Events

Meeting of Greek/Cypriot American Professors
Archimedean Academy, Miami

Consul General of Greece visit
Schmidt Museum
Boca Raton

Lost homelands, newfound hopes
Lecture by Petros Tsingelis
1922 marked the end of the 3,000 year continuous presence of Greeks in Asia Minor/Anatolia.
Petros Tsingelis will guide us through the events, a turning point in 20th century’s Modern Greek History.

An evening of poetry
Boca Raton Schidmt Museum
An evening with distinguished scholar, writer and poet Mujib Mehrdad

Egypt’s contribution to Christianity: a photographic journey
Lecture by Manolis Roussakis

Greek Jews 2300 year journey
Dr. Annette B. Fromm

Dr Annette B. Fromm is a museum specialist and folklorist. She has worked in museums over the past 20 years as director, curator, educator in the US, Asia and Europe including consulting in the Jewish Museum of Greece. Fromm taught anthropology and museum studies for over seventeen years at US Universities. She is currently the chair of the Florida Folklife Council and past president of the International Committee for Museums of Ethnography.

Oral History Project
Recording our stories

Past Events - 2021

From Chios to Crimea
The Pirate benefactor of the 1821 Greek Independence war
Presentation by Sackville Currie

A commemorative speech about benefactor Ioannis Varvakis, about his journey from humble pirate to millionaire, from Psara to the court of Empress Catherine the Great and the shores of the Caspian Sea. Following the historical events from the battle of Cheshme (Chios), the Orlofika, the treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji, the establishment of the Greek cities in Crimea and the torn by civil war Greece.

1955 “Εις την Πολιν”
The Greek community of Constantinople in 1955
Presentation by Petros Tsingelis