The 6th OPEN HOUSE Athens is back!

On 6 & 7 April 2019, 100 buildings open their doors; 500 volunteers are getting ready to guide us! A two-day event of free architectural guided tours addressed to the general public; an event based on volunteerism, which aims at promoting the architecture of our city; an opportunity to walk the city, look up while walking in the streets, see the buildings from a different angle…

It is our established appointment in early April, when everyone can continue their tour from where they left off last year!

The programme includes public and private buildings, modern and historic, monuments, museums, theatres, schools, residences, professional spaces, in the city centre and the suburbs… and it is strengthened by a plethora of parallel events and contests, which launch one month earlier:

 

Learn all about the buildings participating in OHA  2019 HERE! 

Get inspired and explore food and the way you eat!

The Embassy of Sweden in Athens and Impact HUB are collaborating with the Swedish Institute in Stockholm on an Eat Smart Challenge. 

The purpose of this challenge is to encourage awareness about food and its effect on the environment. Challenge yourself along with your friends to make daily changes in your food habits. During seven days and seven inspiring challenges, you will explore how to eat more sustainably.

Welcome to join and share your experience with others via social media.

Sign up HERE! 

Why? The way food is  produced, consumed and wasted impacts our lives, our communities and the planet. There is huge potential to make the food system smarter by changing the way we eat. And there is a lot we can learn from each other!

Who can join? Everyone! You sign up as an individual participant, but you are encouraged to involve friends and family in our challenges. You only need a Facebook account to share your insights with your friends on social media.

How? During the campaign week, April 8–14, one challenge will be announced daily. The challenges are fun and easy to do! You share your take on the challenge by posting a photo, video or text on the Eat Smart Challenge Facebook page! 

The Eat Smart Challenge is part of Food for Tomorrow, a three-year initiative organised by the Swedish Institute (www.si.se).

One of the most anticipated sports event in Athens organised by the Organization of Culture, Athleticism & Youth of the Athens Municipality (OPANDA), returns on Sunday April 14th to Syntagma Square!

Online registrations will remain open till the 12th of April at 24:00 midnight.

The Athens Bike Tour gives bikers the chance to cross the city following a 15km route (ages 15+), as well as a smaller one about 3.5km long (ages 6+)

Both routes will begin in Syntagma square, but the 15km one wil start at 10:30 am, while the 3.5km route at 10:00 a.m 

Don't miss the chance to register, by clicking HERE

The Meet Market is back at our homely venue of Technopolis for our classic, annual Easter Edition celebration, and ready to hail the arrival of Spring one weekend before the big week, on the 20th and the 21st of April! 

Expect to find us in our usual spot, both indoor and outdoor, with our usual tents, but with plenty of new businesses & brands too, making a total of 120+ participants. Indeed, there will be something for everyone at our April Meet Market, from back-to-back dj sets all weekend long, street food, yummy cocktails, and interactive games for kids, including our annual Easter Egg Hunt for our little friends (and big friends too), where we will be hiding over 100 eggs all over Technopolis. Find them and bring them to the central cashier to pick up prizes! And while you are at the Central Cashier, roll the dice to see what other gifts you can win.

We have organized some special activities for kids during this Easter Meet Market. Saturday will feature circus workshops and juggling shows from the Fundastick Performing Arts Crew and Sunday, we will be joined by ΠΑΙΖώΝΤΑΣ Team for plenty of fun in the sun, including ziplining, slacklining, mega jenga and bubble fun. We will also have graffiti workshops from our favorite doodlers on the planet, Imaginary Rooms, of course! So, gather your family, call up your friends, put on your egg hunting gear and come to Gazi for a weekend full of meetings, shopping, chatting, food, music and a whole lot o’ Easter fun!

For more information on the exact line ups click HERE!

Keep it local! Support the independents. Happy Easter!

From Monday April 22nd untill Wednesday April 24th, the Industrial Gas Museum in Technopolis Gazi will hold an exciting camp for children!

You will find a great deal of fun outdoor activities, make new friends and broaden your imagination at Skywalk, our state-of-the-art action park.

Alongside artists and tutors you will learn Hip-Hop, impressive acrobatics, dancing, riddle and mystery solving and drawing inspired by the renowned Keith Haring.

The camp is for kids aged 7-10 and lasts from 08:30-14:30. You may attend from 1 to 3 days.

A light afternoon meal will be provided.

How to live together when we come from different social and cultural backgrounds?

