Daily Archives: May 5, 2015

Younger members of Manasis performing in Melbourne.

Melbourne’s Manasis School of Greek Dance and Culture is preparing to host and present one of the biggest Greek dance concerts to date.

The Folkloric Dance Concert, set to take place at Sydney’s Bankstown Sports Centre, is expected to be a monumental concert, which will see more than 100 performers from Manasis join forces with five Sydney dance groups, performing to an audience of more than 800 people.

With more than 30 years of unmatched and unrivalled standards in execution, choreography and discipline, organisers of the event have made sure attendees will enjoy an evening that far exceeds the customary stereotype of Greek dance, taking its performances to a new level.

Developed with the intention of celebrating cultural diversity in Australia, the Sydney dance groups joining the Melbourne performers are: The Institute of Hellenic Dance and Culture, Sydney Greek Dancing School, the Cretan Association of Sydney, Sydney Sizmos Greek Dance Company and Fotia Greek Dancers.

The Folkloric Dance Concert will take place on Saturday 9 May, 2015 at The Theatre, Bankstown Sports Centre, 8 Greenfield Parade, Bankstown, NSW. Show commences at 6.00 pm (doors open 5.30 pm).

Tickets are strictly presold: general admission $25, pensioners/children (12 and under) $20.

For enquiries and tickets visit www.facebook.com/manasisdance for details.

source:Neos Kosmos

The first Melbourne store is still a couple of months away.

The first store hasn’t even opened yet, but Greek fast food burger chain Goody’s has secured another location in Melbourne, this time in the Greek Mecca of Oakleigh.

Restaurant proprietor Con Tangalakis says he’s signed the lease to bring Goody’s to Oakleigh’s Eaton Mall, setting up shop next to his own restaurant, No Name.

Work is still underway with the flagship store in the city, that is running behind schedule.

Work was supposed to be finished by April this year, but the shop is still at permit stage.

“We have fallen a bit behind schedule because of internal structural and building work,” Mr Tangalakis tells Neos Kosmos.

Mr Tagalakis is estimating a July launch, saying that all the shop fit out plans and architectural designs are complete.

The shop will take up the whole ground floor of the Cultural Centre, bringing the Greek chain to the Lonsdale Street Greek precinct.

Ten stores have been green lit to be built in five years, according to the Australian licence given to Mr Tangalakis and business partner George Iliopoulos by Goody’s.

The group is open to franchisee interest, and say two sized shops are available.

Goody’s is Greece’s biggest fast food company, with 150 stores in Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Belarus and FYROM.

Berlin has distanced itself from recent statements by German President Joachim Gauck, who voiced support for Athens’s demands for reparations for the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War Two.

Asked by journalists to comment on Gauck’s comments, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said that the president shares the legal position adopted by the government, while calling for closer bilateral ties between the two states.

“Germany has recognized its responsibility for the victims of National Socialism,” Seibert said, adding that although Berlin could not undo its mistakes, “70 years after the end of the war and 35 years after Greece’s entry into the EU, we want to share a common perspective of the future… without forgetting the past.

source:ekathimerini.com

Police in Athens on Monday arrested a 27-year-old Bulgarian believed to have killed his 4-year-old daughter, who has been missing since April 21, and disposed of her body in a fashion so grisly that investigators were shocked.

Officers questioned the man immediately after Ani Borisova was reported missing by her mother, a 43-year-old Bulgarian woman who was charged with putting an infant at risk.

The 27-year-old drug addict, who is the girl’s biological father, was freed at the outset due to a lack of evidence. New findings led police to issue a warrant for the suspect’s arrest. He denied the charges, claiming he found the toddler dead and disposed of the body in a panic. He allegedly boiled the pieces of his daughter and threw them in the trash.

source:ekathimerini.com