Onassis Cultural Center

This year's Greek Jazz Panorama at the Onassis Cultural Center brings together 21 musicians from Greece and abroad over three nights, showcasing a wide range of styles, original compositions, fresh collaborations and virtuoso soloists.

Free screenings, workshops with respected figures involved in the creative and technical sides of filmmaking, seminars and a concert make up the program at this year's Film Factory, an event dedicated to the art and craft of cinema. The event is organized by the Goethe Institute, the Greek Film Academy and the Onassis Cultural Center and runs through December 11.

The Onassis Cultural Center is putting on a virtual reality extravaganza this weekend, with back-to-back screenings on Saturday and Sunday starting at noon and ending at 9 p.m. The event is a celebration of the successful marriage between film and technology that is reshaping the landscape of cinema as we know it by attracting the interest of acclaimed directors.

The Onassis Cultural Center is hosting "Enter Afrofuturism," a festival dedicated to the movement that emerged in the African American community in the 1990s with the aim of reclaiming its cultural and political identity through concerts, talks, workshops and film screenings.

The Onassis Cultural Center has put together a music documentary festival, running from Saturday, November 4, to Tuesday, November 7, and comprising 17 recent productions that run the gamut from Nick Cave and Iranian DJs, the Rolling Stones and James Lavelle, to virtuoso jazz musicians and veterans of the London punk scene.

Canadian multimedia artist Robert Lepage returns to the Onassis Cultural Center with his one-man show "887." The show explores Lepage's novel life, strange family and difficult youth in what he himself describes as "autofiction." Produced with the Ex Machina company, the critically acclaimed production features a transforming and rotating dollhouse designed after the house Lepage grew up in, at

Choreographer Serge Aime Coulibaly from Burkina Faso has drawn inspiration from the life and music of the late Nigerian Afrobeat musician and political activist Fela Kuti in a production being presented at the Onassis Cultural Center. Titled "Kalakuta Republik," the work focuses on Kuti's imprisonment in the 1980s and the music that emerged from this experience.

American guitarist and composer Marc Ribot is coming to Athens on Friday, October 20, with the Young Philadelphians band for a concert of "punk, funk, soul, noise and post-punk vibrations" at the Onassis Cultural Center.

Best-selling Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo is coming to Athens on Tuesday, October 17, to speak at the Onassis Cultural Center on the 20th anniversary of the release of his first novel, "The Bat." Besides his interesting career, the former soccer player and stockbroker - who is also in a rock band - will talk about his latest novel, "The Thirst," as well as Michael Fassbender's film version o

Joining forces with London's Barbican, the Onassis Cultural Center presents "Science Fiction: A Journey into the Unknown," an exhibition that explores science fiction's influence on contemporary culture. This is the second collaboration between the Barbican and Onassis center, the first being "Digital Revolution" two years ago.