Arts
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Sophocles’s play Philoctetes returns to Lemnos
On the evenings of 2nd and 3rd of August this year, at the ancient amphitheatre of Ifestia on the northern coast of the northern Aegean Island of Lemnos, Philoctetes returned …
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Kalamata Music Days 2025: Where ancient ruins meet radical soundscapes
Kalamata Music Days 2025: A Festival Bridging Centuries of SoundFrom medieval chants to experimental jazz, the International Kalamata Music Days returns for its ninth edition from August 24 to September …
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Greek-made sculpture honours the migration stories of Melbourne’s Hellenes
Greek sculptor Dimosthenis Tzanakos has gone above and beyond to use his talents to create a piece honouring the legacy of the many Greeks who made the difficult journey to …
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Nikos Papastergiadis wins 2025 Michael Crouch Award for debut biography
Nikos Papastergiadis’s literary non-fiction work John Berger and Me has won the 2025 Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work in the National Biography Awards. The winner was announced on …
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Greece declares Mikis Theodorakis’ childhood home a cultural monument
The Greek government has officially recognised the childhood home of legendary composer Mikis Theodorakis in Galatas, Hania, Crete, as a modern monument, the Culture Ministry announced on Tuesday. The 19th-century …
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Greek Guide end of July to early August: Festivals, music and more
There are a number of Greek festivals coming up, including some this weekend. On Sunday, ‘My Big Fat Greek Festival’ hits St Albans in Melbourne, with a number of dance …
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Strange Air: Melbourne artist Anna Kiparis revisits pandemic memory in new solo exhibition
Melbourne-based contemporary artist Anna Kiparis is set to unveil her latest solo exhibition, Strange Air, at Montsalvat’s Wood Workshop Gallery in Eltham, running from 30 July to 24 August 2025. …
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Greek Guide: What’s On for the end of July
Melbourne’s own Estudiantina of Melbourne returns to the stage on July 25 with Songs of the Soul, a tribute concert honouring two iconic figures in Greek urban music: Rita Abadzi …
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Māori-Greek artist Jimmy James Kouratoras illuminates Manhattan with an ancestral message
Jimmy James Kouratoras has made a return to New York, with his painting “Hei Tiki – For the Love of Our Ancestors” which is displayed on a towering 10-metre digital …
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Lives in light: Jim Pavlidis and the icons of the ordinary
Jim Pavlidis, the award-winning illustrator who took out a Quill in 2022 for his satirical ‘Net Zero, Zero Net’ in The Age – of former PM Scott Morrison as a …