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SUMMARY:Sofia Mitsola in Conversation with Alyce Mahon
DESCRIPTION:Join London-based artist Sofia Mitsola and Alyce Mahon\, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Cambridge\, for an in-conversation spanning Mitsola’s art practice. The conversation marks the launch of the monograph\, Sofia Mitsola: Sisterly Affections\, published by DCV. Featuring the essay The Coquetterie of Sofia Mitsola by Alyce Mahon\, the conversation follows the ongoing dialogue between the two speakers.   \nMitsola’s paintings investigate the female form. Her invented characters are informed by diverse references from ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology\, the writing of Vladimir Nabokov to Gustav Klimt. Depictions of goddesses or mythical creatures rather than real people\, are set in simple geometric backgrounds\, imagined architecture or Cycladic islands and through them\, she plays with ideas of voyeurism\, confrontation\, and power.  
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/sofia-mitsola-in-conversation-with-alyce-mahon/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:4th Global Congress on Addiction Medicine\, Behavioral Health & Psychiatric Research
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the 4th Global Congress on Addiction Medicine\, Behavioral Health & Psychiatric Research (GABP 2026)\, a Hybrid Event taking place on October 15–16\, 2026\, in Paris\, France. Centered on the theme “From Brain to Behaviour: Advancing Integrated Care in Addiction and Mental Health\,” this global forum brings together leading experts to discuss the latest developments in behavioral health\, psychiatric research\, and addiction treatment. Designed for psychiatrists\, psychologists\, addiction specialists\, clinicians\, researchers\, and healthcare professionals\, the conference provides a timely platform for sharing insights\, innovative approaches\, and impactful clinical findings.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/4th-global-congress-on-addiction-medicine-behavioral-health-psychiatric-research/
LOCATION:Millennium Hotel Paris Charles De Gaulle\, Zone Hoteliere 2 Allee Du Verger Roissy En France\, 95700\, Paris\, France\, paris\,france\, WA\, 95700
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T093000
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DTSTAMP:20260814T090542Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Andrew Wilson with Dimitris Ioannou and Kostas Stasinopoulos
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a breakfast reception\, followed by a conversation and Q&A discussing Giorgos Ioannou’s expansive artistic practice and methodology. The talk is led by independent critic\, historian and curator Andrew Wilson\, who invites Kostas Stasinopoulos\, Director of Exhibitions and Programmes at KYKLOS\, and Dimitris Ioannou\, artist\, the son of Giorgos Ioannou\, to engage and reflect on Ioannou’s work. \n\nThis conversation accompanies our exhibition A Different Kind of Pop: Giorgos Ioannou’s Works 1960s – 1970s\, 8 October-19 November. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Hellenic Centre’s official air carrier\, Aegean Airlines. \n\nImage: Giorgos Ioannou\, Thinking On the Way\, 1974\, oil on linen\,100 x 70 cm\, courtesy the Artist’s Estate and Kalfayan Galleries\, Athens.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/in-conversation-andrew-wilson-with-dimitris-ioannou-and-kostas-stasinopoulos/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261016T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261016T110000
DTSTAMP:20260814T090609Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Irene Y. Panagopoulos\, Katerina Hadji & Dr. Nayia Yiakoumaki
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to collect as a way of making sense of the world? What lies behind the desire to pursue the unattainable? A morning conversation on collecting\, curating\, and the ideas that shape how Greece is imagined and reinvented. Founder of the eponymous collection Irene Y. Panagopoulos\, Katerina Hadji\, curator of the show\, in conversation with Dr. Nayia Yiakoumaki\, Director of the Hellenic Centre\, come together to explore the ideas behind the exhibition Revisiting: Fernweh\, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands. At the centre of their conversation lies the act of collecting – not simply as gathering of objects\, but as a way of ordering the world and deciding which stories are kept\, shown\, and passed on – a desire that extends naturally to Fernweh itself: the longing for distant places that gives the exhibition its name\, and the desire to understand the world through knowledge\, memory\, and imagination. \n\nFollowing breakfast at 09:30\, the discussion runs from 10:00 to 10:45. \nImage: Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965)\, Lord Byron\, c. 1989\, oil on panel\, 38.1 x 35 cm\, Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/in-conversation-irene-y-panagopoulos-katerina-hadji-dr-nayia-yiakoumaki/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T203000
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SUMMARY:CZECH TRAITORS AND THE MEANING OF CZECH TREASON
