Calendar of Upcoming Events

The second lecture in the series is by Alexandros Kyrou, PhD,  who will be speaking on: ”  THE GREEK GENOCIDE  1914-1923:  A MISUNDERSTOOD CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST”.

For more information: http://stgeorgecathedral.org/about-our-cathedral/contact-us

or http://stgeorgecathedral.org/news/2016-lecture-series

Lecturer: Peter Jeffery received a PhD in Music History from Princeton University in 1980, with a dissertation entitled “The Autograph Manuscripts of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676),” about the life work of an early opera composer. Jeffery has published over 100 articles and books on a range of topics, in publications that include Early Music History, Studia Liturgica, Jewish Quarterly Review, Theological Studies and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages.  He is currently at the University of Notre Dame as the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies.

For more information: http://ism.yale.edu/event/liturgy-symposium-peter-jeffery

Topic: “A Quiet and Peaceful Life: Following Christ in Troubled Times”
The Very Reverend Michael Butler, presenter, is an Archpriest of the Orthodox Church in America serving at Holy Transfiguration
in Livonia. He has been a parish priest for more than 21 years. He has a B.A. in psychology from the University of Dallas, an M.A. in theology from the University of Dallas, and a Ph.D. in church history and patristics from Fordham University, where he wrote his dissertation on St Maximus the Confessor.

In addition to his priestly duties, Father Michael has taught at universities and is a frequent participant in scholarly
conferences. He is a teacher in his diocesan late vocations programs and a regular speaker at Acton University, where he
has given presentations on natural law, environmentalism, and church-state relations in Orthodox thought.

For more information: http://www.coccdetroit.com/files/Flyers/parishes/HolyTransfigurationLivonia-PublicLecture16NOV16.pdf

Agenda: Foundations of Religious Liberty in America

KrisAnne Hall is an attorney and former prosecutor who travels the country teaching the Constitution and the history that gave us our founding documents. The history of Religious Liberty in America that isn’t being taught anywhere else.  As a pastor’s wife, KrisAnne speaks with authority regarding the Christian’s Biblical obligation to Liberty. She has a daily live internet radio podcast and also posts her regular lectures on her YouTube video channel. Her presentation will deal only with historical facts.

For more information:  http://christianrightsandfreedom.org/

This is a wonderful opportunity to serve and love our most needy neighbors in Phoenix, AZ.  for 13 years old – College Students.

For more information:   http://focusnorthamerica.org/programs/yes/upcoming-trips/

A wonderful opportunity to serve and love our most needy neighbors in Seattle, WA.   13 yrs. old- College Students may participate.

Join us for an hour course on writing like an Iconographer. Wayne Hajos will present four different types of Iconographic scripts found in Greek and Russian cultures and teach a step by step course for beginners.

For more information: http://www.byzarts.com/category/events/

The Council of Orthodox Christian Churches of Metropolitan Detroit (COCC) will sponsor its fifth annual “St. Nicholas Is Santa Claus,” a Nativity-season children’s party., on Saturday,

“The party will feature the story of St. Nicholas as told by St. Nicholas himself.  “Children will meet St. Nicholas and receive a gift while their parents take their pictures. They will do a craft project, and there will be a carol sing-a-long and refreshments.”

From 11 a.m. to noon, children will also be able to have their pictures taken with live reindeer.

For more information: http://www.byzarts.com/category/events/

Agenda: The Horrors of Human Trafficking

Ms Tardif’s program “Lucia’s Letter” on human trafficking, received a coveted Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a gold medal from the New York Festivals and 1st place for Best Documentary from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. A panel discussion will follow with Dr. Johnny McGaha, Rev. Vann Ellison, and Amy Tardif.

For more information: http://christianrightsandfreedom.org/

Georg Fischer, Visiting Fellow at the Program of European Union Studies at Yale University will present
“North-South Convergence and Divergence in the European Union”.

For more information: http://www.greekboston.com/event/convergence-divergence-european-union/

His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos and the Metropolis of San Francisco Philoptochos joyfully invite you to attend “Light the Path”, a Christmas Luncheon in support of the Bishop Anthony Philoptochos Student Aid Endowment Fund.

For more information go to: http://sanfran.goarch.org/events/2016-light-the-path-south/911

Lesvos at the Crossroads: The Soundscape of a Late Ottoman Island

A concert of music from the 1906 Kerekoglow collection with a slide show of the manuscript and period photos.

The concert program, arranged, performed, and narrated by Harvard ethnomusicologist Panayotis League and his ensemble, is exclusively sourced from a rare manuscript collection that was compiled in 1906 by an Ottoman Greek musician on the island of Lesvos and brought to Lynn, Massachusetts during the First Balkan War. A fascinating musical snapshot of the soundscape of turn-of-the century Ottoman Lesvos, the collection contains island dances, Ottoman art songs, European polkas and tangos, Romanian horas, and other pieces popular among the Greek, Turkish, Jewish, Armenian, and Levantine population of the island and the Asia Minor coast. This music is a timely reminder of the pluralistic character of the late Ottoman world, and a sonic memorial to the refugees who, whether in 1923 or 2016 and whether headed West or East, crossed the Straight of Mytilene in search of a safer home and a more inclusive world.

Panayotis League – violin and voice
Dean Lampros – santouri
Joe Teja – guitar and oud
Mike Davis – percussion

For more information: http://hsp.macmillan.yale.edu/event/lesvos-crossroads-soundscape-late-ottoman-island

The Council of Orthodox Christian Churches of Metropolitan Detroit (COCC) will sponsor its second annual “Christ is Born! Glorify Him! A Detroit Orthodox Christmas Concert”.

The first part of the concert will feature Nativity hymns and carols from Greece, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine and other lands sung by selected choirs from local Orthodox churches. The second part will feature English-language hymns sung by an inter-Orthodox chorus and a sing-a-long of popular carols. An afterglow reception will follow.

Attendees are invited to bring canned and non-perishable food for donation to Orthodox Detroit Outreach Community Pantry at Gilbert and Clayton streets.

Lecturer Angela Falcetta, “Religion in Diaspora: the Greek Experience of Catholic Power in the Eighteenth-Century Italy”

For more information: http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/events/viewevent.xml?id=647

The Faculty and seminarians of our St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary are grateful for your financial support throughout the year and we hope that you join us for the inaugural “Christmas at the Seminary”. This event is open for the whole family. There will be drop-in Christmas-themed activities, ornament making and cookie decorating for the entire family. Light refreshments will also be served.

You will have the opportunity on that Saturday to meet the current student body and also tour the Seminary and Three Holy Hierarchs Chapel and learn about the 300+ year-old building and the repairs which took place over the past year.

For more information: http://www.uocofusa.org/

For more information: http://www.stgeorgecathedral.org/lectureseries.html

For more information: http://www.serbiancathedral.org/

For more information:http://www.uocofusa.org/news_161123_2.html