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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 …

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Con Kalamaras is going ‘Off the Map’ to unearth migrant melodies

Melbourne-based musician and events producer Con Kalamaras is shining a light on global musical traditions through his radio program Off the Map. Aired on community station 3MDR, the show features …

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