Greece
Festivals
Greece’s Rovies Food Festival Guests Captivated by Sustainable Cuisine
Dozens of local and international visitors traveled to northern Evia, central Greece, to attend the first Rovies Food Festival.
Culture
Kalamata Dance Festival Commences in Spectacular Fashion
The 29th edition of the Kalamata Dance Festival commenced on Friday and will continue until Sunday, July 2023.
The festival has been held annually since 1995 in the Peloponnesian city of Kalamata and is dedicated to the "poetry of the...
Greece
Traditional Fava Festival on Schinoussa Unites Generations
The ninth-annual Fava Festival on the island of Schinoussa unites people—locals and visitors, neighbors and friends, and even generations.
The Festival took place on the 24th and 25th of June on the tiny island of Schinoussa, which is located in...
Europe
Greek Cinema Makes Splash at Cannes Film Festival
Greek cinema has made a splash on the red carpet of the 75h annual Cannes Film Festival, as a total of five films that were either filmed in Greece or made by Greeks were entered into the festival.
This is...
Europe
Greeks of Ukraine Celebrate Hellenic Heritage in Spectacular Festival
The 18th "Great Feast", one of the largest and most beloved cultural events of the Greeks of eastern Ukraine, was held in Mariupol on September 25.
This Pan-Ukrainian Festival of Greek Culture is held every two years under the aegis...
Culture
“Taste of Greektown” Festival Returns to Chicago for Summer 2021
The "Taste of Greektown" festival held annually in Chicago will bring fun, food, and drink with a Greek twist to the major US city in 2021.
Diaspora
The Comeback of Greek Festivals in the US
After a year spent social distancing, how wonderful it is to see that a number of Greek festivals are taking place once again in the US.
Greece
The 23rd Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People will be Online this Year
The 23rd Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People will be held online this year, featuring 90 films dealing with important issues for children and the whole family.
The festival will take place November 28-December 5 and since...
Culture
The 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival Launches Virtually
The 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) launched virtually on Thursday, as the opening film was projected onto a screen in an empty room in the Olympion theater due to the coronavirus.
Organizers of TIFF recognized the importance of film...
Art
Melina Mercouri Mural Welcomes Public to Greek Street Art Festival
A striking mural of iconic Greek actress Melina Mercouri, famous for both her career on the big screen as well as her life of activism, has kicked off ArtWalk's Fifth International Street Arts Festival in Patras.
The impressive graffiti piece...
Greece
Greek Health Ministry Recommends Ban on Festivals, Increased Covid Testing
The Greek health ministry's expert committee for tackling Covid-19 recommended on Monday that the government ban traditional festivals throughout the country until the end of July, intensify testing at the land borders and extend testing to seasonal workers from...
Greece
Raise Your Voice Festival 2020 Goes Digital
Raise Your Voice Festival 2020, the first digital festival against human trafficking and climate change is set to take place digitally between April 24 and 26 in Greece.
The festival is coordinated by 53 civil society organisations from Greece and...
Culture
Greece Nominates Epirus Festivals for UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Listing
The Greek Ministry of Culture recently submitted an application to UNESCO in hopes that by the time of the traditional village celebrations of Epirus' Syrrako and Vlasti on August 15, they will be included on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
The...
Greece
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...
events
Castellorizo Invites Filmmakers to Submit Work for International Documentary Festival
Organizers of the Beyond Borders International Documentary Festival, which takes place every summer on the Greek island of Castellorizo, announced on Monday that they are inviting documentary filmmakers to submit their work for consideration for the fifth annual event.
Documentaries...