Newsletter May 2022

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Spring has officially become the best time to visit Athens. This May, the Greek capital leans in on its age-old knack for culture and revelry to launch the ultimate celebration of the season: a brand new, one-month spring fling. Destined to become an annual highlight, This is Athens City Festival invites you to feast from a buffet of more than 100 exciting events (ticketed and free!) that showcase what our awesome metropolis is all about. And don’t even get us started on how amazing the weather is in May…
 

Cocktail crawls at fêted drinking dens. Free jazz gigs under the stars. Ancient food tastings at the Acropolis Museum. Or E-bike tours at sunset. Find your sweet spot – hell, claim as many as you like – as the multi-faceted This is Athens City Festival blossoms for its first year from May 1. 

What will you be attending?

Did someone say festival? Straight after the City Festival wraps, Greece’s most prestigious performing arts showcase revs into gear, with a three-month binge-fest of world-class music, theatre, dance and visual arts. Read on for some of the hottest tickets.
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So, you’re headed to Athens. You’re going to need a hotel worthy of all the excitement. From art-soaked stays and foodie crashpads; to stylish showstoppers with Acropolis views and gram-worthy pools, the Athens hotel scene is firing on all pillars. 
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• Savour street food from all around the world over three delicious long weekends at the annual Athens Street Food Festival in groovy Gazi; 

•  Usher in open-air cinema season at a moonlight movie screening. It’s a splendidly Athenian way to spend a warm summer night;

• Drive down to the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, before the summer crowds hit the seaside highway. Stop in at dreamy Legrena cove - just west of Sounion - to pretend you’re on a remote Greek island. 

Weather Engines | 1-15 May

Don’t expect small-talk about the weather. This three-day forum merges art and science to ponder the role that climate plays in our lives – and how we humans alter it.
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Athens Cocktail Week | 22-28 May

Bar-hop to ten top city watering holes for limited-edition cocktails by fêted mixologists, and embrace nightlife the Athenian way.
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TEDx Athens: The Great Unknown | 28 May
 Pulitzer Prize winning scribe Jake Bernstein and Swedish erotic film director Erika Lust are just two of the drawcards as TEDxAthens delves into the Great Unknown.
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Vera Lutter: Fragments of Time Past | Until 28 May

The Gagosian Gallery hosts fresh camera-obscura photographs by the acclaimed German snapper Vera Lutter in a spread commissioned by The New York Times.
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Athens Photo World 2022 | 20-29 May
Browse incredible images from international and Greek photographers at this multi-strand exhibition that explores the ways in which photojournalists frame ongoing events and shape our world views.
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Athens Digital Arts Festival: FutuRetro | 25-29 May
NFTs, superintelligence, 3D bioprinting, mind uploading and singularity. Dive into it all as this annual digital arts romp eyes the future through the past.
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Evanescence | 5 June
Hear the spellbinding vocals of Amy Lee as Noughties nu-metal superstars Evanescence return from a 10 year hiatus to smash out big tunes, new and old.
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