Parish Priest at St Catherine Greek Orthodox Church in East Malvern, Father Andreas Papadimitropoulos, passed away on Saturday afternoon after a battle with an aggressive form of cancer.
The announcement came via the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia – District of Melbourne’s Facebook page.
“It is with deep sadness that we inform the faithful that Fr Andreas Papadimitropoulos, Parish Priest at St Catherine Church, East Malvern, has fallen asleep in the Lord early this afternoon Saturday 13th February, 2021,” the statement reads.
“Father’s family thank you for your prayers and condolences. Funeral details will be released shortly.”
Parishioners who had been touched by the presence of Father Andreas flooded the post with heartfelt messages of condolences and at times, reminisced on his incredible influence on their lives.
“Priest for my wedding and my daughter’s christenings, he was one of the most understanding and caring priests we know. Thoughts are with his family in this time of need,” wrote one parishioner, Dimi Dimas.
Only two weeks earlier, the parish had held a special Euxelaion Service for the health and recovery of Father Andreas.
Winter is almost over in Greece but cold front ‘Medea’ has been sweeping across the country bringing heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures.
Temperatures in western Macedonia, in the north of Greece, dropped to a frigid -10 degrees Celsius on Sunday, while in Thessaloniki, the temperature was a frosty -2 degrees Celsius and snow covered the town.
In the northern central Macedonia region, snowfall continues but has abated, according to local authorities, but frost will settle in and make roads treacherous, meteorologists warn. Local authorities say travelling could be treacherous without snow chains.
The highlight of the tournament so far has been watching the bromance between Greek Australians Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios grow, who despite their loss against Wesley Koolhof and Łukasz Kubot this afternoon, certainly secured their title as the 2021 Australian Open’s greatest ‘bromance’.
Kokkinakis and Kyrgios were reunited on the court only a day after they defeated Lloyd Harris and Julian Knowle in straight sets. Speaking about their on-court discussions during the match yesterday, the pair delivered one of the most comedic interviews of the tournament.
Kyrgios: “I’m a taken man, so he was talking to me about girls most of the time.”
Kokkinakis: “He’s throwing me under a bus. But that’s not true, we were just having fun.”
👑@NickKyrgios takes the Mickey out of @DjokerNole in one of the funniest walk outs in tennis history! 🤣🤣🤣
Kyrgios then joked the only thing that had changed since their last match was Kokkinakis’ direct messages.
The pair arrived to the court on-time this afternoon, ready to face experienced double’s opponents of Koolhof and Kubot. The Dutch and Polish tennis players started the set strong, delivering instant service game pressure and refusing to give a break away.
Kokkinakis and Kyrgios, despite their strong chemistry, looked slightly outmatched in the first set. A mix of expert strategy and strength from Koolhof and Kubot saw them get a break point against the Greek Australians and keep a safe distance away.
Despite putting some increased pressure after their point break loss, Kyrgios and Kokkinakis proceeded to lose the first set 6-3.
Koolhof and Kubot began the second set just as strong as the first, working in unison to predict their opponents movements. The two earned a break point in Kyrgios and Kokkinakis’ second service game, putting the Greek-Australians in a difficult position to secure their future in the tournament.
Like the previous set, the two Greek-Australians bounced back to pressure their opponents, coming close in three games to secure a break point. Unfortunately for Kyrgios and Kokkinakis, they were unable to break their experienced opponents and lost the match in straight sets, 6-3 6-4.
Despite hitting double the amount of aces, the boy-hood friends were clearly outmatched by their more experienced 4th seed opponents.
Yianni Cartledge will present a two-part series of lectures entitled “Greek War of Independence (1821-1832): Between history and ‘mythistory” as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne and in collaboration with National Union of Greek-Australian Students (NUGAS). The first part will be presented on Thursday 18 February 2021 at 7.00pm.
