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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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. 

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...