Stefanos Rokos’ Art stars in Inside alongside Willem Dafoe
When producer George Karnavas @heretic.films approached artist Stefanos Rokos in 2019 with a compelling script of Vasilis Katsoupis’ Inside, he w...
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Arrested Song: A Novel about Greece by award-winni...
Diana Farr-Louis interviews Irena Karafilly, author of Arrested Song, ...
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Romain Gavras’ apocalyptic worldview
Romain Gavras and Surkin are descending on Athens for the world premie...
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Athens Insider’s Literary Salon returns with Ian Collins and Helena Smith
Athens Insider Literary Salon returns to Pangrati with a live conversation featuring award-winning writer and curator Ian Collins and veteran journalist Helena Smith discussing the anarchic life and legacy of the rebellious British artist John Craxton, on the centenary of his birth. During the last year, we have had the incred...
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Meet Dino Rubino, the distinctive talent helming the Zenith Music Festival this year
Dino Rubino, the Sicilian jazz pianist known for his elegant, bluesy interpretation on the contemporary scene, promises to electrify the Athenian public at the Zenith Music Festival with his Dino Rubino New Trio. Their premiere performance at the august Gennadius Library will have jazz standards alongside compositions from the trio’s late...
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Beyond traditional models of civic engagement
His social media posts decry vandalism and civic apathy while inspiring his fellow citizens to protect their heritage. Fund-raiser and former Executive Director of The Hellenic Initiative, Peter Poulos speaks to Athens Insider on the urgent need for civic engagement and public private partnerships. Public-private partnersh...
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The Virtuous Cycle of Greek Culture
Deputy Minister for Contemporary Culture Nicholas Yatromanolakis speaks to Sudha Nair-Iliades on the soft power of contemporary culture and of reimagining the way forward to cultural sustainability. You’re the first Deputy Minister of Contemporary Culture. Why was the office created? It has to do with the fact that contem...
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A Nomad’s Soul Finds a Home in Greece: the John Craxton exhibition at the Benaki Museum
It’s hard to deny that there’s something about Greece that delights the natural born nomad’s soul, and the British painter John Craxton was no exception. Finally deserting the icy drawing rooms of post-war Britain, Craxton first arrived in Greece in 1946, aged 23, unsure what he was looking for or what he would find. He was already known ...
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Adventures in Greece’s Past, and Present, in the British School at Athens
Ranbir Sidhu in conversation with John Bennet, the Director of the British School at Athens, on the fascinating world of archaeology and the insights it offers into the way societies lived, interacted and evolved. When John Bennet first arrived at the British School at Athens in 1981 for a two week stay, he had no idea that ov...
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Curious about which wines will make it into the 50 Great Greek Wines list?
Wine writer, wine consultant and wine educator Yiannis Karakasis ΜW has been sharing his love for Greek wine around the globe. An authority on the history, grapes, people, places and methods behind the wines, he speaks to Athens Insider about the 50Great Greek Wines Awards to be held in May. We are as curious to find out which Greek wines...
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A Requiem for Edmund Keeley: A lover of Greece and poetry
A Hellenist, prolific writer and translator who made Greece his life’s work, Edmund Keeley has passed away at the age of 94. Born in Damascus to diplomat parents, Edmund Keeley, poet, translator, author, professor and friend of Greece, passed away on February 23, 2022. As a professor of modern Greek literature at Princeton Uni...
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Smyrna: a poignant tale of loss and belonging
100 years on from of the Destruction of Smyrna, an epic and powerful film tribute entitled ‘Smyrna’ premieres in Greek cinemas on December 23. Elena Panayides speaks to actress Nedie Antoniades about her emotional voyage embodying the role of Angelica, from its successful two-year theatrical staging in Athens, to the ambitious, internatio...
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