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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in southern Athens is hosting a series of free lectures aimed at those interested in learning how to grow some of their food in their own garden, terrace or plot of land. The lectures take place from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdays March 14, 21 and 28.

The Museum of Cycladic Art launches a new monthly lecture series on Monday, March 13, with Giorgos Koumentakis, prolific composer and director of the Greek National Opera (GNO).

Speaking Thursday during a special event marking the handover of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) to the Greek state, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras vowed that his government will prove the skeptics wrong and make sure that the state-of-the-art complex is in safe hands.

Addressing the official ceremony for the handover of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center to the Greek state on Thursday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras welcomed "a generous donation" and acknowledged widespread concerns about the center's fate in public hands.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) invites the public to a special event marking the handover of the private foundation's spectacular new facilities and park on Athens's southern coast to the Greek state. The event starts at 6 p.m. and includes music, dancing and many other festive activities.

In a great open celebration next week, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is delivered officially to the public. A week where every day “walks, laughter, music couples and families, sports, bicycles, runners, children, thousands of visitors and smiles” as its executives promise.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center celebrates Chinese New Year this weekend with workshops on how to make paper dragons and paper lanterns and two film screenings. In the first workshop, which starts at 5 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, children aged 4-8 will construct a traditional Chinese paper dragon.

The Museum of Children's Art launches "From My Microcosm to Our Planet," an exhibition curated by Iris Kritikou of 122 paintings and 3D works by children, dating from 1945 to 2016, dedicated to the notion of coexistence, on Saturday, January 28, at 11 a.m.

The government's choices for the management of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, possibly the biggest public benefit project Greece has seen since the start of the crisis, are not only deeply disappointing but are also cause for concern.

Actor Giorgos Kimoulis is tipped to become managing director at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on the south coast of Athens, Kathimerini understands.

The state-of-the-art complex in Faliro will house the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera.