F E S T I V A L S

The 8th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, opened its curtains on November 12 and will run until November 26. Organised by the Greek Film Archives the festival welcomes all cinema fans with a tribute to Leos Carax with screenings like Boy Meets Girl (1984), Mauvais sang (1986), Les Amants Du Pont Neuf (1991), Sans titre (1997), Pola X (1999), Tokyo! (2008). There will be an international competition section, special screenings, and parallel events (conferences, master-classes, art exhibitions).

E X H I B I T I O N S

The National History Museum presents the groundbreaking, international, traveling exhibition Imagining the Balkans, Identities and Memory in the Long 19th century, organized by UNESCO. Focusing on the 19th century, the exhibition explores the emergence of modern national identities and nation states; it follows the history of ideological, socio-political, economic, and cultural changes in the Balkans and narrates a common history, while highlighting the similarities between peoples and states, which are usually hidden behind national rivalries and claims. The exhibition will run until April 19, 2015, at the Old Parliament Building; a catalogue in Greek and English is available.

As part of the series "Transitions 2. Latin America: Contemporary Art Festival of the Independent Latin America Scene," the Onassis Cultural Centre is hosting the exhibition Latin America: Dan Perjovschi, running throughout November. From the Balkans to Latin America and from there to Central Europe, Dan Perjovschi, one of Romania’s most significant artists, and a leading figure in Romanian activism and politicized art, he will intervene with his characteristic sketches on both the OCC’s glass surfaces and the LED wall on its frontage, transforming the building into a huge and hugely humorous, reflective and political installation.

M U S I C

Nelson Freire, among the most admired pianists of his generation, will perform Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin at the Athens Concert Hall, on November 19. Having played with leading orchestras and conductors in the most prestigious recital halls, and in collaboration with the finest violinists, cellists, and fellow pianists, the Brizilian born pianist has reached a point of culmination where any work he chooses to interpret, becomes under his fingers, the most poetic, the most perfect, the most moving version imaginable.