www.goyanz.org.nz Official newspaper of GOYANZ representing the Greek Community of Wellington www.goyanz.org.nz Issue No. 22 June 2004 Greek Easter P10 Greek Food Festival P4 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: NEWS IN BRIEF: P3 photo by J. Serepisos photo by J. Serepisos Cyprus - OXI P8,18 Baraki: P8 THE PASSION OF CHRIST: P13 GOYANZ/Olympic NEW Website p20 3 months to go! THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: GET TICKETS FROM STELIO MANOUSAKIS 021-393-035 OR VOULA KOSMADAKIS 021-242-7483 1 www.goyanz.org.nz Community Events Calendar 2004 June 5 Miss GOYANZ Annual Dance - Parthenon, Hania St. Featuring “Kerasma Band” live from Australia June 12 Euro 2004 kicks-off So once again it is my turn to write the opinion. I am very opinionated on many aspects in the Greek Community as many of you know only June 29 St John the Baptist Church - Palmerston Nth too well. A few that need to be mentioned this time round are the July 3 GOYANZ Baraki Night featuring DJ Krazy Kon, GOYANZ dance, Baraki night and clubrooms. Blow Bar, Blair Street The annual Miss GOYANZ dance will be held once again on Saturday June 5th 2004, which changes from the normal Sunday of Queen’s Aug 10 St Soterios Name day - Masterton birthday weekend as there is a wedding on (na zesete!). This year we Aug 15 Assumption day - commemorating the bodily ascent have raised the ticket prices to accommodate the high rates of the airline of the Virgin Mary into Heaven tickets as well as the cost of the band. Last year we had Kerasma band from Melbourne and they are returning this year but they, themselves, Aug 13-29 Athens 2004 Olympic Games, Greece have changed. The only member of the original band is Byron. The rest Sept 14 Hypsosis Tou Stavrou (The Exhaltation of the Holy have moved on to different things and they have brought in new band members. They are pretty good according to Dalaras and Marinella Cross of our Lord, strictly fasting day) who had them as their opening band for their concerts throughout September GOYANZ Greek Film Festival Australia recently. Tickets are selling fast for this, as they always do, and GOYANZ Clubrooms: 75 Adelaide Rd, Newtown we are expecting a sell-out dance. The prizes for Miss GOYANZ, as well as the judging, have also changed so no financial bribes will be accepted by any judge from any parent who wants their daughter to win (just Committees 2004 joking!)! GOYANZ: Voula Kosmadakis & Stelios Manousakis (Joint Pres.), Theo Doucas (V. Pres), The next big event for GOYANZ is the Baraki night to be held at Blow Ria Tsourounakis (Sec.), John Serepisos, Pagona Economou, Chrisanthi Bar, on Blair Street, on Saturday July 3rd. The short of this is that if we Kamberogiannis, Tula Androutsos don’t get an average of 300 people to this, it is literally financial suicide Olympic: for the club and we will not consider hosting another one. GOYANZ John Serepisos (Chair.), Tasos Barbarouses (V. Chair), Chrisanthi Kamberogiannis need the full support of ALL Greeks, not just the youth, for this event. (sec.), George Neonakis, Dave Hooley, Peter Votsikas, John Servos, George Carras We have asked a popular bar to shut in the heart of the city on a Saturday Netball: night for this to go ahead. We have secured DJ Krazy Kon from Sydney Chrisanthi Kamberogiannis, Vera Georgiou, Karen Doucas, Helen Cordalis (who has been on the Neolea radio show numerous times) and as you Junior Soccer: can imagine this is not a cheap thing to do. GOYANZ think that this is John Serepisos (co-ordinator), George Serepisos, Nick Efstratiou, Paul Kotrotsos, a very worthwhile risk to take and hope that you all come to this event. Demetrius Christoforou, Basil Bouzoukis, Nicko Liolis, Stath Apostolakis Even if you don’t, you are more than welcome to make a donation to Ta Matia tou Kosmou: any committee member in lieu of you attending (no jokes). John Serepisos, Stelios Manousakis, Meropi Kafakis, Gina & Angela Gouvatsos, The other thing that I would like to mention is the clubrooms. Previous Steve Samaras committees worked extremely hard to get the clubrooms functioning, Youth Radio: and the current one is working hard to keep it functioning! If the Voula Kosmadakis, Vera Georgiou, Chrisanthi Kamberogiannis clubrooms are not utilised what is the point of having them? It is Events: not only for soccer or netball teams! You are more than welcome to Chrisanthi Kamberogiannis, Vera Georgiou, Helen Neonakis, Ria Tsourounakis GOYANZ/Olympic Website: come down and have a drink or something to eat during the weekend. John Serepisos ([email protected]), Paul Kotrotsos, Basil Mitrakis People over the years have complained that there is not