Cypriot Community of Toronto’s Cultural Festival

Date: Saturday, June 25th, 6:00pm to 2:00am & Sunday, June 26th, 3:00pm to 1:00am
Location: Cypriot Community Centre, 6 Thorncliffe Park Drive
Price: $7, children under 12: $3

The Cypriot Community of Toronto invites you to its Annual Cultural Summer Festival.  Come and taste our delicious Cypriot cuisine.  The famous Cypriot Shieftalies, Lamb Souvla and Loukoumades.  Enjoy Live Music with Yiannis Tsifliklis and his Parea.  Performances by our community’s dance Groups, the theatre Nefeli and other Dance Groups.

Further Information: 416-696-7400

The HCBT Presents the Flavours of Greece

Date: Thursday June 23rd
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Palais Royale Ballroom, 1601 Lakeshore Blvd. West
Cost: $50

The Hellenic-Canadian Board of Trade (HCBT) invites you to its annual summer event. The event will feature a delicious tasting menu designed by local celebrity chefs, the Three Greek Sisters.

For more information and to purchase tickets: Click Here

St. Nicholas Church Greek Summer Festival

Date: Friday June 17th, 6pm-1am and Sunday June 19th, 1pm-9pm
Location: Metropolitan Center, 3840 Finch Avenue

The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church is celebrating summer with a three-day Greek Summer Festival.  Guests at the weekend’s festivities will experience Greek music, traditional food and various live performances.  Tours of the church’s Byzantine iconography will also take place.

For more information: Click Here or call 416-291-4367

ΣΕΦ Year-End Banquet 2011

Date: Thursday May 19th, 2011
Time: Doors Open at 7:00pm, Dinner Starts at 8:00pm
Location: Spirale Banquet Hall (888 Don Mills Road)
Price: $45

The Hellenic/Greek Students’ Associations from UofT, UTSC, Ryerson and York are proud to present the annual:

ΣΕΦ Year-End Banquet 2011!

Tickets are $45 and must be bought in advance.
This includes:
– 3 course meal & wine
– Live Greek band & DJ
– Semi-formal attire (no runners or jeans)
– Cash bar
– Presentations for graduates
– Door prizes

Tickets/ Info:
Dimitri – UofT – 416-994-9971
Kelly – UTSC – 647-281-1293
Despina – York U – 416-892-0984
Tommy – Ryerson – (416) 819-7918

Let’s celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of the summer with your Greek friends!!

Check out photos from last year: Click Here

Help Save Cathy

I am writing to request that you assist us in our attempts to save the life of Cathy Anagnostopoulos, a young Toronto mother of three.  Cathy has leukemia and is in desperate need of a stem cell transplant to save her life.  The family has been told that the chances of finding a match are greater among people of Greek decent.  Also, donors under 30 are the absolute ideal.

This website will tell you more about Cathy and her fight.  www.helpsavecathy.com.

You should know that being tested to be a match is as simple as swabbing the inside of your mouth.  IF someone were a match, donating stem cells is usually as simple as donating blood.  What a gift and honour it would be for any donor to know that they saved a life!!
Please note that registering to be a donor can be done on-line with a follow-up swab kit received in the mail.  The link is also provided through Cathy’s website, but can be reached at www.onematch.ca.   As an alternative, there are several upcoming swabbing clinics in Toronto over the next few weeks. They are also listed on Cathy’s website.

Greek Day Recap

On March 30th the Greek Students’ Association held their annual Greek Day at Sidney Smith. We served a variety of food including souvlaki, pitas, salad, rice, potatoes, baklava, kourabiethes, greek coffee and frappe. The turn out was amazing and every member that came out received a free souvlaki lunch. A special thank you goes to all the businesses that donated food: Messini, Mezes, Astoria, Serano, Donlands and Athena Bakery. An even bigger thanks goes out to Mrs. Dodas for making all the rice and salad and all of the members and executive that spent the whole day helping out.

Check out more photos: Click Here

UC Drama Presents: IPHIGENEIA x2

Date: April 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Time: 7pm.
Location: 75 St. George st. (Morrison Hall Basement, LCR)
Cost: Free

My name is Alicia Aliki Kapudag, and I’m a Greek student at UC. I’m in the UC Drama program and wanted to inform you guys and invite you to come watch our Greek Tradegy- Iphigeneia (x2) by Euripides.  This is an important end of year recital for the drama program students, and we have put a lot of work behind the dramaturgy to make it as Greek influenced as possible. I will be performing a section in modern Greek, so this might be a wonderful opportunity for the students of the Greek association.

Synopsis: As their year-end recital, the DRM300 classes will be presenting ”Iphigeneia x 2″ – streamlined versions of Euripides’ two plays about Agamemnon’s ill-fated daughter. One is PRE-Trojan War, a tragedy in which the many opportunities to prevent the tragic outcome are consistently missed … and the other is POST-Trojan War, a tragi-comedy or romance similar in spirit to Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” or “The Tempest”, or to Euripides’ own “Helen” or ”Alcestis”.