Pharos

Pharos March-April 2012

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Monday 26 March, 2012
Prof. Andre Gerolymanos
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies
Simon Fraser University

Europe and the new Greek nation after 1827

Monday 20 April 2012
Pharos Annual Musical Evening
Sofia Antonakos, Soprano, & Ric Spratley, President, Pharos

Maria Callas: The Greek Years

Pharos: January-February 2012

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30 January 2012 at 7:30 pm

Helen: from Homer to Hollywood
Florence Yoon, UBC Department of Classical, Near East & Religious Studies

Helen is one of the most compelling figures of classical mythology, inspiring storytellers from Homer and Euripides to Hollywood and Margaret Atwood. As the "face that launched a thousand ships," she reflects changing views of causality and blame, gender and power, beauty and divinity. This talk will consider her transformation through almost 3000 years of representation, demonstrating how traditional mythological material can be adapted into a unique interpretation according to the artistic aims and the specific context of each portrayal.

Tuesday 28February 2012 at 7:30pm

(NOTE CHANGE OF DAY)

Life, the Universe and Everything (According to Plato)
Michael Griffin, UBC Department of Classical, Near East & Religious Studies

Last November was the 2,437^th birthday of Aristocles, the dashing, barrel-chested young Athenian aristocrat (and champion wrestler) who sailed the far reaches of the Mediterranean world in search of knowledge, justice, and love. Along the way, he ruled with kings, narrowly escaped slavery (twice), and happened to invent Western philosophy and science. We know him best by his wrestling nickname: ho Platon, “the Broadman”; but Plato wouldn’t mind if we knew nothing about him, so long as we learned to know ourselves. Come along for a high-level tour through Plato’s life and the big Platonic ideas that touch our lives today

Pharos October/November 2011

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24 October 2011 at 7:30 pm

Lemnos: The Story of a Greek Island
Professor Hector Williams
UBC Department of Classics

This illustrated talk will present the sprawling history and archaeology of the northern Aegean island of Lemnos from its 12,000 BC first inhabitants (among the earliest in the Greek islands) to its key role as an Allied base in the First World War campaign at Gallipoli. In between we'll see two of the largest and most important Early Bronze Age settlements in the Aegean at Myrrina and Poliochni with their well built houses and rich burials, the mysterious pre-Greek culture of the Pelasgi, the sprawling ancient theatre at the Greek capital of Hephaisteia, the strange cult of the Kabeiroi, and the castles of the Byzantine and Italian settlers of the Middle Ages. Professor Williams recently spent some time on Lemnos with the Italian excavators at Hephaisteia and will talk about their work too.

28 November 2011 at 7:30pm

Amorgόs

Gwyneth Lewis, Coordinator, Classical Studies

Langara College

Pirates and priests and politicians, refugees and exiles, lovers and scholars and monks and misogynists: since it was first settled more than 5000 years ago, the remote Cycladic island of Amorgόs has seen a tremendous variety of people arrive at its shores. The traces of some, like the Cycladic farmers, are to be found only in the landscape; of others, like Molly Mackenzie, an Ottawa woman who fell in love with the island and lived there into her nineties, only in the written record

Pharos Dates 2011/2012

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October 24, 2011
November 28, 2011
January 30, 2012
February 27, 2012
March 26, 2012
April 30, 2010

Pharos 2010/2011

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Monday October 25, 2010 at 7:30 pm
If at first you don’t succeed, fight dirty: magic, curses and love in the ancient Greek world
Professor Siobhan McElduff, UBC Department of Classical, Near East & Religious Studies

Women turned into horses. Voodoo dolls. Curses, potions and smelly unguents. This talk will examine the wild and sometimes terrifying world of magic in the ancient Greek world - and tell you how to avoid having your spouse turned into a horse

Monday November 29, 2010 at 7:30 pm

Greek Gods in my Life: 42 Years of Working in Greek Sanctuaries

Professor Hector Williams, UBC Department of Classical, Near East & Religious Studies

Prof. Williams, one of Pharos' founders and former director of the Canadian Institute in Greece, will talk about some of the sacred places of ancient Greece, focusing on sanctuaries of Isis, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis and Athena at which he has worked.

