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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
THESSALONIKI – The 5th Thessaloniki Animation Festival (TAF) begins on Thursday at the port of Thessaloniki, welcoming all those who admire the marriage of technology, art and narrative that is involved in creating animation.
The only animation festival in Thessalonik and the second largest in Greece, TAF will this year bring Alejandro Jimenez from Blow Studios, the producer of the Netflix series Love, death + robots, animator and game designer Brian C. Morris, who has been involved with the digital media since 1989 and will present the “Early Animation and Animation Devices” workshop – a timeless voyage through early ideas concerning the moving image – as well as Greek animators with distinctions abroad that will present their own experiences and knowledge.
As every year, there will be a competition of short animated films in different categories, selected among 3,000 candidacies, and in parallel there will be special features, workshops and masterclasses by representatives of the art of animation.
The festival will be held on October 10-13 at pier D of Thessaloniki port.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.