A special night of Greek cinema was organised by the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM), with representatives of Greek community organisations, benefactors and supporters as exclusive guests.

The Lonsdale St Greek Festival and the Greek Festival of Sydney are delighted to announce that headlining the biggest Greek parties of 2019 will be one of Greece’s most popular singing sensations - Eleonora Zouganeli on her first ever Australian visit. Zouganeli’s contemporary and traditional songs and her versatile singing style will cater to audiences young and old - cementing her reputation as a household name.

The Greek Community of Melbourne together with the other members of the Polytechnic Commemorative Committee will honour the 45th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic students heroic uprising against the junta, with a special event at the Democritus Cultural Centre, on Sunday 18 November, at 2.00pm.

The Head of Economic and Market Research, of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, David Robertson will present a lecture entitled “Australia, Greece and the European Union - an economic overview”, on Thursday 15 November 2018, at the Greek Centre.

The Cretan Brotherhood of Melbourne is pleased to invite you to a book launch of a biography of Eleftherios Venizelos, being held at the Greek Centre (Mezzanine, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne), on Tuesday 13th November, at 7pm .

The Daniel Andrews government has promised a grant of $ 2.5 million to the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) for a new centre for seniors and young people, if re-elected in the forthcoming state elections. This is the largest grant to the GCM in its 121-year history by an Australian Government.

Authors, artists, musicians’ and scholars engaged with Behrouz Boochani and his novel 'No friend but the Mountains' at the Greek Centre. In an exceptional evening in which artists, writers, scholars and musicians, engaged with, and celebrated the work of Kurdish-Iranian writer and journalist Behrouz Boochani, and his extraordinary novel, ‘No Friend but the Mountains’.

The Greek Community of Melbourne officially handed keys to its brand-new Club rooms at the Greek Centre to the first of what is hoped will be many members, the Argos Orestikon Association, in a special event at the Greek Center last Wednesday.

Authors, artists, musicians’ and scholars engaging with Behrouz Boochani and his novel 'No friend but the Mountains' at the Greek Centre, on Wednesday 31 October 2018

Σε μήνυμά του προς την Ομογένεια με την ευκαιρία των εορτασμών για την 28η Οκτωβρίου, ο υφυπουργός Εξωτερικών και αρμόδιος για θέματα αποδήμων αναφέρει τα ακόλουθα:

The Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) and the Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) presented a public lecture by Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney, at the Greek Centre, on Wednesday 17 October 2018. Also this event provided the opportunity to launch two major reports on multiculturalism.

Άνοιξε το γραφείο Απόδημου Ελληνισμού της Κεντρικής Ένωσης Δήμων Ελλάδας και λειτουργεί επίσημα από το Σεπτέμβριο του 2018. Έχει σαν κύριο αντικείμενο την υποστήριξη και προώθηση ζητημάτων του Απόδημου Ελληνισμού σε επίπεδο Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης και Δήμων.

The devastating Athens Fires have shocked many and yielded a world-wide response with pledges of money and expertise made to the Greek state. The fires also brought to light the constrained fire-fighting capabilities of the Hellenic Volunteer Firefighters who due to a lack of resources are hamstrung in their endeavors.

La Trobe University, Melbourne campus (Bundoora) - Visit the campus, speak to academic staff and students, and find out more about our courses.

Many people have been asking us how to assist in supporting the recovery efforts relating to the catastrophic Athens bushfires.

The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) expresses its support and deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the devastating firestorm that hit the outskirts of Athens in the Rafina area.

The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) welcomed the announcement of the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, Terence Quick, about the implementation of the bilateral agreement for the Working Holiday Visa between Australia and Greece, which allows young people to visit each country respectively with the right to work.

Our Courses in 2018

Learn Modern Greek by attending our courses offered in 2018 and planned according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages *

Commencement dates and other relevant details on our Ancient Greek classes for Adults.

The Hon Daniel Andrews MP, Premier of Victoria joined Mr Bill Papastergiadis President of the Greek Community of Centre Melbourne, and other leading political and community figures on Sunday 26 November 2017, to unveil a life-size replica of the Parthenon Marble Frieze in central Melbourne.

The Department of Languages and Linguistics at La Trobe University seeks a candidate to pursue a PhD thesis investigating parental attitudes to language learning in the Greek community of Melbourne.

The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) is pleased to announce a historic agreement with the National Library of Greece.

The President of the Greek Community of Melbourne Bill Papastergiadis and the General Secretary Costas Markos met with the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos and the Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, as well as with the Minister for Culture, the Minister for Tourism, the Mayor of Athens and leaders of political parties, during their recent trip to Athens.

The President of Greece Mr Prokopis Pavlopoulos met with the President of the Greek Community of Melbourne Mr Bill Papastergiadis and the General Secretary Mr Costas Markos, at the Presidential Mansion, on Saturday 1 October.

As part of the 2016 program, the Creative Drama and Arts Centre (CDAC) of the Greek Community of Melbourne has scheduled a series of Drama workshops for adults.

Ancient (Classical) Greek for High School students and VCE students in 2018

Catering for students who wish to increase their cultural literacy, investigate the origins of philosophy, science, politics, rhetoric, history and literature, be inspired from the moral insight and virtue of the classical world, read the architects of western civilization in their own words and finally increase their performance at the VCE Classical Greek examinations with a high score scaling. (see vtac link here, PDF)

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Aimed to attract children, adolescents and adults who wish to cultivate their theatrical expression, the centre will provide students of a Greek background an avenue to express their feelings, emotions and character via their participation in theatrical experimentation and performances.

Οn the occasion of the 114th Anniversary of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne & Victoria we are proud to publicly release detailed images of the first minutes of the GOCMV (1897-1916).

The minutes contain hundreds of names of early Greek settlers and through its pages we observe the history of the organisation as it evolved through its first two decades: the establishment of the first Greek Orthodox Church in Melbourne, the contribution of the founding members to the war efforts in Greece and the first constitution of a Greek organisation in Australia.