Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2020 highlights
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Show your Solidarity!
While these past few months have been hard and dispiriting, this is the time to show your solidarity and call for a seminal change in the way we view race and justice. It is heartening to see the heightened activism amongst Greece's youth who have taken on the initiative to organise protest marches in Athens and Thessaloniki. ...
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Alkinoos Ioannidis LIVE from the SNFCC Lighthouse
WHAT: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center’s (SNFCC) online concert series continues with Alkinoos Ioannidis, on Thursday, June 4, at 21:00. At a time when we’re keeping our distances, Alkinoos Ioannidis brings us closer through the magic of songs that we have loved, such as “Oneiro Itane”, “O Kosmos Pou Allazei” and “Vythos”. Following...
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Pavlos Pavlidis LIVE from the South Paths of the Stavros Niarchos Park
WHAT: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center’s (SNFCC) new online concert series #snfccAtHome continues with Pavlos Pavlidis, one of the most important representatives of the Greek alternative rock scene, on Friday, May 29, at 21:00. The much-loved songwriter presents an unusual project he created during lockdown, especially for his onl...
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Children’s painting contest at the Cycladic Museum draws huge interest
A whopping 26,500 budding artists participated in The Cycladic Museum's annual painting contest which presciently asked children to portray their reflections in an ancient bronze Cypriot mirror. The drawings by promising, young, talented contestants will be on display online until the end of the summer. The Museum of Cycladic...
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Gallery Walk: A window into contemporary Greek Art
How do you support artists when galleries are still shuttered? 40 Galleries featuring 40 artists join Art Athina's fabulous initiative by hosting a different “gallery walk” around Athens. Take virtual tours of artists’ studios and of their exhibitions through Athens Culture Net’s website www.athensculturenet.com and its YouTube channel. Starting fr...
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Room Service with a difference
For the sixth week running, the Onassis Foundation’s digital channel on YouTube presents archival productions of plays, dance performances, Greek tragedies and poetic encounters. SCREENINGS WEEK #6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBzgXs0jGX4&feature=youtu.be On Friday, May 8, at 21:00, the frenetic farce Room Service by John...
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Live from The Greek National Opera
WHAT: The Greek National Opera continues broadcasting some of its most successful operas on ERT2. Tune in through www.nationalopera.gr the GNO channel on YouTube, GNO’s Facebook page or on ERT2 and ERT's WEBTV. WHEN: Saturday 25 April at 23.00: Nabucco on ERT2, ERT's WEBTV & nationalopera.gr Sunday 26 April at 20.00: Mikado at nationalopera...
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Cycladic Society. 5000 years ago
WHAT: Browse through the exhibition, held to mark the museum's 30th anniversary in 2016, that showcases the structure of Cycladic society during the Early Bronze Age (3200 to 2000 BC). Discover the natural environment in which they lived, the occupations of the inhabitants, their social or religious customs and beliefs. In Greek and English WHER...
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Sophocles’ Antigone
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
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George Dalaras at Megaron
WHAT: 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
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Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet
WHAT: 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...
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