Get ready for Freddie! Hard Rock International kicks off the annual celebration of the life and music of stave legend Freddie Mercury by hosting unique actions entitled "Freddie for a Week", from Thursday 1 September to Wednesday 7 September 2022.

In honor of the iconic singer, Hard Rock Cafe® Athens will rock with themed music events dedicated to the artist, with the availability of a unique “Killer Queen” Cocktail and with unique souvenirs, the proceeds of which will be used to support the Foundation " The Mercury Phoenix Trust', a UK charity set up in memory of Freddie Mercury by Queen band members Brian May and Roger Taylor, along with their manager Jim Beach, to support the global fight against HIV /AIDS. Fans of the band who will be at Hard Rock® Cafe Athens to celebrate “Freddie for a Week” can try the “Killer Queen” Cocktail, Mandarin Vodka, Pineapple Juice, and Sprite garnished with Spiced Sugar Salt. For those who combine it with our classic Legendary Burger, we will treat them to a delicious Freddie's Chocolate Brownie Mustache.

Those wishing to honor the singer's memory can select some Freddie-inspired Rock Shop® merchandise or visit https://shop.hardrock.com to purchase limited edition collectible t-shirts and a pin with a unique image of Freddie on stage. Hard Rock Cafe Athens will host 2 separate musical events. Live Acoustic QUEEN Tribute, on Saturday, September 3, at 9 p.m., a unique evening - a tribute to Queen's greatest hits by the Woodpeckers band, as well as a Dj night Queen Tribute program with Manolis Kilismani, on Monday, September 5, at 8 pm, two unique nights where all the fans and friends of HRC can feel like champions themselves, singing along to the most iconic songs of Freddie and Queen!

Visit https://www.hardrockcafe.com/location/athens/el/ for more information about the “Freddie for a Week” celebration activations.

#AreYouReadyToFreddie #HardRockCafe #FreddieForAWeek

The 20th Athens Beer Festival is returning this September to take place in one of the most historic spots of Athens.

Kotzias square in the heart of the city will be hosting this celebratory event along with fantastic happenings including traditional greek and international food with plenty of good live music!!

Join us and prepare to discover a  great variety of beers!


 

Saturday, September 3rd, Bolivar and Minotaur - Minotaur presents the so-loved superstar Guy Gerber. The Israeli dj/producer with record sales and countless sold-out shows comes to Bolivar for the first time for a unique night. Support DJs Trixx b2b Steph / Ezara / Rezo b2b Jay Madox.

Purchase your tickets HERE!

The Learning & Participation Department of the Greek National Opera issues an open call for permanent or temporary residents of Athens, professional and amateur musicians from every community in the city, to become members of the Greek National Opera Intercultural Choir. For one more year, the members of a diverse group of Athenians will join their voices, bringing together different traditions and highlighting the immediacy and power of singing and music.

Over the past seven years, the Intercultural Choir has had members from Slovakia, Tanzania, New Guiney, Ukraine, Cameroon, Syria, Cyprus, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Iran, Kenya, Kongo, Iraq and Greece.

The Choir’s constantly expanding repertoire consists of songs from the countries of origin of its members and beyond!

In this new educational cycle and under the direction of Anna Linardou, along with the expansion of its standard repertoire, the Intercultural Choir will attempt to explore voice beyond just singing, its relationship with the body, movement and improvisation, through works of contemporary composers. In this context, we invite new members, eager to sing and explore the new music, to join our forces. The selection of the new members will be made on the basis of the intention to bring out the Choir’s intercultural character and ensure a balanced representation of all age and voice groups.

The Intercultural Choir has given concerts on the GNO Alternative Stage in the SNFCC, on various squares in Athens, at the “Eleftherios Venizelos” Athens International Airport, and as part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s Summer Nostos Festival. It has also collaborated with the International Choir of the Göteborg Opera under the direction of composer Trevor Grahl, performing his works. For the Intercultural Choir’s new season, the GNO Learning & Participation Department is planning new collaborations, as well as a concert outside Athens. The Choir’s rehearsals are held on a weekly basis at the Greek National Opera, in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

Please note that all applicants need to upload a video or audio file with a short excerpt of a song of their choice.

