The Acropolis Museum participates in the European Heritage Days 2025 with the program "The Erechtheion and the Acropolis Museum: an unusual ancient temple within a contemporary building". The program explores two remarkable landmarks - the Erechtheion of the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum - and shows the subtle analogies that connect them.  

Situated on the northern side of the Sacred Rock, the Erechtheion is distinguished by its ingenious architectural design, which successfully accommodated multiple cults, incorporated mythical sacred sites, and preserved local traditions of Athens’ distant past. In parallel, the Acropolis Museum - an emblematic contemporary public building - was created to safeguard, house, and showcase the masterpieces of the Acropolis, as well as the remains of the ancient neighborhood uncovered on its site. Its architectural design, shaped by the constraints of its location, reflects the continuity of history, mirrors the ancient routes and topographies of the Sacred Rock, and forges a connection between the ancient world of gods and mortals and today’s visitor.

Join the Museum’s archaeologists on an engaging dual journey through time, bridging past and future. The program is in line with this year’s pan-European theme ‘Architectural heritage - bridging the past with the future’.

Useful Information:

Registration: Limited to 30 persons per program. For you participation, please register online at events.theacropolismuseum.gr (Registrations start on Friday 19/9)
Participation: To ensure your participation in the program, a general admission ticket must be obtained by presenting your reservation code at the ticket counters up to 20 minutes before the program starts.

On the occasion of this year’s celebration of the European Heritage Days, on Sunday 28 September 2025, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., entrance to the Museum exhibition areas will be free for visitors.

Opening: 1 October 2025 7:30 p.m.
Duration:  1 October – 6 November 2025-09-25
Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 1 -3:30 p.m. and Saturday 4 – 7 p.m. 

In a two-women exhibition, Mary Cox and Sarah Ettlinger address a common theme, a sanctuary facing an uncertain future.  Their paintings focus on a special swimming place, dear to each artist, the Kenwood Ladies Ponds in London and a public access beach in Vouliagmeni.  The  work highlights the vulnerability of both,  the likelihood that they will not stay the same and will lose certain qualities valued by the artists. 

Mary Cox paints portraits of aging ramshackle houses located behind an orphanage in Vouliagmeni. Nestled between two very expensive and over-touristed beaches, this spot gives public access to a beautiful “free beach” with no organized lounges or umbrellas, something which is becoming ever more rare. The Greek church however, has sold the orphanage to developers, and the small shacks could be razed and the property there developed as well, limiting access to the beach. The clapboard shacks were built in the mid 20th century and given to families for use during the summer months, with each family allowed use only one time. The shacks were modified and added onto by new families every year, until the program ended around the year 2000. Since then, they were abandoned to the elements, and over the years covered with graffiti. The contrast of bright coloured urban graffiti with local pines and greenery, with glimpses of the turquoise bays in the background, produces a visual excitement, evoking a fairy tale scenario.

SARAH ETTLINGER explores the importance of preserving the few areas designated as women-only. She brings to light the undeniable and special bond between women when partaking in a single-sex event, action, ceremony or ritual together, asking ultimately, ‘What is it to be a woman? “ 

The series took seed during Lockdown with her winter swimming along the coastline of Attika, an activity that kept her sane during this extraordinary time. The swims became ritualistic uniting a group of women and bonding them to nature. Simultaneously it was triggered by the debate brought to a head by the campaign #LetWomenSwim– in their demand to preserve the unique single-sex domain, the Kenwood Ladies’ Ponds London. 

Mary Cox is an American painter with Greek nationality living and working in Greece since 1993. She holds a Masters in Fine Art from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California. She has shown her work in galleries in Greece and abroad since 1999. Over the years she has taken up different subject matter and used a range of media, from a mixed-media series on migration which was selected for a biennial in Lulea, Sweden in 2011, to a photo-realistic series of paintings of old houses in the southern suburbs of Athens. In 2022, she took part in the two-person show Athenian Topographies at AAA3A art space in New York and in the group show Synthetic Zero at Bronx Art Space, NYC. More recently she took part in Never Wait! / ¡Nunca Esperes! at Bronx River Art Center in NYC (2024). Since 2016 she has co-directed FokiaNou Art Space. 