Monday January 31, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Grecian Cohen: Leonard Cohen and Hydra
Professor Ira Nadel, UBC Department of English

This illustrated talk will explore the long association between the singer/ writer Leonard Cohen and Greece. It will not only explore the use of Greece in his work, but the importance of life on Hydra for his creativity, productivity and longevity. How, in short, has Greece contributed to Cohen's development as an artist?

Professor Nadel's recent book, VARIOUS POSITIONS - A Life of Leonard Cohen - is the first time Cohen himself has worked with a biographer. He contributed many of his never-before-seen letters, scholarly papers, poems, song lyrics and photographs. While researching this - in Cohen's words - 'benignly tolerated' biography, Nadel went to the island of Hydra, Montreal, Nashville, New York, Los Angeles and the Mt. Baldy Zen Center in the southern California mountains. At each stop, stories and experiences occurred that involved the biographer and his subject, from finding a lost manuscript of his first novel in a California garage to encountering more than one of his former girlfriends.

Monday February 28, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Exploring an unknown Greek City: the first six years of Greek Canadian fieldwork at Kastro Kallithea in Thessaly

Professor Margiet Haagsma, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta

Director of the archaeological and architectural survey at the kastro at Kallithea, Greece, Dr. Haagsma's specialty is the archaeology of Greece with a specific focus on ancient urbanization and the archaeology of domestic space. She is especially interested in urbanization processes and domestic organization in mainland Greece during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Monday March 28, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Women Ventriloquizing Women: Explorations and Extensions of Classical Myth

Professor Susanna Braund, UBC Department of Classical, Near East & Religious Studies

Prof. Braund will discuss the way in which contemporary women poets and novelists choose to rework stories about women from classical mythology. She will draw on texts by Louise Glück, Margaret Atwood, Marguerite Yourcenar, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ursula K. LeGuin. We will find our writers bringing familiar material out of the realm of story-telling and into the modern world, making it strange and unstrange in curious ways.

Monday April 25, 2011 at 7:30

Greek Music & Dance Evening

Presented by

Dimitrios Kontogiannis and the Dimitrios Dancers and Players

Pharos' 30th Anniversary Season concludes with a festive evening of Greek music and dance. Refreshments will be served.

Pharos February 22nd and March 29th 2010

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February 2010

"The Realm of Kadmos: The Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project"

Brendan Burke
Department of Greek and Roman Studies
University of Victoria

Professor Burke will present an overview of the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project in Greece of which he is the co-director. Fieldwork since 2007 has concentrated on evidence for the land use, settlement patterns and burial practices in the plain between Thebes and the Euboean gulf, an area relatively neglected in recent archaeological work but of great importance for understanding the network of communities within the Theban territory.

Monday 22nd February at 7:30 pm
Upper Hall, Hellenic Centre
32nd and Arbutus Streeets
Vancouver, BC

March 2010

"Greek Colonies and Apollo Worship in South Italy and Sicily"

Christie Lane
Department of Classics, Near East & Religious Studies
University of British Columbia

Through the oracles his priests gave at Delphi, Apollo was an honorary founder for many Western Greek colonies, but he was also worshipped as a founding god at Naxos, Aturomenion and Kroton. Worship of Apollo in south Italy and Sicily took various forms, from the grand temples of Syracuse and Selinous, to the humble pillar-shaped images of the god at Syracuse and Metaponto. Apollo was also worshipped at sites with a mixture of Greek and native populations, including the sanctuary of Apollo Alaios.

Monday March 29, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Upper Hall, Hellenic Centre
32nd and Arbutus Streets
Vancouver, BC

Pharos February 1, 2010, Prof. Steven Miller

2010-01-21T14:30:00.000-08:00

Nemea and the Macedonians
Stephen G. Miller
Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley

Excavations at Nemea since 1973 have revealed compelling evidence of a strong Macedonian influence at the Sanctuary of Zeus in the period after the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC). Although Philip's interest in and use of Delphi and Olympia has long been known, the new information about his activities at the third of the four Pan-Hellenic centers - Nemea - shows just how important those sites were to Philip's efforts to unite the rest of the Greeks behind him.

