Petit Paris d'Athènes 2019

Petit Paris is back in Athens for another year from November 21^st to December 1^st with this year's theme being «Cabarets du monde» (Cabarets of the world)!

Get ready for a ten-day parade of art and culture in the city center of Athens and neighborhoods like Omonoia square, Larissa station, Peloponisos station, Metaksourgio, Agios Pavlos church and Viktoria square, with more than 500 artists, creators and thinkers participating, coming from in and out of Greece. 

With lots of music, art and photo exibitions, street art, theater and varietè, street events and street art, lectures, “tables rondes” and “rendez-vous sociaux”, walking tours, educational programmes and games, this festival is helping some of the most underrated areas of Athens get filled with culture and art, and is helping young artists to shine. It is co-hosted by Athens Art Network and the Organization of Culture, Sports and Youth of the City of Athens.

The festival is being held with the support of the Embassy of France in Athens and the French Institute of Greece.

In 2013 the first festival was dedicated to the 100 years since the birth of Albert Camus. In 2014 Petit Paris d'Athènes was dedicated to Βelle Époque as well as the declaration of World War 1. In 2015 the festival's theme was Bistrot and Cafe culture featuring rive gauche and post-war Paris. In 2016 the festival's theme was Team Spirit and Art. In 2017 Petit Paris d'Athènes was dedicated to The Woman in Europe. In 2018, the theme was “May of 68. Fifty years after.”

 

Click HERE to view the festival's full schedule!

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Photo credit: Martha Lazou