George Papadopoulos and Sia Andrews, president of the Ithacan Philanthropic Society, pictured at an art exhibition which was organised by the Society in 1991 as part of the its 75th anniversary celebrations. The event took place at Ithaca House and featured the works of Ithacan artists. Sia Andrews was the first woman president of the IPS.A coloured photograph of a lady and a man standing in front of a painting which is hanging on a wall.

Group of seven men at an Ithacan picnic wearing that badges which were given to all as they arrived at the picnic. From L-R: seated - Spiros Kallinikos (Mirtsonis), Andreas Zavitsanos, Andreas Papadopoulos, Kostas Ventouras; standing - Kostas Trilivas, Gerasimos Raftopoulos (Mourlotos), Sprios Paizis-Danias.Black & White photograph mounted on cardboard of Men's Picnic Group Stamped in bottom right hand corner with the insignia and details of the IHS.Stamped beneath photo: PROPERTY OF/ STATHIS RAFTOPOULOS/ POET

Group at Ithacan picnic circa 1930's. Seated from left to right: ...?...?...Platon Varvarigos, Nikiforas Lekatsas, Andreas Razos, John Raftopoulos, Michael Raftopoulos with his son Michael sitting on his knee. Standing left to right: Andrew Papadopoulos, Angelos Lekatsas, George Chilianis, Panoyiannis Raftopoulos. The annual picnic was an important annual social event for Melbourne's Ithacan community in the early years. It continues to be a popular event where generations of Ithacans reunite. Scanned Black and white photograph with a white border of 10 men a little boy, sitting and standing in an outdoor settingpicnics

The photograph was taken at the 1992 IPS Bursary awards. Ioannis Coutsouvelis was a bursary recipient. He is photographed with his parents, George & Spyridoula and sisters Anastasia & Ioanna. Tony Drakopoulos, president of the IPS is in the photograph together with Anastasios Tamis (second from right) and George Papadopoulos (far right). Spyridoula became president of the IPS in 2000, the second woman to hold this position. In 1987 Panoyiannis Raftopoulos proposed to the IPS Executive the introduction of Tertiary Bursaries to recognise and encourage academic achievement amongst young people of Ithacan descent. Introduced in 1988, the highest achieving Year 12 students (male and female) received an award. The awards continue to this day and are now known as the 'Year 12 Awards' and all students who successfully complete 12 are recognised. George Papadopoulos, whose father was a founding member of the Society, was active in many areas of public life and a member of numerous community and welfare organisations, including Chair of the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission. In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AO) for his significant contribution to the multicultural community of Victoria.A coloured photograph of 8 people ( 5 men, 2 females and 1young girl) standing in a room. The youngest man is holding a large envelope in his hands.

Races were popular events at the Ithacan Philanthropic Society's annual picnic. The men's foot race was the highlight of the day. Pictured centre front of runners is the president, Andreas Papadopoulos. Since the first picnic in 1918, the event has been held at sporting grounds situated around Melbourne's urban fringe and remain a popular event on the club's social calendar.A sepia photograph mounted on a grey board with a darker grey border of five men preparing to race with four officials waiting for the race to start. The men are standing in a sports ground with a small rotunda and trees on the other side of the fence in the background.Written on the back: AGP - 4

Pictured is Irini Pappas ( Papadopoulos) in the role of 'Ismini' in the production of 'Antigone' which was performed at the University of Melbourne. The play was directed by Nikos Dimitrakopoulos, a director from Greece. Also appearing in the production were fellow Ithacans Spiro Paizis, Stathis Raftopoulos and Sophia Paizis. Irini was a well known actor in the Greek community who appeared in various television productions and local theatre productions, both Greek and English. Irini was a trailblazer. She challenged traditional views of the role and career pathways of young Australian born Greek Ithacan women of her era. Although her passion was the theatre, she undertook a varied range of occupations including teaching, counselling and vocational guidance. In her work with women of migrant background she encouraged them not be constrained by the social or cultural expectations of others.A black and white portrait photograph of a young lady.