The site of Ancient Nemea lies in an upland valley in the modern Greek province of Korinthia, and in the eastern foothills of the Arkadian mountain. The floor of the valley is about 330 meters above sea-level, and it is occupied by a modern village of about 400 inhabitants, the ancient site, and fields of grapes surrounded by hills filled with olive trees. The northern end of the valley is dominated by the flat-topped Mt. Apesas where the altar of Zeus had been established by Perseus.

Pharos Season 2009/2010

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We are pleased to announce Pharos' 30th season. This year we will present several archaeologial talks, a glimpse into the fascinating life of Ali Pasha by Hector Williams and, to end, a concert by the George Yioldassis and Friends featuring the music of Manolis Xiotis.

October 26, 2009: Megan Daniels, "After Alexander: Greeks in Central Asia"
November 30, 2009: Hector Williams, "Ali Pasha, the Lion of Ioannina"
February 1, 2010: Steven Miller, "Nemea and the Macedonians"
February 22, 2010: Brendan Burke, "An Archaeological Survey of Eastern Boeotia"
March 29, 2010: Christie Lane, "Greek Colonies and Apollo Worship in South Italy and Sicily"
April 26, 2010: George Yioldassis,, Bouzouki, John Mavrogeorge, Guitar, & Friends: "Remembering the Music of Manolis Xiotis on the 40th Anniversary of his Death"

Hellenic Cultural Month 2009 Lectures

2009-05-13T12:28:00.000-07:00

Pharos & The Hellenic Canadian Congress of British Columbia
Present Two Lectures
Monday 25 May, 2009 at 7:30 pm
The Two Byrons and Greece
Prof. John Xiros Cooper, UBC Department of English

Byron visited Greece twice. The first time was in 1809-1810 as a young man seeking exotic experiences. In Epirus, in Athens and, in other parts of Europe he found the experiences he turned into the famous poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Byron’s second voyage was undertaken more than a decade later by a more mature man who was now ready for an adventure with a more serious purpose, the liberation of the Greek people from their subjugation by the Ottoman Turks. In the winter of 1823-24, he arrived in Western Greece with medicine, military supplies, money, and ambitions to lead a force against the Ottomans. It was these activities that made him a national figure for the Greeks, but it was his death at Missolonghi April 19, 1824 that transformed him into a potent cultural and political symbol.

Thursday 4 June, 2009 at 7:30 pmSide-Tracked by Mussolini – Greece’s Role in WW2
Prof. André Gerolymatos, SFU Hellenic Studies Program
Mussolini's blunder in Attacking Greece on 28 October 1941 had a strategic impact on the outcome of the Second World War. The Italian aggression against Greece took the Germans by surprise and forced Hitler to divert forces designated for the attack on the Soviet Union to the Balkans. In December 1941, Hitler's reluctant conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece cost the German army dearly on the Russian front and ultimately contributed significantly to the defeat of the Nazi Empire.

Both lectures will be held in the Upper Hall,
Hellenic Community Centre,
4500 Arbutus Street, Vancouver
at 7:30 pm

Pharos April 27 2009, George Yioldassis, Bouzouki

2009-03-30T21:42:00.000-07:00

The Life and Music of Giorgos Zambetas

Legendary Composer of Greek Laika

Yiorgos Yioldassis, Bouzouki; Yianni Mavrogeorge, Guitar, Thomas Makris, Vocals & Baglama with Kanella Stefanis, vocals.

Giorgos Zambetas (Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας) (1925-1992) was one of the greatest composers and performers of Greek Laïká during the ‘50s and ‘60s. He is perhaps most familiar to North American audiences for the tune Horos tou Sakena featured in the soundtrack of Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the ubiquitous sing-along dance song, Siko Horepse Sirtaki, (think “la, la, la la la”).

George Yioldassis will give a short presentation on the life of George Zambetas including readings from the Ionna Kliasiou’s book, And the Rain Fell Straight Through: The Life of Giorgos Zampetas (Και η βρόχα έπεφτε ράι θρου). The band will follow with musical performances of some timeless classics from the Zambetas songbook.

