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Hundreds of Viennese friends of Greece welcomed the famous Greek artist Giorgos Dimou with demonstrations of admiration, at the renowned music theater of Vienna, the Raimund Theatre, where he gave a stunning concert. Dimou has brought Greek music closer...

Greece will be featured at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Regions Capitales pour le cinema that will take place from May 15-26 as the most noted of the world's events on movies No Greek film has been chosen to...

The Paniyiri Greek Festival will take place at the Musgrave Park and the Greek Club in South Brisbane on May 18-19. The visitors will have access to more than 30 food stalls with Greek delicacies from all corners of Greece,...

Vice Mayor of the Municipality of Homeroupolis, Nikos Nyktas, announced a 40 percent reduction in the number of rockets to be fired at the traditional Rocket War (Rouketopolemos) in relation to 2012. The announcement was made during a press conference...

Second-grade students of the Second General Lyceum of Eleftherio-Kordelio, a city in northwest Thessaloniki, started a research in September 2012 trying to collect as much information as possible on the period before and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and...

AHEPA-Canada (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association) awarded on April 26, in an event held in the ballroom of the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, with their highest honor, the Socrates Award. According to...

Greek director Ektoras Lygizos has been awarded in the tenth Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, which took place in the Austrian city of Linz. He won the first prize (CROSSING EUROPE AWARD European Competition) and €10,000 for his film,...

On the occasion of the five hundred years from the birth of the world-famous anatomist Andreas Vesalius, a conference will take place from September 4 to 8, 2014 in Zakynthos, where he died. The event was announced by the...

A young Greek-Australian who lives in Melbourne has entered the top 25 finalists nominated for one of the six places of The Best Jobs in the World, a competition in Australia. Her name is Elenore Argyropoulos and was chosen among...

The well-loved songwriter and performer Alkinoos Ioannidis gave a concert on April 25 in Passionskirche in Berlin. Ioannidis performed with Yiorgos Kaloudis, a cello and Cretan lyre virtuoso. Ioannidis performed his own songs as well as songs written by Nikos...

Greek Marios ‘Nivek’ Bitsikokos was the winner in the world championship Injustice: Gods Among Us, which took place at an impressive night club in Paris. Bitsikokos had previously won the Pan-Hellenic Championship in Injustice: Gods Among Us in Athens. He...

The soloist Julie Ventoura will give a concert at the Hellenic American Union (HAU) Theater on May 23, performing works for harpsichord written by four Greek composers ranked among the greatest of the 20th Century. The works are: Mermaid’s reply...

A Greek week under the title, Glances at the Contemporary Greek Arts Scene, will be hosted in Saint-Gervais Theater in Geneva, Switzerland from April 29 to May 2, with the support of the Athens International Film Festival. Films, performances...

The 67th Convention of the Pan-Macedonian Association USA and the 11th International Convention of the World Pan-Macedonian Associations will both take place this summer in Greece. Litochoro, a town in the Pieria region, will welcome the 67th Convention of the...

The initiative 12 hours For Greece has organized the event Democracy Revisited in Brussels on Europe Day 2013, May 9, for the second successive year. This initiative started in 2012 and aims at improving the image of Greece abroad...