This is Athens City Festival

Music 89 2 Street Party
2025-05-30 18:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Athens) | Klafthmonos Square, Klaftmonos Square, Athens, Athens, 105 61, Greece
Get ready to feel the city’s magic just before summer kicks in! Music 89.2 and the This is Athens City Festival invite you to an unforgettable street party at Klafthmonos Square, right in the heart of Athens.

Expect high-energy music, live shows, dance performances, and plenty of surprises with Music 89.2 favourites Kounavia, Maggie, Evanjelia and Chris IDH turning the square into an open-air dance stage bursting with colour and good vibes. Come dance, meet new people, and soak up the unique energy of the city in one of its most iconic squares.

Fairy Tales at the Park: Taxiarchis Beligiannis - Maria Ploumi
2025-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Ilisia Park, Dragoumi and Dimitressa, Athens, Athens, 115 28, Greece
This activity is only available in Greek.

Fairy tales from the neighborhoods of the world.

What stories do children tell on the other side of the world? How do fairy tales from distant lands sound? Come and listen to traditional stories from all over the globe, travel with words and music, and discover how, no matter where we are, fairy tales unite us!

Narration: Taxiarchis Mpeligiannis
Music: Maria Ploumi

Cosmic Dust - New Territories
2025-05-30 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-31 19:00 - 22:00 | National Observatory of Athens, Lofos Nymphon, Athens, Athens, 118 10, Greece
Τhe historic National Observatory of Athens transforms into a terrain of celestial imagination and earthly matter, with a bold new exhibition by contemporary artist Lea Petrou. Titled Cosmic Dust / New Territories, the show presents a series of new site-specific works that inhabit and respond to Greece’s oldest scientific institution, an anchor of time, memory, and observation since 1842.

Curated and textually framed by Kostas Prapoglou, the exhibition draws inspiration from 19th-century German astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, whose intricate lunar mappings and scientific pursuits form the basis for Petrou’s radical reinterpretation. Using materials such as ceramic, cotton thread, wool, clay, titanium, and marble, Petrou creates dialogues between past and present, the human and the planetary, the analytical and the emotional.

Exhibition days and times: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 19.00 – 22.00

A Cretan Fest with Psarogiorgis
2025-05-30 19:00 - 23:00 | Mayor Dimitris Beis Park, Dimarchou Dimitri Bei Park, Athens, Athens, 117 45, Greece
The This is Athens City Festival brings the heartbeat of Crete to Athens, organizing a grand Cretan Feast with Psaroyiorgis. Raised in the deep musical tradition of Anogeia, he is a descendant of a legendary family of musicians from this mountain village. Son of the unique Psarantonis and nephew of Nikos Xylouris, the man who greatly contributed to the revival of Cretan traditional music, Yiorgis has managed to put the laouto (Cretan lute) in the spotlight, giving a leading role to an instrument once considered merely an accompaniment.

Argithea
2025-05-30 20:00 - 22:00 | Agios Thomas Square, Mikras Asias 69, Athens, Athens, 115 27, Greece
The Panhellenic Federation of Argithea Associations (P.O.A.S.), in collaboration with the Municipality of Argithea and the traditional music group Argitheatiki Zygia, will present a showcase of local dances and songs from the region of Argithea, performed by dancers and singers from P.O.A.S. member associations.

Celebrating a decade of continuous cultural activity, the Federation now enters its second decade with a series of events honouring the “Mother of Argithea” — a symbolic figure who embodies the preservation and transmission of local customs, traditions, and history. Through this tribute, the spotlight turns to the pivotal and multifaceted role of women, and especially mothers, in Argithea’s social fabric.

This performance at the This is Athens City Festival marks the beginning of a nationwide series of events, culminating in 2026 with a major music-theatre production in Athens featuring acclaimed artists and co-organised with the City of Athens.

