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Alexander the Great and his Legacy in Central Asia
At The Hellenic Centre on 26 Apr 2024An exclusive panel presentation and discussion delving into the profound legacy of Alexander the Great in Central Asia. The event promises to shed light on the historical, cultural and archaeological impacts of one of history’s most iconic figures through the lens of esteemed experts in the field.
Talk
Institutions in the Age of Precarity: Technologies, Materials and Imagination
At The Hellenic Centre on 25 Apr 2024Discover how technologies ranging from paint to virtual reality have been used as methods to reclaim creative expression during times of temporality, precarity and institutional fragmentation. With Dr Alexandra Antonopoulou and Dr Gabriel Menotti.
Community
Think Future: Innovation in Everyday Life
At The Hellenic Centre on 20 Apr 2024Engage with outstanding innovators and learn how technology can shape our future. Watch live demonstrations of initiatives from various sectors, including EduTech, MedTech, BioTech, Digital Arts, Sustainability, Cybersecurity and Robotics. In collaboration with the Hellenic Tech Network. Open to all.
Talk
Who has the Right to Speak and Act in the Public Space?
At The Hellenic Centre on 28 Mar 2024Reflecting on a series of public artworks in Greece commissioned by London-based Counterpoints Arts, the artists Tamara Al Mashouk, Eirini Linardaki and Adrian Paci engage in a conversation with the co-curators Almir Koldzic and Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou.
Talk
Costas Tsoclis: From the Early Days to Living Painting, NFTs and Beyond
At The Hellenic Centre on 21 Mar 2024Acclaimed artist Costas Tsoclis comes to London for the first time since 1975. Join him for an intimate journey through his contemporary art creations to the recent NFT innovations and beyond. Irini Mirena Papadimitriou, Creative Director at FutureEverything, will moderate a conversation and Q&A with Costas Tsoclis.
Member Societies' Events
In Conversation with English School Alumni
At The Hellenic Centre on 20 Mar 2024Join us for a nostalgic trip down memory lane at the Hellenic Centre. A chance to reminisce and create new memories with fellow alumni.
See you there!
Event organised by the English School Alumni and Friends Association (UK).
Member Societies' Events
Lord Byron and the Spirit of Anglo-Hellenism: A Bicentenary Commemoration
At The Hellenic Centre on 19 Mar 2024Two hundred years on from his death at Messolonghi in Greece, on 19 April 1824, the reputation and allure of Lord Byron show no signs of diminishing. He surely remains by quite some margin the most important figure in the history of modern British-Greek relations. In this panel event, consisting of individual papers and an expert discussion, we examine Byron’s Hellenism, consider his final, fateful activities in Greece, and take a glance at his legacy in Greece.
Community
Kathara Deftera Celebration with Music and Food
At The Hellenic Centre on 18 Mar 2024Join us for a traditional ‘panigiri’ with Kourelou and the London Greek Collective in a celebration for Kathara Deftera.
Family
Children’s Carnival
At The Hellenic Centre on 16 Mar 2024Celebrate the Greek Carnival with music and play group Asterakia. This family event is a great opportunity to learn about Greek customs whilst having fun! Featuring games, singing, dancing with the traditional gaitanaki and much more! Children will have the opportunity to engage in art and craft activities with a qualified art teacher.
Member Societies' Events
Greek and British Female Poets talk about Poetry and read their Poems
At The Hellenic Centre on 13 Mar 2024The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, on the occasion of The London Book Fair 2024, is delighted to invite you to the event “Greek and British Female Poets talk about Poetry and read their Poems” on Wednesday, March 13th, at 19:00, at The Hellenic Centre.
Book launch
Mark Hadjipateras Book Launch & Discussion
At The Hellenic Centre on 12 Mar 2024Join us for the launch of Mark Hadjipateras, HOMEWARD, the new book on artist Mark Hadjipateras, accompanied by a discussion with art curator and writer Gelly Gryntaki and introduced by president and CEO of ABRAMS, Mary McAveney. The book journeys Hadjipateras’ works from the beginning of his career in the mid-seventies until today. It presents his richly varied artistic output that equally includes paintings and sculptures, monotypes and drawings, ceramics and assemblages, all of them interconnected.
