ITRA E-NEWSLETTER Summer 2008 Helena Kling. Editor. The consensus of the members of our association was that the Newsletter should be informal and aim at keeping us in contact with each other. I am including in this issue news and information about the upcoming conference so some items that were sent to me will be in the next issue. Our President Dr. Cleo Gougoulis and her team have put together an outstanding program. Their hard work is appreciated. The participants in the Congress will go home updated in knowledge in our field, pleased with meeting old friends, hopefully with new friends and with many memories of the good social time that is being planned. What hosts put on the table for their guests tells the story of who they are. That vegetarians will be catered for and meat eaters will be offered chicken and veal at the times of sustenance between lectures can only add to the comfort and enjoyment of the whole event.
______In this issue New members Photo from Brian Sutton-Smith Remembering Birgitta Publications Recommendations from Members Upcoming Conferences Burn Ken Map of Nafplion Program of the Congress How to get to Nafplion Information on Membership ______
1 Join me in welcoming new members. The writings of our new members would fill a bookcase and to list them would fill pages so please visit their websites or google them to get to know them better. Rather than quote academic titles wrongly, they and job descriptions are easy to glitch, I am introducing everyone by name only. Irina Filippova and Elena Smirnova are coming to the Congress from Moscow. You can meet them on the website www.psytoys.ru. It is a splendid site. Deborah Jaffe's website is www.deborahjaffe.net My eldest son gave me her book The History of Toys as a birthday present and I can recommend it to all of you. Stela Ferrarese is from Argentina. Do visit her site and look at the pictures. www.juegosetnicos.com.a Katriina (Kati) Heljakka from Finland has researched the design and development of board games and is interested in the capability of toys to create experiences as compared to works of art. Minna Ruckenstein is running a comparative research project organized by the University of Helsinki and Hebrew University titled: "Do toys matter? The production of Childhood and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective''. Lydia Plowman has participated in previous ITRA conferences and has now joined us as a member. www.ioe.stir.ac.uk/staff/plowman Kathy Merlock Jackson is from Virginia U.S.A. Besides teaching she is editor of The Journal of American Culture. Donovan Hohn is a writer famous for hunting Moby-Duck. He went around the world on a hunt for 28,800 bath toys that fell from a container ship in 1992. From Greece there are several new members who we look forward to meeting at the Congress. Artemis Stamatellou, the Director and Anna Alexandri the Public Relations Manager of the Hellenic Children's Museum. Joanna Hatzopoulou works at the Benaki Museum in the Childhood Years and Toy Department. Karadimitriou Konstantinos is at present in charge of designing educational programs for pre-school children at the National Historical Museum of Greece. Rena Sivropoulou is teaching at the Institute of Education of Florina University, Thesssaloniki and is interested in Play and Literacy. If you wish to become a member or would like to update your details then fill in the membership form which is at the end of the newsletter. Please note that at the last ITRA meeting in Alicante on August 8th 2005, it was decided that conference fees in the future will cover ITRA membership fees for three years. This means that conference participants who pay full registration fees for the conference in Nafplion Greece this year, 2008 will be exempted from paying ITRA dues for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010.
* It is highly commendable and much appreciated that some members who are unable to attend the Congress have sent their membership fees without prompting. I hereby prompt those who have yet to do this. Information about the fee is at the end of the newsletter.
2 Brian Sutton Smith will be unable to attend the conference. Because Brian was, in 1954, the first ever Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in New Zealand, the Department has named their annual Best Research in Educational Psychology Award after him! It was on the occasion of the 2008 award ceremony that Brian visited New Zealand. Brian sent a photo for the Newsletter of his visit to the Island Bay primary school where he was a student in the 1930s. It is attached to the same e-mail that this newsletter came to you. ______Birgitta Almqvist will be remembered at a special session at the Congress. Dr. Waltraut Hartmann wrote this:
My personal souvenirs of Birgitta I will always remember Birgitta as a lively and cheerful person and very enthusiastic about her work! Birgitta proposed me for the BRIO prize in 1995 because of my 5 years longitudinal empirical studies on "Play in Elementary School". Before that time we hardly knew each other personally. When she sent me her interesting book "Approaching the Culture of Toys in Swedish Child Care" I was inspired to start another longitudinal empirical investigation at Vienna University in child care centers in Austria and in South Tyrol. As these studies were influenced by her scientific work we had an intensive communication per mail and telephone. At last we presented our research together with the studies of Gilles Brougère, Tizuko Kishimoto and Vickii Jenvey at the ITRA Congress in London 2002.
