WHAT: The Athens Festival celebrates its 65th year by streaming Sophocles' Antigone directed by Lefteris Vogiatzis at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus.Watch the 2007 performance on the Athens Festival’s YouTube channel. WHEN: On Saturday, April 25, from 19:00, available online for 24 hours. WHERE: greekfestival.gr
Read moreWHAT: This great musical performance with George Dalaras, who embarks on a nostalgic journey through the history of Greek song, directed by the legendary Costas Gavras, will be uploaded on the online "stage" of the Athens Concert Hall. WHEN: On SaturdayApril 25 at 21:30 (duration 137 minutes). WHERE: megaron.gr
Read moreWHAT: Nurtured by Greek traditional and Byzantine music, enriched by elements of classical music and improvisation, steeped in jazz and contemporary music, the unmistakable sound of Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet combines the primeval sound of the lyra and the piano trio. At the SNFCC concert in May 2019, Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet presented its late...
Read moreWHAT: The Theocharakis Foundation invites you to use photography to communicate with each other. Post your new and old photos by tagging thf on instagram (@theocharakis_foundation) or on facebook (@ thf.gr) until April 30 and let your photos become stories on thf’s social networks. WHEN: Until April 30 WHERE: thf.gr
Read moreWHAT: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) inaugurates its new online music series #snfccAtHome: music, in which, every Saturday, acclaimed artists will present solo concerts in live broadcast from iconic spaces of the SNFCC, adhering to the necessary safety measures, and without the presence of an audience. The live concert seri...
Read moreWHAT: Join weekly sports activities from your home and stay active and energetic throughout your day! Participants should have their own Pilates mat and wear comfortable clothes. WHEN: On Tuesday: 28 April , On Thursdays:23 and 30 April From: 09.00-10.00, Up to 100 participants per class Free admission by online pre-registration (the mat pi...
Read moreWHAT: Home Made Art is a children's art project co-hosted by The Blender Gallery that invites young artists, aged 3 to 8 years old, who have been confined to their homes to express themselves. CONTACT INFO For little artists interested in participating in the Home Made Art Project, please send an email to: e: info@theblendergallery.com e:...
Read moreThe Athens Festival, so central to the vibrancy of our city, promises to create a joyful, ambitious and celebratory cultural programme to at least get us dreaming of an action-packed summer ahead. Katerina Evangelatos, the new Artistic Director of the Athens Festival hopes that this year’s Festival will be realised towards the end of May,...
Read moreOn this the most important of Greek religious holidays, Elena Panayides shares her ideas for recreating the sights, sounds and smells of Easter at home. Have your friends bake Tsoureko-banana bread and then score one another’s creations on a zoom digital bake-off. The winners and losers all get to put on 2kg. Look at your...
Read moreWHAT: The Athens Concert Hall follows its ‘Stay Home’ campaign with Claudio Monteverdi's classical masterpiece, The Coronation of Poppaea. One of the first operas to use historical events and people, it describes how Poppaea, mistress of the Roman emperor Nero, is able to achieve her ambition and be crowned empress. Recognising that more than ever,...
Read moreWHAT: The Athens Concert hall kicks off its ‘Stay Home’ campaign with Alban Berg's Lulu. Lulu, an opera in three acts by Alban Berg, was adapted from Frank Wedekind's two Lulu plays, Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora tells the story of a mysterious young woman known as Lulu, who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna t...
Read moreThe Thessaloniki Film Festival ingeniously pivots the postponement of its Documentary Festival due to the coronavirus pandemic by assigning eleven Greek directors to shoot short films on their new quarantine reality at home. Harnessing the power and reach of film and the internet and wanting to stay in close touch with their ...
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