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Agony Art | Sun 20 May @7.30pm

Agony Art — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:08:32 +0000

Name: Agony Art
Item price: event invitation
Location: London

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Agony Art | Sun 20 May @7.30pm

RARA EXCHANGES
with Rosalind Crisp, Andrew Morrish, Reynaldo Young & Antigone Avdi

performance starts 7.30pm | bar available from 7.00pm
tickets: £5 on the door
AT
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

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agoneart@aktivix.org

about the artists

After early training in classical and contemporary dance, Rosalind Crisp studied release, BMC® and Contact Improvisation at the EDDC in Arnhem, Holland.She created the Omeo Dance studio in Sydney as a site for her choreographic research for over 10 years, receiving a number of awards and a choreographic fellowship from the Australia Council (1999-2001). Her company is based in Paris where she is a choreographic associate of the Atelier de Paris – Carolyn Carlson(2004-2012) and teaches and performs throughout Europe.  My work has been evolving, since 2005, in the context of a project I call d a n s e. This is a way of working with the body that sits within and is informed by post-modern questionings about the body, improvisation and composition that have been developing, particularly in the United States, since the 1960s. For a long time I improvised alone in the studio in order to produce materials for future pieces. d a n s e began when I was no longer interested in movement as such, but in the way I was producing it. Then I felt that this new process had its own autonomy. I came up with the first scores for d a n s e simply by naming what it was I was doing, and that even now are still foundations for the work.

Andrew Morrish began performance improvisational work, part time, with Al Wunder’s ‘Theatre of the Ordinary’ in Melbourne in 1982. In 1987 he co-founded the improvisational movement theatre duet ‘Trotman and Morrish’ with Peter Trotman. Together they performed 14 self funded seasons in Melbourne in addition to numerous other one-off performances (including the Greenmill Dance Festival, Melbourne in 1994, 1995 and 1997). They also performed in the United States, most notably in the New York Improvisation Festival in 1995 and 1997. In 1999 they performed in ‘Antistatic’ at the Performance Space (Sydney) and in ‘Dancers are Space-eaters’ at PICA (Perth). In 2000 he moved to Sydney and based his teaching and solo performance practice at Omeo Dance Studio. In 2002 he relocated his work in Europe and now teaches and performs extensively in France, Nederlands, Germany, Switzerland and the U.K.

Reynaldo Young is an award winning composer, arranger, guitarist, teacher and workshop leader. He has written concert pieces – many of which have been performed worldwide – as well as music for dance, theatre, and video; he is also an active player in the free-improvisation scene in the UK and Europe. As founder and director of the ‘cardboard citizens new music ensemble’ – the UK’s only homeless people’s professional avant-garde music group – he has written, directed and performed contemporary and improvisatory music with mixed ensembles of professional and non-professional musicians. In 2005 Reynaldo was appointed Musical Director of the Cardboard Citizens theatre company. He lives in London.

Antigone Avdi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, where she studied and worked as an architect. As a child she attended classes in ballet (RAD syllabus), but in 1993, having completed her postgraduate architectural studies, she began her professional training in contemporary dance at LCDS, in London, where she still lives. Now, as well as performing, Antigone is involved in the devise of new work and curates Agony Art at Chisenhale Dance Space. She has worked amongst others with Rosemary Lee, Rahel Vonmoos, dANTE OR dIE, Carla Onni, YELP danceco., Frauke Requardt, Rachel Gomme, Naked Fish Productions, Cie.Felix Ruckert, Stephan Koplowitz.

for more workshops and performances see andrewmorrish.com | omeodance.com

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Agony Art | Sat 14 April @ 7.30pm | Chisenhale Dance Space

Agony Art — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:21:20 +0000

Name: Agony Art
Item price: event invitation
Location: London

Description:
Agony Art | Saturday 14 April @ 7.30pm

with Rahel Vonmoos & Seke Chimutengwende

Rahel is an independent dance artist who makes her own and collaborative work for many years. The piece performed at Agony Art will be called I want to sleep or another portrait (nr. 4) or an experiment in 3 parts. For this event Rahel is interested in the way that pre-planning might fail and how chance can fail too. There will be projection in the space.