For me Birgitta was a very special friend and I spent many happy hours with her. We had so much fun together at the various ITRA congresses and also in Sweden, where my husband and me were invited in her home and met her sons Björn and Jan with their families. She took us to a lovely midsummer party in Sundsvall and we were dancing and singing together under the bright and clear sunshine of the northern summer. On the last day of the ITRA congress in Salzburg we hurried to Vienna the same day in order to attend a concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. She was overwhelmed when she recognised the "Golden Hall" of the Vienna Musikverein, which she knew from the New Year Concerts broadcasted all over the world.
The last years of her life Birgitta was worried about the future of ITRA, which really was her child and in which she invested very much energy as secretary from 1993 –2002. She got into contact with toy researchers from all parts of the world and the network she knitted for ITRA is really international. We all profited from the interesting people who presented their research at the ITRA Congresses and I think it would be in her very interest to carry on her work. There are so many precious souvenirs that I will never forget Birgitta!
3 ITRA members have publications by the score. Tell us about them. Let us show them in the next issue of the Newsletter. Information about some were sent for this issue. My apologies for not putting them in. ______
Websites that have been recommended to us:
Prof. Sudarshan Khanna has now included a short film (5 min) based on his experiences of toy workshops,research/teaching projects and books/designs in his website www.sudarshankhanna.com You may download the 3 books.
The results of the contest challenging designers to design an object or a series of objects which contribute to the development of children's imagination and creativity are available on http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/6 The feedback from the judges is excellent. I may be biased but I enjoyed reading Jean-Pierre Rossie's comments on the toys submitted more than I did the others. http://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/toys.html http://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/museum.html http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7460870.stm Of interest to those of you teaching skills to produce computer games http://www.ipaworld.org http://web.mit.edu/2.00b/www/index.html On the basis of visiting this site my seven year old grandson said that at last he knew what he wanted to do when he grows up – he is going to MIT to be a toy inventor! http://www.deepfun.com is Bernie de Koven's site – a place to funfully frequent. http://www.theplayethic.com/ideascontext.html has many recommendations to other sites.
4 Upcoming Conferences
Theme Toys and Games in Toy Libraries
Date 13th - 17th Oct 2008
Conference Venue: Paris, France
Host by: Association des Ludotheques Francaises
Calling for Papers Details in French, English & Spanish
Email [email protected]
Website www.alf-ludotheques.org
Siegfried Zoels has information about the next UNESCO Creativity workshop "Toys for Children's Rehabilitation" Contact him at FÖRDERN DURCH SPIELMITTEL - SPIELZEUG FÜR BEHINDERTE KINDER e.V. Immanuelkirchstrasse 24, D - 10405 Berlin Tel.: +49-30-4 42 92 93 Fax: +49-30-44 35 92 14 Mail: [email protected] URL: www.spielmittel.de
Just in case you have not received from any other source the following question that David Kuschner, President of TASP has posed then here it is.
If a toy sits in the forest and no one ever plays with it, is it still a toy?
An ideal subject for toy researchers to discuss at breakfast. ______
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How many themes does this cartoon cover? There is a prize for the person who sends in the longest list.
6 5TH ITRA WORLD CONGRESS TOYS AND CULTURE Nafplion 9-10-11 July 2008
If you visit the following website http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid =114679895199150638621.00044a82fc7b76531a03c you will be able to see the exact locations of conference venues and hotels.
Program
Wednesday 9 July
Old Parliament Building
08:30-09:00 Registration 09:00-09:30 Opening of Congress: Welcome speeches Vassilis Sotiropoulos, Prefect of Argolis Panagiotis Anagnostaras, Mayor of Napflion Konstantinos Dimopoulos, President of the Administrative Committee, University of the Peloponnese. Stavros Perentidis, Head of the Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese Ioanna Papantoniou, President and director of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation Ioannis Bollas, President of the Cultural Organization O.P.A.N.A.A.R Andrianos Anyfantis, President of the Old People’s Home “Pronoia Maria K. Radou” Cleo Gougoulis, ITRA president
09:30-10:30 Gilles Brougère, Université Paris Nord, France Keynote address 1 Toys, games and play in the circle dance of children's mass culture.
