What to Buy the Philhellene in your Life?
With Christmas right around the corner, why not treat the Philhellene in your life to a title from the Pocket Greek Library, suggest the publishe...
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René Habermacher’s NEW DIGS explores the wor...
WHAT'S ON: Acclaimed artist Rene Habermacher introduces his first solo exhibitio...
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Adventures in Greece’s Past, and Present, in the B...
Ranbir Sidhu in conversation with John Bennet, the Director of the Bri...
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Rafi Music Theatre Company – Nova Melancholia – Michalis Siganidis – Il diluvio universale
WHAT: The Odeon of Herodes Atticus will don the colours of a lovely Greek garden for this unique album release concert. Monika will premiere her new Greek-language album; an album she has been working on for more than ten years, taking care of it as if it were her own little garden. The fruit of this collective effort is now set to ‘bloom’ at the h...
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Savina Yannatou – Primavera en Salonico – Watersong
WHAT: Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico are inspired by Ariel’s song in Shakespeare’s The Tempest to create Watersong, a musical performance featuring songs about water and desert, life and death, fertility, magic, desire, and purification. The artists are joined by Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui, whose distinctive voice will transport the L...
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A Tribute to Thanos Mikroutsikos – Set Up the Spotlight
WHAT: A tribute to Thanos Mikroutsikos, a major composer who defined the Greek music scene and revolutionised the musical landscape of the country through his various institutional roles, serving as Minister of Culture (1994-1996), founder and Director of the International Patras Festival and Artistic Director of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival...
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Mihalis Kalkanis Group featuring Haig Yazdjian and Jannis Anastasakis
WHAT: Contrabassist Mihalis Kalkanis stands out among the new generation of Greek jazz musicians. A risk-taking creative artist and composer, Kalkanis fuses electronic music with traditional songs of his grandmother’s generation, doing field recordings in religious ceremonies of immigrants, and delivering a fusion of sounds in his album World Echoe...
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J’ai des yeux à la place des oreilles by Francis Poulenc
WHAT: One of the most heartrending works ever composed about the end of romantic love and the despair of being left, Francis Pou - lenc’s one-act opera, based on Cocteau’s La voix humaine (The Human Voice) will be presented for the first time at the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus, in a bold directorial concept by Maria Panourgia. Five dancers/...
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Ancient Greek Art
WHAT: The permanent collection of Ancient Greek Art at the Cycladic Museum comprises painted vases, terracotta figurines, bronze vessels, stone sculptures, coins, gold jewellery and glass items, covering a wide time span from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th c. AD. During this long period, major socio-political events took place, including the rise...
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Monika – Something is Blooming at Herodion
WHAT: The Odeon of Herodes Atticus will don the colours of a lovely Greek garden for this unique album release concert. Monika will premiere her new Greek-language album; an album she has been working on for more than ten years, taking care of it as if it were her own little garden. The fruit of this collective effort is now set to ‘bloom’ at the h...
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Re-fashioning Greek Heritage: Benaki Museum Pavilion
Stumped for an anniversary gift in the southern suburbs on a Sunday afternoon? The Benaki Museum Pavilion, an outlet of the central Athens museum at the Four Seasons Astir, is your go-to place. A culture-filled contemporary concept store, it stocks carefully curated items that reflect Greece’s ancient heritage and modern design sensibilit...
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Constantin Xenakis – Greece And Writing Codes
WHAT: The multifaceted visual idiom of Constantin Xenakis, who recently passed away, is inspired by signs and symbols that span the spectrum from the ancient worlds of Egypt and Greece to contemporary reality: urban structures, computer systems, the chaotic internet. He charts and codifies, combines elements from past and present, documents and den...
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