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‘Elite Events Athens’ in Collaboration with ‘Feeling Human’ Hosts Christmas Charity Bazaar
’Elite Events Athens’, (specialists in customized events ranging from corporate to weddings to lifestyle events) in collaboration with the non-profit organization ‘Feeling Human’, who help raise awareness through creative events on critical issues of our time, will hold a Christmas Charity Bazaar on Saturday, the 10th and Sunday, the 11th of December. The special charity event will take [...]
Cyprus Alzheimer’s Association to Hold Lecture in Cyprus
According to the ‘Famagusta Gazette’, the Famagusta Branch of the Cyprus Alzheimer’s Association will be hosting a free lecture by Dr. Savvas Papacostas from the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics this weekend. Papacostas will be talking about the signs, symptoms, stages, diagnosis, research progress, treatment and care of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. He will [...]
Tennessee Williams’ Spring Storm on Stage for the First Time in Greece
Spring Storm For the first time in Greece, ‘Spring Storm’ by Tennessee Williams takes to the stage at the Technopolis Theatre, Gazi on Friday, 2 December, under the direction of Vassilis Christofilakis. The tragic play, one of Tennessee’s earliest scripts, was written in 1937, when he was in his mid-twenties and an Iowa student, attending a playwriting workshop. [...]
Presentation of ‘Turkish Grammar in Greek Language’
The presentation of ’Turkish Grammar in the Greek Language’ was held at the reception room of the ‘Enosis Konstantinoupoliton’. The grammar book was written by Vassilis Daphnopatidis and Christina Sanlioglu and published by the ‘Perugia-Tina Zogopoulou’ publishing house. The event was attended by around 280 people, including Consul General of Turkey Nurdan Altunbaş, Deputy Consul [...]
1st Emerging Writers’ Festival to be Hosted at Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation
The National Book Centre of Greece (EKEBI) and the Ministry of Tourism are turning to the dynamic of young Greek authors by organizing for the first time on Greek grounds the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Under the theme “We have a lot to say, to read, to discover, to see”, the festival will open its gates [...]
8th Annual Greek Shipping Awards and Gala Dinner in Athens
Since 2004, the annual Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards have been recognising the best in the dynamic Greek shipping industry. Hundreds of key personalities are expected to attend this year’s presentation dinner that pays tribute to the world’s largest ship-owning community, their service partners and some of the industry’s outstanding achievements in 15 specific award [...]
Conference on Greek-Turkish Cooperation to be Held in Thessaloniki
The Greek-Turkish Chamber of Northern Greece is organizing a one-day-conference on the theme “Greece-Turkey: cooperation challenge” on November 26, at 6pm, at the Foyer Hall of Hyatt Regency Hotel in Thessaloniki. The event is being held within the multi-conference “Money Show 2011”. The conference aims at pointing out the possibilities and profit of developing new [...]
Russian Film Wins Prize at Thessaloniki Film Festival
The Russian film Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkahn) won the prize for Best Feature Film at the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece. Since its first screening at the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in June, the film has done well abroad, with a screening in London in October and one scheduled for the Les [...]
Goulandris National History Museum Presents “Chemistry in Ancient Greece”
Goulandris Museum of Natural History will host a lecture titled “Chemistry in Ancient Greece” tomorrow November 16. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Theodosis Tassios of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and it will inaugurate a series of lectures on the broader thematic aspect “Science-Technology-Economy in Ancient Greece”. The lecture commences at [...]
Greek-Russian Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin Holds Lecture at Eugenides Foundation
Greek-Russian cosmonaut and photographer Greek-Russian cosmonaut, Greek-Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin will hold a lecture for the Greek audience at 18:00 on the 8th of November in the amphitheatre of the Eugenides Foundation (Syggrou Boulevard 387, 175 64 Palaion Faliro). The lecture is titled “The Experience Gained from Wandering in the Universe” and is organized within the [...]
Mexican Poet Homero Aridjis to Hold Lecture at Athens Concert Hall
“To me poetry is a way of life. A way of understanding the world, time and my own self” says Mexican famed poet-activist Homero Aridjis adding that “The earth is made of poetry, just like the time and space; and most of all, our dreams are made of poetry. Should God ask me when I [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Thessaloniki: 50 Year Anniversary Commemorated of Seferis Literature Nobel Prize May 23, 2012
- ‘Doctors of the World’ International Conference to be Held in Greece May 22, 2012
- Crete is a Mediterranean ‘Treasure’ of Aromatic Plants and Herbs May 22, 2012
- Crete to Export Products to Australia May 21, 2012
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