How do we coexist in the contemporary metropolis? How can we interact, and how can we talk about things that are foreign to us, unfamiliar, different? ​

The 6th Fast Forward Festival once again disrupts our certainties about art and life, exploring the notion of the commons and of solidarity initiatives from several perspectives and fields of knowledge with the tools of art and CULTURE. Hybrid performances, installations and video works, which arise from monthslong collaboration with experts and local COMMUNITIES, while also exploring atypical public and private spaces, are presented for two weeks in the heart of the city.

Learn more about the festival HERE!

Dimitris Psathas’ celebrated political satire Liar Wanted looks at politicians’ relationships with the clients who vote them into power. Translated into multiple languages and performed in numerous countries around the world, a new production of Liar Wanted is coming to the Pallas Theatre on 15 March 2019.

Needless to say, its subject-matter—lying in politics—is as relevant today as it ever was. Thodoros Silvertongue, or Thodoros the Liar (played by Alexis Georgoulis) declares himself a professional liar and leaves his village for Athens and a job in which he can put his talents to good use. A chance quarrel and a punch landed on a fellow passenger on the tram—his boss-to-be Ferekis, a Member of Parliament (played by Giorgos Partsalakis)—will clear the way for a brilliant career as the MP's private secretary; a career founded in the brazen, blatant lies he comes up with to justify his employer’s failure to deliver on the promises he made his angry voters before the elections. Thodoros the Liar undertakes to take care of all his master’s problems with ministries, prisons, unions and... cabaret artistes, and in record time. But his successful career as a very special secretary brings him into conflict with the MP's wife, the lovely Jenny (Natalia Dragoumi). Can he succeed against such a powerful opponent? That will depend on Agis (Argyris Angelou) and the sexy Pitsa Kitsa (Apostolia Zoi in her first theatrical role), the nightclub singer who has captivated the entire male population of the capital!

Liar Wanted examines one of our species’ most obvious characteristics: our talent for blocking out and embroidering reality. Thodoros the Liar represents escape from an ugly and miserable reality. The flight from harsh truth to hope and dreams. He needs to believe that, dirt poor as he is, he will one day be rich. His survival instincts are strong. He is the provincial who, unable to make ends meets back home, packs up his bag and moves to Athens to seek his fortune; to become someone. To do that, Thodoros needs to keep the dream alive inside. It’s the only way he can make his lies come true and make it through difficult times.

Wanted Liar is a timeless work which has as much to say today as it did when it was written. It should come as no surprise that it has played to packed houses and rave reviews in the US, Canada, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Romania. For it is a powerful, universal work.


*SURTITLES IN PALLAS THEATER - THEATRIKES SKINES SA offer the opportunity to all foreign visitors and residents of Athens as well as theater-lovers with hearing difficulties to watch the performances at PALLAS Theater.

It’s this time of the year again, and ADAF is just about to celebrate its 15th birthday! Loyal to its annual rendezvous in May, this years meeting will be special as it will not only include exhibits, as we are preparing a big celebration for all of our audience, volunteers and supporters. Our meeting point for this great Tribute Event is the ex-shopping center FOKAS, at 41 Stadiou Str on the 10 and 11 this Month from, 3:00 pm - 12:00 am and will feature:


● impressive interactive installations
● web art by COSMOTE Fiber
● top-of-the-top Video Art & Animation projects
● explosive DJ Sets

K.BHTA (Friday, 10/5) and Athens Voice Radio 102.5 (Saturday 11/5) 

This two-day event will include some of the most impressive works by artists who have participated in the entire history of the Festival, as one of its main aims is to promote artists and to develop the Cultural and Creative Industry in Greece. The tribute will feature live sets, in a super-festive mood.

May, the festival’s milestone, the cradle that brought it to life, is the perfect time for this retrospective action that is dedicated to its history. Returning to its roots, ADAF reactivates, this time, the ex- shopping center FOKAS, at 41 Stadiou Street, in the heart of the city, with a great celebration of contemporary culture in Athens. The celebration continues at the newly renovated Pedestrian Street of Miltiadou Street Athens which will be transformed into a large summer cinema on the 1st and 2nd of June, for a 2-day full of Video Art & Animation screenings as well as special tributes and premieres.

We invite all of our supporters, participants, and friends of the Festival to join us in the 15th birthday of ADAF and to celebrate the 15 years of contemporary culture in Athens.
See you there!