 

Sarah Ettlinger is a British artist living and working in Athens Greece, since 1991. She graduated from Middlesex University London with distinction and went on to Liverpool University where she received a 1st class BA Hons degree in Art & Design. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in Greece, England, France, Sweden and Ecuador. Notable solo shows include - “Lost Innocence” London, UK and “In-External contortions” Athens, Greece. Sarah Ettlinger has been active in a number of artist initiative projects, co-curating and participating in “Athens ArtCore Festival” 2020, “Private View” ArtAz 2014, “ReMap II” 2009 and “Where is the art? / Open Spaces, 2007” a parallel event to the 1st Athens Biennale. More recently she took part in the exhibition Hyperhidrosis: Sweating Together at the Modern Greek Culture BATH HOUSE OF THE WINDS. 

 

The 6th edition of the city's artist publishing festival takes over the three-entry arcade Stoa Tristrato in the center of Athens (Panepistimio metro station, entrances Stadiou 29, Aristidou 6 and Dragatsaniou 6) and invites the public to discover over 150 artists and publishers from Greece and 35 countries abroad. 

Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the wide and polyphonic spectrum of independent publishing practices: Fanzines, visual publications, photo books, independent magazines, art monographs, poetry, research and critical discourse as well as other, uncategorizable publishing experiments. 

The parallel Public Program with exhibitions and activities aimed at broader information and targeted deepening, presents new publications from the Greek space, decentralized international publishing projects as well as media that act complementary to publishing practices such as sound, performance, poetry, experimental music and radio arts: 

The annual Collective Display exhibition acts as a complementary space for the main exhibition part of the festival and presents 100+ artistic publications by emerging artists from the Greek space and international publishing projects. At the same time, you present a curated piece from the budding archive of the Athens Art Book Library. 

Particular emphasis is placed on thematic presentations of publications of special interest such as Esmat Publishes (Egypt), WARAQ (Lebanon), Tehran Zine (Iran), Kona Books (Georgia), Studio Pangolin (Croatia), Oficyna Peryferie (Poland), PrivatePrint (North Macedonia), Ediciones Caradura (Mexico), Lafat Bordieu (Chile), Editorial Tubito (Argentina), etc. 

On Friday 3.10, the festival opens with concerts by exhibitors Lorena Marina and Maria No Pressure, while on Saturday 4.10, in the fourth collaboration between AABF and publishing project MPATARIA, a queer poetry slam is presented that celebrates poetry, hybridity and disobedience. 

If you are not in Athens, you can tune in to the online radio Fade Radio, which for the fourth year, hosts a program of shows around independent publishing practices as well as the recorded program of talks from previous years of the festival (listen here).

INFO

Opening hours: Friday: 17:00 - 21:00 and Weekend: 13:00 - 21:00 

Talks & Presentations: Weekend 14:00 - 19:00 

Performance & Readings: Friday and Saturday 19:00-20:30 

Free Entry | Don't forget to purchase a ticket at the entrance to support the event and enter the lottery to win unique art prints & publications

Guests: ΝΙΝΑ ΜΑΖΑΝΙ | ΜC Yinka | TROMPETIST ANDREAS POLYZOGOPOULOS

After an amazing performance, Jerome Kaluta returns for a second time on Friday, October 3rd for an Party Opening night of the season at Kyttaro Live Stage.

It will be a night full of rythm, passion and authentic groove. This time, he will share the stage with his 7 piece band to go on a multicultural journey traveling from Soul, Old School Hip Hop, Funk and Afrobeat!

His guests will be the enchanting Nina Mazani, MC Yinka and international Jazz trumpet player Andreas Polyzogopoulos!

Tickets: Presale 12€ | Door: 15€

Book your stand / table: 2108224134

Do not miss it!!

Following its sold-out success in March 2025, the Athens English Comedy Club is thrilled to be hosting its second Spanish language stand-up comedy show!

