Be the first to see the Hellenic Air Force’s new state-of-the-art Rafale take to the Greek skies, performing gravity-defying manoeuvres! The French Demo Rafale will take off from Tanagra for an amazing display of its flight capabilities, and you’ll be impressed by its unique flexibility and the wonderful paint scheme prepared for this year’s air show by the French Air Force!

Athens Flying Week, the largest air show in Greece, returns on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of September more impressive than ever!!! Watch a “COMBAT EVAC” exercise by the Greek Armed Forces, demonstrations for the aircrafts of the Hellenic Air Force, the Army and the Navy but also the fire extinguishers Canadair CL-415 and PZL!

Don’t miss the unique spectacle organized by the Athens Flying Week team for the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution!

Aegean Airlines with the A320 NEO is also joining the Air Show and of course the 114th Combat Wing together with EAB who provide us with their hospitable facilities!

Get ready for the most impressive static exhibition ever!!! Do not miss the opportunity to take pictures with the French Rafale, the Tornado and the F-15s of the Royal Saudi Air Force, the Italian M-346, the C-130 from Belgium, the Austrian PC-7 and of course the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Tornado from Germany.

Get your ticket on time through viva.gr and its network of partners, from 15 euros for adults and 7.5 euros for minors. Due to COVID measures, the tickets are issued ONLY electronically while as every year there is a bus available to transport the spectators to and from the air base of Tanagra! See the detailed flight schedule with all international and Greek entries for Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of September.

Ready for take off?

 

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Motorsport enthusiasts… start your engines! As for the rest of us, while we wait for our lives to resume something approaching their former speed and spin, here’s some exhilarating news to stir up the dust. 

One of the rally world’s most legendary events – the Acropolis Rally of Gods – is set to return to the Greek capital this September, after an eight year absence.  

Since its debut in 1951, the Acropolis Rally has built a cult following and is considered one of the World Rally Championship’s most fearsome and glorious rounds. Twisty and rocky mountain roads conspire with the ancient Athenian dust and intense heat to provide rally drivers with a Herculean challenge - and many recognised drivers have found themselves humiliated in the attempt. 

There were some murmurs last year about this iconic gravel road rally revving up in Athens once again, but Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has now officially waved the flag to confirm that the competition has been added to the 2021 calendar of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), and a multi-year agreement reached. This year, Rally of Gods will form round 10 of the season from September 9 – 12, 2021, replacing the Copec Rally Chile, which was sidelined due to the pandemic.

The Acropolis Rally Greece will start from its traditional location beneath the Parthenon, restoring one of the sport’s most sought-after picture postcard images for rally fans across the world.

The Greek Prime Minister celebrated the WRC’s revival in Greece in a recorded message of support:

This content was originally published on This is Athens
Photo Credit: WRC Promoter

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Athens Street Food Festival is back! The festival, which became a gastronomic institution and a reference point for Athens, starts heating the ovens again!

On the 10-11-12, 17-18-19, and 24-25-26 of September, the Amaxostasio of OSY venue at Gazi will be filled with smells of the most delicious recipes of “street food” from around the world and with thousands of foodies who want to try them!

With over 400,000 visitors in four years, ASFF is the largest food festival in the country and a top cultural event for the whole of Athens.

For its 2021 edition, ASFF raises the bar, even more, presenting original ideas, “unknown” cuisines of the world, and many exclusives.

ASFF 2021 will be held in compliance with all the necessary conditions required by the conditions due to the pandemic

More information will be announced soon!

A Led Zeppelin concert celebration under the Acropolis!  Their greatest hits performed live with a rock band, symphony orchestra and three other astonishing singers from London’s West End! 

As part of their world tour and directly from London’s West End, with sold-out shows at the world-famous Palladium, "Led Zeppelin Symphonic" comes to Athens for two incomparable nights at the Herodium Theater, on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 September, at 9:00 p.m!

Three dynamic rock singers come together on stage with an unbeatable rock band accompanied by symphonic orchestration all under the direction of the famous conductor Richard Sidwell - the man behind "Queen Symphonic", the amazing global success that enchanted the Greek public, in 2 sold out performances at the Herodium Theater!

With all the regulations and measures in place to protect the health of spectators, it's time to revel again at an amazing concert under the Parthenon!!!

