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I have greatly reduced my internet consumption. This process has taken many years but even just recently I guess I hit peak ‘junk internet’… well not quite peak, but peak for me. See I was writing at the time and sharing my content on Facebook and Twitter, this meant I was frequently get sucked into…

Ρε τον Καβάφη! You cheeky shy poet you! This collection of Cavafy’s work was presented roughly in chronological order in terms of each poem’s publication. Cavafy was a Greek of the diaspora, living in the 1800s and early 1900s. He was contemplative, and almost academic. He had a romantic view of Hellenism in the diaspora…

A few years ago a statue of a Greek Prime Minister went missing. Did this happen in Athens? Thessaloniki? No, it happened in East Brunswick. For decades, a statue of Eleftherios Venizelos stood prominently outside the Cretan Brotherhood Hall in East Brunswick. Over the years, the statue watched over hundreds of young Cretans attending their…

I’ve been writing for a little bit now and like most who create content I wonder how to get my stuff out there. Not just to the most people, but to people who care. Increasingly I’m realising that ultimately there are few out there who my content will reach and of them, few will read,…

On Saturday I passed through the Royal Exhibition Building to explore the 2024 Italian Festa. I arrived thinking that this was my first time at the event, but was surprised to find out I had been many times before! Although this was only the second year of the Festa at the Royal Exhibition Building, the…

Peter Helliar has been a mainstay on Australian television for almost 30 years. Since gaining his start alongside Rove on their C31 show ‘The Loft Live’ Helliar has carved out an impressive career for himself as a stand-up, broadcaster and writer. Helliar’s career was most prominent in the mid-2000s when he was staring on Rove…

Cretans in the diaspora are faced with many challenges when trying to learn Lyra. This especially applied to 3rd generation Cretans in non-European countries. They often struggle with: These are some of the struggles I have faced here in Australia but I have learnt in my experiences that these struggles can be overcome. Below is…

The Victorian Football preseason was once again graced by the Greek Community Cup, however despite the Greek community’s outsized influenced in Victorian Football, only eight teams entered this year’s edition of the competition. This got me thinking, how can this competition grow further and what do community football clubs tell us about the Greeks in…

Melbourne has experienced a noticeable change in its Greek music scene as of late. Rebetiko, Greek Rock and Greek Jazz events have been popping up faster than I can keep track of. This year many of these acts were featuring at Antipodes across its three stages. However, as I lacked the ability to be in…

Sunday nights in Melbourne are often a quiet affair, however entering the foyer of Hamer Hall revealed a hive of excitement as a crowd of impatient fans waited to see Fran Lebowitz speak. What immediately surprised me was the mix of people in attendance. There were loner arty patrons, elderly couples and groups of young…

This week saw some bad news hit the A-League after the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) announced that half of its workforce would lose their jobs, and that its media platform KeepUp would be cut. Cue negatively. Mainstream media published negative stories, Bosnich & Slater criticised the APL on radio, and online both old soccer &…

About a month ago I downloaded ERTFLIX, the online content platform of Greece’s State Media. The platform had been operating for years in Greece but has only recently been made available globally. So now that I was finally given the chance, I was quick to sign-up and get access to it. I have been searching…

Multicultural communities and their stories are typically under-represented in the Australian media. Despite cultural and financial barriers though, many notable works have been produced which speak to the experiences of multicultural communities. Below is a list of notable media productions that offer unique insights into the Greek-Australian identity. The productions selected feature Greek-Australian experiences at…

This is a list of organizations in Brunswick that provide Greek products, cultural services or facilitate Greek language usage. This list evolving and will be updated. Community & Cultural Services Agios Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church Agios Vasilios Greek Orthodox Church Agios Vasilios Greek School Brunswick City Soccer Club Brunswick Library Cretan Brotherhood of Melbourne and…

I only have a vague understanding of the world, but I know that I am young and happy. Everything has always been a blur to me because I am always moving my head around trying to take it all in. Slowly though I’m starting to settle. I’m beginning to understand the world around me. For…

Nearly every day since I started working in the city I have gone for a walk. Sometimes I needed to catch up with a friend, sometimes I needed to unwind from my desk job, and sometimes I just felt the urge to explore. Inevitably though I found that most of my walks lead me to…

Home Before I had my driver’s licence, my friends would drive me home from Cretan dance classes. The journey would take us from East Brunswick to West Brunswick down Dawson Street and gave me the chance to annoy my friends with facts about my local area. I would point out the Brunswick Library (which used…