H Κοινότητά μας με αφορμή την πρόσφατη συμφωνία για την ψήφο των Ελλήνωn πολιτών του εξωτερικού, απέστειλε επιστολή στον Πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας κ. Προκόπη Παυλόπουλο, τον πρωθυπουργό κ. Κωνσταντίνο Μητσοτάκη, τον Αρχηγό της Αντιπολίτευσης και Πρόεδρο του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ κ. Αλέξη Τσίπρα, σε όλους τους Προέδρους των Πολιτικών Κομμάτων, στον Υπουργό Εσωτερικών κ. Τ. Θεοδωρικάκο και τον Υφυπουργό Εξωτερικών Αρμόδιο για Θέματα Απόδημων κ. Αντώνη Διαματάρη. Η Κοινότητα στην επιστολή της εκφράζει τις ανησυχίες της για σοβαρές παραλείψεις στη συμφωνία, και προβαίνει σε σειρά προτάσεων που θεωρεί απαραίτητες για να αντιμετωπιστεί σωστά και αποτελεσματικά το θέμα αυτό.

Η Επιτροπή Μνήμης του Πολυτεχνείου, στην οποία συμμετέχει και η Κοινότητά μας, διοργανώνει την Κυριακή, 17 Νοεμβρίου 2019, εκδήλωση για την 46η επέτειο της ηρωικής εξέγερσης των φοιτητών του Μετσόβειου Πολυτεχνείου στην Αθήνα, ενάντια στη χούντα των συνταγματαρχών.

The Delphi Bank 26th Greek Film Festival concluded with the world premiere of  acclaimed Greek- Australian writer and director Alkinos Tsilimidos’ highly anticipated black comedy The Tavern last night (Sunday 20 October).

The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) honoured Senator Arthur Sinodinos AO during a sold out fundraising tribute dinner last night, to coincide with the 28th of October Greek National Day at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club.

Η Πανελλήνια Ένωση Εθελοντών Πυροσβεστικού Σώματος ευχαρίστησε με επιστολή της την Ελληνική Κοινότητα Μελβούρνης για την υποστήριξή της.

The Delphi Bank 26th Greek Film Festival concluded with the world premiere of acclaimed Greek- Australian writer and director Alkinos Tsilimidos’ highly anticipated black comedy The Tavern last night (Sunday 20 October). Over 600 people including the cast and crew attended the Closing night celebration at The Astor to see the screening of the funny and at times though-provoking film about the dilemmas faced by a Melbourne Greek restaurant owner during one fateful night. Guests were also treated to a drink upon arrival, a gift bag and movie snacks.

Η Ελληνική Κοινότητα Μελβούρνης συγχαίρει την πολιτειακή κυβέρνηση για το πρόγραμμα «Πνεύμα Δημοκρατίας του Πρωθυπουργού». H κυβέρνηση της Βικτώριας προσφέρει μέσω του προγράμματος «Πνεύμα Δημοκρατίας του Πρωθυπουργού» σε 22 μαθητές και τέσσερις συνοδούς καθηγητές την ευκαιρία να συμμετάσχουν σε ένα δωρεάν εκπαιδευτικό ταξίδι δύο εβδομάδων στην Ελλάδα.

Σε μια κατάμεστη αίθουσα του κινηματογράφου Palace Cinema Como πραγματοποιήθηκε την Κυριακή 20 Οκτωβρίου 2019 το «9ο Μαθητικό Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου», που διοργανώνει το Ελληνικό Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου σε συνεργασία με τις δύο Κοινότητες, Μελβούρνης και Σίδνεϊ, με την υποστήριξη του Πολιτειακού Υπουργείου Παιδείας της Βικτώριας, του Γραφείου Εκπαίδευσης του Ελληνικού Προξενείου και του Συλλόγου Εκπαιδευτικών Νέων Ελληνικών Βικτώριας (MGTAV).

O Αρχιεπίσκοπος Αυστραλίας κ.κ. Μακάριοςπρόκειται να επισκεφθεί τον Ιερό Ναό του Αγίου Δημητρίου της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Μελβούρνης, συνοδευόμενος από τους επισκόπους Δέρβης κ. Ιεζεκιήλ και Μηλιτουπόλεως κ. Ιάκωβο, την Παρασκευή 25 Οκτωβρίου, για να συμμετάσχει στις εορταστικές εκδηλώσεις της εκκλησίας.

To βιβλίο της Δρ Ελένης Τσεφαλά για το ελληνικό θέαρο στην Αυστραλία πρόκειται να παρουσιαστεί την Πέμπτη 17 Οκτωβρίου στο Ελληνικό Κέντρο. Η παρουσίαση του βιβλίου με τίτλο «100 χρόνια θέατρο των Ελλήνων στην Αυστραλία (1910-2010) θα γίνει από τον Κωνσταντίνο Καλυμνιό.

