Spread across 5 months, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has always marked the beginning of the summer cultural season. Expect an adrenaline-charged programme with 80 open-air performances, experimental theatre, contemporary dance, classical music, subverted operas and more in 2021's packed repertoire. Athens and Epidaurus Fest...
Read moreRaised on the knee of an adventurous cook in rural Devon, Tom Hall developed a taste for the finer things in life. Cursed with a sultan’s palate and a student’s wallet he began studying historic gastronomy before realising that if he wanted to eat well, he’d have to make it himself. Various cooking, eating and drinking engagements later, ...
Read moreThe B&E Goulandris Foundation welcomes summer 2021 with 58 new works in its collection. Wander among your favourite works of El Greco, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges...
Read moreThe Queer Archive Festival is back again from 3 to 6 June 2021, hosting a great celebration of Athens’ rich and vibrant queer culture, with the support of Onassis Stegi for a second consecutive year. Designed to celebrate the very best of queer arts and culture, The Queer Archive Festival raises the curtain on another rich pro...
Read moreFrom charming whitewashed chapels that might have stepped off a Cycladic island, to stone and brick temples that rang the bell on history, here are 8 beautiful and storied houses of worship in the city centre where you can witness the sacred and solemn spirit of a Greek Easter. Agios Georgios (Saint George) on Lycabettus [capti...
Read moreAs we embark on a more muted Easter period for the second year running, best-selling Athens-based author Sofka Zinovieff evokes the intense emotion, glorious paradoxes and vivid imagery of a more typical Easter in Athens. Few would dispute that Easter celebrations are the most intensely beautiful and emotional events in the Gr...
Read moreDiana Farr Louis unpacks a tried and tested communal way of living where foreigners, slomads, retirees and families who are dreaming of a new existence in Greece are being seduced by fast internet speeds and the gentler groove of village life. “With the pandemic, people around the world are realizing how much they ne...
Read moreThe powerful dolls of Greek sculptor Ioanna Paraskeva speak for those women and girls who can’t. Through her ‘I am Not a Doll’ Project – the conceptual artist hopes to create a bridge between children and adults, allowing them to break down taboos about brutal topics – from domestic violence and rape, to sexual harassment and cyber abuse ...
Read moreFrom landmark monuments to famous city icons, here’s how the world turned on the blue and white colours to fete Greece on its 200th anniversary. Sydney's ic...
Read moreGreece’s National Gallery is home to some of the world’s most coveted artworks, yet it spent a better part of its 143-year existence homeless and abandoned. All that is about to change as the new National Gallery opens its swanky doors on March 24 in Athens’ Pangrati district. A bright and cheery triptych by Panagiotis Tetsis with vibrant...
Read moreDo you know your Sambousak from your Sfoungato? Take a taste safari through the fragrant Mediterranean flavours of the Sephardic Jews – and enjoy a window into the culture of the local Jewish community – at Athens’ sole kosher restaurant, Gostijo. For French-born Nehama and New York-bred Mendel, Gostijo was the culmination...
Read moreMemory serves to make us vigilant and to guard against the evils of yesterday. The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival is bringing the story of Greek Jews - from their rich traditions and culture to their darkest days - out of the shadows. Heritage and Memory: A Focus on Jewish Greece, a ten-day virtual event Greece honours the mem...
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