WHAT: A magical night devoted to Leonard Cohen to be a memorable highlight of the Megaron’s marvelous summer line-up of outdoor performances in their Concert Hall Gardens. The energetic Sugahspank trio will showcase the great poet and musician who, throughout his full life, was both a teacher and a student, and who touched many across the world wit...
Read more"Books are dreams that you hold in your hands" Neil Gaiman A new page has been turned for Athens as our city assumes its place in the cultural spotlight as “Book Capital of the World”. For one year, the written word will take centre-stage in Athens throughout a richly stimulating calendar of over 250 events hosted by the Ci...
Read moreNothing defines the beginning of Greek summer as open-air cinemas do. Every neighbourhood has one – some as old as the history of cinema, perched on a rooftop with a view of the Acropolis; others, more recent entrants, right on the water set to the music of sailboat masts swaying in the summer breeze; still others surrounded by perfumed g...
Read moreGreece’s cultural heritage is hot property. In fact, if Brand Greece could be distilled and traded on the stock market right now, it would be in a bull market. Enter Katerina Frentzou, journalist and founder of Branding Heritage, a timely cultural alliance between some of the country’s finest and most high-profile creative ambassadors. Fr...
Read moreThe New Yorker once described him as a “deep-thinking American making art out of shadows”. Now, Athens audiences can soon encounter for themselves the cerebral creations of Paul Chan that combine fashion with physics when he presents a body of new and recent works – Odysseus and the Bathers – at the Museum of Cycladic Art. Cha...
Read moreFashion and art’s natural synchronicities are being celebrated in an exciting new alliance between the Museum of Cycladic Art and 14 of Greece’s top design stars. As part of the fashion project, Cycladic Forms, leading fashion brands including Deux Hommes, Angelos Bratis, Zeus & Dione and Di Gaia have each created a unique...
Read moreWHAT: Encounter the fractured portraits and aggressive imagery that have made George Condo one of the most vital figurative sculptors in America at his first major solo exhibition in Greece. The showcase will include paintings, sculptures and drawings spanning his 40-year career, with a catalogue to be published on to mark the occasion. In the 1...
Read moreWHAT: Re-visit the most important works of Ingmar Bergman –the great “poet with the camera” – as part of global celebrations for the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1918. The Swedish Institute in collaboration with the Swedish Film Institute, the Embassy of Sweden in Athens and the cinemas Astor and Andora, will host digitally-restored screenings...
Read moreNostos, or νόστος in ancient Greek, roughly translates to a ‘homecoming’ with specific reference to the return of Odysseus and other Greek heroes of the Trojan War. In a slightly different context, the Summer Nostos Festival at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre seeks to bring us all ‘back home’ to those timeless days of peac...
Read moreWHAT: A thrilling treat for literature lovers as the award-winning scribe Ian McEwan - author of best-selling works such as Atonement and the Booker-prize winning Amsterdam - shares his writing process in his first Athens appearance, as part of "Athens 2018 - World Book Capital". In a talk titled “The Literary Concept of Self”, the celebrated Briti...
Read more“You should see the landscape of Greece. It would break your heart.” -- Lawrence Durrell The canon of Lawrence Durrell – the cherished English poet, Grecophile and author now back in vogue thanks to the popular television series The Durrells – is about to be expanded by one, 28 years after his death. Admirers of Durrell, whose bes...
Read moreWhile the modern Athens metropolis continues to shape-shift and evolve like a living, breathing entity, the voracious Athenian appetite for cultural symposia remains an unbreakable connection between ancient and present times. Each summer, the Athens Festival serves as a prism to celebrate the great scope and timbre of this artistic compu...
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