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National Gallery of Art On Track For Inauguration In March 2021
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Vote For Athens | Best European Destination - Until February 5th
Athens has been nominated as a 2020 Best European Destination by the influential annual poll "European Best Destinations." This is how the European Best Destinations describes Athens:
We can't think of a better way to celebrate the greatness of Athens than to bring it up to the–much deserved–first place, and declare our beloved city the Best European Destination for 2020! We invite travelers, locals, and ex-pats to vote for Athens as their favorite destination for a holiday or city break. Competing alongside Athens are9 other European cities, including Madrid, Berlin, and Rome.
Click here to cast your vote for Athens by February 5th!
Be sure to share this with others who love Athens too.
About European Best Destinations
European Best Destinations is a travel website developed to promote culture and tourism in Europe. In partnership with the participating tourism offices and the EDEN Network, European Best Destinations promotes a better understanding of the wealth, diversity, and quality of European destinations. Speaking to an audience of e-citizens, European Best Destinations plays a significant role in promoting Europe as the number one destination in the world. It has become the meeting place for tourism offices and world travelers, a gateway to the discovery of Europe.
Australia Day 2020 At The Athens Sports Bar
What better way to celebrate than with a good old fashioned Sunday Session filled with great music selections by our DJ, cocktails, beers, and wines!
How Your Company Can Customize Its Workplace Experience
Our expectations from our workspaces have increased, with our sensitivity to how our office environment can affect our mental state, improve productivity and more. Businesses invest time in weighing their options, as the right base can help build networks, strike a better work/life balance by reducing the commute, and deliver value for money with useful services to avail as per requirements.
IWG - which owns an array of flexspace brands including Regus & SPACES – aims at catering to various working styles and kinds of companies.
A flexible working space allows companies to review the workspace they are leasing – to upscale or downsize in line with their business outlook – so they’re only using and paying for resources that are actually needed.
Having office-management services included – think cleaning, IT support, and friendly receptionists – allows teams to focus on the work at hand rather than the hassle of maintaining an office. While these services are part and parcel of a Regus membership, there are other products that businesses can opt for to customise their experience further.
Flexspace can be your safety net, with Workplace Recovery Solutions, if your main office becomes unusable due to unforeseeable circumstances, and the Virtual Office Service which can make one of our location YOUR local business address.
There are more than 3,300 locations worldwide, and our 2.5 million plus members are able to drop into them when they need – whether it’s to meet an overseas client in a private meeting room, or to send off a contract from the comfort of a business lounge or a co-working space before catching a flight home.
Find out more about building a customized workspace portfolio with IWG.
This content has been sponsored by IWG - an XpatAthens Brand Partner.
Originally published at Regus
New Business Hubs Attract Startup Talent
Entrepreneurs, SMEs and startups flock to new wave of business hubs
The tiger economies of Asia may conjure up striking neon images of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, but there’s a new player on the scene. Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, has been earning an enviable reputation in recent years for its vibrant startup ecosystem.
With a population of 7.5 million people, Vietnam’s most populous city has established itself as somewhere entrepreneurs can set up a business on a limited budget, with more and more staff from established companies in the States such as Apple making the trip there to begin their own startup dream.
Take a trip over 7,000 miles away and you at Tel Aviv. Israel’s business and financial centre has embraced the startup scene like few others cities in the world. An enviable talent pool and corporate entrepreneurship combine to create a city that truly feels dynamic, welcoming and that has its eye firmly fixed on the future. Because of its burgeoning reputation, the city’s business rents are fast catching up to those of more established business centres in the USA and Europe, but serviced offices such as those operated by Regus offer a ready-made way to keep costs online, while still enabling startups to truly make the most out of being part of this vibrant destination.
The Finnish capital of Helsinki, quite simply, has it all. Combining access to a wealth of local talent, business accelerators and the government’s own support for newly formed business known as the Finnish Start-up Permit, there are few better places in Europe to turn dreams into entrepreneurial reality. And while the West Coast of the States has earned plenty of kudos for its tech giants like Google and Facebook, Helsinki has got its fair share of heavy hitters too, with companies such as Nokia and Linux helping establish it as a true technology and innovation powerhouse.
If warmer climes are what you’re looking for, the subcontinent might have just what you need. Previously known as Bangalore, Bengaluru boasts a wealth of tech talent that has seen the city ranked as the third-largest tech ecosystem in the world. Its fast-growing reputation has led to an influx of both new businesses, and government funding for affordable housing has helped drive continued growth.
While Berlin may earn all the plaudits when it comes to new business and a vibrant night-time economy, Cologne has the added bonus of being much quieter, less populated and altogether less stressful than the German capital. The presence of companies including Electronic Arts and Deutsche Telekom mean the city is no stranger to corporate giants and has an enviable history of investing heavily in media and tech.
Over in Iceland, things are certainly warming up in a business sense too. Despite being one of the least populated areas in the developed world, Reykjavik benefits from an open business culture and a true entrepreneurial mindset. With a range of incubators, co-working spaces and a government that has put innovation firmly at the top of its business agenda, Reykjavik really is an exciting place to be.
From chilly and sparsely populated to sunny and busy, with a gargantuan population of 12.11 million people, there’s certainly no shortage of potential customers in São Paulo. Brazilians may be known for their love of football, but as a business hub this sprawling certainly knows where the back of the net is when it comes to scoring a startup success. And with business accelerator schemes and co-working spaces playing host to some of the most innovative startups in the country, an impressive higher education system also makes it a great place to attract the very best talent.
