The British School at Athens presents University of the Aegean Professor Maria Mina in a virtual lecture on “Manifestation or Mirage? The Cultural Construction of Insularity in the Southeast Aegean.”
CULTURE
Former UK ambassador to Greece and academic Michael Llewellyn-Smith has been invited by the British School at Athens to discuss his new biography of Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos with respected historian Roderick Beaton.
Museums in Greece will reopen to visitors next week, a day before the official start of the tourism season on May 15, authorities said on Friday.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is hosting a Zoom class introducing children aged 6-12 to the fascinating game of chess.
Who was the wreathed woman found lavishly buried on a bed beneath the foundations of a modern house in the Kozani village of Mavropigi? Was she a noblewoman or was she connected to the cult of Apollo?
Journalist Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou is to have a virtual sitdown with Grammy-winning producer, author and collector Christopher King to talk about his work studying, documenting and enjoying the folk music of Epirus.
A seminar titled “Veterans of the Battle of Crete who played Australian Football” will be presented by Barbara Cullen on May 6.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is celebrating its annual gala with a virtual event that will be streamed at 6.30 p.m. on May 6.
A romantic drama based on the Shakespeare classic, “This Is Not Romeo & Juliet” will be streamed live by the Poreia Theater from May 2-5.
Shadow theater player, creator and director Kostas Spyropoulos was inspired by the tale of the miracle of the Church of Agios Dimitrios Loumbardiaris near the Acropolis to write a new story for Karagiozis in 1991.
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Award-winning Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is heading to Greece to shoot his latest film, a sci-fi thriller provisionally titled “Crimes of the Future,” in Athens and other locations around the country.
Greece’s Christmas Theater will screen “The Miracle of Lourdes,” a French supershow presenting the Life and Passions of Christ using the Miracle of Lourdes as a narrative vehicle.
In a bid to bolster the art community, a sector slammed by the pandemic, the Athens municipal authority on Tuesday said that it will be providing music and other performance artists with venues and equipment free of charge.
A state-of-the-art surveillance system designed to guard an ancient shipwreck off the Aegean island of Alonnisos has received funding from US tech giant Microsoft.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou visited on Tuesday a monumental exhibition for the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution, titled “1821, Before and After,” hosted by the Benaki Museum.
The Ziller-Loverdos Mansion’s chapel is one of the many emblematic historical buildings around downtown Athens that are being restored and renovated and repurposed for cultural use.
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It was October 2015 when a group of Greeks – academics, students and members of educational organizations – arrived at the German-Polish border.
“Invisible,” by Marianna Kakaounaki, is included in the official list of the 2021 Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, which runs through May 12. It is described by the festival organizers as “an acute political film with a human heart.”
To celebrate International Earth Day on April 22, the Canadian Institute in Greece, the Hellenic Film Academy and Anemon Productions will be screening “Dolphin Man,” an award-winning documentary by Lefteris Charitos tracing the life of Jacques Mayol.
Scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the April 21, 1967 military coup, the Greek Film Archive is holding a series of online screening titled “Memories of the Dictatorship.”
The Greeks had arrived in Egypt to work for the famous company, the pride of French engineering and symbol of France’s economic and political penetration in the region.
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The British School at Athens has invited two professors of political science, Dr Antonis Ellinas from the University of Cyprus and Vasiliki Georgiadou from Panteion University, to hold a discussion titled “Antifascism in Greece: Actors, Resources and Tactics.”
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