Food and Wine experience - Nyn Esti - EMST
2025-05-30 20:00 - 23:00 | Nyn Esti, Nyn Esti, Athens, Greece, 11743, Greece
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is participating again this year in the City of Athens Festival, the great celebration of the city, with a high gastronomy event organized by Wine Style at NYN ESTI, an innovative restaurant located on the top floor of EMST. A 6-course menu themed “Spring” and signed by Chef Stamatis Misomikes (StamHalfmike). A combination of flavors based on Greek culinary tradition using modern techniques and sustainable practices. Each dish is accompanied by a different Oenops Wines, a winery that expresses the new generation of Greek Wines characterized by finesse, power, purity of aromas, and complexity.
Participation: 65 euros/person (the price includes Oenops Wines)
Reservations: by phone at +30 698 943 88 66 (Limited number of seats)
WELCOME BITES
Rhodian oil pita – smoked eel – Greek salad & Marinated amberjack – pomegranate – celeriac broth
APLA White 2024, Oenops Wines (Malagouzia, Vidiano, Assyrtiko)
MENU
Zucchini flower salad – sea buckthorn vinaigrette – chamomile
Vindiano 2023, Oenops Wines
Beef tartare – “chicken of the woods” – burnt bread soil
APLA Rose 2024, Oenops Wines (Xinomavro, Mavroudi, Limniona)
Cuttlefish risotto – kaimaki (clotted cream) – fennel
Limniona 2021, Oenops Wines
Black pork – must-pepper – leek
Xinomavro 2023, Oenops Wines
Melon sorbet – strawberry
Spring flowers, yogurt – cherry – thyme – elderflower

Evritiki Zygia Live
2025-05-30 20:00 - 23:00 | Kotzia Square, Kotzia Square, Αθήνα, Athens, 105 51, Greece
A year ago, Evritiki Zygia introduced itself to the Festival audience with a stunning concert in the square of the National Archaeological Museum. This year, it lands in the center of Athens, in Kotzia Square, leading the audience into the Dionysian magic of a Thracian Psychedelia.
On Friday, May 30th, at 20:00, make a stop at Kotzia Square. Experience a powerful event with the concert by Evritiki Zygia and take part in a major solidarity action. The City of Athens Festival and the Athens Municipality Reception and Solidarity Centre (K.Y.A.D.A.) join forces and invite you to bring:

Long-lasting food items
Personal hygiene items (soaps, diapers, paper products, etc.)
Cleaning supplies, household items, and basic necessities. K.Y.A.D.A. offers daily support to:
Over 3,500 families below the poverty line
Homeless fellow citizens through hospitality structures, psychosocial and employment support
Homeless individuals living on the streets, through StreetWork teams
Elderly people without a supportive environment Your participation is valuable and irreplaceable. With a bag of food, you offer more than you can imagine.

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Hispanic Film Festival at Ellinis
2025-05-30 20:00 - 23:30, 2025-05-31 20:00 - 23:30 | Open Air Cinema “Ellinis”, Leof. Kifissias 29, Athens, Athens, 115 23, Greece
A full week in May is dedicated to the highlights of Spanish-language cinema. Groundbreaking directors, renowned actors and celebrated screenwriters bring to Athens the spirit of Spain, Chile, Argentina, Cuba and other beloved Spanish-speaking countries—through stories that captivate, move and inspire.

Hispanic Film Festival at Aello
2025-05-30 20:00 - 23:30, 2025-05-31 20:00 - 23:30 | Open Air Cinema “Aello”, Patission 140, Athens, Athens, 112 57, Greece
The best of Spanish-language cinema takes over Athens for an entire week in May. Visionary directors, acclaimed actors and celebrated screenwriters bring a breath of Spain, Chile, Argentina, Cuba and other beloved Spanish-speaking countries to the big screen.

The National School of Dance Steps Out
2025-05-30 20:30 - 21:30 | Panathenaic Stadium Square (Kallimarmaro), Kallimarmaro, Athens, Athens, 116 35, Greece
Dance performances in unexpected spots around the city, featuring students from the State School of Dance, under the artistic direction of the school’s leading dance teacher, Dafni Kokkinou.

Congolese Cultural Day 2025
2025-05-31 10:00 - 23:00 | Koumoundourou Square, Πλ. Κουμουνδουρου, Athens, Athens, 105 53, Greece
– Exhibition and sale

– Gastronomy

– Folklore with the Kadiyoyo group from Congo

– Congolese rumba with Wenge BCBG by J.B. Mpiana, an internationally renowned Congolese artist

– Film screening on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (its cities, history, and culture)

The opening ceremony is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.

