2. Exhibition (photographic): “The Greeks of Tashkent” (Sat, 3 May 2025 – Fri, 30 May 2025 (11:00 am – 3:00 pm)

Cowandilla Community Room, 173 Sir Donald Bradman Dr, Cowandilla SA 5033

Rare photos from the archive of the Greek Cultural Centre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Presented by the Organisation of Hellene and Hellene-Cypriot Women of Australia (SA) Inc. – OEEGA and supported by the Greek Museum of Adeaide Inc and Festival Hellenika

At the end of the Greek Civil War (1946-9) 12,000 political refugees were secretly evacuated from Albania to the USSR and resettled in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Stalin orchestrated the move where the combatants were resettled in former POW camps, and many were not alowed to return to Greece untill an amnesty in 1982.

Featuring special guest speaker, renowned award winning journalist Helen Vatsikopoulos.

Free entrance.

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4. Lecture: “The Timeless Homeric Odyssey”
Sat, 7 June 2025 (3:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

Cowandilla Community Room, 173 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Cowandilla SA 5033

A Greek Museum and a Festival Hellenika event presented by Chrysoula Melissinaki, Mphil (Master in Philosophy , University of Crete)
The Odyssey has, for centuries, inspired scientists, philosophers, poets, historians. Countless writers and intellectuals have drawn from the work of Homer-Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes. In every historical period the effect of the “ODYSSEY” is always present.

The “ODYSSEY” has won the admiration of mankind for centuries and has maintained its position as a masterpiece of rhyme. Is the “ODYSSEY” a classic and “timeless poem”? Why is this “Epic Poem” considered as “Timeless”? What humanitarian values support this view? What is the value of studying Homer’s “ODYSSEY”, even in the modern world?

Free entrance.

6. Annual General Meeting (at the end of 2025)

Free entrance.

Adittional details and information will be provided in the future.