The 1st Athens Fashion Film Festival presents a selection of fashion films and documentary films, which will take place on February 25, 26 and 27 at the Athens 'Megaron' Concert Hall (Nikos Skalkotas Hall) and brings together internationally recognised professionals and emerging talents from the fields of cinema, fashion, art and advertising.

The Athens Fashion Film Festival (AthensFFF), organised by Athens Cultural Creatives, aims to offer an innovative perspective to the innovative world of fashion films, to support animation, fashion and communication artists, and to transfer to the Greek and international audiences the latest trends in cinema, fashion and art.

The programme of the newly established festival includes, among other things, actions from the Milano Fashion Film Festival, projections, presentations and a round table with Constanza Cavalli-Etro (founder of the Milano Fashion Film Festival) and Orsola de Castro (founder of Fashion Revolution), as well as the presentation of the book "Firenze. Fashion Atlas " by Maria Luisa Frisa (curator and fashion critic).

An exhibition dedicated to the most famous street artist of our times.

From February 27th until March 26th, the works of the renowned Banksy come to life at Technopolis in Gazi.

Banksy is considered a genius, an activist, a director, a ''vandal''... but above all a street artist. The artist's work has drawn the public's attention because of its unique perspective on social and political issues. Banksy is considered one of the biggest artist/pop culture icon since the time of Andy Warhol.

So don't forget to pay Technopolis a visit, to admire Banksy's best street art works from all over the world in an urban environment full of interactive features. 

It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few.”

On the 28th of February Katakouzenos Museum is hosting a unique event that will give the English speaking audience an opportunity to explore one of the greatest political speeches of history.

The successful staging of Pericles’ Funeral Oration, translated into Modern Greek by Eleftherios Venizelos and directed by Dimos Avdeliodis at Katakouzenos Museum, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, captured the attention of the audience, making its own mark in the cultural life of Athens since January 2018 and is continuing to do so successfully in the current season.

Pericles’ Funeral Oration, a true rhetorical masterpiece that deeply influenced Western culture as an hymn for democracy, will now be presented in English both as a staged performance and as the main subject of a lecture. Leonee Ormond, Professor Emerita of Victorian Studies, King's College, London, will speak about 'Victorian Responses to Pericles' "Funeral Oration" and Ioanna Spanou will perform the Funeral Oration translated by Benjamin Jowett. We are honoured that Lily Venizelos will join us and will speak about the enduring power of El. Venizelos’ work.

“Music Art Magazine (MAG)” continuous its tradition with the 5th live art festival “Art for Change” hosted by Eco Zone.

Live Art in the making because life is an art. Music, Visual Arts, Street Art, Live Performers!

Over 100 artists will create an interactive ecosystem of multidisciplinary arts around the theme “Dark Times – Reflections” and open a dialogue with everyone searching for some hope and the courage to break through towards a better tomorrow.

Art is everywhere and has the power to make a difference!

Doors open on Friday March 1 st at 18:00.

Also, check out the "Art for Change Kids’ Edition" HERE!

Live Art in the making because life is an art… especially for kids!

Kids are introduced to the magic of live vocal looping and learn how to compose a complete song by using the  sounds of everyday objects and their voice. Improvisation, rhythm and team work are mixed into an unforgettable experience, one you can’t miss! Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd 2019: Team 1: 9:00–10:00, Team 2: 10:00–11:00

A series of hands on creative activities designed to show and tell ways to practice empathy. Kids have fun and at the same time work on their social and emotional skills. Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd 2019: Team 1: 11:00 – 12:00, Team 2: 12:00 – 13:00

Admission per workshop: 10 Euros

Special sibling discount: 18 Euros, Admission for participation in both workshops: 16 Euros

Maximum 10 children per team.

Get ready for a crazy carnival party with loads of dancing, playing and festive creations this Sunday, March 10th in Technopolis!  

The day will start with a tour around the old industrial factory-museum and the tallest building in Technopolis, with a beautiful panoramic view of Athens. Don't worry if you're not sure on which costume to choose, you can make your own right there or buy a mask from the Greek Childrens Museum!