Seke has been practising performing solo improvisation since 2006 in a variety of contexts from theatres to clubs to dance studios to people’s living rooms. Seke usually works with movement and text and generally performs without any pre-planned structure or theme, preferring to find both in the moment of performance.

technical support by Ian Stickland

performance starts 7.30pm | bar available from 7.00pm
tickets: £5 on the door
AT
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

about the artists

Rahel Vonmoos has worked among others with choreographers Rosemary Butcher, Philippe Gehmacher, Charles Linehan and Iztok Kovac (film on improvisation) and with Ricochet Dance Productions. She collaborated with video artist Ruth Schlaepfer (Switzerland), creating video/dance installations performed in art galleries and has participated in several collaborative projects with company Pool (Zurich) and Trisha Bauman (Paris). Her works shall I sit here and and again will be performed as part of Spring Loaded 2012on May 19th at The Place. Her last collaboration A Light Conversation with American dancer/choreographer Wally Cardona was seen in Dance Umbrella 2009 and has toured in Europe and The US from 2008-2011. Rahel is a BMC practitioner and holds an MA in Body in Performance. She teaches for ID, GDA and is a guest lecturer for Somatic Practice at LCDS. She has taught many companies in London (DV8, Protein, Random and others) and abroad (Daniel Larrieu, Molteni and more) and at various festivals internationally. Rahel is Swiss/British, a mother of two and lives in London.

Seke Chimutengwende studied dance at Lewisham College and London Contemporary Dance School. Since 2004, Seke has performed internationally with Alias Cie, DV8 Physical Theatre, The Fabulous Beast, Lost Dog, Dog Kennel Hill Project, Laila Diallo, Punchdrunk, Zephyr in Zanussi, Rick Nodine, Karl Jay Lewin, Rannva Karodottir, Tino Sehgal, Ruby Worth, Jose Vidal and Vangelis Legakis. In 2011 he performed in the exhibition Pioneers of the Downtown Scene:New York the 1970’s at the Barbican Art Gallery in three early works by Trisha Brown and in a reinterpretation of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Open House. Seke has been practicing and performing his own solo improvisation work since 2006, performs ensemble improvisation with Neat Timothy and co-curates Stranger Than Fiction, a monthly platform for improvisation in performance in London. Seke teaches improvisation on a freelance basis at various institutions and dance companies internationally. Seke has recently been awarded a grant by the Arts Council of England to create and tour his new choreography “Mr Lawrence” in 2012.

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Agony Art | Sat 24 March @ 7.00pm | Chisenhale Dance Space

Agony Art — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:23:54 +0000

Name: Agony Art
Item price: event
Location: London

Description:
AUDIO + VISUAL = AUDIOVISUAL
an evening of works by
Claudia Robles Angel, Javier Alejandro Garavaglia and Simon Katan

tickets: £5 on the door & a donation bar!
AT
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
www.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk

Claudia Robles Angel

Audiovisual Poem #2 – (2012)
This is an improvised piece for live video and sound. The audio materials are based on the human voice and body sounds whilst the video parts consist of close‐up images of different surfaces. Depending on the type of concert or venue, there are moments when the sounds and images can be modified by the introduction of bio-data via a GSR interface (Galvanic Skin Response), which measures the performer’s skin moisture. The performance is mainly inspired by Sound Poetry.

Bewegung in Silber – (2002)
This A/V composition won the second prize at the competition Hoeren und Sehen 2003, organized by the ZKM in Karlsruhe and the Institute fuer Neue Musik in Darmstadt (both in Germany) and was inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s book Water and dreams.