10:30-11:00 Nora Skouteri-Didaskalou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Keynote address 2 On toys and culture: One can never tell what is going to be sung
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break sponsored by the Association of Friends of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation
Poster Session: Edda Bontempo, Lairtes J.M.Temple Vidal University of Sâo Paolo, Brazil (paper presented by Maria do Carmo
7 Monteiro Kobayashi, University Etadual Paulistas) Development of imagination in a business management classroom.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Toys, Media and Technology
11:30-12:00 Evangelia Kourti, University of Athens, Greece Children’s televised toy advertisements in Greece and the globalization of children’s culture.
12:00-12:30 Marilu Polymeropoulou, Postgraduate student,University of Athens, Greece Toy-music.
12:30-13:00 Artemis Yagou, AKTO Art and Design College, Athens, Greece Playing with technology: The case of toy-like radio-sets.
13:00-13:30 Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Toying with me, here, now: Play in everyday life of trans-youths in Seoul.
► Toys in Educational and Museum Practice
11:30-12:00 Stevanne Auerbach, San Francisco, USA (paper presented by Helena Kling, The Educational Centre for Games, Israel) The impact of construction play.
12:00-12:30 Dimitra Deroyannis and Mariza Tsachali, Hellenic Children’s Museum, Greece Playing to learn and learning to play. The educational role of play in Children’s Museums.
12:30-13:00 Maria Roussou and Elia Vlachou, Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation and Museums Network Department, Greece The challenge of creating digital game-based learning environments for museums.
13:30-15:00 Lunch Hotels Rex and Nafplia
8 15:00-16:30 PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
SYMPOSIUM: Approaching the Culture of Toys. Session in memory of Birgitta Almqvist, Founding Member and first Secretary of ITRA. Gisela Wegener Spöhring, (chair and co-ordinator) University of Cologne, Germany Gilles Brougère, Université Paris-Nord, France Eva Petersson, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark Cleo Gougoulis, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Greece David Hawtin, British Toy and Hobby Association, UK Jeffrey Goldstein, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break Department of Theatre Studies
PARALLEL SESSIONS Department of Theatre Studies ► Technology
17:00-17:30 Lydia Plowman, Joanna McPake and Christine Stephen University of Stirling, UK A toxic childhood? Family views on young children’s play with technology.
17:30-18:00 Wendy Dupuy Jacocks, Doctoral student, University of Memphis, USA Toys: Technological Opportunities Yield Success.
18:00-18:30 Doris Bergen, Kathleen Hutchinson and Deborah Weber Miami University, USA and Fisher Price, Inc, USA Effect of infant-parent play with a technology- enhanced toy: Αffordance-related actions and communicative interactions.
18:30-19:00 Geoffrey Long MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, USA Toys, twenty-somethings and technology: Action figures as philosophy tokens, story tokens and trans-media extensions.
► Observing Toy Play
17:00-17:30 Kafenia Botsoglou and Domna Kakana, University of Thessaly, Greece Play without rules? When toys make children “impose” their own rules.
17:30-18:00 Konstantinos Karadimitriou, Maria Sakellariou and Spyros Pantazis, University of Ioannina, Greece Social and cognitive aspects of 5- and 7- year- old children’s play
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18:00-18:30 Minna Ruckenstein and Tamara Rapoport, The University of Helsinki, Finland and Hebrew University, Israel Techno-intimacies and educational anxieties: Negotiating toys in a Finnish kindergarten.
Evening Events
20:00 Guided Tour of the Folk Art Museum, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation (PFF).
21:00 Reception, sponsored by the Friends of the PFF- Traditional winter and Spring carols by Lida Xida and Stamatis Diamantopoulos, sponsored by the Department of Childhood, Toys and Games, Benaki Museum.
