Cultural Ties Strengthen Between Greece and Australia

The Greek Culture Minister visited Greek Orthodox Schools successful Sydney. Credit: Culture Ministry

Greece’s Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni, concluded a travel to Sydney, Australia, solidifying plans for large taste collaboration and receiving beardown enactment from Greek-Australian authorities officials for a caller virtual depository documenting the diaspora’s history.

The Minister held a moving gathering with 2 New South Wales authorities ministers of Greek descent: Steve Kamper, Minister for Multiculturalism, Lands and Property, Sport, and Tourism, and Sophie Kotsis, Minister for Industrial Relations and Work Health and Safety. The gathering was besides attended by Archbishop Makarios of Australia.

Major accumulation and taste speech betwixt Greece and Australia

The 3 ministers engaged successful extended discussions connected boosting taste ties betwixt Greece and New South Wales. Ministers Kamper and Kotsis showed peculiar involvement successful hosting exhibitions that hint the full agelong arc of Greek history, linking it specifically to the Greek constituent wrong Australia.

Minister Kamper projected that specified an accumulation could beryllium housed astatine the monolithic caller Powerhouse Paramatta Museum, slated to beryllium the largest depository successful NSW. Both sides besides discussed the anticipation of the Greek National Theatre performing an ancient Greek play successful Sydney.

A statement was reached to motion a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to facilitate the speech of exhibitions and champion practices betwixt the 2 entities.

Reviving Greek handicrafts

Minister Mendoni besides presented Greece’s extended programme for the revival of Greek handicraft, which aims to make a caller procreation of professionally trained, certified, and internationally networked artisans. The programme has established 19 acquisition structures crossed Greece.

Minister Kotsis acknowledged the program’s important relation successful preserving accepted arts, portion Minister Mendoni emphasized its interaction connected supporting section economies and communities. As portion of the speech proposal, the Greek Minister suggested organizing a large handicraft accumulation successful Sydney.

Praise for the virtual depository of the Diaspora

«Our People, Their Stories» exhibition. Credit: Ministry of Culture

A important absorption of the gathering and the travel was the virtual museum, “Our People, Their Stories”. This project, an inaugural of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia nether Archbishop Makarios, documents the history of the Greek diaspora.

Both Greek-Australian ministers expressed afloat enactment for the virtual museum, which is already nether the auspices and practice of the Greek Ministry of Culture, underscoring the value of preserving the taste individuality and practice of the Greek assemblage successful Australia.

Minister Mendoni’s sojourn coincided with the authoritative one-year day presumption of the virtual museum, held successful a profoundly moving ambiance astatine the packed auditorium of the Australian National Maritime Museum successful Sydney.

Launched globally a twelvemonth agone by the Ecumenical Patriarch, the virtual depository has recorded an astonishing 11 cardinal visitors successful its archetypal twelvemonth of operation.

Archbishop Makarios and Greek Culture Minister Mendoni. Credit: Ministry of Culture

Archbishop Makarios described the task arsenic a “living depository of the immigrants’ adventure,” noting that it projects the universality of Hellenism arsenic a linguistic and taste ideal, alternatively than a constrictive taste concept.

Minister Mendoni praised the inaugural arsenic a enactment of “exceptional significance” and a “living archive of memory.” She stated that the depository is simply a invaluable repository of idiosyncratic narratives and experiences that item the strength, resilience, and unceasing transportation to their roots of Greek immigrants who built caller lives successful Australia.

The task meticulously preserves the oral past of archetypal and second-generation Greek immigrants, providing a scholarly yet empathetic grounds of the migration experience—not lone arsenic a socio-economic improvement but arsenic a profound idiosyncratic and familial quality epic.

Minister Mendoni emphasized the museum’s committedness to involving the caller procreation of the diaspora successful its aboriginal development, ensuring its sustainability and continued relevance.

The Greek Ministry of Culture confirmed its committedness to the project, stating that its enactment is not simply symbolic but substantive, pledging to backmost each efforts that fortify the taste individuality of the Diaspora and beforehand Greek civilization globally.

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