- Born in Greece to a Greek mother, and American father.
- Speaks Greek fluently and maintains fluency by teaching Greek at the elementary school level.
- President of the Hellenic Cultural Society of Rochester, NY since 2007
Greetings! Thank you to all who came to our recent screening of the Greek movie “Her Job”, by Nikos Labôt. The event marked our first event since we “shut down” in 2020 with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was great to see some new attendees to our event.
Our next event will be at the Greek Festival, run by the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. This year, the festival will pretty much return to it’s pre-pandemic scale. As in the past, the HCSRi will have a booth there with a selection of books for sale and sharing of some interesting Greek cultural information. Please, stop by and chat with up. Learn directly from the board members about out organization. You will be glad you did!
The Hellenic Cultural Society is excited about its first event in 2022 — the first since January 2020!
The Society is screening a Greek movie:Her Job /Η δουλειά της, by Nikos Labot. The movie is in Greek with English subtitles. We have acquire this movie directly from the distributor in Greece. It has not been shown publicly in the US — therefore, a real treat.
The event is free to members, friends – everyone. We will also be having a pre-show social with refreshments. Please, come and join us, get to know us – again.
Showing When and Where
Sat., April 30, 7:30 pm Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, 962 East Ave, Rochester, NY (Directions – map)
Movie Summary
Her Job takes a sensitive look at how work and autonomy can change a person’s outlook.
A Film by Nikos Labot
Panayiota gets for the first time a job as a cleaner in an attempt to support her family. Even though in her work environment she faces a ruthless system of exploitation, she spends the happiest period of her life so far. Unfortunately, this is not to last for long as the first layoffs are to arrive soon.
The human dimension of the socioeconomic turmoil of contemporary Greece is distilled into a simple and very effective story of one woman’s employment and unlikely liberation.
Winner of 10 international Film Awards — including:
Best Film Press Award and Prix Special du Jury, Cinema Mediterraneen de Bruxelles 2018
HAPPY NEW YEARfrom the HCSRI board! ΚΑΛΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΤΥΧΗ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ!
“Glendi” is the Hellenic Cultural Society’s annual Winter social. It is open to the whole community — a chance to mingle with Greeks in and around Rochester and enjoy an authentic Greek experience.
So, shake off the winter chill in a warm, friendly atmosphere with live music created by the AegeanDuo (musicians Steve Tavelaris & Nick Mouganis). Experience Greek hospitality, culture, popular Greek dancing.
Saturday, January 18, 2020, starting at 7:00 PM Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church 835 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14620 (get a map)
Tickets at the door: $20 for current HCSR members, $25 for non-members. Music, food and soft drinks included. Wine for purchase will be available.
PleaseRSVP to ensure your table (and since there is an occupancy limit). You can do so online, here, or by calling Archonda Demkou: (585) 690-5560 or by sending email with the number of people in your party to hcsri.rochester@gmail.com. Download the event poster.
Charlie Cowling is the archivist and a librarian at SUNY Brockport. He has been carefully sorting through a large collection of photographs on glass slides taken in various places around the world, cir. 1910-1930.
Vegetable and Fruit Market in Kalamata, Greece (1926)
These slides are normally projected using a Balopticon “magic” lantern/ projector, but Charlie’s mission is to digitize and preserve a curated set of the photos and make them available for public viewing. The multitude of images include a set of Greece. Charlie will share with us a “different” history of Greece and his goals for preserving it.
Charlie will mainly present the digitized images, but will give us a taste of Balopticon projector as well.
(Image credits: Drake Memorial Library, College of Brockport, NY. CC permissions)
Our Presenter
Charlie Cowling has been a librarian and the college archivist at the College at Brockport since 1990. The collection of lantern slides and projectors in the archives is a fascinating one that he enjoys sharing with others. On the personal side, Charlie attends St Paul’s Episcopal Church, and his wife Claudia is a member of Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church.
