On Tuesday 30 August, Year 8 and 9 students of the Greek Community of Melbourne’s Language & Culture Schools (Bentleigh Campus) were accompanied by their teacher Vasiliki Lampropoulou and the school principal Maria Bakalidou during their visit to the Delphi Bank branch in Oakleigh, where they experienced a guided tour of the “Finding Home” exhibition which is currently held at the bank.

The Greek Community of Melbourne, the Greek-Australian Cultural League, and the Hellenic Writers’ Association of Australia, are organising the Greek Book Fair 2022, on 26 - 27 November 2022, 11 am-5 pm, at the Greek Center (Mezzanine, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne).

British historian Professor Mark Mazower will present an online only lecture entitled The Catastrofi and the Age of Oral Testimony, on Thursday 8 September at 7 pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminar Series, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dr Andonis Piperoglou will present a lecture entitled My kids are still called dagoes": historical responses to an irksome racial slur, on Thursday 1 September at 7 pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The Greek Community of Melbourne’s Board of Management welcomed the newly appointed Hellenic Senior Lecturer of Global Diasporas at the University of Melbourne, Dr Andonis Piperoglou, at the Greek Centre.

Prior to a busy Monday night NUGAS meeting in preparation for their annual ball, the young leaders and volunteers were met by the Board and staff of the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM). This meeting, hosted at the community library on level 12 of The Greek Centre, offered an opportunity to share visions, explore collaboration and develop pathways for continued involvement in the community.

A lecture entitled Negotiating Identity: Greek and Armenian Aspirations for a Ponto-Armenian Federation will be presented by lawyer and writer Dean Kalimniou, on Thursday, 18 August 2022, 7 pm, at the Greek Centre and online, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dr Konstandina Dounis will present a lecture entitled Australian writers in Greece, Greek writers in Australia, and their relationship to landscape and ritual, on Thursday 25 August, 7 pm, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne. The lecture will also be broadcasted via Facebook and YouTube.

Τη θεατρική παράσταση με τίτλο «ΜΟΝΟΙ» ανέβασε η Ομάδα Ενηλίκων του Δημιουργικού Κέντρου Δράματος και Τεχνών της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Μελβούρνης, την Κυριακή 24 Ιουλίου, στον ημιώροφο του οικήματος της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Μελβούρνης.

An online only lecture about the political consequences of the crisis with the refugees in the Mediterranean will be presented by Dr Stelios Michalopoulos, on Thursday 4 August 2022, at 7pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Tο Μαθητικό Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου επιστρέφει μετά από δύο χρόνια απουσίας λόγω των περιορισμών που έφερε η COVID19 προκειμένου να δώσει εκ νέου την ευκαιρία σε μαθητές και εκπαιδευτικούς να δραστηριοποιηθούν, να εκφραστούν δημιουργικά και να διασκεδάσουν χρησιμοποιώντας την ελληνική γλώσσα. Η συγκεκριμένη δραστηριότητα λειτουργεί παιδαγωγικά σε πολλούς τομείς της εκπαιδευτικής διαδικασίας, προωθώντας την ελληνόγλωσση εκπαίδευση και τον πολιτισμό.

The Greek Community of Melbourne’s Language and Culture Schools would like to congratulate their students, Varvara Kapetanea and Chrysoula Lampropoulou, who have been recognized with the Premier’s VCE Award for achieving outstanding academic results in Greek during the 2021 school year.

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, met with a delegation from the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM), which included its President Bill Papastergiadis OAM and Treasurer Assoc Professor Marinis Pirpiris at the Maximos Mansion in Athens on Thursday 14 July.The GCM delegation was warmly welcomed by the Greek Prime Minister. Culture, language, and educational ties formed the backbone of this positive meeting. Kyriakos Mitsotakis was brought up to speed on the the diverse activities of the GCM.

An online only seminar about the past, present, and future of mirologia in Epirus will be presented by Christopher C. King, an ethnomusicologist, writer, producer, and advocate of traditional music, on Thursday 21 July 2022, at 7 pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The President of the Hellenic Republic Ms Aikaterini Sakellaropolou welcomed a delegation of the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) that was made up of the GCM President Bill Papastergiadis OAM, its Treasurer Assoc Professor Marinis Pirpiris and its Assistant Secretary Vicky Kyritsis, on Thursday 7 July.

Bernie Lewin, a founding director of the Platonic Academy of Melbourne, will present a lecture entitled The revival of Greek Wisdom in the Renaissance, on Thursday 14 July, at 7 pm, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The poets and writers of our community are invited to write poetry in Greek or English, about the occupied parts of Cyprus, cities, towns, villages, about Famagusta, Morphou, Kyrenia, and so many other beloved places full of thousands of years of history.

Dr Angeliki Alvanoudi, lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, will present an online only seminar about the Greeks of Cairns, on Thursday 7 July, at 7 pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

With only just a few weeks to go, a number of the campers from the 2022 GREEK SUMMER CAMPS program gathered at the Greek Centre in Melbourne for a final briefing before they headed out to meet their interstate mates on 9 July in Thessaloniki.

An online-only lecture about the Literature of the Karamanlides will be presented in Greek by Achladi Evangelia, on Thursday, 30 June 2022, at 7 pm, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

In the 2nd semester of this school year (2022), students in year 7, 8 or 9 will have the opportunity to attend an introductory Ancient (Classical) Greek program leading to VCE level.

