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Culture | Sep 2023
From commemorating Lord Byron’s relationship with Greece, to re-working the first opera using mycelium, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month.
“Sonic Odysseys” and “Xenakis and Greece” at EMST
A single exhibition could never be enough to celebrate the polyphonic genius of...
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Culture | Jun 2023
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 2023’s packed repertoire.
Madama Butterfly
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City Life | Jun 2023
The Cooking #WithRefugees Festival comes back to Athens from 18 to 22 June organised by UNHCR to create inclusive spaces for refugees to feed their futures and their communities. Join us this year as Greek and refugee chefs team up in four restaurants to serve favourite dishes and fusion proposals inspired by Syrian,...
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City Life | Jun 2023
From top tier international guests to avant garde music, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month.
Theodoros Currentzis and John Cale at Athens Epidavros Festival
As always this world class festival offers Athenians and visitors the opportunity to experience outstanding perf...
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City Life | Jun 2023
When Arabella von Friesen and John de Falbe of the legendary Chelsea bookstore John Sandoe, consistently voted as one of the UK’s best-loved independent bookshops, decided to do a podcast to promote Miguel Flores-Vianna’s Haute Bohemians in Greece, they knew they could count on writer Sofka Zinovieff, philhellene and John Sandoe fan. Migu...
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City Life | May 2023
It's where old-world glory tumbles into modern-day chaos, above the din of the flea markets and the music streaming out of the many bars that dot its narrow alleys. The first impression is of the incongruity of it all. Ramshackled buildings in various states of disrepair, minarets piercing the night sky, red-tiled Byzantine domes, and, th...
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City Life | May 2023
In her centenary year, Helena Matheopoulos pays tribute to Maria Callas whose operatic and personal style as the ultimate diva of her generation, coupled with almost endless drama and intrigue in her personal life, only contributed to her appeal as opera’s most iconic phenomenon.
Forty five years after her death, Greek-born Ma...
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City Life | May 2023
From literary salons to art installations and street parties, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month.
New Contemporary Art Installations at SNFCC
This month the Stavros Niarchos Foundation welcomes two separate art installations that each add a layer of inspiration and eng...
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City Life | Apr 2023
The Alekos Fassianos Museum, a rare example in which the complicity between artist and architect underpins the dialogue between the works and the space that houses them, opened its doors to the public on April 26, 2023. Showcasing the artist's visual treatise on everyday Greek life in a building designed by his longtime friend, architect ...
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City Life | Apr 2023
Athens Insider continues with its Literary Salons with international literary luminaries as part of the Athens City Festival at two different venues on May 15 and May 24 - at Insider's urban garden terrace and at the National Observatory atop the Hill of the Nymphs respectively. The Athens Literary Salons feature writers who have set thei...
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City Life | Apr 2023
As Head Gardener at the Mediterranean Garden Society’s Sparoza garden in Paeania, Lucie Willan spends her days under the dappled shade of cascading vines, surrounded by olive groves carpeted with wild Anemone coronariarare and rare varieties of Mediterannean fauna. As custodian of the urban oasis at Sparoza, Lucie is extremely busy keepin...
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City Life | Apr 2023
From 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
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