Artists are no longer alone in their studios, but out in the world, looking to cultivate the artists in every person. In this presentation, Boston-based journalist Alexa Mills will present the work of a small collection of artists, both locally and nationally, who have abandoned their studios and taken to the streets and neighborhoods to collaborate with their fellow citizens.
Audiovisual works inspired by creativity in the sphere of Greek music, on March 7-8, 2015 at the Onassis Cultural Center, Main Stage.
On March 21-22, 2015 and for the third year running, the OCC is staging the "Dancing to Connect" educational program, which seeks to give school children the opportunity to discover codes of collaboration and communication through dance.
Now in its fifth year, the Borderline festival continues to explore the contemporary trends that dominate today's experimental, acoustic and—above all--electronic music.
A former child prodigy, Aaron Parks, now thirty, has achieved a lot: university studies (piano, composition, Maths, computers), awards, recordings and all manner of collaborations. Highly-regarded publications have called him a "player and composer of great depth with a truly cinematic vision", "the most rapidly rising star of them all", and "a step ahead of the rest". And he isn't coy about his influences: Ran Blake, Paul Bley, Bartók's Hungarian folk songs.
In the first major exhibition in Greece dedicated entirely to this amazing technology, more than 100 pieces by luminaries of Art, Architecture, Fashion, Science, and Product design combine to hint at the transformed commercial, public and private spheres of tomorrow.
Few composers in the history of music have exerted as powerful an influence on their peers, future generations of artists and wide-ranging aesthetic quests as Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007).
Smith and his 'Golden' quartet join forces with the video artist Jesse Gilbert to deliver a concert-fleuve which transcends his sound to confirm Smith's status as an engaged citizen activist as well as a key figure in the development of creative music, written and improvised alike.
The Onassis Cultural Center in partnership with SKEP – Association of Social responsibility for Children and Youth, and the U.S. Embassy in Athens is organizing a free workshop with visual artist and educator Timothy Lomas, from June 23-27, 2014, for children 9-14 years old. The visual arts workshop will include children with disabilities and without disabilities, working together to prepare their own exhibition.
