What’s On end of June – early July: Explore Greek culture through art, music, language and history

VIC

PAINT & SIP: THE GREEK HOUSE

Join a vibrant coating league astatine Ladder Art Space successful Kew and beryllium transported to idyllic Greek scapes and colours. Whether you’re a beginner oregon an experienced artist, bask a fun, κοινωνικά evening guided by a professional. All materials from canvas, brushes, paints, easel, and apron—are provided, and you’ll permission with your very ain artwork connected a 30x40cm canvas. Bring your favourite portion and snack to enjoy, oregon pre-order an Artistic Nibbles grazing container featuring cheese, meats, crackers, dips, and fruits.

Doors unfastened 15 minutes earlier the session. Arrivals aboriginal than 15 minutes aft start clip are considered no-shows. For other mingling time, travel aboriginal and research the gallery’s existent exhibitions.

Workshops are for ages 18+ connected Friday and Saturday evenings; Family Days welcome kids 7+ accompanied by an adult. Refunds oregon rescheduling necessitate email notice, with specific timeframes depending connected booking size. Please enactment photos/videos whitethorn beryllium taken for κοινωνικά media. If you similar not to beryllium featured, pass staff upon arrival.

When: Sunday, 29 June astatine 5.30pm ; Saturday, 5 July 2pm; Sunday, 6 July, 5.30pm

Where: Ladder Art Space, 81 Denmark St, Kew VIC 3101

Bookings: here

ALEXANDER’S JOURNEY – A MULTICULTURAL STAGE SPECTACLE

A stage accumulation that brings the epic beingness of Alexander the Great to vibrant beingness done a fusion of music, dance, and visual storytelling.

Presented by the Pan-Macedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria, this one-of-a-kind lawsuit traces Alexander’s footsteps crossed past worlds—from Macedonia to the edges of India—celebrating the cultures helium encountered on the way.

Featuring traditional creation performances from Macedonian, Pontian, Assyrian, Indian, and Armenian communities, this accumulation highlights the timeless spirit of multiculturalism and the enduring bequest of 1 of history’s top figures.

When: Sunday June 29, 2.30pm

Where: 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds 3039

Bookings: clocktowercentre.com.au/alexanders-journey

GENDER IN MODERN GREECE

The Greek Community of Melbourne will big an online seminar titled ‘Gender successful Modern Greek’, examining the relation of Greek gendered terms successful sustaining κοινωνικά sex ideologies that reenforce sexism.

The seminar will beryllium streamed connected Facebook and YouTube and will beryllium delivered by Dr Angeliki Alvanoudi.

The archetypal portion of the lecture will research the narration betwixt grammatical and lexical gender, and the operation of κοινωνικά gender.

It will absorption connected the generic use of the masculine and the semantic derogation of women, and we exposure the biased practice of women and men successful Greek connection use.

The 2nd portion of the seminar will diagnostic a treatment connected the antithetic connection betterment strategies (e.g. gender-specification and gender-neutralization) that Greek speakers tin use to destruct linguistic sexism.

Dr Alvanoudi is Assistant Professor successful the Department of French Language and Literature astatine Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing successful Sociolinguistics with applications to the French language.

She is well-versed connected the subject of the seminar with her probe focusing connected the narration betwixt connection and gender, phenomena of connection interaction successful the Greek diaspora, and grammar successful κοινωνικά interaction.

When: Thursday 3 July astatine 7pm

Where: Facebook oregon via www.youtube.com/@gocmv/streams

MIKIS + MANOS THE SOUNDTRACK OF GREECE IN THE 20TH CENTURY

The songs and euphony of Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjizakis. Two 50-minute sets with a 20-minute interval. Performed by Achileas Yiangoullis, Jacob Papadopoulos, Nick Koutsaliotis, Stav Thomopoulos, Tony Iliou, Wayne Simmons, Peter Neville and Christina Theodosaki. Guest narrator: Katie Georgiou

First amusement sold out, 2nd amusement present available.

When: Sunday July 6

Where: The Greek Centre, 168 Lonsdale St 3000

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1413158

STEM SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Ready for an astonishing subject adventure? Your small ones will go hands-on explorers, uncovering nature’s coolest secrets done breathtaking STEM activities that marque learning consciousness similar play.

This vacation programme lets kids get their hands wet with water experiments, brighten up with airy discoveries, and consciousness the unreserved of aerial powerfulness — each while sparking their imaginativeness and originative thinking!

Perfect for kids ages 4-10 — each children welcome careless of their Greek connection skills.

When & Where: Monday July 7; Huntingdale Hall Oakleigh South, Tuesday July 8; Holy Trinity Church, Thursday July 10; Belle Bue Primary Balywn North

Info and enrolment: old.greekcommunity.com.au/gocmv_public/index.php/en/schools/holiday-program-enrolment

NSW

GREEK CAFES & MILK BARS OF AUSTRALIA

Leonard Janiszewski & Effy Alexakis, the renowned historiographer and documentary photographer, and creators of the In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians National Project Archive present a presumption connected a past acquainted to galore Greek & Kytherian families – the Greek Cafes & Milk Bars of Australia.

These family-based food-catering enterprises ‘transformed’ Australian fashionable culture.

The Kytherian World Heritage Fund (KWHF) successful collaboration with AHEPA NSW are inviting each to this escaped lecture and to support the digitisation of the In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians National Project Archive with the State Library of New South Wales.

The digitisation work is vital to sphere implicit 40 years of Greek-Australian humanities probe for generations to come.

When: Wednesday July 2, 7.30pm-9.30pm

Where: AHEPA HALL, 394 Princes Highway, Rockdale 2216

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1407667

THE PARADISE BAND

Head to Club Five Dock RSL for a show by The Paradise Band, Sydney’s premier Greek euphony band, arsenic they play a scope of classical Greek music.

When: Friday July 4, 8pm-11pm

Where: Club Five Dock RSL, 66 Great North Road, Five Dock 2046

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1403875?embed=true