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Odyssey Festival a great success
November 2025 The 18th Greek Odyssey Festival was officially launched on Friday the 3rd of October 2025 at the heart of Adelaide’s Greek Community, the historic Olympic Hall. The event included music by a local Greek band, dancing by the GOCSA Dance Academy and the announcement of the three winners of the 2025 Art Prize. In a moving ceremony, the President of the GOCSA together with the President of the Tramountanas North Association, Mr Ray North, unveiled the busts of South Australia’s first Greek migrant George Tramountanas North and of his wife Lydia North. On Sunday 5 October, Dr George Vassilacopoulos, a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, presented a lecture on the history of the Greek Community in Australia since the arrival of the first Greek migrants in the 1820’s. The lecture, was presented as part of the Odyssey Festival, in both Greek and English. It was given on Sunday 5 October at the Adelaide Olympic Hall and well attended by about 100 community members. Dr Vassilacopoulos’ spoke about how the Greek migrants managed to built a strong presence in Australian life through their struggles for migrants rights, Indigenous rights, by forming the Greek Communities which gave them representation and a voice in Australian politics and how they helped to build multiculturalism as the modern Australian way of life. As part of the Greek Odyssey Festival, Prof. Andrekos Varnavas of the Flinders University, presented a lecture at the Cyprus Club on Sunday 12 October, on the history of Cyprus migration to Australia. Presented by the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia, the 30th Greek Film Festival was launched on the 16th October at the NOVA Cinema, Prospect, celebrating three decades since the national event began. Opening film “Kapetan Mihalis”, a powerful historical drama based on Nikos Kazantzakis novel and directed by Kostas Haralambous, was screened at two cinemas simultaneously, attracting large crowds. The Adelaide Greek Film Festival featured a total of six Greek films, between the 16th and the 19th of October. Another Odyssey Festival event was, the new book launch by Panagiotis Mavraidis titled ‘Messenger from Afar’ on 8 October at the Olympic Hall. Lastly, a series of cooking classes took place at the Panayia Hall by local identities teaching community members how to prepare loukoumades, galaktoboureko and “Daktila”.
Greek Tribune
Adelaide, South Australia
© 2021 Greek Community Tribune All Rights Reserved
Odyssey Festival a great success
November 2025 The 18th Greek Odyssey Festival was officially launched on Friday the 3rd of October 2025 at the heart of Adelaide’s Greek Community, the historic Olympic Hall. The event included music by a local Greek band, dancing by the GOCSA Dance Academy and the announcement of the three winners of the 2025 Art Prize. In a moving ceremony, the President of the GOCSA together with the President of the Tramountanas North Association, Mr Ray North, unveiled the busts of South Australia’s first Greek migrant George Tramountanas North and of his wife Lydia North. On Sunday 5 October, Dr George Vassilacopoulos, a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, presented a lecture on the history of the Greek Community in Australia since the arrival of the first Greek migrants in the 1820’s. The lecture, was presented as part of the Odyssey Festival, in both Greek and English. It was given on Sunday 5 October at the Adelaide Olympic Hall and well attended by about 100 community members. Dr Vassilacopoulos’ spoke about how the Greek migrants managed to built a strong presence in Australian life through their struggles for migrants rights, Indigenous rights, by forming the Greek Communities which gave them representation and a voice in Australian politics and how they helped to build multiculturalism as the modern Australian way of life. As part of the Greek Odyssey Festival, Prof. Andrekos Varnavas of the Flinders University, presented a lecture at the Cyprus Club on Sunday 12 October, on the history of Cyprus migration to Australia. Presented by the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia, the 30th Greek Film Festival was launched on the 16th October at the NOVA Cinema, Prospect, celebrating three decades since the national event began. Opening film “Kapetan Mihalis”, a powerful historical drama based on Nikos Kazantzakis novel and directed by Kostas Haralambous, was screened at two cinemas simultaneously, attracting large crowds. The Adelaide Greek Film Festival featured a total of six Greek films, between the 16th and the 19th of October. Another Odyssey Festival event was, the new book launch by Panagiotis Mavraidis titled ‘Messenger from Afar’ on 8 October at the Olympic Hall. Lastly, a series of cooking classes took place at the Panayia Hall by local identities teaching community members how to prepare loukoumades, galaktoboureko and “Daktila”.
Greek Tribune
Adelaide, South Australia