Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake is coming to the Piraeus Municipal Theatre this October!

This gripping love story centers around Odette, a princess turned into a swan by a sorcerer's curse, and Siegfried, a prince. It is a masterpiece that connects love, romance, tragedy and magic in the most beautiful way.

It is also a unique opportunity for people to witness the world famous Russian Ballet Theater and be blown away by their spectacular performance!

The first babies to ever watch the show are now young children. They can walk, talk and run. In the meantime, more babies came into this world and the team behind "I am hatching" are ready to welcome on the orange carpet and the fluffy cushions that’s going to be the kicking off for a fifth year on the stage of Avaton theatre, on Saturday, October 12.

 

On this show the viewers breastfeed, maybe they haven’t even said their first word or they can’t stand on their own. However, they can listen, touch, feel, express joy and discontent without a second thought. They are the most demanding audience of this world! They worth giving everything to please them. That’s what the team of " I am hatching " are planning to do for a fifth year, with some old and new collaborators, through a specially designed show for infants from 4 to 18 months.

This really young audience will travel in a fairytale land with Lefteris’s invaluable help and the newborn pigeon that flutters its wings for the first time, ready to explore and find happiness and love.

The show will last forty-five minutes during which babies and parents will share a unique interactive experience. The experienced performers create a safe environment for the babies by employing precise visual stimulus such as shapes, sounds, music, colors and of course movement, so they can entertain the young audience and also stimulate their senses. Increasing their attention, stimulating their imagination, helping them to interact with the environment and with their new “home” that is incredibly magical and definitely more complex than the belly of their mother.

Every Saturday at 10:30, 12:00 and 13:30

Duration: 45 minutes

Tickets prices: 15 euros for a parent with a child, 5 euros for every extra adult

Booking necessary before arrival on 210 3412689, 6942703702

It’s time for a much anticipated Autumn Bazaar! Join us to celebrate a day of fun, while doing some bargain shopping, sharing smiles and cat-stories with the family of Nine Lives!

Let’s start a new season by helping cats in need.

Discover small treasures amongst new and nearly-new goodies, and taste a delicious selection of home-baked cakes as well as scrumptious savories by the excellent La Chocolatiere caterers. Also, grab the chance to get your hands on the new 2020 Nine Lives calendars!

• Books/CDs

• Clothes

• Fashion accessories

• Jewelry

• Household ornaments
  
  
  

• Homemade cakes and pies, sweets & savory treats kindly offered by La Chocolatiere
  
  

• Coffee/tea/soft drinks
  
  

• Nine Lives merchandise
  
  
  

All bazaar proceeds directly benefit stray cats in Athens through food & vet care.

Please contact us prior to the bazaar if you have items to donate, as we cannot accept any items on the day of the bazaar itself.

Donations of cat food, however, are welcomed with open paws!

Welcome to the fourth edition of KinderDocs – the documentary festival of award-winning films made for children and teenagers, as well as their friends, teachers, and parents, running all year long at the Benaki Museum/138 Pireos St. in Athens and the MOMus- Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki. KinderDocs premieres this year with a documentary on youth, science, and the environment.

Meet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats. Take a journey with these inspiring teens as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Who will be the winner?

 

Inventing Tomorrow
Youth, science & environment
Age 12+

Meet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats. Take a journey with these inspiring teens as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Who will be the winner? Watch the trailer here

KinderDocs
KinderDocs International Documentary Festival for Children and Young People presents each year award-winning films made for children and teenagers, as well as their friends, teachers, and parents, running all year long in Greece. Discover the magic of documentaries, explore new ways of communication, get inspired by stories we all care about, have fun. Each film is a story on teenage life – friendship, family, education, social media, creativity, art, music, dance, psychology, migration, environment – an opportunity to enter the colourful world of kids and teenagers, a platform for constructive dialogue and after-screening events, building tomorrow’s thinking viewers today. Founded in 2016, KinderDocs premieres for its fourth season in October 2019, in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens and MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art - Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections in Thessaloniki, supported by the biggest documentary festivals in Europe – IDFA (The Netherlands) and DOCX! (Germany). In November 2019, KinderDocs Greece will also be featured for the second time at the prestigious Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Italy (est. 1959).

