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The Promise
At The Hellenic Centre on 29 Oct 2022With award winning performance storyteller Anna Conomos-Wedlock
The Promise is a powerful and evocative story written and dramatically performed by the award-winning international Performance Storyteller, Anna Conomos-Wedlock. Anna’s performance of the story is dynamic, interactive and theatrical, drawing on the meaning of homeland, displacement, memory and friendship and set against the backdrop of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1922.
Accompanied by legendary rebetiko musician Spiros Bolovinis, Bouzouki, Tzouras, Vocals.
The Promise is a story suitable for both adults and children over the age of 7.
Organised by the Hellenic Centre
Screening
Screening of Bouboulina
At The Hellenic Centre on 27 Oct 2022Premiere of Bouboulina (Kostas Andritsos, 1959) with English subtitles with an introduction by Dr Lydia Papadimitriou.
Image caption: Irene Papas as Bouboulina gives an inspirational speech at the launch of the Revolution. Still from Bouboulina reproduced with permission from Alexis Andritsos and Panagiotis Kakavias.
Organised by the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London, the Society for Modern Greek Studies and supported by The Hellenic Centre
Music
Byzantine Music: an Ode to God and its Path through Time
At The Hellenic Centre on 21 Oct 2022Be taken on a musical journey through time and eras, to follow the history and evolution of Byzantine music and participate in an interactive experience that includes the notation and chants of this liturgical music.
Organised by Omilos Eksipiretiton.
Performance
Tears, Treachery… and Just A Little Murder
At The Hellenic Centre on 16 Oct 2022Dame Siân Phillips and Stephen Greif give voice to the different responses of male and female figures in Greek literature as they experience the big emotions like love, desire and hate. Both genders show they can be extremely vengeful. It’s as if very little has changed in the last 2,000 years, only the scenery.
Organised by the Hellenic Centre
Thessaloniki during the Byzantine Era
At The Hellenic Centre on 14 Oct 2022Panel presentations and discussion on Byzantine Thessaloniki by Dr Maria G. Xanthou Mr Henry Hopwood-Phillips and Dr Anastasios Tantsis.
Organised by the Macedonian Society of Great Britain
How will Technology Continue to Impact Our Everyday Lives?
At The Hellenic Centre on 13 Oct 2022While Technology is part of almost every aspect of daily life now, the emergence of smart technologies will shape our wellbeing in the future.
Organised by The Hellenic Centre
Book launch
Story Telling in Mathematics
At The Hellenic Centre on 07 Oct 2022Story telling in mathematics can be a fascinating way to draw connections between mathematical discoveries (or inventions!) and the needs of the times they were emerging.
Ioanna Georgiou will discuss some of the stories that have been used in teaching and workshops, and that feature in “Mathematical Adventures!” and “Peculiar Deaths of Famous Mathematicians”, her two illustrated children’s books with special focus on Greek mathematicians.
Organised by The Hellenic Centre
The Refugee Lesson: Life in Kokkinia Among the Mikrasiates of 1923
At The Hellenic Centre on 03 Oct 2022An illustrated presentation about life in Kokkinia/Nikaia, a settlement created to house Orthodox Christians expelled from their homeland through the Lausanne Convention of 1923. The speaker Professor Renée Hirschon lived there for over a year in 1970 and has maintained her ties up to the present day.
Organised by The Hellenic Centre
The Marvellous Journey of Theodore of Tarsus
At The Hellenic Centre on 29 Sep 2022Using fascinating manuscript evidence, Michael Wood will tell the story of Theodore of Tarsus (c.602-690AD) and his comrade Hadrian the African (630/7-710AD), who introduced Greek culture to England in the seventh century in ‘one of the most important educational programmes ever undertaken in Britain’.
Organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.
Book launch
Smyrna On My Mind
At The Hellenic Centre on 28 Sep 202235th Levantine Heritage Foundation gathering in London with guest speaker George Galdies
Presentation and launch of the book “Smyrna On My Mind” by George Galdies; a collection of his late father’s thought-provoking memories of Smyrna in the 1920s, and the author’s own narratives on growing up in the Izmir of the mid-twentieth century.
