Greek Odyssey 2025 brings Adelaide alive with food, music and heritage

Adelaide will rejoice with Greek traditions, music, dance, and culinary tastes successful the Greek Odyssey Festival 2025. The Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia (GOCSA) launched its yearly festival connected the weekend. It runs each done October and culminates with the stunning Odyssey Finale connected November 1. The programme launched is replete with divers events celebrating the practice and beingness of Adelaide Greek community.

At Friday’s programme launch, GOCSA President Panayiotis Pyrros outlined this year’s highlights, culminating successful the Odyssey Finale euphony event. He stressed that the festival is “not conscionable a bid of taste events—it’s a surviving solemnisation of Greek identity, a enslaved betwixt generations, and a span of transportation with the wider Australian community.”

In a connection present to the festival organisers for the motorboat the community, South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas called the Odyssey Festival “an outstanding showcase of the richness of Greek practice and civilization successful South Australia, reflecting the enduring publication of the Greek diaspora to the social, cultural, and economical cloth of our State.”

Malinauskas said that since the earliest days of migration, the Greek assemblage has played a pivotal relation successful shaping South Australia’s multicultural identity, and enriching society with values such arsenic family, resilience, and generosity. He emphasised that the preservation of Greek language, traditions, and customs, was instrumental successful processing the state’s multicultural—and intercultural—policy.

Malinauskas emphasised the relation of festival organisers and volunteers and their dedication, which ensured that Greek beingness and practice thrives and inspires aboriginal generations.

The motorboat past Friday was attended by a ample assemblage of creation and civilization aficionados.

The festival will diagnostic Kostas Haralambous’ “Captain Mihalis”, an adaptation of acclaimed Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis’ caller by the aforesaid name. Photo: Greek Film Festival/GCM

The Opposition Leader Anthony Tarzia besides sent a connection of support successful which helium said that that the Odyssey Festival helped sphere traditions, walk down stories, and strengthen the consciousness of individuality among younger generations. Tarzia added that South Australia’s aboriginal rests connected communities built connected strong values, pridefulness successful heritage, and a generous spirit—describing the festival arsenic “a shining illustration of however civilization tin animate unity and advancement crossed South Australia.”

The premier was represented by Olivia Madison Savvas, while Adelaide Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith was represented by Councillor Mary Couros. Both expressed pridefulness successful their arrogant Greek practice and underscored the value of preserving and promoting Greek connection and civilization successful South Australia.

Sophie Diamandi, the seat of the community’s taste committee, unveiled this year’s program, highlighting that the Odyssey Festival offers “a unique accidental to showcase Greek civilization done art, music, dance, film, food, and κοινωνικά gatherings.”

This year’s programme includes cooking workshops, lectures connected Greek and Cypriot migration and history, creation and euphony performances, arsenic well arsenic the much-anticipatyed Greek and Cypriot Film Festival, the Art Prize, and the Art Exhibition.

The Odyssey Festival is simply a solemnisation of Greek taste practice and a span betwixt generations and communities. Photo: NK

Steve Georganas the national subordinate for Adelaide, attended, and stressed the value of maintaining the Greek connection and culture, and encouraged audiences to spot Captain Michalis and work works by Nikos Kazantzakis. Georganas highlighted the strong governmental practice of the Greek assemblage successful South Australia and its important relation successful nationalist life.

With implicit 30 events, the Odyssey Festival is simply a solemnisation of Greek taste practice and a span betwixt generations and communities. Through music, dance, traditional food, and migration stories, participants tin immerse themselves successful Greek traditions while younger generations acquisition a consciousness of individuality and pridefulness successful their roots.

Odyssey Festival is an unfastened invitation to all—Greek and non-Greek alike—to articulation successful taste travel afloat of life, art, film, music, and nutrient that curates Greek beingness successful South Australia.

Greek gastronomy will diagnostic cooking workshops, tastings, and special menus celebrating authentic recipes and section produce. The movie programme features stories of migration, regular life, and heritage, and provides an alternative, and heavy penetration into the modern Greek experience.

Greek Odyssey 2025 will showcase the vibrancy of Greek identity, memory, and creativity, inviting South Australians to acquisition the food, music, and traditions that proceed to signifier the state’s affluent taste landscape.