Melina Mercouri

The City Council of Mons in Belgium decided to give the name of Melina Mercouri to a central avenue honoring the Greek politician who launched the institution of Cultural Capitals of Europe in 1983. Mons has been proclaimed the Cultural...

Although Melina Mercouri died twenty years ago, on March 6, 1994, her memory remains very much alive in Greek hearts. Mercouri loved her country and was an ambassador of the Greek spirit worldwide. She was a much loved actress...

Not since the late actress and Culture Minister Melina Mercouri; the eloquent writer and unbeatable debater Christopher Hitchens and his friend, Scottish Prof. Robert Browning - also dead - has Greece had, in actor-director-activist George Clooney, such an ambassador...

Actor-director-activist George Clooney, who has taken on worldwide causes such as the Sudan tragedy, now has unwittingly stepped into an age-old fight between Greece and England over the stolen Parthenon Marbles being housed in the British Museum. He said they...

Greek cinema has a longer history than people usually think when they associate the words Greece and cinema. Several Greek films have come a long way and are actually famous outside the country’s borders. Perhaps the first movie that comes...

Greek Culture Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos, addressing the presidents and members of the national committees for the return of the Parthenon Marbles of Cyprus, Germany, Sweden, Britain, Switzerland and Australia, in the framework of the International Conference held at the...

Google honors Karolos Koun, a great Greek theater professor and director, founder of the experimental Art Theater, with the doodle of Sept 13, 150 years after his birthday. Karolos Koun was born in Bursa, in northwestern Anatolia, on September 13, 1908....

Thirty poets and novelists (25 Greeks and five foreigners) are participating in the second edition of the literary festival of Logotechniki Skini (Literary Scene) that is being organized for the second consecutive year by both the Municipality of Kalamaria...

The Cultural Organization of Prespes, the Melina Mercouri Foundation and ADaM Productions of Badminton Theater are presenting the performance, Melina - Wherever I Travel To, Greece, on Aug. 23-24 a tribute to the late actress and former Culture Minister...

A flashback to the most important points of famed actress Melina Mercouri’s life, including songs, theater and film roles, and important personalities of the Greek and international artistic life of the 20th Century will come alive on stage, in...