Interview with the Director of the Maria Callas Museum and Head of the Museum Department of the Technopolis of the City of Athens, Maria Florou
The Maria Callas Museum in Athens was inaugurated in October 2023, on the occasion of the...
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Category: Creative Greece
Evanthia Reboutsika: “I have always had deep emotions towards Diaspora Greeks”
Evanthia Reboutsika is among the most famous contemporary Greek composers. She has created music...
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Olga Pozeli on the art of devised theater
Olga Pozeli is a stage director, actress and writer; she is a prolific artist and arguably the...
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The Sacrifice of Jephthah: A captivating tale on stage
The Sacrifice of Jephthah, Dapontes’s idiosyncratic masterpiece, is staged, for the first time in...
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Composer and harpsichordist Panos Iliopoulos on his (unorthodox) approach to music making
Panos Iliopoulos is a composer and performer, specializing in both early and modern keyboards. His...
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The New Greek Americans 1960–2018: Hellenism in modern USA
The documentary film The New Greek Americans 1960–2018 (2019) has won two awards at the International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra. The film is part of a project by the Greek Heritage Society of Southern California (GHS); GNA spoke with GHS president and with the film’s director and producer.
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The photographer behind “The Doors Of Athens”
An abridged version of an interview with Athens-based German photographer Alexander Jaschik on his projects “The Doors of Athens” & “Small Stories of Athens”
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Creative Greece | Vasilis Kostas on the meeting between traditional Greek music & jazz
Vasilis Kostas is an acclaimed laouto (traditional Greek lute) player from Ioannina in Epirus,...
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Τhe Archaeological Site and Polycentric Museum of Aigai
The ruins of the city of Aigai, the first capital of the Macedonian kingdom, were discovered in northern Greece in the 19th century. The most important finds at the site are the royal palace and the extensive necropolis, where the tomb of King Philip II is believed to be. The archaeological Site of....
Vaso Katraki and her “Hurtful Bodies”
Vaso Katraki (1914 – 1988) was a prominent Greek engraver, renowned for her unique visual language and bold reflection on human condition. In her art, the human body acquires a distinct symbolic, ideological and political quality, becoming a bearer of collective memory and trauma. Her monumental, ...
Reading Greece: A New Era for the City of Athens Library
The City of Athens Library, one of the most important and historic libraries of the country, reopened its doors to the citizens on 11 February 2025. The Library has been radically modernized, while some 25,000 books of all categories are now freely accessible to the public. On this occasion, Reading...