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 The Hellenic
Society Prometheas
Newsletter
19
March 2003
Mark your calendars:
The
Return to Origins program
The annual performance will take place on Saturday, March 8, 2003, at the
Performing Arts Center, Montgomery College, Rockville Campus. For tickets get in
touch with Irene Konstantopoulos at: gtkmtk@aol.com;
her phone number is: 301-983-0055
Hellenic Independence Day Celebration in the Washington Metropolitan
Area.
Organized by the Hellenic Society Prometheas and
cosponsored by all the Hellenic Organizations and church communities. Sunday,
March 23, 4:30 PM at the new Community Center of St. Katherine Greek
Orthodox Church in Falls Church Virginia. The keynote speaker will be the
distinguished novelist and short story writer Mr. Harry Mark Petrakis. For
the complete program, please click here: http://www.prometheas.org/current.htm
Haralambos
Garganourakis, Saturday, March 22, 2003 at the University of Maryland
The Cretan Music Concert with Haralambos Garganourakis
on Saturday, March 22, 2003
at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland at College
Park.
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREEK HERITAGE
Invites you to
participate in a Lecture and Discussion on
“Greece's
Important Role and Influence in the Cultural, Political and Economic Life of the
Balkans in the Past and Present”
By Professor A.
Gerolymatos, Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia,
Canada
Thursday, March 6,
2003 7:00 p.m. at The Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.
By Reservation
Only; Please email SPGH at classic.heritage@erols.com or call (202) 363-4337 by
March 3, 2003
The Library of Congress and the Foundation of Hellenic Culture present the
Life and Work of Cavafy, March 14th
The Library of Congress and the Foundation of Hellenic
Culture invite you to a lecture and reception on the Life and Work of Cavafy,
Greece’ 20th Century Global Poet on
Dino Siotis, author, poet and book critic, will present an
evening celebrating the life and work of Greece’s foremost modern poet, C.P.
Cavafy, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the poet’s death
in 1933. The presentation will include reading of Cavafy’s poems in Greek and
English by Ioanna Gavakou and Robert McNamara.
Friday March 14th, 6:30 – 9:00 PM at the
Mumford Room, James Madison Memorial Building, The Library of Congress, 101
Independence Ave SE; RSVP by March 5, FHC: 212-308-6908; or Greek Embassy:
202-332-2727
28th Anniversary Hellenic Heritage Achievement & National Public Service
Awards Dinner
Saturday, March 15, 2003
The Capital Hilton • Washington, DC
Link to http://www.ahiworld.org/dinner.html
for a downloadable version of the invitation (Adobe Acrobat format), or contact
AHI at (202) 785-8430 or maria@ahiworld.org to request that a hard copy of the
invitation be mailed to you.
The Marbles─Elgin or Parthenon? Live…from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and The Embassy of
Greece, Press Office; March 13, 2003 • 7:30 p.m.
A Case for the Restitution of Cultural Property
National Geographic Society, Gilbert H. Grosvenor Auditorium, 1600 M St. NW
In an illustrated presentation distinguished British film
and television
producer William Stewart will examine the controversy surrounding the famed
marble sculptures removed from the Parthenon in Athens by the 19th-century
British diplomat Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, at a time when Greece
was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
Mr. Stewart will discuss how the “Marbles” were removed
in 1801 from the
monument that symbolizes Athenian democracy and Greek cultural identity.
He will also review the British Government’s arguments for continuing to
hold the Marbles in Britain, as well as the international campaign for
their return.
Long known in Britain as the “Elgin Marbles,” and still housed at the
British Museum in London, the Marbles are the subject of an international
campaign to return them to Greece, which proposes to reunify these
sculptures in their historical setting. Under Greece’s plan, the Marbles
would be displayed in the new Acropolis Museum that is being built in time
for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Mr. Stewart’s presentation will be
followed by a discussion of the Parthenon Marbles and the larger questions
of cultural ownership and the restitution of cultural property.
A fellow of the Royal Television Society, and a Member of its Hall of Fame,
Mr. Stewart produced and presented a documentary on the Parthenon Marbles
controversy on Channel Four in 1996. Since 1998 he has lectured on the
issue of the Marbles at the European
Parliament in Strasburg, at UNESCO in Paris, in Athens,
Washington, and New York. His visit to Washington is part of a
seven-city tour of the United States and Canada.
Tickets: National Geographic Members $8; Nonmembers: $10
Other Upcoming
Events:
·
“The Story of the
Greek-Egyptians” Saturday, April 12th, 2003 and “The
Library of Alexandria”, Tuesday, April, 15, 2003. Organized by Prometheas with Mr. Euthimios Soulogiannis, the
historian of the Greek-Egyptians, invited from Athens Greece specifically for
these lectures. Both events will be at St.George Founders Hall. Detailed
announcement will be issued shortly.
·
The Concert at the Kennedy Center by the Experimental Choir of
Athens and The Pro Arte Chamber Ensemble with Dimitri Papapostolou as its
Director on Saturday, May 3, 2003
Other News of Interest
Πρόγραμμα
Φιλοξενίας
Ελληνοπαίδων
της Διασποράς
στις
Κατασκηνώσεις
της
ΓΓΑΕ
Το Συμβούλιο
Απόδημου
Ελληνισμού (ΣΑΕ),
Περιφέρεια Β. &
Ν. Αμερικής,
ανακοινώνει το
Πρόγραμμα
Φιλοξενίας
Ελληνοπαίδων
της Διασποράς
στις
Κατασκηνώσεις
της Γενικής
Γραμματείας
Απόδημου
Ελληνισμού (ΓΓΑΕ)
κατά
τον Ιούλιο και
Αύγουστο του 2003.
Το πρόγραμμα
στοχεύει στην
διατήρηση και
τόνωση των
δεσμών των
παιδιών
με την πατρίδα
των προγόνων
τους και την
διαφύλαξη και
ενίσχυση της
εθνικής και
πολιτιστικής
τους
κληρονομιάς.
Στο πρόγραμμα
μπορούν να
συμμετάσχουν
παιδιά
Ελληνικής
καταγωγής,
ηλικίας 9 έως 13
ετών. Τα έξοδα
μεταφοράς,
διαμονής και
διατροφής
καλύπτονται
από την ΓΓΑΕ.
Για
περισσότερες
πληροφορίες,
όπως επίσης και
για την παροχή
αιτήσεων
επικοινωνήστε
με τις Τοπικές
Διπλωματικές
και Προξενικές
Αρχές ή με τους
Συντονιστές
Εκπαίδευσης
της περιοχής
σας.
Τελευταία
ημέρα υποβολής
των αιτήσεων
ορίζεται η 21η
Μαρτίου 2003.
Contact Info:
web: http://saeamerica.org; email: hellenes@saeamerica.org; tel: 312-357-6424
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