Join us on Sunday October 5th and enjoy comedians Chadmax and Juanma Johansson, from Mexico and Guatemala respectively!

Founded in 2019, the Athens English Comedy Club is the first, and only, purely English comedy club in Greece - and is now branching out to more languages!

 

Chadmax, from Mexico. On stage since 2010. In stand-up since 2013. One of the pioneers of Spanish-language stand-up in Germany and the surrounding area. 

He has shared stages in Mexico and Europe with some of Latin America's most important comedians, such as "La Cotorrisa," Ricardo O'farrill, Alex Fernández, El Cojo Feliz, El Tío Rober, Adal Ramones, Franco Escamilla, among others. 

Since 2022, he's been touring the world practically non-stop, making thousands of people laugh! 20 countries and counting! 

Martial artist and stand-up teacher to most of the comedians on the scene in the region, earning him the title of "the sensei of comedy." 

Host of the podcasts "Creative Ninja" and "Germany in Spanish". Creator of the collective "The Comedy Fire", responsible for the majority of Spanish-language stand-up shows in Germany and surrounding areas since 2022 (with 300+ shows and counting).

Chadmax will be performing in Athens for the second time, this time presenting his new show "Importado," a comedy special focused primarily on the life of a Latinx migrant in Germany. It explores cultural clashes, and the differences and similarities that Latinxs and Europeans share. From everyday situations like introducing yourself for the first time in German, to the most extreme, like the free-body culture in Germany, his material is always approached with empathy and humour.


Juanma Johansson, the world's smallest Viking, is the best stand-up comedian in Guatemala (according to his friends), and one of the most prominent talents in the Spanish-speaking scene in Germany and surrounding areas. 

A prominent member of the collective "The Comedy Fire" and winner of the "Estrella de Fuego 2023" award at the El Fuego Comedy Awards. 

In 2024, Juanma premiered his first special and is appearing in Athens for the first time, as part of his European tour. 

Find Chadmax and Juanma online!

Chadmax

Juanma

Now in its 7th season, the Athens English Comedy Club has hosted lineup shows, open mic shows, online competitions, and comedy workshops, with *130* local and international comedians from *29 countries*.

*This show is in Spanish*

 

In the old days, "πώρωση" (porosi) was a widely used word and concept to describe passion, pleasure, excitement, delight, madness. Even as a fleeting intense sensation in music, film, food, play, life in general. Then it kind of disappeared. "POROSI" is now here to experientially bring back the meaning of this forgotten word through music.

The newly formed POROSI, created by one of the founding members of Arte Fiasco, officially introduces itself and announces its first three scheduled concerts for the coming season.

The presale for the first three concerts is available, including Early Bird tickets.

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Two of the most important contemporary representatives of the minimal, experimental scene for the first time in Greece, in a unique double bill appearance happening for the first time ever in Europe.  

Sarah Davachi, is a Canadian composer and performer of organ and Hammond B3, who moves both between acoustic forms and electronic instruments, and between melody and structured noise. Influenced by minimalist principles, early music concepts and experimental practices, she has created a remarkable discography and has presented her work internationally in many iconic venues.

Kara-Lis Coverdale is an internationally acclaimed Canadian artist who moves comfortably between acoustic and electronic sound, creating works that transcend the boundaries of musical genres. Her work is characterized by a deep understanding of electronic music without borders, rooted in the interconnected paths of musical systems and languages.

Bethnal Greener is the name of the musical vehicle of Kostis Kilymis, sound artist and producer. Starting from the realm of noise and electroacoustic experimentation, he unfolds narratives between stripped down electronics and the insistent inner pulse of sounds. His new album, "Field", is expected to be released in the autumn.

Sunday 7 December 2025

Oren Ambarchi's music lives at the intersection between different styles and influences: contemporary electronic music, improvisation, experimental minimalism, deceptive simplicity, latent rock physicality. Since the late 1990s his experiments in guitar abstraction and extended technique have led to a more personal and unique sound world that incorporates a wider palette of instruments and sensibilities. 

Ambarchi has performed, collaborated and recorded with a wide range of artists including Fennesz, Sunn 0))), Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Fire! and many others.

