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

Between January and February during 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 enjoy an array of traditional Greek meals and desserts and be entertained with live music and dancing. Also, live performances from the community’s award-winning dance team are scheduled. The once-a year occasion offers the likelihood to take lessons in dance , as good as take home the prime prize in a raffle. It is also a likelihood to create lasting thoughts with your children in at the fun Zone. This festival is the solely where you can discover orzo daiquiris an unique invention

. PhiloThought invites you for the Annual Young Professionals Vasilopita Brunch. This occasion for charity is held at Skinos in Lower Manhattan on Saturday, Jan. 2. The occasion takes place right in entrance the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church as good as the National Shrine celebrates the new year. All earnings will be donated to PhiloThought to fund its packages as good as yearly awarding scholarships to pupils who are financially disadvantaged. You must register by the end of January in order to receive a discount on charges 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 occasion is a live occasion 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 good 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 battle with strength and then reflects on the impression that her story has had on generations of folks. The second creation of the creation will take place on Sunday January 2nd, at 5:00 PM. It will characteristic Sappho’s poetry and Kassiane’s songs as good as 4 generations of household documents or oral heritage and individual pictures that inform the story of Polymnia Theodosia’s great-grandmother Polymnia Pappas. It is the story of a young woman who’s home was destroyed

. Through the auspices and steering below the consular common of Greece inside Los Angeles and made attainable with the aid of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNFand the National Endowment for the Arts the occasion will characteristic Roussos the musical score that was influenced to her Greek Cypriot American background and parts from Byzantine as good as Greek traditional music. Presented in the two Greek and English and, Polymnia is the individual as good as political expertise of diaspora , an expression of what’s left behind, preserved, and can not be ignored in mild of the Asia Minor Katastrophe. Plain Wood Productions supplied this production

. The public is welcome to attend the annual Vasilopita cutting held by the Pan-Rhodian Society of America Apollon in New York. This will take place following the Divine Liturgy as good 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 around 9:30 AM. For extra details please contact us through 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 affect of Byzantine as good as Greek folks music – is a charming reminder of the legacy of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and its impression on the world of at the moment. Thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Consulate General for Greece of Greece in Los Angeles, this moving creation is attainable to present to audiences throughout the globe. Polymnia, a lovely fusion of words, music and narrative, is an inspirational reminder of the diaspora’s loss can not be truly forgotten

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