Our mission
Thirathen is a non-profit civil company (AMKE). Its aims are:
- To introduce the local community and visitors from all over the world to Greek traditional music as a whole, and to familiarise them with the traditional instruments of Greece and the wider Mediterranean.
- To preserve and continue Greek traditional music through seminars and conferences.
- To carry out musicological research and study of Greek traditional music, as a centre for research and documentation.
Income from tickets, courses and events supports these aims.
Education
Educational programmes for schools, instrument lessons, a choir and workshops for children. Schools.
Research
Documentaries on the art of the mandolin and the laouto in Crete, supported by the Region of Crete, and the 1st International Ethnomusicology Conference. Documentaries.
A living tradition
Concerts, shadow theatre and tours where visitors hold and play the instruments. Events.