Greek Community to honour legacy of Michael Tsilimos in Sydney tribute

Sydney’s Greek assemblage will stitchery adjacent period to honour the beingness and bequest of longtime assemblage fig Michael (Michalis) Tsilimos, whose decades of work helped signifier cardinal institutions and taste initiatives.

The escaped tribute event, to beryllium held connected May 3 astatine the Greek Community Club successful Lakemba, will bring together assemblage leaders, officials and members of the nationalist to bespeak connected Tsilimos’ contributions to the Greek Orthodox Community of NSW and the broader Hellenic diaspora successful Australia.

Tsilimos, a erstwhile caput of the organisation, is being remembered arsenic a cardinal fig successful the improvement of assemblage programs, including efforts to support bilingual acquisition and sphere humanities archives. His work is credited with strengthening taste individuality among younger generations of Greek Australians.

Academic Anastasios Tamis, who will present the keynote address, described Tsilimos arsenic a important contributor whose power extended beyond administrative roles.

Harry Danalis, erstwhile President of the GOC and a long-time collaborator of Tsilimos, said helium played a pivotal relation successful gathering acquisition and taste foundations that proceed to payment the community.

“Michael Tsilimos was the heartbeat of our Community for decades. He didn’t conscionable witness history; helium built it, stone by stone, schoolhouse by school. His bequest isn’t recovered successful titles, but successful the thousands of children who speak the Greek connection today due to the fact that helium dared to imagination of a amended aboriginal for our youth. He was a warrior for our people, driven by a motivation stature that ne'er wavered,” helium said successful a media release.

The lawsuit will beryllium hosted by Efthymios Kallos and will see reflections from governmental and assemblage representatives, including Sophie Cotsis and Mark Coure.

A philharmonic show by Dimitris Basis is besides scheduled arsenic portion of the program.

Organisers accidental the lawsuit aims to recognise Tsilimos’ long-standing committedness to nationalist work and his relation successful advancing the beingness and continuity of Greek connection and civilization successful Australia.

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