Please join the Hellenic Studies Program of Holy Transfiguration for their annual Greek Independence celebration. A luncheon will be served and the Honorable Consul of Cyprus, Polyxeni Potter will give the keynote address. Please see the attached flyer for details.
Dimitri Vassilakis – Saxophonist, Vocalist, Composer & Educator will be in Atlanta for an evening performance on Sunday, March 27th, at 8 pm – at the Churchill Grounds Jazz Club.
Click here for more information on Dimitri – and follow this link to purchase his music. We hope you can join us for this special performance!
Please join us for our next Book Club gathering at the home of Barbara and Christos Kiriazis – where we will discuss “Little Infamies” by Panos Karnezis. The discussion will be moderated by Eleni Clement.
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) is pleased to host SYNAGONISTIS: GREEK JEWS IN THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE, an exhibition about Greek Jews who escaped Nazi forces and joined Greece’s resistance movements during the Holocaust. The exhibition is on display at the MJCCA’s Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery through May 15, 2016.
SYNAGONISTIS is a traveling exhibition presented under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Greek Secretariat General for Communication. It is made possible through the support of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum in Athens, the Greek Embassy in Washington, the Greek Consulate in Atlanta, the Atlanta Regional Office of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the MJCCA’s Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery.
Compiled by the Jewish Museum of Greece, SYNAGONISTIS is the product of five years of research into the personal stories of men and women of various Jewish communities around Greece who took up arms and headed to the mountains to join the armed Resistance in the country. Photographs, documents, letters, proclamations, underground newspapers, and other relevant materials are presented for the first time. “Synagonistis” is the Greek word for “fellow fighter” and it’s exactly this notion that the exhibition is highlighting: Greek Jews fought side by side with Greek Christians against the same enemy, in defense of the same country. Therefore, it is our duty to save them from oblivion and this is the goal of this exhibition. “It is also a voice against anti-Semitism and racism,” said Press Counselor Christos Failadis, exhibition manager on the part of the Greek Embassy in Washington, D.C
The Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery is located at the MJCCA at Zaban Park, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Gallery hours: Monday–Thursday, 6 a.m.–10 p.m.; Friday, 6 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–6 p.m.; and Sunday, 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Admission is free, and the community is welcome. To organize a group visit contact Kim Goodfriend, Gallery Manager, at 678.812.4071.
Consulate of Greece
Tower Place 100, Suite 1670
3340 Peachtree Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
Tel: 404 261 3313
Fax: 404 262 2798
Email: grcon.atl@mfa.gr
www.mfa.gr/usa/en/consulate-in-atlanta
Lykion ton Ellinidon Atlanta Chapter and Samaria Foundation:
Save The Date: ‘Zorba the Greek’ in Atlanta.
Sunday, April 17, at 2:30 pm
Location: Emory University’s White Hall (301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta)
Regional premiere of the newly-restored version of the movie introduced
by Mrs. Katherine Quinn. This will be a one- time only screening.
Tickets will become available for sale on line at www.samariaga.com
and at Carlos Hall.
$10 general admission
$5 students
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture by Dr. James Dennis Lo Russo. Dennis received his MA in Religious Studies at Georgia State University, his PhD at Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion, where he completed his dissertation under the direction of Gary Laderman; he is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion. His work engages the subtle interplay between the shifting economic and spiritual landscape in the United States today.
The lecture will be held on Monday, April 25, at 4:00pm in Room 830 at 25 Park Place on the GSU campus. It is entitled “Demystifying Austerity: On the Moral Language of Crisis in a Time of Capital.” In this lecture, Dr. Lo Russo will expand his insights to examine related trends in a European context.
A greeting and reception will begin at 3:30pm, and we expect that our conversation will continue after the event concludes.
At noon on the following day, Tuesday April 26, Dr. Lo Russo will be at Emory University in the Religion Department Lounge, hosting an informal discussion about the field and its economic prospects; all interested students are warmly invited to attend both events.
This event has been generously co-sponsored by the Department of Religion at Emory University and the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University.
HAS PASCHA CELEBRATION 2016
We cordially invite everyone to come and join us for an authentic Pascha celebration with lambs on the spit, music, dance and fun for all ages! This year we will again celebrate Pascha at the wonderful grounds of the Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Marietta.
Host: Hellenic Academic Society
Location: Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church, 3431 Trickum Rd, Marietta, GA 30066
Directions: http://www.holytransfiguration.info/directions/
When: Sunday, May 1st, 2016 at 2:00pm
Cost: Members of HAS: $20; Non-Members: $30; Students/children above 6: $15; Children under 6 are Free
Menu: All beverages including Beer and Wine; Lamb, Souvlakia, Roasted Potatoes, Salad, Green Beans; Dyed Eggs, Spanakopites, Tyropites, Mezedes, Tsourekia and Desserts!
Reservations: R.S.V.P. by Wednesday, April 20th to: georgenakos@clayton.edu
We need an accurate counting of people that plan to attend. If you do not RSVP by April 20th, the cost will be higher (30$ for members, $40 for non-members) and we cannot guarantee that last-minute show up can be served.
Volunteer: To volunteer your help, please contact me at georgenakos@clayton.edu Volunteers are important to us!
The HAS Board
President: George Nakos
Vice President: Evangelos Theodorou
Vice President for Activities: Theofilos Moysiadis
Treasurer: Mina Giannakakos
Secretary: Panagiotis Kintis
Join us for our May gathering of the Book Club, where we will be discussing “Swell” by Ioanna Karystiani. The location and Moderator at TBD.
