News & Announcements

On Friday, November 6, 2026, the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Shelter had the pleasure and honor of hosting key Education officials as part of a meeting with the principals of Primary and Secondary Education schools in the Siteia

Honorary distinction for Giorgos Galanakis, Founder of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, from the University of Bucharest. Within the framework of the anniversary conference held on October 23-24, 2026, marking 25 years since the establishment of

Creative Writing Workshop The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center announces that the available positions for the Creative Writing Workshop, with writer ELENA MAROUTSOU, have been filled and the registration process has been completed. We sincerely thank you

Free chess classes for all ages The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center announces that registrations for the free chess classes have been completed, as the foreseen number of participants has already been filled. Should new sections be

The Athletes of SAO at the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center With great pleasure, on October 17, 2026, we welcomed 25 male and female athletes from the volleyball department of the Sitia Athletic Club (SAO), along with

Is Siteia becoming impoverished? No new productive activities are being created. There are no jobs for young people. What should and can be done? What can and should change? The development conference organized by the Municipality

We had the distinct pleasure of welcoming to the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center a distinguished group of consuls, journalists, and cultural figures from Italy, at the initiative of Georgia Lambraki, Consul of Greece in the Emilia-Romagna

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center invites all literature and writing enthusiasts to participate in a series of FREE Creative Writing classes, led by acclaimed authors and individuals with significant experience in teaching writing. Creative writing classes

“Poetry and dramaturgy in late Renaissance Crete: Georgios Chortatsis and his work” Our conference in Venice begins in three days. You can watch it live on the Hellenic Institute’s YouTube channel, via this link (note: please

Kazarma as it deserves: Proposals for the monument’s safety and enhancement The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center intends to approach the Ephorate of Antiquities next week to submit for approval two significant intervention proposals for the Kazarma

On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, we had the pleasure of welcoming the drama club of Sitia’s 1st Junior High School to the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, accompanied by their teachers Maria Metzogiannaki and Maria Chatzilambrou. In

On Thursday, 7/5, we had the pleasure of welcoming Handras Secondary School of Sitia to the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center. During the visit, the children learned about the work and activities of the Cultural Center. Gina

During the visit, the athletes were informed about the work and activities of the Cultural Center. Gina Stepanian, a member of the Cultural Center, spoke about Vitsentzos Kornaros and “Erotokritos,” giving them the opportunity to learn

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, taking into account the verbal requests of the supervising teachers, extends the submission deadline for student works. The new deadline is set for May 8, 2026 (23:59).

A special visit to the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center On November 4, 2025, we had the honor and pleasure of hosting the housekeeping team of St. Nikolas Bay hotel (Agios Nikolaos, Crete) at the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS

The 2nd International Conference “With Knowledge and Method: Issues of Poetics and Reception of Erotokritos,” held from July 18-20, 2025, at the Sitia Municipal Cultural Center and organized by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center with the

ACTING STUDIOCretan Renaissance Theater SCENES, MONOLOGUES AND POEMS FROM CRETAN RENAISSANCE THEATER AND LITERATURE OF THAT ERA (14th – 17th c.) SUNDAY, July 20, 20258:30 PMSITIA MUNICIPAL MULTICENTER “and whoever knows how to speak with knowledge

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center is organizing an international academic conference titled: With Knowledge and Style: Issues of Poetics and Reception of Erotokritos. This meeting, the fourth in a series of specialized conferences focusing on the

As part of the 4th Pan-Cretan Student Literary Competition of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, a special and warm meeting took place between the awarded students and two of the Judges (Mr. Michalis Albatis – Author

Reception of the SUMMER SCHOOL by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center.

