{"id":28535,"date":"2022-10-11T11:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T08:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/?p=28535"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T08:15:55","slug":"lidice-the-international-childrens-fine-arts-exhibition-in-technopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/old-news-en\/lidice-the-international-childrens-fine-arts-exhibition-in-technopolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidice: The International Children&#8217;s Fine Arts Exhibition in Technopolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The International Children&#8217;s Fine Arts Exhibition Lidice has been taking place every year since 1973, and this year it comes to the heart of Athens, in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athens-technopolis.gr\/index.php\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technopolis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as part of the Athens Science Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one of the largest exhibitions of children&#8217;s artistic output. It was founded to commemorate the children murdered by German Nazis in 1942, as well as all other children who died in wars. During the years of activity, has been well-known among children and teachers in our country and abroad while attracting thousands of children from all continents every year. In 2018, the exhibition received the Gratias Agit award from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for spreading the good name of the Czech Republic abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each year, the main theme of the exhibition is <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recommended<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Czech Commission for UNESCO. The <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">theme<\/span> <b><i>CHEMISTRY <\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was chosen for the 47th year!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a matter of fact, in 2019 it has been 150 years since Mendeleev&#8217;s periodic table of elements, one of the pillars of modern chemistry, saw the light of day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The exhibition is also a competition, and it is open to the participation of children from 4 to 16 years of age. In the 47th year, an expert panel of judges was selected from 15,336 entries from 70 countries. The award-winning entries are on display at the Lidice Gallery in Lidice and recently also at Prague museums from June to November. As soon as the exhibition has ended, individual collections will be put on loan to a number of venues in the Czech Republic and abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition is launched and organized by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lidice-memorial.cz\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lidice Memorial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the support of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culture.gov.gr\/en\/SitePages\/default.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Culture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/en\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minedu.gov.gr\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Education, Youth &amp; Sports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Czech Commission for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNESCO<\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/athens.czechcentres.cz\/?locale=cs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Czech Centers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizers: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzv.cz\/athens\/en\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embassy of Czech Republic in Athens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/athens.czechcentres.cz\/?locale=cs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Czech Centres of Athens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contributes to a wide range of activities for the Czech EU Presidency 2022 (CZ PRES)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prague and Chemistry are now closer than ever!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Book your ticket now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Children&#8217;s Fine Arts Exhibition Lidice has been taking place every year since 1973, and this year it comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28536,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions\/28536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}