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March 2008 Edition

Boston’s Greek Heritage Month Events

March 2008

Greek Heritage Month offers visitors to Boston parades & dancing festivals to celebrate

Greek culture & heritage

BOSTON- Boston celebrates the March Greek Heritage Month with a series of parades, dancing festivals, lecture series and and special events.

2008 is a particularly exciting year for Boston with Greek Independence Day Parade in Downtown Boston on April 6.

These events are constantly updated; please return to this site for more events: 

• The Greek Independence Day Parade of Boston will be held on Sunday, April 6, 2008 The parade route will follow this this same route as last year: begin on Boylston Street and will make its way down to the reviewing stand at Charles Street. More than  30 organizations and Churches will participate.

• Dimitri Hadzi Art Exhibition Until March 8, 2008, Victoria Munroe Fine Art
  Tues.-Sat. 10am-5:30pm. For more information call 671-523-0661 or visit http://www.victoriamunroefineart.com

• "The Looting of the Parthenon: Why the Parthenon Sculptures Must Be Returned from
  London to Athens" Sunday, March 2, 2008, 3p.m.  A multimedia presentation by Michael Reppas, Esq., President of the American Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculputures. Co-sponsored with the Maliotis Cultural Ctr., New England Chapter the American Hellenic Institue and the Press & Communication Office of the Consulate General of Greece in Boston. Location: Maliotis Cultural Ctr., 50 Goddard Ave., Brookline, MA. 617-512-4763.  For more information, visit http://maliotis.org/events_parthenon.asp.

• "Ancient Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum" of Harvard University
  This ongoing antiquities exhibition selects masterwork from General Luigi Palma di Cesnola's collection of pottery and glass vesels, lamps, figurines, and bronzes from Cyprus, dating from c. 2000 BC to AD 300. For more information about the exhibition, contact the museum at 617-495-4631 or online at http://fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/hsm/AltSemMuseumHome.htm.

• "Portrait of a Priestess: The Hidden History of Women and Religion in Ancient Greece" Museum of Fine Arts
  A conversation with Professor Joan Breton Connelly of New York University and author of Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton University Press, 2007), and MFA Curator Christine Kondoleon. Please join the author for a book signing in the MFA gift shop following the program.  Remis Auditorium, Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7p.m.  For more information, please visit the museum website, http://www.mfa.org/.

Did you know?

• Massachusetts can boast two major 20^th century Greek American statesmen:  the late Sen.,. Paul Tsongas and former Gov. Michael Dukakis
• Eighty-five (85) years ago, The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England was built (1923) at 520 Parker Street, opposite the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that had moved to the area from Copley Square 14 years before in 1909. The exterior was designed by Worcester architect, Hachadoor S. Demoorjian, and the interior is the unique collaboration of three of Boston's most important designers and scholars: Ralph Adam Cram (chair of MIT School of Architecture), Kenneth Conant (Harvard professor), and Charles J. Connick (a noted stain glass designer).
• The first Greek Orthodox Church in Boston was established in 1899 in rented quarters followed by its own building on Winchester Street in Boston’s Bay Village neighborhood (adjacent to the Back Bay, South End & Theatre District districts) in 1907, and was the fourth Greek Orthodox in America.
• Between the 1890s and 1910 many Greeks emigrated to Boston and later a number of Greek immigrants who had settled in small New England towns moved to Boston.
• Greek Independence Parade in Boston is March 2007
• There are more than 25 Greek organizations in Greater Boston

Boston visitor information - from updated weekend event information to special hotel offers during March Greek Heritage Month visits are available www.BostonUSA.com; toll free 1-888-SEE-BOSTON;   e-mail visitus@BostonUSA.com