Workers at the National Book Centre of Greece (EKEBI) are setting up an on-line petition to gather signatures to send to Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras to persuade him to change his mind about closing the facility as part of cutbacks in the country’s crushing economic crisis.
“Responding to the hearty support they have received from the friends of the books around Greece and abroad, they decided to open a web form in order to collect signatures to suspend the decision taken by the Deputy Minister Costas Tzavaras to close EKEBI,” the workers said.
They highlighted projects and programs of the cenetr, such as book exhibitions in Greece and abroad, Young Writers Festival, Surveys, Observatory of Digital Book Program to support the translations, bilateral and international relations, Book Workshop, Reading Clubs, and the Readers’ Award.
They also emphasized the importance of the center’s operation: “Remember that EKEBI has been created in 1994 to overcome the rigidity of the” narrow,” public sector, they implored. They added that, “The National Book Centre is an organization that does not cost anything to the nation. The Children’s and Teenage Book Exhibition as well as the New Writers Festival are only two of the projects organized by the center.”
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