Against the backdrop of Zappeion, one of Athens’ most glorious neo-classical buildings, the Athens Military Music Festival brings two days of military orchestras, musicians, soloists and dancers from different corners of the globe.

For the first time in Athens, this musical parade combines military music, classical, pop and rock with spectacular lighting and choreography, along with dazzling costumes and fireworks.

Military music has appeared since ancient times, in all armies around the world. Their compositions affect human psychology, aimed at enhancing the morale and enthusiasm of its citizens and soldiers. With orchestras, choruses and dance ensembles, it combines absolute precision, rhythm and synchronicity with an expansive repertoire of both military and traditional songs, classical compositions as well as world music.


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Spoudase Festival is returning for the 2nd consecutive year in the most central spot in Athens on May 19 & 20!

All public universities, all private colleges and IEKs of Greece and Cyprus will be participating in the 2nd Spoudase Festival!

Guests will have the chance to learn all about top-rated undergraduate or postgraduate studies, in Greece and Cyprus, but also have the opportunity to claim some of the hundreds scholarships that will be offered by the participants exclusively for the festival's visitors. 

A number of workshops & speeches will also be taking place regarding fields such as education, technology, bitcoin and culinary.

Attendace certificates will be given to those attending workshops.

The biggest educational feast ever held in Greece, will provide the following through 200 career guidance counselors:

• Free Psychometric Tests
• Free Vocational Guidance
• Free CV advice
• Free evaluation of Linkedin profiles and other work platforms
• Free session for handlging stress during an exam
• Free counseling for internships, internships abroad - housing -scholarships
• Free Counseling for Selecting Graduate Programs Abroad
• Free counseling for GMAT - GRE - TOEFL - IELTS sign up

In order to take part, you will have to register by clicking HERE!

In the mood for pre-summer pampering?

Come along Saturday May 19 to the Nine Lives ‘Shop & Spa Saturday’ between 11am and 5pm at Arcadia to get primped and preened in style, with all proceeds going straight into veterinary care and feeding of stray cats!

Thanks to the talented team who are donating their time and skills for our cause, services including Essie manicures, Thai and Indian massages will be available from 11am till 5pm – just show up on the day and book a slot, and you can get a complete restyle, ease away your aches and pains, or get a glossy spring nail colour for the week ahead!

Pick out beautiful fashion pieces, stylish accessories, efficacious cosmetics and one-of-a-kind jewellery to brighten up your new-season wardrobe and summer style. While browsing, enjoy a delicious homebaked cupcake or cinnamon roll with a cup of tea or coffee, or a refreshing glass of Strofilia wine and a choice of scrumptious lunch dishes by Veganopoleio that are as healthy as they are tasty!

And because your four-pawed pals need some pampering too, Purina will be at our event giving out cat-treats and on hand to answer all your feline nutrition-related questions, while Psipsini.gr will be selling meowtastic handmade cat toys, beds and scratching posts.

For more information about Nine Lives Greece click HERE! 

Joan and Paddy Leigh Fermor were united in a pact of liberty – sharing their lives, mostly in Greece, as lovers and friends. As photographer and writer, they were also artists of equal stature.

Joan was a restless rebel when she took brilliant images of the London Blitz as a symbol of all that she would be leaving behind. She met Paddy in Cairo in 1944 and soon he was following her to Athens. They travelled all over Greece before settling in the Peloponnese – in the beautiful house they built at Kardamyli and bequeathed to the Benaki Museum.

Between the 1940s and 1960s Joan took thousands of photographs of people and places as she travelled with Paddy round Greece. A few appeared in his books Mani and Roumeli; most remained unseen on her death in 2003. Her archive is held at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

In a new book and exhibition, Ian Collins and Olivia Stewart pay tribute to an elusive figure whose art is a revelation.

Opening Hours: 

Wednesday, Friday: 10:00 - 18:00
Thursday, Saturday: 10:00 - 00:00
Sunday: 10:00 - 16:00

Discover the traditional side of Greece by watching folk dances from every corner of the country. Or take a swing at learning a dance step or two yourself.

Located in a dreamy location on Philopappou Hill, with a view of the Parthenon, the Dora Stratou Greek Dance Theatre is open all summer long. If a dance class isn’t your thing, check out the costumes from each corner of the country or browse the theatre’s collection of books, photographs and films.


When: 23 May – 23 September 2018. Wednesday - Friday 21:30, Saturday- Sunday at 20:30. Monday, Tuesday (and 4-8, 28-29 July και 8-19 August) closed.

At the Cheapart artist-run gallery space, the latest work of Vangelis Artemis is a series of wooden sculptures and also drawings which visually render the precariousness of the social self, caught between the gravity that defines us and the anticipation of overcoming it, between the need to belong and our existential homelessness, between the desire for setting sail and our longing for rest.

A sculptural installation that invokes the modernist idiom via a reference to the ghost ship from Yannis Scarimbas' "Figaro's Solo", using a similarly melancholy, yet playful, mood to reflect the unfulfilled vision of a utopian world.

The improvised flight from relentless reality but also its perpetual procrastination make up the space of the game. Materiality in a suspended state conjures a passageway, which is the artistic activity itself.

Time schedule:

- Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 18:00 pm - 21:00 pm

- Saturday 13:00 pm - 16:00 pm

Todos Tango Festival is a yearly international tango festival that takes place for the third time and that is connected since it’s early steps with quality events of high artistic value. For the first time, the legends of Argentine tango, together in one beautiful festival!

