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Migration as an Opportunity

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with Ioannis Limnios Sekeris   Migration offers the potential for both individual improvement and improved management of migrant flows.   This is an online-only event, so please join us on YouTube or Facebook. You don't need an account with either of these services to just watch the event, but you do need one if you […]

Kastellorizo and its Gold

Greek Community Centre 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Presenter: Nick Bogiatzis Language of Presentation: English Entry: FREE Synopsis     Kastellorizo has an extraordinary history of prosperity and destruction.  Without soil or water it sustained a population of 9,000 through trade. Trade brought with it opportunity and wealth, reflected in the homes, clothing and jewellery. Gold was the medium of trade and the reflection […]

Pontus the Opera | Memorial Seminar

Greek Centre, Mezzanine Mezzanine Level, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

with Dean Kalimniou   “Pontus the Opera.” While Pontus is commonly portrayed as an isolated region with its own idiosyncratic culture, this was not always so. In this lecture, Dean Kalimniou will examine how Pontus captured the western imagination and served as the inspiration for the composition of opera and classical music. In this was […]

SSIFF Presents Psarokokalo (Greek Centre)

Greek Centre, Mezzanine Mezzanine Level, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A series of short films from the Athens Short Film Festival, Psarokokalo.   Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1206506?  

Hellenism in Asia

Greek Centre, Mezzanine Mezzanine Level, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

with Konstantinos Politis   ΕΚΤΑΚΤΟ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Ξεκινώντας από τις ιστορίες του θεού Διόνυσου και του Ηρακλή και προχωρώντας στον Μέγα Αλέξανδρο και τα Ελληνιστικά βασίλεια της Ασίας και επεκτείνοντας μέχρι τη σύγχρονη εποχή με την άφιξη το 1949 στην Τασκένδη (πρωτεύουσα του Ουζμπεκιστάν) 12.000 Ελλήνων μαχητών του Δημοκρατικού Στρατού που διέφυγαν από έναν […]

From Imbros Over the Sea – Presentation and Exhibition

Greek Centre, Mezzanine Mezzanine Level, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

with JIM CLAVEN   The northern Aegean Island of Imbros and its population played a significant but little appreciated role in the Gallipoli campaign and Australia’s Anzac story. Research by historian Jim Claven OAM reveals that Imbros was a major base for the Gallipoli campaign, the Island transformed and its people impacted by its effects. […]

From Imbros Over the Sea – Presentation and Exhibition

Greek Centre, Mezzanine Mezzanine Level, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

with JIM CLAVEN   The northern Aegean Island of Imbros and its population played a significant but little appreciated role in the Gallipoli campaign and Australia’s Anzac story. Research by historian Jim Claven OAM reveals that Imbros was a major base for the Gallipoli campaign, the Island transformed and its people impacted by its effects. […]

From Imbros Over the Sea – Presentation and Exhibition

Greek Centre, Mezzanine Mezzanine Level, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

with JIM CLAVEN   The northern Aegean Island of Imbros and its population played a significant but little appreciated role in the Gallipoli campaign and Australia’s Anzac story. Research by historian Jim Claven OAM reveals that Imbros was a major base for the Gallipoli campaign, the Island transformed and its people impacted by its effects. […]

‘Into the Moonlit Village’ (the Battle of Crete)

Greek Centre, Mezzanine Mezzanine Level, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A bilingual book of poetry and art by Cretan-born Poli Tataraki (Sansey) and Australian Michael Winters. Hear readings of poems as you view projections of artwork where ANZACs and Cretans grapple side by side with the Nazi invasion and occupation under the gaze of the Bull. In all the horror soldiers encounter thelegendary Cretan philoxenia. […]

Græcia Gallica: The Greek diaspora in France

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For more than 2600 years, the French and Greek histories have been inextricably linked in a variety of ways, with the two nations gradually building geographical, cultural, political, and economic relations that appear to be stronger than ever. This could explain why France is a common topic in almost all Greek media, and why Greeks […]