Angelos Chaniotis, “The Polis as a Stage: Theatricality and Illusion in the Long Hellenistic Age”
Lenart Auditorium Fowler Auditorium, UCLA, Los Angeles, CAParking Information: Enter UCLA campus Lot 4 from Sunset Blvd at Westwood Plaza and turn left into the Play-By-Plate area of the lot. The address of Lot 4 is 398 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Automated pay stations in Pay-By-Play accept $1 and $5 bills and credit cards.
Opening Night LAGFF @ UCLA
James Bridges Theater, UCLA 235 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Valorie Kondos Field, “Life is Short, Don’t Wait to Dance”
The Fowler Museum at UCLA 308 Charles E Young Drive North, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an inspirational afternoon with Valorie Kondos Field, the retired head coach of the seven-time NCAA Champion, 22-time Regional and 18-time Pac 12 Champion UCLA Women’s Gymnastics team. Inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010, the four-time “National Coach of the Year” was recently named “West Region Coach” of...
Book Club: Η Λέσχη, του Στρατή Τσίρκα
Huffington Center, St. Sophia Cathedral 1324 Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a lively discussion of Η Λέσχη, του Στρατή Τσίρκα. All readings and conversation take place in Greek. Light refreshments will be served.
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: The Man and the Legend
Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Court, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United StatesRenowned author Artemis Cooper lectures about Patrick Leigh Fermor, the British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during World War II. He was widely regarded as Britain's greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). UCLA...
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, “Thessaloniki: A Metro-Polis through the Centuries”
Royce Hall, 314 UCLAThroughout the course of excavations during the construction of the Metropolitan Railway in modern Thessaloniki, important finds were brought to light at seven stations: an unknown Roman cemetery of a wealthy settlement, and many burials and funerary structures in the eastern and western necropoleis of the ancient city. The excavations of two central stations at...
Tassos Boulmetis’ A Touch of Spice
James Bridges Theater, UCLA 235 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesBook Club: Η Μεγάλη Χίμαιρα, του Μ. Καραγάτση
Huffington Center, St. Sophia Cathedral 1324 Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a lively discussion of Η Μεγάλη Χίμαιρα, του Μ. Καραγάτση. All readings and conversation take place in Greek. Light refreshments will be served.
“When Tomatoes Met Wagner,” directed by Marianna Economou
James Bridges Theater, UCLA 235 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesElias, a small farming village in central Greece, is dying out. But two cousins team up with the village grannies to cultivate the tomato seeds they have kept for hundreds of years. With a little help from Wagner’s music –which they use to help their tomatoes grow– the team succeeds to export little jars with organic tomato...