Thursday 10 July
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► SYMPOSIUM I led by Mathieu Gielen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Toy Design Education Programs, Part 1
09:00-09:30 Lieselotte Van Leeuwen, University of Sunderland, UK Social science in the idea development stage of design for play.
09:30-10:00 Yiu-Cheung Shiu, Hong Kong Design Institute, China Toy design education in Hong Kong.
10:00-10:30 Mathieu Gielen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Aimlessness, empathy, play value: Essential concepts in toy design education.
10:30-11:00 Phil Tan, Clara Fernandez-Vara and Matthew Weise Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab,USA Introducing videogame studies in traditional academic settings. Eva Petersson, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark Medialogy education.
10 ► SYMPOSIUM II led by Suzanne Seriff, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, USA
Batteries Not Included: Handmade Toys in Machine-Made Times. Part 1
09:00-09:30 Suzanne Seriff, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, USA Recycling for fun and profit. 09:30-10:00 Maria Argyriadis, Department of Childhood, Toys and Games, Benaki Museum, Greece Customary toys and games in Greek traditional society. 10:00-10:30 Uwemedimo Enoboung Iwoketok, University of Jos, Nigeria Folk toys in a machine made age: A return to the stone age? 10:30-11:00 Sudarshan Khanna, National Institute of Design, India Relevance of indigenous toy culture today.
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Poster session: Abhay Kothari, Manthan Educational Programme Society, India Low cost toys for informal science learning.
Traditional carols by Lyda Xida and Stamatis Diamantopoulos, sponsored by the Department of Childhood, Toys and Games, Benaki Museum.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► SYMPOSIUM I led by Mathieu Gielen Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Toy Design Education Programs, Part 2
11:30-12:00 Vaso Trova, Iris Likourioti and Giorgos Papakonstantinou, University of Thessaly, Greece Inventing constraints: Game design and the making of architectural objects.
12:00-12:30 Barry Kudrowitz, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA The play pyramid: A play classification and brainstorming toy.
12:30-13:00 Remi Leclerc, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Hong Kong hackshops, creative instant toy design.
13:00-13:30 Diane Westwood, University of Sunderland, UK Transitional space objects and phenomena: Implications for design.
11 ► SYMPOSIUM II led by Suzanne Seriff The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, USA
Batteries Not Included: Handmade Toys in Machine-Made Times, Part 2
11:30-12:00 Kathan Kothari, National Institute of Design, India (paper presented by Abhay Kothari, Manthan Educational Programme Society, India) Learning science while playing: The Indian experience.
12:00-12:30 Jean-Pierre Rossie, University of Ghent, Belgium Globalization and tradition in Moroccan Anti-Atlas children’s toy and play culture.
► Applied Design I
12:30-13:00 Malena Fabregat, Aiju, Toy Research Institute, Spain Eldergames: Development of high therapeutic value IST- based games for monitoring and improving the quality of life of elderly people.
13:00-13:30 Katriina Heljakka, University of Art and Design, Pori, Finland The art of making a game. Analyzing and managing the creative process behind board game development.
13:30-15:00 Lunch Hotels Rex and Nafplia
PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
15:00-15:30 ITRA-BTHA 2007-2008 award, presented by Jeffrey Goldstein on behalf of the International Toy Research Association and Roland Earl, British Toy and Hobby Association
15:30-16:00 Jan Phillips, University of Southern Maine, USA Accomplishing family through toy consumption.
16:00-16:30 Hyun-Jung Oh, Doctoral student, University College London, UK The phenomenon of dolls’ houses: Putting together memories and fantasies.
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break Department of Theatre Studies
Poster Session: Antal Kelle, Hungary Meditation toys: Between toy and art
12 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Toy Marketing 17:00-17:30 Maria das Graças de Souza Teixeira, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil The trans-Atlantic dream market.
17:30-18:00 Evangelia Kourti and Vasso Barboussi, University of Athens and University of the Peloponnese, Greece Dancing toys: The quest for mechanical life.
18:00-18:30 Luisa Magalhães, Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal Portuguese toy adverts on television: Features and strategies for enchanting children. 18:30-19:00 Amanda Gummer, FUNdamentals, UK An investigation into the emotional values consumers look for when making entertainment choices.
