For more than 9 years, Plisskën Festival has consistently proved itself to be one of Greece’s leading Festivals and proudly returns to Technopolis this year on September 11 & 12! 

Exceptional programming has seen some of the world’s most iconic artists, alongside the best alternative and up and coming talent including legendary headliners Giorgio Moroder, Floating Points, Quantic, Jungle, The Black Madonna, Hunee, Peter Bjorn and John, Tinariwen, Mogwai, Mulatu Astatke, Death in Vegas, La Femme, Mac deMarco, Forest Swords, David August, Liars, Fuck Buttons, Nicola Cruz, Sama’, Afrodeutsche, Ellen Allien, Optimo, Tuxedomoon, Son Lux, Swans, Andy Stott, Debonair and many more.

Aside from a line-up celebrating a broad mix of styles and quality, Plisskën also continues to push the boundaries of their environmental and social ethos.

Wanting to be more environmentally conscious,they have been awarded the ‘Commended’ rating from the Greener Festival Awards global governing body for 2 consecutive years.

And The Lab, an annual series of workshops organised by Plisskën, takes place in Athens prior to the festival.  Through a number of theoretical and practical seminars hosted by professionals in their respective fields, The Lab participants get the chance to learn about all of the elements that comprise putting on a festival.

Plisskën is considered as the most innovative and exciting multi-genre festival of the Summer. Our Ethos is about providing a meaningful and enjoyable music experience with respect to all its counterparts whether they be of human or environmental nature!

And we’re back! We never thought the day would come. After a year long pandemic hibernation, we are finally crawling out from the shadows and into the sun and next to the sea.

 

Get ready for the ULTIMATE MEET MARKET REUNION, this September Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 at Plateia Nerou, where we will be taking over this outdoor waterfront venue for the first time ever, and filling it with all those marvelous Meet Market makers, products and vibes that we’ve all been missing. And boy have we missed you all.

Our goal this September is to make this Meet Market extra special and extra safe, and Plateia Nerou really is the perfect location to make this possible. We have loads of space to spread out our vendors and visitors safely, and keep our social distancing on point with a salty sea breeze to keep us well ventilated. And of course we will be staying up-to-date with all mandatory healthy & safety measures as they are announced.

At last, it’s time to meet again.

The Meet Market: A celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit… A nomadic market place of local goods, fresh ideas and friendly folk. An audio-visual jigsaw of handmade & independently designed clothes, accessories, art, objects, organic body products, home ware, tasty food, vintage & retro collectables, records, interactive games, free prizes, dj sets and good vibes.

Who hasn’t been asking themselves the big questions about the lives we’re leading these days? Prestige publishing powerhouse Monocle has. And it reckons its global subscriber community of movers and shakers is doing it too.

Monocle founder Tyler Brule (the former Wallpaper magazine chief) is bringing a core team of his editors to Athens in late September to host a three-day symposium that’s pitched as a life audit to help us learn how to hone our quality of life: whether on a personal level; as a company - or entire home town.

The 6th Quality of Life Conference will bring together more than 25 speakers (from newspaper editors and comedians to neurosurgeons and fashion entrepreneurs) for an in-depth probe into the projects, people and best practices that are helping to create dynamic cities around the globe. The roving programme covers everything from cancel culture and how to dress well, to weightier themes such as rebuilding Beirut and the future of flight.

Being tapped to stage this exclusive think tank is a real feather in Athens’ cap. The Greek capital was chosen over other European destinations due to its emerging regional influence as a “city on the rise” and going places.

“New businesses are flourishing, the art scene is thriving and these factors are compelling a generation of diaspora talent to return home, as well as luring ambitious global entrepreneurs who are investing in hospitality, design, technology and manufacturing,” says Monocle.

Monocle subscribers can snap up tickets for 10 percent less than the general public. Sign up for this past-paced rota of panels, interviews and power networking and you’ll also be treated to behind the scenes tours of culture hubs including the Benaki Museum Pireos site and Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as meals at urban hotspots like S.I.X. dogs and a curated trawl of Monocle-worthy shops, ateliers and Greek concept stores.

Delegates will also benefit from special rates of up to 25% off at some of Athens’ most premium hotels: choose from glamorous Athens Riviera resorts, downtown 5-star classics or hip urban hideaways.

ECLIPSE, designed to reveal the diverse aspects of the transition we are experiencing now, aims to awaken the audiences’ imagination on the possible parallel worlds and different versions of the future. ECLIPSE features more than 80 artists, both up-and-coming and renowned, from North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe, with 32 new productions and premieres, in iconic buildings at the heart of Athens.

