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  • 3 Greeks among the brightest young entrepreneurs in the world

    3 Greeks among the brightest young entrepreneurs in the world

    ΓενικάForbes magazine published the list “30 under 30” for 2016, featuring 600 of the brightest young entrepreneurs, breakout talents and change agents in 20 different sectors. They were chosen from over 15,000 nominees overall. Forbes is clearly good at the guessing game of who’s about to be increasingly important each year. 3 Greeks are among the list in 3 different categories: Art-Style, Marketing & Advertising and manufacturing-industry.

    See below who are the 3 Greeks features in the best “30 under 30”:

    1. Athena Papadopoulos – 27 years old

    Athena Papadopoulos is in the 23rd place in the list of the 30 brightest talents in the category Art & Style. She is an artist and sculptor. She was included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries, received considerable attention for a show installed in a hotel room during Frieze London in 2014, and landed a solo exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection in London this past January.

    2. Nick Cromydas – 29 years old

    He is in the 6th place in the category Marketing & Advertising. Cromydas is the founder of New Coast Ventures, an Illinois-based digital innovation company.

    3. Jeff Stefanis – 25 years old

    Jeff Stefanis is in the 27th place in the category Manufacturing-industry. He is the cofounder of Riide. The electric bike, Riide, is specifically designed for “city-proud” millennials. The company recently won backing from the district’s Digital DC Tech Fund.

    (www.ellines.com)

  • GOCMV offering new summer course on Hellenism

    GOCMV offering new summer course on Hellenism

    ΕκπαίδευσηTransterritorial Hellenism is the next course being offered this summer at the Greek Community of Melbourne’s Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture.

    Run in association with the School of Languages and Linguistics of La Trobe University, the course will explore issues in the modern construction of ethno national, civic, multiple and other identities.

    The concept of Hellenism specifically is said to have evolved through various parts of the modern world, including Istanbul, Izmir, Thessaloniki, London, Nicosia, New York, and Melbourne.

    The course will also explore the life of Greeks under Ottoman rule, and as students and scholars, victims of genocide, political exiles, guest workers, Europeans, and citizens of multi-cultural states, while also dissecting the influence of the Greek Orthodox Church, Greek irredentism, political conflict and modernisation on the formation of Greek identity.

    Set to be an interesting six weeks, Transterrirtorial Hellenism will involve six hours of classes per week and is open to all.

    Transterritorial Hellenism commences on 12 January, 2016 and ends 11 February, 2016 at the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, 168 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, VIC.

    For more information, contact Dimitris Gonis via email [email protected]

    (Πηγή: http://neoskosmos.com)

  • Beware of Greeks building smart cars

    Beware of Greeks building smart cars

    ΠάρθιμοςGeorge Parthimos presents his plan for an innovation centre linking Melbourne and Detroit, to develop applications for internet-connected vehicles.

    Read more at neoskosmos.com

  • Greeks Establish Successful Theatrical Group in Dubai

    Greeks Establish Successful Theatrical Group in Dubai

    Πολιτισμός“It is humbling to realize how much in common you have with people who were away from their country each for different reasons and at different stages in their life,” said Greek professional actress and theater scholar Vicki Koumoutsi, who currently lives in Dubai.

    The actress wanted to find a way to express herself through the arts while also promoting Greek theatrical culture in the United Arab Emirates. Therefore, she created a theatrical group called “Scenes and Skenes” in Dubai, which consists of amateur actors.

    “The theater and more generally art, has the magical ability to become the thread that binds us allowing us to maintain our cultural identity while providing entertainment and projecting our Greek culture,” she explained.

    Dubai currently hosts many Greeks who work under difficult conditions but garner good wages. The group is an outlet, a means of entertainment, both for the Greek Diaspora members and for the Arabs who attend their performances.

    All group members wish to bring a smile to people’s face through their art, so they are supporting the nonprofit organization Emfasis Foundation. The organization was the brainchild of a group of Greek expatriates, who sought to give immediate and effective solutions to growing social problems like homelessness, lack of medical insurance, one-parent families, as well as to support the fight against child labor.

    The group’s first theatrical season kicked off on November 7 in Dubai at Ductac theater with the comedy play “Dad…don’t die again on a Friday” by Alexandros Rigas and Dimitrios Apostolou.

    (http://world.greekreporter.com)