FokiaNou Art Space is pleased to present “Unfolding”, a two-person exhibition by Anastasia Denos and Grigoria Vryttia. The two artists present works that focus on bodies, spirits and materiality. Through different mediums and approaches they conjure both the universal forces and hyperpersonal narratives that flow through the body. Between Denos’ drawings, video/performance, and installation and Vryttia’s textile and found-object sculpture, they jointly evoke the realm between intuition and physicality.

Anastasia Denos is a Los Angeles based multi-media artist. She graduated from Hampshire College, Massachusetts in 2018 where she worked closely under Sara Greenberger Rafferty. Since then she’s been throwing her head against the wall of her Los Angeles studio. Using video performance, dance choreography, sculpture, drawing, and poetry, Denos is interested in the subconcious and the impressions it leaves on objects, architecture, and flesh. She has shown her work at Herter Gallery, Amherst; Non Plus Ultra and Beta Level, Los Angeles; and was chosen to participate in Hauser and Wirth’s online exhibition ‘Homegrown.’

Grigoria Vryttia is an interdisciplinary artist, currently based in Athens. She studied sculpture in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and subsequently got an M.F.A. at Wimbledon College of Art, London with a scholarship from the Michelis Foundation. Her work focuses on personal narratives, universality and subjectivity, with strong feminist references. With intuitive processes and fabric and found objects as the main mediums, she creates sculptures that balance between figuration and abstraction, concept and form. They often refer to ideas of childhood, loss, sexuality and death with cryptic references to lived experiences. Works of hers are in private collections internationally.

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. www.fokianou247.gr

Opening: Saturday 11 September, 18.00
Duration: 11-25 September 2021
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 17.00-20.00

For more than 9 years, Plisskën Festival has consistently proved itself to be one of Greece’s leading Festivals and proudly returns to Technopolis this year on September 11 & 12! 

Exceptional programming has seen some of the world’s most iconic artists, alongside the best alternative and up and coming talent including legendary headliners Giorgio Moroder, Floating Points, Quantic, Jungle, The Black Madonna, Hunee, Peter Bjorn and John, Tinariwen, Mogwai, Mulatu Astatke, Death in Vegas, La Femme, Mac deMarco, Forest Swords, David August, Liars, Fuck Buttons, Nicola Cruz, Sama’, Afrodeutsche, Ellen Allien, Optimo, Tuxedomoon, Son Lux, Swans, Andy Stott, Debonair and many more.

Aside from a line-up celebrating a broad mix of styles and quality, Plisskën also continues to push the boundaries of their environmental and social ethos.

Wanting to be more environmentally conscious,they have been awarded the ‘Commended’ rating from the Greener Festival Awards global governing body for 2 consecutive years.

And The Lab, an annual series of workshops organised by Plisskën, takes place in Athens prior to the festival.  Through a number of theoretical and practical seminars hosted by professionals in their respective fields, The Lab participants get the chance to learn about all of the elements that comprise putting on a festival.

Plisskën is considered as the most innovative and exciting multi-genre festival of the Summer. Our Ethos is about providing a meaningful and enjoyable music experience with respect to all its counterparts whether they be of human or environmental nature!

And we’re back! We never thought the day would come. After a year long pandemic hibernation, we are finally crawling out from the shadows and into the sun and next to the sea.

 

Get ready for the ULTIMATE MEET MARKET REUNION, this September Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 at Plateia Nerou, where we will be taking over this outdoor waterfront venue for the first time ever, and filling it with all those marvelous Meet Market makers, products and vibes that we’ve all been missing. And boy have we missed you all.

Our goal this September is to make this Meet Market extra special and extra safe, and Plateia Nerou really is the perfect location to make this possible. We have loads of space to spread out our vendors and visitors safely, and keep our social distancing on point with a salty sea breeze to keep us well ventilated. And of course we will be staying up-to-date with all mandatory healthy & safety measures as they are announced.

At last, it’s time to meet again.

The Meet Market: A celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit… A nomadic market place of local goods, fresh ideas and friendly folk. An audio-visual jigsaw of handmade & independently designed clothes, accessories, art, objects, organic body products, home ware, tasty food, vintage & retro collectables, records, interactive games, free prizes, dj sets and good vibes.

