Onassis Cultural Center

Read the exclusive article of the US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt to protothema.gr. Mr. Ryatt wrote this article after his visit to Livadia and he describes his positive impressions from the hospitality of the citizens of Livadia to the refugees that have found refuge there.

Boats bob around on the gentle waves in Syros port. Then the first narrator starts to speak about the sea, something they all have in common. The fisherman, the priest and the boy each explain the role it plays in their lives. The child talks about its grandeur, explaining how he "sometimes loves it, but other times fears it."

American saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington - dubbed the "high priest of sax" by GQ magazine in 2016 - comes to Athens's Technopolis venus for one show on Tuesday, July 4, with a brand of jazz that despite its complexity and sophistication manages to enchant lay audiences as well as jazz aficionados.

Italian director Romeo Castellucci draws inspiration from French diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville's (1805-59) seminal treatise for his production of "Democracy in America," which takes the audience back to the New World to explore what the director calls "the decline of tragedy." The Greek Festival performance takes place at the Onassis Cultural Center, starting at 9 p.m. on both nights.

The KETHEA Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals presents "Reload 2.0: The Art of Recovery" at the Onassis Cultural Center from June 19-22. The event celebrates the program and the hundreds of individuals who have found creative outlets in their battles against addiction, presenting art and photography exhibitions, plays, concerts and more.

The Onassis Cultural Center is hosting Tectonics, the brainchild of celebrated conductor Ilan Volkov which began in 2012 in Iceland - the only point on the globe where the tectonic plates of Eurasia and North America meet on land - and has since traveled to Glasgow, New York, Oslo, Reykjavik, Adelaide and Tel Aviv, breaking down musical barriers along the way and bringing together seemingly inc

The Onassis Cultural Center is hosting Tectonics, the brainchild of celebrated conductor Ilan Volkov which began in 2012 in Iceland - the only point on the globe where the tectonic plates of Eurasia and North America meet on land - and has since traveled to Glasgow, New York, Oslo, Reykjavik, Adelaide and Tel Aviv, breaking down musical barriers along the way and bringing together seemingly inc

Award-winning Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy, who introduces herself as a proud, liberal Muslim, will be at the Onassis Cultural Center on Monday, June 12, to lead a discussion on the subject of "Headscarves, Hymens and Sexual Revolution." Eltahawy is the author of "Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution" and a contributor to the New York Times opinion

Respected South African director and visual artist Brett Bailey - renowned for his incisive analyses of racism and the post-colonial world - is set to premiere his new piece, "Sanctuary," at the Fast Forward Festival in Athens, with performances on May 3-7 and 9-10.

Visitors to downtown Athens's Syntagma Square will soon be able to test their mettle at a "haunted house" offering an immersive excursion into our contemporary culture of fear, Omonia will disappear for a couple of days, and a warehouse in Piraeus will be transformed into the labyrinthine lair of the dreaded Minotaur to depict the perilous journey of migrants and refugees: all this and more at