Onassis Foundation on YouTube

We stay close, not closed. Distance unites us.

We stay at home. But we insist on going out, through the Onassis digital channel. In Athens, New York, Los Angeles, all around the world.  Every week the Onassis Foundation uploads and shares on its YouTube channel instances, images, discussions, sounds, emotions. Sold-out shows, new podcasts, educational programs, virtual cinematic experiences, online courses, secret concerts.

The reality of the Onassis Foundation becomes digital. One Stegi in every house, in a place that doesn’t exist in the map, to entertain, educate, unite, trigger discussions.

We come close, we take the best seat on the couch and tune into the digital channel of the Onassis Foundation. Where you can find something different today and every day with new content made available every Friday, free of charge and with no time limit.

On Stage: With “On Stage,” the Onassis Foundation brings out theatrical and musical shows that were unforgettable, sold out or you didn’t get the chance to attend. Reviewing the past ten years of Stegi and Onassis USA past years’ action, the new digital platform of the Onassis Foundation brings (again) to the stage legendary theatrical and dance performances and concerts.

Onassis Encounters: A meeting with artists, authors, scientists, people who transform the way we think through their works, their lives. Each video is a unique encounter, an opportunity to look at the past but also towards the future, giving a chance to here-and-now culture.

Future in Common: A program created for all the things that concern us, starting from today until as far as tomorrow goes, for what fuels our curiosity and energy, for what we have shared for long and for what we want to share in the future. A place where art meets the environmental crisis and fashions meets thoughts, ideas and a three-dimensional world made of digits.

Onassis Cinema: The curated program “Cinema” consists of selected films by filmmakers who take risks, experiment and redefine the concept of cinema. Hybrid documentaries, short films, powerful stories, including new films that are introduced to the public for the first time, on the virtual premiere in our digital channel.

From April 3, the theatrical performances Little Red Riding Hood – The First Blood, written and directed by Lena Kitsopoulou (2014), Euripides’ Bacchae, directed by Aris Biniaris (2018), the Onassis Youth Festival (2019), as well as RootlessRoot’s dance show Kireru (2012) will be available. from April 10 you will be able to watch a tribute to Efthimis Filippou, including two shows at Stegi based on his texts: Emata (Bloods), directed by Argyro Chioti and the Vasistas Company (2014), and Ρομπ/Rob, directed by Dimitris Karantzas (2018); Antigone in Ferguson, presented at the Onassis USA in New York, with famous American actors accompanied by a choir (2016), and the dance performance Cementary by Patricia Apergi and the Aerites Dance Company (2017).

When it comes to music, you can sway in your living room to the music of Blaine Reininger’s secret concert at the Upper Stage of Stegi (2018), marvel at Tuned City that took place in Ancient Messene (2018), while next week you may be mesmerized by Klangforum Wien and their Happiness Machine (2019) at Stegi and by Lena Kitsopoulou singing Rebetika: The Blues of Greece, at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan (2019).

You can also enjoy discussions with Guerilla Girls (2017), Dimitris Nanopoulos (2016), Paul Giamatti and Vanessa Grigoriadis (2015), and from April 10 with Werner Herzog (2019), the mathematician Christina Karafyllia (2020), or listen to Daniel Mendelsohn’s podcast (2015).

If you opt for education, browse through the lectures of the Cavafy archive, learn about sustainability in fashion and the role of technology for a transparent supply chain, and realize how timeless Elliniki Nomarchia (Hellenic Nomarchy) is by watching professor Eleni Kourmantzi’s lecture.