Λέξεις και εικόνες: Η φωνή μου σε αφίσα

"My voice on a poster" — the title of a workshop at ΚΠΙΣΝ on Saturday 4 July 2026 (Λέξεις και εικόνες: Η φωνή μου σε αφίσα), and a fair description of what a child carries home from a session spent with paper, scissors, and an organized adult's attention. The workshop is a limited summer slot — one of a small run before the centre returns to its autumn programming.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center programs its summer the way it programs its facade — public, free, deliberate about how words and images sit together in shared space. Words and Images: My Voice on a Poster fits that logic. A child arrives at ΚΠΙΣΝ, sits down with materials and someone running the room, and walks back out with one poster that says something they wanted to say.

In Athens, αφίσα — poster — is not a children's craft category. Athenian walls layer with posters for theater, concerts, demonstrations, neighborhood announcements; in Exarcheia and Psyrri, posters are how a city talks to itself. Handing a child the format hands them a civic vocabulary already in their visual environment.

The audience for SNFCC workshops is families who treat ΚΠΙΣΝ as their weekend cultural infrastructure — Athens parents whose summer routines fold the centre in, school-age kids who already know which entrance leads to which lawn, the regulars rotating through the calendar of free programming the centre runs across the season. Expect a working room more than an audience — quiet concentration, occasional chairs scraping, the door open to the park.

| Aspect | Details | |--------|---------| | Setting | ΚΠΙΣΝ, Renzo Piano's library-and-opera complex south of the city centre | | Vibe | Workshop concentration with the door open — kids working while the park breathes around them | | Format | Collage and poster-making, words and images on one sheet | | Door | Open admission, registration via snfcc.org |

What the title does not specify is which materials the room offers, which prompts open the session, or which facilitator runs it on Saturday — those choices belong to the specific design ΚΠΙΣΝ has commissioned for this date. What the format reliably delivers is the rest: a workshop about voice, made for an age range that does not yet have to choose between words and images, with whatever the child carries out belonging to them.

If you want a structured arts class with a clean craft outcome, Words and Images: My Voice on a Poster is also that. If you want a slot inside SNFCC's summer programming that hands a child unbroken time with their own voice as the only material that matters, the workshop is built for it.

ΚΠΙΣΝ is reachable by tram from Syntagma or by the SNFCC's free shuttle from Syntagma square — check the shuttle timetable on snfcc.org before traveling, since the schedule shifts with the season. Admission is open; registration through snfcc.org is the standard for capacity-limited workshops, and the popular sessions fill in the first week after they post. The Esplanade and the lawn stay open after the workshop ends — most families stay for the rest of the afternoon.

One Saturday afternoon, a stack of paper, and the chance for one child to put one thing on a wall and say they made it.