Pictured at an Ithacan Club are members of the Paizis family gathered at a function from l-r are Marika Paizi, Alkinoos Paizis, Tasia Paizis, Thalia Paizis, Desma Paizis (Black), Jimmy James, Sofia Paizis (Anastasiou), Anastasios Papadopoulos, Irini Pappas, Nikolaos Paizis. Nikolaos Paizis was known as 'the poet' (ο ποιητής) by the Melbourne's Ithacan community as he was renown for reciting nostalgic poems which he composed. A black and white photograph of people seated around a table at a function. There are five men, three ladies and three children in the group. One of the men has a little child on his knee.

The photograph was taken at an Ithacan Philanthropic Society annual picnic held at Bacchus Marsh. The men picture are all wearing badges. People attending the picnics received a medallion shaped badge which they wore while at the picnic. Race officials also wore a special badge (with ribbon) to identify them. Pictured standing from left to right, Alkinos Paizes, Gerasimos Raftopoulos (Bourlotos) and Spiros Paizis-Danias; seated from left to right Orpheas (?), Andreas Papadopoulos, Andreas Zavitsanos, Stathi Kallinikos and Con Zervos. A sepia photograph of eight men photographed in a park. Three are standing behind five men who are seated. The names of the men are written in Greek on the back of the photograph. vendouras, alkinoos

A group family photo at the wedding of Irini Pappas to Paul Anagnostou in Melbourne in 1952. Irini was the daughter of Thalia (Paizis) and Anastasios Papadopoulos. Back row l-r: Evangelos & Maria (Paizis) Kezos, Nick Pappas (tou Spirou), Alekos Anagnostou, Jimmy James (Giannoutsos), Paul Anagnastou, Irini Pappas, Thalia & Anastasios Pappas, George Pappas, Manto and Yianni Raftopoulos (Tsagaris), Spiro Pappas. Front row l-r: George James, Pothiti Katsikas, Rene Pappas (Moutafis), Nina James, Sophia PappasA photograph taken from an original studio photograph of a family wedding group. There are 9 men, 6 ladies including the bride and three small attendants.

The photograph was taken at an annual Ithacan Philanthropic Society picnic some time in the mid to late 1930s. The men appear to be lined up for a running race, a highlight of the picnic. First on the left is Andreas Papadopoulos president at the time (president from 1934-39); man in suit in the background unknown; Diogenes Cominos, Hector Andrews (Anagnostatos); George Kouvalias (behind him is Nick Fatouros (Fisher)); Spiros Digaletos, a keen wrestler as a a young man; Peter Zavitsanos (Shanos); Peter Drakopoulos; Stratos Paizis; Nick Mavrokefalos (Black).The Ithacan Greeks who settled in Melbourne between the two world wars worked long hours in their family businesses, however, Sunday was a day set aside for socialising within their community. A much anticipated event was the annual picnic where families gathered for the day at a picnic ground on the outskirts of Melbourne, such as Bacchus Marsh, Werribee and Mount Evelyn. The picnic today is still an important event in the club's social calendar. A scanned bl;ack and white photograph of eight men and the starter lined up before the start of a race at an outdoor function with onlookers behind the group. two of the men are dressed in shorts and singlet while some others in the group have rolled up their suit trousers and are wearing running shoes.

The story of Herbert (Slim) Wrigley who fought in Greece in 1941 before being injured and captured. He escaped from a PoW camp near Thessaloniki and was sheltered by the Papadopoulos family in Ritini where he met Xanthoula who he ultimately married. His exploits as a partisan are detailed before he returned home to Melbourne in 1944. Xanthoula's life and family are also recorded in detail. Bert and Xanthoula were married in 1951; Bert died in 1995 and was survived by his wife who became a Legacy widow and is still with us in 2018.Brings to life the story of one of the people Legacy was set up to help, as well as giving an insight into the consequences of WWII for the people of Australia.Two .pdf files put together by Xanthoula and donated to Legacy.memoir, world war two

