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Jula Jannaki | Athens | December 24

On Christmas Eve at the Jazzet Music Hall (99 Stratigou Karaiskaki, Haidari, tel 210.581.5626), composer and pianist Jula Jannaki will present an intriguing set of classical piano compositions in which she explores the concept of contradiction. From Persian melodies to Erik Satie, Kyriakos Sfetsas and Eleni Karaindrou, Athens-born Jannaki will take her audience on a personal musical journey.

Eleni Karaindrou | January 8-10

Acclaimed composer Eleni Karaindrou, whose soaring melodies have graced the silver screen for some three decades and who has performed at prestigious events and venues around the world, did a single show last year at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center just before the November lockdown.

Culture minister extends condolences on death of Eleni Cubitt

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni sent a message of condolence to the friends and family of Greek-born film-maker Eleni Cubitt, one of the founding members of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM), who passed away on Friday morning.

Cubitt was born in Thessaloniki and lived in London.

Nikos Chatzisakos Quartet – Broadway Lights | Athens | January 15

"Broadway Lights," a project in which the Nikos Chatzisakos Quartet puts a contemporary jazz spin on cinema and Broadway classics of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, will be on stage at the Afrikana jazz club in the downtown Athenian neighborhood of Gazi on Wednesday, January 15.

Inaugural Southeast Europe & East Med conference held in Washington

Business leaders, policy makers and think-tank experts are to converge in Washington on Monday for the inaugural Southeast Europe & East Med conference, a joint initiative of Kathimerini and the Delphi Economic Forum aimed at boosting dialogue and the potential for cooperation between the US and countries in the Southeastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean region. 

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