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The Russian film Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkahn) won the prize for Best Feature Film at the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece. Since its first screening at the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in June, the film has done...

Goulandris Museum of Natural History will host a lecture titled “Chemistry in Ancient Greece” tomorrow November 16. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Theodosis Tassios of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and it will inaugurate a...

Three companies from Thrace organized a presentation of their Greek products at the Hilton Hotel in Zurich. The event titled 'Greek Event – Wines of Thrace' was held under the initiative of Yannis Evritis Tasioglou and gained the attention...

The Holy Greek Orthodox Church in Brooklyn organized a musical presentation titled 'Greek Traditional Instruments and their history' on Saturday in collaboration with Dimitrios and Georgia Kaloidis Parochial School. Many people attended the event in order to celebrate the founding...

Conducted by Alexander Lingas, Cappella Romana presents “Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium” with four performances in the Pacific Northwest (Tillamook, Ore., Nov. 17; Medford, Ore., Nov. 18; Portland, Ore., Nov. 19; Seattle, Wash., Nov. 20) to open its 20th...

Optimistic and hopeful messages for a better future were sent out from the Old Town Hall of Vienna during a grandiose event co-organized by the “George Best Costacos Cultural and Cancer Research Foundation” and the “Albert Schweitzer Foundation”. Geek individuals...

Travel Turkey Izmir, which has set out with the objective of creating new locations and making contributions to the promotion of Turkey, was again held under the patronage of Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as it...

Greek films are a major success in Australia. This year’s 18th Greek Film Festival was recently completed and almost 16.000 tickets have been sold around Australia, reported one of its organizers. The most popular films of this year’s festival were...

The Greek-American Elios Society held its 8th star-studded Hellenic Charity Ball on November 12, 2011 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Fransisco. Singer Anna Vissi, director and actor Nick Cassavetes, rocker and Broadway star Constantine Maroulis and entertainer Louie Gundunas were...

The Greek Community of Montreal in cooperation with the Greek Congress of Quebec, the Macedonian Association “Alexander the Great”, the union “Vogatsiaton Kastorias” and the Pontian Association of Montreal “Efxinos Pontos” hosted an event yesterday under the title “Macedonia:...

Sarbel is a well known and acclaimed artist both in Greece and Cyprus thanks to his music and melodious voice. He has just released his latest video clip 'Pou na girnas'. He had the honour of representing Greece at the 2007 Eurovision...

Metropolitan Maximos, the Metropolitan of Pittsburgh, was recognized at a reception held to honor his retirement, at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Archbishop Demetrios, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, and...

Montreal celebrated the closing of the Montreal Greek Film Festival with the screening of an exceptional film, a Greek-Israeli co-production 'My Sweet Canary' about the life of Roza Eskenazy, tracing the life and career of the ultimate Greek rembetiko...

Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church in Port Washington of Long Island organized events to celebrate its founding anniversary. The celebrating events began last Friday with an official dinner at 'North Hills Country Club' in Manhasset of New York. Festive Pontifical Vespers...

Lambis Englezos will deliver a speech in regard to his research on the missing Australians in the Battle of Fromelles. Mr. Englezos received the Order of Australia for his Fromelles work. Lambis Englezos AM, amateur historian and school teacher was responsible...