Current Affairs

INSTITUTE OF KYTHERAISMOS 3rd International Symposium of Kytheraismos Hetero-Kytheraismos: The 21st century Kytheraismos From the Kytherian Identity to multi-cultural heterocity (diversity] Kythera (Myrtidia, Chora, Frat...

The ANEN lines ferryboat “Myrtidiotissa” struck a reef just north of Kythera around midnight on Thursday, 24 July while on its way from Neapolis. The 297 passengers were shaken but unhurt, while the elderly ship suffered...

Following a formal request from the Kytherian Foundation for Culture & Development (KIPA), which has been leading the fight against the installation of one or more wind-turbine farms on the island, to the Greek Energy Re...

A new 22-bed hospital with an area of nearly 3,000 square meters and fully up-top-date equipment is to replace the existing Trifillion hospital in Potamos which has served the island for many years. The foundation stone...

The exhibition PANAYOTIS FATSEAS: KYTHERIAN FACES, 1920-1938 opened at the Benaki Museum, Piraeus Road, Athens on 21 February 2008. The exhibition, the result of six years’ hard work by the Kythera Photographic Archive,...

The opening of the exhibition PANAYOTIS FATSEAS: KYTHERIAN FACES, 1920-1938 at the Benaki Museum on Pireos Street, Athens will take place at 8.00 pm on Thursday, February 21st. A copy of the official invitation is attach...

The daughters of Peter Haniotis of Kingsford, Sydney, were happy to be able to deliver in person, in September 2007, a bequest from Peter of $A5,000 to each of the island monasteries Agia Moni and Moni Myrtidiotissa. Pet...

Ari Stavrou receives his award for Cinematography at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival The 48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (48o ΦΕΣΙΒAΛ KΙΝΗΜATΟΓΡAΦΟΥ ΘΕΣΣAΛΟΝΙKΗΣ), was held on the 27th Novembe...

Potamos, Kythera, to, George and Lorraine Poulos, Dover Heights, Australia. Similar letters were also sent to Ms Linda Brennan, Matina & Manuel Samios, Dr Mitchell Notaras, Peter & Helen Mageros & family, The Nicholas A...

Do not ask what Kythera can do for you, Or even, what Kythera can do for itself... Ask instead, What you can do for Kythera... In the week beginning Monday the 17th September a large 20 foot (7 metre) container (the stan...

A fire broke which broke out near Aghia Sophia cave towards the middle of Tuesday, 17 July, spread rapidly northwards, tearing through the unusually dry scrub on the northern and western flanks of Mount Mermingaris. By 1...

On the evening of 24 March, the Kythera Cultural Association organised an 80th birthday celebration in honour of Stratis Theodorakakis (“Tsabiras”), the originator, leader and chief inspiration for many years of the Pota...

February 2007 At the end of 2006, the Kytherian Cultural Association received an extremely generous donation of US $ 3,840 in support of ongoing cultural activities from the Kytherian Society of Northern California and t...

MAIN NEWS Kytheraismos. November, 2006. pp. 1, 11. When Kytherians went to the polls for their munici­pal elections on 15 October, the outcome could be noth­ing other than uncertain. With three parties vying for the vict...

One of the oldest archaeological puzzles, that of the nature and purpose of the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, appears to have been finally cracked by the international Antikythera Mechanism Research Project (AMRP). Th...

The final makeup of the new Kythera municipal council which takes over on January 1st is as follows (listed in order of votes received): RULING MAJORITY Theodoros Koukoulis, Mayor Michalis Protopsaltis (“Makras”) Adamant...

The second round of the municipal elections, held on Sunday, ended in victory for Theodoros Koukoulis, with 1,411 votes (53% of the total) as against 1,229 votes (47%) for Panayotis Protopsaltis. The turnout was about 8%...

The final results of the first round of the Kythera municipal elections were as follows: Theodoros Koukoulis: 1,208 votes (41.93%) Panayotis Protopsaltis: 945 votes (32.80%) Artemis Kalligeros: 7238 votes (25.27%) Voting...

The first round of the Kythera municipal elections, held on Sunday October 15th, turned into a cliff-hanger which was only resolved long past midnight amidst scenes of mounting chaos. A total of 2,881 Kytherians voted be...

As required by law, overt electoral activity throughout Greece came to a halt at midnight on Friday, 13 October. The past week on Kythera was unusually frantic, with all three slates rushing around the island in an attem...