas) Zenia Lazari (Hellas) Summary: The Findhorn Foundation community and Ecovillage are world-renowned for nature co-creation practices. From the early days of the huge cabbages, “factor X,” and the cooperation with nature’s spirits for the creation of the Ecovillage movement and the current developing village, I can share the Findhorn community, the way we work and where we are heading. |
| 10:45-11:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 11:00-11:45 |
Subject: Natives from Pará, Amazon Speaker: Luciana Mesquita (Brazil) Summary: Seed exchange between Kayapo people in the Amazon. Kayapo tribes are native peoples in Brazil who live in a vast area that extends across all the states of Para and Mato Grosso, south of the Amazon basin, along the Rio Xingu and its tributaries. It is one of the various subgroups of the great nation Mebêngkkre (people from the spring of water). Ms. Luciana is in Greece as part of a work on the myth of the abduction of Persephone by Hades. Anyone who knows anythingshould communicate with her. Peliti can help in contact and communication. Thanks. |
| 11:45-12:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 12:00-12:45 | Subject: Planting a million trees.
Speaker: Green Group of Bulgaria. |
| 12:45-13:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 13:00-14:30 | Break and light meal |
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14:30-15:15 |
Subject: Cities in transition
Speaker: Charlotte Farrer (United Kingdom) |
| 15:15-16:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 16:00-16:45 | |
| 16:45-17:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 17:00-17:45 |
Subject: Peliti at the US Santa Fe Seed Summit Speaker: Panayiotis Sainatoudis, founder of Peliti. |
| 17:45-18:00 | Questions – discussion |
| Completion of the first day’s work | |
| 20:00-21:15 | Lunch with international cuisine, at the Hospitality Village of Paranesti. Each participant brings a food or drink from his/her country of origin presenting and thus projecting the biodiversity of the country’s food and its region. |
| 21:30-22:30 | Music night |
Friday, 3 May 2019
| Second day of the 3rd Olympic Seed Festival.
Participation only with registration. Conference of registered participants. Morning sessions at Paranesti High School . Afternoon workshop at the waterfall of Agia Varvara. |
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| 06:30-08:00 | Breakfast at Hospitality Village of Paranesti |
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09:00-09:05 |
Morning song |
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09:05–09:45 |
Subject: “ New rules for the marketing of Seeds in the new EU Regulation 2018/484 on Organic Production and recent developments on heterogeneous Material OHM” Speakers: Hannes Lorenzen (Belgium) Blanche Magarinos-Rey (Belgium) Organization: ARTEMISIA AISBL – Forum Synergies AISBL ARC2020 AISBL Summary : On April 19, 2018, after four years of both technically and politically complex negotiations, the new European Regulation on Organic Production was adopted by the Parliament. Improving the guarantees provided by the organic label in the Union, it represents a major change especially in the legislation of the marketing of seeds. Indeed, the new Regulation has authorized the marketing of two new categories of seeds, considered to be more adapted to organic production: the « organic heterogeneous material », which will benefit from a prior notification procedure, free of charge and much lighter than the actual pre -authorisation procedure; and the “organic varieties adapted to organic production”, stemming from breeding programs aimed at meeting the specific needs and constraints of organic agriculture, and which marketing regime will be organized through a temporary experiment of seven years. That new regulation opens up new perspectives for agro -biodiversity in organic production as throughout agriculture on a longer -term basis. It is thus of crucial importance that organic farmers all over Europe become aware of these new opportunities. Futhermore, the Commission has been empowered to adopt a delegated act in order to further detail the marketing conditions for « organic heterogeneous material ». Before its apparent intention to interpret this new category in the most restrictive manner, it is vital to mobilize together to communicate what precisely is expected in this delegated act and what is the understanding of this new opportunity by a sector which has remained invisible for a long time : the seed -savers’ sector. A communication to be intended to the European Commission and to all National Competent authorities |
| 09:45-10:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 10:00-10:45 |
Subject: The role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in protecting the environment. Speaker: Priest Gedeon Varytimou (Turkey) Subject: Holy Monastery of Timios Prodromos of East Kissavos, an ark of seeds. Speaker: Gerontissa Theodekti ( Greece) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 11:00-11:45 |
Subject: “Target malaria or genetically modified mosquitoes: Africans refuse to be laboratory animals” Speaker: TAPSOBA Ali of Goamma, human rights activist President of TERRE A VIE spokesperson of the Collectif Citoyen pour l’Agro Ecologie (CCAE) |
| 11:45-12:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 12:00-12:45 |
Subject: Use of traditional varieties by Greek organic farmers. |
| 12:45-13:00 | Questions – discussion |
| 13:00 | Departure for the waterfall of Ag. Barbara |
| 14:00 | Arrival at the waterfall. Light lunch. Experiencing nature with: silence, finding our own tree, bathing in the waterfall, games, etc. |
| 17:00 | Return |
| 18:00 | Arrival at the Hospitality Village of Paranesti |
| Completion of the second day’s work | |
