Onassis Foundation

Patti Smith tapped into her roots as a poet and narrator at the Onassis Foundation's Stegi in Athens on Thursday and Friday, delivering a spellbinding performance on the devastating impact of climate change on our planet. 

"Upset" is perhaps the most apt and mild description of the emotion evoked by Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues' play "Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists: in the few days it has been staged in Athens by the Onassis Foundation. The controversial work, set in a dystopian future, raises the question of whether it is right to break the laws of democracy in order to defend it.

A view of Pedion tou Areos park in central Athens, in an image made available on Tuesday. As part of a series of interventions in public spaces, the Onassis Foundation has undertaken an initiative to revitalize the park.

The Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in southern Athens is on the brink of becoming the first fully digitized hospital in Greece and among the first in Europe, while also moving to the next stage with the latest generation of imaging systems and artificial intelligence. 

The Onassis Foundation is supporting the independent Greek music scene with a series of screenings of audience-free concerts from iconic venues like the AN Club and Gagarin 205 in Athens. On January 10, its YouTube channel will be showing a career-spanning set by stoner rock act Nightstalker, live from the Gagarin 205, at 9 p.m.

The 4th century BC Temple of Hephaestus, the god of metalworking, on the western edge of the Ancient Agora in Athens' Thiseio neighborhood, shone like never before during the inauguration of a new lightning system Tuesday. The design and installation of the new lighting system, overseen by award-winning lighting designer Eleftheria Deko, was funded by the Onassis Foundation.

A new lift for people with disabilities went into operation on the Acropolis Hill on Thursday, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailing it as 'an emblematic project.' The lift, whose inauguration coincided with the International Day of Disabled Persons, will facilitate access to the monuments of the Acropolis for wheelchair users, elderly citizens and others with mobility problems.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis inaugurated on Thursday a new lift for disabled persons at the Acropolis Hill, describing it as "an emblematic project."

Fans of the Onassis Foundation's Stegi cultural center needn't feel cut off and can access leading theater and dance productions on its YouTube channel. Apart from landmark productions like Aris Biniaris' "The Bacchae," Akram Khan's "Xenos" and Blitz's "Late Night," the vibrant channel also includes talks and presentations.

Greece's Central Archaeological Council (KAS), the government's top advisory body on the protection of antiquities, approved on Wednesday a study for the installation of a lift for disabled persons at the Acropolis Hill.

The new inclined elevator will replace the platform lift installed at the side of the hill in 2004.