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University of Pittsburgh Celebrates Greek Culture

The Greek Nationality Room, established 80 years ago to celebrate Greek culture at the University of Pittsburgh, will be the site of an upcoming commemoration on November 5-7. Established by local industrialists on November 7, 1941, the center is a...

Capital Link Celebrates Greek Culture and Education in Webinar

Capital Link sponsored a webinar on Tuesday highlighting the importance of Greek culture and education amongst the Greek-American diaspora.

New York Gets Ready for 10-Day Feast of Greek Culture (video)

A Greek-American cultural academy is gearing up for a 10-day feast of Hellenic art, music, film and language in New York. The Academy of Hellenic Paideia is inviting all to their Timarete Festival which will run from Friday until June...

UCLA to Create Center for Greek Culture

UCLA will create a new center to support the study of Hellenic culture and engage the Greek community in Los Angeles. The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, which the university announced the establishment of...

Exhibit at National Geographic Museum Celebrates 5,000 Years of Greek Culture [video]

The National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC has an amazing exhibit called The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great. The exhibit is packed with artifacts ranging from some seven millennia ago and is composed of 560 items from collections on loan from...

New York 2016: The Continuity of Greek Culture

Greek Letters Day on January 30, 2016 celebrates the Three Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom. The Three Hierarchs developed Greek literature and education. They lived from about...

Skokie, Illinois Celebrates Greek Culture

Over a six week-period starting Jan. 27, the town of Skokie, Illinois will become a cradle of civilization as its fourth annual Coming Together in Skokie festival focuses on Greek culture. Local libraries, schools, colleges, museums, churches and other locations...

Buffalo Art Gallery Celebrates Greek Culture

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY is mostly known for its showcase of contemporary and modern art. However, in a new installment that began July 27 and goes through April 2013, the gallery is exhibiting ancient Greek pieces...

New York Times: Crisis Affects Greek Culture in a Negative Way

The New York Times has published an article about the significant fallout that the austerity measures imposed on Greece have had in the preservation and promotion departments at archaeological sites. The correspondent reporting from Kythera stressed that Greek culture...

New York: Pinelopi Tsilas Honored For Promoting Greek Culture by AGAPW

Pinelopi Tsilas, wife of Executive Director of the Onassis Foundation in New York and Ambassador Lukas Tsilas, was honored for her creative contribution in promoting Greek cultural heritage and language in America as well as her humble charity activities. The...

National Museum of Greek Culture to Open in Greektown Digs in Chicago

Founded in Chicago in 1983, the National Hellenic Museum was initially a small-scale, Chicago-specific tribute to the city’s Greek immigrants. Since its start on Franklin Street it has moved twice, most recently above the Greek Islands restaurant in Greektown....

Harvard Establishes Greek Culture Awards

The Harvard University, Department of the Classics George Seferis Chair has established an International Award for Greek Culture. Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University Panagiotis Roilos, and Dimitris Yatromanolakis, who holds joint appointments in the Department of...

Greek Culture Awards at University of Illinois at Urbana

The Modern Greek Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will honor recipients of the Houston-Papadimitriou Greek Culture awards with a special award ceremony on Saturday, September 10. Additionally, they will honor four recipients of the 2010 Pan Hellenic Scholarship Award that attend the UIUC campus.   The...

Guardians of Greek Culture

The names of Greeks in Boston are being displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston. The couple, Mr. Lykourgos and Evanthia Kontakis are the donors of the wing for ancient classical artefacts, whilst George Behrakis has entirely...

Greek Culture in New York by the Greek Press Office

The Press and Communication Office in New York of the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations along with the Consulate General of Greece in New York hosted events that promote Greece showing up the country’s culture and...