Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Brazilian songwriter and singer Seu Jorge is accompanied by the Athens State Orchestra in a special tribute to David Bowie, with selected songs by the late, great artist that Jorge performed, in Portuguese, in the Wes Anderson film "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." The show, which is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's Summer Nostos Festival, will take place at the Gre

American Ballet Theater Studio Company, the highest rung on the ABT training ladder, is a classical ensemble of 12 dancers and is coming to Athens for a show at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's Summer Nostos Festival on Sunday, June 17. The show at the opera house stage starts at 8.30 p.m.

The inauguration of the 10th installment of the Ibero-American Literature Festival in Athens (LEA) - aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue between Greece and the countries of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America - takes place at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Saturday, June 9. The event will start at 7 p.m.

With a great party, featuring Locomondo, one of the most successful bands in Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) welcomed the summer.

More than 10,000 people showed up on Saturday evening at the Great Lawn of the park in Faliro Athens by the seaside to dance and sing with their favorite Greek band.

Over 500 participants enjoyed an exchange of ideas at a two-day forum at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center which focused on the development of educational systems that will enable students to become productive, responsible, civic-minded global citizens, ready to contribute proactively to societies.

The X80 express bus connecting the cruise ship terminal at Piraeus port with the Acropolis in Athens and Syntagma Square resumes daily services on Thursday.

The service will be available every 35-40 minutes, starting from the Akti Xaveriou terminal at Piraeus port at 7 a.m.

The president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Andreas Dracopoulos, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Honor, Greece's highest civilian honor, by President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Monday , in a ceremony held at the Presidential Mansion in Athens. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (left) and Andreas Dracopoulos, president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, signed a memorandum of cooperation Wednesday aimed at upgrading the Greek public health sector. The agreement is for a grant of 250 million euros, which is to go toward building and equipping a children's hospital in Thessaloniki and new buildings for hospitals in Athens and Komotini.

Greece's government has signed an agreement with a charitable foundation to build and equip hospitals in the cash-strapped country.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras signed the agreement with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Wednesday for a grant valued up to 250 million euros ($307 million.)

The ERT National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Nikos Haliassas, will perform Gustav Holst's orchestral suite "The Planets" and Carl Nielsen's "Helios Overture" at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Monday, February 26. The show starts at 8.30 p.m. and is free of charge, with pre-registration at www.snfcc.org.