Tickets: £15 at The Hearth / Free for Members
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Programme:
6:30pm: Door Opens for refreshments
7:00-8:30pm: Screening + Panel Discussion
9:00pm: Door Closes
In Her Dress is a creative curatorial research project that focuses on exploring transgenerational and autobiographical notions of femininity, memory and tradition by placing the researcher, Eleni Chasioti, in a replica regional wedding dress to experience both the physical and emotional effects of specific feminine ensembles. The project is an expression of past and present female stories and a reclamation of their space in contemporary times.
This event is a screening of the short film ‘In Her Dress’ by Eleni Chasioti and a panel of female speakers who will explore notions of femininity, identity and memory through clothing, material culture and the social dynamics people are born into. After the talk, the speakers will be able to answer any questions you may have in a live Q&A. The event is supported by the Greek Library of London.
Eleni Chasioti is a Greek-born, London-based dress researcher with a background in Archaeology and Art History. She began exploring fashion and clothes to access an informed view of the past, the future, autobiography and collective memory. Her current research practice reflects her interdisciplinary methods in the curatorial world, from documenting lesser-known dress museum collections to film making and creative writing. Eleni holds a Master’s degree in Fashion Curation from the London College of Fashion, UAL.
Dr Ruth Slatter is Lecturer in Geography at The Open University. A cultural and historical geographer with a background in art and design history, her research explores what the material and visual culture of religious spaces can reveal about ordinary individuals' everyday experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality since 1850. Most recently, Ruth has been working with the Methodist Women's Collection at Epworth Old Rectory and the work of nineteenth-century Methodist artist James Smetham.
Cristina Ros i Solé is Chair of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication and Senior Lecturer in Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work currently focuses on how we ‘live’ languages and cultures from a material culture and philosophical point of view. Her work draws on post-humanism, new materialism and post-qualitative methodology. Cristina has published widely on language education, intercultural communication and, more recently, on how multilingual speakers make sense and engage in home-making and world-making through the everyday and the ordinary.
Maria Kardasi is a qualified psychotherapist and relationship counsellor and has a private practice based in London. She holds a Bachelor (BA) degree in Psychology, a Master's (MA) degree in Clinical Psychology, a Diploma (Dip) in Family Systems Therapy, an Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a MBACP registered member (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). Maria’s core approach to therapy focuses on understanding the family and social dynamics to which people are born into, how this system influences and shapes who they are as well as how they can challenge, differentiate and create their own values and meaningful relationships in the here and now.