The exhibition "The Greek Revolution through the eyes of the Americans" was inaugurated yesterday at the Malioteio Cultural Center of the Hellenic College and the Theological School of the Holy Cross, in Boston, the Archbishop of America Hopeful……….
The exhibition, which will remain at the Center until 15 October 2021, is a digital and physical tour and is part of the Archdiocese of America's celebration program for 200or anniversary of his Revolution 1821. It was created in collaboration with the Cultural and Interdisciplinary Center for Greek Studies "Dean and Pappas Life", of Stockton University, New Jersey, to which he will be transferred in the fall 2021.
The inauguration began with the performance of the national anthems of Greece and America and the butt "I Fight It I Win the Victories", by the Romanos choir Melodos of the Hellenic College and the Theological School, which also presented Greek patriotic songs from the era of the Revolution.
The prayer was answered by the Archbishop of America Elpidoforos, who in his greeting characterized the exhibition "Very noticeable and great", while knitting the eulogy of the president of the two academic institutions, Georgiou Kantoni, for "His leadership and his work, that we could not dream of a few years ago ".
The message was sent by the Consul General of Greece in Boston, Stratos Efthymiou, excluding the Archbishop's effort for the effective reorganization of the Theological School and the Hellenic College in a very short period of time, thanks to the practical assistance of the Greek government. Greek ambassador to Washington sends videotaped messages, Alexandra Papadopoulou, and other representatives and academics of Hellenic College and Stockton University.
The report explores the common issues in which Greece and the United States of America co-operated in the pursuit of global freedom. The natural exhibit consists of 24 large surfaces with information material investigated by 16 contributing scholars, whose complete essays are included in the digital exhibition website.
The physical exhibition will tour and be presented at universities and communities in various US cities, while it will also be presented in Greek, in collaboration with the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle and the Narrative Research Laboratory of the School of English Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in its autumn 2021, at the Museum of the co-capital and in other cities in Greece.
There are four topics under investigation, "Freedom or Death, Greece in the era of revolutions ", "President Monroe's sympathy for the Greeks: the roots of the Greek victory and the forging of the doctrine of non-intervention ", "The heat of the Greek Revolution: American Philhellenes and the Birth of International Humanism " and "400 years of slavery: Greek Freedom and American Defense of the Abolition Movement ".