AHEPA NSW to celebrate ‘190 years of Australian Hellene women’

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Chapter Antigone of AHEPA NSW Inc invites everyone to its annual celebration of International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 9 from 5:30pm at AHEPA NSW Hall in Rockdale, Sydney. 

The event will honour the 190th anniversary of the arrival of the first Hellene women in Australia (1835-2025).

The Keynote Speaker of the rich program will be renowned photographer and researcher Effy Alexakis from the ‘Ιn Their Own Image: Greek-Australians’ National Project Archives. Ms Alexakis will present on the contribution of leading Australian Hellene women to the development of our community and to the country as a whole.

It was in 1835 that the first Hellene women disembarked in Sydney. Aikaterine Plessos Crummer arrived together with her daughters Amelia Helena (born on Kerkyra in 1828) and Eliza Bettina (born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831). They migrated to the Antipodes together with their husband and father, Major James Henry Crummer of the British Army. With these three women begins the history of Australian Hellenic women.

 International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time on 19 March 1911 with conferences and demonstrations across Europe. In 1913, the Day was transferred to 8 March, the date on which it has been celebrated ever since. The Day has been marked in Australia since 1928.

Everyone is welcome to this great celebration of Australian Hellenism. Entry free.

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