On Saturday, November 9, 2024, Jacob Moe, the director of the “Archipelago” Network, was the guest on the show “Fair Winds and Following Seas” on Voice of Greece.
Jacob Moe, who has lived in Greece since he was a child and splits his time between Syros, Athens, New York, and other islands, recently organized a highly successful photo and video exhibition titled “Arts of the Sea.”
The exhibition material was collected during the pandemic in 2021 and focuses on the shipyards of Syros and the wooden boatbuilding yards of Ermoupolis. It explores the history of traditional maritime professions.
These exhibitions document everything related to wood, the environment, shipbuilding, and seamanship in the Cyclades, recording the past, the present, and through that, the evolution of the future.
Jacob discussed the Aegean islands as havens of culture, traditional knowledge, and biodiversity, which are, however, under local pressures from accelerating changes such as overtourism and the global climate crisis, threatening their systems of knowledge and environmental balances.
Produced and presented by Antonis Karagiannakis
Sound Engineering: Stefania Tsakiri