Event Details

Date/Time: 

Sep 9 2010 5:00pm - Sep 11 2010 10:00pm

Price: 

$5, $3

Where: 

St. Sophia Cathedral
1324 S. Normandie Ave.
Los Angeles CA 90006
Info 323.737.2424

LA Greek Fest



LCC Joins 12th Annual LA Greek Festival with Guest Hosts Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Sept 10, 11 & 12


The Levantine Cultural Center has always included the cultural arts of Greece as part of the Levantine-Middle Eastern region, and this year for the first time will have a presence at the annual LA Greek Festival. Hollywood's favorites Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson will once again serve as honorary chairs and celebrity guest hosts. The festival runs Sept. 10-12 on the Grand Plaza grounds of Saint Sophia Cathedral. This year's featured promotional theme is "Celebrating a Taste of Greece."

L.A.'s Greek Cinematic Odyssey

Mischa Geracoulis

"Film art," insist Ersi Danou and Angeliki Giannakopoulos, the founders of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, "has the unique ability of communicating new trends, commemorating, and bringing awareness to old and new issues that demand attention. It encompasses other forms of art, such as theater, visual arts or music, and creates opportunities for spreading into various cultural areas such as education, communication, journalism, tourism, gastronomy, fashion, etc."

By Jessica Proett

La Mezquita: Cordoba's CathedralDuring Easter Week in Spain, amid processions of Jesus swaying through cobblestone streets, a group of Muslim tourists knelt down on the marble floors of Cordoba's Mezquita. They began reciting verses from the Qur'an, their voices echoing off the multitude of red and white arches, until a security guard attempted to enforce the ban on Muslim prayer and was met with a punch in the face and a knife wound in his hand. The incident resulted in two arrests, two starkly different stories from the opposing sides in the scuffle, and a rapid-fire media frenzy and equally prolific blog-dialogue that is still snowballing.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Apr 14 2010 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Price: 

Free to the public

Where: 

UCLA Bunche Hall 10383
Parking Lot 3 (Wyton and Hilgard)
Los Angeles CA 90095
Info, Johanna Romero
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: 310-825-1455
cnes@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

Ammiel AlcalayAmmiel Alcalay is poet, translator, critic, scholar and activist; he teaches in the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures at Queens College and is a member of the faculties of American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center where is also Deputy Chair of the Ph.D. Program in English. He was the first holder of the Lannan Visiting Chair in Poetics at Georgetown University and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University.

"Maria Callas: A Woman, a Voice, a Myth" exhibit at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles, through April 23, 2010

By Mischa Geracoulis

Greek American opera diva Maria CallasMaria Callas, un artista avanguardia, definitive diva, and arguably the greatest opera singer of modern times, is currently the subject of a dramatic presentation at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. The exhibit is an array of Callas' stage costumes and jewelry, rare photos and film, books, letters, and a special screening of the Maria Callas Biography documentary (courtesy of the BIOGRAPHY® channel)—making it a must-see for lovers of art, music, opera, culture, fashion, and design.

This presentation also includes the release of The Young Maria Callas, a previously unpublished diary of her dreams as a young woman, enhanced by the recollections of close friends who knew her throughout her life's victories, hardships and heartbreaks. The book is published with the combined support of the Italian Cultural Institutes of America (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, and New York), and with whose assistance the exhibit is made possible.