Alphington Grammar School High Tea promises to be a special occasion for family and friends of Alphington to celebrate the special women in their lives.

Ms Helen Kapalos from Chanel 7’s Today Tonight programme will be the special guest speaker at this function.

Alphington Grammar School’s next Open Day showcases all that the school has to offer across all learning programmes.

The FILOTEXNO Art Gallery faithful at the rendezvous with the art viewers starts with the opening on Tuesday 19th of February the exhibition The Colours of Greece of 37 Greek Artists (Asprogiannis, Asimakopoulos, Bouranis, Chloi, Daskalakis, Dimas, Gatzonis, Georgas, Georgiou, Georgopoulos, Hazaridis, Htenidis, Katapodis, Kaziridis, Krideras, Konstantakis, Levan, Manoudeas, Mantzios, Melas, Mellidis, Mouratidou, Papadopoulos, Petalidou, Ralli, Seremetis, Sideras, Soragia, Stavrou, Topouria, Tselios, Tsimogiannis, Vlachogiannis, Zachariou, Zartaloudis, Zenetzis, Zervos). 118 paintings dominated by the history and topography of Greece hosted at the Eckersley's Open Space Gallery. The blue of sea and the fervour of the olive colour dominate, expressing the authors' psyche.

Adonis Xylouris, aka Psarandonis, comes from a renowned Cretan musical family and is known as the most idiosyncratic lyra player on the island. An exponent of tripped out Cretan music, Psarandonis’ unique three-stringed lyra playing style, his distinctive voice and his inimitable rendition of traditional folk songs has made him a cult legend in Greece and beyond, particularly with a younger generation of Cretan music lovers. Seeing Psarandonis live is considered to be a once in a lifetime experience.

In what Festival organisers have called a coup, the talented and extremely popular Cypriot born superstar Mihalis Hatzigiannis will headline this year's Antipodes Festival in Lonsdale Street Melbourne on Saturday March 16 and the Greek Festival of Sydney at Darling Harbour on Sunday March 17.

Hatzigiannis was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and graduated from the Cyprus Music Academy (Royal College of London) with a degree in piano, guitar and music theory. Starting out young with his first major performances coming at Eurovision qualifiers when he was only 17 years old, he had three hit records (all reaching platinum status in Cyprus) and a performance at Eurovision by the time he was 20. Sold out tours and platinum records followed right across the Greek speaking world including 2 previous sold out tours of Australia.