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Newsletter 26

November 2003

 

Prometheas’ Elections took place on October 17

Prometheas’ elections were held on October 17th to elect President and Board for the next two years.  Lefteris Karmiris was elected President.  Board members were elected the following: Alexandros Alexandrou, Frederica Darema, Costas Doultsinos, Basil Economopoulos, Despina Fourniades, Barbara Kakaes, Anastasia Lekkas, Christos Loukaitis, Stratos Tavoulareas, Fanis Tsipsis, Dimitris Vassiliadis, Dimitris Vittas and Vicky Wilken.  The minutes of the election can be accessed at http://www.prometheas.org/events/elections10-17-2003.pdf .

 

The Team of Friends was also started with initial members: Julia Clones, Konstantine Georgiades and John Michopoulos.  The membership of this Team is expected to expand.

 

Mark Your Calendar

 

Evening of Greek and LatinAmerican Poetry, Nov 23, 6:30 pm at St. George

 

Prometheas presents a program of Greek and LatinAmerican poetry in the Founders Hall of St. George Church, Sunday, November 23, 2003 (starting 6:30 pm). Professor Pedro Lastra and poet Rigas Kapatos will read poems and discuss their joint book, “The influence of Greece in the Latin American poetry”, which was just released in Greece and is about to be released in Chile.  The announcement can be accessed at http://www.prometheas.org/events/LatinAmerGreekPoetryEvent_November_23_03.pdf

 

ΚΟΙΝΗ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΙΝΟ-ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗ ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΗ

 

Μέσα στα πλαίσια εκδηλώσεων του Συλλόγου μας ο Πολιτιστικός Σύλλογος Προμηθέας θα παρουσιάσει σε μιά κοινή Ελληνική και Λατινο-Αμερικανική εκδήλωση τούς ποιητές και πεζογράφους Pedro Lastra και Ρήγα Καππάτο σε μιά δίγλωσση ανάγνωση ποιητικών κειμένων.

 

Θα διαβάσουν από το τελευταίο βιβλίο τους Η Παρουσία της Ελλάδος στην Ποίηση της Λατινικής Αμερικής που μόλις κυκλοφόρησε στα ελληνικά στην Αθήνα και τυπώνεται τώρα στα Ισπανικά στο Santiago της Χιλής από την Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της χώρας. Σύντομα θα κυκλοφορήσει σε όλες τις Ισπανόφωνες χώρες. Σ’αυτό το βιβλίο τεκμηριώνεται και παρουσιάζεται η επίδρασις της Ελλάδος στις χώρες της Λατινικής Αμερικής από την εποχή της Ισπανικής κατάκτησης μέχρι σήμερα όπως καταφαίνεται και στο έργο εκατόν επτά (107) Λατινο-Αμερικανών ποιητών.

 

10th Annual YAL Greek Dance Weekend in DC, Nov 7-11

The 10th Annual YAL Greek Dance Weekend will take place at the Marriott Hotel, Metro Center, Washington DC, Nov 7-11, 2003.  For more information, call Andrea Liacouras at 301-869-8266 or yalpresident@stgeorge.org

 

 

 

Greek Film: “LOSER TAKES ALL” [O Hamenos ta Pairnei Ola]

 

Kennedy Center:  Friday, November 7, 8:15 p.m. and Sunday, November 9, 6:00 p.m.

 

AFI Silver Theatre:  Friday, October 31, 8:45 p.m. and Sunday, November 2, 3:00 p.m.

 

Thrown out by his wife, with only his canary Belafonte to keep him company, Yannis Aggelakas staggers off to the home of an old girlfriend with beer, cigarettes, pills and cops on his back – and then things get complicated.  Hurtling through seedy bars, strip joints, manhunts and murders. Aggelakas starts to amass an entourage of outsiders-who-love-losers, including a 19-year old kid, and characters named Elsa, Miss Raspberry and Black Beauty, then takes off for an island off the coast of Peru. 

 

Raucous, bawdy adventure, highlighted by an uncharacteristically moody and mysterious score by the star of Greece’s top rock band Trypes (the Holes).

 

Directed/written by Nikos Nikolaidis, 2002, color, 121 minutes, Greek with English subtitles. 

 

Tickets:  http://www.afi.com/silver/Theatre/

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301.495.6720

The American Film Institute
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, D.C. 20566
202.833.AFIT (2348)
fax 202.659.1970

 

Speech on Elgin Marbles by Mr. Dennis Menos, Nov 22 at St. George

 

Mr. Denis Menos will be the speaker on the Elgin Marbles at St. George, Bethesda, MD on November 22, 7:30 pm (Founders Hall).  Mr. Menos has written the historical novel “Conversations with a Caryatid” and is striving for the return of the marbles to Greece.  Although his book is a novel, it is meticulously researched as it unfolds in pages of Greek history, starting in 447 B.C., when work of the Parthenon began, to the time when the Caryatid is brought to London in 1802.

 

Noteworthy Books

 

·        Just published: Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology: Comprising 3,673 Named Figures of Greek Mythology All Related to Each Other Within A Single Family of 20 Generations, published by the University of North Carolina Press ($75)

 

·        About to be published: Ask Me Again Tomorrow, A Life in Progress by Olympia Dukakis (publisher: Harper Collins; $25.95)

 

·        Just published: Facing Athens: the Facades of a Capital City, a book of photographs with Athens most interesting architectural creations by Vassilis Makris (Potamos, 2003)

 

·        Under the Sun: Design for Greek Living by Vassilis Makris (Potamos, 2002)

 

·        Modern Greek Writing published by Peter Owen Publishers (April 2003) with support from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.  It is an excellent compilation of samples of work (many of them for the first time in English) from 50 Greek writers from the 19th century to present.