Events

The Weird Wave of Greek Cinema:   a Movement or a Moment?  Public Lecture by Dr Marios Psaras Thursday 16 September, 7PM The Hellenic Centre In this talk, Dr Psaras revisits landmark films that constitute the main corpus of the so-called “Greek Weird Wave”, such as Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011), Panos Koutras’s Strella (2009) and Athina-Rachel Tsangaris’s Attenberg (2010), reflecting on a reading of the “weird” as “queer” and identifying the thematic and formal disenchantment with traditional heteropatriarchal…

ON ARRIVING by Ivan Faute    22 – 23 September | 7pm  CYPRUS HOUSE BOOK HERE "How do you decide where to go when you leave home forever? You just decide. And then that is your goal. It's different from this place, you hope. Safer, you hope. You hope."  The Cyprus High Commission presents On…

QUEENS OF AMATHUS  by Panikos Panayiotou  Saturday 9 October | 7pm King’s College London BOOK HERE The Cyprus High Commission and the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London invite you to a screening of “Queens of Amathus”, an award-winning documentary about the women of Cyprus and their journey to Birmingham in the aftermath of the 1974 Turkish invasion of…

Regular socials promoting fellowship, networking, culture, and gastronomy About this event A series of Sunday socials bringing together young adults (Ages: 25-40). Hosted at various modern venues in premium locations, where over a bottomless buffet of fine cuisine, flowing wine and soft drinks (included in the ticket cost) and music, guests can meet one another,…

NEPOMAK.uk - Connecting Young Cypriots presents: Halloween @ The Elysée Bar (upstairs), in Central London with Greek and English hits by DeeJay Rezii Standard Entry: £10.00 + Booking Fee *please select the name of your society/organisation when booking your ticket* Participating societies: East London Hellenic Cypriot Society KCL Hellenic Society

ὕδωρ • (húdōr) photography exhibition by Marina Antoniou 11 NOVEMBER, 6:30pm | CYPRUS HOUSE BOOK HERE Marina Antoniou captures water ('ydor') in different forms. She photographs icebergs in Antarctica and Greenland, lakes in Galapagos, the crystal waters of the Mediterranean sea in Venice, Greece and Cyprus and lava beaches in Iceland. She presents aerial photos of the Amazon rainforest and…

On the appalling anniversary of the illegal 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence' we are protesting outside the Turkish Embassy to call on Turkey to end its occupation of 37% of Cyprus. We are calling for a free, united Cyprus for the benefit of ALL Cypriots.

Dimitris Soukaras’ New Album Launch Concert & Presentation  20 NOVEMBER, 6:30pm | THE HELLENIC CENTRE  ROOTS was created and recorded in both London and Athens during the COVID-19 pandemic and was Soukaras’ way of exploring and expanding his artistic horizons during this challenging period. The Audentia Ensemble, the Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean (described by the Guardian as an “irresistible sense of…

A 3 Choir Christmas Concert by The Cathedral Choir, Archdiocesan School of Byzantine Music Choir, and the London Community Gospel Choir About this event “A Concert of Christmas Joy” December 2, 2021, 19:00-20:45 Generously Sponsored by the Christos Lazari Foundation & Graciously hosted by the Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom (W2 4LQ) 3 Choirs: The…

TO THIS DAY, over 900 Cypriots remain missing since 1963-1974, leaving many families without answers as to their fate. As we approach Christmas, we will be paying respect to those relatives who have not been able to share the festive season with the loved ones they lost. In remembrance of the Missing Persons of Cyprus,…