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The 29th CineMart, co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam concluded Wednesday on February 1 in Rotterdam with the announcement of the two awards for best CineMart Projects 2012. The ARTE France Cinéma Award (10,000 Euros) for the Best...

The International and world-famous BOOT Dusseldorf 2012 exhibition, held at Dusseldorf on 21-29/1/2012, fully met the expectations of the representatives of the tourism sector. Europe’s international marketplace for the yacht and water sports industry maintains its pole position. 246,700...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY held an exhibition in 1977 entitled “Age of Spirituality”, presenting the first centuries of Byzantium to a US audience through original artifacts of the time. In 1996, a second grandiose exhibition followed entitled...

Christos Tsintsaris will be the only Greek artist taking part in this year’s International Erotic Art Exhibition “Dirty Show” in Detroit, Michigan. Founded by Jerry Vile in 2000, the exhibition showcases over 400 pieces of art by over 250 artists...

The Victorian Water Ski Association, organizer of the Moomba Masters International Invitational Championships, conducted as part of the Moomba Water Festival on the Yarra River in Melbourne, from the 7th to the 12th of March 2012, has honored the...

'The Slap' series, based on the book of Greek-Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas, won the Best Screenplay In Television award during the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards that were held on Tuesday night. Moreover, Alex Dimitriades won the...

“Occupation” is the title of a new independent film production created by a group of volunteers in Iraklion, Crete, presenting an allegory on the present and the past. The film was shot as an answer to the German, mostly negative...

Synapandema, the biggest gathering of Pontic Greeks in Australia, took place in Melbourne on January 20-22, 2012. Organized by the Federation of Pontian Associations of Australia and the Pontiaki Estia of Melbourne, the three-day long event aims at promoting and...

The new opera "The Barbarians", produced by Hobart-based opera company IHOS and composed by artistic director Constantine Koukias, opened last week in Hobart as part of the Festival of Music and Art (FOMA). Based on the poem Waiting for...

Come along with your family and friends to celebrate Meat-fare Sunday as a community. On this day begins the spiritual preparation for Lent, observed by Greek Orthodox believers by giving up meat products. Lent is the period that the Church...

The Greek Orthodox Community (GOC) of NSW will hold a special event in memory of the recently deceased Greek filmmaker Theodoros Angelopoulos on February 12 at its suburban premises in Lakemba, at 17:00. The event will include the screening of...

'Sympossio Greek Gourmet Touring', lasting from the 30th of January until the 17th of February, is a journey of Greek gastronomy in the big cities of Europe. The aim of the event is the promotion of Greece through cuisine,...

A Virtual Theatre in the new Acropolis Museum has been created in order to present films and documentaries with 3D animation regarding the history of restorations of the four monuments of the Acropolis. The screening of the film 'Acropolis in...

On the day of the Celebration of the Greek Letters, the National Herald-Ethnikos Kyrix honored the educational work of teachers in the Greek-American Community. Sophia Stavrakis, director of the Greek school of the Church of St. George in Trenton, New...

The painting titled "Double Ferrari Formula One", painted by the Greek artist Mina Papatheodorou-Valyrakis, will be presented and auctioned at the 'Monte Carlo' Evening on the 3rd of February. Mina Papatheodorou‐Valyrakis is a prolific and exciting expressionist painter whose work...