Cultural Life
Exploring Greek heritage, culture, and identity.
Greek Film Recycling Medea Wins Most Valuable Documentary Award
Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film, a documentary by Greek filmmaker Asteris Kutulas won the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Documentary Award 2014.
Generations Of Dancers Unite – The Hellenic Heritage Dance Group
Cherry Hill, NJ – For nearly half a century now, the Hellenic Heritage Dance group of St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Church, has been performing and perpetuating Greek dance. On Saturday night the members of past and…
40 Year Dance Tradition Continues At Saint Thomas
Cherry Hill, NJ – Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, the generations came together this evening to dance and celebrate forty years of the Hellenic Heritage Dance Group.
Greek Singer Tzeni Vanou
Greece’s most popular Greek singer, Tzeni Vanou, died of cancer at a Piraeus hospital today. Tzeni Vanou, born Eugenia Vrachnou in 1939 in Athens, Greece turned to music in the late 1950’s after meeting composer Mimis…
Smyrna: The Destruction Of A Cosmopolitan City Is Screening Tonight In Philadelphia
Tonight at the University of Pennsylvania the film will be featured for the first time in Philadelphia. Director Maria Iliou will be present to talk about the film. Also present, will be Professor Alexander Kitroeff of…
The Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in downtown Athens, Greece. The museum houses Greek works of art…
Leonard Cohen – The Greece Years
This month Australia plays host to Leonard Cohen, the world famous Canadian poet, novelist, singer, songwriter and professional manic-depressive. What many people do not know is that Leonard Cohen learned the Greek language in his twenties,…
So It’s Christmas And Here Is The Kourabie…
The smell of baking Kourabiedes marks the beginning of the Christmas season in many Greek households. In some regions of Greece, the recipe will call for sheep’s or goat’s milk butter, while other Greek recipes substitute…
Food For Love
A documentary about the all embracing love of the Greek mother. By Greek filmmaker Marianna Economou.
Mario Frangoulis, Accepts The 2013 “elios Award Of Excellence”
San Francisco, CA – Last month Mario Frangoulis accepted the 2013 “Elios Award of Excellence” at the annual Hellenic Charity Ball in San Francisco, hosted by the Elios Charitable Foundation. Mario Frangoulis is a tenor of…
Yiorgos Sofianidis, A Pontian Life And Legacy
Every once in a while someone comes along in the Greek music scene that blazes a trail and leaves us with an impression we carry throughout our lives. Greek music history is filled with those who…
Nostalgic Greek Coffee House Night At The Pontian Leskhi In Philadelphia
It was a scene reminiscent of a classic black and white photograph from an era that seems to have faded away. The Greek coffee house was a place to be with fellow Greeks; to smoke, drink,…