The 7^th Athens Biennale offers an arena to interrogate many of the ideas, queries, concerns, and desires that are frequently not platformed within a Biennial format. In an effort to activate a dynamic cross-cultural discourse, ECLIPSE will highlight the works of artists from the African Diaspora in addition to other artistic voices that have historically been pushed to the periphery. This engagement will be articulated through the use of a “Black Lens” as one of the frameworks. This approach seeks to engage the varying perspectives and artistic practices percolating within the African diaspora. This dialogue will be situated alongside a complimentary framework of artistic interventions that use dynamic manifestations to compose unique practical narratives. Their aim is to strategically address the viewers imagination of potential parallel worlds and futures. Composing a set of spaces that platform ideas such as radical care, interspecies friendship and sonic viewing strategies, ECLIPSE presents a translocal chapter of contemporary thought on how to co-exist within a world differently.




Venues:

Former Department Store
FOKAS, 41 Stadiou Str.

Former Santaroza Courthouse
48 Stadiou & Arsaki Str.

Justice Square
Arsaki & Panepistimiou Str.

Schliemann-Mela Hall
46 Panepistimiou Str.

Onassis Stegi
107-109 Syngrou Avenue

The Athens Coffee Festival is a large celebration of coffee and its surrounding culture, addressed equally to industry professionals, home baristas and the general public!

From its very first iteration, in May 2016, the Athens Coffee Festival managed to become one of the world’s finest coffee festivals! The potential of its dynamic is also confirmed by the impressive number of visitors, the statements of satisfaction by participating companies, as well as the positive comments by sector professionals from Greece and abroad. At a time when the coffee market is at the height of its growth, going through its most mature phase, the Athens Coffee Festival is now a reference point for professionals, but also for the general public, interested in learning about all the innovations and market developments, from flagship espresso houses and distinguished Greek and international specialty coffee roasters.

In order to meet the needs of coffee businesses more effectively, the Athens Coffee Festival takes place every year at the end of September, in view of the winter season. This year, Technopolis-Athens, in Gazi, will host the 5th Athens Coffee Festival in September 2021. The aim is to attract as many sector professionals as possible, from every corner of Greece, along with a selection of major international visitors. At the same time, the festival continues to appeal to the dynamic audience of consumers who are coffee aficionados and are interested in the latest trends and developments in the field of coffee.

The Athens English Comedy Club is back!

Founded in 2019, the Athens English Comedy Club is the first, and only, purely English comedy club in Greece!

We start the season off with an open mic this Sunday, Sept. 26th., presenting both local and international comedians!

1 super clean microphone, 10 comedians, 5' each!

MC: Konstantinos Bouras-Baimakos

We also offer 3 free tickets per show to persons with disabilities or unemployed persons (phone reservation required, and the relevant card/proof will be checked at the box office).

* Reservations: 6987994689 // athensenglishcomedyclub@gmail.com
* The theatre is wheelchair accessible.
* Upon entry you will need to provide a vaccination certificate OR negative rapid test from within 48 hours prior to the show, OR a valid proof of recovery/antigen test.

XpatAthens is proud to be a Media Sponsor of the Athens English Comedy Club

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Following a summer dominated by extreme weather events worldwide and an inexpressible national environmental disaster in Greece, there’s one question on everyone’s minds: Is there time to reverse the destruction humans have brought on the planet, or are we heading towards an inevitable and irreversible global climate crisis? Scientists tell us we may still have a small window of opportunity to halt global warming—not for the years ahead, where warming is all but guaranteed—but for the decades after 2050. Will humanity immediately make the courageous decisions required, knowing that its sacrifices will benefit not the planet’s current inhabitants, but the generations to come?

On Wednesday, September 29 at 18:30 (EET), the next SNF DIALOGUES event invites the public and representatives of the scientific community to a livestreamed open discussion about the future of humanity on a quickly warming planet.

Scientific data in a new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, prepared by 234 scientists from 66 countries, confirm beyond any doubt that our planet is getting hotter and that human beings are the cause. The consequences of this reality are already apparent. This past summer saw the first-ever rainfall in Greenland and a temperature of 49.6 degrees Celsius (121 degrees Fahrenheit) in Canada. An unprecedented heatwave hit Siberia and mega-fires broke out in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and the United States while deadly floods plagued Europe and China.

Faced with a climate crisis that seems, to a large extent, unavoidable and irreversible, the challenge now is to explore how to adapt to a new reality where natural disasters occur with increasing frequency and how to take action for future generations.

The largest food festival in the city returns for the 5th year in a brand new space of O.A.K.A Olympic Stadium in Maroussi.

