Many philatelic seminars and round tables are organized worldwide every year aiming either to the dissemination and promotion of the several techniques in exhibiting and judging or to the new philatelic knowledge, normally addressed to already accomplished philatelists.
The Hellenic Philatelic Federation thought that it would be better to address to commoners who have not been involved so far with philately. The target was the opening to educated people a window to a cultural tradition unknown to them. The idea from the beginning was not to persuade the audience to become philatelists but to introduce them to a new world.
The Piraeus Municipal Library accepted with pleasure to include in their seminar program of 2016 the idea proposed and the program, under the general title “Philately: The preservation of our cultural heritage, A journey to the past and history”. The speakers were: Anthony Virvilis (5 seminars), Pantelis Leoussis President of HPF (also 5), Costas Chazapis, editor of Philotelia (2), Νikos Mallouchos, President of Union of Greek Collectors of Maximum Cards, Maximaphily and Mrs. Μ. Vardopoulou, painter-engraver of Greek stamps.
A projector was used at each seminar projecting the appropriate material (stamps, covers, books, catalogues etc) in order the audience be in position to understand what the speaker was saying.
After of each seminar day, the attendees were emailed with articles in Greek and/or English for the furtherance of their knowledge on the subject previously discussed.
The originality and the difficulty was that the speakers had to “invent” new terms to explain the worldwide established philatelic terminology to the non conversant audience with philately, so introducing them slowly to our world.
Another quite original and innovative approach were the papers given using videos, music, songs, postcards, posters, cancellations and of course stamps, depicting persons or monuments, according to the subject.
The seminar started at the beginning with 12-14 attendees, progressively increasing to 18-20.
The attendees were lawyers, teachers at elementary and Gymnasium schools, civil engineers, librarians, psychologists etc. who discovered for the first time the magic world of philately and appreciated that it is not only a mere accumulation of stamps but a science using many disciplines, such as typography, history, geography etc.
The comments received were very positive and the organisers have plans to continue the project in other forums as well.
Anthony Virvilis
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Over 2.000 m2 of the ‘Fabriekspand’ hall in Roeselare were used as perfect site of Westfila 2016
In collaboration with Pro Post, for the 3rd time in West Flanders was celebrated the Belgium National Championship of Philately. But this time, with an important innovation: the Netherlands was present, bringing a large number of collections and two members of the jury.
The exhibition was held from the 10th to the 12th of June. The many visitors found interesting not only the excellent philatelic collections but also the areas besides the competitive part that the Belgian Academy of Philately and several associations of stamp themes put in the spotlight.
The excellent organization was leaded by Filip Van Der Haegen as President of the Organizing Committee, being in his team Robert Lisabeth as Vice-President, Daniel Desloovere, Secretary General, the Treasurer Johan Dujardin and the Coordinator of the Belgium Federation Ivan Van Damme.
There was a Jury of high level, with Luc Van Pamel as President.
The main awards were for
Bollen André
Een half millennium (1387-1886) postale geschiedenis van de Ionische eilanden
96
Boom Frederik
Military mail in the Netheralnds in the Napolenic Era
95
Dehé J.
Stille getuigen van woelige jaren. Een posyhistorische verkenning van NL in WO I
95
Van der Linden Adam
De tralie serie van 1940 ( Nederland)
95
Van Der Haegen Filip
L’évolution de la poste Aérienne en A.E.F. (1925-1936)
95
Suys Jean-Pierre
Van lichaamsklanken tot klanklichamen
95
Congratulations!
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Seminars for the General Public: What such unusual initiative taught us
Α PHILATELIC SEMINAR NOT LIKE THE OTHERS
Many philatelic seminars and round tables are organized worldwide every year aiming either to the dissemination and promotion of the several techniques in exhibiting and judging or to the new philatelic knowledge, normally addressed to already accomplished philatelists.
The Hellenic Philatelic Federation thought that it would be better to address to commoners who have not been involved so far with philately. The target was the opening to educated people a window to a cultural tradition unknown to them. The idea from the beginning was not to persuade the audience to become philatelists but to introduce them to a new world.
The Piraeus Municipal Library accepted with pleasure to include in their seminar program of 2016 the idea proposed and the program, under the general title “Philately: The preservation of our cultural heritage, A journey to the past and history”. The speakers were: Anthony Virvilis (5 seminars), Pantelis Leoussis President of HPF (also 5), Costas Chazapis, editor of Philotelia (2), Νikos Mallouchos, President of Union of Greek Collectors of Maximum Cards, Maximaphily and Mrs. Μ. Vardopoulou, painter-engraver of Greek stamps.
A projector was used at each seminar projecting the appropriate material (stamps, covers, books, catalogues etc) in order the audience be in position to understand what the speaker was saying.
After of each seminar day, the attendees were emailed with articles in Greek and/or English for the furtherance of their knowledge on the subject previously discussed.
The originality and the difficulty was that the speakers had to “invent” new terms to explain the worldwide established philatelic terminology to the non conversant audience with philately, so introducing them slowly to our world.
Another quite original and innovative approach were the papers given using videos, music, songs, postcards, posters, cancellations and of course stamps, depicting persons or monuments, according to the subject.
The seminar started at the beginning with 12-14 attendees, progressively increasing to 18-20.
The attendees were lawyers, teachers at elementary and Gymnasium schools, civil engineers, librarians, psychologists etc. who discovered for the first time the magic world of philately and appreciated that it is not only a mere accumulation of stamps but a science using many disciplines, such as typography, history, geography etc.
The comments received were very positive and the organisers have plans to continue the project in other forums as well.
Anthony Virvilis
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Westfila 2016: The National Belgium Championship with important Dutch participation
Over 2.000 m2 of the ‘Fabriekspand’ hall in Roeselare were used as perfect site of Westfila 2016
In collaboration with Pro Post, for the 3rd time in West Flanders was celebrated the Belgium National Championship of Philately. But this time, with an important innovation: the Netherlands was present, bringing a large number of collections and two members of the jury.
The exhibition was held from the 10th to the 12th of June. The many visitors found interesting not only the excellent philatelic collections but also the areas besides the competitive part that the Belgian Academy of Philately and several associations of stamp themes put in the spotlight.
The excellent organization was leaded by Filip Van Der Haegen as President of the Organizing Committee, being in his team Robert Lisabeth as Vice-President, Daniel Desloovere, Secretary General, the Treasurer Johan Dujardin and the Coordinator of the Belgium Federation Ivan Van Damme.
There was a Jury of high level, with Luc Van Pamel as President.
The main awards were for
Congratulations!