Athens Gardens festival started its journey in 2013 by the Athens Art Network, which had been created just a year prior, and consisted of many independent art groups. Since then, at the beginning of the tourist season, the festival presents the opportunity to find live world and classical music in selected Athenian gardens and parks with free entrance.



May 26 - Tango concert by “Tanguerissimo”
Dance performance by dance school “Baile de Barrio” with an open “milonga” for the public to follow.

Trio Tanguerissimo has been well-loved by Athenian milongueros and aims to embark on a musical journey through Buenos Aires in the 1950s. Kostas Vlachopoulos on the chromatic harmonica, Elli Dadira on acoustic bass and vocals, and Marios Strofalis on the piano will perform traditional tango for the dancing crew Baile de barrio, lead by Kostas Nikolaides, and for every member of the public who enjoys the most erotic form of dance.

Where: Viktoria square(outside the metro station Viktoria sq)
Time: 8-10 p.m 

May 27 - Songs and music of love
Marios Strofalis Quartet & Irene Toumpaki.

The cinematic composer’s chamber music ensemble with a distinct Mediterranean hue is almost in the 20th year since its formation and will present the albums “European Taxim I & II”. Irene Toumpaki’s voice narrates a journey with songs of love from her new album called “Mystikos Kipos” with M.Strofalis music.

Where: “Kentro Technon” (Art center) - Parko Eleutherias (Freedom Park)
Time: 7:30-9:30 p.m

May 28 - Latin concert by Martha Moreleon and the “Real Latin group.gr”
Cuban and Latin dance performance

The Athenian-Mexican with the velvety voice aims to bring Cuban song and dance to the multicultural neighborhood of the central railroad station of Athens. With her, her long-time companions in music from Chile, Argentina, and Greece. To truly bring this party to life we have the help of two Cuban dancers. The audience is not obliged to join the dance, but it is strongly encouraged! 

Where: Park opposite Stathmos Larisis station (basketball court, Samou 75)
Time: 8-10 p.m

May 29 - Swing concert by “Manouchedrome” accompanying the dance group “Rhythm Hoppers” in a swing party 

ManoucheDrome go on a musical journey starting from Django Reinhardt through Belgium and onto Paris where gypsy jazz met the swing accordion of Gus Viseur, and come all the way to Britain where gypsy jazz met English verse. Ever devoted to the idioms of yesteryear and the explosive voice of Nandia Manti ManoucheDrome invite the audience to “whistle” and dance along with the musical rhythms of swing. Alongside them, the dancing crew Rhythm Hoppers will get the party rolling, and everyone can join.

Where: Pagrati Grove
Time: 8-10 p.m

The Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, the Film Archive’s favourite annual event has returned once again, this time in hybrid form. The festival has been organised with the funding of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the NSRF Operational Programme, in collaboration with the Embassy of Portugal and the Instituto Camões, the Embassy of France and the Institut Français, the Embassy of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the Embassy of Italy and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene, the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens and finally, the digital platform of ERT, ERTFLIX.

Do you want to take your career to a new level and uncover your leadership potential? Then join us for the Access MBA Balkans and Central Europe online event on 28 May.

Access MBA educates, matches, and connects prospective MBA applicants with accredited and top-ranked business schools from around the globe. On 28 May you will have the ideal opportunity to learn more about the world’s most recognised business degrees. Speak with admissions directors of leading international institutions from Germany, UK, US, and more.

3 ways Access MBA helps you on your professional journey:

1. One-to-one meetings, GMAT workshops, and more

Benefit from the many engaging formats – interactive workshops on test preparation, school presentations, and panel discussions with alumni. You can enjoy online one-to-one meetings with some of the top-ranked business schools from around the world. Plan your questions now so you can get all the details about the best MBA programmes.

2. Personalised experience

Choosing an MBA or Executive MBA is a different experience for everyone. At the online event you will have a personal MBA consultant to guide you to the programmes that best fit your background and expectations. Then, talk one-to-one with representatives from the schools that match your preferences. 

3. Scholarship of 1,000 euros for your business studies

At the end of each season, Access MBA awards one prospective student a scholarship of EUR 1,000 to help them finance their business studies. For a chance to win the prize, sign up now for free and make the most of the event. Take an active part in discussions with some of the participating business schools and you might be the next winner.

Choose the MBA way and join online on 28 May! Register for free HERE!

Nick Mason and his band will give two unique concerts in Thessaloniki and Athens giving great rock history lessons. On Friday, June 3, at the Forest Theater and on Saturday, June 4 in Technopolis, the emblematic Pink Floyd drummer is expected to present two spectacular audiovisual shows that we have rarely seen in our country.

