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Nikos Fotakis

Life

Telling stories through fashion, stitch by stitch

For Vivian Dourali, each of the garments she creates is a conversation starter and in the social media era, this conversation begins on Facebook. That is where she demonstrates her …

Dialogue

United we stand

Last Wednesday morning, when we were all still in shock after the devastating fires that claimed so many lives in Attiki, I was called to speak to Jon Faine’s show …

Life

Back to basics with acclaimed play Scaramouche Jones

It’s millenium eve, a date charged with symbolism, as most of humanity took time – in an almost obsessive-compulsive way – for reminiscence. For one man, it was the day …

Dialogue

Vote in Greek elections? No thanks!

Do you remember the Greek elections of January 2015? It seems like it was decades ago, the way Greek politics work. But I remember it as if it was yesterday. …

Life

Renée Marie Petropoulos: ‘I want to film a dark comedy in Greece’

“It has been crazy!” Renée Marie Petropoulos exclaims, as she talks about the fairly recent experience of having her short film Tangles and Knots screened in two of the most …

Dialogue

Patriots and pawns

To say that the agreement between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), that sees the latter changing its constitutional name from ‘Macedonia’ to ‘North Macedonia’ did not …

News

‘We have to produce locally, but think globally’

It’s been four years since Wines of Greece, the association representing the country’s winemakers and vine growers, first organised a deployment in Australia, and each year has been more encouraging …

Life

Kaliopi Stavropoulos: ‘Music saved my life’

Kaliopi Stavropoulos has kept her first guitar, the one she started playing when she was just a child, the scratch marks on one side paying testament to the difficulty she …

Dialogue

Is the Greek president afraid of the Greek Australian wrath?

As soon as news of the cancellation of Prokopis Pavlopoulos’ visit to Australia broke, the Greek Australian social mediasphere caught fire – here are a few comments gathered from the …

Dialogue

So, Alexis Tsipras wore a tie last week, and this means a lot

Some of us are old enough to have seen the theatrical movie teaser trailer for Rambo: First Blood Part II. It consisted of a sequence of close-up shots of various …

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