DESCRIPTION:‘Traitors’ are a very popular subject today\, and the idea that ‘treason’ is lurking in society is an age-old concept. The talk will focus on how traitors have regularly appeared in modern Czech history since the 19th century. As a small nation with leaders constantly striving to establish a special identity or independence in central Europe\, Czechs could often appear as traitors to those who saw them as disloyal or rebellious. Yet if many Czech traitors would be interpreted by the nation as heroes or liberators\, others could be seen as simply evil because they betrayed the nation to Habsburg\, Nazi or Communist oppressors. The talk will focus on three notorious phases of ‘Czech treason’: the Omladina trial of the 1890s; the treason of Czech leaders during the First World War; and the controversial case of Emanuel Moravec during the Nazi occupation. Each of them reveals something about Czech identity during years of national crisis. Each also shows that treason itself is a slippery concept\, whose meaning is usually in dispute until one side finally wins the power struggle\n\nMark Cornwall is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. He has researched and taught modern Czech history for over 30 years\, and lived in Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s. He is currently researching the communist secret police (StB)\, and also writing a book about treason\, including Czech traitors\, in the late Habsburg Empire. In 2022 the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded Prof. Cornwall the ‘Palacký Medal for Merit in the Historical Sciences’ for his work on Czech history.\n\n Price £15 including a glass of wine
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/czech-traitors-and-the-meaning-of-czech-treason-2/
LOCATION:Embassy of the Czech Republic\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T200000
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SUMMARY:Spinning Myths\, Painting Shadows: Women and the Origins of Greek Art
DESCRIPTION:The Origin of Painting: Greek Women Artists from Antiquity to the Present is a lecture series that sets out to trace the remarkable history of Greek women’s contributions to the visual arts over nearly three millennia. \n\nAccording to Pliny the Elder\, the origins of painting lie in the gesture of a Greek woman. As her beloved prepared to leave\, Kora of Sicyon traced the outline of his shadow on a wall in an attempt to preserve his image. This founding myth of Western art has been revisited by generations of artists\, yet the women who followed in Kora’s footsteps have remained largely overlooked in art history. \n\nIn the first lecture of the series art historian Gelly Gryntaki discusses the role of women in mythology and ancient societies. She shines a light on the earliest female weavers and ancient female painters for whom evidence still exists\, from Arachne and Penelope to Timarete and Anaxandra. \n\nThe second lecture\, in December\, explores the Greek female painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries\, women’s roles\, political and social conditions\, and the general difficulties women faced in becoming artists: Eleni Altamoura\, Sofia Laskaridou\, Thalia Flora-Karavia.\n\nFuture lectures in 2027 will turn to sculpture and focus on the work of Natalia Mela\, Alex Mylona\, and Nafsika Pastra. The series will culminate in the bold experimental practices of the late 20th century – performance\, installation\, and video work by Maria Karavela\, Niki Kanagkini\, and Klonari/Thomadaki.  \n\nEach lecture is richly illustrated and densely informative\, offering participants an encounter with works\, lives\, and contexts that have too often been overlooked. Following each session\, attendees receive a carefully curated bibliography along with recommendations for films\, documentaries\, websites\, and cultural texts.   
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/spinning-myths-painting-shadows-women-and-the-origins-of-greek-art/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T203000
DTSTAMP:20260921T103432Z
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SUMMARY:Viktorie Hanišová: The Mushroom Gatherer
DESCRIPTION:Why do Czechs love mushrooms so much? And what happens when the forest becomes a refuge from the rest of the world? Join acclaimed Czech novelist Viktorie Hanišová to celebrate the English-language publication of The Mushroom Gatherer (Houbařka)\, a compelling novel of solitude\, family\, memory and the longing for human connection.\n\nDeep in the Bohemian Forest\, Sára lives a life of her own making. For seven years\, she has followed the same woodland paths\, gathering mushrooms to sell and keeping the rest of the world at a safe distance. Her days are quiet\, solitary and meticulously ordered – until the death of her mother begins to unsettle everything she has tried to leave behind.\n\nAs Sára sorts through her baskets of chanterelles and boletes\, she is also forced to confront the memories\, wounds and complicated family ties that have shaped her life. The forest offers her freedom and refuge\, but it also becomes the place where the past catches up with her.\n\nIn conversation\, Hanišová will explore the novel’s themes of isolation\, vulnerability\, family and trauma\, as well as the distinctly Czech passion for mushroom picking.\n\nViktorie Hanišová is a Czech novelist\, translator\, and teacher\, widely regarded as one of the most distinctive voices of her generation. She studied English and German at Charles University in Prague and debuted in 2015 with the novel Anežka. Her subsequent books include The Mushroom Gatherer (as Houbařka\, 2018)\, Rekonstrukce (2019)\, the short story collection Dlouhá trať (2020)\, Beton a hlína (2021)\, and the novel Neděle odpoledne (2022). Her political novella Tvůj táta je v ohni is forthcoming in 2026.\n\nViktorie Hanišová\, The Mushroom Gatherer\, translated by Véronique Firkusny\, Seagull Books\, 2025\, 300p\n\nAdmission: £5 (+ Eventbrite fee)\n\nThis event is part of the 30th Made in Prague Festival organised by Czech Centre London
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/viktorie-hanisova-the-mushroom-gatherer/
LOCATION:Czech Embassy Cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Czech Centre London":MAILTO:info@czechcentre.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261029T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261029T200000
