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Today at 8:00pm (EDT), the Embassy of Greece in the US & Sephardic Heritage International in DC (SHIN-DC) invite you to the launch of our Cosmopolitan Journeys ...Through Greek Music series which will feature leading Greek, Sephardic and Iraqi musicians. The virtual event will consist of a live conversation among Greek musician Spyros Koliavasilis, Iraqi musician Laith Alattar, and Sephardic musician Asher Shasho Levy. They will discuss melodies that are shared in their respective traditions and demonstrate the connections between the respective traditions through musical performances. More information and registration here: www.shindc.org/shinsbn/Cosmo/

"Greece in America": The monthly newsletter by the Embassy of Greece in Washington is out! https://mailchi.mp/greekembassy/greece-in-america-march2021

"It remains in my memory like no other #park I have known. It is the quintessence of a park, the thing one feels sometimes in looking at a canvas or dreaming of... a place one would like to be in and never finds" | Henry Miller on the National Garden of #Athens, #Greece. Read more via our new feature: https://tinyurl.com/6mcxt87k See more

Up to eighteen international films will be shot in Greece in 2021, noted Director of the Hellenic Film Commission, Venia Vergou, adding that the expected revenues from foreign productions in 2021 could reach 90 million euros. Operation Manager at the Hellenic Film Commission, Stavroula Geronimaki offers a glimpse to some of the productions that were and will be filmed in Greece. Read more via Greek News Agenda https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr//7443-greece-a-filming-dest Find the Hellenic Film Commission's production guide here https://www.filmcommission.gr//production-guide-winter-20/

We join everyone across the world marking #YomHaShoah to remember the millions of lives lost in the #Holocaust. We honor the victims by keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive and by continuing to learn and to educate younger generations so that humanity #NeverAgain experiences such atrocities. The thread running through this year’s Greek Presidency of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - IHRA is Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust- the universal lesson of Holocaust remembrance to defend historical truth and to combat denial and distortion. Visit the Greek Presidency of the IHRA 2021 website: https://ihra2021.mfa.gr/

Los Angeles Greek Film Festival kicks off in 5 days! May 10 to May 30th! The LAGFF virtual edition will offer New Greek Cinema with curated features, shorts, documentaries, animations on a secure platform accompanied by a host of webinars, live and pre-recorded Q&A sessions. Due to COVID-19, the festival will run on-demand only for this year from May 10 to May 30th. The virtual component allows this year’s Festival to reach a global audience. With over 60 features, shor...ts, docs, and animated films, LAGFF 2021 is the largest online Greek Film Festival outside of Greece. LAGFF showcases new films from Greece and Cyprus and includes works by international filmmakers of Greek descent. The Festival promotes Greek cinema, cultural exchange and helps to bridge the gap between Greek filmmakers and Hollywood. See more

#Onthisday: Greece’s national poet, Dionysios Solomos, was born on April 8, 1798. A central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, the Zakynthos-born poet, was recognized as a pioneer thanks to his passion to nurture the demotic language and combine the Cretan literature with the demotic songs. He was also the first Greek poet of European stature since the seventeenth century. Solomos is considered Greece’s national poet not only because he wrote the "Hymn to Liberty", wh...ich is used as the Greek national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Read Reading Greece's features on Solomos’s most acclaimed works, the "Hymn to Liberty" (https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr//7177-poem-of-the-month-%E2) and the "Free Besieged", dedicated to the heroes of Messolonghi (https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr//7431-poem-of-the-month-%E2). See more

The Hellenic Innovation Network's next webcast will be going live this Thursday, May 6th at 12:00pm EST with an online conversation on #Greece's Digital Transfo...rmation featuring Mr. Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Greece’s Minister of Digital Governance. Minister Pierrakakis, a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is radically simplifying citizen interactions with the government, from birth through license, marriage and other life transitions, by streamlining access to this data and increasing its utility. By the end of 2021 the Greek government will issue a new digital identity card to allow citizens to access digital services with security, and Greece ranks second among EU member-states in bandwidth concession for 5G telecommunication network licenses. H.E. the Ambassador of Greece to the USA, Ms. Alexandra Papadopoulou, will also be honoring us with her participation by introducing this online discussion which will be moderated by the HIN's Michalis Bletsas (Director of Computing, MIT Media Lab).