Javier Alejandro Garavaglia

DJ (1): about Riffs and Noises – (2003)
The ambiguity of dealing with samples and the manner in which the audience may or not disguise the origin of these sounds, is something that can be considered between “DJing”, electronic improvisation and computer music. Computer generated and live-produced noise (the audience is welcomed to cough or do any kind of audible events during the performance) are also included in the conception of the compositional and transformation materials, in a way (I guess) Cage would have liked.

farb-laut E – VIOLET – (2008) for Viola and real-time electronics in 5.1 Surround spatialization.
The work explores a very close combination between sound and colour, where darkness and light play an important role. This piece was commissioned by the Internationales Klangkunstfest farb_laut (Berlin, October 17th to November 15th, 2008) and was premiered during that Festival.

Simon Katan

Cube with Magic Ribbons
My new audio-visual composition for live performance. The piece partly draws on the visual paradoxes of M.C.Escher but is also inspired by the impossible spaces found in the two dimensional graphics of early computer games such as Asteroids and Pacman. I created it using a custom visual sequencer, Sound Circuit, which I built in OpenFrameworks. The sound is from SuperCollider of course!

God Over Djinn
A computer visual and synthesised sound composition that draws on our intuitive understanding of the physical world, as well as playing with ambiguities between scale and perspective in two-dimensional representation to create seemingly infinitely nested worlds of colliding objects.

technical support by Ian Stickland
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The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks: A Timely New Book Announcement

philobiblos — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:40:24 +0000

Name: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher
Item price: News
Location: Scarsdale, NY

Description:
The recent vote against the denial of the Armenian Genocide held by the French Parliament, and the discussion to recognize the same event by the Israeli Knesset, brings to the fore the issue of the Turkish government’s adverse reaction, reflecting perhaps a deep-seated sense of culpability and apparent unwillingness to accept responsibility for the first genocide of the Twentieth Century, that of the Christians of the Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic.

On February 28, 2012 Aristide D. Caratzas is publishing “The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks,” a collective work by nineteen distinguished international scholars, which addresses one of the lesser known aspects of the extermination of the Ottoman Christians, namely that of the Greeks, and provides a number of approaches for the study of this event.

The period of transition from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the foundation of the Turkish Republic was characterized by a number of processes largely guided by a narrow elite that aimed to construct a modern, national state. One of these processes was the deliberate and planned elimination, indeed extermination, of the Christian (and certain other) minorities. The numbers are stark: most scholars agree that in 1912 there were about 4-5 million Christians in Asia Minor and Thrace (Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and others); by 1923 the Christians in the space that became the Turkish Republic were reduced to less than 300,000.

Raphael Lemkin, the legal scholar who introduced the term “genocide” into international law, formulated his early ideas on the definition of this war crime by studying the destruction of the Christians of Asia Minor, while the distinguished (recently deceased) Turcologist Neoklis Sarris has noted that the annihilation of the Christian minorities represented an integral element of the formation of the Turkish Republic.

As the editors of this volume note, the recent resolution by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) recognizing the Greek and Assyrian genocides (December 2007) reinforces the justification for the study in greater depth of the genocide of the Greek Christian population of Asia Minor and Thrace.

The last two decades have seen a massive amount of research of the genocide of the Armenian population in the Ottoman/Turkish space; our publishing house has produced a number of works, most notable of which was the eyewitness testimony of Leslie A. Davis, US Consul in Harput (The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat’s Report on the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917).

Much less scholarly work has been done on the genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor and Thrace; there are many reasons for this, including the fact that Turkish governments have been successful in intimidating diplomats in the context of Turkish-Greek relations of the last generation, and of subverting academic integrity by inducing some scholars (including Greeks) to make a career as denialists supported by international NGOs, in the name of countering “nationalism.”

The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks therefore represents an effort to provide an outline and approaches for more extensive study of the deliberate destruction and elimination of a Greek presence that spanned over three millennia in the space that became the Turkish Republic. It includes fifteen article contributions by scholars from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, and three appendices (“A Chronology of Major Events,” “A Glossary of Terms,” and “A Select Bibliography,” the last over forty pages).

