Homerion Cultural Center of Chios

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Quoted from the famous poet Homer, these words best to describe the purpose of the facility named after him, the Homerion Cultural Center of Chios.

Located at the main square of the city of Chios, the center was founded in 1980 with generous donations from the municipality of Chios, and in 1985 from Μιχάλης and Σταματία Ξυλά. The entity was declared legal in 1989 and in the period from 1980 until 1995 over 3000 events took place in the spacious structure. The topics of these events ranged from film screenings, lectures and photography exhibitions over conferences and teaching courses to theatrical and dancing performances.

This wide range of subjects perfectly illustrate how much is encompassed in the Homerion Cultural Center, but also how well suited it is for different kinds of workshops: From music lessons, photography, paintings, mosaic art, traditional dances and more – the options the building provides are limitless.

The main purpose of the facility is the recognition and support of artistic and scientific trends to the local community and the public in general, as well as the promotion of cultural education, scientific coordination etc. between Chios and other cities in Greece. In fact the Center already contributed greatly to the education of young people and has helped many of them discover their talents. The services and the facilities are available to Greek associations for any cultural event of non profiteering purpose.

In order to provide them and the community with the required spaces, the Homerion Cultural Centre of Chios is compromised of five floors and consists of various, specialized rooms. To give credit to them all, here a short list:

The Auditorium

The Auditorium is the center piece of the facility. It contains a total of 462 seats, divided to stalls and the dress circle and provides excellent acoustics, modern stage-installation, as well as dressing rooms and a scenery-workshop. The stage is equipped with a panoramic screen for film shows and projection-equipment for 16 and 35 mm films and slides.

The recently reworked lightning system in both the seating area and on stage are able to support any kind of theatrical presentation, as well as acoustic taking the STEINWAY-piano into account, which is also present in the Auditorium.

To round it up it has supplementary 300 square meters and a bar.

The Conference Room

Being equipped with 172 seats, the Conference Room offers a vast amount of space for meetings of all kinds: Lectures, conferences, teaching courses, slides-projections and much more can be held in this room. On top of it all, it features a simultaneous translation system in three languages and projectors.

The Board Room, The Galleries and Additional Rooms

The Board Room offers space for 24 seats and is quite suitable for board-meetings and teaching courses. The 2 exhibition galleries encompass an area of 42 square meters and space suitable for painting, sculpturing, pottery, art in general and any other kinds of exhibitions. They are equipped with excellent supporting frameworks and a modern lightning system, which puts the art in the spotlight.

Additionally the building features various teaching and rehearsal rooms and finally a library.

For more information visit the official homepage of the Homerion Cultural Center of Chios!