This two-part series looks at the Greek War of Independence from a range of critical perspectives. Part I examines the relevant background knowledge of the Revolution, establishing Greece and the Greek people’s place in the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the world during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. These include important periods, such as the Modern Greek Enlightenment, as well as the rise of revolutionary ideas and nationalism in the Balkans. The question of ‘who is a Greek’ is also unravelled, helping contextualise the beginnings of the Uprising. Part I then explores the beginnings of the Revolution and the initial outbreak.
Part II will then deal with the War of Independence itself, including, but not limited to, the massacres, the civil war, the Egyptian invasion and Navarino. It will then cap the study off with the aftermath of the war and its modern legacy. Although much is covered, this series hopes to provide a diverse range of perspectives, ideas and meanings, and to help build a constructive discussion of the War on its 200th anniversary.
Yianni Cartledge is a candidate for PhD at Flinders University, South Australia. Having a passion for Greek, Ottoman, British and Australian histories, as well as migration and diaspora histories, his current project aims to combine all these areas. The thesis, titled ‘Aegean Islander Migration to the United Kingdom and Australia, 1815-1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building and Integration’, will investigate the cases of the Chiots of London and Ikarians of South Australia.
His 2018 honours thesis explored the 1822 Chios Massacre under the Ottoman Empire and the ways in which it affected British attitudes towards the Greeks, leading to Christian-humanitarian intervention. An article deriving from his thesis, titled ‘The Chios Massacre (1822) and early British Christian-humanitarianism’, was published in February 2020 in Historical Research. He recently published a biographical entry of South Australian fisherman and seafood merchant George Angelakis in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Karolos Koun was a Greek theater director. His real name was Karolos Koen and he was born in Bursa in 1908.
He completed his secondary education at Robert College in Istanbul and later studied aesthetics at University of Sorbonne. In 1929, he became a professor of English language at the College of Athens.
Along with his students at the college, he staged many works of Aristophanes (including The Birds, The Frogs, Cyclops and Plutus) and Shakespeare (A Midsummer’s Night Dream). He founded the People’s Theatre in 1934 and collaborated with various troupes.
In 1942, he founded the Art Theatre, where he staged works by Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Pirandello, and for the first time in Greece after the liberation from the German Occupation, Lorca, Tennessee Willilams, Arthur Miller, etc. In the same year, he also founded the Drama School at his theatre, in which studied some of the most important directors and actors of the post-war Greek generation.
Due to financial difficulties, the Art Theatre had to close down in 1949, and reopened in 1954 in the form of a theatre in the round.
Between 1950 and 1953, Koun collaborated with the National Theatre, directing works by Anton Chekhov (Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters), Pirandello (Henry IV), etc.
After the reopening of the Art Theatre, Koun also decided to introduce the new trends of the foreign post-war theatre to the Greek audience, including Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter and Dario Fo. He also staged the work of Greek authors, like Kampanellis, Kechaedes, Skourti, Anagnostakis and Efthimiadis, as well as the classic works of the Ancient Greek tragedians and Aristophanes.
In 1959, he staged Aristophanes’ The Birds at his theatre, causing a lot of controversy due to the progressive form in which it was presented. He later staged ancient drama in various festivals, such as in Athens and Epidavros, and later participated in the “Theatre of Nations”, staging plays in Paris, London, Zurich, Munich, Moscow, Leningrad, Warsaw, and Venice.
In 1984, the Greek government offered a lot in Plaka, in order to inaugurate the Karolos Koun Theatre.
He received various awards, including the Phoenix, the Silver Award of the Academy of Athens, and the Award of the Theatre of Nations.
Koun died at the age of 78 on February 14, 1987.
In his will, he bequeathed the title Art Theatre to three of his colleagues, asking them to continue their collaboration at the Karolos Koun Art Theatre.
Soft and with an unexpected crunchy bite, these delicious treats are very popular among chocolate lovers all year round.
Best part? They’re simple to make and no baking is required!
Ingredients
100 g walnuts
220 g tea biscuits
120 g butter
1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
150 g sweetened condensed milk
10 g brandy
15 g cocoa powder
350 g chocolate couverture, melted
1 tablespoon(s) honey
1 level teaspoon(s) cinnamon
Method
In a saucepan, add the butter and melt over medium heat.
