Athens
27
04
2024
Bigger and new fitness stages: the ATHENS FITNESS FESTIVAL 2024 includes new types of training, both in and out of the water, as well as larger platforms along the beach. From high-intensity workouts to serene yoga sessions, you'll be able to experience a fitness experience that caters to every taste and preference.
Workouts with the latest equipment technology and workout trends: Get ready to be inspired and train with the best trainers in the industry from Greece and abroad, as well as try new fitness styles such as Hybrid Race, The Challenge, Aqua Fitness, Pure Strength and more, using state-of-the-art equipment.
Interactive wellness experiences: The 2-day programme of AFF 2024 has been carefully designed to satiate participants and those who just want to watch the spectacle, with activities that nourish both body and soul against the backdrop of the magnificent landscape of Vouliagmeni.
Connect and Communicate: the ATHENS FITNESS FESTIVAL is about creating a strong and supportive fitness community. This year, we are raising the bar with more opportunities to participate, connect and share your fitness journey with like-minded individuals.
ATHENS FITNESS FESTIVAL 2024 is for EVERYONE and is an unforgettable experience not to be missed. Get ready for a fitness celebration like never before!
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Athens
25
04
2024
From 11.00 in the morning until late into the sunset, the SNFCC will be filled with activities in all its spaces, the festival's focus being the Great Lawn: From the Playgrounds and the Water Jets to the Mediterranean Garden, the Outdoor Games Area, the Dome and, of course, the Canal, a variety of options will be available to children and their parents.
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Athens
04
04
2024
The CEO of the Athens Municipality's Development and Tourist Promotion Company (EATA), Ioannis Georgizas, said the programme was the result of close collaboration with a number of cultural and creative groups, as well as official bodies, with a series of events taking place in parks, squares, streets, museums and cultural spaces, with a focus on sustainability.
The events kick off with the Athens Urban Picnic at Akadimia Platonos on May 1, featuring live music, dj sets and a kite show, among others. They include a festival dedicated to Mother's Day on May 12, a Street Outdoors Party at Koumoundourou Square on the same day, a story telling event on May 16, a skateboarding contest on May 18, a fashion show featuring traditional costumes at the Dora Stratou Theatre on May 19, a latin music festival (La Saramuya Fiesta) on May 26 and many other activities.
The events end with the Athens All Star Party in the Lycabettus parking lot on June 2.
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Athens
04
03
2024
The pre-Lent festivities will begin at 11:30 am on Tsiknopempti (March 7) with music and events around Varvakios Market, Monastiraki Square, and the surrounding streets. At 12:00 the Vakhai musical society will start performing at Syntagma Square and move through Kotzia Square to end up at Monastiraki Square.
The large annual parade will take place on Sunday (March 17) in the center of the city with entertainers and musicians.
Events will conclude on Clean Monday (March 18) at Filoppapou Hill, with flying of kites and 'koulouma', the celebration of the first day of Lent in the outdoors with a picnic of non-meat dishes. The Philharmonic Orchestra of Athens and the Charisma band will play music.
Athens Mayor Charis Doukas said that "for 23 days every neighborhood in our city will be inundated with music, dance, song, and traditional events," inviting all "to come and participate in the joy together."
The schedule is available in Greek through the following page:
https://www.cityofathens.gr/apokries-stin-athina-mia-megali-karnav
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Patras
20
01
2024
The pre-Lent festival will conclude on March 17th, a Sunday. This year's theme is "Be Unplugged!" and the events will begin on Wednesday (January 16), with town crier (Maria Agouridi) riding on a musical float, announcing the famed carnival's start, and calling the public to gather at the square.
On Saturday morning, a procession will take place with musical bands, carnival bicycles, the organizers, the carnival queen (Georgia Sakka), and other celebrants. Then Patras Mayor Kostas Peletidis will receive the carnival's banner.
At 18:00 on Saturday a party will start at the Aghios Georgios Square, while at 20:00, the theater troupe Helix and a Baroque procession will leave from the City Hall to parade through the city with participants including actors, musicians, acrobats, fire jugglers, and Harlequins. This is the traditional Saturday night parade, not the spectacular Grand Parade at the close of the carnival.
