WHAT: What materials make up a dancer’s life? In the eyes of the public a dancer’s career may seem like a sprint, but in fact it is a marathon of challenges, beginning with training at a young age and coming to a close with the final bow. As a career wanes, every dancer is called upon to refute the obvious: the body, exhausted by the constant techn...
Read moreWHAT: German artist Christiane Löhr seeks to understand the connection between the natural order and modern architecture. This search manifests itself in her art, in which she uses eccentric methods and materials to construct everyday objects and architectural designs. For her second exhibition in Athens, she utilizes horse hair and needles, alongs...
Read moreWHAT: After the death of their guitarist, Robert Buras, in 2007, the band Madrugada took a hiatus, but the band is ready to make its comeback. Twenty years after their debut album, “Industrial Silence,” the Norwegian group aims to relive their glory days and share their signature melancholic sound. WHEN: April 7 at 20:00 (SOLD OUT) and April 8 a...
Read moreWHAT: For the 1st time in Greece comes Convergences, the interactive and innovative forum that brings together opposing worlds for a good reason! The Convergences Greece Forum will take place in Athens on the 1 & 2 April 2019 at the historical theatre OLYMPIA and the Hub Events. Its main focus in on the UΝ Sustainable Development Goal 11 Sustai...
Read moreWHAT: A play written and performed by French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy for a theatrical tour of 20 European cities from March to May 2019. Looking for Europe is the internal monologue of an intellectual holed up in a hotel room in Sarajevo with 90 minutes to compose an important speech about Europe. Should he begin with Greek ...
Read moreWHAT: The cultural evolution of the Arabian Peninsula from antiquity to the modern age is revealed through a fascinating collection of exhibits that include large-scale sculpture, gold burial ornaments, tombstones and precious offerings. This exhibition was launched at the Louvre in 2010 and has toured cities including Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Wash...
Read moreWHAT: Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – the 20th edition of the French Film Festival promises all this and more. Now established as an important date in the cultural agenda of the city, the French Film Festival, as every spring, brings the best of French cinema to Athens from April 2 to April 10 and Thessaloni...
Read moreWHAT: American artist Mary Cox presents an exhibition of works celebrating the hardy beauty of wild-growing plants, particularly those indigenous to Attica. Using photographs as her basis, Cox magnifies the details, skews the perspectives, paints with a vivid colour palette and adds static objects like fences or buildings around the plants to refer...
Read moreWHAT: Pavlos Samios reinterprets Greek history and ancient myths with 66 super-sized canvases, some larger than three metres, where the symbols of ancient Greek culture take centre stage. WHEN: On Friday March 15, 2019, at 19:00 WHERE: Byzantine and Christian Museum (map)
Read moreWHAT: Intricate, dreamy and bold Japanese and Greek Printmaking organized by the Embassy of Japan in Greece and the Japanese Engraving Association to celebrate 120 years of Japanese -Greek friendship. WHEN: 15 -20 March WHERE: Piraeus Municipal Gallery, Filonos 29, Piraeus (map)
Read moreWHAT: A pioneer in the field of minimal techno back in the early 1990’s, Moritz von Oswald is coming to Athens. As the founder of the successful Basic Channel label, player of multiple instruments, and legend in the electronic music community, you don’t want to miss him at St. Paul’s sessions. WHEN: 13 March, 2019 at 21:00 WHERE: St. Paul's A...
Read moreHigh-profile Greek caricaturist Soloup (Antonis Nikolopoulos) knows that grown-ups need fairytales too sometimes. Go beyond the pages of his new modern graphic fairytale for adults - "The Collector, Six Stories about a Bad Wolf" - at this highly-visual showing of storyboards, drafts, pencil sketches and constructions, aimed at animating the book’s ...
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