Nick Mason is one of the greatest rock musicians of all time, as he participated as a drummer but also synthetically in all the records of the emblematic Pink Floyd who defined with their sound the moments of whole generations of music lovers. Throughout his great 55-year career, Nick Mason became one of the most influential drummers in our contemporary music history. The set he will present as part of his European and world tour will include the most brilliant moments of his discography and an innovative audiovisual show that receives rave reviews from all over the world.

Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets tour set features the musical moments from the early years of Pink Floyd to the 1972 album "Obscured by Clouds", including the epic "Echoes".

The Athens English Comedy Club is back!

Is the Athens comedy scene “all Greek” to you? Are you on the lookout for English language events which do not require you to read surtitles? Do you want to try your hand at stand up in English? We are here for YOU!
 

Founded in 2019, the Athens English Comedy Club is the first, and only, purely English comedy club in Greece, presenting local and international comedians, right in the heart of Athens. 

 

Keen to get involved and join us on stage? Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay up-to-date with open mic registrations!

Come and laugh! Nay! Come and chortle. Or better yet, guffaw!

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).

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.

Athens Photo Festival is a leading international festival dedicated to photography and visual culture. Through its programming, the Festival is committed to offering a diverse and inclusive international platform, for the exchange of ideas, artistic expression, and engagement with photography in all its forms.

Honoring the Festival’s 35th anniversary throughout 2022, our program provides a critical context where the impact of the ever-changing visual culture can be raised and discussed. The Festival will bring together emerging and established artists and photographers from around the world, through its exhibitions and events, with the aim to reflect the diversity of photography of our time.

Human rights are universal and non-negotiable.
As individuals we are all born free, without distinction.
We have the right to free speech, to education, to marriage, to have a family, to work and to be safe.

Of course, none of the above applies in practice when our sexual orientation, characteristics, expression and gender identity come under the microscope. Arbitrary restrictions based on non-existent considerations suddenly appear, which intensify the insecurity and discrimination that we constantly experience.

We can form a civil partnership but we cannot get married.
We can have children of our own but only as individuals.
We can foster children but not adopt them.
We can be free but only in our beds.
We can feel safe but only if we hide.

However, our identities, our bodies and how we look involve our entire life. We deserve a life of enjoying the rights and fulfilling the obligations we share with the rest of the world. We and our families demand true equality without hearing “yes, but”, safely, without conditions and asterisks. This is unconditional.

At this year’s Athens Pride we demand an UNCONDITIONAL celebration.
For Unconditional education
For Unconditional equality to marriage and family
For Unconditional safety
For an Unconditional life

Join us again this year to claim the UNCONDITIONAL acceptance, visibility and equality we are entitled to in the Athens Pride Parade on Saturday, June 18 at 7:00 PM. Starting point: Hellenic Parliament.

Events: June 10-18 throughout the city
Main full-day event, Parade, Concert: June 18, 2022: SYNTAGMA SQUARE

FokiaNou Art Space is pleased to present the group exhibition "On the Magic Mountain".

The well-known novel by Thomas Mann was the starting point for the organization of a group exhibition with 22 artists, curated by Panagiotis Voulgaris and Mary Cox.

From time to time we seek peace in a refuge away from the world around us, a place far from everyday life, sheltered from problems, a place where time is inactivated, a point of pause. A short visit to a sanatorium for the protagonist of the Magic Mountain evolves into a long stay and an orgiastic form of freedom, where philosophical pursuits, amorous adventures, poetry and nature becomes oblivion and rupture with the outside world. The artists in this exhibition reveal their own precious refuge of contemplation and creation and through their works take us to their own Magic Mountain.

 

Participating artists: Sofia Archangelou, John Bicknell, Maria Bourbou, Angeliki Douveri, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Andromachi Giannopoulou, Penny Geka, Dimitra Gounari, Chris Hawtin, Marietta Kallona, Vasiliki Kanellou, Kalliopi Kouklinou, Nina Kotamananidou, Apostolos Papageorgiou, Gioula Papadopoulou, Marina Rovithi, Geeta Roopnarine, Stella Sevastopoulos, Georgia Touliatou, Marios Trichas, Panagiotis Voulgaris.

Performance by Eleni Kolliopoulou, Saturday 18 June at 21.00.

Opening: Thursday 16 June, 18.00
Duration: 16 June – 2 July, 2022
Hours: Thursday – Saturday 18.00-21.00

 

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