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April 2018

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6 November 2017 - 22 May 2018

Outside the OCC
Cost: Free

DANCE

Menti MegaDriples & Triplets

You've got your ticket in your hand. The venue's ready. It's full, everyone's in place. Including the stars, who are ready to give their all! You're clapping. So what's about to happen? What are you about to see? A match or a performance?

18 November 2017 - 15 April 2018

19:005th floor - Young Theatre Workshop
Full price: 12 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 10 €
Groups 10+ people: 9 €
Νeighborhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 10 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

THEATRE

"Summerfolk" by Maxim GorkyMaria Maganari

Gorky's holiday makers cannot stop talking, complaining, arguing, rambling, but in no time at all they'll be forced to take a stance on social injustice and the change that's on its way... Will they manage to escape themselves? Can anyone?

22 February - 3 May 2018

18:00
Cost:
80 € (for all ten workshops in the cycle)

ADULTS

New dancers 65+An advanced dance workshop that starts from scratch.

At 65+, we're not just people dancing. We're the choreographers of interlinking stories about everything our bodies dare express.

21 March - 1 April 2018

20:30Main Stage
Early Bird from 22 JAN to 21 FEB 2018: 14, 17 €
(limited number of tickets)

General presale: from 22 FEB 2018, 12:00
Full price: 5, 7, 15, 20, 24 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 12, 16, 19 €
Groups 10+ people: 11, 14, 17 €
Νeighbourhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 10 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

THEATRE

Aris Biniaris“The Bacchae” by Euripides

Ancient tragedy as a rock show. The director Aris Biniaris plugs the "Bacchae" into the mains and puts the divine Dionysus in front of the mike.

27 March - 24 June 2018

Free admission

*In the context of Geometries exhibition you can take audio walk in the spaces of the Agricultural University. Scroll down for details.

VISUAL ARTS

Geometries

The Agricultural University will open its doors to the public for a contemporary art walk inviting the public to discover the University grounds’ unknown eco-system.

18 April 2018

21:00Upper Stage
Free entrance

Click here for the live stream on Wednesday 18 April at 21:00. 

MUSIC

Borderline Festival 2018 | 1st DayTelematic Hacking 2

In the context of the Interfaces project, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens and De Montfort University, will contribute to the telematics arts initiative focusing on hacking, as a particularly appropriate means of telematic performance.

1 April 2018

Free entrance events.
Some events require reservation (see below for each event).

VISUAL ARTS

SALTGeometries exhibition: Public programme

Let's meet up at the Agricultural University on Sundays! Workshops, walks, talks, true food as part of Geometries exhibition, to discover and enjoy the urban landscape.

12 April - 15 April 2018

20:30Main Stage
Early Bird from 12 FEB to 12 MAR 2018: 13, 20 €
(limited number of tickets)

OCC's Friends & General Presale: from 12 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 5, 7, 15, 18, 28 €
Reduced, OCC's Friends & Groups 5-9 people: 5, 12, 14, 22 €
Groups 10+ people: 4, 11, 13, 20 €
Νeighbourhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 10 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

DANCE

Alain Platel & Fabrizio CassolRequiem pour L.

Can Mozart's "Requiem" serve as the stimulus for a surprising encounter between music and dance? If it’s Alain Platel, Fabrizio Casso and the Belgian C de la B collective who are managing the encounter, of course it can!

13 April - 15 April 2018

Upper Stage
Entrance to the event is free and on a first come, first served basis.

THEATRE

Onassis Youth Festival 2018

The festival for our most dynamic generation: teenagers. We give a voice to those who are already our future today.

16 April - 7 May 2018

Free admission

SCHOOLS

FFF5 | The Park and the cityTogether with groups of high school students, we get to know Pedion tou Areos and its myths

What do you know about Pedion tou Areos? About its past and the myths that surround it? High school students together with their teachers explore the park and create their own manifesto on the question of how the park connects to the city.