TAKIMI II – Reconnections Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition
2025-05-31 11:00 - 14:00 | Pottery Museum, Melidoni 4-6, Athens, Athens, 105 53, Greece
The Museum of Modern Greek Ceramics, in collaboration with the French Institute of Greece, presents the exhibition TAKIMI II – Reconnections, featuring works by emerging ceramic artists Olga Vlassi and Auréline Caltagirone. The exhibition showcases pieces created during their 2024 artist residency at the French Lodging in Rhodes, organised by the French Institute of Greece. Their creations engage in a dialogue with the museum’s permanent collections, reflecting the myths and ceramic heritage of Rhodes through a contemporary lens. Through their work, the artists share impressions and personal narratives inspired by their time on the island—reconnecting modern expression with tradition and the historical context that shaped it.

Curated by: Thalassini Bratsou

Opening: Sunday 18 May 2025, 20:30

Opening hours: Monday: 12:00–15:00 Tuesday–Thursday: 12:00–20:00 Friday: 12:00–15:00 Saturday: 11:00–14:00

CONQUISTADORS
2025-05-31 11:00 - 15:00 | Macart’s Cultural Space, Lenorman 244, Athens, Athens, 104 43, Greece
Nikos Kyriakopoulos and his conquistadors disembark on Lenorman Street.

Dragons and wild beasts, locals and conquistadors—and even Death himself—battle deep in untrodden jungles.

The thirty-six works in this exhibition are not intended to serve History or the historical genre of painting. Instead, the artist draws his material from the mythos surrounding the Age of Discovery, crafting images that move beyond naturalism, both in form and content. Created using monotype, a technique dating back to the 16th century, the works gain added resonance when paired with the fantastical stories they depict. The adventures of the characters serve as a point of departure—not only for the adventures of line and colour, but also for reflection on themes such as desire, fear, conflict and illusion.

Opening: Thursday 8 May 2025, 19:30–23:00

Opening hours: Monday to Friday: 10:00–18:00 Saturday: 11:00–15:00 Closed on Sunday

Message in RGB and WHITE
2025-05-31 11:00 - 15:00 | Mosaico Fine Art Studio, Kesarias 18-20, Athens, Athens, 115 27, Greece
Mosaico Fine Art Studio (Athens) and Mobil Bóde Gallery (Budapest) co-present a mail art exhibition featuring works by Greek and Hungarian artists.

Opening: Saturday, May 24, 19:00.

Opening hours: Monday to Friday: 18:00–21:00 Saturday: 11:00–15:00 Closed on Sunday

Giorgos Gyzis: Clippings: Athens
2025-05-31 11:00 - 16:00 | Ikastikos Kyklos, Akadimias 6, Athens, Athens, 106 71, Greece
Clippings: Athens presents the third series of paintings inspired by clippings sourced from old newspapers. Photographs, drawings, and articles about Athens emerge from the archives, transformed into visual artworks that evoke emotion. The works on display offer a brief journey through the evolving form of Athens, beginning with the distinctive sketches by 19th-century British travellers in Attica and culminating in the height of modernism during the 1950s and 60s.

Exhibition Opening: Saturday 10 May 2025, 12:00–17:00 Opening Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 11:00–14:30 / 17:30–20:30

Wednesday, Saturday: 11:00–16:00

Closed Sunday and Monday

Threads of Tradition: Handmade Art from Georgia
2025-05-31 11:00 - 20:00 | Korai Square, Korai 1, Athens, Athens, 105 64, Greece
This event celebrates the artistry of a Georgian craftswoman who brings tradition to life through her handmade creations. Guests will be welcomed by a beautifully decorated table adorned with delicate, hand-crocheted toys and elegant, handcrafted jewelry—each piece a reflection of care, skill, and cultural storytelling. These items, lovingly made by the artist herself, will be available for purchase throughout the event. Join us for a warm and inspiring experience that highlights the charm of Georgian craftsmanship and supports local artistry.

Solo Exhibition: Valinia Svoronou - Clocks of the Tides
2025-05-31 11:00 - 20:00 | CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Chalkokondyli 19, Athens, Athens, 104 32, Greece
“Ah! That marvellous little thing – that fell into the sea – like a diamond slipped from the fingers of God. The abandoned pearl you long to place upon the alabaster neck of the beloved you adore.”

