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The Hellenic Centre offers a rich programme of lectures, exhibitions, concerts, social events, and Greek language courses to promote awareness of Hellenic culture and nurture UK relations with the Hellenic world.
The Greek Revolution 1821
The Hand of Panagiotis Zographos, the Mind of Makriyannis
An exhibition of plates illustrating scenes from the War of Independence.
Organised by the Hellenic Centre under the aegis of the Greece 2021 Committee, sponsored by Mrs Edmée Leventis.
Dates to be confirmed
1821 Commemorative Lecture Series: The Greek War of Independence Revisited
Organised by the Hellenic Centre.
New Year Concert!
This year the Hellenic Centre’s New Year Concert will be online, with soprano and pianist Katerina Mina performing her one-artist operatic programme!
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Greek courses for all levels, from Alpha to Omega
We run Greek language courses for groups and individuals; we hold conversation classes and help students prepare for the C1 & C2 Certificate of Attainment in Greek.
Our Online Winter Term Courses
will run from 18/01/21 until 01/04/21
All our Online Courses run via Google Meet
Private tuition currently available only via SKYPE.
Key registration dates
The registration period for our Winter Term Online Courses will run from
7 January until 14 January 2021
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WHAT'S ON
Dust – Σκόνη by Costas Papageorgiou
The play ‘Dust’ was inspired by the true story of Caroline and Will Henderson (1877-1965) – born in the same year and dying just a few months apart. Caroline and Will were farmers in Oklahoma, USA in the 1930s, during the years of the Great Depression and the “Dust Bowl”, a time when dust covered the Midwestern and Southern states and turned them into a vast desert…
Human beings operate like conductors. They each take what they need as determined by time or prevailing conditions but also as determined by a place of location, which could be external or within themselves.
It appears that two such people, Caroline and Will, were hiding deep inside me and were forced to reveal themselves when Eleni Chatzi gave them a name in her play ‘Dust’.
From the very first reading, the words and the printed pages, became condensed and transformed themselves into the necessity of artistic expression.
‘Dust’ is an abstract ‘static performance’ which start with Caroline’s straw broom on the dusty wooden floor of an Oklahoma farmhouse and reaches our days travelling on Will’s Model-T wagon.
The struggles, the worries, the disappointment of these two people underwent a symbolic transformation and became images and sound landscapes which in turn, like an oxidised mirror, reflect our present.
Click here to view the exhibition.
Free event
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30 Jan 2021 SatTo 01 Feb 2021 Mon
The Hellenic Centre’s New Year Online Concert
For the Hellenic Centre’s New Year Concert, the prizewinning British Cypriot soprano and pianist, Katerina Mina will be performing her one-artist operatic programme from the piano in an online concert! Although we will not cut our New Year’s cake to see which one of our guests will win the lucky coin there will be a lucky draw to see which one of the event’s attendees will win this year’s special prize!
Concert premiers 7pm Saturday 30 January. Watch anytime until 10pm Monday 1 February.
£10 from Eventbrite
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29 Jan 2021 Fri
Yuri Zhislin directs Glazunov and Tchaikovsky
The 3rd in the four-part series of Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Online Concerts, Co-Concertmaster and violist Yuri Zhislin directs the Orchestra in the world premiere of Suite for Strings by Libby Croad. Zhislin also performs his own viola transcription of Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto, and the programme closes with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
Organised by the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded in the Great Hall at the Hellenic Centre.
Streamed online on the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s YouTube channel
Online -
15 Feb 2021 Mon
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra plays Mozart
The series finale of the four-part series of Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Online Concerts sees Associate Concertmaster Charlotte Scott perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major in an all-Mozart programme, which also includes the composer’s intimate Symphony No. 29 in A major.
Organised by the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded in the Great Hall at the Hellenic Centre.
Streamed online on the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s YouTube channel
Online