M U S I C

The 4th Greek Jazz Panorama will be held at the Onassis Cultural Centre on December 12 - 14. This year’s edition is a unique music experience of coexistence between East and West, tradition and innovation. The elite of the Greek jazz scene – Floros Floridis, Nikolas Anadolis and Petros Klampanis- meets important jazz musicians from abroad in a creative collaboration.

E X H I B I T I O N S

One of the most important issues that has puzzled humans - the fate of the immortal soul after the death of the mortal body - is the subject of "Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece," which will be inaugurated at the Museum of Cycladic Art, tonight. The exhibition features 120 objects from 21 Greek and international museums, ancient works of different periods, which cover the evolution of the ancient Greek perceptions of Beyond; from the descriptions of the Homeric epics of the underworld to the Platonic concepts –which mark the shift of perceptions on the divine element.

The cultural weekend, Gallery Weekend 2014, dedicated to galleries in Athens and Thessaloniki will be held in the two cities, on December 13 and 14. The event will include a detailed programme of exhibitions of each gallery and it will give the opportunity to the public to browse the two cities, discovering the most interesting artistic side of them. Visitors will get to know through the current exhibitions a condensed version of the visual landscape of the country.

D A N C E

The ever controversial choreographer Jérôme Bel presents his latest performance, at the Onassis Cultural Centre, on December 12 and 13. In collaboration with the HORA theatre, a company of professional actors with mental disabilities from Zurich, his work  Disabled Theatre takes a tender look at the lives of the individuals on stage. It treats disability honestly: not as something to be hidden behind the curtain of political correctness, but as a part of life with aesthetic and political extensions. Brutally revealing and profoundly political, the work has received a mix of hostility and praise wherever it has been performed.


C I N E M A

For the third year, Israeli Cinema Week is being held in Athens. Organised by the Embassy of Israel, the tribute under the title Fragile: Families – 3rd Israeli Cinema Week will be held at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, until December 16; it includes nine prize-winning films from the period 2011-2014. The audience will have the opportunity to explore the mechanisms, the relationships and the problems within families from different backgrounds.