Who hasn’t been asking themselves the big questions about the lives we’re leading these days? Prestige publishing powerhouse Monocle has. And it reckons its global subscriber community of movers and shakers is doing it too.

Monocle founder Tyler Brule (the former Wallpaper magazine chief) is bringing a core team of his editors to Athens in late September to host a three-day symposium that’s pitched as a life audit to help us learn how to hone our quality of life: whether on a personal level; as a company - or entire home town.

The 6th Quality of Life Conference will bring together more than 25 speakers (from newspaper editors and comedians to neurosurgeons and fashion entrepreneurs) for an in-depth probe into the projects, people and best practices that are helping to create dynamic cities around the globe. The roving programme covers everything from cancel culture and how to dress well, to weightier themes such as rebuilding Beirut and the future of flight.

Being tapped to stage this exclusive think tank is a real feather in Athens’ cap. The Greek capital was chosen over other European destinations due to its emerging regional influence as a “city on the rise” and going places.

“New businesses are flourishing, the art scene is thriving and these factors are compelling a generation of diaspora talent to return home, as well as luring ambitious global entrepreneurs who are investing in hospitality, design, technology and manufacturing,” says Monocle.

Monocle subscribers can snap up tickets for 10 percent less than the general public. Sign up for this past-paced rota of panels, interviews and power networking and you’ll also be treated to behind the scenes tours of culture hubs including the Benaki Museum Pireos site and Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as meals at urban hotspots like S.I.X. dogs and a curated trawl of Monocle-worthy shops, ateliers and Greek concept stores.

Delegates will also benefit from special rates of up to 25% off at some of Athens’ most premium hotels: choose from glamorous Athens Riviera resorts, downtown 5-star classics or hip urban hideaways.

ECLIPSE, designed to reveal the diverse aspects of the transition we are experiencing now, aims to awaken the audiences’ imagination on the possible parallel worlds and different versions of the future. ECLIPSE features more than 80 artists, both up-and-coming and renowned, from North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe, with 32 new productions and premieres, in iconic buildings at the heart of Athens.

The 7^th Athens Biennale offers an arena to interrogate many of the ideas, queries, concerns, and desires that are frequently not platformed within a Biennial format. In an effort to activate a dynamic cross-cultural discourse, ECLIPSE will highlight the works of artists from the African Diaspora in addition to other artistic voices that have historically been pushed to the periphery. This engagement will be articulated through the use of a “Black Lens” as one of the frameworks. This approach seeks to engage the varying perspectives and artistic practices percolating within the African diaspora. This dialogue will be situated alongside a complimentary framework of artistic interventions that use dynamic manifestations to compose unique practical narratives. Their aim is to strategically address the viewers imagination of potential parallel worlds and futures. Composing a set of spaces that platform ideas such as radical care, interspecies friendship and sonic viewing strategies, ECLIPSE presents a translocal chapter of contemporary thought on how to co-exist within a world differently.




Venues:

Former Department Store
FOKAS, 41 Stadiou Str.

Former Santaroza Courthouse
48 Stadiou & Arsaki Str.

Justice Square
Arsaki & Panepistimiou Str.

Schliemann-Mela Hall
46 Panepistimiou Str.

Onassis Stegi
107-109 Syngrou Avenue

The Athens Coffee Festival is a large celebration of coffee and its surrounding culture, addressed equally to industry professionals, home baristas and the general public!

From its very first iteration, in May 2016, the Athens Coffee Festival managed to become one of the world’s finest coffee festivals! The potential of its dynamic is also confirmed by the impressive number of visitors, the statements of satisfaction by participating companies, as well as the positive comments by sector professionals from Greece and abroad. At a time when the coffee market is at the height of its growth, going through its most mature phase, the Athens Coffee Festival is now a reference point for professionals, but also for the general public, interested in learning about all the innovations and market developments, from flagship espresso houses and distinguished Greek and international specialty coffee roasters.

In order to meet the needs of coffee businesses more effectively, the Athens Coffee Festival takes place every year at the end of September, in view of the winter season. This year, Technopolis-Athens, in Gazi, will host the 5th Athens Coffee Festival in September 2021. The aim is to attract as many sector professionals as possible, from every corner of Greece, along with a selection of major international visitors. At the same time, the festival continues to appeal to the dynamic audience of consumers who are coffee aficionados and are interested in the latest trends and developments in the field of coffee.