The 46th Dimitria Festival – Thessaloniki’s most important cultural event - is already underway, running until October 25.
Its programme includes a wide variety of events: concerts, musical and theatrical performances, a series of events featuring performers and artists from the Middle East – a part of the programme which is included in the Thessaloniki – Cultural Crossroads initiative. One of the highlights of this year’s Festival is the Vegetable Orchestra, from Austria, for two concerts on September 26-27.
This unique ensemble, which was founded in 1998, is a mix of people with different artistic backgrounds - musicians, visual artists, architects, designers, media artists, writers and sound poets – who play music, using fresh vegetables as musical instruments, created ad hoc for every concert. As an encore at the end of the concert and the video performance, the audience is offered fresh vegetable soup.
Another highlight is the performances, on September 24-25, of the legendary Swiss Pantomime Theatre Mummerschanz. The performance 40 years Mummenschanz - The Best of…, includes selections from their best moments of the theatre’s 40-year history.
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Hanoi’s New Circus takes us on a poetic journey to distant Vietnam and the Far East, at the Onassis Cultural Centre, from December 22 to 29.
A real Christmas treat for lovers of classical ballet of all ages, P.I. Tchaikovsky‘s Swan Lake will be presented at the Athens Concert Hall for twenty-two performances, featuring some of the best-known names of international ballet and the Kremlin Ballet’s Corps de Ballet.
For second year successively the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation celebrates Christmas with a festive concert of Baroque Music, on December 27-28.
Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums bring swinging Christmas in Athens. At the forefront of swing revival, the San Francisco group will be on stage at the Half Note Jazz Club in full jump swing and R&B mood until December 27.
The Association of Artists for Peace, established in 2001 to support peace and reconciliation through musical events, is holding a Bach concert at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.
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