17 April - 20 April 2018

17:30
Participation cost: Free

Addressed to: People with intellectual disability and Down's syndrome who love music

ADULTS

A music workshop for people with intellectual disability and Down's syndrome

A 3-day music workshop aimed to develop new ways of musical expression for people with disabilities. No theory, just music practice and active involvement of participants that leads to a public concert.

18 April - 22 April 2018

21:00Inside & Outside the OCC
Free entrance events and events with tickets (3-10 € per person)

Presale: OCC's Friends - 21 March | General - 28 March, at 12:00
 

FESTIVALS

Borderline Festival 2018

For the eighth year in a row, get ready for sound to be pushed to and beyond its limits at the OCC and around the city. The Athenian festival that's not afraid to experiment is now very much at home at the OCC.

19 April 2018

20:30Main Stage
OCC Friends presale: from 23 MAR 2018, 17:00
General presale: from 28 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 7 €
Reduced, OCC's Friends, Groups 5+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

MUSIC

Borderline Festival 2018 | 2nd DayΜedea Electronique | Echo and Narcissus

​From the myth of Echo and Narcissus, which first outlined the concept of media, to the digital 21st century. Undertaking the roles of composer and librettist and inspired by these two mythological figures, live coding presents a digital opera addressing contemporary themes.

20 April 2018

Outside the OCC & Upper Stage
Free entrance events and events with tickets

Presale: OCC's Friends - 21 March | General - 28 March, at 12:00

MUSIC

Borderline Festival 2018 | 3rd DayFriday 20 April 2018

Sound installations activated by the wind in the vineyard of the Agricultural University, a live music concert/performance created by adults with disabilities and 3 more back to back concerts in the Upper Stage of the OCC. This is the 3rd day of the Borderline Festival.

21 April 2018

Outside the OCC
Free entrance events and events with tickets

Presale: OCC's Friends - 21 March | General - 28 March, at 12:00

You can purchase your ticket also at Romantso on the event day, after 21:00 (depending on ticket availability)

MUSIC

Borderline Festival 2018 | 4th DaySaturday 21 April

On the 4th day, the Borderline gets out of the Onassis Cultural Centre with classical minimalism, metal music, sonic geography of the site, hallucinatory drones, eerie drone, combinations of tempos and experimental musical fields.

21 April 2018

20:30Main Stage
OCC Friends presale: from 4 APR 2018, 12:00
General presale: from 9 APR 2018, 09:00
Full price: 5 €
Reduced, OCC's Friends, People with disabilities, Companions, Neighbourhood residents, Small groups (5-9 people): 4 €
Unemployed, Large groups (10+ people): 3 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

CINEMA

"Hanagatami" by Nobuhiko ÔbayashiFlix it at the OCC 2017-2018

A film that was worth the 40-year wait. Or, “Hanagatami” is nothing like you’ve seen before.

22 April 2018

Outside the OCC & Upper Stage
Free entrance events and events with tickets

Presale: OCC's Friends - 21 March | General - 28 March, at 12:00

MUSIC

Borderline Festival 2018 | 5th DaySunday 22 April

Concert with seeds, balloons and tubes at the Agricultural University, a sound recording walk on Mount Hymettus, improvisations, modern electronics/contemporary electronic music and processing and a concert that explores the wilderness of the Siberian landscape. Thatʼs how the Borderline says goodbye.

22 April 2018

Free entrance events.
Some events require reservation (see below for each event).

VISUAL ARTS

GARDENGeometries exhibition: Public programme

Let's meet up at the Agricultural University on Sundays! Workshops, walks, talks, true food as part of Geometries exhibition, to discover and enjoy the urban landscape.

23 April 2018 - 30 June 2019

Free admission

MUSIC

Medea ElectroniqueSoundscapes Landscapes / Rhizome II / Kerameikos/Metaxourgeio

An audio-visual and highly interactive walk at the neighbourhoods of Kerameikos/Metaxourgeio to discover parts of the city you were unaware of.

23 April 2018

21:00

CINEMA

LIVE STREAMING | Hellenic Film Academy Awards “IRIS” 2018

"And the Oscar goes to...". Watch live the Hellenic Film Academy Awards “IRIS” here.