The thematic approaches developed in The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks include: A group of eight studies under the section titled “Historical Overview, Documentation, Interpretation;” and two more in a section titled “Representations and Law,” one of which outlines Lemkin’s studies of the Christian genocide based on his personal archive. In addition there are sections titled “Genocide Education,” “Memorialization,” and “Conceptualization,” which include studies exploring, a) an outline syllabus for the teaching of the Greek genocide on the secondary level in the US (in Chicago), b) the erection of monuments in Greece commemorating the loss of life and homelands, c) the role of genocide in the creation of nationality, and d) a critical approach in the use of photographic evidence for the study of the genocide of the Christian peoples in what is now the space occupied by the Turkish Republic.

Publication Information:
Title: The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks
Studies on the State–Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor (1912-1922) and Its Aftermath: History, Law, Memory
Edited by Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjørnlund and Vasileios Meichanetsidis   
Publisher: Aristide D. Caratzas/Melissa International Ltd.

http://www.caratzas.com

Publication Date: February 28, 2012
Hardcover xii+508 pages, 37 photographs, maps (including a foldout)
ISBN 978-0-89241-615-8
Price: US$75.00  

Contents:
“Introduction” — Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjørnlund and Vasileios Meichanetsidis
“The Integrity and Courage to Recognize All the Victims of a Genocide” — Israel W. Charny

Historical Overview, Documentation, Interpretation
“Γενοκτονία εν Ροή, Cumulative Genocide: The Massacres and Deportations of the Greek Population of the Ottoman Empire (1912-1923)” — Tessa Hofmann
“The 1914 Persecutions of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire and the First Attempt at an Exchange of Minorities between Greece and Turkey” — John Mourelos
“Danish Sources on the Destruction of the Ottoman Greeks, 1914-1916” — Matthias Bjørnlund
“The Role of Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa (Special Organization) in the Genocide of 1915” — Racho Donef
“The Smyrna Holocaust: The Final Phase of the Greek Genocide” — Nikolaos Hlamides
“The Immediate Context of the Smyrna Catastrophe: The Peace Treaties and the Aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922” — Matthew Stewart
“The American Near East Relief and the Megale Katastrophe in 1922”— Harry J. Psomiades
“International Red Cross: A Mission to Nowhere” — Stavros T. Stavridis

Representations and Law
“Genocide of Others: Raphael Lemkin, the Genocide of the Greeks, the Holocaust, and the Present Moment” — Steven Leonard Jacobs
“The Ottoman Genocide of the Greeks and the Other Christian Minorities in Light of the Genocide Convention” — Alfred de Zayas

Genocide Education, Memorialization, Conceptualization
“Teaching the Greek Genocide” — Ronald Levitsky
“Remembering the Genocide and the ‘Unforgettable Homelands:’ The Erection of
Commemorative Monuments in Greece by the Refugees of Asia Minor — Michel Bruneau
and Kiriakos Papoulidis
“The Eastern Question: Genocide in Support of Nationality” — Akis Kalaitzidis and Donald Wallace
Achieving Ever-Greater Precision in Attestation and Attribution of Genocide Photographs —
Abraham Der Krikorian and Eugene Taylor

Appendices: Chronology of Major Events; Glossary of Terms; Select Bibliography

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Agony Art | Saturday 25 February 2012 @ 7.00pm

Agony Art — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:56:09 +0000

Name: Antigone Avdi
Item price: event invitation
Location: London

Description:
Agony Art
Saturday 25 February 2012 @ 7.00pm

I Am Not An Animal!!!
Inspired by the phrase “I Am not an Animal” featuring in the main scene of David Lynch’s
movie “The Elephant Man”, Tasos Stamou and Vicky Kyriakoulakou collaborated on
a allegoric fairy tale of sound and movement.