At 21:00, the mayor will declare the official opening of the Patras Carnival, to be followed by the traditional 'chocolate war', during which the city's confectioners throwing chocolates from the City Hall's balcony. A concert will also take place and the start of the annual Treasure Hunt will be also declared.
The official schedule of the carnival has not been announced yet, while festivities every year include surprises.
The Patras Carnival is the largest in Greece and involves preparations that begin a year earlier, with a large number of volunteers as well.
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Athens
09
12
2023
The event takes place over 3 days - December 8-10th - at the Athina Live venue (3 Poseidonos Ave., Moschato).
The Irish acts will be joined by local Greek groups such as Iernis, Noriana, Sòlastas, Tir Fada, Plump, and the Curfá Gaelic-Nordic Choir.
Tickets range from €12 to €15 and are available at ticketservices.gr.
More information is available from fb.com/athenscelticmusicfestival.
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Athens
18
11
2023
This year’s program includes 91 films from 32 countries, all about self-expression, growing up differently, and the joy of being yourself. Screenings will take place all over Athens and tickets cost 6 euros. Check out the program at athicff.com.
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Athens
30
09
2023
Saturday 30th of September and Sunday 1rst of October 2023 from 11:00 to 23:00 at the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, the Vegan Life Festival Athens awaits you with free entry.
What will you find at the Vegan Life Festival Athens 2023?
Speeches by experts in every scientific field, sportsmen and women as well as people active in the Vegan community
Cooking workshops by Vegan chefs and food bloggers
Activities for children of all ages
Art exhibition and visual events
Live music events
Speed dating with motto "let's be friends" to help network and strengthen relationships within the community
Exhibition of Vegan products and services, food, cosmetics, clothing, ecological items, etc.
Organization of the sports competition Greece's strongest human - strongman event by the team of @circus.strongman.experience
Swap clothing bazaar and clothing collection in collaboration with @fabricrepublic_gr
Food collection for vulnerable social groups in collaboration with @humanitygreece
Free, anonymous and quick hiv tests and Hepatitis tests from ref. checkpoint @my.checkpoint
Migrant kitchens in collaboration with @greekforumofmigrants
Activist groups for animal rights
And many more! How can you miss this?
Sat. &Sun. , 11:00 - 23:00.
Free entrance.
Technopolis City of Athens (Athens, Greece)
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Athens
23
09
2023
September 21-24 and October 28-1 at the Depot in Gazi!
Burger Fest, the first and largest food festival in Greece dedicated to burgers, returns for the ninth time for two juicy and tasty four days.
More than 15 burger houses, sweet treats and cocktails await us at Amaxostasios from 21-24/9 & 28-01/10 for an experience full of fun activities such as challenges, cook-off battles, games, photo opportunities and as always explosive live musical acts.
When:
September 21, 2023 - October 1, 2023
THURSDAY 17:00 - 23:59
FRIDAY 17:00 - 23:59
SATURDAY 13:00 - 23:59
SUNDAY 13:00 - 23:59
Tickets:
From €6.50
Where?
Pireos & Ermou , 10553, Palio Amaksostasio (Old Depot OSY)
Phone: +302104270810
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Athens
22
07
2023
A total of 59 events will fill 30 neighborhoods of Athens with rhythm, sounds and images in all seven municipalities. For more than a month, the city's theatres, squares, parks and courtyards will become the summer residence of both new and established artists who participate in the events.
"All Athens is a stage" is the continuation of last year's programme by the Municipality of Athens, which this year also sent an open invitation to artists to submit their proposals for the event. The program is organised by the Organisation for Culture, Sports and Youth of the Municipality of Athens (OPANDA), within the framework of Culture is Athens, bringing together the public and artists.
In his statement, the mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, underlined: "This year's big outdoor celebration 'spreads' across the entire city to offer Athenians summer evenings full of quality entertainment. We are happy, because once again great artists responded to our invitation to participate in this special cultural event planned with great interest and care by OPANDA. We invite young and old to every park, every square, every open space of Athens - where this year the heart of 'All Athens is one stage' will beat - to come and spend unforgettable summer moments in the city".
