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The Truth is in the Soil: A Photographic Exploration of Ancestral Mourning Rituals, Trauma and Visuality in Greece
At The Hellenic Centre on 17 Oct 2024Ioanna Sakellaraki presents her book The Truth is in the Soil which is based on a long research and exploration of grief. Inspired by the last communities of mourners on the Mani Peninsula, the monograph explores mortuary rituals as a way of humans adapting to death. In conversation with GOST publisher Stuart Smith.
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In Conversation: Maria Loizidou with Dr. Nayia Yiakoumaki and Dr. Giuseppe Albano
At The Hellenic Centre on 11 Oct 2024The Hellenic Centre Director Dr. Nayia Yiakoumaki is joined by artist Maria Loizidou and Director of the Freud Museum London Dr. Giuseppe Albano, for an in-conversation event looking at the process of The Place I am Not, Loizidou’s new work produced for the Hellenic Centre and the Freud Museum London.
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In Conversation: Linsey Young with Elpida Karaba and Stamatis Schizakis
At The Hellenic Centre on 10 Oct 2024Breakfast reception followed by a conversation moderated by writer and curator Linsey Young, with Elpida, theorist and independent curator, and Stamatis Schizakis, Curator, Lens-based and New Media at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), on artist Rena Papaspyrou’s work, and its significance to contemporary art in Greece and abroad.
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Rena Papaspyrou: Images Through Matter
At The Hellenic Centre between 02 Oct 2024 – 16 Nov 2024The first London exhibition by one of the foremost post-war Greek artists.
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Maria Loizidou: The Place I Am Not
At The Hellenic Centre between 02 Oct 2024 – 21 Oct 2024Maria Loizidou’s new, commissioned work The Place I Am Not, is a series of site-specific works that focus on the idea of ‘place’ as a protective shell for human beings. The exhibition unfolds across two venues, as a collaboration between The Hellenic Centre and the Freud Museum, London.
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We4all Environmental Day
At The Hellenic Centre on 29 Jun 2024We have partnered with We4all Environmental Organisation for a special event dedicated to our planet earth. Through games, conversation and activities, participating families will learn how to respect and help our home heal! For ages 5-11.
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Sotiria’s Songs
At The Hellenic Centre on 29 Jun 2024Musical artist Christina Maxouri and four exceptional folk musicians take you on a journey through the life and songs of renowned Greek singer Sotiria Bellou, revered as the ‘Countess of Rebetiko.’
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Travelling the Mediterranean: Late Antique and Victorian Women on the Move
At The Hellenic Centre on 27 Jun 2024What connects the early 4th and 19th century Mediterranean? Women. Female mobility had increased significantly following centuries of restricted travel, yet our views of the Mediterranean in these periods are still shaped by the writing of men. With a focus on archaeology and diaries of women, Rebecca Sweetman, Director of the British School at Athens, will seek to find the female traveller’s voice.
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An Evening with Explorer Stephanie Solomonides
At The Hellenic Centre on 18 Jun 2024Stephanie, an experienced skier and explorer, is an English School graduate and the first, and so far the only, person from Cyprus to have reached both the North and South Poles.
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Katie Lentakis Award Ceremony 2024
At King's College London on 18 Jun 2024Katie Lentakis (1920-2000) was a devoted member of the Anglo-Hellenic community of London and served as Vice-Chairman of The Anglo-Hellenic League for many years. Since 2002, a fund established in her memory has given an annual prize to a final-year undergraduate studying in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s College London for a dissertation on a Greek topic. At the ceremony, the 2024 winner will be announced and the prize awarded. This year’s lecture will be given by Prof. M.M. McCabe.
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Runciman Award Ceremony 2024
At The Great Hall, King’s Building Strand on 17 Jun 2024Since 1986, The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award has been given every year for the best book published in English anywhere in the world in the previous year on a Greek subject. The ceremony is our annual opportunity to announce the winning book, award the prize to the winning author, and celebrate all of the books long-listed and short-listed for the prize. At this year’s ceremony, the keynote address will be given by Prof. Alexander Lingas. The winning book will be announced by Prof. Judith Mossman, the chair of judges. Prof. Gonda Van Steen and Dr John Kittmer will give welcome addresses.
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Heritage on a Plate with Carolina Doriti: The Untold Stories of Greek Cuisine
At The Hellenic Centre on 13 Jun 2024Cookbook author, food writer and cook Carolina Doriti explores the timelessness, simplicity and wisdom of Greek cuisine. She will explain in depth the Greek products which have shaped the cuisine for thousands of years, as well as cooking methods, sustainability and her approach to cooking through her cookbook Salt of the Earth. Pairings and tastings will take place with delicious products offered by Odysea.
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The Road is Wider than Long
At The Hellenic Centre on 04 Jun 2024Antony Penrose, son of American photographer Lee Miller and British surrealist artist Roland Penrose, presents his father’s book The Road Is Wider Than Long. A love poem created as a photo-book that recounts a journey the couple made together through the Balkans in 1938, visiting Greece and isolated rural communities in Romania.
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The Macedonian Tomb at Aghios Athanassios/Thessaloniki: An astonishing funerary monument of the 4th c. BC
At Online on 28 May 2024The Greek Archaeological Committee UK is very pleased to invite you to its 67th lecture, entitled “The Macedonian tombs at Phoinikas and Aghios Athanassios, Thessaloniki/Greece. Two astonishing funerary monuments of the 4th c. BC and their contribution to the understanding of ancient Greek painting” by Dr Maria Tsimpidou-Avlonitou.
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Ancient Greek Philosophy Today
At The Hellenic Centre on 23 May 2024Why engage with ancient Greek philosophy today? Can it still teach us anything today or is it outdated? Four international academic experts offer their thoughts on why Greek philosophy is still a source of inspiration and of new challenges to philosophers today.
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A Time of Her Own
At The Hellenic Centre on 15 May 2024Join us for the launch of A Time of Her Own, the online interactive project by artist Zoe Hatziyannaki and curator Christina Petkopoulou integrating female portraits from personal collections and public archives published in the Greek press during the 1970s and 1980s. Followed by a conversation between the two.
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The Figurine: When Beauty Inspires Crime
At The Hellenic Centre on 14 May 2024Victoria Hislop’s latest book, The Figurine, explores how a woman finds a Cycladic figurine among the belongings she inherited from her late grandparents in Athens. Hislop interrogates the questionable acquisition of ancient artefacts by people and countries. Join us as she discusses her inspiration, the research she undertook before writing the book and the issues surrounding the theft of stolen archaeological treasures.
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Vakia: A Singer’s Journey
At The Hellenic Centre on 11 May 2024Described by the French press as ‘a highly sophisticated and enchanting artist that makes one hear the vast beauty of her voice’ (Bertrand Dicale, Radio France), internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter Vakia Stavrou performs songs from her new album Vakia, accompanied by Socrates Leptos on classical guitar.
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Fabulous Creatures: Women Between Reality and Myth
At The Hellenic Centre on 09 May 2024A never before told story of the female monsters of The Odyssey, blending humour and darkness, myth and modernity and raising questions on stereotyping and bias. Theatre Director Emily Louizou in conversation with the play’s Executive Producer Elizabeth Filippouli, on the occasion of their new play at the Arcola Theatre in London.
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Western & Eastern Influences in Christodoulos Georgiades’ Music
At The Hellenic Centre on 27 Apr 2024Composer and pianist Christodoulos Georgiades discusses the basic building blocks of music and together with the Waldstein Trio perform an evening of chamber music, including a London premiere of three of Georgiades’ most recent piano works and his ‘Corona Trio,’ composed in 2020.