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Hollywood Stars Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin Feature in Athens Festival
Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin re-enact the interviews of six anonymous refugees and their sufferings in a new video installation by South African artist Candice Breitz, who explores the reaction of audiences to real suffering, compared to their reactions...
Culture
Sting, Bill Murray, Nigel Kennedy Set for Athens Festival
This year's Athens Festival will include 87 performances in a reduced but more targeted program than 2017's, organizers said this week.
The annual Greek festival includes performances and events mostly focused at Irodio (Herod Atticus theatre) in Athens and the theatre...
Culture
Greek Culture Minister Appoints New Athens Festival Director After Fabre Resignation
Director Vangelis Theodoropoulos has been appointed artistic director of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival following the sudden resignation of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre.
Fabre resigned on Saturday after the uproar caused by his controversial works and his choice of...
Culture
Planned Nude Performance at Athens Festival Causes Outcry [video]
A planned nude performance directed by Belgian artist Jan Fabre at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival this summer has caused an outcry.
The initial reaction over the festival was by Greek artists who protested the decision of Culture Minister Aristides...
Art
3rd Little Paris of Athens Festival to Take Place in the Greek Capital
Music, photographic exhibitions, street painting, café theater, lectures, social rendezvous and educational programs are scheduled to take place during the 3rd Little Paris of Athens multi-festival, co-organized by the Athens Art Network and the City of Athens Cultural, Sport...
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Isabella Rossellini's 'Green Porno' Performance at Athens Festival
Neither the reduced budget nor the financial crisis of Greece could stop Athens Festival from hosting the famous star Isabella Rossellini from joining it. She will perform "Green Porno" at the theater Piraeus Street, Nr 260.
Green Porno was inspired, written and...
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Athens Festival Honors Late Folk Singer Domna Samiou
The Athens Festival organized an event to pay tribute to the late Domna Samiou. She was an artist of a unique kind, always trying to designate Greek traditional music.
On July 8, officials of the Herodes Atticus Odeon in...
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World's Largest Robotics Festival to Be Held in Athens in April 2020
Europe's largest festival and competition revolving around robotics, called the Robotex Festival, will be held in Athens on April 4-5, 2020, at Athens' Serafeio Conference Center, it was recently announced. The robotics event is widely believed to be the...
entertainment
Athens to Host Irish Stand-Up Comedy Festival
The Greek Irish Society, supported by the Embassy of Ireland, is offering a mouthwatering two-day festival in Athens in November featuring famous stand-up comedians from the Emerald Isle.
Following the popularity of last year's show, two of Ireland’s biggest names...
entertainment
Athens International Film Festival Opens on Wednesday
Long-awaited premieres are included in the anniversary program of the 25th Athens International Film Festival, to be held from September 18-29 in the cinemas Danaos 1 & 2, Ideal, Odeon Opera 1 & 2, The Astor, Athens Concert Hall...
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48th Annual Book Festival to Take Place in Athens From August 30 to September 15
The Association of Greece's Book Publishers (SEKV) will hold their longstanding annual book festival in Athens from August 30 to September 15 this year.
The 48th Annual Book Festival will take place at Zappeion Hall in central Athens.
In a statement...
Art
Program Unveiled for Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2019
The schedule for the 2019 version of the spectacular annual arts festival taking place in Athens and Epidaurus, Greece was announced on Tuesday.
The festival this year will include musical, theatrical and many other cultural events and will take place...
entertainment
A Festival of Light at Athens' Stavros Niarchos Park (video)
This Christmastime, Stavros Niarchos Park in Athens is full of light and sound, thanks to a series of interactive installations forming a magical winter wonderland.
Four of these installations are being presented for the first time in Greece, while three...
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Greek Honey Festival Kicks off in Athens
The tenth annual festival celebrating Greek-made honey and other apiary products opens its doors this Friday, December 7, at 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) at the Exhibition Hall of the Stadium of Peace and Friendship in Faliro, Athens.
Agriculture and Food...
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Ashura Festival in Athens Climaxes with Bloody Self-Flagellation
Hundreds of Shia Muslims gathered in Piraeus, south of Athens, to mark the day of Ashura, the tenth day of in the Islamic calendar.
The ritual involved self-flagellation, hitting oneself with a whip as part of a religious ritual, as is common in...