Saturday, May 4, 2019 @ 6:30 PM Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church 835 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14620 (get a map)
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As Athens, Greece, is emerging from an economic crisis and austerity, the cultural practice of street art has gained enormous significance as a self-authorized medium of public expression. The urban landscape has been deeply transformed by poetic scribbles, political slogans, portraits of protest and struggle, and expressive depictions of everyday hardships many face. The result is a living archive of the current historical moment.
Grip by Ino – mural on a building in Excharia, Athens
A mural dedicated to poor and homeless around the world.
Julia Tulke is a PhD student in the Visual and Cultural Studies, Graduate Program, at the University of Rochester, NY. Julia has documented and examined the role of political street art in Athens since 2013. Using materials collected since then, she will share what the walls of the city reveal about the connection between crisis, creativity, and social transformation.
Dr. Jennifer Kellogg will share stories and images of her experiences working with refugee children in Greece. In the summer of 2017, Dr. Kellogg spent three weeks with a group of volunteers working in urban Athens with unaccompanied refugee minors, otherwise known as homeless children.
Young refugees, uncertain of their future, feeling momentarily free.
This experience gave her a greater appreciation for the global refugee crisis, the effects that it has had on Greece, and the personal traumas that the refugees have suffered.
Please join us to learn more about the refugee crisis in Greece, and to discuss ways for us to help!
Saturday, April 14, 2018 @ 6:00 PM
Meeting Hall at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit
835 South Ave, Rochester, NY 14620 (get a map)
The Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Rochester, NY is celebrating 100 years of community service in 2017. Over the weekend of October 13-15, dignitaries from the Greek Orthodox Church in America, Greeks in the Rochester community and beyond will be celebrating in a variety of events.
The Hellenic Cultural Society of Rochester will be among several organizations, established by Greeks and members of the Annunciation Church, who will be presenting their founding history and impact to the Greek community and beyond. The event is open to the public.
October 13, 6 PM
in the Auditorium at Monroe Community College
Palikari deals with labor relations in early 20th century America, as told through the story
of Greek migrant and trade union activist Louis Tikas – aka Ilias Spantidakis (an immigrant from Crete). Director Nikos Ventouras and producer Lamprini Thoma chart the story of the great 1913-1914 coalminers’ strike and Louis Tikas’s murder, as it survives in oral and family traditions, as well as in official history. They interview historians and artists, some of them direct descendants of those striking miners. Labor movement emblem Mother Jones and industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. also make cameo appearances in this palimpsest of memory, struggle and deliverance. Tikas’s story has relevance for our time, in view of what is happening with the rights of workers and immigrants around the world.
Saturday, April 29, 2017 @ 8:00 PM
Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, 962 East Ave., Rochester, NY (Click for directions)
Saturday, March 28, 2015, 5:00 PM, Greek Orthodox Church Of the Annunciation, 962 East Ave., Rochester NY
Admission: No charge/ Free to the public. (Donations and membership to the HCSR are welcomed)
Abstract
Byzantine music notation for chanting
Nicoloas Tzetzis will present the relationship between prayer and musical expression in the Orthodox Church. He will give a brief explanation of the characteristics, cantors, and notations used in Byzantine Music. A series of examples of the “New Method” of Byzantine Notations along with musical performance will make the presentation live and engaging.
Biographical Sketch
Upon completing his B.A. at Binghamton University, Nicolaos Tzetzis received his M.Div. from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA. While at Holy Cross, he was a member of the St. Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir and served as one of the student Protopsaltes of the school. While serving in the choir, Nicolaos recorded two Byzantine Chant CDs: A Sacred Music Celebration (2010), and All Creation Trembled (2013). Nicolaos also traveled with the choir to Constantinople in 2013, where he performed at Hagia Eirene.
Greetings! September marks the start of the new event season for the Hellenic Cultural Society of Rochester, NY (2013-14). We are lining up a nice series of interesting presentations, as well as a couple of fun events: a new movie screening and a winter social gathering, with food and music. In the next two weeks, I will post a synopsis of this season’s program. Visit this site again and then mark your calendars to attend and join others for lively conversation that will expand your mind!