At 12:00, an interactive magical comedy play with Magic Tolto will make the day even more enoyable for both kids and adults!

Schedule

- A walk in the museum at 11:00 (Kaminada B')
- Festive carnival tailoring at 11:00 (Palaioi Fournoi)
- Mask making at 11:00 for kids aged 4-7 and at 12:00 aged 7-12 (Ground floor)
- Funny Lies with Magic Tolto at 12:00 (Apothiki)
- Story-telling theatrical play at 12:00 (Neoi Fournoi)
- Super Fiesta at 13:00 (Dexamenes Katharismou)


Entrance is free of charge, but phone reservation is necessary.

STOart Korai presents the work of Mary Cox, in a lively painting exhibition entitled "Unruly Phenomena".

The show focuses on plants, particularly wild ones growing in Attica, whose hardiness and resistance is the basis for the title. Synonyms for "unruly" are wild, unmanageable, and not amenable to discipline or control. Each work in this series is based on photographs which are zoomed in on to magnify details that are often overlooked. The paintings set realistic, detailed images against abstract backgrounds, often reworked from earlier paintings done years before. Vibrant bright colors and manipulated perspectives translate the work from photographic to fantastical, while the inclusion of fences, architectural elements and other objects references social and political, as well as psychological states. Included in this exhibition is another recent series: small digital prints of collages made using reproductions of art from art magazines. Each piece is essentially an amalgam of appropriated work, playing with color and composition as well as scale. The rejection of the idea of originality, inherent in appropriation, and the melding of styles results in a happy, hybrid metamorphosis.

Mary Cox is an American painter with Greek nationality living and working in Greece since 1993. She holds a Masters in Fine Art from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California. She has shown her work in galleries in Greece and abroad since 1999. Over the years she has taken up different subject matter and used a range of media, from a mixed-media series on migration which was selected for a biennial in Lulea, Sweden in 2011, to a photo- realistic series of paintings of old houses in the southern suburbs of Athens. Since 2014 she has co-directed the alternative artist-run FokiaNou Art Space.

Opening Day: 12 March, 7 pm
Duration: 12 March - 11 April, Monday-Friday 10am - 8pm

Athanasia Kanellopoulou presents her latest art project, Exodus at Roes Theatre!  

Choreographed and directed by Kanellopoulou herself, Exodus is a dance performance where six people struggle against a state of dissolution and chaos. Exodus will be performed at the Roes Theatre (12, 13, 18, 19 & 20 March 2019).

Kanellopoulou’s work is focused on issues around identity, social gender, and socio-political affairs, in the context of contemporary art. Exodus has been subsidized by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for 2018/19.

About the piece: 

Exodus is an artistic response to the 1989 novel “The Melancholy of Resistance”, written by Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whereby main characters are led to their self-destruction as their attempts for revolutionary acts fall short. The piece attempts to confront the existing societal and individual dominant structures.

The performance unfolds through small, fragmented revolutionary acts, where collective and personal identities must first be decomposed and then find the exit or “exodus” toward redemption and fulfilment.

Exodus acts as a narrative to this journey. The dancers’ bodies are in a gradual rebellion, building into remnants of ruins, searching the cell of their own History.

It is in fact a small society that resists absurdity; throbbing with the strings of change, in search of a temporary, yet immediate, calmness.

How many borders and bridges should they cross to reach the final destination? How many walls should they break and how many circles should they create to find their buried History?

Printmaking as a form of visual creation is particularly relevant in both Greece and Japan.

The exhibition “Greek and Japanese contemporary printmaking” which is on display from 15th to 20th March, gives us the opportunity to focus on the art of the two cultures.

Greek and Japanese printmakers each present their own methods of expression and techniques in the creation of original artworks, which provide the opportunity to understand more about the culture and art of the two countries.

Artists with different backgrounds, experiences and history record their quests and concerns.

The exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus is a tribute to the art of printmaking with participation by 44 Greek artists and 65 Japanese artists with more than 120 original prints.

The exhibition is also enriched by the workshop of Japanese woodcut on Sunday March 17th, from 12:00 - 14:00.