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, wishing to support TEDxSitia, which will take place on Sunday, May 25, 2025, at the amphitheater of EL.ME.PA. Sitia, is offering 25 free tickets to students of the Department of Nutritional

A very interesting and constructive visit was made by the students of Chandras Junior High School to the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center on May 12, 2025. During their visit, they were guided through the exhibition “Flows

On Thursday, May 8, 2025, students from the first and second grades of Palaikastro High School visited the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center. The students were informed about the Cultural Center’s work, Vitsentzos Kornaros, and his epic

Giorgos Galanakis, co-founder with Aliki Galanaki of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center: We intend, in cooperation with the Municipality, to establish the celebration of the birthday of our town’s poet as a regular two-day event, held

Visit of the fifth and sixth grades of Piskokefalo Primary School to the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center on March 13, 2025. The students toured the photography exhibition “Sitia of Old, School Memories 1910-1970”, listened with interest

On Saturday, January 11, 2025, at 19:30, at the Polykentro of the Municipality of Sitia (16 Kondylaki St.), this year’s calendar of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, dedicated to Mikis Theodorakis, was presented… with music. The

This book, recently published by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, contains 25 texts that share the personal opinions, stories, experiences, and insights of their authors from their multifaceted encounters with Erotokritos.“A strange and beautiful feeling at

On October 24, 2024, as part of the International Workshop of the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics of EL.ME.PA. Sitia, students from University College of Leuven-Limburg and University of Applied Sciences Leuven in Belgium visited the

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, wishing to support the pioneering effort to organize TEDx in Sitia and to give even more residents of our town the chance to take part, is offering 25 completely free tickets

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, wishing to support the pioneering effort to organize TEDx in Sitia and to give even more residents of our town the chance to take part, bought 25 tickets to offer completely

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, the Sitia Theatre and Style 100 collect, read and publish in podcast form literary texts inspired by this place and its culture. Enjoy listening! LINK

In the fifth podcast, released today, we present the text “Farewell” by Manolis Kanavakis. Introduction by Fani Syrpou. Read by Eleftheria Panagiotaki. The recording was made at the studio of the radio station Style100, which we

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, taking into account the verbal requests of the supervising teachers, extends the submission deadline for student works. The new deadline is set for April 28, 2023 (23:59). The text of the

On the occasion of the catastrophic flood in Sitia Those of us from Sitia who thought the lyrics of Michalis Ganas in the song “Ships Came Ashore…” were surreal changed our minds on October 15, 2022,

As part of the cooperation between the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center and the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics of the Hellenic Mediterranean University, a guided tour of the Cultural Center was held for visiting ERASMUS students

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, wishing to support this pioneering effort to organize TEDx in Sitia and to give even more residents of our town the chance to take part, is offering 30 completely free tickets

In a particularly moving atmosphere, the cycle of seminar meetings organized by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center for the teachers of Sitia on the Erotokritos of Vitsentzos Kornaros, which ran from October to May, has come

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, taking into account both the verbal requests of the supervising teachers and the particular health conditions prevailing during the current school period, extends the submission deadline for student works. The new

You can view the 2020-2021 review in detail here

G. Galanakis on the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center: “I am looking for the way to get close to people” At the link below you can see the related article published on the website of the radio

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center and the Sitia Theatre publish the 3rd podcast in the series “Sitia and Local Tradition: Literary Readings of My Place”. Today we present the text “Thoughts in the Shadow of a

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center and the Sitia Theatre present the 2nd podcast in the series “Sitia and Local Tradition: Literary Readings of My Place”. With his short story “The Distribution of the ‘Distribution’” and his

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center and the Sitia Theatre are delighted to begin a collaboration that will include the production of podcasts with a series of literary readings of texts related to the tradition and culture

The calendar in electronic form: 2021_Hmerologio_Stegi

In the last 10 minutes, an interview with Giorgos Galanakis, founder of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, alongside the trailer for the 2018 Sitia production of Erotokritos. To remember the old days and dream of new

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center aims to highlight the importance and relevance of Vitsentzos Kornaros and the Cretan Renaissance, placing Sitia high on the cultural map. It is a non-profit company and aspires to evolve into

Getting to Know the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center Notebook, 2020 In October 2020 the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center printed 2,000 copies of a notebook aimed at introducing itself to the local students and to the public.

The newly founded VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center had planned, as its first event, to invite to Sitia the distinguished contemporary scholars of Seferis, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Giannis Kiourtsakis and Vasilis Papadopoulos, to renew the bond between the