Food
Ancient Tastes: Tradition and Change in Hellenistic Athens
At The Hellenic Centre on 09 Mar 2024Delve into Hellenistic Athens with a unique feast for food lovers and history enthusiasts, served with delicious Greek wines. The dinner is inspired by the banquets of the affluent and the tables of the poor who lived in Athens from 323 BC to 86 BC. Accompanied by a lecture on food tradition and change in Hellenistic Athens. Limited spaces available.
Talk
Messengers and Communication in Ancient Mythology & Drama with Evdoxia Lymperi
At The Hellenic Centre on 29 Feb 2024What is the equivalent of journalistic correspondence in ancient drama? Who were the people tasked with reporting happenings elsewhere? Theatrologist and the Greek Public Broadcaster ERT London correspondent Evdoxia Lymperi takes you on a trip into the magnificent world of ancient Greek drama and mythology, along with real and fantasy characters who were created to deliver communications in the ancient world.
Member Societies' Events
Dinner Dance
At Grosvenor House Hotel on 24 Feb 2024The Hellenic Engineers Society of Great Britain is happy to confirm that our 29th Anniversary Dinner Dance will be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, on Saturday February 24th 2024 and as every year, is expected to be the most glamorous and successful event of the London-Hellenic shipping calendar.
Organised by the Hellenic Engineers Society of Great Britain.
Performance
Boulevard Humaine
At The Hellenic Centre on 22 Feb 2024Coming to the Hellenic Centre for one night only: Boulevard Humaine (2023), the exciting new dance theatre piece developed by dancer and choreographer Zoi Dimitriou. Inspired by Yannis Xenakis’ percussion piece Okho and performed by three female dancers, the work explores notions of interculturalism, belonging and the core question of how we can be different together.
Performance – Screening – Talk
Albanians in Greece: Migration, Memory and Art
At The Hellenic Centre on 17 Feb 2024A panel on the archival, artistic and scholarly representation of the experiences of Albanian migrants in Greece, featuring artist Fjorida Cenaj, film director Dimitris Gotsis, and political scientist Ilirida Musaraj. Led by sociolinguists Rexhina Ndoci and Petros Karatsareas. In collaboration with the University of Westminster.
Talk
Camera vs Camera: Maria Lalou Artist’s Talk
At The Hellenic Centre on 15 Feb 2024Maria Lalou discusses her works on the edge of social experiments staging art installations on the steps of theory of the spectacle. Her research is focused on the role of the camera apparatus: its significance in the commons, its personification in the private, its appropriation in the surveillance of everyday networked reality and its potentiality as a weapon of truth in recording history.
Talk
The British School at Athens: Artist’s Talk by Returning Resident Joshua Whitaker: Acid History – Into the Silver Screen
At The Hellenic Centre on 08 Feb 2024A presentation of film, photography and theory on the subject of ‘Acid History’ developed by the artist and writer Joshua Whitaker during his recent stay as The British School at Athens Arts Researcher in Residence in partnership with University of the Arts London. Followed by a Q&A with the artist and a drinks reception.
Member Societies' Events
Imperial tyranny? Rethinking Athenian Imperial Power
At The Hellenic Centre on 07 Feb 2024Professor Polly Low of Durham University delivers a lecture on Athenian imperial power.
Organised by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
Music
Nimata
At The Hellenic Centre on 03 Feb 2024The Nimata project, supported by the Athena Scholarship, presents some of the most innovative young Greek composers and performers from the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in an exciting musical programme that aims to embark on the intricate tapestry of new music. The project brings together a dynamic ensemble of musicians, each contributing their unique voice to a sound exploration that takes music to new borders.