We did not commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution as we had planned; we lived it.
1821 ANNIVERSARY
Being Greek is far from being just one thing. It means that you learn to adapt, to overcome, to fight and to survive, no matter what the context.
The bicentennial of the start of the Greek War of Independence has yielded a rich harvest of books in English that shed new light on this seminal event in Greek and European history.
The Victoria Karelias Collection of Traditional Greek Costumes is hosting “Heroes Made of Metal,” an exhibition of works by Nikos Floros.
The American College of Greece is organizing a concert lecture on “The empowering role of music in the 1821 war for independence” on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
A group of more than 30 artists from a range of disciplines and students from the Greek National Opera Professional Dance School celebrate the 200-year anniversary of the Greek War of Independence with an installation/performance.
The Consulate General of Greece in Boston worked with partners in Greece and the United States to pay tribute to American philhellenes from the city who participated in Greece’s fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century by issuing a special edition stamp and restoring the tombstones of prominent philhellenes.
The Philoi: Association of Friends of the Gennadius Library in Greece will hold an online lecture on “Boston: Capital of American Philhellenism” on Wednesday, October 20, at 7 p.m. (Greek time).
The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) has welcomed the extension of an upgraded Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA) between the United States and Greece.
Under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee, on the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of the Greek War of Independence, the American College of Greece is organizing ον Monday the Eleftherios Venizelos Chair Lecture 2021 on “Somebody Else’s War: European and American Philhellenes in the Greek Revolution of the 1820s.”
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will travel to Paris Monday where he will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and inaugurate the exhibition “Paris-Athens: The Birth of Modern Greece, 1675-1919.”
The George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard University and the Karamanlis Chair of Hellenic and European Studies at The Fletcher School at Tufts will co-sponsor a two-day international conference marking the 200th anniversary since the 1821 Greek war of independence.
The Louvre Museum opens a large-scale historical and artistic exhibition dedicated entirely to Greece on the last day of September.
The “Greece 2021” Committee and the US embassy in Athens launched on Tuesday the Hellenic Initiative’s online mentorship project, “Connect the Dots.”
The American School of Classical Studies and the Gennadius Library presents “The Free and the Brave: American Philhellenes and the Glorious Struggle of the Greeks (1776-1866).”
The Eugenides Foundation presents an exhibition dedicated to the mastery shown by the Greeks at sea during their uprisings against the Ottomans in 1821.
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