► Changing Toy Cultures
17:00-17:30 Handan Asûde Basal, Pinar Bagceli, and Meral Taner Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey The toys and games which are played in Turkey from Greatgrandmothers /grandfathers to grandchildren in four generations.
17:30-18:00 Handan Asûde Basal, Uludag University, Bursa Turkey Children’s games with and without toys played in Turkey during the past years.
18:00-18:30 Elena Smirnova and Irina Filippova, Center of Play and Toys, Moscow, Russia Psychological examination of toys in Moscow.
Evening Events
20:00-22:30 Cruise in the Argolic Bay. Light dinner, sponsored by the Cultural Organization O.P.A.N.A.A.R.
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PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
09:00-10:00 Invited speaker: Wijnand Ijsselstein, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Presentation of The Game Experience Lab.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Gender Issues, Part 1
10:00-10:30 Angeliki Tsapakidou, John Papadelis and Nektaria Palaiologou, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Chrysie Papadeli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Gender choices towards play and toys: Research in primary school children.
10:30-11:00 Alexandra Frederikou, Fanny Folerou, Greece Observing elementary school girls play: The skipping rope.
► History, Part 1
10:00-10:30 Maria Velioti-Georgopoulos, University of the Peloponnese, Greece Playing with puppets: Greek discourses on children’s toy puppet theatre 1870-1950. 10:30-11:00 Despina Karakatsani, University of the Peloponnese, Greece Educational toys and materials in Greek primary school after the Second World War (1950-1990).
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break Room B, Ground Floor
Poster Session: Helena Kling, The Educational Centre for Games, Israel New toys for Old.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Gender Issues, Part 2 11:30-12:00 Tizuko Morchida Kishimoto, Andréia Tiemi Ono University of Sâo Paulo, Brazil Children’s play and gender in the play room.
14 12:00-12:30 Kathy Merlock – Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan College, USA Doll Wars: Barbie and her competitors in the twenty first century.
12:30-13:00 Greta Elleen Penell, University of Indianápolis, USA Why boys still don´t play with Barbie: Gender socialization in toyland.
13:00-13:30 Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri-Kansas City,USA The princess of multivalence: Adults’ anxiety and girls’ identity.
► History, Part 2
11:30-12:00 Valérie-Inés de La Ville and Michel Manson, Poitiers University, France and Université Paris 13, France French toy and games manufacturers and their responsibility towards children, 1891-1945.
12:00-12:30 Giorgos Papaconstantinou, University of Thessaly, Greece Early animation toys: From science to spectacle.
12:30-13:00 Yehudit Inbar, Museums Division, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Children’s play and creativity during the holocaust.
13:00-13:30 Maria Papathanassiou, University of Athens, Greece Children´s toys and industrial toys: Children of the poor and Aspects of their material culture in Central Europe before the Second World War.
13:30-15:00 Lunch Hotels Rex and Nafplia
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Applied Design II
15:00-15:30 Gayatri Menon, National Institute of Design, India Alternate game play: Design challenges and opportunities
15:30-16:00 Siegfried Zoels, Fördern durch Spielmittel, Germany Developing innovative toys - creativity, design and social action. people with special needs as partner and authors.
15 16: 00-16:30 Dimitris Gouscos and Maria Saridaki, University of Athens EPINOISI R&D project on specialized formation of general and special education teachers and production of digital game-based educational material for mild mental retardation.
► Toys, Ethnicity and Nationalism
15:00-15:30 Panagiota Politi, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Greece Children’s toys and media in a bilingual community: A historical and cultural analysis.
15:30-16:00 Maria do Carmo Monteiro Kobayashi, University Etadual Paulistas, Brazil Asobi Mashou: Ludic culture of Japanese descendants.
16:00-16:30 Daniella Pelegrinelli, University of Saint Martín, Argentina Toy industry, childhood imageries and policies in Argentina during the Peronist government (1946-1955).
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
17:00-17:30 Closing Ceremony. Conclusions and Farewell Piano: Theolena Piki, Municipal Music School of Nafplion “K.Nonis”.