DTSTAMP:20260814T090705Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Christos Dikeakos  
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers a journey through five decades of Christos Dikeakos’ artistic practice. In conversation with curator Emily Butler\, Dikeakos will reflect on key works that marked his career\, including the series  Sites and Places: Athens  (1986-1997).  At once archival and conceptual\, these works reflect on the layered nature of history\, the continual movement of cultures\, and the enduring\, shape-shifting presence of Greek mythology within present day life. These investigations led to the series Sites and Places: Vancouver (1990-2015)\, a series that engages deeply with the pre-colonial histories of North America\, while also probing the mythic and deep historical strata within a place.  \n\nIn parallel\, Dikeakos has a long–standing fascination with collecting. The Collectors comprises a series of insightful portraits of artists\, patrons\, curators\, writers and art lovers\, which reveal the inside world of collections\, providing a close view of the relationships that people forge with objects that fascinate them. Whether expansive urban landscapes or intimate scenes from orchards in the Oakanagan Valley\, Dikeakos’ photographs foreground the multi-layered nature of reality and examine the semiotics of image and language and the interplay between memory and place.  
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/artist-talk-christos-dikeakos/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T200000
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SUMMARY:Mnemosyne Grove: Photography\, Memory and Time | Georgia Metaxas in Conversation with Dr. Marta Weiss
DESCRIPTION:Mnemosyne Grove is Georgia Metaxas’ first monograph\, published by Perimeter Editions (Australia\, 2024). Using the olive tree as its central motif\, the work traces connections between land\, family archives\, migration\, and storytelling\, reflecting on photography’s capacity to serve as a nexus for multiple personal histories. \n\nDrawing on her Greek-Australian heritage\, Metaxas journeys between two sites of familial significance in Greece: an olive grove in Palairos\, where ancient trees named after women in the maternal line have stood for over five centuries\, and Ithaca\, the island from which her father’s family migrated to Australia in 1901. Through photographs\, archival materials\, and inherited narratives\, Mnemosyne Grove considers memory as a porous and evolving process\, one shaped as much by absence\, imagination\, and retelling as by historical fact. The project is further informed by Homer’s Odyssey\, a text whose themes resonate with Metaxas’ own journey. \n\nGeorgia Metaxas will be in conversation with Dr. Marta Weiss\, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Their discussion will explore the making of Mnemosyne Grove and the ways the work has continued to evolve\, from an exploration of memory and family history towards an ongoing investigation of photography’s relationship to time\, repetition\, return\, and regeneration. 
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/mnemosyne-grove-photography-memory-and-time-georgia-metaxas-in-conversation-with-dr-marta-weiss/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260814T090803Z
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SUMMARY:Greece’s Gender Divide: Femicide Through the Lens
DESCRIPTION:How do films and the media shape our understanding of violence against women and what does it distract us from? This all-female panel brings together former Judge Betty Iliadou\, Dr. Tonia Kazakopoulou and Dr. Afroditi Koulaxi to examine how coverage of femicide\, centered on victimanhood and emotional spectacle\, can distract from political and legislative failures and even shape judicial verdicts.\n\nThe discussion is grounded in two emblematic Greek films recently screened at The Garden Cinema as part of their ongoing Greek Salad film strand: Mihalis Cacoyannis’ Stella (1955)\, whose heroine defies misogynist convention even as the film remains shaped by the male gaze\, and Tonia Marketaki’s John the Violent (1973)\, which uses a real-life murder as a springboard for a feminist inquiry that feels startlingly radical decades on.\n\nUsing excerpts from both films as a starting point for their conversation\, our speakers ask how the moral codes of the 1950s and 60s still echo today\, touching on gender inequality\, patriarchy\, and the ways violence against women continues to be justified.\n\n\n\nThis event builds on our 2025 event\, Greece’s Gender Divide: Unmasking the Crisis of Femicides. \n \nThe Q&A is moderated by Erifili Missiou\, Filmmaker and Head Curator & Programmer at The Garden Cinema\, London. \nPresented in collaboration with The Garden Cinema.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/greeces-gender-divide-femicide-through-the-lens/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261128T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261128T160000
DTSTAMP:20260814T090847Z
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SUMMARY:Greek Tragedy Upside Down: Electra and Medea Through the Lenses of Contemporary Queer and Feminist Theory 
DESCRIPTION:Join award winning director\, choreographer\, performer and dramatist Mayra Stergiou and multi-award-winning\, published artist\, writer and researcher Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh as they delve into how approaching tragedy through the queer and feminist lenses disrupts inherited hierarchies of gender\, power\, time\, and authorship embedded within the classical canon. 