| 20:00 | Lunch with international cuisine, in at the Hospitality Village of Paranesti. Each participant brings a food or drink from his/her his country of origin presenting and thus projecting the biodiversity of the country’s food and its region. |
| 21:30-24:00 | Music night |
Saturday 4 May 2019
| 19th Peliti Seed Festival | |
| 10:00-18:00 | Solidarity economy and the community economy At the Peliti Festival, all activities are offered for free: distribution of traditional seeds, speeches, workshops, activities for children, exhibitions, music, etc. |
| 10:30-14:30 | Distribution of traditional seeds |
| 10:30-13:30 | Creative recreation for children In the field where the traditional varieties are distributed. Members of the Paranesti Cultural Club will creatively engage the children with constructions, games and other surprises! |
| 10:50-14:00 | Speeches at the Peliti Theater |
| 10:50-11:00 | Greetings from the Mayor of Paranesti, Mrs Aliki Sotiriadou and other officials |
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11:00-11:30 |
Subject: Cultivation of food and people – Gardening in the Community Findhorn Ecovillage. https://www.findhorn.org/ Speaker: Mary Cooper (United Kingdom) Georgios Neveskalos (Hellas) Zenia Lazari (Hellas) Summary: The Findhorn Foundation community and Ecovillage are world-renowned for nature co-creation practices. From the early days of the huge cabbages, “factor X,” and the cooperation with nature’s spirits for the creation of the Ecovillage movement and the current developing village, I can share the Findhorn community, the way we work and where we are heading. |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Subject: “Demeter and agrarian rites” Speaker: Luciana Mesquita (Brazil) Ms. Luciana is in Greece as part of a work on the myth of the abduction of Persephone by Hades. Anyone who knows anythingshould communicate with her. Peliti can help in contact and communication. Thanks. |
| 12:00-13:30 | Workshops Laboratory on Greek flower elixirs, properties and uses. With Irene Delimitrou, Advisor for holistic botany & flower remedies. Founder of “Greek Flower Elixirs”. |
| 12:30-13:00 |
Subject: “ New rules for the marketing of Seeds in the new EU Regulation 2018/484 on Organic Production and recent developments on heterogeneous Material OHM” Speakers: Hannes Lorenzen (Belgium) Blanche Magarinos-Rey (Belgium) Organization: ARTEMISIA AISBL – Forum Synergies AISBL ARC2020 AISBL |
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13:00-13:30
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Subject: The role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in protecting the environment. Speaker: Priest Gedeon Varytimou (Turkey) Subject: Holy Monastery of Timios Prodromos of East Kissavos, an ark of seeds. Speaker: Gerontissa Theodekti (Greece) |
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13:30-14:00 |
Subject: “Target malaria or genetically modified mosquitoes: Africans refuse to be laboratory animals” Speaker: TAPSOBA Ali of Goamma, human rights activist President of TERRE A VIE spokesperson of the Collectif Citoyen pour l’Agro Ecologie (CCAE) |
| 13:00 | Distribution of free food of traditional legumes |
| 14:20-14:45 | Traditions of fertility. With bells, sheep pelts, sticks and the bride, the Cultural Association of Pagoneri, Nevrokopi Drama, member of the Center for Cultural Development of Eastern Macedonia, will conduct us through customs of fertility from antiquity to current days. |
| 14:45-15:00 | We unite our hands and our hearts by making the mark of Peliti (Place in front of Peliti house) |
| 15:00-18:00 | Singing for Peliti. Dancing and musical events. |
| 15:00-15:20 | The Paranesti Cultural Association will present Pontos dances with its dance groups. |
| 15:20-15:40 | Choir of women of the cultural club Mikropolis of Drama. Dahares and voice: Maria Kiakou Bagpipe: Haris Vagenas |
| 15:40-16:00 | Union Choirs of Souroti Thessaloniki and “Estia” Neapoli, Thessaloniki. Electric piano: Stephania Tassiou Flute: Christos Alexandros Mylonas. Conductor: Christos Halkidakis |
| 16:00-16:30 | Singing for Peace. Cyprus Songs Association will present songs from Cyprus. Thirty musicians and choruses will sing Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot songs. Conductor: Selçuk Garanti |
| 16:30-17:15
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Musical program with Greek and foreign songs Voice: Stavroula Gelkovani Piano: Heracles Sideris |
| 18:00 | Ending ceremony of the 3rd Olympic Seed Feast and the 19th Peliti Seed Feast. |
| The organizing committee may modify the program on the basis of needs arising at the last minute. | |
In the framework of the 19th Peliti Celebration, there will be a Free Bazaar as well as collection of men’s clothes for refugees and immigrants at the, Refugee Centre of Paranesti.
In addition in the big shed you can find products from Peliti : sweatshirts, hats, bags, books, agricultural products, etc. With the purchase of Peliti products you can help us to improve.
You’ll also find collectives who sell their products: like
BIO. ME, with natural cleaners for the house.
The women of Centaurs Xanthi, who recycle left over materials from clothing companies and use them in traditional craftsmanship. Their products are called “pleteno” (knitting in the pomak!).
The sisters from the Holy Monastery of Timios Prodromos of East Kissavos.
The “Honey of the Bear” by Paranesti, et al.
Also in the “bar” of Peliti you can find soft drinks, sandwiches, souvlaki and falafel. With our revenues we support Peliti.
Anyone who wants to fund the Peliti Seed Festival with a donation to Peliti. Piraeus Bank, IBAN: GR100171 1960 0061 9804 0030 332. SWIFT-BIC PIRBGRAA
Beneficiary: Alternative Community of Peliti.
Thank you very much
Until we meet again
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