Current Affairs

The European Parliament elections were held in Greece on Sunday 7 June. The fine weather, the long weekend and a general sense of disgust with politics and politicians all made for a low turnout at the polls. In Kythera,...

The first-ever grand opera production to be held on Kythera will take place in the evening of Saturday, 8 August, in the open-air amphitheatre of Zeidoros Cultural Centre in Kapsali. A street version of Georges Bizet’s f...

In September 2008, Cynthia Cavalenes-Jarvis, a member of the Kytherian Society of California, visited Kythera for the first time. After meeting Australian Kytherian, George Poulos on his visit to Southern California in...

THRASY PETROPOULOS Relevant to the Kytherian Wind Turbine debate The long-awaited land use plan for renewable energy sources passed into law on November 12 with the unanimous approval of the government's inner cabinet. E...

Back in Japan, Toki holds a framed photograph of a Kytherian scene, a gift from Ioannis Γ Kasimatis.

Toki visited the Archives Office at the Kastro, and was very excited to find the signature of his grandmother in the records. He, and Mrs. Caroline Aslani, the director of the Local Kythera Archive hold the book togethe...

Even the Metropoliti of Kythera was fascinated by Toki's visit. Here he is with Ioannis Γ Kasimatis at the airport. The two are good friends. Ioannis has a private Church attached to his "patriko spitti" which was built...

Toki Koizumi, breaking bread with his generous hosts Ioannis Γ Kasimatis and his wife Gogo.

Toki Koizumi lovingly prepares the gravesite of his grandmother, Rosa Antonia Kassimati. He will lay some gifts he has bought from Asia on the gravestone. Much older photograph of Rosa Kassimati's gravesite

Toki Koizumi brought a number of gifts with him from Asia, to place on his grandmothers grave. These included incense, oil and a garland from Japan, and fresh lilacs from Hong Kong. Much older photograph of Rosa Kassima...

Toki Koizumi (left, back to camera), Ioannis Γ Kasimatis, (left foreground), his grandfathers' biographer, and his host on the island, centre. George Haros from Saint George Smallgoods, Sydney, a great benefactor to the...

Ioannis Γ Kasimatis, (left foreground), his grandfathers' biographer, and his host on the island meets with him. Obscured in the background is George Haros from Saint George Smallgoods, Sydney, a great benefactor to the...

Here he is greeted at the airport by his grandfathers' biographer, and his host on the island, Ioannis Γ Kasimatis

INSTITUTE OF KYTHERAISMOS 3rd International Symposium of Kytheraismos Hetero-Kytheraismos: The 21st century Kytheraismos From the Kytherian Identity to multi-cultural heterocity (diversity] Kythera (Myrtidia, Chora, Frat...

The ANEN lines ferryboat “Myrtidiotissa” struck a reef just north of Kythera around midnight on Thursday, 24 July while on its way from Neapolis. The 297 passengers were shaken but unhurt, while the elderly ship suffered...

Following a formal request from the Kytherian Foundation for Culture & Development (KIPA), which has been leading the fight against the installation of one or more wind-turbine farms on the island, to the Greek Energy Re...

A new 22-bed hospital with an area of nearly 3,000 square meters and fully up-top-date equipment is to replace the existing Trifillion hospital in Potamos which has served the island for many years. The foundation stone...

The exhibition PANAYOTIS FATSEAS: KYTHERIAN FACES, 1920-1938 opened at the Benaki Museum, Piraeus Road, Athens on 21 February 2008. The exhibition, the result of six years’ hard work by the Kythera Photographic Archive,...

The opening of the exhibition PANAYOTIS FATSEAS: KYTHERIAN FACES, 1920-1938 at the Benaki Museum on Pireos Street, Athens will take place at 8.00 pm on Thursday, February 21st. A copy of the official invitation is attach...

The daughters of Peter Haniotis of Kingsford, Sydney, were happy to be able to deliver in person, in September 2007, a bequest from Peter of $A5,000 to each of the island monasteries Agia Moni and Moni Myrtidiotissa. Pet...