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Melbourne’s Federation Square awarded heritage status

Melbourne’s Federation Square has been added to the state’s heritage register, two years after the Victorian government announced parts of it would be demolished for an Apple store. One of Melbourne’s most popular public spaces, Federation Square, has been added to Victoria’s…
29 August, 2019

The “Zorba” wins over the crowds

When considering sports which encapsulate the interests of Greeks, and more specifically Greek-Australians- world football, tennis, water-polo and even Aussie rules come to mind. Very rarely one would consider Rugby. Recently, the MANASIS School of Greek Dance and Culture was invited to…
28 August, 2019

Nikos Egonopoulos

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement which originated in the late 1910s and early ‘20s which maintained that the superior qualities of the irrational, unconscious mind had to be liberated from the oppressive boundaries of reason and individualism that the Enlightenment…
27 August, 2019

Finding the courage to tackle racism and prejudice

Against the alarming backdrop of a surge in racist and discriminatory attacks in Victoria, Courage to Care Victoria is tackling bad behaviour one school at a time. Alpha Cheng, whose father Curtis was shot dead by an ISIS radicalised teenager in 2017,…
14 August, 2019

Alexander Iolas

For most people, the name Alexander Iolas means nothing, yet the tireless gallerist and collector contributed enormously to the careers of prolific contemporary artists, such as Andy Warhol, Max Ernst and René Magritte, essentially changing the shape of Modern Art. Born in…
7 August, 2019

Melbourne Greek Film Festival begins victoriously!

From award winning and acclaimed Greek Director Tassos Boulmetis (A Touch of Spice, Mythopathy), the heart-warming docudrama 1968 about the epic basketball game between A.E.K., Athens and Slavia of Prague (Czechoslovakia) will open the 26th Delphi Bank Greek Film Festival on Wednesday…
7 August, 2019

Sotirio Bulgari

“I introduced Liz to beer, she introduced me to Bulgari,” Richard Burton famously said during the filming of Cleopatra in 1963 in Italy. “The only word Elizabeth [Taylor] knows in Italian is Bulgari,” he would tell friends after having made a lavish…
30 July, 2019
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