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The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens has announced a major exhibition with Ai Weiwei. The Chinese dissident artist and activist has become world-famous for his political and cultural criticism. Sandra Marinopoulos, President of the Museum of Cycladic Art states,...

Thessaloniki Dance Festival (TDF), the largest festival of competitive dancing in Greece, will be held for the second consecutive year in Thessaloniki, April 9-10. The event aims to raise awareness on dance as a sport and the development of dance. Six...

Athens Startup Weekend University will offer from April 8 till April 11, an event exclusively for university students, in which attendees pitch ideas for new startup companies, from teams and work towards the development of a working prototype in...

The Greek-Australians of Melbourne and Sydney had the opportunity to enjoy the grand star of the Greek music scene, Marinella, along with the unique performer Takis Zacharatos. Marinella charmed the audience with her voice by singing all of her greatest...

The film festival that "strictly" speaks French  returns to Athens, Greece for the 17th year in a row from April 7 until April 13. The Francophone Film Festival is celebrated with a week full of films that feature the French language....

The Athens Science Festival (ASF) that will take place at the City of Athens Technopolis Center in Gazi on April 5-10 opens its doors to the public on Tuesday afternoon, for the third consecutive year. The five-day festival will...

The chefs-members of the Chefs Club of Peloponnese, West Greece and the Ionian Islands, have made the biggest strawberry pie ever to be made, and offered it to passers-by in the center of Pyrgos, in Courts Square. The strawberry pie...

NASA Space Apps Challenge, the biggest event for the development of innovative and space oriented ideas, is back in Cyprus for the fourth consecutive year. Last year, one of the winning teams of the Space Apps Challenge Limassol 2015, “ArachnoBeeA”,...

The city of Xanthi is preparing its famous pastry, "the karioka," for a place in the Guinness World Record. The pastry makers of Xanthi, produced on Wednesday a traditional karioka that weighs 383 kilos and it will be distributed in...

The house in which composer Manos Hadjidakis was born and raised in will become a house of culture which will open to the public. The preservable neo-classical building which was built in 1895, was renovated by the Region of...

Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre has accepted the invitation by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports to be the director of the annual Athens & Epidaurus (International) Festival for the 2016 – 2019 period. Greek artists expressed outrage on...

Britain’s Ambassador to Greece, John Kittmer, visited the 114 Combat Wing of Greece’s Air Force in Tanagra, an area north of Athens on Wednesday, to attend a training session of the “Red Arrows,” the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team. The...

The Holy Church of “The Annunciation of Our Lady”, one of Melbourne's oldest churches and the second Greek-Orthodox church that was founded in Australia, gloriously celebrated March 25th. The festivities started on the March 24, when a big crowd of...

The Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ranked third among 60 other universities in an international competition for investment arbitration that took place in Frankfurt. The Greek students managed to prevail over universities with a much higher international ranking...

Professor Alanna Nobbs’ views on the Byzantium and its Greek history captured the audience at the Macquarie Room at the Parliament of NSW on the evening of Tuesday March 22. In relation to the 34th Greek Festival of Sydney, hosted...