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The national cultural institutes and diaspora cultural centres that keep a public door in London, with the libraries, galleries, film programmes and language classes they run, and the international festivals that return to the same ground each year. Much of what they put on is free.
Where those countries' people lived, in the past tense: The World in London
Greece and Cyprus in a Marylebone townhouse: exhibitions free, talks most Wednesdays, and a library of twelve thousand books.
ExhibitionsLibraryLanguage coursesConcertsFree entry
The Centre is a charity run by and for the Greek and Cypriot communities in Britain rather than by either government, which is why its programme is wider and odder than an embassy's would be. Exhibitions are free and change every couple of months; the talks run most weeks in term and cost five pounds or nothing if you are a member, on subjects from ancient women painters to how Greek newspapers were written under Ottoman rule.
The building also holds a multilingual library on Greek history, geography and art, runs modern Greek classes at every level, and hosts the member societies - the Hellenic Society, Omilos Eksipiretiton and others - who put on their own evenings here. Between the two programmes something is on most weeks of the year.
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