Taking a step across the Atlantic, there’s another city bathed in warmth that’s also earning an enviable reputation in SME and startup circles. Nestled in the shadow of Table Mountain, Cape Town is a true Africa Business Center and has its sights set firmly on being the continent’s main technology hub. With its thriving incubator scene, diverse population and great universities, the city has also benefited from ‘the Silicon Cape’ initiative, combining a community of venture capitalists, developers and creatives.
With the rise of flexible workspace, all these incredible locations can easily become the new HQ for a startup or SME looking for a Scalable Network. Regus has affordable, serviced offices in each location, each with the same business-grade IT infrastructure and high-speed Wi-Fi access. What are you waiting for?
Find out more about how Regus can help your business!
This content has been sponsored by IWG - an XpatAthens Brand Partner.
Originally published at Regus
Greek Chinese Theater Performance - “Farewell My Concubine”
February 7th at 20:00 - Olympia Municipal Music Theatre Maria Callas
“Farewell My Concubine” has been one of the most classical plays of Peking Opera, which was written based on real history from 206 BC to 202 BC. It was first performed for the public in 1918 by Yang Xiaolou and Shang Xiaoyun, and then since 1922, it became the most well-known play of Mei Lanfang, who was the most famous artist of Peking Opera. For generations, this tragic story has been staged for countless times in various genres and also been filmed which received many awards and remains the only Chinese language film having won Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. As a world-famous play, The it has not been staged in Greece yet.
This project was initiated by Miao Bin, who is the postgraduate student of the Department of Theatre Studies and the playwright of this play. Stavros Karagiannis and Yiannis Panagopoulos are both in charge of the direction of this performance, and sixteen Greek student actors from Peiraikos Syndesmos Drama School together with the Chinese actor Miao Bin are teamed up to present this story from ancient China.
This performance is the second Greek and Chinese theatre co-production based on a Chinese theatre play, after “Zhao the Orphan” which was co-produced by National Theatre of Greece and National Theatre of China in 2018. While there are more and more theatre collaborations between China and Greece, this project aims to explore the better way for the intercultural theatre co-production and to overcome the difficulties on the culture understanding for the theatre actors when they perform a foreign play, so as to build up a sample for the future productions. This performance is a fusion of the elements of Chinese and Greek theatre and culture.
On the occasion of Chinese New Year, this performance is a celebration for the coming new year, and also an outstanding part of the cultural exchange between the two ancient civilizations. The performance is free but you will have to reserve your tickets, which you will collect at the theatre's cashier desk from 11:00-18:00 on February 7th before the performance.
Reserve Your Free Tickets HERE!
XpatAthens is proud to be a Media Sponsor of the
Greek Chinese Theater Performance - “Farewell My Concubine”
How Reforestation Can Help Save The Climate
A startling 300 billion tons of carbon has been emitted into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution, heating the planet to alarming levels. But trees can capture carbon, storing it above and below ground.
According to Professor Thomas Crowther, founder of the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich: "We all knew that restoring forests could play a part in tackling climate change, but we didn't really know how big the impact would be. Our study shows clearly that forest restoration is the best climate change solution available today. But we must act quickly, as new forests will take decades to mature and achieve their full potential as a source of natural carbon storage."
To read this article in full please visit: ETH Zurich
Winter Sales Are On
The time has come to raid the shops, find the best bargains, and shop till you drop! The Association of Retail Enterprises of Greece (SELPE) confirmed on Tuesday that the winter sales will begin today, January 13, and will run until Saturday, February 29.
It has also been confirmed that members of the Association of Retail Enterprises of Greece, especially large retailers and supermarkets, will be open for business on Sunday, January 19, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
3 Ways To Make Your Wish A Reality!
While at the same time we're all thinking: "Will I succeed this time? Or will I start with enthusiasm, as I usually do and then something will happen, my time will be limited, I'll have so many other things to do, kids will be waiting for me at home...etc. etc. etc."
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''Love And Disaster In Athens'' - A Group Show At FokiaNou Art Space
For the third consecutive year FokiaNou Art Space has invited artists to respond to an open call focusing on the city of Athens, in any media. A city as intense and contradictory as Athens has always been a source of love and disaster, manifested physically, psychologically, tangibly and temporally, to the people and to the city itself.
The exhibition aims to be a kaleidoscope of love and decay, beauty and destruction, light and darkness, poetry and color, noise and silence. The range of works includes painting, drawing, photography, video and sculpture.
The participating artists are: Lilia Agathou, Afroditi Anastopoulou, Lina Bebi, Maria Bourbou, Christiana Garofalidou, Christos Giannopoulos, Andromachi Giannopoulou, Roxani Giannou, Penny Gkeka, Katerina Katsifaraki, Nina Kotamanidou, Makis Kyriakopoulos, Sofia Kyriakou, Kostas Lales, Loula Leventi, Annette Luycx, Alexandra Mainta, Alexandros Mavrogiannis, Apostolos Papageorgiou, Dionisios Pappas, Nikos Podias, Babis Pilarinos, Eleftheria Rapanaki, Geeta Roopnarine, Stella Sevastopoulos, Anastasia Zoi Souliotou, Andreas Spinos, Iliana Theodoropoulou, Georgia Touliatou, Kiveli Zachariou, Apostolos Zerdevas, Stathis Alexandros Zoulias.
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