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The 7th Cycladic Gastronomy Festival Nikolaos Tselementes was hosted from Sept. 5-7 in the town of Artemonas on the island of Sifnos with the participation of 20 Cycladic islands. The Festival went under the name Sifnos Sets the Table and was...

Kicking off NY Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Greek-American Fashion Week brings together a lot of talented Greek-Americans of the fashion industry. The main runway show of the event took place at the studio 450 in New York City on Friday September...

Greece is a lively country with structures and an economy which functions normally rather than an impoverished country as often shown by the foreign media. This remark was made during a press conference on September 5 on the occasion of...

A fundraiser to benefit Bear Cottage at Manly, the only children’s hospice in NSW will take place at the St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Hall in Sydney on October 27th at 2 p.m. The event is organized by the...

Parga once again honored its past. Following the representation of the Pargians' escape on August 15, on September 1, there was another representation which attracted all the people of Epirus. The representation was about the most frightful pirate Kheir el-din...

The Greek film Miss Violence by Alexandros Avranas is participating  in the 70th International Film Festival of Venice, which started on August 28 and will be completed on September 7. This is the second feature-length film for the Greek director,...

Ilias Iliadis won the bronze medal in the Judo World Championships 2013 that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from Aug. 26-Sept. 1 after winning five out of six matches. He had won the bronze last year in the...

Aktina Productions Inc, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 New York-based cultural organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the rich heritage, folklore and culture of Cyprus and Greece celebrates 20 years of excellence in the arts, culture and...

The Rehabilitation Centre Oasis in Thessaloniki on Sept. 20 will present a music performance featuring the works of one of Greece's greatest poets, the C.P. Cavafy- By Heart and Singing from the group Cavafy of Ano Syros. As 2013 has...

Some ingenious Greeks always have their way, such as fisherman-poet Christos Raskatos who is going to participate in the Festival of Performing Arts of Lorne, a seaside town on Louttit Bay in Victoria, Australia. At the Festival of Performing Arts...

The 12th Greek-Turkish Friendship Festival will take place on September 12-15, 2013, in Samothrace and Imbros. The topic of the 12th Festival is Environment and Tourism. Taking into consideration that Imbros is easily accessible from the closest Greek island, Samothrace,...

Greek artists Mary Linda and Petros Imvrios will give concerts in Canada at the end of September, which will be held under the auspices of the Canadian Ambassador in Athens, Robert Peck, in the context of the Greek-Canadian diplomatic...

The famous Cirque du Soleil has begun a world tour presenting a performance-tribute to Michael Jackson. In September and October, the event will be staged in Australia’s biggest cities after it completes a tour of China, South Korea and...

The traditional Ifestia festival brought thousands of visitors to the caldera to attend a spectacular ceremony. The Ifestia Festival, the representation of the volcanic eruptions, which is held every August in Santorini, constituted for another year a unique spectacle for...

Two Greek films, "The enemy within" (O ehthros mou) by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos and "The tree and the swing" (To dentro kai i kounia) by Maria Douza, will have their world premiere at the 37th Montreal World Film Festival and...