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The fourth meeting of Epirotes of Europe, devoted to the 100 years commemoration of the Liberation of Ioannina, took place in the German city Gemeinde Ketsch am Rhein, situated on the right bank of the river Rhine. It was organized...

American photographer William Abranowicz has been invited to participate in the art festival Fotometria that will take place in Ioannina, the largest city of Epirus in Greece. The photographer arrived in Ioannina on June 6 and his visit will last...

The Hellenic Society of Constantinople with the support of the Consul General of Greece is happy to invite you to a unique and unforgettable movie-dinner event on Saturday, June 15, with Tassos Boulmetis, director of the 2003 movie A...

The Greek film September, a Penny Panayotopoulou production, is competing at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic from June 29-July 7. Ten years after her debut with the award-winning feature film Hard Goodbyes: My Father,...

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy will be at the Cine Thisio on June 11 for the premiere of, Before Midnight. The film, directed by Richard Linklater, will open the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival. Don’t forget that Cine Thisio on...

The Region of the Peloponnese organized a special event in London, where Prefect, Petros Tatoulis, presented the touristic product of the Peloponnese to tour operators and many journalists. The Prefect characterized the Peloponnese as a safe destination and talked about...

Greece will be represented at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013 with two entries. Constantina Voulgaris’ A.C.A.B. All Cats Are Brilliant, and Elias Giannakakis’, Joy(Hara), will be screened during the festival that will run from June 19 to 30. The...

Dmitri Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire, new owner of the private island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea, who reportedly bought it for his daughter Ekaterina Rybolovleva, has decided to donate objects and furniture of the late tycoon Aristotle Onassis. A...

The UNSW Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences is organizing an International Symposium paying tribute to Constantine Cavafy, from June 18 to 20. For the anniversary of 150 years since his birth and 80 years since his death, the...

The oldest and the only Greek library in Paris celebrated 30 years of existence on the weekend of June 1-2. Desmos Library (desmos=bond, in Greek) has dedicated its efforts to keep alive and strengthen the ties with Greece through...

Greek-Australian designer Nikki Poulos garnered lots of attention during her run on NBC's television hit, "Fashion Star." And now, with her keen eye for design, Poulos, who started her "Nikki Poulos" label in 1998, has launched a successful (and...

This year’s 3rd Annual Rome Cereals Festival, Cerealia, that is going to take place in Rome, Italy, from June 6 to 9, will certainly have a taste of Greece. The festival is dedicated to the goddess Ceres (the counterpart...

Stefanos Tsivopoulos will represent Greece at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, with his work History Zero.Venice Biennale opened its doors on May 31 and will run until  November 14, 2013 in Venice, Italy. The journalists...

The 6th rally competition of the World Rally Championship, Acropolis Rally 2013, is about to begin on the afternoon of May 31. Forty-seven crews from all over the world, seven Greeks among them, will participate in the Acropolis Rally 2013....

The Greek Film Retrospective turns three years old this summer in Toronto. The largest Greek movie event of the city, The Retrospective is a series of free screenings to celebrate Greek cinema via an electric mix of films from...