Daily Archives: October 11, 2014

Στην Μελβούρνη το πρώτο εστιατόριο.

Δεν υπάρχει περίπτωση να έχετε ταξιδέψει στην Ελλάδα και να μην έχετε τουλάχιστον δει τα Goody’s Burger House, την… ελληνική «έκδοση» ταχυφαγείων. Πολλοί από εσάς θα έχετε επίσης δοκιμάσει την κουζίνα των Goody’s. Τώρα πλέον δεν χρειάζεται να περιμένετε έως το επόμενο ταξίδι σας στην Ελλάδα για να απολαύσετε την κουζίνα των Goody’s καθώς τα ελληνικά εστιατόρια έρχονται στην Αυστραλία.

Σύμφωνα με ανακοίνωση του Ομίλου Εστίασης Vivartia, το πρώτο εστιατόριο Goody’s, θα ανοίξει στην Μελβούρνη. Η εταιρεία που επιλέχθηκε από τον όμιλο Vivartia για την αποκλειστική ανάπτυξη των εστιατορίων της στην Αυστραλία είναι η Mediterranean Fast Casual Restaurants Ltd, της οποίας ηγείται ο ομογενής, γνωστός για την πείρα του στον χώρο της εστίασης, Κώστας Ταγκαλάκης.

Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες του «Νέου Κόσμου» η Mediterranean Fast Casual Restaurants Ltd σε συνεργασία με την Vivartia στοχεύουν στην λειτουργία 10 τουλάχιστον εστιατορίων στην Αυστραλία και σε όλες τις μεγάλες πόλεις της χώρας.
Στην ανακοίνωσή της η Vivartia αναφέρει, επίσης, ότι η επέκτασή της στην Αυστραλία αποτελεί μία από τις δράσεις του πενταετούς πλάνου της εταιρείας για την περαιτέρω επέκτασή της σε αγορές του εξωτερικού.

Η Goody’s, είναι αυτήν την στιγμή η μεγαλύτερη ελληνική αλυσίδα με περισσότερα από 150 εστιατόρια σε Ελλάδα, Κύπρο, Αλβανία, FYROM και Λευκορωσία και δραστηριοποιείται στην ελληνική αγορά από το 1975.

Πηγή: Νέος Κόσμος

The relatively untold story of the Greek Jewish communities can finally be shared with the wider community.

Ahead of its world premiere at the 21st Delphi Bank Greek Film Festival, the documentary Following Shira’s Journey: A Greek Jewish Odyssey will be launched at the Greek Centre of Contemporary Culture.

The unique three-part project explores the history of Greece’s Jewish communities and consists of Shira’s Journey, a published screenplay by Carol Gordon; Following Shira’s Journey: A Greek Jewish Odyssey, a documentary directed by Carol Gordon and Natalie Cunningham; and a photographic exhibition by Emmanuel Santos.

It is a little known fact that there were thriving Jewish communities in Greece prior to World War II.

For the past 25 years, Melbourne-based writer and the administrator for March of The Living Australia, Carol Gordon, had a burning desire to tell the story of these communities and, through the movie Shira’s Journey she is doing just that.

More than 60,000 Greek Jews perished in the Nazi concentration camps, and yet the experiences of Greece’s Jewish population during the Holocaust have remained relatively unknown until now. In the post-war years, fear, suspicion, economic hardship and civil war relegated the sad history of the Greek Jews to the horrors of a time people preferred to forget.

Interviews with Greek-Jewish Holocaust survivors, as well as second and third generation survivors, offer insights into these now extinct communities, and their much fewer modern-day descendants determined to keep culture and traditions alive – especially in the face of anti-Semitism.

Shot on location in Greece in September 2013, this fascinating documentary is the labour of love of Carol Gordon and Natalie Cunningham. Through the multifaceted project – documentary, photographic exhibition by Emmanuel Santos and book – the relatively untold story of the Greek Jewish communities can finally be shared with the wider community.

Shira’s Journey is a road-movie-with-a-difference involving three unlikely travelling companions: Shira, an ex-South African documentary filmmaker from Melbourne; Avram, an octogenarian Greek Jewish Holocaust survivor, and his American grandson Jeremy, an idealistic lawyer from New York.

The launch will include a presentation of the published screenplay, excerpts from the recently completed documentary and selected images by photographer Emmanuel Santos, shot on location during the filming of the documentary.

Shira’s Journey will be launched on Sunday 12 October at 4.00 pm, at the Greek Centre, 168 Lonsdale Street Melbourne. RSVP: carol@gordon.net.au

The movie will premiere at the Delphi Bank 21st Greek Film Festival on Sunday 26 October, at 5.00 pm at Palace Cinema Como. For more information about Shira’s Journey, visit www.shirasjourney.com

source: Neos Kosmos

Archaeologists are travelling to India and Bactria, tracing the Macedonian leader’s path in order to help create the virtual museum.

A virtual museum on Alexander the Great, a project begun in 2000, is near completion, according to archaeologist Angeliki Kottaridou in Thessaloniki.

Kottaridou said that archaeologists were actually travelling to India and Bactria, tracing the Macedonian leader’s path in order to help create the virtual museum, which would be accessible in Greek and English.

Its physical base would be at the Museum of Aegae, in northern Greece, the location of the Macedonian dynasty’s seat.

The project was announced at an event presenting a new series of books by Kathimerini newspaper publishers on world leaders. It will allow visitors to follow any of several paths and will include a virtual library of films, written sources and maps.

Source: Kathimerini

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