With a flag-raising ceremony at Rockdale City Council and a special program, the Order of AHEPA – NSW and NZ lodge – will celebrate Hellenic National Day on Sunday 27 October.
The program, organised in collaboration with Councillors Petros Kalligas, Andrew Tsounis and Peter Poulos, will include formal messages from diplomats and other dignitaries, poems recited by students from Earlwood Public School, a performance by the Hellenic Folk Dancers of NSW and a public history exhibition of photographs, posters and caricatures from 1940 and 1941.
The initial assembly point for a flag-raising ceremony in honour of the OXI Day is Rockdale City Council, at 2 Bryant Street, Rockdale, at 4.30 pm.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, a reception will be hosted at AHEPA Hall (394 Princes Highway, Rockdale), from 5.00 pm.
Known as OXI (NO), this significant anniversary marks the day the Hellenic people said “no” to the forces of fascism, on 28 October 1940.
28 October has been celebrated as OXI Day since 1942.
For more information, contact Secretary of the AHEPA NSW, Panayiotis Diamadis, on 0415 745 537