álos lutea
A “collage” of texts and conditions that ask the spectator to contemplate on the state of dearth
and thus, the dimensions of nature _ our nature;
directed & performed by Danae Loukaki.

tickets: £5 on the door & a donation bar!
AT
Chisenhale Dance Space  64-84 Chisenhale Road,  London  E3 5QZ

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GreekFoodShop.com – The Quality Greek Food Products Now Also Available Abroad

greekfoodshop — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:20:07 +0000

Name: GreekFoodShop.com
Item price: ANNOUNCEMENT
Location: ATHENS

Description:
GreekFoodShop.com is a new venture put together by Greek entrepreneurs, who despite the current wave of events wish to invest on the export of Greek food products.
GreekFoodShop aims to render quality Greek products accessible to consumers of other countries, all those who appreciate Greek cuisine and seek premium quality in every product.
The GreekFoodShop connoisseurs apply rigorous quality control methods in order to select the best products, which are send off right at the consumer’s doorstep, by just one click.
For more information about the GreekFoodShop products please visit www.greekfoodshop.com

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Book Launch: “Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love” by Agapi Stassinopoulos

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:54 +0000

Name: Association of Greek American Professional Women (A.G.A.P.W.)
Item price: Announcement
Location: New York NY

Description:
The Association of Greek American Professional Women is pleased to invite you to the book launch of author and motivational speaker, Agapi Stassinopoulos.
Agapi, whose life and work exemplify love (Agapi means love in Greek), will discuss her new book, “Unbinding the Heart A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love.” (For further information about Agapi and her new book, please visit www.unbindingtheheart.com.)
A reception with Vasilopita, wine and meze will follow the discussion.
When: February 8th 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Where: Greek Press & Communication Office 305 East 47th Street, 2nd Floor, New York 10017
RSVP is required as space is limited. Donation: $30 (the $30 donation includes a copy of the book as a gift). Please RSVP at http://agapw.org/site/events
For further information, please contact Dr. Alexakos at oalexakos@nyc.rr.com / 917-405-6833.
Please join us in sharing ancient Greek wisdom and generosity in a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration of love and friendship with Agapi!

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GREECE’S YIANNIS NATHANAIL RECEIVES INVITATION FOR THE MOOMBA MASTERS

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:02:03 +0000

Name: admin
Item price: news
Location: athens,greece

Description:
The Victorian Water Ski Association, organizer of the Moomba Masters International Invitational Championships, conducted as part of the Moomba Water Festival on the Yarra River in Melbourne, from 7th to the 12th of March 2012, has honored the 2011 Greek National Junior and Open Slalom Champion, Yiannis Nathanail, with an invitation to participate in the tournament. Yiannis Nathanail, 17, from Athens, also the 2010 bronze Jr. European Champion, is the first Greek male water skier to receive such an invitation. Presence of the Greek team in the event is of great and symbolic importance, as the city of Melbourne is the third largest Greek city outside Europe, and Yarra River has been an inspiration for one of the most prominent Modern Greek poets. However, due to the Greek economic crisis and luck of funds, his participation is currently uncertain. For support, please contact: vanatha@otenet.gr

STORY: http://water-skier.blogspot.com/2012/01/greeces-yiannis-nathanail-receives.html

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Greek Orthodox priest assassinated while giving medical aid, and 1500 years monastery attacked in Syria

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:50:25 +0000

Name: Hlias Ghassan Karaan
Item price: news, syria, greek, orthodox, monastery, terror
Location: Lebanon

Description:
On January 25, 2012, the Greek Orthodox Hieromonk Basilios Nassar was shot by an armed terrorist group in Hama, Syria on the second day of heavy fighting there.

