Dr. Chryssa Velissariou – National Beat Poetry Festival 2020
Chryssa Velissariou is a mother, a professor, a physicist, a researcher, and a poet.
She studied Physics at the Greek Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
She specialized in Space Physics.
Mother of three sons and one daughter.
Teacher of Physics at the 6th General Lyceum of Larissa.
Postgraduate Degree in Modern Learning Environments and Production of Teaching Materials from the University of Thessaly, Greece.
Researcher on new ways of teaching Science through Arts, workshops of Creative writing, workshops of Theater and especially Forum and Clown Theatre.
Award for Excellence and Innovation in Education in 2011 from the Greek Ministry of Education.
Award for her special contribution to the European Educational Program “Learning Science through Theater” from the Educational organization Science View and the Greek Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Scientific publications in conferences and scientific journals.
Elected to the 1st Municipal District of the Municipality of Larissa three times in 10 years.
Participation in many (more than 40) International and Greek Poetry Anthologies.
Three personal poetry books, her last one “Greek Crisis” has been published by Local Gems Press (August 6, 2019, Long Island, USA) in English. More than 5000 poems in her Blogs and fb pages.
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Ambassador to Greece for World Poetry Canada and International Peace 2014-2016.
Organizer of many world poetry events. (Poetathon, Peacathon, 100TPC, Woman Scream).
Organizer and animator of various Forum and Clown Theatre Workshops and Spectacles in collaboration with Caravan Theater (Toulouse, France).
Awarded as “The 1st International Beat Poet Laureate 2017-18” at the National Beat Poetry Festival, in September 2017, in Connecticut, USA.
She was simultaneously honored with the title “Doctor of Arts” by the National Beat Poetry Association.
Awarded as “Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate” at the National & International Beat Poetry Festival in August 2019, in Connecticut, USA, by the National Beat Poetry Association.
She speaks English, French, German, Italian and Turkish.
In the last 4 years she travelled twice in the USA, in France, in Poland, in Romania, in Germany, in Czech Republic as a poet or an educative project manager. Next year she plans to travel to Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Sweden.
She owns together with four other partners the social enterprise Edu-Europe.
SYNOPSIS OF HER BOOK GREEK CRISIS
Published by Local Gems Press (August 6, 2019, Long Island, USA) in English. It is a book of poems about her personal view on Greek financial Crisis 2008-2019 and its results on Greek people’s life, ideas, and emotions.
SYNOPSIS OF MY FORUM & CLOWN EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
Forum Theatre is a kind of theatre where the hero is an oppressed person by an oppressor who does not have the right to do what he does against the oppressed one. After the end of the play the spectators are transformed into spect-actors who replay their way parts of the play so they suggest solutions to the problem. All solutions are accepted if they consist acts of the oppressed against his oppression.