This passage from a book by Akilas Milas evokes the Princes’ Islands of the early 20th century as a jewel lost to the sea, a keepsake for a cherished beloved. Despite its old-fashioned phrasing, it conveys a powerful sense of a vanished place. Valinia Svoronou’s exhibition captures such moments—carried through intergenerational narratives, experienced by the artist and reshaped to reconcile with a time that is at once personal and collective, hazy and precise. Sculptural forms, notes and moving images become bulwarks in a world rich with memory: reflections from the Eastern Mediterranean, Athens, the Sea of Marmara and Asia Minor. These are moments of pause and re-formation—fragments of places remembered and reimagined.

Vassilis Papageorgiou - Painting and Sculpture: Lignea Creatura Stans
2025-05-31 11:30 - 15:00 | Gallery Ersi, Kleomenous 4, Athens, Athens, 106 75, Greece
The worlds of plants, animals and humans—along with legend, myth, imagination and dream—form the basis of Vassilis Papageorgiou’s new artistic exploration. His paradoxical heroes and hand-crafted wooden creatures inhabit both two- and three-dimensional space in a state of perpetual whirling. Through an aesthetic lens, Papageorgiou reflects on the consequences of humanity’s destructive impact on the natural world. From this meditation, he generates new values—drawn from the cultural references of nature and tradition—that define the conditions for coexistence.

Opening hours: Monday – Friday: 11:30–14:30 & 17:30–20:30 Saturday: 11:30–15:00

Vassilis Karakatsanis: Urban Tools
2025-05-31 12:00 - 15:00 | Genesis Gallery, Ippokratous 121, Athens, Athens, 114 72, Greece
Vassilis Karakatsanis invites us on a journey through the spectrum of contemporary existence—a complex, ever-evolving interplay of memories, collective narratives and social dynamics. His exhibition Urban Tools unfolds as a compelling dialogue between past and present, the personal and the monumental. Seven large-scale paintings, accompanied by numerous smaller works—created using acrylic, oil and gouache on canvas—invite a deep exploration of life in all its textures and tones. At the heart of Karakatsanis’ practice lies a transcendent inner process shaped by memory and materiality. The exhibition title hints at the hidden mechanisms that define a place’s essence: the subtle, often invisible tools that help us navigate, define and interpret the environments we inhabit—as well as those that shape and compose our very being. The urban landscape is not only his subject matter; it becomes his medium. Each brushstroke reveals the layered relationship between its singularity and the stories it holds. Symbols of personal and collective identity, ideology and emotion are interwoven into the fabric of daily life.

Opening night: Thursday 8 May 2025, 20:00

Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 12:00–21:00 Saturday: 12:00–15:00 Closed on Monday, Wednesday and Sunday

How to Fit Inside the City
2025-05-31 12:00 - 16:00 | Athens Gallery7, Solonos 20, Athens, Athens, 106 73, Greece
The work of Haris Baskozos is compelling not only for its final forms but also for the sources of inspiration behind them. The artist studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and fine arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. When drawing from his background in architecture, his work leans toward a rectilinear style that echoes urban planning and evokes a kind of “emotional Mondrian.” In these compositions, consciousness seems to take the lead. In contrast, when his fine arts training prevails, his work shifts towards a freer, more instinctive expression, dominated by human-like forms and influenced by art brut, where the unconscious plays the central role. In both cases, the final result is not a strict monologue of either approach, but rather a dialogue—one side mostly leading, the other echoing through. In this way, Baskozos offers a fascinating visual argument: the idea of collectivity (the city) tends to be shaped through a more conscious process, while reflections on individuality (the human being) emerge through the unconscious.

Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 12:00–20:00 Wednesday & Saturday: 12:00–16:00

First Cemetery of Athens: An Open Air Sculpture Gallery II
2025-05-31 17:00 - 19:00 | First Cemetery of Athens, Logginou 3, Athens, Athens, 116 36, Greece
This activity is only available in Greek.

Archaeologist and guide Michalis Giohalas invites visitors to explore the sculpture garden of the First Cemetery of Athens, in collaboration with the This is Athens City Festival.

Beyond the “Sleeping Female Figure”

The tomb of Sofia Afentaki—better known as The Sleeping Female Figure by Yannoulis Chalepas—is undoubtedly the cemetery’s most famous sculpture. But it’s far from the only one of note. This alternative walk veers off the main path to reveal a lesser-known yet equally remarkable side of Athens’ open-air gallery.

Winding through the cemetery’s quieter, uphill lanes, we’ll encounter mausoleums of celebrated figures—places where mortals meet immortals, and where the lofty desire for remembrance coexists with overwhelming silence.

