At the Grand Opening of Olympia Refrigeration’s new factory in Marrickville in 1978. Yiannis Benetos (left) serves yeeros to the then Premier of NSW, Neville Wran, and his wife Jill. Between the Premier and his wife is Olympia Refrigeration’s Chris Skoufis. While Benetos opened the first yeeros shop in Sydney, Olympia Refrigeration made the upright rotisserie for his yeeros shop. Photo:Chris Skoufis
10 May 2021 1:53pm
This time last year, Sydney historian, Vasilis Vasilas, would have officially launched “Little Athens: Marrickville” under the auspices of the 38th Greek Festival of Sydney; with the outbreak of COVID- 19 and its subsequent restrictions, the launch – like so many other Festival events – was postponed.
ADVANCED SCREENING: KING OTTO
In the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a country that had never previously won a single match or even scored a goal in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions. This is the film that takes a look at how this incredible event unfolded.
When: 15 May, 4:00pm
Where: New Farm Cinemas, 701 Brunswick St, New Farm, QLD, 4005
Bookings & Info: Cinema website
PANIYIRI GREEK FESTIVAL
Celebrate all things Greek at Paniyiri Greek Festival, Brisbane’s biggest Greek celebration, jam-packed with Zorba dancing, honey puff eating competitions, cooking demonstrations, markets stalls, rides, sideshow alley, fireworks and lots of delicious Greek food.
3 May 2021 11:48am
Greek museums which were forced to shut their gates to the public in November, used lockdown time to find alternative ways to keep in touch with the public, and carry out needed maintenance work before lockdown.
Among them, the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) of Athens is going full-force into the digital age with an ambitious project using EU funds allocated to Greece, the Byzantine and Christian Museum is setting up an annex in a historic mansion of downtown Athens, the Piraeus Bank Group museums are throwing their weight behind podcasts of their specialized and dispersed museums that also cater to people with hearing and vision disabilities, and the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus is enthusiastically setting up a cinema division, with documentaries on antiquities that include two cartoon films.
The statues dedicated to Ioannis Theophilopoulos in his home village of Lagadia and in Ilioupoli in Athens flank a mid-19th Century photograph of the man in the centre. The picture, taken by Petros Moraitis, is housed in the National Museum in Athens. Photos: Supplied.
29 April 2021 1:40pm
When she drove past the statue in Ilioupoli when she was on honeymoon in Athens, Mandy Nickas noted that the name it bore was of Ioannis “Tsakalos” Theophilopoulos, her maiden name.
In 2014, while on another visit to Greece, she drove past the beautiful clifftop village of Lagadia on her way to her father’s village at Mavridi in near Olympia in the Peloponnese. Another statue of Ioannis Theophilopoulos had been erected at in Ladadia where he was born in 1795.
ADVANCED SCREENING: KING OTTO
In the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a country that had never previously won a single match or even scored a goal in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions. This is the film that takes a look at how this incredible event unfolded.
When: 15 May, 4:00pm
Where: New Farm Cinemas, 701 Brunswick St, New Farm, QLD, 4005
Bookings & Info: Cinema website
PANIYIRI GREEK FESTIVAL
Celebrate all things Greek at Paniyiri Greek Festival, Brisbane’s biggest Greek celebration, jam-packed with Zorba dancing, honey puff eating competitions, cooking demonstrations, markets stalls, rides, sideshow alley, fireworks and lots of delicious Greek food.