Ένα πρωτοποριακό πρόγραμμα δημιουργικής απασχόλησης οργανώθηκε από την Ελληνική Κοινότητα Μελβούρνης τις δύο βδομάδες των εαρινών διακοπών που πέρασαν. Σχέδια για επανάληψη του Προγράμματος το 2018.

On the 60th anniversary of his death, Q44 Theatre in agreement with the Kazantzakian Estate Athens, presents the world premiere of "NK: A Kazantzakian Montage" by Howard F Dosser (Stage version by Suzanne Heywood), based on the Life and Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis. "NK: A Kazantzakian Montage", is an exploration of the life and work of Crete’s most famous writer, poet and philosopher, Nikos Kazantzakis.

Distinguished Professor Loukas Tsoukalis will present a lecture entitled “Can Greece come out of the crisis, and how?”, at the Greek Centre, on Monday 23 October 2017.

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 The Delphi Bank 24th Greek Film Festival will open with George Kordellas' remarkable debut feature Roza of Smyrna.

Spend a week this summer at Melbourne's Hellenic Museum, learning about the fascinating and thought-provoking world of the ancient Greeks.

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 Greek Government passed the relevant legislation related to the approval and implementation of the working holiday visa. All relevant Ministers signed the legislation and the Ministry of Education is the responsible authority.

See below the amazing new e-newsletter of the Greek Community Schools.

We say "Excellent work" to the kids, teachers, families and everyone else that contributed towards this jam-packed first semester of 2017.

For the first time in the history of the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM), 92% of the organisation’s membership endorsed the Board’s motion to develop the Bulleen property, an unresolved issue plaguing the organisation for many years. The vote was considered by all present, as a vote of confidence to the GCM’s Board of Directors and its President Bill Papastergiadis.

The Victorian Association of Argos Orestikon and District (Orestias) proudly announced that donated the sum of One million dollars to the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria.

The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) is pleased to announce a plan that will not only contribute to the development of the site at Bulleen, but will financially strengthen the GCM and create new facilities and services for all Greeks in Melbourne. The Plan focuses on the Community’s core activities and services and brings together organizations from across Melbourne in a landmark development called “Greek Centre on the Yarra».

Members of the Board of the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) met with Dr Konstantinos Pantos, the world renowned Greek Australian fertility specialist and director of “Genesis”, Greece's largest fertility clinic, to discuss the possibility of organising a conference in Melbourne which would provide a forum for Greece to exhibit its many achievements in health, medicine and medical tourism to the broader Australian community.

More than two hundred people including students, parents, supporters and benefactors joined in the celebrations at the Greek Community of Melbourne’s (GCM) Christmas Party at the Greek Centre on Thursday evening. Presentations of the annual VCE Awards were made to students who had excelled in Modern and Ancient Greek.

Once again the students of the Greek Community’s Language and Culture (GLC) school and Alphington Grammar School have excelled in their Classical and Modern Greek final VCE exams.

A fundraising campaign for the reinstatement of the first Greek Orthodox church in Melbourne, "The Annunciation of Our Lady", was announced by the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria (GOCMV).

Our Courses in 2017

Learn Modern Greek by attending our courses offered in 2017 and planned according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages *

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

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.

At the office of the Greek Community of Melbourne are available for sale the following books:

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.

At their last Annual General Meeting, members of the Philanthropic Association of Kastorians "Grammos" unanimously approved to amend the Articles of Association in order to transfer part of their assets to the Greek Community once the organisation ceases to operate.

Ancient (Classical) Greek for High School students and VCE students in 2017

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.