National Hellenic Museum Gala Draws Record Attendance, Funds Cultural Mission

The solemnisation culminated successful high-energy amusement and dancing. Credit: Tori Soper Photography

The National Hellenic Museum (NHM) raised much than $1 cardinal this past play astatine its 2025 Gala, successful enactment of its ngo to stock Greek history, art, culture, and the Greek American story.

Funds raised astatine the lawsuit are important for maintaining the museum’s extended postulation of implicit 20,000 artifacts and oral histories.

NHM Chairman John P. Calamos, Sr. and this year’s Gala Co-Chairs, NHM Vice-Chairman Jim Logothetis and Marianthe Logothetis, were joined by much than 630 guests astatine the festive lawsuit connected Saturday, September 27 astatine the Hilton Chicago.

NHM Chairman John P. Calamos, Sr. addresses the Gala. Credit: Tori Soper Photography

Among the attendees were civic and taste leaders from crossed the country. Distinguished guests astatine the NHM Gala included Consul General of Greece successful Chicago Emmanuel Koubarakis and Consul Georgia Tasiopoulou, 34th Ward Alderman Bill Conway, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, Public Administrator of Cook County Hon. Louis Apostol, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Clinée Hedspeth, and Fr. Sotirios P. Malamis from Ascension of our Lord Greek Orthodox Church.

NHM Chairman John P. Calamos, Sr., Gala Co-Chair and NHM Vice-Chairman Jim Logothetis, and NHM Executive Director Marianne Kountoures spoke astir the Museum’s relation arsenic a vibrant nationalist spot wherever radical stitchery to learn, beryllium inspired and observe what unites us. NHM brings Greek past to life, making connections crossed generations and highlighting the communal crushed we each share.

This year, the Museum engaged thousands of students of each ages, hosted online programs connecting radical crossed the federation and astir the world, spearheaded a large collaboration with different taste institutions, and launched an NHM Associates radical to promote the adjacent procreation of leaders and philanthropists.

National Hellenic Museum’s Gala offers breathtaking entertainment

The NHM Gala was emceed by tv and vigor property Jane Monzures Clauss. Gala attendees enjoyed a spectacular meal and unrecorded auction led by auctioneer David A. Goodman, followed by unrecorded euphony and Greek dancing with Mylos Entertainment and a peculiar show from renowned Greek creator Giorgos Tsalikis, 1 of Greece’s astir fashionable and charismatic performers.

Greek superstar Giorgos Tsalikis entertains the crowd. Credit: Tori Soper Photography

The 2025 NHM Gala was made imaginable by the generous enactment of donors astatine each level. Lead NHM Gala sponsors included: Diamond Sponsors Calamos Investments, John P. Calamos, Sr. and John S. Koudounis, The Halikias Family and Republic Bank, and The Parthenis Family and Grecian Delight; Gold Sponsors John and Mae Calamos via The John P. Calamos Foundation, The John S. Koudounis Family, and Metropoulos Family Foundation; and Silver Sponsors Michael and Robin Psaros and Family, and the Cathy and George Sakellaris Family Foundation.

The show from Giorgos Tsalikis was generously sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Karras, and John and Martha Cannis.

The National Hellenic Museum (NHM) is simply a nonprofit nationalist past depository located successful Chicago’s historical Greektown neighborhood, with a ngo to stock Greek history, art, culture, and the Greek American communicative successful applicable and meaningful ways.

NHM brings the Greek American acquisition to beingness done engaging exhibitions, dynamic programs, and spirited assemblage events that observe some bequest and possibility. The Museum’s postulation of implicit 10,000 artifacts and oral histories tells a almighty story—one that shares the idiosyncratic journeys of immigrants shaping beingness successful America.

Originally founded successful 1983 and located successful Greektown since 2011, NHM provides lifelong learning for the assemblage and sparks enquiry and treatment astir the broader issues successful our lives and society.

( Front enactment l – r) National Hellenic Museum (NHM) Vice – Chairman and Gala Co – Chair Jim Logothetis, NHM Chairman John P. Calamos, Sr. and NHM Executive Director Marianne Kountoures ; (Back enactment l – r) NHM Trustee Alex A. Gianaras, NHM Distinguished Advisor Hon. Louis G. Apost ol , NHM Trustee Bill J. Vranas, NHM Distinguished Advisor and Gala Committee Member Maria Lampros , NHM Trustee John S. Koudounis, NHM Distinguished Advisor and Gala Committee Member Martha Cannis , NHM Trustee Yanni H. Sianis, NHM Trustee John V. Kalantzis and NHM Distinguished Advisor Paul Vallas astatine the 2025 National Hellenic Museum. Gala. Credit Tori Soper Photography.

The palmy lawsuit was helmed by NHM Chairman John P. Calamos, Sr., and Gala Co-Chairs Jim and Marianthe Logothetis, alongside a dedicated committee and galore volunteers. The ngo and enactment of the Museum resonated profoundly with attendees passim the night.

The unrecorded auction astatine the Gala. National Hellenic Museum/Facebook