Today Greece celebrates Tsiknopempti, (or "grilling day"), which occurs during the Carnival period, prior the fasting season of Easter Lent. The Greek name is derived from the word tsikna, meaning the smell of charred meat, as traditionally, on Tsiknopempti, great quantities of roasted meat are consumed, in the midst of a Carnival atmosphere. The Acropolis Museum proposes a special Tsiknopempti evening with the Dimitri Vassilakis Jazz Trio.

The Brass Ensemble and Percussion Athens State Orchestra Metallon will play at the Gazarte on February 16. In the concert Carnival for ... Copper, a total of 13 great musicians with a cheerful tempo are determined to make you get up from your seat and dance, or at least follow their rhythmic music. The repertoire will not be limited to Latin-American rhythms and some of the best and most suitable Hispanic music; it will further include carnival music from New York, Spain, Denmark and Greece with many surprises.

An exhibition of contemporary iconography will run at the Teloglion Foundation of Art until April 20. The exhibition features works created by leading professors of hagiography - graduates of the Athonite Ecclesiastical Academy at Mount Athos – as well as artworks crafted by monks. The exhibition highlights the link between hagiographies by the major folk painter Theophilos and Byzantine tradition.

  

Acclaimed Greek director Stathis Livathinos and his award-winning troupe are staging at the Athens Concert Hall Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro, in a new translation by Elsa Adrianou. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the masterpiece of the French classical repertory is a frenzied comedy which exploits the cast’s talents for improvisation and brings together many of the ideological preoccupations of the Enlightenment. The play will run until February 28.