The Hellenic Centre

29/05/2026

✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us for the screening of "Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons" by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen.

We are so grateful to the BFI fellow Laura Mulvey and film curator Georgia Korossi for the illuminating discussion that followed, exploring the film's enduring power and its lasting impact on feminist avant garde cinema.

A landmark work that explores the myth of the Amazonian woman and questions if this is a true representation of female strength or a phantasy of the male gaze. Penthesilea feels as vital and necessary today as ever.

What a joy it was to witness different generations of creative practitioners and filmmakers coming together to celebrate the legendary Laura Mulvey. An evening to remember!

Photography by Asimina Giagoudaki

28/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for Echo: Glenn Brown in Conversation with Iwona Blazwick. ✨

It was a beautiful evening exploring the dream world, art historical echoes and uncanny beauty that run through Brown’s work.

We're so grateful to our speakers for such an illuminating conversation and to for supporting the drinks reception.

Photography by Asimina Giagoudaki

28/05/2026

✨ Theatre artist and researcher Christina Kapadocha presents her original piece Mapping Journeys – Grounding Roots on World Refugee Day 2026. This participatory performance invites audiences to reflect on migration, refuge, identity and belonging through shared stories and gentle interaction.

Funded by the University of Essex Impact Fund, supported by Research England.

The event is part of Refugee Week. The Hellenic Centre is proud to continue its collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and be part of Refugee Week—the world’s largest arts and culture festival that honours the contributions, creativity, and resilience of people seeking sanctuary.

📅 Saturday 20 June�
🕣 19:00�
📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS�
🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent’s Park�
🎟️ £7/£5 concession | https://helleniccentre.org/event/mapping-journeys/

Images: Photographic collage by Christina Kapadocha, featuring the artist.

15/05/2026

📸 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the presentation of The Fumes of Mars, Katerina Angelopoulou's book investigating the 2018 Mati wildfires near Athens. The conversation between the artist and publisher Stuart Smith (GOST Books) shed light on a very dark moment in recent Greek history, highlighting survivors' testimonies and photographic evidence.

The book will be available to purchase on our website.

14/05/2026

“I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of all the accumulated images stored in our subconscious that coagulate and mutate when we sleep.” 

Join British artist Glenn Brown  and curator Iwona Blazwick, for a conversation on the method and meaning of his remarkable oeuvre, on Wednesday 27 May at the Hellenic Centre.

Followed by a drinks reception supported by 

🔗Link in bio for tickets

Image: Glenn Brown, Swig, 2025, photo Joe Humphrys

13/05/2026

FLASH SALE! Have you booked your ticket to Saturday's event yet?

All tickets are now at £8 for the next 48 hours!

Grab yours now and join us for an epic adventure 💫

THE MYTHIC GANG is an interactive musical comedy that throws the audience into the heart of Ancient Greece. Can you help Dionysus and the Mythic Gang save Persephone from gods and monsters? Forget about just watching a show; you must become part of the legend! 

06/05/2026

Are you an experienced professional with exceptional communication skills and a meticulous eye for detail?

We are looking for a Press and Marketing Officer to develop the promotion of cultural events and corporate activities at the Hellenic Centre. If you excel at creating engaging, accurate marketing and press material and enjoy working in a cultural, charitable environment, we'd love to hear from you!

🔗 More info on how to apply, https://helleniccentre.org/about/job-opportunities/

Deadline is Wednesday 3 June 2026

05/05/2026

🎥 Join us for a special screening of Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), a landmark work of feminist cinema. Made in 1974 by Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons is a radical, theoretically fierce reworking of Greek myth — dismantling how patriarchal culture constructs and contains women, one frame at a time.

Stay after the screening for a live Q&A with Laura Mulvey and film curator Georgia Korossi. Not one to miss!

📅 Thursday 28 May
🕣 19:00
📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS
🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent’s Park
🎟️ £7/£5 concession

https://helleniccentre.org/event/penthesilea-laura-mulvey/

01/05/2026

📽️ Thank you to everyone who joined us for the screening of Third Person (Plural), Aikaterini Gegisian’s feature-length cinematic essay, composed from over 200 post-war U.S. informational films and newsreels sourced from the Library of Congress and the National Archives.

We’re also grateful to Shoair Mavlian, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, for joining the artist for such an engaging and thought-provoking discussion.

30/04/2026

🖼️ Join us as British artist Glenn Brown sits down with Iwona Blazwick to discuss the meaning of his work, which wanders freely through the tributaries of art history, channelling unearthly beauty or grotesque decay to depict human and non-human figures. Filtered through the Old and Modernist Masters that Brown appropriates are echoes of Greek mythology and its legacies in art and in metaphors for the subconscious.

Followed by a drinks reception supported by Gagosian

📅 Wednesday 27 May
🕣 19:00
📍 The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington St, London W1U 5AS
🚇 Closest stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Regent’s Park
🎟️ £5/£4 concession, free for members, helleniccentre.org/event/echo-glenn-brown/