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Foo Fighters to play Herod Atticus Theater in July
Legendary US rock band Foo Fighters will play an invitation-only event at Herod Atticus Theater in Athens in July after receiving the green light from the Central Archaeological Council (KAS).
Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright in Athens for two shows
He spoke to me while in Los Angeles, slightly out of breath and greeting the occasional fan that recognizes him. Rufus Wainwright has just completed his second opera, "Hadrian," about the philhellene who ruled the Roman empire from AD 117 to 138.
Color Day Festival | Athens | June 17
The annual Color Day Festival returns for a third year on Saturday, June 17. The doors of the Olympic Stadium in Maroussi, northern Athens, open for what is billed as the most colorful festival in all of Greece at 2 p.m. and the lineup includes live performances from local music acts such as Helena Paparizou, Panos Mouzourakis and Onirama as well as DJs and more.
Koniordou: Greece, China can learn a lot from each other
Greece and China can learn a lot from each other by joining forces in culture, Greek Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou told Xinhua.
Aerial dancer hovers over Corinth Canal
Greek aerial dancer Katerina Soldatou is seen performing at the Corinth Canal that separates the Peloponnese from mainland Greece, as part of her "Greece Has Soul" project on Tuesday. The Lefkada-born dancer has said she wants to highlight the country's natural beauties through a project that weds Greek landmarks with music, image and aerial dance.
Yorgos Lanthimos wins best screenplay at Cannes 2017 (photos)
The Greek master of the weird Yorgos Lanthimos picked up the best screenplay award at the Cannes film festival Sunday for his icy thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Despite dividing critics — and prompting its star Nicole Kidman to say she wouldn’t be taking her kids to watch it — the creepy tale inspired by Euripides’ Iphigenia impressed the Cannes jury.
Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2017
The Festival of Athens & Epidaurus 2017, which is the most significant in Greece and among the most important ones in Europe, will kick off with pre-festival events at the end of May. It’s history begins in 1955, where the festival hosted well esteemed Greek and foreign artists from the industry of music, dance, theater and visual arts.
VIDEO: Papademos -bleeding- carried into the ambulance!
A shocking video from the moments after the bomb attack against the former Prime Minister of Greece Lucas Papademos in Athens yesterday.
The video that ANT1 TV Channel broadcasted, shows Mr. Papademos being taken into the ambulance.
Art Athina | Athens | May 26-28
Art Athina, Greece's biggest annual art exhibition and fair, takes place this year, its 22nd, at the Faliro Bay indoor arena in southern Athens from May 26 to 28. The fair brings together galleries from Greece and other parts of the world showing selected work, with an emphasis on video, design and the independent art scene.
Sister Bliss | Athens | May 26
British DJ, composer, songwriter and musician Sister Bliss, best known for her work with Rollo Armstrong, particularly as part of Faithless, will be spinning the decks at the Bolivar beach bar on Athens's southern coast on Friday, May 26. Greece's Spyros Pagiatakis and Dimitris Papaspyropoulos will be the supporting acts. Doors open at 9 p.m.
Aristides Alafouzos and Kathimerini English Edition
Nine years after buying Kathimerini in 1988 and turning the floundering conservative broadsheet into a healthy business and a robust voice for the modernization of Greece's economy and politics, Aristides Alafouzos was approached by the International Herald Tribune to forge a partnership that would combine the finest global and local journalism.
16-year-old blows judges away with emotional rendition of classic song on Greece’s X-Factor (video)
The panel of Greece’s talent show X-Factor were left stunned when a 16-year-old displayed his great talent during the show’s auditions. Alexandros Sagouris, who studies music in Thessaloniki and plays violin said music was “God’s gift” and blew the judges away by singing a classic song by Stelios Kazantidis called “To psomi tis Ksenitias.”
Alex Drakos | Athens | May 10
One of the most exciting percussionists in Greece today, Alex Drakos, will be taking the stage at Six Dogs with his trio on Wednesday, May 10, with a show titled "Tora" that showcases the qualities of the drums, spanning diverse genres from pop to rock and electro to traditional Greek music. Starts at 9 p.m. and tickets cost 8 euros.
An artist's studio becomes his shelter in the Greek storm
Foreign art writers and curators have been paying attention to Greece for a few years now, curious about what kind of art the crisis and a number of significant events have resulted in. But the fact is that they have tended to focus their curiosity on contemporary art, graffiti and photography.
Fire of Anatolia to open to world with dance schools
Mustafa Erdoğan, the founder and general art director of Turkey's internationally acclaimed dance troupe, the Fire of Anatolia, said he had received offers to open dance schools abroad, adding that it was his dream to realize such a project.