In a food processor, add the cookies and walnuts.
Beat to break them up into pieces but you don’t want to finely ground them.
Transfer the mixture to a bowl and add the melted butter along with the sweetened condensed milk, ground cinnamon, cocoa powder, cognac, vanilla extract and honey.
Mix with a wooden spoon until all of the ingredients are completely combined.
Press down on the mixture with your hands to make it more compact and place it in a sheet of plastic wrap.
Roll it with your hands so it takes on the shape of a salami and wrap in the plastic wrap.
Lay out another 2 sheets of plastic wrap making sure they are touching each other and place the carioca roll on it.
Wrap it in the plastic wrap very tightly.
Refrigerate for 2-3 hours to chill or in the freezer for 1 hour.
When ready, remove the plastic coverings and cut into 1 cm slices.
Pick up each slice with a fork or a pair of tongs and dip it into the melted couverture.
Place on a sheet of parchment paper.
When the karioka is chilled, the couverture will harden but you can refrigerate again.
Greece ATP Cup player, Michalis Pervolarakis, has revealed he’s tested positive for COVID-19 after travelling from Australia to South Africa.
“I am being patient for this to pass… I am feeling well and I have no symptoms,” Pervolarakis told The Greek Herald, adding that the plan is to go to Cyprus after his quarantine period is finished.
Pervolarakis lost both of his singles matches last week against Australia’s John Millman and Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta at Melbourne Park. His last match was on Friday last week against Spain.
Tennis Australia confirmed to the Herald Sun that the 24-year-old tested negative for the coronavirus on Tuesday, February 9, when he flew out of Melbourne.
It’s unclear exactly when the 24-year-old left Melbourne, but he first broke the coronavirus news on his personal Instagram account.
Pervolarakis first broke the coronavirus news on his personal Instagram account.
“After a 24-plus hour travel day from Australia to South Africa I’ve been diagnosed positive to COVID-19,” Pervolarakis posted.
“I am completely asymptomatic at the moment and will have to quarantine in an isolation facility in Potchefstroom.
“I am not a person that complains, but I feel that I need to express my disappointment with the conditions we are in.”
Pervolarakis’s teammates in the ATP Cup last week were world No. 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas – who is into the last 16 at the Australian Open – Petros Tsitsipas and Markos Kalovelonis.
Pervolarakis is ranked 461 in the world in singles and did not compete in the Australian Open.
Tennis Australia has been contacted for comment, the Herald Sun says.
The iconic Aussie duo of Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios combined to take on Lloyd Harris and Julian Knowle, winning in straight sets 6-2 6-4.
A quiet arena isn’t normally what Kyrgios and Kokkinakis would prefer to play under, but as the state went into stage-four lockdown, the pair had no choice. Nevertheless, the two performed very strong together.
It didn’t help the two Australians coming in late to the match, receiving a code violation and disappointing looks from the umpire.
Despite this, they came out swinging. Kokkinakis and Kyrgios were helped by a poor service start from Harris and Knowle, who at the end of the first set had 6 double faults.
Gaining a double break point lead, it was a clear road to a first set victory. The first set wasn’t without a few trademark style shots from Kyrgios, who got to show them again after a disappointing exit to Dominic Thiem last night.
As the two entered the second set, their Austrian and South African opponents came in just as hard. The two pressured the Australians, but again were no match for the expert returns delivered by Kyrgios.
Kokkinakis and Kyrgios managed to claim a break point, holding their lead until the end of the second set. The Greek Australians wrapped the match up after only 62 minutes, winning 6-2 6-4.
The first generation of Greek Australians is ageing, and concurrently dementia rates are increasing. Currently there are 447,115 Australians living with dementia and this number is expected to surpass 1 million by 2058.
National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) is calling for assistance from the Greek-Australian community to evaluate three new Greek-language short films about dementia.
