Celebrate the New Year: Greek-American Community Going On!

Between January and February in the course of the Hollywood Greek Festival The Hollywood Greek Festival will be held by St. George Greek Orthodox Church located at N. th Avenue, Hollywood. Participants can get pleasure from an array of traditional Greek meals and desserts and be entertained with stay music and dancing. Also, stay performances from the community’s award-winning dance group are scheduled. The once-a 12 months event presents the chance to take classes in dance , as well as take residence the leading prize in a raffle. It is also a chance to create lasting thoughts with your kids in at the fun Zone. This festival is the only the place you can find orzo daiquiris an unique invention

. PhiloThought invites you for the Annual Young Professionals Vasilopita Brunch. This event for charity is held at Skinos in Lower Manhattan on Saturday, Jan. 2. The event takes place correct in front the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church as well as the National Shrine celebrates the new 12 months. All profits will be donated to PhiloThought to fund its packages as well as yearly awarding scholarships to scholars who are financially deprived. You should register by the end of January in order to receive a discount on fees for registration. For extra details, visit: https://bitly/GIs. PhiloThought will also be inviting you to attend the Newport Winter Glendi Greek Dance in Middletown (Rhode Island)

. UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation invites attendees to come out on the 1st of January at 5 PM in MacGowan Hall, Los Angeles, for A Winter Glendi. This event is a stay event with dance performances by The Norwalk Pontian Society and accompanying music from FotiaLive. featuring Iosif Tsentekidis, Nikos Spaniotis, Nikos Savvas, Voula Berdos, and Tony Pentikis as well as Pontiaka with Vaggelis Pesiridis and Michael Pesiridis. Tickets are $ for adults with a little one age below

. “Polymnia” is the first world-premiere of “Polymnia” the experimental chamber opera, is a pleasure. It tells the story of a girl who overcomes trauma and struggle with force and then reflects on the effect that her story has had on generations of people. The second construction of the construction will take place on Sunday January 2nd, at 5:00 PM. It will characteristic Sappho’s poetry and Kassiane’s songs as well as four generations of household paperwork or oral history and private pictures that tell the story of Polymnia Theodosia’s great-grandmother Polymnia Pappas. It is the story of a young girl who’s residence was destroyed

. Through the auspices and steerage below the consular general of Greece inside Los Angeles and made possible with the help of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNFand the National Endowment for the Arts the event will characteristic Roussos the musical score that was inspired to her Greek Cypriot American background and elements from Byzantine as well as Greek traditional music. Presented in both Greek and English and, Polymnia is the private as well as political experience of diaspora , an expression of what’s left behind, preserved, and can not be ignored in light of the Asia Minor Katastrophe. Plain Wood Productions supplied this production

. The public is welcome to attend the annual Vasilopita slicing held by the Pan-Rhodian Society of America Apollon in New York. This will take place following the Divine Liturgy as well as Artoklasia in the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Orthodox Monastery in the diocese of St. Irene Chrysovalantou on Road Avenue Astoria. The service is anticipated to take place from the morning till round 9:30 AM. For extra info please contact us via e mail at panrhodiansocietyny@gmailcom

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To sum up, Polymnia – with its score of music that is influenced from Greek Cypriot American custom and the influence of Byzantine as well as Greek folks music – is a fascinating reminder of the legacy of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and its effect on the world of at this time. Thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Consulate General for Greece of Greece in Los Angeles, this moving construction is possible to present to audiences across the globe. Polymnia, a beautiful fusion of words, music and narrative, is an inspirational reminder of the diaspora’s loss can not be really forgotten

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