John Connolly on the “Charlie Parker” Series
WHAT: The internationally renowned crime fiction writer discusses noir, the metaphysical, and the darkest depths of the human soul this July. Award winn...
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Calexico Live at Acropolis
WHAT: Active for the past 20 years, Calexico – named after a town in the Mexico-...
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Performance Pop-up Shop: Services and Spectacles
WHAT: For one month, city shoppers and passers-by can order a performance from p...
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Events, Exhibitions and Other Happenings this July!
Whether it's through archaic Greek films, vintage photographs or exhibitions of extinct creatures, Athens is collapsing the past with the present this July. Insider rounds out some of this month's arts highlights. Exhibitions Athens Twice Seen WHAT: Presented by American photographer Richard W Moore, the exhibition “Athens Twice Seen” merges his...
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Nana Mouskouri at Herodion Atticus
WHAT: The eternal Greek singer performs some of her best-known anthems and international hits including Chartino to Fengaraki, White Rose of Athens and Je chante avec toi Liberté in this landmark concert I Will Tell You a Story with part of the proceeds to be donated to ELPIDA – Association of Friends of Children with Cancer. Tickets from €15-85 on...
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Art-Athina 2018’s Artistic Renaissance
WHAT: Join in a four-day celebration of the city’s artistic renaissance as Art-Athina 2018 opens its doors at a prestigious new cultural venue and with a new artistic director Stamatia Dimitrakopoulou. Not just another art fair, this sophisticated highlight of the Athenian art calendar brings together the most influential local galleries and intern...
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The Tiger Lillies Coming to Greece on Six-Stop Tour
WHAT: On a six-stop tour with a new production titled “The Very Worst of the Tiger Lillies”, Oliver Award-winning cult British music act The Tiger Lillies is coming to Greece. The show features their “fiercest, filthiest tunes for the perverse pleasure of fans old and new”. This unique, Brechtian street opera trio is currently on a world tour pl...
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to Feature in Ejekt Festival in Athens
WHAT: Featuring in this year’s Ejekt Festival on Athens’ southern coast, Australian rock legend Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds will be playing along with English rockers Editors and Wolf Alice, as well as American act Protomartyr in their first ever appearance in Greece. Donned one of rock’s “most enduring, redoubtable” bands by Pitchfork Media, an...
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One-man Show Rent Control at ATHENS2018
For Anglophile theatregoers starved of English productions, EllinikoTheatro’s repertoire of plays and performances in English with Greek surtitles to mark its 40th anniversary is a welcome addition to your cultural agenda. WHAT: Rent Control, written and performed by Evan Zes, tells the true tale of a struggling actor living in New York. Short on ...
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Stella Kapenzou Presents her First Solo Exhibition in Athens
WHAT: In her first solo exhibition in her native Greece, Stella Kapenzou explores an imaginary world of symbols and stereotypes, depicting an eternal quest for happiness through superficial affluence in colorful and somewhat amusing scenes that each hold a unique tinge of irony. Following two successful solo exhibitions in London and several awa...
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