The films, developed by NARI’s Moving Pictures project, look to inform the first generation Greek-Australians on the first steps of the process of diagnosis.
“Dementia is a massive issue in the general community and but also in CALD communities. So when I say CALD, I refer to culturally and linguistically diverse communities… Unfortunately, CALD communities frequently receive a diagnosis late, seek out services late, and those things really lead to poor prognosis,” Dr Josefine Antoniades, the Moving Pictures Project Manager, said to The Greek Herald.
“A lot of the resources that are available for CALD communities and the Greek community. Although the Greek community is very well served, (resources) are often really disjointed and hard to find.”
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“So we wanted to try and address this issue by working with local communities.”
Moving Pictures have already developed films for five different multicultural communities, including the Italian, Spanish and Vietnamese communities, looking to add five more to the roster. While other dementia-information films are already available, as Dr Antoniades said, what distinguishes Moving Pictures is the fact that they interview the carers of people living with dementia and service providers in-language.
“So the films are actually the carers talking about their experience, the service providers talking about their experiences and also some general advice,” Dr Antoniades said.
“It serves two purposes: To normalise it, and it provides some really heartfelt stories, so people can really connect with these films.”
The first film, Detection and Diagnosis, observes the moments where dementia is noticed and how it is managed by the patient. The second film then focuses on what the patients did when they realised there was a problem. The final film, the Carer Journey, explores the role and health of the carer.
“What we noticed in the interviews is that carers are not very good at taking care of themselves,” Dr Antoniades explained.
“So they’ll put their loved ones first and they tend to forget about themselves because they get so busy with taking care of someone else that they just forget about themselves.
“So in that particular film, we sort of focus on the carer and saying that it’s really important to take care of yourself. There are services available. Some communities are better than others to have uptake of those services, but it’s also a matter of availability.”
In the past, Moving Pictures has gone out and screened it with community groups to get instant feedback. Due to the pandemic, this is no longer possible.
“This time around we’ve decided to run it online and so our evaluation covers a few questions before and after, to gain information around whether people actually learn anything from the films and if they change their attitudes based on the films.
“Because there can be some stigma around it, often based around misconceptions of what dementia might be.”
The films will be free to watch online, with Dr Antoniades saying they only wish to raise awareness of dementia and ensure people obtain health equity.
Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas has taken a convincing victory against Swedish tennis professional Mikael Ymer, winning in straight sets 6-4 6-1 6-2.
Silence filled the Melbourne Arena as the two faced each other on the hard court, footsteps echoing to the empty ceiling. The players were often pitted against each other as juniors, with Tsitsipas describing Ymer as “someone I’ve known since he was a baby.”
Strong serves by Tsitsipas showed early positive signs for the Greek. More experienced in a grand slam setting, Tsitsipas clearly had the advantage with regards to his strategic ball placement. Ymer rarely had a chance to try and gain a break point.
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Meanwhile, Tsitsipas punished the Swede for every soft shot. The Greek had multiple opportunities for a break point early on, but Ymer managed to claim his points until his penultimate service game, where Tsitsipas blistered the balls and made it extremely difficult for the Swede. Tsitsipas took the first set 6-4.
Ymer came into the next set with some more intensity, finally using his strong forearm to his advantage. Despite pushing him to a deuce in Tsitsipas’ first service game, Ymer didn’t carry that strength into the following games.
The Greek managed to take two break points to clean up the second set 6-1.
While the Greek managed to take an immediate break point in the start of the third set, Ymer shocked Tsitsipas to take the following game and keep the two players at a level competition.
This didn’t last for long, however, with Tsitsipas getting back on his feet and claiming a return break point. The Greek continued this hot-streak to the end of the set, winning the match 6-4 6-1 6-2.
Compliments need to be given to the 5th seed player, who showed no signs of fault throughout the course of the match. The Greek kept calm and composed after every set win, treating every game as important as the last.
“I see every day as an opportunity to get closer to winning a slam,” Tsitsipas said in a post-match interview.
