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.
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THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY | TTS, Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium would like to thank the Board & Team of Advisors for bringing their passion, intellect, insight, and resources towards the mission of the organisation. Their experience, skills, and knowledge move TTS forward. All undertaken posts are on a voluntary basis and will be renewed every September. In Our goal is to form collaborations and be active in the Balkans, the rest of Europe, the wider region of the Mediterranean, and MENA. Our goal is to empower and reinvent established creative agency by gaining the confidence to fulfil TTS' mission and goals. By standing in the middle of that crossroad, we support dream-carriers who dare to pave their own path. We are of service to inquiries that challenge the status quo.
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THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY Board
Georgia Kotretsos
Founder | Régisseur
Abdellah Karroum
TTS Ambassador
Panayiotis Kalivites
TTS Financial Advisor | BoA
Pieter van Ysseldijk
TTS Legal & AI Advisor | BoA
Nefeli Kaoutski
TTS Assistant
Maja Ćirić
TTS Curator
Art Critic | Thinker
THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY Board of Advisors
Mehul Sangham
TTS BoA
Barbara B. Edlinger
TTS BoA
Georgia Kakourou-Chroni
TTS BoA
Pankaj Khanna
TTS BoA
THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY Friends
This our own embodiment, as already noted, is never really autonomous. Nor is it autochthonous, nor autopoietic: we require other bodies of other waters to bathe us into being. Astrida Neimanis