Organised by the Levantine Heritage Foundation
Book launch
Apollo Cokkinis: Proud Greek, Proud Briton: From Odessa and Smyrna to London and Dorking
At The Hellenic Centre on 21 Sep 2022Alan Charlton ex British diplomat and author of Apollo Cokkinis – From Odessa To Dorking, An Extraordinary Life (published June 2022) will talk about the amazing life of Apollo John Cokkinis, son of international Greek opera singers with whom he travelled widely as a child.
Organised by The Hellenic Centre
Music – Performance
maMA, TROo BAmies/ Mum, I eat ocra now
At The Hellenic Centre on 17 Jul 2022A community theatre project. Α devised, playful performance about real experiences of Greek immigrants in the UK.
Organised by Teleporta theatre workshop Supported by The Hellenic Centre
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine; Global and regional implications for the Eastern Mediterranean
At The Hellenic Centre on 01 Jul 2022A continuation of the training course and both are free to all participants offered by Estia after more than two years of inactivity due to Covid-19.
There will be a panel of three speakers: Professor Neophytos Loizides, Professor Myria A. Georgiou and Dr.Mustafa Kutlay.
An event to engage the Cypriot communities with current global debates and also seek the opportunity to start thinking of lessons and possibilities for cooperation for the region surrounding Cyprus and Greece-Turkey as well as ways to assist victims of the conflict in Ukraine and contributing to de-escalation.
Organised by Cypriot Estia
Face to Face Negotiation and Mediation training course
At The Hellenic Centre on 01 Jul 2022Professor Neophytos Loizides will deliver a 3-hour face to face negotiations and mediations training course to members of the Cypriot diaspora.
Organised by Cypriot Estia
Summer Children’s Event with Asterakia
At The Hellenic Centre on 26 Jun 2022Come and join us for a lovely summery session! We will explore the sights, sounds and creatures found at the beach through songs, vocal play and fun movement activities.
Event suitable for ages: 0 – 10 years old
Please note that this event will be mainly in Greek, but help will provided for those who find this difficult.
Organised by the Hellenic Centre
Screening
Moon, 66 Questions
At nationwide on 24 Jun 2022Written and directed by Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou was a critical success in last year’s Berlinale, won the Golden Puffin at Reykjavík International Film Festival, won Best Actress at Nouveau Cinema and the Cineuropa Award for Best Film at Sarajevo. It will be released nationwide in cinemas on 24 June.
Watch the trailer here.
John Craxton: A Greek Soul
At The Hellenic Centre on 16 Jun 2022For the centenary of the Philhellene painter and designer John Craxton, a celebratory exhibition is running at the Benaki Museum in Athens from 13 April to 11 September before travelling to Chania. Curator/biographer Ian Collins will give us a virtual tour and recall a remarkable life.
Books will be on sale at a special price
Organised by The Hellenic Centre
Vassos Karagiorgis: His Life and Work – Personal testimonies
At The Hellenic Centre on 14 Jun 2022A tribute, in Greek, to Vassos Karagiorgis by the journalist and writer Costas Serezis, author of the book “Vassos Karagiorgis as I met him”.
Find out more about the speaker in Greek here
Organised by the Hellenic Centre
Music – Performance
Mythical Song: Myth, Word, Melody
At The Hellenic Centre on 12 Jun 2022A concert inspired by the myths and legends of Cyprus, Greece and Europe with works by Constantinos Stylianou, Claude Debussy, Yianni Constantinidi.
Organised by the Cyprus High Commission – Cultural Section. Sponsored by the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth – Cultural Services.
Discoveries and the New Museum of Aigai
At Online on 11 Jun 2022A virtual presentation of the new Museum of Aigai by Archaeologist Dr Angeliki Kottaridi, Director of the Ephorate of Imathia and Director of the Museum of Aigai, in cooperation with Professor Robin Lane Fox, Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford University, who will cover the historical aspect of the subject.
Organised by the Macedonian Society of Great Britain