Monochords 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. 

Konstantinos 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.

An afternoon with the Athens based artist run space 3 137, to launch their new publication After the Explosion you Still Hear the Light.

This event has been postponed until the Autumn.

Yannis 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.

In Conversation with Prof. Kevin Featherstone.

Event organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.

Curator 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. 

The London Greek Film Festival presents contemporary films and screenplays from Greek and international film directors, producers, writers and artists.

Runciman Award Ceremony. Guest speaker & keynote address: Prof. Dame Mary Beard

Event organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.

“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.’ 

Experience 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. 

Join us for the first Hellenic Centre members’ outing to the Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.