Tropical Geometry began as a diverse musical project between friends, which resulted in their studio album "Luck Mountain" (2021). Now operating as a dynamic duo (Babis Theocharis & Antonis Papadopoulos), they unfold their experimental pop music through their sonic explorations into the paths of Krautrock, psychedelia and minimalism. The project's live performances are extremely rare.

Savvas Metaxas is a musician and sound artist active in the fields of experimental music, field recordings and modular synthesizer. With more than 15 releases on vinyl, CD and cassettes, his music has been released on numerous labels such as LINE, Superpang, Granny Records, Glistening Examples, More Mars, Flaming, Pines, Coherent States, Falt, Grisaille, and he has performed in numerous concerts organized in experimental art spaces, music festivals, museums, galleries and concert halls. His latest release "Feedback Poetics", is out by "The Tapeworm".

Saturday 10 January 2026

DECIUS is an obscure supergroup. Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family, Luke & Liam May of Trashmouth Records and Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London & Warmduscher - have travelled planet earth together since 2021 freeing humans from unbearable banality with the release of Decius Vol. I and more recently Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience). Through them they have revealed to all those they have met along the way, exactly what was missing from their lives: an uncontrollable impulse with no boundaries and no reason.

Early Bird: 23€ (limited amount of tickets for POROSI 01 + 02)

Presale: 26€

Door: 29€

A unique group art exhibition, “Athenogates”, opens at Andie Art Gallery on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 19:00, supporting Dorotea’s Cats Rescue, a volunteer initiative dedicated to rescuing, caring for, and finding homes for stray cats, founded by Dorotea Merkouri.

Curated by art historian Annita Patsouraki, the exhibition features paintings, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, and decorative works inspired by the animal world and the harmonious relationship between humans and animals. As Patsouraki notes, the artworks blend realism, abstraction, and symbolism to emphasize the importance of care, responsibility, and respect for all living creatures.

With the motto “We Love Animals – We Love Life”, the show highlights the mysterious and enchanting world of cats, as well as the broader animal kingdom, encouraging empathy and action for animal welfare. The exhibition aims to combine artistic creation with tangible support for animals, promoting awareness, compassion, and adoption.

About Dorotea Merkouri

Greek-Italian actress and Italian cuisine author, Dorotea has been devoted to stray animals since her youth. Upon returning to Greece, she intensified her efforts, founding Dorotea’s Cats Rescue, coordinating daily rescues, medical care, sterilizations, and adoptions across Athens. Since 2020 (and more intensively from 2022), her team of volunteers and veterinarians has helped over 150 cats, overseeing 120 sterilizations and facilitating 35 adoptions.

Dorotea emphasizes that in Greece, where state support for stray animals is limited, volunteer action is both a responsibility and a duty for everyone.

Haris Tsalpara returns to the stage of THEATRE OF THE NO, on Saturday, October 11th  at 21:30. With her expressive voice and unique musical approach, she creates a world that blends the traditional with the contemporary, offering a musical experience that transcends conventional structures.

Her first solo album–book “Anadysi” is an innovative work that combines Eastern modality with electronic elements, delivering a musical journey beyond ordinary forms. It includes 6 spoken word poems and 7 songs, with texts, lyrics, and music written by Tsalpara herself. The work explores profound themes such as entropy, rebirth, and the perception of time.

Her music forms a fascinating sonic mosaic, weaving together traditional motifs, trip-hop, beats, noise, and baroque elements. The constant transformation of the soundscapes goes beyond the usual “verse-chorus” structure, offering a freer and more dynamic musical experience. The evening unfolds in two parts: In the first, the audience will journey through the texts and songs of “Anadysi”, discovering Haris Tsalpara’s unique musical world. In the second part, the music turns into a celebration with beloved folk, rebetiko, and traditional songs we all know, sing, or dance to. A unique experience where new and old songs, innovative sounds, and familiar melodies coexist.

