THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY speaks to Sozita Goudouna, Founding Director of Greece In USA
Greece in USA is a non-profit organization with a global reach that promotes knowledge of contemporary and ancient Greek Culture while fostering international cultural cooperation, experimentation and social engagement. The organization's extensive programming includes commissioned artists' and curators' projects, residencies, educational and ecological initiatives and the commitment to cultivating a sensible culture of innovation and thought leadership.
We are dedicated to offering innovative and unique programs in education and the arts, all exploring the evolving diversity and richness of Greek and Cypriot cultures. The non- profit organization seeks to generate new thinking about the arts and promote cross- cultural dialogue through partnerships and new platforms of creation.
The organization promotes international exchange of practice and knowledge in the arts - visual and sound art, dance, architecture, theatre - research on the methods used in curatorial and performing practices and investigation of points of intersection between the arts, science and the public sphere by means of interventions, collective actions, educational programs and publications.
Greece in USA aims to collaborate and build long-lasting partnerships with leading institutions and individuals who actively engage with Greece and its culture and to convey a comprehensive and distinctive representation of Greece and Cyprus by producing cultural and educational programs that encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement.
Our principal goals are:
To shape and envision the image of contemporary Greece in the United States beyond existing stereotypes
To recalibrate the assumed center of Greek national narratives to include those who have often been denied historical recognition.
To transform the way Greek histories are told and produce projects that reflect the vast, rich complexity of Greek culture.
To support Greek inspired cultural practices by welcoming and nurturing new ideas and influential perspectives
To commission, produce and present contemporary Greek and Cypriot culture that grapple with many of the pressing social and political issues of our time
To foster Greek scholarship and cultural research within the American educational system
To develop a transatlantic network for the exchange of culture and ideas
To strengthen the development of structures in cultural policy & leadership, and foster worldwide mobility.
Greece in USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization registered in the State of New York, tax-exempt ID no. 85-0828531. Contributions to Greece in USA are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Greece in USA's launch is under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
CITIZENSHIP IN PRACTICE
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CULTURE AGENCY & PUBLIC IMAGINATION
Editor's note
CITIZENSHIP IN PRACTICE: CULTURE, AGENCY & PUBLIC IMAGINATION (CIP: CA&PI) emerges from the sustained, inquisitive research mission of THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY. It brings to the foreground figures or/and collectives, who pave exemplary civic paths. Through practices that are consistent, situated, and ethically engaged, these figures carve out distinctive trajectories which, with each step, widen the terrain of possibility, allowing more people to enter, participate, and belong. They are highlighted for their capacity to disrupt dominant narratives, reconfigure relations of belonging, and make alternative futures thinkable. For CIP: CA&PI professional choices become acts of citizenship when the work is guided by responsibility towards the people they reach. Culture shapes moral perception and it influences how a society sees itself.
The journal is founded on the premise that citizenship cannot be adequately understood as a fixed legal status. Rather, it is approached as a dynamic process, continuously produced through cultural practice, social imagination, and acts of agency that unfold in everyday life. In a contemporary context marked by fatigue, fragmentation, and the rise of cosmetic culture, CITIZENSHIP IN PRACTICE responds to the urgent need to rethink how citizenship is enacted, negotiated, and transformed beyond normative frameworks.
Published on an ad hoc basis online, as new encounters emerge by THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY and edited by Georgia Kotretsos, the journal positions culture as a primary site in which agency is exercised and public imagination takes form.
In this inaugural issue we meet with Alix Collingwood and follow her impactful career path: she is currently Head of Engagement at Redhills, Durham Miners’ Hall. Her practice is shaped by intentional positioning, presence, commitment, and memory, where caring and purposeful decisions continuously renew the relationship between past and present. We meet Alix in Durham, in the northeast of the United Kingdom, where her deliberate decision to return to the region offers a situated and compelling entry point into the journal’s broader inquiry.
ΤΕΛΟΣ is committed to learning from the Greek periphery yet, it now pushes beyond its immediate terrain: as CIP: CA&PI is not geographically bound but composed of constellations of peripheries.