Antipodes Festival
Australia
Antipodes Greek Culture Festival in Melbourne Postponed
For the second year in a row, the Antipodes Festival/Lonsdale St Greek Festival has been postponed due to the pandemic. The Festival was scheduled for 5 and 6 March.
Traditionally taking place in the historic Lonsdale St Greek Precinct it...
Australia
Lonsdale Street Greek Music Festival Eagerly Awaited This Weekend
The Greek Community of Melbourne will stage its annual Lonsdale Street Greek Music Festival this weekend in Melbourne.
Australia
‘The Burning Light’ of Australia
The Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales in collaboration with the Sydney Greek Festival, the Greek Community of Melbourne and Antipodes Festival will present a Greek play by Kostas Varnalis, entitled “The Burning Light” to the Greek Diaspora...
Australia
Australian Politicians Welcomed Melbourne’s Greek Festival
It is estimated that over 120,000 people attended the two-day outdoor feast of Antipodes festival in the center of Melbourne, in the presence of the Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott and the entire political leadership of Australia and the...
Australia
Australian Leadership to Attend Greek Festival
The entire Australian political leadership will be attending the opening of the Greek festival of Melbourne. Both the Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, and the leader of the Federal Opposition, Bill Shorten confirmed that they will attend the opening...
Australia
A Conversation with Justice Emilios Kyrou
The Antipodes Festival, in collaboration with the Food for Thought Greek Australian Women’s Network, presents "A Conversation with Emilios Kyrou,” an event which will take place on September 7 at the Wheeler Centre, at 6 p.m.
Emilios Kyrou is the...
Australia
Aussies Host Writer Tsiolkas
The official presentation of John Vasilakakos’ book about the life and the work of the famous Greek Australian author Christos Tsiolkas, entitled Christos Tsiolkas: The Silenced Story – Life and Work, was held in a special event organized in...
Art
Papapetrou’s Photos Show Through The Worlds
Where does childhood end, where does it begin? In the photo exhibition by the Greek-Australian photographer Polyxeni Papapetrou that bears the title, Between the Worlds, children are depicted as animals trapped between the worlds of childhood and adulthood of...
Art
Antipodes Festival Draws The Pols
Prime Minister Julia Gillard led a large contingent of politicians who came to the March 16 opening of the Antipodes Festival, ignoring a chilly rain to kick off the festivities to honor Hellenism and make their presence known to...
Australia
Hatzigiannis Coming to Sydney and Melbourne
The talented and popular Cypriot musician Michalis Hatzigiannis will perform in this year's Melbourne festival Antipodes, which will be held on March 16 at Lonsdale Street, as well as at Darling Harbour in the Greek Festival of Sydney the...