Summer is when we shine the brightest. The City of Athens makes sure of that by turning the whole of Athens into a performance stage for more than a month with its aptly titled annual initiative “All Athens is a Stage”. Starting July 2nd and going till August 4th, a great number of live concerts, theatrical performances, movie screenings, activities for children and much much more will take place all across the city, all with free entrance.
Here’s a selection of some great opportunities to take in the local spirit and join the summer festivities:
22/07: Athens Municipality Symphony Orchestra and quinteto TANGartO join forces for a Concerto Grosso (orchestral baroque music). Open Air Theatre of Colonus, 9 pm
24/07: Music concert dedicated to Greek artists, composers, and poets. Lambraki Hill, 9 pm
29/07: “On The Road Again” a musical journey through the local and international rock scene. Lambraki Hill, 9 pm
31/07 & 04/08: “Tango Greco”, a music and dance performance. Victoria Square, 9 pm
03/08: “Michael Cacoyannis Repérage” a screening of the film The Wastrel (1961) by Michael Cacoyannis, photo exhibition and soundtracks from Cacoyannis’ films. Filopappou Square, 9 pm
Info
Tickets: Free admission
Date: 02 July 2023 - 04 August 2023
Time: Various times/places.
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Athens
08
07
2023
Commemorating the centenary of Maria Callas’ birth, in conjunction with Frank Castorf’s production, the Epidaurus (aefestival.gr) exhibition hall is set to reopen after a 22-year hiatus, thanks to the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.
The grand reopening will feature a periodic exhibition dedicated to Medea, focusing on the tragic heroine’s enduring presence at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus since 1956. This exhibition, open to the public during the theater performances, will showcase esteemed artifacts from the festival’s archive as well as contributions from renowned cultural organizations and institutions, highlighting the rich legacy of “Medea” productions staged at the iconic national landmark of ancient drama since the 1950s.
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Athens
24
06
2023
Highlights include uilleann piper Padraic Keane, flutist Fearghas Mac Gormain, fiddlers Cliodhna Begley and Aidan Connolly, concertina player Paddy Egan, and virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Caoimhin O Fearghail, as well as a host of local of local Irish-themed acts.
Athens Irish Festival | Athens | June 22-24th.
Admission free.
Visit inisarts.gr/athens-irish-festival for more information.
(Photo: Originally named “Keltoi”, Iernis is the oldest Celtic music band in Greece, with the Australian-born George and Manolis Galiatsos brothers as its core, and it concerns itself with the spread of traditional Celtic music in our counry since 1997, but also with the conservation and performance of Celtic songs which have not appeared often in discography. Many of them are in the form of a cappella recordings by traditional singers, and they are re-arranged according to the band's aesthetics, after many years of studying and persistently researching their historical, anthropological and musical background.
The band has created a soundscape of tunes and songs from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galicia, as well as some American tunes, using traditional Irish instruments such as the wooden flute, fiddles, Irish whistles, bodhrán, banjo, mandolin, Irish bouzouki (built by Manolis), and Uilleann pipes with Scott Mavroudis. On December 2012 they released their first album called “Beyond a far-off shore”, and since 2014 they are among the founding and directing members of the Athens Celtic Music Festival. At times they have collaborated with great musicians such as Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Jack Rogers and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh. On June 2012 Manolis and George Galiatsos performed as guests of Andy Irvine at the concerts dedicated to his 70th birthday at Vicar Street, Dublin, and on 2019 they invited him to perform at the 5th Athens Celtic Music Festival.
What is behind the name Iernis? "Iérnē" was the name given by the ancient Greek explorer Pytheas of Massilia to the place now known as Ireland, during his journeys in north-western Europe circa 320 BC, based on the preexisting local Proto-Goidelic name Īweriū, from which Éire is also derived. During Roman times the Alexandrian philosopher Claudius Ptolemy called it "Iouernia", hence the Latin version Hibernia, and a town called Ivernis was mentioned in south-western Ireland, its people called Iverni. This name was derived from Proto-Indo-European *PiHwerjoHn, "fertile land", and was perhaps once the common name for all the inhabitants of Ireland.)
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