Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Mixing traditional brass band sounds with rock and folk elements, renowned Bosnian composer and performer Goran Bregovic comes to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) with his Funeral Band to perform selections of the stunning film music that helped earn him a global reputation.

Acclaimed Greek jazz pianist George Kontrafouris celebrates the 10th anniversary of his Baby Trio band with a concert at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Sunday, September 2. Since it was formed in 2008, Baby Trio has gone through several incarnations and a parade of different members.

Local act Banda Valeu, a collective of musicians that share a passion for Brazilian music in its original version but also with an improvisational twist, performs at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Saturday, September 1, in a concert that is part of a series of events organized by the SNFCC dedicated to the sounds of Brazil.

Award-winning French actress Fanny Ardant embodies the title role in director Herve Loichemol's monodrama for actor and orchestra based on Christa Wolf's 1983 novel "Cassandra." The Comedie de Geneve production, which will be on stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on September 3, presents the final moments just before Cassandra, given the gift of prophecy but defeated by go

UK-based performance artists Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse - collectively known as Action Hero - come to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) with their latest project, "Oh Europa." Their August 22-26 Athens stop is part of a 30,000-kilometer tour of Europe in a motorhome in which they record songs of love, heartbreak, loss and desire, performed by people they meet along

Major thoroughfares will be sealed off on Saturday in the center of Athens and the suburb of Kallithea due to the "SNF Run - Running into the Future" races organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

The measures will be in effect from 7 p.m. to 10.40 p.m. with major avenues, including Syngrou, Vassileos Georgiou, Vassileos Alexandrou and Kallirois closed to traffic.

Grammy nominated, neo-folk artist Lianne La Havas will be performing at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's (SNFCC) Summer Nostos Festival on Friday, June 22. Awarded the iTunes Album of the Year in 2012 and two Grammy nominations, La Havas promises an atmosphere-packed live show, starting at 10 p.m. Admission is free of charge.

Filmmakers Sam Green and Joe Bini present a "live documentary" on the Kronos Quartet, the Grammy-winning American strings ensemble founded in 1973 which boasts more than 1.5 million record sales.

Circus performers will be at different locations of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center from 6.30 p.m. every day from Sunday, June 17, to Sunday, June 24, entertaining visitors with weird and wonderful tricks and stunts. Admission to the park is free of charge and there's a free shuttle bus that runs between the SNFCC and Syntagma Square via the Fix metro station.  


Brazilian songwriter and singer Seu Jorge is accompanied by the Athens State Orchestra in a special tribute to David Bowie, with selected songs by the late, great artist that Jorge performed, in Portuguese, in the Wes Anderson film "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." The show, which is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's Summer Nostos Festival, will take place at the Gre