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(W)rightful (from the
Greek, "the right to write")
(W)rightful is a Greek organization founded
to create a culture of writing.
Contact
Christiana Lambrinidis
Pafsaniou 21
1635 Athens
Greece
Email
Director
Christiana Lambrinidis
Board or Other Members
Eleni Apostolopoulou
Dimitra Argyriou
Fani Folerou
Constantinos Ktenas
Xanthi Papanastasiou
Aggeliki Sratigopoulou
Rania Stathoyianopoulou
Members
Among our members are women from the Turkish minority in
Greece, immigrants, illiterate women from border villages,
ex-prisoners from the civil war, the director of development
programs for the National Book Arcade, one of the leading
lawyers in the country on copyright law, sociologists of
education, the vice-president of Very Special Arts (Greek
section).
Mission Statement
Writing is a right, not a privilege. The first
act of writing is the testimony of oneself. Our goal is to
give voice to the voiceless by creating a culture of writing,
mobilizing (among others) the huge potential of the culturally
and socially excluded as a means to resolve social, ethnic,
and religious conflict and illiteracy problems.
Activities
(W)rightful's principal activities are workshops
and publications, including:
- Creative writing, playwriting and translation
workshops
- Conflict resolution theater
- Illiteracy projects
- Women's literature seminars and symposia
- Documentation center
- A publishing project
History and Accomplishments
(W)RIGHTFUL was founded in June 2000 with fifteen
members. It has grown to fifty members through its activities:
writing workshops, seminars on women's literature (the only
ones available in Greece) and public presentations of women's
writing. Its programs include: interfaith writing workshops;
women's writing seminars; writing and performance workshops
with immigrants and refugees from Eastern Europe, the Balkans,
Africa, Asia and the Middle East, in their own languages;
summer writing workshops for women in the Greek islands; a
violence and sexuality project with adolescents; workshops
with street children; a continuing reading project with urban
gypsy women; and writing performances to advance and support
women in Greece, such as one in March 2002 in support of the
battered women's shelter in Athens. As a result of this work,
the caption "feminism" now appears in the largest
newspapers in the country before the announcement of (W)rightful’s
projects.
(W)rightful is now launching a feminist publishing
project, the first such in Greece, to promote women's writing
in the areas of theory, literature, and philosophy. Its first
book, published in February 2002, Re-claiming Barbie: Essays
on Women's Writing, ed. Christiana Lambrinidis, was called
a breakthrough in the largest newspaper in the country. In
its first week of publication, the book became tenth on the
best-seller list, proving how urgent it is to fill the void
of women's discourse in Greece.
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