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Virgin Australia voyeur Magazine, October 2012, Issue 135 pp. 62-66 AN ODE TO AUSTRALIA In the towns, in the rustling of the trees and across the valley of northern NSW, you hear them - tales of man and country, as told...

The Order of the Australasian Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), the largest Hellenic organisation in the world, recently held its 58th National Convention in Sydney. It was conducted from the 6th to1...

A new web site dedicated to cultural events on Kythera can now be found at http://politismoskythera.blogspot.gr/. The site includes listings submitted by cultural organisations and individual artists, listed both by orde...

....on Kythera.... 5th Augut, 9:00pm, Zeidoros Cultural Cente. Zeidoros Centre for the Arts & Education is located in Kapsali bay. It consists of a listed Venetian building, an amphitheatre and a restaurant area. The bui...

Due to generous contributions from the Australian-Kytherian diaspora - the bell-tower in Logothetianika has been restored. It has not been operational for a number of decades. Now, again, it chimes on the hour. It can b...

“A glittering career, made to order”. The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2012 MEDAL (OAM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION Mr Paul DRACAKIS Seaforth NSW For service to the community of Manly-Warringah, and to business. Mr Paul DRA...

By RANDY KENNEDY Published: June 11, 2012 A version of this article appeared in print on June 12, 2012, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Greek Antiquities, Long Fragile, Are Endangered by Austerity....

These are the final results for all parties.

The results of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Greece can only be described as dismal, since it looks as though no conceivable coalition or combination of parties will be able to form a government, leading to fr...

Titles included Exotics and Retrospectives, Shadowings, In Ghostly Japan, and Kotto, Being Japanese Curios with Sundry Cobwebs. Hearn Society, Athens, through its International Cultural Coordinator, Takis Efstathiou, ha...

On Palm Sunday, April 8th, members and friends of Kythiraiki Protovoulia (“Kytherian Initiative”), the political association bent on reforming local government on Kythera, cleared up a winter’s worth of rubbish from Fyri...

By Lina Giannarou Greece’e first memory bank (www.bankofmemories.gr) dusts off tales from old diaries, faded photographs and near-disintegrated documents to build a narrative of small everyday stories and seminal events...

By Satoshi Iizuka MATSUE, Japan, April 1, Kyodo A museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, started a year-long exhibition on Sunday to follow in the footsteps of naturalized Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Yak...

The original exhibition has now moved from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to the Getty Villa Editor's note: Kytherian's in Southern California have already arranged to undertake a group visit to the Exhibition Typicall...

of the Battle of Marathon. Zoe Savina wrote a haiku that is dedicated to Hermes. Mercury played a "role of transport" in the battle ... From - http://www.zoesavina.com/ekdilwseis-lefkadios-hern.html http://www.zoesavina....

of poetry, the haiku, and also to Lafcadio Hearn Zoe Savina wrote a haiku that is dedicated to Hermes. Mercury played a "role of transport" in the battle ... From - http://www.zoesavina.com/ekdilwseis-lefkadios-hern.html...

Photograph: Koula is expressing her thanks for the presentation of the book, at the lectern. Seated on the far left is Mrs Kaiti Aroni-Tsichliis, Professor of History Koula. In the centre is Professor Nikos Petrochilos,...

has a portrait of him by Raelene Sharp, win the "Packing Prize" in Sydney. John is known in the Kytherian community as Yanni Ksilo Photograph: Packing Room Prize winner: Actor John Wood with artist Raelene Sharp look at...

The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum is one of the "must see" sacred sites of Kytherian pilgrimage - George Poulos NOTICE OF EXHIBITION: A Journey to Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Takashima Toshinobu Photo Exhibition 1st S...

by: Nathan Mawby From: Herald Sun February 14, 2012 Photograph: Justin Jones and James Castrission complete the world-first return hike to the South Pole. A PAIR of die-hard Australian mates who spent 89 days trekking t...