Some musical links:

Nina Mouskouri sings Siko Horepse Sirtaki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MWGJzMyhxQ

Petros Andreou plays Xoros tou Sakaina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvc9J1HKQnc&feature=related

Pharos March 30, 2009: Chuck Sigmund

2009-03-23T09:05:00.000-07:00

The Roots and Foundation of 21st Century Scientific Thought
Chuck Sigmund, Langara College

Scientists today look at the material universe in a certain way and proceed to exercise their craft within that context. Cultures both before and after that of the ancient Iron Age Greeks have made notable technological contributions to humankind but, in my opinion, it was that Greek civilization which gave birth to abstract science as we still practice it today. Professor Richard Tarnas states it accurately and succinctly:

"The Greek were perhaps the first to see the world as a question to be answered. They were peculiarly gripped by the passion to understand, to penetrate the uncertain flux of phenomena and grasp a deeper truth. And they established a dynamic tradition of critical thought to pursue that quest."

Chuck Sigmund at an early age could not decide whether to pursue scientific or classical studies and so did both as best he could. He worked for 35 years as a chemist while always pursuing his interest in ancient Greek philosophy and science

Lectures on Greece, March 2009

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Upcoming lectures of interest to Pharos Members: March 2009
Tuesday March 3, 2009
The University of British Columbia, Department of Classical, Near East & Religious Studies presents:
“Pirates of the Cilician Coast”Michael Hoff, Professor of Art History, The University of Nebraska
7:30 pm, Buchanan A204, UBC

Wednesday March 11, 2009
UBC Faculty of Arts @ Robson Square presents:
“Sleeping with a Vampyre: Exotic Archaeology on a Greek Island”

Hector Williams, Professor of Classical Studies at UBC

6:00 pm, Robson Square

Monday March 16, 2009
SFU Hellenic Studies in cooperation with the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation University Seminars Program presents:
Dr. Sotirios Mousouris, Lawyer, Economist & former UN Assistant Secretary General (1983-1995)
“The United Nations and Greece: Issues, Positions, Contributions”7:00 pm, Room 1400 Segal Centre, SFU Harbour Centre Campus

Pharos February 23, 2009 - Ric Spratley

2009-02-01T16:10:00.000-08:00

Roads Less Traveled – Undiscovered GreeceRichard Spratley
President, Pharos

Ric and Lynda Spratley have been visiting Greece for over twenty years – decades in which the country has undergone profound change. In the first part of the presentation, we will visit islands off the path of cruise ships and villages that tour buses can’t reach, while probing into far corners of more familiar places. In the second part, Colours of Greece, we’ll turn on some rembetika and take a random, nostalgic wander over all the visits, remembering things that are timeless as well as some that have vanished forever. And, of course, there will be glimpses of friends, food and lots of red poppies! This talk is rescheduled from November 2008.

Pharos January 26, 2009: Geoffrey Schmalz

2009-01-18T14:14:00.001-08:00

Excavating an Archaic Necropolis in Kefaloniá
Dr. Geoffrey Schmalz
SFU Department of History

Dr. Schmalz will present results of the excavation of the principal necropolis of the ancient city-state of Pronnoi, one of the four city-states that flourished on Kefaloniá during the Archaic and Classical periods. This SFU project, conducted in the fall of 2008, was designed in part as a ‘salvage excavation’ carried out by SFU on behalf of the Kefaloniá Archaeological Service. At the same time, the project incorporated a formal program of initial excavation. Uncovered was a large, rich, and densely featured cemetery of largely the late Archaic period (ca. 550-500 B.C.), probably representing the burials of ancient Pronnoi’s elite inhabitants. Within the principal area of investigation, numerous graves were found in which pithoi were used as burial vessels; these were often filled with wealthy grave goods, including such gender-specific articles as loom-weights and agricultural tools, as well as lovely pottery imported from Corinth and Athens.

Pharos November 24, 2008

2008-11-18T21:22:00.000-08:00

The Apogee of Byzantine Monumental Art

Professor Maria Panayotidi
University of Athens

Sponsored by the SFU Hellenic Studies Program

The Lecture will begin at 7:30 pm

Pharos, October & November 2008

2008-10-01T22:22:00.000-07:00

Archaeological Survey of Ancient Sikyon

October 27, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Matthew Maher
UBC Department Classical, Near East & Religious Studies

Ancient Sikyon, now buried beneath the modern village and fields of Vasiliko, is located on a triangular plateau on the south shore of the Corinthian Gulf. While ancient literary accounts and limited excavation have yielded some of the city’s secrets, it is the efforts of the Sikyon Survey Project, which this paper will address, that are responsible for bringing much of the rich history of this city to light, and for placing Sikyon in its rightful place among the first cities of ancient Greece.

