Faraway Words

Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney, author, and translator, with a distinguished contribution to the promotion of Greek culture in Australia, spoke on Voice of Greece about the project “Our People, Their Stories.”

The program hosted Georgia Karantona, PhD candidate in Children’s and Adolescent Literature at the University of Thessaly, educator at Greek community schools in London, and Director of the Greek Children’s Library of London. The discussion was inspired by a special tribute to rebetiko music, cur...

The program "Faraway Words" featured researcher and author Soula Bozi, on the occasion of her book “On the Wings of History” (Topos Publications), which brings to light twenty testimonies of uprooting from Ionia, Thrace, and Constantinople. Through the voices of men and women who experienced the...

Chrysa Voulgaridou, President of the Hellenic Association of Women for Culture and Tourism (HAWCT) and Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou, President and founder of the Food For Thought Network based in Melbourne were guests at the studio of Voice of Greece, on the program "Faraway Words" with Natasa Vissarionos....

From Paris to Athens and into the studio of Voice of Greece came Nikos Graikos on Wednesday, September 24th, on the occasion of the release of his new book "Anastohasmos" (Reflection). Nikos Graikos is a graduate of the Department of French Studies at the University of Athens and holds a postgraduate...

The program “Faraway Words” with Natasa Vissarionos featured Katerina Karpinato, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, who spoke about the upcoming event “Reading, Writing, and Speaking Greek in Venice.”

The program hosted Caterina Carpinato, professor of Greek language and literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, who spoke about the event “Reading, Writing, and Speaking Greek in Venice”, which will take place at Campo dei Greci, Castello 3412, in the city of gondoliers, on Friday, September 26. ...

After two successful seasons in Athens and across Greece, the pocket-size folk musical “Mixer” now travels to Frankfurt, where it will be staged for the local Greek community on Friday, 26 September. Award-winning writer Zeti Fitsiou spoke on the program “Faraway Words” about her play and her connection with Greeks living in Germany.

The episode featured Oskar Lindroth and award-winning author Zeti Fitsiou. Oskar Lindroth, a member of the Swedish Church Choir as well as the Greek Choir Orpheus of Stockholm, spoke about his father’s connection with Mikis Theodorakis and about the Swedish Church Choir, on the occasion of the upcoming concert “Mikis Theodorakis: Sweden, a Second Homeland” to be held on Thursday, 2 October, at the Danish Institute. Award-winning author Zeti Fitsiou talked about her pocket-size folk musical “Mixer”, which, after a successful run in Athens and other cities in Greece, is now heading to Frankfurt on 26 September. She described it ... Read more

The program hosted film producer Efi Skrombola and Nikolas Gavriilidis, president of the Parents’ Association of the Greek school in Oslo. Ms. Skrombola spoke about the film The Hen, shot entirely in Greece, a Greek–German co-production that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Fil...

Ourania Karteri, President of the Greek Festival of Sydney and Vice President of the Greek Community of New South Wales was hosted on the program and spoke about the Greek Film Festival of Australia, which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary. As she mentioned, the Festival travels to all the major...

The program hosted Mr. Kostas Tatsis, editor of the expatriate newspaper Doryforos Munich, who spoke about the most important initiatives and challenges facing the Greek community in Munich. A special focus was given to the 11th Solidarity Action, which this year will support three children’s foundations: Elpida –...

The program welcomed Greek-Australian educator Dimitris Kametopoulos from Sydney, Australia. The discussion was prompted by his recent honor, the “Award of Excellence” bestowed upon him by the World Cultural and Charitable Organization “Writers Capital International Foundation”, in recognition of his ...

The program hosted Archimandrite Georgios Siomos, Head Priest of the Church of All Saints in Munich and President of the Ecumenical Council of Bavaria. He spoke about the moving initiative of the Greek community and local institutions in Munich to substantially support the operational capabilities of...

The program welcomed Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney and author, who spoke about his latest book “The Blues of Glebe Point Road, in Prose and Verse,” translated by Sofia Troullinou and published by Petites Maisons. He reflected on the liv...

On the occasion of the “Festival of the Diaspora” organized by the Municipality of Kalymnos, with the participation of many Kalymnian expatriates, the program hosted Mayor Ioannis Mastrokoukos, Nikolaos Kalouris (Vice-President of the Pan-Kalymnian Federation of America and Head of Cultural Events), and...