My Rembetika Blues: A film screening and discussion with director Mary Zournazi. This event occurred at UCLA in Royce Hall on Saturday, December 10, 2022. This event was the inaugural event of a collaborative three-year pilot program between UCLA and SFU called Gefyra. To learn more about our upcoming events and Gefyra, please visit: [ Ссылка ]

My Rembetika Blues is a film about the power of music and what makes us human. Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music of the streets and a music of refugees. The film explores the heart and soul of Rembetika music through peoples’ stories of love, loss and belonging.

Rembetika developed its roots from migrant experience. Mary Zournazi’s grandmother was one of the 1.2 million refugees who fled the Smyrna disaster in Turkey in 1922 and arrived at the Port of Piraeus in Greece. She, like many, became part of a movement of people, and of tradition, which saw the birth Rembetika.

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