one area for the neolea of today. We finally get it and it is not being utilised to its full potential. It would be great to see some more faces in there! So feel GOYANZ Youth free to come down and enjoy it! It is for ALL of YOU! In late September/ early October GOYANZ will be hosting the first Radio Program ever large scale Greek Film Festival. The festival will include contemporary Greek cinema, including the Internationally acclaimed JUNE 6 Little Stel, Laki & Vera Politiki Kouzina (a.k.a in English: A Touch of Spice(don’t ask)) which 13 Gina, Angela & Steve featured at this years Tribeca Film Festival in New York and is a contender 20 Stelio M & Voula K for the 2004 Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. The Greek Film 27 Little Stel, Laki & Vera Festival as a whole should be a very exciting event with tremendous amounts of planning, and months of negotiation and preparation already JULY 4 Gina, Angela & Steve having gone into it – as is the case with these types of events, success will 11 Stelio M & Voula K come down to attendance – we would like to see this as an annual event 18 Little Stel, Laki & Vera that will expand to Auckland and Christchurch in the coming years, 25 Kostandina Karasava therefore it is crucial that in these early stages the event is well supported. Sponsors are also needed to make this event a commercial success, if Access Radio Studio ph 385-8783 for dedications and requests you are interested in sponsoring the film festival, please contact Stelios If anyone is interested in doing a radio show please call Voula Kosmadakis on 021 242 7483. on 021 393035 or e-mail [email protected]. So as you can see, there is a lot going on in the next couple of months or Tune in and listen to the latest Greek music. so, which not only require your continual support, but are fun and interesting events. I will be travelling the world very shortly, as are Every Sunday at 3.00pm - 4.30pm numerous members of the committee, and will be thinking of you all in on Access Radio, 783 AM this wonderful Wellington weather. If there is anything that you would like to discuss, feel free to contact any of our lovely, hard-working Τα Ματια Του Κοσµου committee members. Until next time, where it is Stelios’ turn to write his opinion, kalo mas taxidi and I hope you enjoy the up-coming events! is produced Bi-monthly by GOYANZ Yia sas! PO Box 6257 Wellington or email [email protected] Voula Kosmadakis, Co-President Layout and Design: TBD www.tbd.co.nz Printing by: TBD & Ultracopy www.ultracopy.co.nz 2 www.goyanz.org.nz Public transport in the ‘city of joy’ applicants, while the remaining 9.5 percent were Greeks of the diaspora E-Kathimerini, 21/05/04 from 99 countries. In a bid to sweet-talk Athenians into leaving aside their cars during the Out of the Greeks, 80 percent came from the five Olympic cities. Some month of August, Olympics organizers and government officials 62 percent were residents of the greater Athens area and Attica, 10 yesterday presented a plan for steeply upgraded public transport services percent came from Thessaloniki, 3 percent from Patras and its environs, during the Games, designed to cope with 600,000 passengers on a another 3 percent from Iraklio in Crete and 2 percent were from the daily basis. Volos area. “Athens in August will bear no resemblance to the city we see every The largest national group of non-Greeks were US nationals (6.3 day,” Athens 2004 Organizing Committee President Gianna percent), followed by Spaniards (4.4 percent), Germans (3.3 percent), Angelopoulos-Daskalaki told a press conference. “Systematic and Britons (3 percent), Australians (2.9 percent) and Cypriots (1.7 methodic work will be required, as well as patience.” percent). Most applicants were aged 18-24 (41 percent), 5 percent The beefed-up public transport system will be in effect between July were aged over 55 and 2 percent were under 18. 20 — when a series of crippling restrictions for motorists will also be European Sports implemented — and August 31. Photographer of the “We want everybody to be able to move around town safely and Year quickly,” Transport Minister Michalis Liapis said. “We want our visitors Reuters; 27/04/2004 to have easy access to the Olympic venues. Athens will function Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis has smoothly... we want it to be a city of joy. We want Athenians to help been awarded the European Sports us.” photographer of the year award by Fuji for The city’s public blue buses will serve a total of 300 routes on a daily his three images of a Greek Paralympic basis — 21 of which have been specially laid on to serve Olympic swimmer training in Athens.