A musician from antiquity and one from the present each sit at a table. What role did women play in the writing of music’s history and Greece’s cultural map?

Who was present but isn’t accounted for? will these two women find common ground, maybe become friends?

Making art has power for me because through the act of creating I have the licence to visually at least; express curiosity and form images that I can best describe as ‘wish to be seen’. In Rendezvous at theTavern1, the ancient Greek Mantineia Marble from the 4th century BC (a muse playing a Pandouris, a distant relative of the bouzouki) meets up with a modern day touberleki player.

On the wall of the tavern hangs a collection of framed images: Kitty San Pedro, a Melbourne violinist’s recent Facebook photo wearing a Pussy Power t-shirt, the 19th Century painter Theofilo’s: ‘Athenian woman with guitar’, the song writer: Eftyhia Papagianopoulou, and more…

Look over your shoulder to come face to face with new connections