INTERVIEWS

The program “Take Your Time” with Prokopis Agelopoulos hosted acclaimed Greek-American filmmaker Nikolas Franghias from Los Angeles, on the occasion of the founding of his new production company, EmberFrames. The company’s mission is to create works that blend cultural identity, emotion, and contemporary cinem...

Stefanos Pallantzas, civil engineer and President of the Hellenic Passive House Institute, discusses the urgent need to upgrade and shield buildings so that heating and cooling costs do not become “money poured into a bottomless barrel.” He explains which interventions are necessary in older buildings and...

Athina Vorilla was born in Manhattan, studied journalism, and worked — among others — for the New York Times. Yet nostalgia for her father’s music and her lifelong love for Greece brought her here… This New Yorker, who declares herself in love with Schinoussa, has been living in Greece since 2005. S...

Evgenia Papapontikou, Chief Financial Officer at a major shipping company, speaks on “Fair Winds and Following Seas”. “I come from Oinousses. My entire family and relatives have a long maritime tradition — the sea is our life. It is our identity. We owe so much to the wives of seafarers for countle...

An orange alert has been issued in Attica over the region’s water reserves, and the deteriorating situation appears to strengthen the case for the newly announced “Evrytos” plan, presented as a comprehensive response to the crisis. Residents of Evrytania, however, are expressing strong opposition. They ...

Maria Deligianni, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean at CLIA, speaks on "Fair Winds and Following Seas” on Voice of Greece. “Cruise ships account for just 1% of all ships worldwide — about 450 cruise ships in total — yet they employ nearly two-thirds of all seafarers, more than 200,000...

Thassos Bampalikis, a restaurant entrepreneur based in Portugal and, secondarily, in Spain, spoke about his professional journey, focusing on his Greek-cuisine restaurants in Lisbon, as well as the challenges posed by the housing crisis and rising living costs. He shared his insights on Voice of Greece...

Katerina Tsiridou and Nikos Protopapas are hosted on the program "Time in Greece" by Nikolas Angelidis. They present for the first time songs from their new album “Armonia – Rebetiko Guitars Project 3”.

At the European Taekwondo Championship, Greece won a total of 13 medals in the Cadets and Juniors categories: 2 gold, 6 silver, and 5 bronze. Offering her analysis of these remarkable achievements for Greek sports was the internationally distinguished athlete Elli Mystakidou. The Greek champion’s c...

Giorgos Rigas lives in Montreal, Canada, with family roots in a village in Messinia, near Kalamata. This year he is participating in the Symposium for the first time, following an invitation he received from the Greek Consulate in his city. He speaks about the powerful experience of meeting young...

Apostolos Zezos is one of the young participants attending this year’s Symposium for the second consecutive time, an event organized by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy. He is 21 years old and moved with his family to Canada—specifically to Toronto—at the age of just nine....

The program “Take Your Time” with Prokopis Agelopoulos hosted director and author Ermis Peristeris and actress Lydia Giannousaki, on the occasion of the documentary theatre production «Άκου μικρέ, ο Πειραιάς βομβαρδίστηκε» (Listen, Kid — Piraeus Was Bombed), staged at the Piraeus Municipal Theatre throu...

Anastasios Tamis, a distinguished diaspora researcher and Emeritus Professor of Greek Diaspora History, spoke about the history of the Greeks of Perth and the sparsely populated region of Western Australia more broadly—particularly the early Kastellorizian settlers and, later, the Macedonians. He w...

Diaspora youth Elisa Bruni from Italy, Dimitra Konstanti from Germany, Amanda Thomas from Canada, Melina Mygdalis from Argentina, and Emily Pandis from the United States—participants in the 2nd Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium, organized in Athens by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public D...

Listen to the first in a series of interviews given by young Greeks from abroad to the program “Take Your Time” on Voice of Greece, recorded during the Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium held at the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre on Piraeus Street. Efrosyni Vergitsi, just 17 years old, is taking par...

Speaking about the work of the 2nd Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium, which concludes on Friday, 28 November, the General Secretary for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Maira Myrogianni, joined the program “Take Your Time” from the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre. There, young Greeks of the 2nd and...

On Thursday, November 27, the program "Imprint" with Fouli Zavitsanou hosted in the studio of Voice of Greece Makis Ablianitis, a guitarist and composer of global reach in the ethnic-jazz scene, on the occasion of the release of his new album titled "No more melodies".

The program “Take Your Time,” with Prokopis Agelopoulos, welcomed author and lyricist Kostas Balachoutis, one of the foremost researchers of Greek popular music, on the occasion of the release of his new book Stelios Kazantzidis: “No One Can Erase Me.” In this book, Balachoutis presents a deep ...