Watch  KiderDoc's official trailer HERE! 

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XpatAthens is proud to be a Media Sponsor of the KinderDocs Festival

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Access Masters Tour in Athens

The Access Masters Tour guides you in your search for Masters studies, directs you to the schools that best match your preferences, and connects you with some of the world’s best universities and business schools.

The Access Masters Tour is open to final-year university students and recent graduates who speak English that are interested in Masters degree study.

What can you expect from the event?

- Meet with top-ranked international universities and business schools
- Get advice on Masters programs suitable for you
- Obtain information on admission tests (TOEFL, IELTS, GMAT, GRE)
- Learn how to win scholarships and finance your Masters studies
- Take part in the draw to win a free campus visit

Meet in person with some of the best universities and business schools from USA, Europe, and Asia attending the Access Masters Tour in Athens.

Why consider a Masters degree:

The Masters degree allows graduates to quickly reach personal growth, greater employment opportunities and career advancement, to tap into an incredible business network. Embark on a life-changing journey with a Masters degree!

Who you can meet at the event:

Admissions representatives from ALBA Graduate Business School, University of Strathclyde, Nottingham University, Hult International Business School, Syracuse University and many more.

What you can expect from the event:

- Open Fair Session with top universities presenting Masters programmes in Business, Science, Engineering, Technology, Mathematics, Law, Arts, Humanities and many more.

- Hold personal meetings with Admissions Directors from prestigious business schools

- Get invaluable insight from our expert Masters consultants and GMAT instructors

The event is free of charge and open to all registered candidates, but early registration is mandatory to be selected for One-to-One meetings.

When: October 16 /  15:30 - 21:30
Where: Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel 

Access MBA Tour In Athens

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XpatAthens is proud to be a Media Sponsor of Access Masters & MBA Tours in Athens

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ChocolateFest is the first festival in Greece dedicated to chocolate and returns once again for a delicious 4-day event! 

From October 17-20 at the old OSY Depot, exhibitions from chocolate manufacturers, famous patisseries, pop-up kiosks, and renowned pastry chefs will take place presenting mouth-watering chocolate creations that will blow you away!


 

Don't miss the chance to experience the sweetest festival in Athens!

FokiaNou Art Space is pleased to present “Global Anesthetics”, a group show bringing together three artists: installation artists, Zach Hart and Alexandra Wilson, presenting their collaborative series, Connect Haven, and sound artist, Anne Gry Friis Kristensen, presenting new sound work made for the exhibition. At what point do aesthetics begin to overlap with anesthetics? Considering hyper-mobility, pilgrimage, the desire to travel for pleasure, “the global village”, and the ever expanding tourist industries we seek to investigate the anesthetizing effects of homogeneity.

Aesthetics conjoining one city to another in completely opposite corners of the world simultaneously welcome and limit visitors who seek a comfort blanket, a blanket which they recognize the warmth from and then desire to stay beneath. As the anesthetic takes hold and puts us under, potential stored energy reserved for randomness and the event is steadily drained. A short program of experimental films will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition, featuring works addressing technology, communications, and mediated realities from artists Mary Helena Clark, Nyle Kaliski, LGHQ, Nina Wiesnagrotzki, Jessica Wilson and Danielle Zorbas.

Zach Hart and Alexandra Wilson are based in New York City and began their collaboration in 2018. Both received a BA in art from Hampshire College in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Their works have been shown at Very Project Space (Berlin), Sunview Luncheonette (NY), Northampton Film Festival (MA), and Peripheral Visions Film Festival (NY). Anne Gry Friis Kristensen (born in Danmark, 1987) is a Danish sound artist, composer and filmmaker, educated from The National Danish Film School in 2013.

