Backyard family feasts return as Orthodox Christians celebrate rebirth
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The smell of charcoal and roasting lamb wafting from a Hughesdale backyard on Orthodox Easter Sunday marked a return to normality for the Menidis family after last year’s lockdowns denied them their annual feast.
“[Last year] we had a barbecue, just my immediate family and Zoomed my parents who live around the corner and my brother who lives a couple of streets away,” said Jorge Menidis.
Jorge Menidis carves the spit-roasted spring lamb that he and his extended family enjoyed on Orthodox Easter Sunday.
From Benaki Museum’s exhibition: ‘1821 Before & After: Ludovico Lipparini (1802-1856)’. Photo: Supplied/Benaki Museum
7 February 2021 1:06pm
This year’s Greek War of Indipendence celebrations calendar is jam-packed.
The Greek Community of Melbourne has organised more than 30 events spanning from February to November 2021. This year is a special one, as it marks 200 years from the Revolution of 1821 for Greece’s Independence from the Ottoman Empire.
The much anticipated Lonsdale Street Greek Music Festival will kick off on Saturday 20 March and go until the end of Sunday 21 March 2021, aspiring to celebrate a COVID-safe Antipodes.
The festival with extend from Waratah Place, Heffernan Lane, Golden Square Car Park, up to Lonsdale Street in collaboration with the Lonsdale Street Greek Precinct. The event takes place with the auspices of the City of Melbourne; the Victorian Government, supported by the Multicultural Committee and Delphi Bank.