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Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality – Exclusive Visit for Hellenic Centre Members
At Ashmolean Museum on 04 Jul 2023Join us for the first Hellenic Centre members’ outing to the Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Member Society Events
Discover Authentic Greek Dancing
At The Hellenic Centre on 01 Jul 2023The charity of Lykion ton Hellinidon will put on an end of year show for all learners to present what they have learned during the dancing year.
Talk
Digital Discoveries in Knossos
At The Hellenic Centre on 29 Jun 2023Experience a virtual tour of a unique digital 3D model of the Palace of Minos at Knossos with Dr John Pouncett from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Hear how the technique of web mapping can be used to open up access to archaeological archives.
This event runs parallel to the exhibition Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality at the Ashmolean Museum.
Music – Talk
Celebrate Vamvakaris: Talk and Concert
At The Hellenic Centre on 24 Jun 2023“We are all but branches of a tree. Markos is that tree.”
– Composer Mikis Theodorakis (1925 – 2021)
The musicians of the Rebetiko Carnival perform an evening of the works of musician Markos Vamvakaris, revered as the ‘patriarch of Rebetiko music.’
Member Society Events
Runciman Award Ceremony
At King's College London on 19 Jun 2023Runciman Award Ceremony. Guest speaker & keynote address: Prof. Dame Mary Beard
Event organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.
17th London Greek Film Festival 2023: Screenings and Awards Ceremony
At The Hellenic Centre on 17 Jun 2023The London Greek Film Festival presents contemporary films and screenplays from Greek and international film directors, producers, writers and artists.
Talk
Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality exhibition introduction
At The Hellenic Centre on 15 Jun 2023Curator of Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality Dr Andrew Shapland provides an introduction to the first major exhibition in the UK about Knossos. Hear about early travellers searching for the mythical Labyrinth, the importance of the Sir Arthur Evans’ excavations and recent discoveries that include evidence of human sacrifice.
Member Society Events
Katie Lentakis Award Ceremony
At King's College London on 13 Jun 2023In Conversation with Prof. Kevin Featherstone.
Event organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.
Member Society Events
Yannis Ritsos: New English Translations and Visualisations
At King's College London on 12 Jun 2023Yannis Ritsos: new English translations and visualisations, including a tribute to Edmund Keeley. David Harsent, A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yannis Ritsos, intro. John Kittmer (Hexham: Bloodaxe 2023) and Yannis Ritsos, Monochords, trans. Paul Merchant; linocut illustrations by Chiara Ambrosio (London: Prototype 2023).
Readings, illustrations and panel discussion.
Event organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.
(POSTPONED) Maths Workshops for Children and Teenagers
At The Hellenic Centre on 10 Jun 2023This event has been postponed until the Autumn.
Screening – Talk
After the Explosion you Still Hear the Light: A Book, Film and Conversation with 3 137
At The Hellenic Centre on 03 Jun 2023An afternoon with the Athens based artist run space 3 137, to launch their new publication After the Explosion you Still Hear the Light.
Member Society Events
Konstantinos Alsinos, Η πληγή του κόσμου (The Wound of the World) (Athens: Mikri Arktos, 2022)
At King's College London on 02 Jun 2023Konstantinos Alsinos, Η πληγή του κόσμου (The Wound of the World) (Athens: Mikri Arktos, 2022). Readings in Greek; discussion in English.
Event organised by The Anglo-Hellenic League. In partnership with the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London.
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Abortion and Contraception in 20th century Greece
At The Hellenic Centre on 30 May 2023Couples in Greece started controlling the number of children they had in the early 1930s. By the early 1960s, most Greek couples had a very small number of children. This talk will explore how couples achieved this fertility control, by asking the following questions: What methods did women and men use? How did they negotiate these method(s)? When did they choose abortion and when contraception?
Event organised by the Society for Modern Greek Studies.
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The Bronze Inscribed Tablets from the Treasury of Pallas at Argos (4th century B.C.)
At Online on 30 May 2023A webinar with Dr Alkistis Papadimitriou, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolida, and Dr Charalampos Kritzas, Director Emeritus of the Epigraphical Museum at Athens.
Event organised by the Greek Archaeological Committee UK.
Talk
Erica Scourti: Artist’s Talk
At The Hellenic Centre on 25 May 2023Multi-media artist Erica Scourti presents her practice of exploring autobiography through routines of everyday life. Using lo-fi materials, her work explores affect, labour and self-exposure, connecting the personal to impersonal structures of value and meaning.
Art in Partnership – Contemporary Art and the British School at Athens
At The Hellenic Centre on 18 May 2023Artistic practice is enriched by its embedding in a wider cultural context. John Bennet, former Director of the research institute, the British School at Athens (BSA), and Malcolm Quinn, Professor of Cultural and Political History at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon UAL, share their experiences of art-in-dialogue, with a focus on UAL’s practice-based residency programme at the BSA and the School’s wider engagement with contemporary art.
Member Society Events
Πολίτικα (Politika): More than merely Istanbul Greek
At The Hellenic Centre on 16 May 2023Matthew Hadodo, a child of an Istanbul Greek mother, interviewed over 100 people to see how the local variety of the Greek language functions as part of the larger social practices the community members engage in to distinguish themselves from the Turks and other Greeks.
Event organised by the Greek Association of Constantinopolitan Greeks in the UK.
Talk
Meteora, Rocks Suspended in the Air: Ainalaiyn Space in Conversation with Artist-in-Residence Kate Daudy
on 11 May 2023In August 2022, UK contemporary arts organisation Ainalaiyn Space invited three artists to live alongside the magnificent rocks of Meteora, Greece. Join curator Indira Dyussebayeva-Ziyabek and participating artist Kate Daudy, as they discuss how the landscape, stories and people of Meteora shaped Daudy’s artistic practice throughout the residency and beyond.
Exhibition
Chiara Ambrosio: Monochords
At The Hellenic Centre between 05 May 2023 – 28 Jul 2023Monochords is a suite of 336 linocuts by London-based Italian filmmaker and visual artist Chiara Ambrosio, produced daily in the space of one year in response to Yannis Ritsos’ collection of one-line poems by the same title. Ritsos, an advocate for the Greek Resistance during WWII, composed the poems in August of 1979, at the end of one of many political exiles on the island of Samos.
The Monochords: Artists and Poets in Dialogue on Yannis Ritsos
At The Hellenic Centre on 04 May 2023To celebrate the launch of the book Monochords, by Greek poet Yannis Ritsos (1909 – 1990) and London based artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio, this is an evening of conversation and readings about Ritsos’ poetry, its significance and continuing resonance with contemporary artists and writers.