Actor and director Stathis Grapsas will share his life changing experience in the theatre, in a special seminar at the Greek Centre, on Thursday 10 October.

We invite you to a unique workshop of creative drama expression, at the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria. The workshop will be facilitated by the artist Steve (Stathis) Grapsas.

Adelaide-based dynamic primary and secondary school Greek teacher and a rock musician, Simone Mary Karanicolas, will present a lecture about how to engage our Youth in Modern Greek Education, on Thursday 3 October, at the Greek Centre.

Professor Dimitris Christopoulos at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University, will give a lecture entitled “Who is the Greek citizen? Citizenship status from the creation of the Greek state till today”, at the Greek Centre, on Tuesday 24 September, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Τι κοινό έχουν ένα λυχνάρι, ένα πιθάρι και ένας Παναθηναϊκός αμφορέας; Περιείχαν όλα λάδι. Όμως σε κάθε ένα από αυτά το λάδι είχε άλλη χρήση. Με το λάδι οι γυναίκες μαγείρευαν, το χρησιμοποιούσαν ως καλλυντικό ή το έβαζαν σε λυχνάρια για να φωτίσουν το σπίτι όταν έπεφτε η νύχτα. Ακόμα, οι γιατροί θεράπευαν πληγές και οι αθλητές άλειφαν το σώμα τους. Ήταν βέβαια και το βραβείο για τους νικητές στους αγώνες των Παναθηναίων, της μεγάλης γιορτής προς τιμήν της θεάς Αθηνάς. Άλλωστε εκείνη ήταν που πρόσφερε αυτό το σπουδαίο δώρο στην πόλη.Με το θέμα «Ελιά, το δώρο μιας θεάς..» η Ελληνική Κοινότητα Μελβούρνης συνεχίζει το πολύ επιτυχημένο και ιδιαίτερα αγαπητό στα παιδιά Πρόγραμμα Σχολικών Διακοπών.

Professor Dimitris Christopoulos and Dr Kostis Karpozilos will present a lecture entitled Human Rights in the Age of Inequality: xenophobia, exclusion and the myth of the strong leader, at the Greek Centre on Thursday 26 September. With this lecture will close the 2019 Greek History and Culture Seminars series, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Stavros Kallergis was a leading figure of 19th-century Greek socialism; editor of the newspaper Socialistis [The Socialist] and organizer of the first May Day celebration in Athens, in 1893.Dr Kostis Karpozilos, a historian and the director of the Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI), will present a lecture at the Greek Centre, on Wednesday 25 September, as a part of a special series of the Greek History and Culture Seminars.

Cultural historian and literary translator Dr Konstandina Dounis will present this year’s Dimitris Tsaloumas Memorial Lecture at the Greek Centre, on Thursday 19 September 2019, which is a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminar, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne. The lecture is organised in collaboration with the Greek-Australian Cultural League.

The Greek Community of Melbourne honoured the work of Andrew Liveris with The Hellenic Initiative (THI) in the presence of Delphi Bank (Jim Sardis) and other key Australian fund managers and community leaders. The Consul General was also in attendance.

The Delphi Bank 26th Greek Film Festival returns to Palace Cinemas with an injection of Greek culture, history and stories for twelve days, from 9 to 20 October. This year's lineup will include 15 acclaimed and award-winning features, 3 fascinating documentaries and some interesting shorts.

Kostis Karpozilos, a historian and the director of the Contemporary Social History Archives, will present a lecture about the Greek-American workers and radicals, on Monday 23 September, at the Greek Centre, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dimitris Christopoulos, professor at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University in Athens will present a lecture entitled “What’s happening in Thrace: Rights and minorities’, at the Ithacan Philanthropic Society, on Sunday 22 September, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

During the final week of September, the Greek History and Culture Public Seminar Series organized by the Greek Community of Melbourne, will be hosting two prominent Greek academics, political scientists and public intellectuals. They will spend a week in Melbourne as part of a two week Australia tour, which will also include visits to Canberra and Sydney.

Lecturer of Greek Language and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Emily Hulme Kozey, will present a lecture entitled “The Oracular Tablets from Dodona: Prospects for Further Research in Social History”on Thursday 12 September, at the Greek Centre, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Representatives of the Greek Community of Melbourne and parents of Coburg West Primary School students, met with the principal Mark Colagrande and assistant principal Dan Copping, as well as members of school Council, on Monday 26 August 2019, to discuss the future of the Greek program.

Two fascinating lectures which undoubtedly contributed to the building of the Greek Australian narrative, were presented recently at the Greek Centre as a part of the Greek history and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The Greek Revolution brought a storm of enthusiasm and support in the West, fuelled by the Romantic Movement. Yet no Romantic was so close to the instigators and protagonists of the revolution than Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin.

