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Toronto's Taste of the Danforth festival, which runs August 9-11, is set to attempt two Guinness World Records over the weekend, involving Sirtaki dancing and yogourt. This year the festival celebrates its 20th anniversary and the records if achieved will...

Simon Critchley, a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, brought the house down at the 23d World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Athens when he said the Parthenon Marbles stolen from the Acropolis nearly...

It was a little after 4 in the morning on August 9, when the psalm by the young imam from Xanthi, Greece, was heard from Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki, inviting all Muslims living or visiting as tourists the city...

The first feature film of Michalis Konstantatos, Luton, will premiere at the 61st edition of San Sebastian Film Festival, in Spain, which will take place from Sept. 20-28. The plot of the film Luton is the following:  Jimmy is a...

French-German channel ARTE is going to show Greek films and documentaries in a 24-hour special. On Aug. 15, from early in the morning until after midnight, ARTE will travel the German-speaking viewers (Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and other European countries) in...

Krinio Marouda, a student from Lechaina, a town in Elis, West Greece, won the bronze medal at the 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), which took place for the first time in Greece. This is the second medal...

Crisis is a Greek word is the name of an initiative that Greek designers have undertaken to illustrate a crushing economic downfall in their country and they're exporting the idea to the Taiwan Design Expo in Taipei this September. Fifty...

The Antipodes Festival, in collaboration with the Food for Thought Greek Australian Women’s Network, presents "A Conversation with Emilios Kyrou,” an event which will take place on September 7 at the Wheeler Centre, at 6 p.m. Emilios Kyrou is the...

Philosophers from around the world gathered at the place where their practice really had its roots - Plato's Academy - in an Athens neighborhood as part of a series of events for the 23d World Philosophy Congress which is...

A series of events that will last for a whole month are scheduled to be held in Brussels by the Cretan Association of Belgium with the participation of the municipality of Heraklion and the local committee of Friends of...

According to a recent announcement made by the Canadian Ambassador Robert Peck, on September 16, the first Canada-Greece/Cyprus University Partnership Forum will take place in the city of Athens. According to the announcement, up to eight Canadian universities will be...

The revival of the Wine Festival took place with  success in the city of Alexandroupoli, the capital of the Evros regional unit in Thrace. According to first estimations, more than 25,000 people visited the site where the events took...

With the aim of promoting the Greek tourist product, the Hellenic Italian Chamber of Commerce in Greece is organizing a Greek Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Tourism TTG Incontri, which will take place from October 17 to 19...

A special festival of arts, music, ideas and gastronomy, entitled Olympolis Art Music Project, is taking place during these days at the foot of Mt. Olympus and the International Foundation of the Monument of Alexander the Great, Alexandreio. A hundred...

After hundreds of years of lying still, the theater of Ancient Messini re-opened on Aug. 3, with an opera gala, organized by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2013 and the Municipality of Messini and the Region of Peloponnese, among...