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Greeks know Sunday as a day of rest shared with loved ones and have engraved it in tradition through a large reservoir of folk songs that express the grievances and joys of the everyday person. Gazarte, with the help of curator Christos Papamichalis and innovator Andreas Vayas, has selected a series of Greek folk songs that encompass the joy and laziness that is a Greek Sunday.

Artificial intelligence is being deployed in the battle for the prevention and management of forest fires through innovative programs developed and coordinated by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).

More specifically, forest fire risk is being assessed through the Deep Cube and SeasFire programs, which started in January 2021 and March 2022 respectively.

The Onassis Cultural Center (Onassis.org) is extending the run of the musical stage adaptation of Yiannis Economides' "Matchbox," to January 22. The critically acclaimed 2002 drama blows open the Pandora's box of the classic Greek family, the "good neighbor" and the closely knit community.

Members of the union representing Greek restaurant, cafe and bar owners, known by its acronym POESE, on Wednesday set up hundreds of empty chairs in central squares in Athens and other cities to underline the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic on their businesses.

The Piraeus Bank Cultural Foundation presents a collection of photographs by Theodoros Papageorgiou, who traveled across the Peloponnese capturing the beauty of its lakes, beaches and rivers. "The Color of Water" in on display at the foundation's Open-Air Water Power Museum through January 6. Opening hours are Wednesdays to Mondays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Gallery of the Cyclades on the island of Syros will be showing a new collection of work by New York-based Greek interdisciplinary artist Maria Fragoudaki in the exhibition "Transformation-Reconstruction-Composition," running July 21 to August 26.

Golden Dawn lawmaker Yiannis Lagos was on Thursday banned from Parliament for 14 days and had his pay docked for insulting members of the House and threatening physical violence during a debate in late March on Greek-Turkish relations and ongoing name talks with Skopje.

A new kind of poetry is flourishing in Greece’s streets, bars and cafes, says the Guardian in an article about a new wave in Greek poetry.

Celebrated Greek pianist/composer Yanni is known for his extravagant live performances at the world’s most significant heritage sites. The Greek-born US-based keyboardist will broadcast his historic “Yanni: The Dream Concert – Live from the Great Pyramids of Egypt” concert at Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza in 2016.

By Yiannis Papadoyiannis

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