Fr. Basilios, was at the Metropolis when he was informed by a phone call that a parishioner of his was shot and needed assistance. The Patriarchate of Antioch has reported that the 30-year-old priest was shot while giving medical aid to the wounded man who was previously shot.
Fr. Basilios was shot in the chest and in the right armpit by a Islamist rebel snipers. Immediately another priest, Fr. Panteleimon Isa, who was with him dragged his bloody body to a nearby building to save him, but the martyr for Christ Father Basilios was dead within 30 minutes from hemorrhaging.

His funeral took place on January 26, in the Church of Saint George in Hama. The blessed Father Basilios, was born in 1982 in the village of Kfarmpo in Hama and was a graduate of the Theological School of Balamand. He was also a teacher of Byzantine Music in the school Saint Kosmas the Melodist which he founded in the Metropolis.

On January 29, two RPG missiles targeted the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saydnaya, Damascus. The terrorist attack damaged part of the northern wall of the monastery and the heating room. The Monastery was built by Emperor Justinian I in 547 A.D. and is the second most important Greek Orthodox pilgrimage in the Middle East after Jerusalem, in terms of the number of visitors. It’s importance and popularity is due to the numerous and unlimited miracles which occur upon the intercession of the Theotokos. Saydnaya also contains an icon of The Virgin Mary and the child Jesus painted by St. Luke the Evangelist in the 1st century A.D.

The murder of Father Basilios in Hama and the attack on the Saydnaya monastery, are a sign that the Christians of Syria, mostly Greek Orthodox, are now in the forefront, crushed in a civil war between the Sunni majority, 80% of Syrians, and the Alawites loyal to Assad.
The armed Sunni opposition, is made up of deserters from the Army, and other Islamist Terrorists, namely from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Sunni countries. It is also likely that there are some groups that are inspired by Al Qaeda.
The most disturbing aspect that emerges from these terrorist events is that the armed opposition is hand and glove with fundamentalist ideology, if not the Salafists. During some protests in the streets of Syria, many protesters even used the slogan: “Assad to the tomb, Christians to Beirut”.

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2012 Greek Festival in Cherrybrook

Alexia — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:31:42 +0000

Name: Alexia Charalambous
Item price: community, News, Announcement
Location: Cherrybrook

Description:
The parish of St Therapon, a Greek Orthodox Church based in Thornleigh, is pleased to announce the hosting of its Second Annual Greek Festival on Sunday 12th February 2012. The Festival is being held at Cherrybrook’s Greenway Park between 11am and 7pm.

This follows the huge success of last year’s festival were we had between 800 – 1200 people of all ages and ethnic origins show up to express their inner Greek!

As with last year, we strive to share our Hellenic culture and build stronger community ties with our local neighbours and friends. We also wish to reveal and reconnected the animated and lively Greek community that already exists in the North and North-Western suburbs of Sydney.

The festival will have a range of attractions to suit a great range of people, just like last year. Once again we will have a great LIVE Greek band, playing a number of hits (including the famous Zorba) and a great Greek dance teacher to get you up and dancing with the best of them.

This year we will also be showcasing a number of individuals who have entered our Talent Show as well as the local High School band from Cherrybrook Technology that will be playing at the main stage.

In addition to the copious amount of musical and dance acts, we also have a multitude of cultural displays and interactive stage shows for the kids about Greek myths and stories. Of course if this doesn’t suit, then let’s not forget the numerous children’s activities we have on offer. Including (but not limited to!) face painting; sand art; plaster painting; beaded butterfly store; showbags and of course the CARNIVAL rides!

It’s also a well known fact that Greeks love to eat, and most importantly, they love their food! Well this year we have outdone themselves with over 8 stalls set up all serving a range of dishes and desserts to tantalise any taste bud! The food will be available, reasonably priced, for families to both eat there as well as take away. So bring a blanket and have a picnic on the grass with us!

Entry is free and all are welcome, so why not try your hand at some Tavli, join in on the Greek dancing, enjoy some loukoumades or why not even have a turn on the carnival rides?

Come join us for the day and reveal your inner Greek.

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