Stelios

The Roma Gallery (roma-gallery.com) pays tribute to the late artist Stelios Faitakis (1976-2023) with "Tenure," featuring works by seven of Faitakis' Greek contemporaries. Explore their shared artistic roots and interpretations of Byzantine influences. Admission is free.

The government's plans to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the population against the coronavirus is seen as a grand objective, as the campaign's name "Freedom" would suggest, but the first obstacles on this road to the promised land have already begun to appear.

The government is moving towards the opening of primary schools if current epidemiological data continues on a downward trend, according its spokesman Stelios Petsas on Friday, who said the most probable date will be June 1. Kindergartens and nurseries may also open, he added.

Hunker down at home a bit longer is the message a Greek pianist has sent to a world in coronavirus lockdown with his latest composition, the "Isolation Waltz" - and he's just seven years old.

Stelios Kerasidis first performed in public at the age of three, and has played in New York's Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London.

A number of Greek artists will be coming together at the Evripideio Theater on the island of Salamina on Sunday, August 25, to celebrate the life and music of Stelios Kazantzidis, 18 years after his death. A leading singer of Greek laiko music, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers, including Manolis Chiotis, Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis and Stavros Xarhakos.

The Apo Michanis Theater presents "Tangled Garden," a comedy drama on the odd friendship that grows between a cranky foul-mouthed workman recovering from surgery and his female carer, who is a Quaker, by Canadian playwright and actor Bruce Gooch.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios casts a bouquet of flowers into the sea from the Argyra Akti beach in eastern Attica Thursday, during a service for those who died in the nearby village of Mati in last July's wildfires. The service was attended by the mayors of Rafina and Marathon, Evangelos Bournous and Ilias Psinakis, as well as victims' relatives.

About 30 helmeted hooligans attacked the Athens restaurant where the draw for the Greek second division football league took place resulting in four injuries and damages to facilities, parked cars and media equipment.

One news photographer was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises late Monday while three others were treated by ambulance crews.

Five years of recession have driven Greece to dumpsters. As a growing number of beleaguered Greek people turn to scavenging for food, some people have come to the rescue.

Free bread

The Greek Finance Ministry announced on Friday that Panayiotis Danis has been appointed the new special secretary of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE), following the resignation of Stelios Stasinopoulos.