Con Pagonis
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Constantinos Emmanuelle launches ‘Tales of Cyprus’ Volume Two – An ode to the migration story
Constantinos Emmanuelle is a Melbourne-born Cypriot Australian artist and author who has been exploring and investigating his cultural heritage for over 30 years through the disciplines of illustration, photography, painting, …
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Australian Jazz Museum acquires clarinet of late Jazz legend Nick Polites
On Tuesday this week, the Australian Jazz Museum took custodianship of the iconic and easily recognisable blue and yellow clarinet played by the late jazz musician Nick Polites OAM (1927-2022). …
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Remembering the life of jazz musician Nick Polites OAM (2 July 1927 – 14 January 2022)
Sunday January 14th, 2024, is the second anniversary of Nick Polites’ passing at the age of 94. Nick was a much-loved iconic Melbourne jazzman, an early, influential, and respected advocate …
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A new national agenda for multicultural Australia is well overdue
The Australian Government’s current Multicultural Framework Review is looking at ways for government and the community to work together to support a cohesive multicultural society and advance a vibrant and …
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Kaliopi Stavropoulos sings the blues
Georgina Tsolidis, a friend who shares my keenness for old school African-American blues and Rn’B music, recently put me on to blueswoman Kaliopi. Kaliopi is a Melbourne-based Greek-Australian Blues Artist, …
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Amazing Stories of Cypriot Migration
Last Sunday afternoon Constantinos Emmanuelle launched his second book in the Tales of Cyprus series – ‘The Corsica’ – at a packed Saint John’s College Auditorium in Preston. This new …
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New Orleans, the ‘Crescent City’ is testament to the proposition that cultural diversity is a driver of creativity
When Frenchmen arrived in the bend of the Mississippi River that would eventually be named New Orleans, they encountered a place that had been home to Native Americans for about …
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Remembering Nicholas Pagonis
My father, Nicholas, was born nearly 100 years ago, in 1923, to Paraskeva and Lefki Pagonis; and lived his childhood in the Cypriot township of Arathipou, near the port city …
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Remembering the life of Nick Polites
Nick Polites OAM passed away on 14 January 2022; he was 94 years old. Nick was a much-loved iconic Melbourne jazzman, an early, influential and respected advocate for migrant services, …
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Recalling the Journey of the Diakakis Family: the story of Helen Pagonis
My Australian-born mother, Helen Kathleen, grew up in a community of ‘displaced persons’ of Greek heritage from Asia Minor who resettled in South Melbourne in the aftermath of the First …