Dr Yannis Spyropoulos will present an online-only lecture entitled The Janissaries of Crete, 1669-1826, on Thursday, 23 June 2022, at 7 pm, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dr Stefanos Katsikas, Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago, will give an online-only lecture entitled Proselytes of a New Nation: Muslim Conversions to Orthodox Christianity in Modern Greece, 1821-1862, on Thursday, 11 August 2022, at 7 pm, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Dr Pinar Cakiroglu will present an online-only lecture about the emergence of capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, on Thursday, 9 June 2022, at 7 pm, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

In celebration of the National Archaeological Museum of Greece’s Open Horizons exhibition at Melbourne Museum the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) is organizing a program of music, dance, food and Hoplites on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 of May.

The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) in cooperation with the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (GMFA) through the General Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Greeks Abroad are announcing a summer camp program for young adults from Australia that will commence this year in Thessaloniki.

Associate Professor Nicholas Doumanis will present an online only lecture about the destruction of Smyrna, on Thursday 2 June 2022, at 7pm, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The Greek Centre lights up in red to mark the remembrance of the Pontian Greek Genocide (1916-1923), one of the darkest moments in Greece’s history.

In an announcement earlier today at the community hall at the Greek Community of Melbourne’s (GCM) St Demetrios site in Windsor, Federal Labor’s Bill Shorten MP Shadow Minister for the NDIS, Andrew Giles Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Labor Candidate for Higgins Dr Michelle Ananda -Rajah announced a 1.8million dollar commitment for the GCM’s Greek Centre Hub project.

 

An event dedicated to the common points between two peoples -cultures took place at the Greek Centre, on Sunday 15 May 2022.

Lawyer, poet and short story writer, Dean Kalymniou, will present a lecture entitled The First Pontian Genocide, on Thursday 19 May, at 7 pm, at the Greek Centre. This is a joint event between the Greek Community of Melbourne’s Greek History and Culture Public Seminar Series and Pontiaki Estia.

Professor Peter Monteath will present an online only lecture entitled The battle of 42nd Street, on Thursday 26 May 2022, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminras, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Melbourne’s audience welcomed the production of the “Ballad of the dead brother” and his Greatest Hits at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday

On Tuesday 26 April, the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) hosted Dr. Anna Vasiliki Karapanagiotou, Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Greece (NAM) as she presented a seminar at the Greek Centre’s Delphi Bank Mezzanine in which she outlined recent developments in the campaign for the Repatriation of Greek cultural property.

The Greek National Guard paid a visit to the Greek Community of Melbourne’s (GCM) Greek Centre in the historic Greek Precinct of Melbourne on Saturday 23 of April.

Professor Tom Papademetriou will present an online only lecture about the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Ottomans, on Thursday 28 April, at 7pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The president of the Greek Community of Melbourne met with Minister Mendoni as she prepared to travel to Australia for the Open Horizons Exhibition.

“Greece with its rich history and culture should become a global educational destination” said Bill Papastergiadis at the Delphi Economic Forum”.

Oλοκληρώθηκε με μεγάλη επιτυχία η "3η Διεθνής Διαδικτυακή Ραδιοφωνική Συνάντηση/ΦΕΣΤΙΒΑΛ 2022 - Θέατρο μπροστά σε ένα μικρόφωνο - Youth Theatre On Air", Την Κυριακή 3 Απριλίου 2022, όπου μαθητές, εκπαιδευτικοί, διευθυντές από τα 39 σχολεία της Ελλάδας, Κύπρου, Πολωνίας και Αυστραλίας αλλά και γονείς των μαθητών, τοπικοί φορείς της περιοχής τους, συναντηθήκανε στην Απονομή των Βραβείων Ερμηνείας και γιορτάσανε την δημιουργικότητά όλων των μαθητών που συμμετείχαν.

Prof Paul Cartledge will present an online lecture entitled Ancient Sparta: Myths versus Reality on Thursday 7 April, at 7pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

Federal MP Maria Vamvakinou paid a visit to the offices of the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) on Tuesday, 15 March.

The Greek Community of Melbourne’s (GCM) historical church, "The Annunciation of Our Lady", celebrates its Feast Day on Friday 25 March, with a Divine Liturgy officiated by His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasountos, in the presence of the Consul General of Greece Mr E. Kakavelakis, GCM Board Directors and a large number of parishioners.

Students of the Greek Community of Melbourne’s (GCM) Schools (Bentleigh campus) along with distinguished guests and members from the wider community marked this significant occasion on 25 March 2022.

Herbert Ploegman, a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, will present an online lecture entitled Art and Gentrification in Athens, on Thursday 31 March 2022, at 7pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

On Saturday 18 March, under a warm starry sky in late summer, Melina Aslanidou performed to 550 lucky patrons in an open-air carpark in our historic Greek Quarter of Lonsdale Street.

Greens leader and parliamentarian Adam Bandt recently visited the GCM’s Greek Centre to announce that the Community was successful in its application for a ‘Melbourne Stronger Communities Program’ grant.

Dr Maria Bougiesi will present a lecture an online only lecture entitled Greek traditional dance, an alternative form of exercise and an inexhaustible source of well-being, on Thursday 24 March, at 7pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.

The Greek Community of Melbourne organises a panel discussion entitled Sexism, Misogyny and the Migrant Woman, at the Greek Centre (Mezzanine, 168 Lonsdale Street, Mlebourne), on Thursday 17 March, at 7pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars. Facilitators are Prof Joy Damousi and Dina Gerolymou, and panelists: Melina Mallos, Fotini Kypraios, Anatoli Amanatides and Alkistis Pitsaki.

The Greek Community of Melbourne together with the Philhellene restaurant have organised an annual International Women’s Day fundraiser, and this year, along with their chosen charity - the much needed work of Royal Women Hospital’s CASA House - Centre Against Sexual Assault.