Hellenic
Nostos
Stavros Niarchos Center Leof. Andrea Siggrou 364, Kallithea, GreeceOn June 23 and 24, The UCLA SNF Hellenic Center staff will be attending the Nostos festival in Athens. SNF Nostos is an international, multidimensional festival bursting with avant-garde art, scintillating conversation, daring ideas, irresistible music, moving dance, delightful performances, participatory entertainment, and lively sports activities for visitors of all ages. SNF Nostos combines a...
Vamvakou!
From June 25-July 1, the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center staff and UCLA graduate students join colleagues from the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vamvakou, Lakonia, to work together with the team of Vamvakou Revival to organize future summer programs in Modern Greek language studies, bioagriculture, and cultural heritage management. Stay...
The Great Fire of Smyrna – The Genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor Remembered
by Zoom100th Anniversary Commemoration The Great Fire of Smyrna - The Genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor Remembered September 18, 1:00 pm (CDT) | Hosted by Illinois Holocaust Museum The Great Fire of Smyrna (Καταστροφή της Σμύρνης) started on September 13, 1922, after the Turkish armed forces entered Smyrna, a deliberate act by the Turkish government...
Glendi! Beginning of the Year Celebration
Rolfe Courtyard 345 PORTOLA PLAZA, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesJoin us for a true glendi with a fantastic musical performance, dancing, and delicious Greek food! Bring your family, friends and dancing shoes. Meet our new Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles, Ioannis Stamatekos, and learn more about the Center’s initiatives and programs. This is an outdoor event. Parking information The Rolfe Courtyard is...
Smyrna, My Beloved
Saint Sophia Cathedral 1324 S Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCommunity Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Burning of Smyrna Sunday, September 25, 2022 4 pm reception followed by the film screenings Free admission and mezedes (No RSVP required) Jim Gianopulos Family Theater, St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral 1324 S. Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006 This moving historical saga, Smyrna, My Beloved, follows...
Johanna Hanink, “Bones, Stones, Trees, and Roots: On the Enduring Urgency of Karkavitsas’ Archeologist (1904)”
by ZoomHow does a novella written more than one hundred years ago help to illuminate pressing issues in Greece today? Karkavitsas’ Archeologist, an allegory for the contestation of antiquity’s role in Greek modernity, was published at a time when Greece’s ancient past was emerging as a modern national industry. Major excavations were tied to the establishment...
Roger Michel, “Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary”
by ZoomThe Parthenon Marbles, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor Phidias, they were eventually sold to the British government in 1817 and are housed in the British Museum. Public debate about repatriating the...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Landscape in the Mist
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesLandscape in the Mist (Topio stin Omichli) Greece/France/Italy, 1988 A young girl and her brother run away to find the father they’ve never met in Germany. Ducking train conductors and hitching rides, they’re befriended by Orestes, a young man working with a troupe of traveling actors before his compulsory military service. Theo Angelopoulos conceived the...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Eternity and a Day
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesEternity and a Day (Mia Aioniotita kai mia Mera). France/Italy/Greece/Germany 1998 Bruno Ganz plays a famed Greek author with a growing list of uncompleted projects after becoming despondent following the death of his wife and his own recent terminal diagnosis. Lost in reveries of a brighter past, he’s snapped back to life when, on impulse,...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Days of ’36
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDays of ’36 (Meres tou ’36) Greece, 1972 A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’ portrait of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another. This opening act of violence triggers a series of more ambiguous but equally ominous machinations—a prison escape, a hostage crisis, foreign powers conspiring over cocktails—with Angelopoulos emphasizing the atmosphere...
Film Screening: Last Voyage
Cinemark Downey 8840 Apollo Way, Downey, CA, United StatesA documentary based on the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis' travels in the Far East. The film's director Aris Chatzistefanou will join us for Q & A following the screening. Co-sponsored by the Hellenic Library, the Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis in Los Angeles, Southern California Cretans Association, Cretans Omonoia of Orange County
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Voyage to Cythera
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesVoyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kithira) Greece, 1984 After years living in exile in the Soviet Union, a communist resistance fighter, Spyros (Manos Katrakis), returns home to the dismay of his family and neighbors. His son Alexandros (Giulio Brogi) is a filmmaker casting a movie set during the German occupation while the villagers of his...