17:30-18:30 ITRA Business Meeting
18:30-19:00 ITRA Board meeting
Evening Events
19:30-20:30 Choice of three guided tours (see section cultural events): · Fairs, Peddlers and Merry- go-rounds. Old Parliament building · Toy Exhibition at the “Stathmos” Museum of Childhood, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation · Historical Centre of Nafplion
21:00 Farewell Reception at the Folk Art Museum of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation (PFF), sponsored by the PFF. Traditional songs and dances performed by the Dance Group of the Association of Friends of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation.
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09:00-15:00 Optional excursion to the Tiryns Fortress and the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.
Cultural Events The conference participants are invited to visit the following exhibitions operating during the days of the conference. There will be guided tours to these exhibitions and to the Historical Centre of Nafplion on Friday 11 July 19:00-20:00. Please sign up at the conference reception desk to be included in the tour of your choice.
1. Exhibitions: a) Fairs, Peddlers and Merry- go-rounds. Old Parliament building, ground floor. The Childhood, Toys and Games Department of the Benaki Museum, will reconstruct a Greek early 20th century fair, complete with toy stalls and merry-ground. Curator: Ioanna Chatzopoulou, Benaki Museum With the contribution of: Maria Argyriadis, Despina Karakomninou, Tzeni Maliariti Chara Ioakeimoglou, Childhood, Toys and Games Department, Benaki Museum, and the assistance of: Popi Kalkounou, Head of Educational Programmes Department, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation. b) Moroccan Children’s toys seen through the eyes of Nafpliote Children. Museum of Childhood “Stathmos”, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, National Railway Station Park. An exhibition portraying representations of Moroccan children’s toys created by the Nafpliote children participating in the Educational programme on play among the Anti-Atlas Mountain children in Southern Morocco. Curator and programme animator: Jean- Pierre Rossie, University of Ghent, Belgium Contributors: Popi Kalkounou, Head of Educational Programmes Department, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation and the children participating in the educational programme.
2. Tour “The Historical Centre of Nafplion”. A tour of the historical buildings and monuments of Nafplion organized by Natassa Vassileiou archaeologist, National Archaeological Service and Maria Velioti Georgopoulos, social anthropologist, Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese.
17 HOW TO GET TO NAFPLION:
I. By Bus from the airport. 1. Take Bus X93 from airport exit to KTEL Kifissos bus station which is in Athens. Bus X93 runs every half hour, around the clock and takes an hour to get to KTEL Kifissos station. Tell the driver that you are going to Nafplion to be sure that you get off at the right bus stop. Bus fare: 3.20 Euros. If you take a taxi from the airport to KTEL Kifissos station it takes 30 minutes and costs 30 Euros.
2. From the Kifissos KTEL station: Take the bus to Napflion- which is a 2 hour and thirty minutes ride. Buses run every hour approximately starting at 0600. The last bus is at 20:30 and sometimes there is an extra bus at 21:30. Bus schedules: 06:00, 0800, 09:30, 10.30, 11.30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30, 15:30, 16:30, 17:30, 18:30, 19:30, 20:30 Bus fare (one- way):11 Euros Info: 210 513-4588
II. By Taxi A taxi to Nafplion from Athens airport costs approximately 200 Euros and the price should be arranged before getting in. Mr Mamais of Ippocambos travel can arrange for a taxi for pick you up from the airport and get you to Nafplion at this price if you wish.
III. By Coach If enough of you are interested we shall hire a coach that will collect up to 50 participants from the airport and leave sometime between 6 and 8 pm on July 8 for Nafplion with a stop at the centre of Athens to collect earlier arrivals. If you are interested in this possibility then please fill in the form on the third attachment and let Mr. Mamais of Ippocampos travel know at: [email protected] or [email protected]
The availability of this bus depends strictly on the number of participants who wish to use this option.
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19 ITRA 2008 Fees Notice
Annual membership: 50 EUROS
Retiree/ Student membership: 25 EUROS
Payments may be made: a) through bank transfer to the following account number
International Toy Research Association, National Bank of Greece, Pal. Phaliro branch 175 Account number: 175/480074.53 IBAN Number: GR16 0110 1750 0000 1754 8007 453
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Regards from, Cleo Gougoulis ITRA president and treasurer [email protected]
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