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/greek-tragedy-upside-down-electra-and-medea-through-the-lenses-of-contemporary-queer-and-feminist-theory/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks,Theatre & Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260814T090910Z
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SUMMARY:The Uses of Oppression: Greek Newspapers in the Ottoman Empire 1830-62
DESCRIPTION:Marina Sakali\, Lady Marks\, discusses her book The Uses of Oppression\, with Dr Şükrü Ilıcak (Αssociate Professor\, University of Athens)\, following the development of the Ottoman Greek press from its birth in 1830 until 1862\, employing the vivid reflections of its editors\, correspondents\, advertisers\, commentators\, and readers as a lens through which to view the everyday lives of this generation of Ottoman Greeks.  \n\nDuring the middle decades of the 19th century\, a generation of Ottoman Greeks was caught up in radical social and political changes\, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat. The Ottoman Greek press was both a product and an agent of these changes.  \n\nThe Uses of Oppression follows the development of the Ottoman Greek press from its birth in 1830 until 1862\, employing the vivid reflections of its editors\, correspondents\, advertisers\, commentators\, and readers as a lens through which to view the everyday lives of this generation of Ottoman Greeks – their social aspirations\, their reactions to political events\, their reception of Western-style norms\, and other contemporary issues.  \n\nIn collaboration with the Anglo-Turkish Society.  
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/the-uses-of-oppression-greek-newspapers-in-the-ottoman-empire-1830-62/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261210T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261210T200000
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SUMMARY:Michael Anastassiades In Conversation with Writer and Curator Emily King
DESCRIPTION:The designer Michael Anastassiades in–conversation with writer and curator Emily King. Discussing Anastassiades’ recent exhibitions at the Melas Martinos gallery in Athens and the Taka Ishii gallery Tokyo\, Anastassiades and King explore the process of design\, in particular its fundamentally iterative nature.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/michael-anastassiades-in-conversation-with-writer-and-curator-emily-king/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261217T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261217T200000
DTSTAMP:20260814T091015Z
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SUMMARY:Proofs of the Impossible: Three Greek Women Painters\,1821–1960
DESCRIPTION:The Origin of Painting: Greek Women Artists from Antiquity to the Present is a lecture series that sets out to trace the remarkable history of Greek women’s contributions to the visual arts over nearly three millennia.  \n\nAccording to Pliny the Elder\, the origins of painting lie in the gesture of a Greek woman. As her beloved prepared to leave\, Kora of Sicyon traced the outline of his shadow on a wall in an attempt to preserve his image. This founding myth of Western art has been revisited by generations of artists\, yet the women who followed in Kora’s footsteps have remained largely overlooked in art history. \n\nThe first lecture began in antiquity with Timarete and Anaxandra.  \n\nIn the second lecture of the series The Origin of Painting: Greek Women Artists from Antiquity to the Present\, art historian Gelly Gryntaki explores the Greek female painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries\, women’s roles\, political and social conditions\, and the general difficulties women faced in becoming artists: Eleni Altamoura\, Sofia Laskaridou\, Thalia Flora-Karavia. \n\nFuture lectures in 2027 will turn to sculpture and focus on the work of Natalia Mela\, Alex Mylona\, and Nafsika Pastra. The series will culminate in the bold experimental practices of the late 20th century – performance\, installation\, and video work by Maria Karavela\, Niki Kanagkini\, and Klonari/Thomadaki.  \n\nEach lecture is richly illustrated and densely informative\, offering participants an encounter with works\, lives\, and contexts that have too often been overlooked. Following each session\, attendees receive a carefully curated bibliography along with recommendations for films\, documentaries\, websites\, and cultural texts.  
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/proofs-of-the-impossible-three-greek-women-painters1821-1960/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org
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