Dora Stratou Theater

Dance Performances

29/5/25 - 21/9/25

The "Dora Stratou" dance group, consisting of 75 dancers, musicians, and singers, presents, from 29 May until 21 September 2025, a dance program with folkloric dances from many different regions of Greece. Each region is presented with its own authentic costumes, musical instruments, songs, and dances.
The dance program is updated every second Thursday. The duration of the traditional Greek dances’ performance is approximately 90 minutes, without intermission. Particular attention has been placed in ensuring that all elements are as close as possible to the originals.
The main troupe is composed of 50 dancers, 25 men and 25 women. In addition, it has dancers from regions with a very particular style, such as Crete or Pontos, who perform only their local dances, as well as invited dancers from particular villages. The troupe rehearses every evening prior to the performance for 1 1/2 hour. By dancing every single day of the year they improve constantly and keep in form.
Note: During the 26-29 June, 3-6 July, 14-17 August, and 21-24 August, 22-24 September periods there will be no performances

Lucia di Lammermoor

Opera - A co-production with the Royal Opera House, London

6/4/25 - 11/5/25

Lucia di Lammermoor, the remarkable co-production of the Greek National Opera with the Royal Opera House, London, returns to the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO at the SNFCC, on 6, 8, 10, 12, 23, 27, and 29 April, as well as on 4 and 11 May 2025. Gaetano Donizetti’s masterpiece is presented in a stunning production of high aesthetics that garnered praise in London and Athens, featuring stage direction by the renowned British director Katie Mitchell and conducted by Lukas Karytinos.
Lucia di Lammermoor, the emblematic masterpiece of romantic bel canto, is based on one of the most popular 19th-century novels, Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor. The opera’s premiere at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1835 achieved such enormous success that Lucia rightfully became recognised as the work that brought out Donizetti’s talent, despite the fact that he had already composed several notable pieces, including L’elisir d’amore, Lucrezia Borgia, and Anna Bolena among others.

Athens Jazz

Technopolis - Gazi

26/5/25 - 1/6/25

Since 2001, the Athens Jazz has been inviting us at the end of spring, just before summer, to a music trip, marking thus the start of the concert season in Athens. The city's longest-running music event, with free admission, has been hosting a variety of international, acclaimed jazz trends, bands and groups from all over the globe, attracting more than 6,000 visitors daily.
Thus, Technopolis has become the setting for a seven-day exciting cultural feast. The Athenians and visitors to the city are invited to participate in an exciting celebration, with jazz music at its core. The Athens Jazz opens its doors to welcome the public from morning till evening, allowing young and old to enjoy a rich - international standards - music program, with live shows and more at Gazi and throughout the city.
To date, the Athens Jazz has hosted more than 265 international and local bands and 2,900 musicians from 28 countries

Comicdom

Technopolis

16/5/25 - 18/5/25

The 19th Comicdom CON Athens will take place in the Technopolis City of Athens, on May 16, 17 & 18, 2025. The creators who will participate in this Artists Alley have been announced!
Find out the names of this year's Self-Publishers! Stay tuned for more details about this year's festival!

The Parthenon and Byron

Acropolis Museum - Athens

26/4/24 - 31/8/25

The exhibition includes three sections:
A selection of annotated traveler images from the Acropolis and the Parthenon (by Carrey, Dodwell, Fauvel, Pars, among others).
A short biography and excerpts from Byron’s poems “The Curse of Minerva” and “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”, which refer to the brutal detachment and destruction of the Parthenon’s architectural sculptures by Elgin and their subsequent underhanded seizure and removal, and
Byron’s original passport, a genuine, unexpected Sultanic firman [Islamic royal mandate or decree], exhibited for the first time in the Museum, and serving as an opportunity to reopen the discussion on the return and reunification of the Parthenon sculptures.
It is said that Byron’s last words before his death were about Greece:
"I gave her my time, my health, my presence, and now I am giving her my life. What more could I have done?"

Plásmata III

We’ve met before, haven’t we?

Pedion tou Areos - Athens (Free admission)

27/05/25 —15/06/25

Plásmata III returns to Athens from May 16, 2025 to June 15, 2025, and focuses on the organic and material, seeking new forms of land art while incorporating digitality in artistic and creative expression.
Plásmata III is a living laboratory, a trans-local machine of desire, dreams, and bodies, human and non-human. Urban public space, ‘nature’ trapped in anthropocentrism, especially as expressed through the fantasy and mythology of the park, is again the porous and yet solid core around which the Creatures in Plásmata III develop. It is a vast magnetic field in which the Creatures meet, attract and repel, desire and despise, fall in love or fall out, pass by or stick around. It is the material and symbolic space in which each visitor creates their own fragmentary and often conflicting realities. It is an embrace that will take you somewhere unknown. Like any embrace worthy of the word.
When and where do we meet? Do we need a common reality, or are we satisfied with solipsism? What brings us together, and what repels us? What is nature, what is real and what is not, when the surreal becomes the dominant visual language and even algorithms hallucinate?