The London Greek Film Festival is a new four-day celebration of the Greek nation’s nascent movie-making culture at the Hellenic Centre in Marylebone, London, UK.
Three documentaries get things underway > Voice of the Aegean (2004) is an natural exploration of the Aegean islands, The Cypriot Diaspora (2006) provides social commentary on Blighty’s immigrants from Cyprus, and [...]
Jacqueline deRomilly received an award at the Greek Embassy in Paris on Wednesday. It is a replica of an ancient award on which the Municipality and Parliament are personified.
On November 5, Jacqueline de Romilly, a world-renowned Hellenist and member of the French Academy, became the first recipient of an award for Parliamentarism and Democracy from the [...]
Greece will be the theme country at the 54th book festival which will be taking place in Belgrade, Serbia in October 2009.
The Ambassador of Japan, the theme country at this year’s festival, delivered the “open book” to the Greek Ambassador in Serbia during the 53rd festival’s closing ceremony.
Greek Ambassador Christos Panagopoulos thanked the book [...]
A 12th-century brazier in the form of a domed building, from Constantinople or Italy, on display in the “Byzantium 330-1453″ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis was in London earlier this week, to attend the opening of the “Byzantium 330-1453″ exhibition.
“I am proud to be Greek” Premier Karamanlis said. [...]
Jointly organized by the Royal Academy and Greece’s Benaki Museum, the exhibition includes artifacts that have never or rarely left their respective countries.
It was clear from the press conference that the exhibition “Byzantium 330-1453″ is a major event. The hall at the Benaki Museum was full of journalists and, in the front rows, members of [...]
France’s artistic and literary ‘gifts’ to the Greek resistance during WWII > The Roger and Tatiana Milliex collection to represent Greece during European Cultural Season
Pablo Picasso was one of the artists who responded to the moving initiative undertaken by Roger and Tatiana Milliex, along with Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Andre Masson and Francis Picabia.
An [...]
The renovated Civil Museum of Sartorio, in Trieste, Italy, is hosting Greek music events until August 27.
They include a shadow puppet performance, concerts by the Stephanos Nasos Trio and the Hellenic Byzantine Choir, as well as an evening of Odysseus Elytis’ poetry.
Museum Nights is sponsored by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, the Greek Parliament [...]