25 April - 16 May 2018

Free admission

SCHOOLS

FFF5 |The Park ElvesPuppets made of natural materials and recyclable trash.

What are these elves and figures strolling around Pedion tou Areos? Who's summersaulting and dancing on the benches? Inspired by Pedion tou Areos, primary school pupils are transformed into Park Elves with the help of puppets they will make from natural materials and recyclable trash during the workshop.

28 April - 29 April 2018

11:00
Cost: 20 € (for the whole series)

TEENAGERS

"I see sounds": Creating a device to help the visually impaired get around

Is it possible to see sounds? Perhaps not. But what is possible is seeing with the help of sounds. Which is exactly what we'll be working on in our workshop: a navigation device which processes sounds to make it safer for people with impaired vision to move through space.

28 April - 29 April 2018

17:005th floor - Young Theatre Workshop
Free admission on a first come, first served basis

DANCE

5th Young Choreographers Festival: Evangelia Kolyracode bend time

Is there a connection between the language we speak and the way we act? Evangelia Kolyra invites us to an interactive performance of long duration, in an original venture where dance meets the diversity of language. A performance about what dance can “say” and what language can “dance”.

28 April - 29 April 2018

17:00Multiple stages
OCC Friends presale: from 23 MAR 2018, 12:00
General presale: from 30 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 7 €
Reduced, OCC's Friends & Groups 5-9 people: 6 €
Groups 10+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr.

FESTIVALS

5th Young Choreographers Festival

As eclectic, contemporary and daring as the new generation of artists, the festival captures the present in its own terms.

28 April - 29 April 2018

18:00Exhibition Hall
OCC Friends presale: from 23 MAR 2018, 12:00
General presale: from 30 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 7 €
Reduced, OCC's Friends & Groups 5-9 people: 6 €
Groups 10+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr
 

DANCE

5th Young Choreographers Festival: Christos Xyrafakis and Andi Xhuma“Ok, that’s you..”

How do we handle multiple reflections in the mirror of virtual reality? Two young choreographers and dancers feel the pulse of the times and present a work-commentary on human relations and the omnipotence of the picture. Private life, on the microscope of the social media, appears ever more transparent and accessible to everyone as it becomes spectacle.

28 April - 29 April 2018

19:30Upper Stage
OCC Friends presale: from 23 MAR 2018, 12:00
General presale: from 30 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 7 €
Reduced, OCC's Friends & Groups 5-9 people: 6 €
Groups 10+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

DANCE

5th Young Choreographers Festival: Katerina AndreouBSTRD

Using the inventive title "BSTRD" – an acronym for bastard– Katerina Andreou presents a solo about “genuine bastardy”, playing with the ambiguity of notions, strongly influenced by techniques and discourses emerging in scenes like the one of house community.

28 April - 29 April 2018

20:30Exhibition Hall
Free admission on a first come, first served basis.

DANCE

5th Young Choreographers Festival: Androniki MarathakiHi Jack. Hijack!

A “dancejack” at -1 of the OCC. Androniki Marathaki invites our eyes to wander indefinitely, while the audience may come and go freely during the performance in a spectacle open to randomness and audience participation. A dance company of 12 joins her in this pirate venture, which activates the choreographic circuit, pursuing the minimal.

28 April - 29 April 2018

21:30Main Stage
OCC Friends presale: from 23 MAR 2018, 12:00
General presale: from 30 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 7 €
Reduced, OCC's Friends & Groups 5-9 people: 6 €
Groups 10+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

DANCE

5th Young Choreographers Festival: Elpida OrfanidouPharmacist or Balloonist

What links pharmacy to choreography? Dance, music, words and herbs blend, restructuring the artistic endeavour. Playing with the elixir of inspiration and the poison of failure, Elpida Orfanidou presents a laboratory of concocting “choreographic remedies” with special guests.

1 June 2016 - 31 December 2019

COLLABORATIONS

InterfacesNew Models and Practices for Audience Development in Contemporary Music in Europe

Eight countries join forces in this innovative interdisciplinary project which seeks to introduce audiences to cutting-edge work by musicians and sound artists.

