Greece bans single-use plastic from Febrruary 1
Greece aims to be one of the first EU countries to end single-use plastics, effective February 1. The current government has successfully managed...
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What does Brexit mean if you’re a UK citizen livin...
If we needed a coda to end this strange year, it would be in the form ...
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Valery Giscard d’Estaing: Greece’s sta...
"It was on his plane that democracy returned to our country and with h...
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Greece Offers Tax Breaks to Lure the Work-From-Anywhere Crowd
The Greek government hopes to convert the country into a haven for talented professionals and convert its brain drain into a brain gain by offering lucrative tax breaks. Greece is way cheaper than other destinations in Europe, the climate and food options are much better, and, the human interactions are richer. Now, the Greek government ...
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Cinema, no matter what!
WHAT: Nothing takes your mind off things like disappearing down the rabbit hole of a good old movie marathon. The 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival comes to the rescue with an on-line feast of indie films, Greek productions, breathtaking tributes and subversive films pitched perfectly for these unforeseeable and unprecedented days. With...
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EVZONES | Group Exhibition
WHAT: 64 distinguished Greek artists participate in the exhibition of NPO “Fermeli” entitled “Evzones“, framed by an original core of historical reference, consisting of photographs, historical relics and collectibles from public and private collections. Conversing and drawing from the parallel valuable historical core of the exhibition, the goal o...
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Stella Kapezanou: Baby one more time
WHAT: Stella Kapezanou’s surrealist, pop-arty, colour-soaked compositions with a highly stylized cast of characters makes its way to Evripides Gallery next week. She uses the same traits as in her other paintings, imaginative use of colour, references to art history, humour and so on, and yet, her characters seem terribly lonely, almost as if sinki...
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Sam Friedman’s Island at Dio Horia
WHAT: Sam Friedman's first solo show in Athens, Island, composed entirely of new paintings that focus οn the themes of landscape painting and natural phenomena. Strictly installed by color throughout the newly inaugurated Project Space, these paintings elicit a reaction similar to our reaction to music. Themes and motifs, colours and feelings appea...
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Petros Klampanis & George Kontrafouris, a unique jazz duo
WHAT: George Kontrafouris and Petros Klampanis, two internationally known jazzmen get together for a rare meeting, brimming with emotion, energy and intensity. Petros Klampanis imaginatively fuses his jazz education with Mediterranean sounds and the Greek tradition, to create a broad multi-colored musical palette while acclaimed jazz pianist Georg...
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Αncient vibes in contemporary ceramics
WHAT: The first exhibition of "Mon Coin Studio", launched by Eleonore Trenado-Finestis, a French ceramist. This exhibition of 35 artists will cross the boundary between art and craft to show the influence of the past in modern ceramics. This work takes its roots in classical antiquity, the Minoan civilization, Cycladic art or even the works of prim...
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What to do and see in Athens this October
From a retrospective of contemporary African art to Brice Marden's marble compositions, Takis' magnetic sculptures, photography exhibitions, film festivals and more, Athens' cultural scene is thriving, angry viruses notwithstanding. Sam Friedman’s Island at Dio Horia WHAT: Sam Friedman's first solo show in Athens, Island, c...
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Charles Sandison’s The Garden of light
WHAT: Charles Sandison's extremely timely exhibition, "The garden of light", highlights the dissonance of our current political reality and our fraught relationship with the environment, identity, morality and memory. He uses interwoven video projections and large screens to immerse the audience in a digital glow. “At the centre of my works is ‘sim...
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