Memory, music and dance meet at Thebarton Hellenic Festival

Thebarton Hellenic Festival 2026 returns this April 25 arsenic a time of taste celebration, with performances highlighting the Hellenic past of Adelaide’s western suburbs. The festival, presented by the Greek Orthodox Community of St George Thebarton and Western Suburbs Inc, will statesman with ANZAC Day commemorations, honouring shared sacrifice crossed Australian and Greek generations successful the work of liberty, and the humanities ties betwixt Greece and Australia during the Gallipoli run – Australian nurses and Diggers used the Aegean land of Lemnos arsenic a tract infirmary and base.

The festival, astatine the St George precinct, will diagnostic a programme that reflects the extent and continuity of Hellenic civilization successful South Australia.

Veteran writer and television big George Donikien will emcee the lawsuit and usher proceedings. There will beryllium performances from students of St George College, arsenic well arsenic creation groups such arsenic the Messinian Dance School, the Cretan Association of South Australia Dance Group, the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia Dance Academy and the St George Hellenic Dance Academy.

Live philharmonic performances from The Band Kosmos, Theo Skaltsas and Carly Yelayotis will get crowds dancing, while DJs Valandi and Kosta Nico will support the vigor going for the young and the young astatine heart.

The seat of the festival’s organising committee, Spero Perdikoyiannis, told Neos Kosmos that the lawsuit “continues to play an important relation successful connecting generations”.

“The Thebarton Hellenic Festival celebrates who we are arsenic South Australian Hellenes — it reflects our history, faith, civilization and our people. It brings together generations of South Australians successful a way that is some meaningful and joyful.”

Live music, creation and nutrient will make a panegyric time successful honour of the continuing relation and interaction of Greeks successful Adelaide’s west.

April 25, from 1pm to evening, St George precinct, Thebarton, the lawsuit begins astatine 12:45 with an ANZAC Commemoration.