The photo is of Thalia Paizis taken in Ithaca in 1907. Thalia left Ithaca as very young child together with her mother, Chrisaida, to be reunited with her father, Nicholas Paizis in Perth W.A. Nicholas had left Ithaca prior to Thalia's birth in 1905 and established a successful business in Perth, W.A. Thalia went back to Greece in 1921 and eventually returned to Australia where she married Anastasios Papadopoulos in 1929 and settled in Melbourne. Thalia and Anastasios were the parents of Irini Pappas who was well known and highly regarded actor in Melbourne's Greek community.A photograph of a sepia studio photograph of a little girl standing on a chair. She is wearing an embroidered dress and little lace up boots. The original photograph is backed onto a decorative grey embossed board. Written across the bottom of the photo: Sofianos Ithaca 1925

The photograph was taken at an Ithacan Philanthropic Society annual picnic sometime in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Races were always a feature at the annual picnic. In those early most families travelled to the picnic ground in hired furniture vans. The annual picnic is still held today in February of each year. Pictured standing L-R: ? Kasamias; unknown; Nick Kandiliotis; Andreas Razos; unknown; unknown; unknown; Spiros Digaletos; Paizis?; Dimitri Megalogenis; unknown; Paris Gabriel; Kallinikos ?; unknown; unknown; Gerasimos Papadopoulos (Tsinis); Stratos Paizis; Cominos (Bourazanis)?; Kneeling: Nikos Stratos; Platon Varvarigos. The annual picnic gave Ithacans the chance to relax and mingle away from their work on Sunday. It was and still is an important social event in the society's calendar.A scanned black and white photograph seventeen men standing in a line and two others crouched down in the front. They are either preparing to have a race or they have completed one as four of them are wearing shorts and singlets while some of the others have rolled up their trouser legs and a lot of them are wearing running shoes. The group are standing in a picnic ground in a valley which is surrounded by trees.

Colour photographRingwood State School- Grade 6, 1986 Back row- L to R: Joe Taualii, Johanne Kelaart, Steven Leadbetter, Troy Johnson, Chris Andronis, Peter Wah, Bradley Sanders 2nd Row- L to R: Jacqueline Hopgood, Caroline Neave, Rose Krisohos, Chrissy Lythow, Leena Daff, Mary Yiannaros, Alexandra Lohe, Jenny Webb Front row- L to R: Trudy Rowley, Claire Billingsley, Andrea Gorgdon, Natalie Hopgood, Megan Bilston, Debra Taylor, Heather Papadopoulos . Teacher C Adamson

Black and white photograph - Grade 6/5M, 1983."Attached to photograph" Back Row- L to R: Chris Barnes, Darren Post, Jamie Hayes, Sean Cawley, Peter Rigg, Jason Ulrich, Greggan Boots, Sebastian Calvi, Mac Tanalii. 2nd Row- L to R: Stuart Adamson, Nick Constellis, Nathan Harris, Malcolm Peebles, Belinda McEwan, Sarah Horsey, Denis Leadbetter, Stephen Bringoff, Michael Papadopoulos, Marc Cianci. Front Row- L to R: Melinda Jessop, Amanda Charlton, Cindy Berlingeri, Anthoula Ignatiadis, Tina Phillips, Natasha Haggar, Donna Nicholson, Carmen Barbato, Sandy Quon. Teacher:

Yiannoudes Family Film Memorabilia It is normally a time consuming and difficult task to accurately assess a collection’s significance to the primary criteria, however in the case of the “Yiannoudes Family Film Memorabilia” we have no hesitation of its high significance about its historic, social, rarity, interpretive, cultural and provenance to Australia, including the country side where most of this collection memorabilia visited. From January 1959 and until 1982, “Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures”, owned by Mr Peter Yannoudes (Παναγιώτης Γιαννούδης) and Mr Stathis Raftopoulos (Στάθης Ραφτόπουλος) travelled around Australia to entertain the Greek, Turkish, Indian and Yugoslav speaking population of Australia and provide a significant cinema culture. They travelled as far as Perth in WA, Adelaide in SA, Tasmania, Darwin in Nt, Canberra in ACT and Sydney and NSW. However they found themselves also in places like Berri and Renmark in NSW, where concentrations of migrants lived and thrived during the period. Initially they were travelling by train, carrying all their equipment by hand and placing them in boxes and suitcases. However after 1962 when they acquired their first automobile, travelling became less of a burden, nevertheless cumbersome and laborious. They carried with them initially two portable projectors (second one as a backup) and at times travelled with a third in order to ensure that technology will not be letting them down at the time of film projection. At times the films were projected onto a white sheet of cloth because there was no proper screen to project it on at the venue they were using. Mr P. Yiannoudes has also published a book in October 2010, titled “Greek Cinema Across Australia – Behind the Scenes”. The book was published in two languages, English and in Greek. Details about the launch can be found on the Diasporic Literature Spot website at this address (in the Greek language) http://diasporic.org/ellinika/biblia/greek-films-in-australia/. His book is devoted to those with whom he co-operated in order to bring for the first time Greek language films into Australia. Their names are: Stathis Raftopoulos, Andreas Papadopoulos, Andreas Katopodis, Theodoros Kanellopoulos, Michael Ioannou, Fotis Hatzipavlides, Kostas Vrahnas, Evaggelos Terpenos, Dionysis Lourantos, Dimitris Georgiou, Vasilis Florias and Jim Gragie. All businessmen with the right entrepreneurial spirit to be the first and to make their mark in the making of cultural Australia. Mr P. Yiannoudes a Cypriot by descent born in the town of Vouni, a village in the area of Lemesos. In Lemesos he learned the first few things about cinema which would help him in all his later life. He migrated to Australia in 1956 has been a prominent member of the Greek & Cypriot Communities in Melbourne for many decades. He has been President of the Cypriot Community, President of Federation of Cypriot Communities in Australia (for 18 years), President of SEKA (for 26 years) and highly regarded member of the Greek-Cypriots Diaspora since he also has been Vice-President of the Global Federation of Cypriots of Diaspora for 18 years. Mr P. Yiannoudes is now working on creating a small museum of these pieces in the back of the Westgarth Theatre with the help of the Plutarch Project and …. In this collection numbering hundreds of items, we will try and capture some of the glory that was the Greek film industry in Australia for 23 years between 1959 and 1982. “Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures” also owned a large number of cinemas in Melbourne, the National Theatre in Richmond, the Westgarth Theatre in Northcote (which is still owned by the Yiannoudes family today), Sun Theatre in Yarraville, Kinema in Albert Park, Empire Theatre in Brunswick, Paramount Theatre in Oakleigh, Globe Theatre in Richmond, Galaxy Theatre in Brunswick and the Cosmopolitan Theatre in Brusnwick. At the same time they were hiring other theatres for film projections. They were the Astor Theatre in St. Kilda, Victoria Theatre in Richmond, Sunshine Theatre in Sunshine. Apart from Melbourne they were using the Pantheon Theatre in Adelaide, the Norwood Town Hall in Adelaide, the Shepparton Town Hall in Shepparton, the Premier Theatre in Perth, the Rivoli Theatre in Berri and the Renmark Theatre in Renmark. The number of films shown around Australia were over 1500 in total whilst about 1218 of them were in the Greek language. Other languages shown were in Turkish (about 150 films), Yugoslavian (about 100 films), English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch language films. “Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures” was the first company to bring Swedish and Dutch films to Australia. They also showed Martial Arts films for the first time in Australia in 1975 at the Galaxy Theatre in Melbourne. However one of the most significant pieces that tell the story with places and dates is the Show Logbook. The Show Logbook has a large number of stories to tell. It is still intact and in fair condition after all these years of travelling around Australia. It is categorised with an alphabetic index on the right by film title. Greek, Indian, Turkish and Yugoslav language film titles adorn its pages alongside the place where they were first shown, the towns and cities they visited and the dates for each one. It is an extremely significant part of history of the settlement of migrants in Australia. This Log Book is of Primary Significance to the "Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures" and the Yiannoudes family film memorabilia collection. It has a Historic, Social, Provenance and Rarity significance for the settlement of migrants in Australia and the entertainment industry.This is the Log Book, manually updated and used by "Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures" for films shown in different parts of AustraliaCollins Stock Records Booklogbook, films, shown, cultural, language, greek, australia, γιαννούδης, κατάσταση, yiannoudes