FokiaNou Art Space is an artist-run project space in the intimacy of a small apartment in an old building in the center of Athens. The space encourages collaborative creative efforts between Greek and foreign artists, thereby promoting and supporting the local art community. The space hosts exhibitions, workshops and projects under the direction of two artists, Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris.

The opening will take place on Saturday, October 19 at 19:00.

Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 17:00 - 20:00

On the occasion of the Greek National Holiday of the 28th of October, the Acropolis Museum brings to life the statue of Athena Parthenos, made of gold and ivory, designed by Phidias for the Parthenon. The Museum invites its visitors on a walk of knowledge about its construction materials and techniques, its myths and allegories, its radiance and its adventures.

Presentations about the lost statue of Athena Parthenos will be held by Museum Archaeologist-Hosts in Greek (at 12 noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. & 4 p.m.) and in English (at 11 a.m. & 3 p.m.). For registration, please refer to the Information Desk at the Museum entrance on the same day, half an hour before the presentation start time. Limited to 30 visitors per session. First-in first-served.

 

Moreover, visitors will have the opportunity to see the special exhibition about the great restoration works of the marble craftsmen of the Acropolis, organized by the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments and the Acropolis Restoration Service. The exhibition is staged at the Acropolis Museum with a large number of mega photos that cover entire walls, giving the visitor a sense of being on the Acropolis site and watching the work in situ.

On Monday 28 October the Museum exhibition areas and the archaeological excavation will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. with free entry for all visitors.

The restaurant on the second floor will operate during the same hours.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) invites you to the monthly series DIALOGUES event, titled: Cruetly towards Animals.

How is animal cruelty defined? How do we respond to it? How did Greece come to be among the countries with the highest incidence rates of animal cruelty? On Wednesday, October 30 at 18:30, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) DIALOGUES discuss the troubling patterns of abuse and cruelty toward “man’s best friends” that are encountered in various parts of Greece, including illegal fighting and betting, as well as the impact that social media exerts on the issue.

This month’s DIALOGUES, held in the Dome at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), will feature:

- Elena Dede, Lawyer and founder of the nonprofit DOG'S VOICE

- Evangelos Drivas, Clinical psychologist and police officer

- Dr. Christos Karagiannis, Behavioral veterinarian

- Mark Randell, Head of Hidden-In-Sight International

- Thodoris Hondrogiannos, Journalist

- Kalliopi Gavala, Director of Animal Zone International (AZI), will talk about the AZI’s activities in Amorgos
- Elpidoforos Pappas, Chief Operating Officer of SNFCC, will provide a brief overview of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center’s (SNFCC) efforts to care for stray animals.

The DIALOGUES are curated and moderated by Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou.

Registration is required.

FokiaNou Art Space is pleased to present a solo show of the work of Karl Heinz Jeron, a sculpture exhibition in concrete that incorporates electronics, plastic plants, sound and video. Cryptozoology is the study of animals that are rumored to exist.

Such creatures are called “cryptids.” Some, like the gorilla, giant squid and okapi, are no longer hearsay and legend but real creatures recognized by science. Others, like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, continue to tempt the hopeful and the adventurous with the possibility of their existence.

Jeron’s cryptids are enactments of anti-anthropocentrism, placing importance on the symbiosis of humans, animals, plants and things. The work refers to the ecological relationships of the species without separation of the biological and the social in the context of “natureculture” thinking (Donna Haraway).

It shows creatures which do not exist, or rather, which nobody has seen before, and confuses the authentic with the fake. Karl Heinz Jeron was born in Memmingen, Germany in 1962. He lives and works in Athens since 2018. His art deals with every day culture, media perception and information processing.

He creates experiences rather than objects. Jeron's works span from the singing and dancing robot Sim Gishel, to compositions for electrified rotten vegetables and audio tour guides in onshore wind farms. Recent exhibitions, events and collaborations include Athens Digital Arts Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Documenta X, ICA London, Walker Art Museum Minneapolis, Berlinischen Galerie Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco. You can learn more about Jeron's work by clicking HERE.

Hours

Opening: 19:00

Thursday to Saturday: 17:00 - 20:00