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A digest of events in Greece and the diaspora
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Montreal community celebrates 100 years of education
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Education 2010
Odyssey’s annual directory of Greek studies programs and courses in Greek language and culture available in Greece. -
The Greeks of Cleveland
Who was the first Greek to settle in Cleveland might remain an open question for the community’s historians, but what is an established fact is that since the late 1800s, when the first Greeks settled there, the community has grown and thrived. Its history is documented in a 350-page book published by the Hellenic Preservation Society of Northeastern Ohio.
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‘I believe that art is a way of metamorphosing the world’
Venia Dimitrakopoulou studied sculpture with Theodore Papagiannis at the Athens School of Fine Arts and her work is in public and private collections, as well as public spaces such as Athens airport and squares in Lavrion and Piraeus. She recently exhibited her series of stone heads carved from the volcanic rock of Aegina, the island where she lives and works, at the Athens Hilton. -
Talk ain’t cheap
Cell phone carriers reported sharp increases in the number of text messages sent over their networks during Christmas and New Year’s over last year, with Greeks sending an average 34 SMSs per person for a total of 415 million text messages–about 30 per cent more than last year. Cosmote said its subscribers sent 55 per cent more text messages between December 24 and January 1, while Vodafone and Wind Hellas reported 20 and 15 per cent increases, respectively, in SMS traffic during the holidays. According to Cosmote data published in the Greek media, its subscribers alone sent 26 million text messages on Christmas and roughly 37 million on New Year’s. The figures prompted a debate among sociologists about whether Greeks were becoming more social or less by sending less personal group text messages. -
A special sojourn on Chios
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In Keeping with Tradition
Henry James once observed that “it takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” Greece, with a history that spans millennia, is rich in traditions, some shared by all Greeks everywhere and others linked to a region or a place. Customs and cuisine are one expression of tradition; architecture is another for it’s directly linked to the local environment and lifestyle. While the trend towards urbanization and technology has changed Greek life, tradition is deeply rooted in common myths and memories. And these are perfectly displayed in a number of villages and settlements throughout Greece that have preserved their traditional architecture.
