Stavros Niarchos Foundation

The speech of US President Barack Obama at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre Foundation has started before a crowd of 1,000 guests and dignitaries, including politicians and businesspeople.

Asimina Arvanitaki wants to explain the universe.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced that its Board decided to allocate 100 million euros to help combat the adverse effects of the Greek economic crisis. Chairman of the Board Andreas Drakopoulos announced that this amount had been benchmarked for Greece’s impoverished groups at the opening of the 4th Conference on Welfare Action in Athens.

Infrastructure Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis on Monday played down calls by the European Commission for two EU-subsidized regeneration projects for the broader Athens area to be postponed, noting that the EC had simply expressed “reservations” and that the works would go ahead.

By Anna Mazarakis

While film buffs in Greece normally circle September and November on their calendars for the Athens and Thessaloniki film festivals respectively, there is one more event trying to break out: the Syros International Film Festival.

The Greek National Opera has plenty in store for audiences this summer, with a host of new and unexpected productions, among others.

A program for curbing online bullying among schoolchildren, which has seen success in other European countries, is to be rolled out in Greece, starting with a pilot program in Piraeus.

It was revealed on Thursday that the outer shell of buildings at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center should be completed by July 28.

The planting of trees and shrubs on the 17-hectare site is due to begin in May. Around 1,100 construction workers are involved in the 566-million-euro project.