As her husband Tom Hanks performs on Broadway in “Lucky Man,” Rita Wilson is taking the stage to sing songs from her album AM/FM at New York City nightclub 54 Below, with performances through April 20. The actress, and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and “Mamma Mia!” producer, released her debut solo album in 2012. [...]
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New Hellenic Museum for Detroit
The Hellenic Museum of Michigan is Detroit’s newest cultural addition and the local Greek-American community’s gem. The vision for a Hellenic museum was first conceived in late 2007, with the aspiration of establishing a center dedicated to “sharing the richness of the Hellenic Heritage of the Greek community and conserving the contributions of Hellenic Culture [...]
CYPRECO Presents Neolithic Khirokitia Settlement
The history and culture of the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia, one of the most important prehistoric sites of Cyprus and of the eastern Mediterranean was revived on March 8, during a screening of an original documentary by filmmaker Elena Maroulleti at the Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, NY. Organized by CYPRECO of America from its [...]
Hixenbaugh’s Greek Geometric Amphora
Hixenbaugh Ancient Art in Manhattan, New York, the antiquities dealer that sells ancient art and authentic antiquities from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Europe has updated its website to include over fifty recently acquired objects. Among them is a Greek Geometric Amphora dating to the early part of the 8th Century BC, to Greece’s Geometric [...]
Getty Museum Will Host Greek Art
Greek bronze artworks will be shown at the Getty Museum in California in 2015 as part of a promotion to showcase Greece through a series of events in the American museum, such as banquets and lectures by Greek Byzantinologists as part of the exhibit Heaven and Earth. The Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections was [...]
Greek Actress Set to Star in Solo Play in NYC
Greek-British/American actress Kathryn Hunter is gearing up for her solo play, “Kafka’s Monkey,” in New York City next week. The performance is being presented by Theater for a New Audience at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The play, an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “A Report to an Academy,” stars Hunter as Red Peter, a reluctantly civilized ape [...]
Lloyd and Farantouri Dazzle In Met Concert
A concert by famed Greek singer Maria Farantouri and jazz musician Charles Lloyd took place in a unique atmosphere at the Temple, in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York. Farantouri sung Happy Birthday for Lloyd’s 75th. The tenor saxophone titan spoke on stage with admiration about Greece, the Parthenon, Herodion and the country’s [...]
Philadelphia Greek Independence Day
On March 17, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia was filled with Greek flags, bands, floats and people celebrating Greece’s succesful War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. 192 years ago, on March 25th, 1821, the Greek rebel forces raised the flag of the cross and declared Greece free from 400 years of Ottoman rule. [...]
Mickey Mouse in Fustanella
Opa! A Celebration of Greece, from May 25-27 at Disneyland Resort, California, featuring music, dance, art, food, history among others, is certainly a choice for those who love Greece. Festivities will take place in “It’s a small world” Mall in Disneyland Park and Paradise Gardens in Disney California Adventure Park. Each day from 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., these two [...]
America’s Unique Greek High School
Nikos Andriotis, ex-president of Saint Demetrios high school in Astoria, talked to AMNA about the only Greek high school in America, located in Saint Demetrios, and about the Greek language. The school was started and completed during the presidency of Andriotis and thanks to his persistence, an extension of the building with modern infrastructure was [...]
Greek-American Education Luncheon
A step into the past of Greek culture was experienced by everybody attending the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Orthodox Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou afternoon luncheon at the Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, New York on February 24. Traditional Greek cuisine with folklore music, dances by school children, DJ Stamati Tsilimos entertained everybody. During the [...]
CYPRECO’s Show Of Khirokitia
CYPRECO of America, Inc. will present the history and culture of Khirokitia, one of the most important pre-historic sites on Cyprus and of the eastern Mediterranean and part of the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List on March 8 at the Stathakion Cultural Center, 22-51 29th Street, Astoria, N.Y. The event will feature the screening of [...]
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