“Lift up my soul” – Images and music of the refugees of ’22, from 9/9 at the Archaeological Museum of Drama

“”Lift up my soul”!…Images and music of the refugees of ’22” is the title of the exhibition presented from 9/9 to 16/10 in its atrium Archaeological Museum of Drama.

The exhibition is co-organized by the Hellenic Parliament’s Foundation for Parliamentaryism and Democracy, the Municipality of Drama and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Drama, as part of the commemoration events for the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster.

The main themes of the exhibition are life before 1922 in Smyrna, Ionia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Constantinople, Propontis, Eastern and Northern Thrace (Eastern Romilia); the Exodus, the loss and trauma of the refugee; the life and musical creation in the new homeland; but also the recruitment by the younger generations.

Thus the visitor can find answers to questions such as: what is the role of music in the individual and collective identity of refugees, and what is its importance as a driving force of refugee Hellenism? How are the memories of the Catastrophe recorded in the songs of the refugees? In what way do the memories reach our days and are perceived in the national life and musical creation of the descendants?

Photographic, audio-visual and archival documents of important bodies for the preservation of historical memory in our country, as well as a number of documents contributed by local clubs, organizations and individuals, converse in the exhibition with verses and various melodies: obituaries, traditional songs and dances, Asia Minor rebetika, but also the newer Greek music production, which was influenced by the musical breath of the refugees.

More information about the exhibition at the address https://foundation.parliament.gr/

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