The Hellenic Centre

📸 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the presentation of The Fumes of Mars, Katerina Angelopoulou's book investigating the 2018 Mati wildfires near Athens. The conversation between the artist and publisher Stuart Smith (GOST Books) shed light on a very dark moment in recent Greek history, highlighting survivors' testimonies and photographic evidence. The book will be available to purchase on our website.

“I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of all the accumulated images stored in our subconscious that coagulate and mutate when we sleep.”  Join British artist Glenn Brown @glennbrownofficial  and curator Iwona Blazwick, for a conversation on the method and meaning of his remarkable oeuvre, on Wednesday 27 May at the Hellenic Centre. Followed by a drinks reception supported by @Gagosian 🔗Link in bio for tickets Image: Glenn Brown, Swig, 2025, photo Joe Humphrys

🎭Join philosophers Pierre Destrée and Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi for a discussion on humour: what is it, and how did the ancient Greeks think about it? From Plato to Bergson and, more recently, N. Carroll, philosophers have always emphasised the importance of aggression in humour. Indeed, it is well known that many jokes are based, directly or indirectly, on racism, sexism, or other forms of discrimination. If there is no positive value in these types of aggression, is it possible to regulate the humour that gives rise to them? Destrée and Cagnoli Fiecconi will present this problem and its philosophical history, before discussing two very different ways in which ancient Greek philosophers proposed regulating it — those of Plato and Aristotle respectively. 🔗 Link in bio for more details. 📅 Thursday 4 June 🕣 19:00 📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS 🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent's Park 🎟️ £5 / £4 concession, free for members

Are you an experienced professional with exceptional communication skills and a meticulous eye for detail? We are looking for a Press and Marketing Officer to develop the promotion of cultural events and corporate activities at the Hellenic Centre. If you excel at creating engaging, accurate marketing and press material and enjoy working in a cultural, charitable environment, we'd love to hear from you! 🔗 More info on how to apply, helleniccentre.org/about/job-opportunities Deadline is Wednesday 3 June 2026 #Hiring #PressandMarketing #JoinOurTeam #ArtsAndCultureJobs #NowHiring

Fun moments performing with such a talented group of friends and colleagues for the @athenascholarship at the @helleniccentre in London ✨ @palena_soukaras_duo 🪗🎸 #morricone #guitar #epic #bandeoneon #film

🎥 Join us for a special screening of Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), a landmark work of feminist cinema. Made in 1974 by Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons is a radical, theoretically fierce reworking of Greek myth — dismantling how patriarchal culture constructs and contains women, one frame at a time. Stay after the screening for a live Q&A with Laura Mulvey and film curator Georgia Korossi. Not one to miss! 🔗 Link in bio for more details. 📅 Thursday 28 May
 🕣 19:00
 📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS
 🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent’s Park
 🎟️ £7/£5 concession #FeministCinema #LauraMultvey #AvantGarde #Penthesilea #WomenInFilm #FilmStudies #ClassicalMyth #Screening #QandA #FilmCulture #ExperimentalFilm

📽️ Thank you to everyone who joined us for the screening of Third Person (Plural), Aikaterini Gegisian’s feature-length cinematic essay, composed from over 200 post-war U.S. informational films and newsreels sourced from the Library of Congress and the National Archives. We’re also grateful to Shoair Mavlian, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, for joining the artist for such an engaging and thought-provoking discussion.

🖼️ Join us as British artist Glenn Brown @glennbrownofficial sits down with Iwona Blazwick to discuss the meaning of his work, which wanders freely through the tributaries of art history, channelling unearthly beauty or grotesque decay to depict human and non-human figures. Filtered through the Old and Modernist Masters that Brown appropriates are echoes of Greek mythology and its legacies in art and in metaphors for the subconscious.  Followed by a drinks reception supported by @Gagosian 📅 Wednesday 27 May
 🕣 19:00
 📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS
 🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent’s Park
 🎟️ £5/£4 concession, free for members Image: Glenn Brown, Drawing III (after Novelli), 2025, photo by Lucy Dawkins

What an incredible evening! 🎬✨ Last Thursday night we had the privilege of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value (1986) with a truly special audience. A heartfelt thank you to our wonderful panellists George Lemos, Suzy Miles, Alberto Bona, Hilary Whitehall, John Pegg and Julian Fellowes for a Q&A that was passionate and full of surprises. 📸 Alessandro Morter #LordElgin #ParthenonSculptures #FilmRestoration #Anniversary #ExclusiveScreening

📣 We’re Hiring! Are you an organised, proactive professional with exceptional administrative and multi-tasking skills? We’re looking for an experienced Office Administrator to oversee the day-to-day running of our office, ensuring that administrative processes run smoothly. 🔗 More info on how to apply, helleniccentre.org/about/job-opportunities Deadline is Sunday 17 May 2026, 20:00 (UK time) #Hiring #OfficeAdministrator #JoinOurTeam #ArtsAndCultureJobs #NowHiring

📸Join us for the presentation of The Fumes of Mars, a book investigating the 2018 Mati wildfire near Athens — one of the deadliest in recorded history. Over 100 lives were lost and victims were left to fight for survival alone. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire, fleeing with her three-year-old child.   The book acts as a counter-archive — a forensic and deeply personal investigation into how official narratives of catastrophe are constructed and enforced. It brings together Angelopoulou’s photographs taken during and after the disaster, survivor testimonies, aerial maps marking where each victim died, weather reports, CCTV footage and personal artefacts recovered from the ruins: jewellery, books, glasses. Though rooted in a specific catastrophe, the work speaks to something universal: the failure of institutions, the invisibility of survivors and the struggle for accountability in an era of compounding climate catastrophe.   The artist will be in conversation with publisher Stuart Smith (GOST Books @gost_books ). A Q&A will follow the presentation.  📅 Thursday 14 May
 🕣 19:00
 📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS
 🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent’s Park
 🎟️ £5/£4 concession, free for members (link in bio)

🎭THE MYTHIC GANG is an interactive musical comedy that throws the audience into the heart of Ancient Greece. Can you help Dionysus and the Mythic Gang save Persephone from gods and monsters? Forget about just watching a show; you must become part of the legend!  Join us for the ultimate adventure – perfect for all ages, school groups and anyone ready to play!   📅 Saturday 16 May
🕣 15:30
📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS
🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent’s Park
🎟️ £10/£8 concession