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Brisbane KAA Presentation Greek Club. 21st Sept., 2006

Brisbane KAA Presentation Greek Club. 21st Sept., 2006. Overview www.kythera-family.net - main topic Web-site is part of a powerful Kytherian “renaissance” which has been underway for about 8 years. Lets explore this renaissance first, and return to a discussion of the web-site subsequently.

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Brisbane KAA Presentation Greek Club. 21st Sept., 2006

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  1. Brisbane KAA PresentationGreek Club. 21st Sept., 2006 • Overview • www.kythera-family.net - main topic • Web-site is part of a powerful Kytherian “renaissance” which has been underway for about 8 years. • Lets explore this renaissance first, and return to a discussion of the web-site subsequently.

  2. Key Generators for the renaissance • Nicholas Anthony Aroney Trust, Sydney • Triffileio Foundation, Athens • Notaras Family, (Grafton, Sydney). In particular, Angelo & John. • Kytherian Association of Australia, Sydney

  3. Developments 1990 - to date • Kytherian Medal of Honour • Need other central symbols of power - Kytherian Flag & Kytherian Coat of Arms • Publication of Gilchrist’s Australians & Greeks, Vol 1, 1993. Financed Notaras’s. • Encouraged other research, including Denis Conomos’s Greeks in Queensland.

  4. 2006 Books • Kytherians of Nowra - Robyn Florance • Ruby Brown (Feros) - completed biography of her father • Peter Prineas excellent - Katsehamos and the Great Idea. • All generated by, or aided by, the web-site, and/or financed by the Aroney Trust.

  5. Supplementary Projects • Kytherian Surnames. English translation. Financed by Notaras brothers. $60,000. • Zoi en Afstralia. Translation completed. Cost - $14,000. Now to be published as a book in both an English and Greek version. (kythera-family.net) • Restoration of Fatseas Collection of glass negatives. Cost $12,500. Notaras Brothers. • Leading to Benaki Museum exhibition - 2007.

  6. Kytherian Vision. Suggestions for Improvement. • We need to establish and maintain deep engagement with potential Kytherian benefactors in Australia, and around the world. Relationships must be fostered. Just 5 more Kytherian benefactors like the Notaras’s would create deep impact. • We need to establish and maintain deep relationships between the Sydney, Brisbane, & Canberra Kytherian Associations.

  7. Deepening Kytherian Association connections - Suggestions • Annual meetings of the Committees of Sydney, Brisbane & Canberra. • Billeted exchange system for our youth within Australia. • International billeting exchange system, initially with California. • Annual billeting exchanges with the island of Kythera, Athens & Pireaus.

  8. www.kythera-family.net Start-up. Support for the website must be inclusive. • Raised $38,000 in 2 months, through Aroney Trust & Notaras family & generous sponsors, each contributing $2000. • An oversight? No sponsorship by Qld Association. No sponsorship, or funds, collected in Brisbane to date. • No sponsorship by Canberra Brotherhood. One sponsorship collected in Canberra. (Another Notaras?!)

  9. Deep Impact www.kythera-family.net • Within 4 months the number one KYTHERA site on Google in the world. A position maintained for past 3 years. • World-wide media coverage incl. New York Times, Canada Globe, the Bulletin. • Prizes - International Electronics and Internet Conventions • First point of reference for all major Encyclopedias, including Brittanica.

  10. Deep, deep Impactwww.kythera-family.net • Sept 2006 - 10,000 entries on the site • Includes full Ph.D theses, such as Kevin Cork’s, Greek Cinema Ownership in NSW. • New entries tend to generate more entries. Entries which take Kytherians deeper into their family, island and diaspora history. • Encouraged new research and new books.

  11. Deep, deep, deep Impactwww.kythera-family.net • “Every time an old person dies, an entire Library burns down”. Kevin Cork. • Caused a deep inter-generational connectivity between older Kytherians with the knowledge, and younger Kytherians with the “techo-savvy”. A conduit for communication. • Re-connection of Kytherians in California, USA. First time in 30 years.

  12. Deep, deep, deep, deep Impactwww.kythera-family.net • Vikki Fraioli (nee, Alfieris), and Terry Chlentzos, California. • Stars of the web-site, and stars of Kytheraismos Conference 2, 2006. • Double-handedly re-connecting the Kytherians of California. • Lets visit their web-site familyconnections.

  13. A tour through www.kythera-family.net • Get registered. • Power to communicate with all other registered Kytherians around the world. • Approaching the task. Don’t wait to complete the grand opus. Submit items little by little….byt by byt. • Submitting text. • Submitting Photographs & Audio.

  14. Brisbane - Sydney. What can we do now!! Cultural background. • Establish Friends of the Society of Kytherian Letters, Brisbane, with President. • Launch Peter Prineas’s Katsehamos and the Great Idea in Brisbane. • Participate in Annual heads of Kytherian-Australian Associations Summit. • Establish the Syd-Bris billeting system. • Establish an international billeting system.

  15. Kythera-family.net Brisbane - Sydney. What can we do now!! • Queensland KAA to - • become a $2000 sponsor of the site. • encourage and foster Queensland submissions to the site. • Promote technological expertise amongst its membership - young & old. • Establish a day long work-shop in Brisbane. • Participate in world-wide kythera-family interconnectivity

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