Onassis

Catch "TACK" at the Onassis Cultural Center on April 23 at 8.30 p.m. Directed by Greek-British filmmaker Vania Turner, the documentary follows Olympic champion Sofia Bekatorou and young sailing champion Amalia Provelengiou in Greece's #MeToo movement. A Q&A with the director will follow. 

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. 

The Mount Olympus, an old Boeing 727 of Olympic Airways, which was founded by Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis in 1957, has been dismantled 24 years after it stopped flying so that it could be moved to its new home, on Vouliagmenis Avenue, a few meters from the Elliniko metro stop.

Up-and-coming Polish director Lukasz Twarkowski is making his Greek debut at Athens' Onassis Cultural Center (onassis.org) with a theater-video art-film spectacle inspired by the notorious case of a fake Mark Rothko painting that was sold for 8.5 million US dollars by a famous New York art gallery.

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 work will be performed at the Onassis Stegi

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.

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.

Director, dancer and choreographer Lloyd Newson and the British Rambert Dance Company present "Enter Achilles," a physical theater performance which tackles the subject of masculinity and the stereotypes surrounding it, on the main stage of the Onassis Stegi in downtown Athens.

Onassis Stegi will be holding a day of free-entrance events, "Musical Ecologies," on Sunday, February 16. The program features a whole host of musicians and performers, and many of the events will be interactive, inviting audience participation.