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Thessaloniki Hosts Anti-Racist Meet

This weekend Thessaloniki is going to show its anti-racist face with a  festival that will take place this year in the former Pavlos Melas camp in Stavroupoli. It will include musical, cultural, political, and sports activities as well as...

Benaki Museum Summer Festival On

For three weeks, the atrium of Benakis museum will not only turn into an ambient summer cinema, but also a comfortable and enjoyable concert venue. The festival starts next Tuesday, July 9 and will last until July 27. Sixteen screenings...

Thessaloniki, the Berlin of Balkans for Music

When last year the international exhibition of the music industry Womex was leaving Thessaloniki, it left behind great enthusiasm not only for the successful integration of a south-eastern European city to the institution, but also for the presence and...

Diaspora MP's In Aristotle's, Alexander's Sandals

Deputies and senators of Greek descent from the USA, Australia, Canada and Sweden will participate in the Cultural Walk in the Footsteps of Aristotle and Alexander the Great, organized for them by the Interdisciplinary Center for Aristotle Studies (DIKAM)...

Pandora 2nd in RobocupRescue Competition 2013

In the framework of the world competition RobocupRescue 2013, the Greek team Pandora from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) ranked second among 20 research groups all over the world, with their robotic vehicle Pandora for the location and rescue...

Nia Vardalos ‘Dealin’ with Idiots’ in New Film

Nia Vardalos stars in the upcoming IFC Films comedy, "Dealin' with Idiots." The plot centers on Max Morris, a famous comedian who is faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team in Los Angeles and decides...

Press Release: 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

Exhibitions, art events at museums and monuments; art installations, performances, workshops, conferences, educational programs, interventions in public spaces and guided tours will be taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, during the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, from September 18,...

Composer Kraounakis Praises Natasa Karamanli

Stamatis Kraounakis, one of the most important contemporary Greek music composers, referred to the time he was ill and almost lost his leg and to the medical assistance offered by Natasa Karamanli, wife of former Greek Prime Minister Kostas...

Melina Mercouri Tribute Travels Us Around Greece

The Melina Mercouri Foundation, the Cultural Organization of Prespes and ADaM Productions of Badminton Theater present the performance, Melina-wherever I travel to, Greece…, a grand tribute to the famous Greek actress Melina Mercouri. The premier of the performance will take...

Piraeus Gets 2015 Maritime Day

On July 1, in Belgium’s capital, Brussels, the Council of European Union announced the cities that will host European Maritime Day (EMD) every year until 2019. For the year 2015, EMD will be hosted in Greece, in the city of...

Austrians Praise Beauty of the Cyclades

The wide-circulation Austrian newspaper Kurier in its June 30 edition  had a tribute to the Cyclades islands, "Four among the 27 islands of the Cyclades, Santorini, Mykonos, Naxos and Paros, have one thing in common; dreamy beaches, crystal clear...

Maninakis Performed at East Flushing Library

Grigoris Maninakis holds a magnetic appeal bringing in standing only room crowds during the 2012-2013 concert season in the New York Greek American community. “We must have a strong showing of the Greek-American community,” said East Flushing Community Library...

Four Greek Films in Karlovy Vary Festival

Four Greek films will be featured at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, that takes place from June 29 to July 6. One, September, a Penny Panayotopoulou production, which focuses on the existential problems of...

International Media Say Greece TAP Winner

The signing of an agreement that will bring the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) through Greece, inked by Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Makis Papageorgiou, and by TAP’s Managing Director, Kjetil Tungland, brought...

Douglas, Zeta-Jones Arrive in Kos

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, one of the most famous couples of Hollywood chose Greece again this year to spend their holidays. Since June 27, they have been on Kos, a Greek island in the  Dodecanese complex, next to...