From Wednesday May 30th to Sunday June 3rd Athens becomes the capital of tango. The living legends of tango convene in TODOS TANGO FESTIVAL ATHENS 2018 to fill yet one more page in the history of tango The entire event will be hosted in Gazi Music Hall in Keramikos, an artistically vibrant neighbourhood of Athens.

One of the most significant personalities of Tango Argentino worldwide, Miguel Angel Zotto along with his extraordinary and talented partner Daiana Guspero, the absolute ambassador of the culture and elegance of Argentine Tango, Sebastian Missé with Andrea Reyero a couple with great heritage, the unique dancer and choreographer Gabriel Missé described as “Baryshnikov of tango”, with his new partner Maru Rifourcat and  last but not least the gifted dancer Stella Missé with the Greek maestro Kostas Nikolaidis.

Todos Tango Festival couldn’t be missing great tango couples from Greece, famous within and beyond the frontiers of their country, Loukas Balokas with Georgia Priskou, Vaggelis Hatzopoulos with Marianna Koutandou and Raphael Passaquay with Danaie Zeugadina. 

Our aim is to spread the beauty of tango to the world, in it’s most authentic sense and encourage the unity of nations and cultures, through the means provided by this dance of love and embrace by convening tangueros and art lovers of any age and nationality, every year in Greece.

This year Todos Tango Festival takes place in Athens under the auspices of the Municipality of the city and addresses itself to all people who love music, dance and art.It is an open invitation to anybody who wishes to approach Tango Argentino in it’s originality and get acquainted with this fascinating culture, an invitation to all people who need a new way of expression and communication in their everyday life. Under this perspective, the festival incorporates the innovative idea to add a three class seminar for new beginners in it’s schedule, giving the opportunity to newcomers to sense the taste of the original tango by most renowned maestros.

Only a few days away form the opening of the festival and the world’s first gathering of all these maestros in one event, the international tango community eagerly awaits for this moment. Meanwhile, we call to all of you to join us in this marvelus dance of love and understanding. Let go of any hesitations and let your steps guide you to a warm embrace.


MILONGA SCHEDULE

Wednesday 30 May: Gazi music Hall Rooftop "Baile de los Maestros".Entrance: € 15 (presales: €12)Dj: Aris Canaro

Thursday 31 May: Gazi music Hall Rooftop Shows from Vaggelis Hatzopoulos & Marianna Koutantou and Raphael Passaquay & Danae Zevgadina.Entrance: €18 (presales: €15)Dj: Nikos Marketos

Friday 1 June:  Gazi Live (Gazi Music Hall - Main Stage) Shows από Sebastian Missé & Andrea Reyero and Loukas Balokas & Georgia Priskou.Entrance: €25 (presales: €20)Dj: Patrizia, "La Tipica Mujer"

Saturday 2 June: Gazi Live (Gazi Music Hall- Main Stage) Shows from Miguel Angel Zotto & Daiana Guspero and Stella Missé & Kostas Nikolaidis.Entrance: €25 (presales: €20)Dj: Trifon HiouteasSunday

03 June: Gazi Live (Gazi Μusic Hall- Main Stage) Show from Gabriel Missé & Maru Marta Rifourcat and Baile de los Maestros.Entrance: €25 (presales: €20)Dj: Emilio Falsetti "El Fueye"  

FULL MILONGA PASS: €75 

 "INTRODUCTION TO TANGO" SEMINAR: €80

INCEPTION is the artist's first solo exhibition.

The artist presents 21 artworks, in transparent film on Plexiglas, related to the inner journey, memories, dreams and in the forgotten inner self.

Ultimate purpose is, the spark of a thought, the activation of an integrated human existence.

The title is a reference point of the script by the well-known director C.Nolan, where in the new millennium our imagination travels through into spacetime, turning body into matter and thought into energy.

Ioannis Kountouris was born in Athens in 1988. He studied Direction, Creative Writing and Photography. From 2007 until 2011, Ioannis worked as a radio producer and participated in numerous video clips as a director, lighting director, photography director and scenography director at Boston University.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 11:00 – 15:00


The Gallery will not be open on Tuesday, June 5 and on Thursday, June 7.

Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, founders of the Obie Award-winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma, take on the myth and legacy of the American Dream. Inside a Western saloon, a Mexican barman, an Austrian sales rep, the re-enactment of a peacekeeping mission in Baghdad, a magic potion and some unsettlingly uplifting cowboy dances make up a zany universe, a take of American clichés and Spaghetti Western.

The United States’ founding document, the Declaration of Independence, defines ‘the pursuit of happiness’ as one of the ‘unalienable rights’ of human beings, which governments have been tasked to protect. But what is Happiness? Into what dark corners does each of us chase it? To what lengths and wild frontiers will we go to pursue it? Will this pursuit of happiness culminate in an unseemly Hollywood blockbuster?

The New York-based Nature Theater of Oklahoma, named after the eponymous theatre in Kafka’s novel America, works together with six brilliant dancers of the internationally acclaimed Slovenian dance company EnKnapGroup, jointly creating a surreal folk tale about violent Western expansionism, “one of the wildest things you’ll see at the theatre this year” (New York Times).

Post-performance talk on 1 June

Moderated by Georgina Kakoudaki, artistic co-curator of Athens & Epidaurus Festival for educational programmes

Schedule:

01/06/2018 at 21:00 
02/06/2018 at 20:00 
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