SLAM
2025-05-31 17:00 - 23:00 | Moxy Athens City, Stadiou 65, Athens, Athens, 105 51, Greece
Slam, the city’s ultimate queer party, is the brainchild of Clubkid, one of Athens’ most vibrant DJs. Each event is a surprise, featuring top DJs and producers, incredible music, dancers in fantastic costumes, flawless production, and a focus on inclusivity.

For its first collaboration with the This is Athens City Festival, Slam presents an exclusive party at Moxy Arcade in Omonia, offering fresh electronic beats and non-stop dancing until dawn.

Seds Lifestyle X Needless with Palms Trax UK
2025-05-31 17:00 - 23:00 | Dikaiosinis Square, Panepistimiou & Santaroza, Athens, Athens, 105 64, Greece
The This is Athens City Festival returns—reviving the pulse of the city! Since 2022, every May, the centre of Athens transforms into a massive open celebration, with happenings and events that bring public spaces to life.

This year, for the first time, Seds Lifestyle—one of Greece’s leading dance music platforms—joins forces with Athens’ beloved mobile party crew Needless to throw a huge open-air street party at Santaroza Square. The result? The ultimate gathering for those who live and breathe electronic dance music.

On the decks: Palms Trax (UK)—the acclaimed British selector and one of Europe’s most influential DJs—lands in Athens with an eclectic dance set fusing disco, house, electro and techno vibes.

Warming up the night are local heavyweights Lex & Chevy, delivering a back-to-back set guaranteed to set the tone for an unforgettable evening of rhythm and sonic magic.

Athens is dancing—are you coming?

Lambrini Block Party by ENTEKA Athens
2025-05-31 17:30 - 23:00 | Agios Andreas Square, Πλατεία Τράλλεων, Athens, 111 42, Greece
ENTEKA Athens joins the This is Athens City Festival with a massive open-air party at Agios Andreas Square in Lamprini.

On this northern edge of the City of Athens, ENTEKA brings together some of the most active DJs in the Greek electronic scene for an impressive setup—drawing thousands to a square that’s still off most people’s radar.

A Walk Along the Ilissos - the Ancient River of Athens
2025-05-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Andrianos Arcade, Leof. Vas. Amalias 50, Athens, Athens, 105 58, Greece
This activity is available in Greek only.

This walk aims to reconstruct a small yet significant and fascinating area of Athens along the banks of the Ilissos River (one of the “lost” rivers of Athens, hidden beneath central avenues), exploring its evolution over time and linking it to historical periods and elements of the city’s life and history.

It covers the development of the area in ancient and medieval times, with a focus on the period after Athens was declared the capital, and life in the city during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Key points of interest: Hadrian’s Gate, the Olympic Temple, spots along Vasilissis Olgas Avenue, Zappeion (Hall and Garden), Panathenaic Stadium, Agia Fotini Ilissou.

The walk will be led by Tonia Kafetzaki, PhD in History, Educator (Evangeliki School of Smyrna).

Meeting point: Hadrian’s Gate.

Athens Deejay Party
2025-05-31 18:00 - 23:00 | Agion Asomaton Square, Agion Asomaton Square, Athens, Athens, 105 53, Greece
ATHENS DEEJAY and its creator Michalis Tsaousopoulos celebrate 25 years of continuous pioneering presence on the airwaves, 25 years of entertainment, countless music tracks, happy listeners, and wild parties.

ATHENS DEEJAY is one of the country’s leading radio stations. It is certainly one with a huge influence, and at its helm is one of the most recognizable voices on the airwaves for many decades: Michalis Tsaousopoulos. Ever-active, tireless, always with fresh ideas and on the decks with the most updated music one expects to hear. Michalis Tsaousopoulos is participating for the 4th consecutive year in the City of Athens Festival with one of his impressive appearances, on the pedestrian street of Ermou & Asomaton, in the heart of Athens.

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Fitness Sessions
2025-06-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Eleftherias Park, Eleftherias Park, Athens, Athens, 115 21, Greece
A chance to get moving in the lush green setting of Eleftherias Park, where expert trainers and their teams lead sessions focused on health and wellbeing.

At the Fitness Sessions, exercise is all about fun—not competition. Yoga, Pilates and aerobic workouts are adapted to suit all levels, aiming to inspire a lifestyle of movement and balance.

Bring your own mat!