Note: Starting October 27, 2008 Pharos Lectures will begin at 7:30 pm

The Road Less Traveled – Undiscovered Greece

Postponed 'til February 2009

November 24, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Richard Spratley, President Pharos

Ric and Lynda Spratley have been visiting Greece for over twenty years – twenty years in which the country has undergone profound change. This slide presentation will be a nostalgic view back over those trips, of things that are timeless as well as some that have vanished forever. We will visit islands off the path of cruise ships and villages tour buses can’t reach while probing into far corners of familiar places. And, of course, there will be music and red poppies!

Pharos October 28, 2008: Matt Maher

2008-10-01T14:26:00.000-07:00

Archaeological Survey of Ancient Sikyon

Matthew Maher
UBC Department Classical, Near East & Religious Studies

Pharos Schedule: 2008/09

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Dates for the 2008/09 Pharos season are:

2008: October 27th, November 24th

2009: January 26th, February 23rd, March 30th, April 27th, May 25th.

Pharos June 11, 2008: Andre Gerolymatos

2008-06-01T16:39:00.000-07:00

The Battle for Kosovo & the Balkans: Past, Present and Future

Prof. Andre Gerolymatos, Chair Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University

Pharos May 26, 2008 - Hector Williams

2008-05-01T13:53:00.000-07:00

Greeks on the Nile: 3500 years of Greco-Egyptian Contacts
Professor Hector Williams, University of British Columbia

This special lecture, jointly presented by Pharos and the Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC, will kick off Greek Heritage Month, 2008.

A wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture.

(Alexandria, Ancient Greek Egypt, terracotta face of a smiling youth.)

Pharos April 28, 2008 - Bill Maranda

2008-04-02T13:51:00.000-07:00

The Making of Raja Edepus in Bali

William Maranda

A film created to document the staging of a Balinese version of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex as it was performed at the Bali Arts Festival in July 2006. It discusses the beginnings when Nyoman Wenten, Chair of World Music at CalArts and William Maranda, Vancouver playwright, first agreed to meet in Bali in August 2005.

The film takes us from Mr. Wenten’s house in the village of Sading, where the chorus was adapted for Kecak (monkey chorus) , and Legong (dancing chorus) , to Singapadu where wooden masks were carved, and costumes made.

Twenty-eight hours of tape were shot from which Hans Goksoyr or Vancouver has edited a wealth of film imagery into a beautiful documentary.

Pharos Lecture 25 February 2008

2008-02-13T14:18:00.000-08:00

An Unknown Legacy of Synthesis: The Greeks and the Persians

Dr. Kaveh Farrokh
Langara College

The talk will first focus on Xerxes' reasons for embarking on his failed expedition to Greece, notably the “Unfinished Business” of his father Darius the Great (i.e. retribution for Sack of Sardis, defeat at Marathon), apprehension over possible Future Greek raids into Achaemenid-ruled Ionia, and the need to assert Imperial authority (esp. after the failures of Darius against the Greeks just ten years before in 490 BC). The role of the anti-Athenian Greeks inviting Xerxes to invade as well as the (largely ignored) Greco-Achaemenid Economic rivalry in the Aegean will also be discussed. The seminar will lay heavy emphasis on the constructive aspects of the Greco-Persian relationship, one example being the benefits received by Greek scholars of the time. The Greco-Persian Synthesis in arts and architecture in the ancient Ukraine (i.e. Bosphoran Arts), Calabria & Southern Italy as well as Eastern Anatolia (Pontus, Cappadocia-Commagene) will be examined along with examples of Persian artistic and architectural influences upon Greece and vice-versa.

Born in Athens, Greece, Kaveh Farrokh, is of Ossetian and Azeri descent. A graduate of UBC, he has published many papers and several books on Persian history and related topics.

