Pharos: Greek Culture in Canada

Join Pharos on February 24, 2020 for a presentation by Ms. Sophia Karasouli-Milobar, Vancouver Public Library, on the VPL History of the Greeks in Vancouver Project: 'Greeks in Vancouver; Stories and Photos' Everyone is welcome

CHARMS WITHOUT ARMS: THE STORY OF THE VENUS DE MILO Join Pharos on Monday January 27th 2020 at 7:30 in the Hellenic Community Centre, 4500 Arbutus Street to hear Prof. Hector Williams, UBC Classics, discuss this famous statue and the complex history of its study and recepton over the past 200 years. Everyone is welcome.

Join Pharos, The Hellenic Canadian Cultural Society, on Monday January 27, 2020 to learn the history of The Venus de Milo, one of the world's greatest works of art. Everyone is welcome. Details below:

This Monday - everyone is welcome

This will be fun; everyone is welcome.

Very sad news: Dr. Andre Gerolymatos, Professor of History and holds the Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies, Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University and a contributor to The National Herald, died after a battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Dr. Gerolymatos served as the Director of the Hellenic Studies Program and as a co-director of the Terrorism, Risk, and Security Studies Profess...ional Master’s Program. As an expert in modern Greek history and international affairs, he served on the Canadian Advisory Council on National Security from 2010 to 2012. Dr. Gerolymatos received his MA in Classics and PhD in History from McGill University. Gerolymatos was the author of a number of books on Greek history, including 2004’s Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949, which argues that the Greek Civil War was the first engagement of the United States in the Cold War. His most recent books are The British and the Greek Resistance, 1936-1944: Spies, Saboteurs, and Partisans from Lexington Books and An International Civil War, Greece, 1943-1949 from Yale University Press. ( From The National Herald)

Yannis Fyssas (Ballads of Greece, vocals & guitar) and his Ballads of Greece Band: Yiorgos Yioldassis, (bouzouki), Yanni Mavrogeroge (guitar), Mark Hamilton (baglama) and Kostaki Roumeliotis (percussion) wowed a full house at Pharos with a fascinating survey of Greek popular music from the mid 20th Century up to the present..

Pharos Musical Evening April 29th, 2019