Sarantaporou 25
15561 Athens
Greece
- Youth and education
Leirion is an alternative library - art place. It was founded in 2017 as a private for-profit enterprise. Leirion collaborates with local bookstores and publishers on a monthly basis to host book presentations, workshops etc. Throughout the year, it employes 10-20 professionals to carry out regular educational, cultural and artistic activities for youth and adults. Among others, it hosts cultural and artistic events such as musical nights, greek folklore storytelling, traditional dancing training and more. All programs are carried out by professionals who have the freedom to organize the structure of the projects’ vision, implementing their own educational methods. The decisions are made jointly with the direction and its partners. A distinguishing element of Leirion is the confidence it shows to young people, especially university students, who are hired with equal rights as professionals, enjoying the freedom to implement their fresh ideas.
Leirion was founded with a vision to promote books, art, and innovative educational methods. Our goal is for all members of society, irrespective of economic status, to have the opportunity to participate in educational, cultural and artistic activities. Our philosophy is that every individual should have access to quality educational programs as well as discover the book through alternative paths. Our home is sensitive to social matters such as unaccompanied refugee minors, abused women, abandoned children in maternity hospitals.
In collaboration with local bookstores, Leirion organizes book presentations and meetings with authors and publishers as well as storytelling nights for both children and adults. Among others, the artistic activities include regular pottery, painting, radio podcast, and theatre workshops, various exhibitions, musical events, and creative poetry writing. For our little ones, the regular educational activities include Robotics, Ancient Greek, and Rhetoric workshops, Model United Nations (MUN) club, study tutoring, math labs, philosophy sessions (Socrates' method for children 4 to 8 years old). Our adult programs include Oratory clubs, Gordon’s Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T), and parenting consulting.
Leirion promotes youth empowerment and offers a plethora of educational and cultural activities that could interest the members of the ALF while it is open for partnerships with like-minded private and non-profit organizations. Hence, it aspires to be a valuable member which will strengthen the Greek Network and aim for regular and quality cooperation within it.
The Alternative Library - Art Place Leirion is organizing a new educational activity, the 1st International Model United Nations Conference Leirion that will take place in Athens, Greece on October 29-31, 2021. For the first time in Greece, the conference aims to bridge the school and university MUN communities, under the general theme of Individual Freedoms in the Contemporary Era. The goal of this project is the annual organization of an international conference with original topics, quality research, substantial debate, which will produce results that can constitute applicable guidelines or solutions to social, political and economic issues. We want to join the ALF Network to attract participation from the Euro-Mediterranean area not only for this project but also for upcoming ones. For example, for the academic year 2021-2022, the promotion of a charitable initiative is programmed. It refers to a Poetry competition for elementary students, whose poems will be checked by an Academic Committee of experts and will be published in order to fundraise for educational programs for unaccompanied refugee minors and neglected children in maternity hospitals.