1 September 2016 - 31 December 2018

COLLABORATIONS

iDanceProviding access to contemporary dance education for people with disabilities

People with and without disabilities dance as part of the European iDance programme, showing that we can all access culture through dance.

1 September 2017 - 30 June 2018

COLLABORATIONS

Europe Jazz Network

The OCC has joined the Europe Jazz Network, the largest European network of music producers, artists and institutions specializing in contemporary music and the art of improvisation.

1 September 2017 - 1 September 2021

Send you application now for the "Open Call: European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2019 by the European Media Art Platform". Click here to read more.

COLLABORATIONS

The European Media Art Platform - EMAP

11 European partners with the same goal: to support up-and-coming media artists in order to create new works.

1 October 2017 - 30 June 2018

ADULTS

Digital Programmes at OCC

How do we make art in an era during which we create, flirt, communicate, and overall live in an environment of continuous and ubiquitous networking? What is the position of art in important social and financial issues? How can it help us deal with technology and science in a critical manner?

1 October 2017 - 13 May 2018

10:00

FAMILIES

Emotions: Shared sensations for all the familyFrom the parental to the group embrace

Movement is one of the loveliest forms of non-verbal communication. So, movement and dance for babies, children and parents, with lots of hugs, exercises and stimuli for the young ones' senses and reflexes, and games and fun for the whole family.

6 October 2017 - 4 May 2018

17:30

TEENAGERS

Let’s make a filmFilm workshop for teens

Cinema is our passion. If it's yours, too, we want you in our team so we can get to know three different film genres together and co-create crazy movie projects.

9 October 2017 - 11 May 2018

09:30
Free admission

SCHOOLS

Contemporary Art: experiencing is understanding!Get up close and personal with contemporary art. The OCC opens its doors to schoolchildren, so they can take a new look at the art and culture of today.

It's contemporary and it's definitely the art that addresses our present. So don't be scared of contemporary art—get to know it, talk about it, and let it win you over.

23 October 2017 - 15 April 2018

Free admission

SCHOOLS

Backpack JournalismFor independent journalists!

You've already got a backpack, a smartphone and a laptop. This year, you'll get the training and the inspiration you need to start out as a reporter.

9 November 2017 - 18 May 2018

09:30
Free admission

SCHOOLS

The Genuine Play

There is a game that does not need screens, dolls, balls, paraphernalia, manuals, and batteries. It only needs bodies, sliding, somersaults, and laughter.

6 November 2017 - 22 May 2018

11:00
Free admission

SCHOOLS

Driples & TripletsFor yet another year, a production of the Onassis Cultural Centre goes to schools throughout Greece.

You are holding your ticket. The space is ready. There are a lot of people, all in their places. Here are the protagonists too, ready to do their best! You are clapping your hands. What will happen? What are you going to see? Will it be a match or a show?

10 January - 11 May 2018

Participation cost: Free

SCHOOLS

Discovering the art of sound and imageThrough "Interfaces", the international interdisciplinary new music programme

You might not believe it, you may never have heard of such a thing, but it's true all the same... Within the space of just four months, you can take a dive deep into the world of contemporary art and create contemporary music inspired by a work of art.

13 April - 15 April 2018

Upper Stage
Free admission

SCHOOLS

Onassis Youth Festival 2018The festival for the most dynamic generation: teenagers. We give a voice to those who are already our future today.

Imagine Antigone as a teenager quarrelling with her family, Oedipus falling in love with his teacher, Helen of Troy suing for divorce, or Prometheus Bound punished for doing what he thought was right...

28 April - 10 June 2018

11:00

FAMILIES

Fancy a stroll through the city?Parents and children discover the city together

Children take their parents by the hand and walk with them through the OCC's local neighborhoods. Book your own family stroll round Neos Kosmos and Koukaki.

20 April 2018

Main Stage
15 €
For further information and to purchase tickets: www.ebge.gr

DESIGN

EBGE 2018Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards

The Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards (GGDA) bring together, evaluate and award Greece’s best work in the sphere of visual communication.