Every summer, in the mountainous region of southern Pindos, an improvised football tournament brings life to the villages and their people. The eventful journey of the Armatoliko team through the tournament reveals the fascinating revival of a small community, one that may remain almost empty for most of the year, yet whose spirit stays very much alive.

A kaleidoscope of small and big moments, The Goals of August offers a tender, lived-in glimpse into the life of a place,  from the solitude of winter to the fleeting microcosm of summer, when the village opens its doors and takes a deep breath, filling once again with its people, both old and new.

At its heart lies football — a universal language, a pretext for epic quarrels and wild celebrations — in a film that serves as a portrait not just of a village, but of the memory of an entire country.

Following its screenings in Thessaloniki (October 15), Trikala (from October 16), and Larissa (October 17), the film continues its cinematic journey in Athens through CineDoc. From October 23 to November 6, The Goals of August will be showing at Danaos Cinema, while on November 8 and 9 it will screen at the Greek Film Archive. The film will also be presented in Volos on October 25, with the director in attendance.

In the coming weeks, additional screenings will take place across Greece through the CineDoc network.

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To watch the trailer, please CLICK HERE!

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Director’s Note

The Goals of August is a kaleidoscope of events, incidents, and moments from the everyday life of a village in southern Pindos during an improvised football tournament. The purpose of the documentary is to create, through observation, an “impressionistic” portrait of a small community as it comes alive in the summer — a portrait filled with both light and shadow, charm and, at times, unease. Despite its contradictions, it remains unexpectedly vivid and authentic, showing how a small community may stand nearly empty for most of the year, yet its spirit endures.

Tickets available at the cinema box office and online HERE! 

Screenings from October 23 to November 6 at Danaos Cinema will take place in the presence of the director and special guests from the fields of sports, sustainable entrepreneurship, cinema, and academia. The full schedule of thematic discussions will be announced soon.

Thursday, October 23, 2025 | 19:45
Q&A following the screening with director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos, director of photography and editor Giorgos Fleggas, and Sotiris Tsoukarelis, Head of Social Innovation at Ta Psila Vouna.

– Friday, October 24, 2025 | 19:30
Q&A to follow with director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos. The discussion will be moderated by Orestis Istikopoulos, sports journalist, and Alexandros Papageorgiou, film critic (Luben).

– Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 16:00

– Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | 19:30
Q&A to follow with director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos and members of the Shedia Street Magazine team.

– Saturday, November 1, 2025 | 17:30
Q&A to follow with director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.

– Sunday, November 2, 2025 | 17:30
Q&A to follow with director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos. The discussion will be moderated by Giannis Kantea-Papadopoulos, film critic (Athinorama).

– Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 19:00
Q&A to follow with director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.

– Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 18:45
Q&A to follow with director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos. The discussion will be moderated by Makis Papasimakopoulos, radio producer and podcaster.

ATHENS – Greek Film Archive
Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 November | 17:15
With the presence of director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.

THESSALONIKI – Olympion Cinema, “Pavlos Zannas” Hall
Wednesday 15 October | 19:00
With the presence of director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.
Tickets available at the cinema box office and online HERE!

TRIKALA – Winter Cinema of Trikala
From 16 to 22 October | Daily at 19:30 & 21:30
The screening on October 16 will take place in the presence of director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.

LARISSA – Municipal Cinema of Larissa
Friday 17 October | 20:00
With the presence of director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.

VOLOS – Cultural Centre of Nea Ionia, Volos
Saturday 25 October 2025 | 20:00
With the presence of director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.
Tickets available at ENTEKA – Digital Printing
More information HERE! 

Download the full CineDoc 2025-26 Festival Catalog HERE!

The discussion, titled “Generation Sea: Innovation in Shipping”, will welcome university students and graduates from various institutions and aims to highlight how new technologies are redefining the future of the maritime industry while creating exciting opportunities for the next generation.

For the second consecutive year, the YES Forum is proud to be an official partner of Startup Greece Week and to host this thought-provoking discussion.

Together with distinguished professionals from the shipping sector, we’ll explore how technology and innovation are transforming the maritime landscape — shaping new careers, new skills, and new possibilities for young talent.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!