Acropolis News

Monthly project for cleaning the canal and keep the Portobello area litter free! Equipment was provided for NA but please call to book a place on the team!

Young athletes said goodbye to the year 2012 by participating in the traditional St. Sylvester Race.

About 30 members from New Acropolis in Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Munich met to visit a remarkable exhibition on The World of the Celts, Centres of Power and Art Treasures held at the Landesmuseum Württenberg in Stuttgart. This exhibition displays original objects from all around Europe, exhibited together for the first time, providing an overall view of their art and culture. Ritual objects such as cauldrons, swords, etc., bear witness to the extraordinary refinement of this civilization that was sometimes mistakenly considered barbaric.

New Acropolis volunteers visited hospitalized children and gave them a happy day of artistic activities such as paper-folding and painting.

The Nicholson Museum is home to the largest collection of antiquities in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. A guided tour through the Ancient Greece and Rome section of The Nicholson Museum at Sydney University has been organised by New Acropolis. Guided tour was followed by talk: “The Interpretation of the Myth of the Labyrinth and Theseus” in the Quadrangle.

Members of New Acropolis Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia participated in a Seminar on Archaeo-Astronomy organized by New Acropolis Ecuador over two full days. Its purpose was to rediscover the ways in which the ancient Americans viewed the heavens.

New Acropolis volunteers repainted the walls of a Day-Center for the youth of the Ethiopian community in the town of Kfar-Saba.

The volunteers together with the local staff and youth, painted the place.