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Date: Exhibition: Mon 15 April – Fri 18 April
Public Lecture: Thur 17 April
Time: Exhibition: 11am – 4pm
Public Lecture: 6pm for 6.30pm start
Venue: School of Arts
Cnr Queens St & Bowns Rd, Kogarah
Cost: Free entry
Bookings: 02 9750 0440
Language: Exhibition in English & Greek
Public lecture in English with summaries in Greek
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Greek ‘Proxy Brides’ in Australia: Dreams and Realities
A research project by Dr Panayota Nazou
Presented by Kogarah Council, the Greek Festival of Sydney and the Department of Modern Greek of the University of Sydney
Greece after World War Two was a country politically divided and in financial ruin, with an oppressive culture and open wounds inflicted by foreign occupation and civil strife. During that time many young women were forced to make certain life-changing decisions. These individuals were seeking ‘refuge’ within the confines of arranged marriages, travelling to a distant land.
This public lecture deals with these women’s past experiences retold half a century later. Inevitably, these accounts are ‘filtered’ by a new socio-cultural reality as well as a personal memory which is always selective and even mythical.
   
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