Some of the most renowned restaurants and burger houses of Greece will be present, empowering our philosophy and passion for excellent food and music! 

Guests will have the chance to taste exotic flavors, enjoy traditional juicy burgers and refreshing premium beers!

Here is a guide on how to make the most out of this year's Burger Fest:

- Step 1. Choose the day you want to visit the festival
- Step 2. Choose the time you would like to visit the festival.
- Step 3. Choose the available time slot in which you want to book your place or table with your friends. 
- Step 4. After selecting the available zone and the time you want to visit click "Book" and secure your place or table!

*All tickets include a beer or soft drink.


Event Schedule:

Friday 1/10

20: 00-21: 00 Double Impact with Angelos Spiliopoulos - Elias Foundouli and guest Spilio Floro
21: 15-22: 45 Logopaignia Fright Night presentation by Ilias Foundoulis, with Angelos Spiliopoulos - Spilio Floro - Costa Kryo - Odysseas Denise Orem

Saturday 2/10

17:00 - 21:00 Phunk Sinatra
21:00 - 22:30 Bejeezus
22:45 - 00:30 Tonis Sfinos

Sunday 3/10

17:00 - 21:00 Constantine Kalfakakos
21:00 - 22:30 Rsn & The Electric Quartet ft. Mc Yinka
22:45 - 00:30 INCO

Friday 8/10

20: 00-21: 00 ROU TO LET with Paris Roupo - Giannis Rousso and guest Konstantinos Bouras Baimakos
21: 15-22: 45 Logopaignia Fright Night presentation by Elias Foundoulis, with
Paris Roupo - Giannis Rousso - Angelos Kyriakidis - Konstantinos Bouras Baimakos
22:45 - 00:30 Street Outdoors

Saturday 9/10

17:00 - 21:00 Sin & Soul by Mitch Darkstar
21:00 - 22:30 Blend Mishkin & Roots Evolution ft. Sugahspank & BnC
22:45 - 00:30 Eisvoleas Full Band

Sunday 10/10

17:00 - 21:00 Dj Snatch
21:00 - 22:30 Jaguar Bombs
22:45 - 00:30 Wedding Singers

The Vegan Life Festival is returning for 5th year in Technopolis City of Athens on October 2nd & 3rd!

The festival opens its doors for two days filled with delicious vegan food, cruelty free and zero waste products, activist groups, unique speeches and workshops, activities for children, but also, for the largest meeting of people interested in a more animal - friendly and eco - friendly way of life!

Take part in the biggest celebration of veganism and be the change for a better world!





About The Festival:

Greece’s most recent lockdown period, with its requirement that citizens notify the government of their movements, provided the setting for a series of interventions in the area of Lycabettus, by Panagiotis Voulgaris. Using the code B6, to declare a venture out for exercise, Voulgaris over a period of about four months created ephemeral geometric works that interacted with the natural pine forest environment:  sometimes reflecting light, sometimes becoming transparent and sometimes disappearing. The radial arrangement of work was done using paper tape, which after a short period of time was removed and recycled for use the next day. The play of light, the recording of time, steps and paths, as well as the contact with both nature and other citizens enjoying nature were the main elements of this public work of art that uniquely reflects the special conditions of the lockdown period.

In FokiaNou’s exhibition, a map consisting of photographs, tapes, drawings and plants, as well as a series of raw short videos taken from a mobile phone, document Voulgaris’ lockdown interventions. An installation made of thousands of meters of thread points to all the days, routes and steps needed to create the works. A simulation of the hill of Lycabettus invites visitors of the exhibition to make the journey on foot, in order to make contact with nature and appreciate its importance. In addition, a series of walks will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Panagiotis Voulgaris is a visual artist and curator, and co-director of FokiaNou Art Space in Athens. He holds a Master’s degree in Art and Architecture from the University of East London. He was a resident artist of the European Capital of Culture, Valleta, in 2018 and was a recipient of the STEP Travel Grant from the European Cultural Foundation. His main work is installations and interventions in archaeological sites, old buildings, and public spaces. He has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Greece, Italy, Malta, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Brazil and the USA.

www.panagiotisvoulgaris.myportfolio.com                             
www.behance.net/PanagiotisVoulgaris

FokiaNou Art Space is an artist-run project space in the intimacy of a small apartment in an old building in the center of Athens. The space encourages collaborative creative efforts between Greek and foreign artists, thereby promoting and supporting the local art community. The space hosts exhibitions, workshops and projects under the direction of two artists, Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris. www.fokianou247.gr

Opening:  Saturday 9 October, 18.00
Duration:   9-30 October 2021
Hours:  Wednesday – Saturday 17.00-20.00