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An exhibition titled 'The Golden Byzantium and the East' will be presented from the 31st of March through the 4th of November at the Renaissance Palaces of Lower Austria. The exhibition will focus on the vital role that Byzantium...

Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP) continues its 8th season – entitled Laughter, Loss & Longing – with Euripides’ Greek tragedy Medea, directed by David R. Gammons. Previously for ASP, Gammons has directed three award-winning productions: The Duchess of Malfi, Titus...

 Theofania Festival was organised under the auspices of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and was held on January the 8th at Station Pier Port Melbourne. It was an exciting and colourful festival full of tradition and cultural festivities. The...

Yannis Pappas, the comedic mastermind behind Mr. Panos, one of the most popular Greek web characters ever created, will perform a few live shows on January 27th in New York City and on February 10th in South Africa. The Yannis Pappas...

The International Christmas Festival of Sacred Music opened on the 8th of January in Moscow. It features music from different traditions including the Old Believers, American gospel songs, Byzantine chants and traditional French songs. For the first time in Moscow,...

On Saturday, Jan 14th, the Hellenic Society of Constantinople will hold its annual Dinner Dance at the Wilshire Country Club. This will be the 45th consecutive year that the organization “cut” its vassilopita. The Hellenic Society of Constantinople was...

After completing its performances in Athens,“Invisible Olga” continues its success story in Austria, as part of the Emergency Entrance, an international theatre project to be hosted in Graz, Austria, from 26 to 29 January, 2012. Europe portrayed as an “Emergency...

CYPRECO of America, Inc., launches the new year with a very unique program that will revive Folk Stories and Folk Poems of Cyprus which were compiled and published by the late Lucy Maroulleti. The program will feature stage readings in...

The Greek community of Australia is ready to celebrate Epiphany Day. Many Greek-Australians congregate in Frankston & Rye in order to attend the Blessing of the Waters. The Epiphany commemorates the first two occasions on which Jesus’ divinity, according to...

By Aspasia Zontanou On December 16th, 2011, the traditional Christmas Party of the Greeks in Düsseldorf celebrated its 10th anniversary. The NH-Hotel was packed with 250 people, including Greeks, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and other ethnicities, waiting excitedly for the annual festivities:...

The traditional reading of the flytzani, where everyone’s destiny is hidden, the old newspapers of Siatista, its centuries-old houses and the prejudices of its people are some of the main components reviving on screen through the black-and-white photographs that...

The next Mobile Monday Athens event will take place on Monday, January 16 at the Classical Imperial Hotel. MobileMonday™ (MoMo) is an open community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering brand neutral cooperation and cross-border...

The Greek Cultural Centre is organizing a concert tribute to the Greek writer Odysseus Elytis, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979. During the concert, special excerpts from 'Axion Esti' will be set to music by Mikis Theodorakis,...

The poignant sounds of Diaspora Greek musicians who have rarely been heard in the US will be combined with the poetry of Cavafy and presented at universities in Europe and the USA. Michigan University Professor Vassilios Lampropoulos proposed this program along...

Dozens of Greek-born children filled up the Stathakio Centre with their happy voices and cheers on Wednesday evening, December 28, within the event organized by the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater NY for the “Feast of Love”. The little...