Minister Coleman has worked with the Greek Centre on a number of issues and has a detailed understanding of the workings of the Greek Community of Melbourne. As part of this ongoing relationship, Minister Coleman invited Bill Papastergiadis and Costas Markos to a meeting to continue the dialogue.

Eγκαινιάσθηκε για δεύτερη χρονιά η συνεργασία των Σχολείων Γλώσσας και Πολιτισμού της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Μελβούρνης και του Φιλανθρωπικού Οργανισμού για την υποστήριξη της τρίτης ηλικίας «Φροντίδα».

Associate Professor Andrekos Varnava, Flinders University, Adelaide, and Honorary Professor De Montfort University, Leicester will present a lecture entitled ‘Australia! Australia! The Voyage of the SS Corsica and its passengers from Cyprus to Australia in 1951-52’ at the Greek Centre, on 29 August 2019, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Today, few people remember the events of 1 April 1978, when 181 people had their homes raided in the early hours of that day by the then Commonwealth police and charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government Department of Social Security, by obtaining invalid pensions to which they had no legal entitlement.

The President of the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM), Bill Papastergiadis, met with the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos and the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as well as with the Minister for Interior, Takis Theodorikakos and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Diaspora Greeks, Antonis Diamataris.

The maintenance of Greek cultural traditions and the teaching of folk dancing in the diaspora is the topic of a special lecture which will be presented at the Greek Centre, on Thursday 15 August, by Nick Papaefthimiou. This is a memorial seminar for Roz Nicolaou.

Archbishop Makarios paid a historic visit to the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) on Wednesday, where he met Board and staff members.

From award winning and acclaimed Greek Director Tassos Boulmetis (A Touch of Spice, Mythopathy), the heart-warming docudrama 1968 about the epic basketball game
between A.E.K., Athens and Slavia of Prague (Czechoslovakia) will open the 26th Delphi Bank Greek Film Festival on Wednesday 9th October.

Professor Ian Worthington from Macquarie University will present a lecture about the fall of Athens to Rome, on Thursday 8 August 2019, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dr Stavroula Nikoloudis, Greek Studies coordinator at La Trobe University, presented a fascinating lecture entitled Greek Folk Songs: The Bridge of Arta, last Thursday, 25 July 2019, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dr Roslynne Bell, Associate Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, will present a lecture entitled Alexander in Art: the Legend and his Legacy, on Thursday 1 August 2019, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dr Stavroula Nikoloudis, Greek Studies coordinator at La Trobe University, will present a lecture entitled Greek Folk Songs: The Bridge of Arta, on Thursday 25 July 2019, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The 26th Delphi Bank Greek Film Festival returns to Palace Cinemas with an injection of Greek culture, history and stories over ten days from Wednesday 9th October until Sunday 20th October.

H Ελληνική Κοινότητα Μελβούρνης χαιρετίζει την εφαρμογή της συμφωνίας μεταξύ Αυστραλίας και Ελλάδας που δίνει το δικαίωμα σε νέους ηλικίας 18-30 ετών να πηγαίνουν διακοπές στην κάθε χώρα αντίστοιχα έχοντας και δικαίωμα εργασίας.

The Greek Community of Melbourne continues its very successful Children's School Holiday Program. Children 4-11 years old regardless of skill-level in the Greek Language, are welcome to participate in the Program which runs from 2 July to 10 July.

Late in May and across early June Greek Australian and writers with a variety fo cultural backgrounds gathered at the Greek Centre to take part in the Greek Community of Melbourne‘s “2019 Greek Writers Festival”. From 31 May to 8 June, over 30 sessions including panel discussions, spoken word performances and workshops featuring distinguished writers, exceeded all expectations.

Prominent GCM Board members Theo Markos and Nick Dallas travelled to Adelaide to attend the 13th International Conference on Greek Research which was organised by the Australian Center for Greek Language and Culture "LOGOS" of the University of Flinders.

Dr Themistoklis Papadopoulos will present a very interesting lecture about the multicultural Epirus during the last years of the Ottoman Empire, on Thursday 20 June, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Week Two of Greek Writers Festival commences with a highly entertaining evening program on Friday (7 June), beginning with a raw and informative session about Anarchy in Fitzroy presented by (In)famous poet and anarchist Π.O. The Festival concludes on Saturday 8 June with five informative and entertaining sessions featuring eleven participants.

Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland David M. Pritchard, will present a lecture about the Archers of Classical Athens , on Thursday 6 June 2019, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

MEΛΒΟΥΡΝΗ.- Για την εξαιρετική επίδοσή της στο μάθημα των Νέων Ελληνικών στις εξετάσεις του VCE βραβεύθηκε με το Premier’s VCE Award η μαθήτρια του σχολείου Γλώσσας και Πολιτισμού της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Μελβούρνης Ευτυχία Θανοπούλου.

Dr James Kane from the University of Sydney will present a lecture entitled “The Fourth Crusade and the Sacking of Constantinople” on Thursday 30 May 2019, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

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