Tag: Erotokritos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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