Those interested in applying are requested to fill in and send the application form by Sunday 18 September 2022.

Applications for participating in the Choir can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find HERE!

Saturday, September 10 Bolivar and Minotaur – Minotaur presents the Norwegians Röyksopp, one of the most famous duos in the field of electronic music, in Bolivar for a unique dj set! Support by Evi Sidiropoulou & Steph.

Purchase your tickets HERE!

“Peculiar Views”, Dimitra Gounari solo exhibition
Opening:  Wednesday 14 September, 18.00
Duration:   14 September – 1 October, 2022
Hours:  Thursday – Saturday 17.00-20.00
FokiaNou Art Space, Fokianou 24, 7th Floor, Pagrati  Metro:  Evangelismos 

In her solo exhibition at FokiaNou Art Space, Dimitra Gounari presents a series of new photographic landscapes embodying multi-layered perspectives through her use of mirrors. By using mirrors she invites viewers into the artist's world and makes them feel part of her experience. The body and the landscape are presented in multiple deconstructions in a confusion of reflections in order to highlight a new multi-layered interpretation of reality, where the different parts recreate our relationships with the 'other' and the natural landscape. Dimitra Gounari states: "Mirrors, which complete the landscape, act to break down our fixed perceptions of our world, while at the same time they offer new dynamics for a new repositioning of human coexistence with the natural landscape. The mirror represents fragility and the exploration of 'self' which is always a starting point for me."

Dimitra Gounari is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sound and Image of the Ionian University, holds a Master of Arts in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College-University London U.K., with a scholarship from the I.K.Y. State Scholarship Foundation, and is a graduate of the Department of Photography of the TEI of Athens. She has taught at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts of the University of West Attica, the Visual Arts course at the IB Diploma of Geitona Schools and is an IB DP Visual Arts examiner. Her work has received distinctions and awards from institutions and photography competitions such as the Ministry of Culture of the French Community of Belgium, the Melina Merkouri Foundation 2001, the Euro Press Photo Awards 2001, Fotografos magazine in 2002. She has exhibited in Greece, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and been published in catalogs in the Greek and international press. Her work can be found in private and public collections such as the Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki and the Photographic Center of Athens.

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. Since 2016, under the direction and curatorship of visual artists Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris, over 50 exhibitions have been held, as well as workshops and talks.   www.fokianou247.gr  

Burger Fest, the first and largest Greek food festival returns for the seventh year to O.A.K.A!

From Friday, September 16 to Sunday, September 18, and from Friday, September 23 to Sunday, September 25, Burger Fest 2022 transforms the Agora of O.A.K.A. in Marousi into the meeting point for burger lovers everywhere.

You will have the opportunity to enjoy tasty suggestions from the best burger houses in Athens along with concerts, DJ sets, challenges, actions and of course tastings and many happenings!

Get ready for the #BurgerOlympics!

With a record number of participants, an enriched program and the physical presence of art galleries from Greece and abroad, artists and visitors, Art Athina returns with momentum. The largest annual art event in Greece, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will take place from Friday, September 16, to Monday, September 19, 2022, Under The Patronage Of H.E. The President Of The Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou at the Zappeion Mansion.

This year's exhibition, organized by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, will be attended by 80 art galleries from Greece and abroad. The rich artistic program, directed by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulou, includes 15 sections covering a very wide range of fields and interests of the contemporary art scene.

The program is always composed of the Main sections, which also reflect the main exhibition program of Art Athina. Highlights, with new galleries from abroad, at the invitation of the Artistic Director of Art Athina 2022, Stamatia Dimitrakopoulou.- Feature, with galleries from abroad selected by an invited independent curator - for 2022 this is the independent curator Kate Caruso from the UK, who lives in Los Angeles.- Projects, with independent art spaces. - Design, with Greek and international participation. - Talks, including discussions with invited artists, museum directors and renowned curators. - Film & New Media Space, with a tribute to the pioneers of Greek video art of the 80s and 90s and presentation of archival footage of past Art Athina events in collaboration with the ERT Archive.- Art Athina X Daata, with various digital artworks in collaboration with the British online platform Daata. Kid's Educational Program, developed by the non-profit international social organization for contemporary art and culture KROMA, for children from six years old, teenagers and their accompanying persons.

