Alexander S. Onassis Foundation

A new playground created by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation for the City of Athens stands out with its vivid colors in Avdi Square, in the downtown district of Metaxourgeio.

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 Onassis Cultural Center's Movement Radio initiative is holding a special 24-hour tribute to German music pioneers Kraftwerk on the occasion of the Dusseldorf-based band's 50-year anniversary.

"Happiness Machine - 24 Hours of Bliss with the Klangforum Wien" is an interdisciplinary project at the Onassis Cultural Center revolving around Christian Felber's alternative economic model, the Economy for the Common Good.

Celebrated Lebanese playwright, performer and visual artist Rabih Mroue, hailed as one of the most important contemporary artists in the world right now, comes to Athens' Onassis Cultural Center with two pieces created for the Berlin-based Dance on Ensemble.

In "Faded," acclaimed Greek choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis tackles the uncomfortable subject of the final curtain through the prism of a dancer's ability or proclivity to deal with his or her inevitable physical decline. His humorous approach to the subject takes the audience behind the scenes to underscore that dance is not a sprint, but a marathon.

Last Monday the finance ministry tabled in Parliament an emergency amendment to a health ministry bill pompously entitled "Modernisation and Restructuring of the Institutional Framework of Private Clinics, Establishment of a Public Health Organisation and Establishment of a National Organisation for Neoplasia, and other provisions".

Two years after his successful Greek debut with "The Melancholy of Dragons," French director and visual artist Philippe Quesne returns to the Onassis Cultural Center with his latest production, "Crash Park: The Life of an Island," in which he fuses Homer's Odyssey with "Lost" and Jules Verne in a musical about exile and utopia. Tickets cost 7-24 euros and doors open at 8.30 p.m.

Internationally renowned Irish writer John Connolly, known as the "Dubliner who writes like an American," will be sitting down with Kathimerini's Elias Maglinis for a discussion on the Onassis Cultural Center's main stage on Wednesday, July 4.

Balancing between theater and film, Syllas Tzoumerkas and Youla Boudali perform "High and Low - A Murderer in Tokyo" at the Onassis Cultural Center (Stegi) in a series of shows from December 25 to 30. The play is inspired by Ed McBain's novel "King's Ransom" and Akira Kurosawa's movie "High and Low," which was based on the book.