The actress Anna Garafli became aware of her sexual orientation already in high school. She learned from a young age not to react to taunts, dirty looks, abusive attitudes. Until she was confronted with homophobic violence. Over and over again. Then she decided that from now on, she would not bow her head. And she wouldn’t blame hersef ever again… Narrator: Anna Garafli Researcher: Vasilis Syrros Podcast Creation: Andreas Pappas Sound Design: Giorgos Ramantanis Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Αφηγήτρια: Άννα Γκαραφλή Ερευνητής: Βασίλης Σύρρος Δημιουργία Podcast: Ανδρέας Παππάς Σχεδιασμός Ήχου: Γιώργος Ραμαντάνης Επεξεργασία Ήχου: Δημήτρης Παπαδάκης
Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time.
It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.