Art Athina All Year Round, which deals with actions and collaborations throughout the year, includes: The Art Athina Artist Residency Program, in which international artists represented by galleries participating in the Feature and Highlights sections of Art Athina stay in Athens for 30 days and create artworks that are exhibited at the Zappeion - this year's event is held in collaboration with the Brown Hotels chain - The Art Athina Educational Program, which takes place for the fifth time and involves students from Athens and Thessaloniki, under the responsibility of curator Daphne Politis and with the support of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and the Make or Break Initiative - Art Athina podcasts, which are available on Spotify.

Art Athina, an institution that closely follows developments in the field of visual arts, this year, in addition to the basic themes that make up its program, has included new categories that broaden the spectrum of its interests, but also take into account the changes that technology is bringing to the field of visual arts.

In this context, Art Athina presents for the first time an exhibition of works that are exclusively NFT that have never been shown at any other event, while the Art Athina Pavilions section combines the world of contemporary art with that of architecture. In addition, this year, in collaboration with MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, the Art Athina Prize will be awarded to a new artist.

This year's Art Athina is the first to take place in its established form after the pandemic, but it has not broken ties with the art-interested public in the past two years, despite the difficult conditions imposed by Covid-19. In 2020 it took place digitally through an Internet platform, and in 2021 a hybrid solution was adopted, combining the digital exhibition with the presentation of "compressed" (QR codes) artworks in a physical space in the lobby of the King George Hotel in Syntagma Square.

Athens Flying Week (AFW) Tanagra International Air Show 2022 returns to mark the 10th anniversary of Greece’s largest air show, with over 500,000 loyal fans worldwide! 

Are you ready for takeoff with us?! 

At the Tanagra Airport, you will have an exciting and unique experience, with the opportunity to: 

A brand new season by Impact Hub Athens in Kypseli, starts this Saturday, 17th of September from 12.00 to 21.00, with the Pawsome Festival, which will turn the Municipal Market’s open space into a huge interactive playground for our four-legged friends.

The festival will be accompanied by music from Athens 9.84, and its radio show ‘Like cats and dogs’ which will be aired live for the first time from Agora. Pets and their owners will have the chance to find whatever they wish for. High-quality food from ΚΥΟΝ, but also organic unprocessed choices based on the BARF diet from Nature’s Food. Delicacies, accessories and toys in Pawbox’s indie boutique for cats and dogs, toiletries and grooming services from  NanoSanitas.

Eugenia Samara and her colleagues will introduce us to Your Pet App, a Greek platform/app that offers help to animals in need, while the independent animal welfare group Adespota Exarcheia, will be in the Market’s space along with their merch.

At the same time, useful advice for dog care and training will be given by specialists. The Pet Foodologist  Stavrianna Manolakou, will be providing individual diet tips according to the needs of each dog separately. The experienced specialists of Dog Society will reveal secrets and innovative ways on how dogs can interact and adapt properly to their environment. Dogs Voice will entertain the audience with games and quizzes. During the afternoon hours between 18.00 to 19.30, the visitors will be able to take a walk with the excellently trained superheroes-guide dogs, of the school Lara guide dogs.

Of course, animal welfare organizations and facilities, like Animal City of Athens, Animal Welfare Association of Megara, και Animal Welfare of Elliniko- Argiroupoli, couldn’t be missing from the event.

From 17.00 to 21.00, people and pets will have the chance to be photographed in the curated by Canon photo booth, by the lens of the dog-portrait photographer Olga Amoiridou with her project The Dog Project. The visitors will be able to print and get their instant photos for free, in Canon’s expert printer.

Kypseli’s hangout spot Morning Sweetie will be in the Market too, providing us with freshly ground coffee and pupcakes (edible by people and dogs) to share with our pets.

See you on Saturday, the 17th of September!