8:00 pm, Upper Hall
Hellenic Community Centre
32nd & Arbutus, Vancouver
All Welcome

Pharos Lecture: January 28, 2008

2007-12-31T17:08:00.000-08:00

Is Arcadia Burning?
Myths and Realities

Professor John Gaitanakis

This talk will address both the importance of the myth of Arcadia for the development of western culture and the destruction of Arcadia by fire in the summer of 2007.

John Gaitanakis , UBC Professor Emeritus, taught architectural design at UBC for nearly thirty years, emphasizing the importance of environmental factors in designing housing complexes in urbanized areas with a special emphasis on reclaiming the city from the private automobile.

In the summer of 2007 he witnessed the unfolding of the tragic events in Greece and visited Arcadia shortly after the fires. In his talk he will remind us of the importance of Arcadia’s Myths for the West, and present the various scenario that were put forth to account for the destruction of a large part of continental Greece, including Arcadia.

Monday 28 January 2008
Upper Hall, Hellenic Community Centre
4500 Arbutus Street, Vancouver
Time: 8:00 pm

Pharos Lecture: November 26, 2007

2007-11-01T16:31:00.000-07:00

Socratic Religion

Professor Mark McPherran
SFU Department of Philosophy

Socrates is acknowledged to be the founder of ethics as a disciplinary area of Western Philosophy (and the chief exponent of the notorious Socratic Method). But it is also common for modern readers -- in view of Socrates’ trial and death on a charge of impiety -- to underplay the idea that he was a religious as well as a rational thinker. Our texts, however, indicate that Socrates reshaped and did not reject the religious conventions of his own time in the service of establishing the new enterprise of Philosophy. The direct legacy of that project is the rational theology of Plato, the Stoics, Christianity, and Islam. This talk offers a sketch of religion of Socrates and its influences.

Mark McPherran, Chair of the SFU Dept. of Philosophy, specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Greek Religion, Philosophy of Religion, and the History of Ethics and is the author of The Religion of Socrates (Pennsylvania State University Press; 1996)

Monday 26 November 2007
Upper Hall, Hellenic Community Centre
4500 Arbutus Street, Vancouver
Time: 8:00 pm

Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC

2007-11-01T13:02:00.000-07:00

Pharos is a member of The Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC. Their website http://www.neapolis.com/bccongress/ has many links of interest to philhellenes.

Pharos Lecture: October 29, 2007

2007-10-29T15:00:00.000-07:00

HECUBA: One Woman’s Argument
Professor George McWhirterUBC Department of Creative Writing

Troy is lost, Hecuba’s husband—the King of Troy—is dead, the Greek army is set to sail home and she, into slavery.

George McWhirter sees Euripides’ play Hecuba as one woman's argument with the army of destiny, its generals, and one of its dastards. Capturing this argument (and another, with her daughter, not to predecease her) and how the fierce melody of Hecuba’s lament propels the acute logic of her case is McWhirter’s subject.

More than two millennia have passed since Euripides’ Hecuba was first performed in the open air on a Greek hillside. What has changed since? Not war. Not vengeance. Not love. And not the ability of this great play to move you.

Vancouver’s Blackbird Theatre will present an innovative, new production of Euripide’s Hecuba, adapted by George McWhirter and directed by John Wright, at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Dec 28, 2007 – Jan 12, 2008. For details:

http://www.blackbirdtheatre.ca/upcoming.htm

Monday 29 October 2007
Upper Hall. The Hellenic Community Centre
4500 Arbutus Street, Vancouver

Time: 8:00 pm

Pharos Lectures 2006/07

2007-01-01T21:12:00.000-08:00

October 2006: Ancient Greek Mechanics and Philosophers, Sylvia Berryman, UBC Department of Philosophy
November 2006: Cancelled (snow storm)
January 2007: Luminous Encounters: On the Island of Tinos, Ron Walkey, Architect, UBC Professor Emeritus
February 2007: Between Greece, Rome and Jerusalem, the Creative Meanderings of Byzantine Culture, Professor Dimitrios Krallis, Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University
March 2007: Tony Harrison and Greek Drama: Confounding the Categories of High and Low, Hallie Rebecca Marshall, UBC Theatre Department
April 2007: The Art of the Bouzouki, George Yioldassis, Bouzouki, with Selinounda and Friends