Athens Music Week (athensmusicweek.gr) returns from May 22 to 25 with a series of events at Technopolis (Pireos 100) and other key concert venues.
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Stage director Katerina Evangelatou is midway through her second term as artistic director of the Athens-Epidaurus Festival, the country’s biggest cultural event.
This May, the third edition of This is Athens – City Festival returns with over 250 events across the city.
The organizers of the 2024 Athens Epidaurus Festival, which opens on June 1, presented on Tuesday the program for 2024, which includes 93 productions over 85 days and the participation of 2,500 performers and creators from around the world.
The inaugural WOW – Women of the World Festival takes place at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (364 Syngrou Avenue, snfcc.org).
Athens is firmly in the swing of ‘Apokries,’ the three-week carnival celebration leading up to Lent, with a series of events featuring colorful costumes, street parades and lively performances at the Kypseli Municipal Market (42 Fokionos Negri).
In honor of International Women’s Day, the City of Athens presents a three-day program titled “By the Fearsome Sharpness of Your Sword,” which seeks to tackle gender equality issues and confront gender-based violence.
The Stavros Niarchos Cultural Foundation (137 Syngrou, snfcc.org) has a rich Apokries (Greek Carnival) agenda planned for visitors and locals alike, as music performances and family happenings set the tone for a vibrant two-day celebration in various parts of the center’s park.
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s “They Shot the Piano Player,” an animated documentary-style exploration into the history and legacy of Brazilian bossa nova, will kick off this year’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
There may be nothing connecting Dimitiris Papaionnou to cinema at first glance – it is not, after all, the art his name is associated with – yet the 26th edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will be paying tribute to the celebrated Greek choreographer.
Singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and fiddler Dónal O’Connor, two prominent figures in Irish traditional music, will be among the Irish acts performing at the 6th Athens Celtic Music Festival, which takes place over three days at the Athina Live venue (3 Poseidonos Ave., Moschato).
The Athens Pioneer Film Festival, the Greek Film Archive and the Goethe Institute in Athens are co-organizing a complete retrospective on the work of the German director Angela Schanelec, one of the most influential European filmmakers alive.
Christmas World is set to over the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center until the beginning of January.
A celebration of Chinese culture through theater, dance, music and food comes with the Sino-Hellenic International Theater Festival at the Christmas Theater (ct.gr).
The country’s biggest horror festival, Horror Things, returns for its fourth outing at the ORIO Expo Center in Peristeri (expocenterperisteri.gr).
Taking its name from the first modular space station, the multidisciplinary MIRfestival is on a mission to spread its creative message around Athens’ streets, galleries and secret forests.
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