Playing the Goat
Danylo Hawaleshka steps back in time with the cacophonous, kid-clad dancers of Skyros. We’re lost. And we know we’re lost because it’...
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The Name Game: Make Chronia Polla your mantra for ...
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you live in Greece. Especially at this ti...
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Get your festival pass for WOW – Women of the Worl...
WOW is a vibrant, colourful, bold, fun, and fearless festival celebratio...
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Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for 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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Cinephiles, take note: 51 films at the 23rd Francophone Film Festival in Greece
What: 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 Greece. Watch this space for highlights and the behind-the-scenes news on the 23rd edition of the festival. Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – t...
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Lea Festival celebrates Ibero-American literature in Greece
The 14th edition of the LEA (Literature in Athens) Festival as every year celebrates the best in Ibero-American literature bringing together writers, publishers and readers in a ten day festival across the country. Held at different venues from June 14 to 24 in Athens and from June 17 and 18 in Lefkada, the opening ceremony will take plac...
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Watch cinema weave its magic at the 22nd French Film Festival!
What: 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 Greece. Watch this space for highlights and the behind-the-scenes news on the 22nd edition of the festival. Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – t...
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Relive the Love of Ibero-American Literature at the LEA Festival
The LEA Festival, a bridge between Ibero-American writers and its Greek public, opens on Monday, October 11, at the Benaki Museum in the presence of H. E. the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou. The LEA festival, now in its 13th year, offers two programmes that complement each other and ...
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Plan ahead for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival
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 2021's packed repertoire. Athens and Epidaurus Fest...
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7 Super Food Festivals for Fall
Greeks will find just about any excuse to celebrate. Especially in the fertile harvest months of Autumn when Nature’s bounty overflows and – life-affirming celebrations abound to honour the traditional delicacies that have shaped the local character and flavours of villages, towns and islands all over Greece. Experience the wonderful Gre...
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Athens Pride 2020
WHAT: Athens Pride unfurls the rainbow flag to raise awareness for Greece’s LGBTQI + community. A string of events, LGBTQI + reality stories, seminars, discussions, film exhibitions, DJ sets and performances as well as the Athens Pride 2020 campaign "Knowing and supporting LGBTQI + organizations" aimed at strengthening the LGBTQI + community. For m...
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Highlights of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2020
The Athens & Epidaurus Festival this year might not have the rich repertoire that was originally planned, but it still retains its promise of a culture-soaked summer. Highlights to mark your calendar. J’ai des yeux à la place des oreilles Francis Poulenc WHEN: 07-08/08 at 9:30 pm WHERE: Little Theatre of Ancient Epida...
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