Kolonaki

A new electronic system designed to facilitate parking in central Athens and heralded on Tuesday by Mayor Giorgos Kaminis is to start operating in the next few months.
Kaminis described the scheme as a "useful tool which among other things will ease traffic congestion on streets and reduce air pollution."

The Goethe Institute has invited two renowned Greek writers, Amanda Michalopoulou and Elena Penga, who write in other languages and whose work has been translated into multiple languages, to discuss the process, the pitfalls and the benefits.

"Adoption, Memory and Cold War Greece" is the subject of a lecture that Gonda Van Steen, a professor at King's College, London, will deliver at the British School library on Wednesday, April 3. Van Steen is the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. The Athens lecture starts at 7 p.m.

Marking 20 years since its launch, the annual Francophone Film Festival celebrates the cinema of the French-speaking world with a rich program of screenings and parallel events at three Athens venues: the French Institute and the Astor and Danos movie theaters.

After being screened at the documenta 14 art showcase in 2017, "The Invisible Hands," a documentary by Marina Gioti and Georges Salameh, will be screened at the Goethe Institute in Athens on Tuesday, March 19.

"Yiannis Moralis: Master Teacher," on display at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture, sheds light on the celebrated Greek artist's capacity as a teacher and on the profound influence he had not just on hundreds of artists who passed through his classroom at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1947 until 1983, but on the Greek art scene as a whole.

The Franco-Hellenic Association has invited 18 contemporary artists from France and Greece to explore the notion of "Egalite" (Equality), as one part of a five-part series on the guiding principles of the French republic. The show runs through Saturday, February 2, and opening hours are 5 to 9 p.m. through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on the final day. Admission is free of charge.

An anarchist group calling itself the Iconoclastic Sect has claimed responsibility in a post on a Spanish website for the explosion last month outside the church of Aghios Dionysios in the upmarket Kolonaki district of central Athens.

The post was dated last Wednesday and said that the attack was aimed not only against the Church of Greece but society as a whole.

An anarchist group calling itself the Iconoclastic Sect has claimed responsibility in a post on a Spanish website for the explosion last month outside  the church of Aghios Dionysios in the upmarket Kolonaki district of central Athens.

The post was uploaded last Wednesday saying the attack was aimed not only against the church but society as a whole.

In "Surface," a show at the Hellenic American Union in Athens, Maria Bourbou presents photographs of natural landscapes in an oversized black-and-white format that endows them with an almost metaphysical quality. The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Hellenic American College (HAEC), with the support of the Embassy of Luxembourg, and opening hours are Mondays to Fridays from noon