NEWS

• 05 March 2020 / Greek National Opera has opened its Curtain on Enchantment for 80 years
  Eighty years ago today, the Greek National Opera (GNO) staged its inaugural performance, Johann Strauss II’s famous operetta Die Fledermaus. To mark the anniversary, hundreds have gathered for a contemporary production of the same operetta, celebrating the GNO’s rich past and ambitious future.
• 05 March 2020 / Expanding Access to Palliative Care through Tailored Training for Clinicians
  Palliative care focuses on providing relief for people living with a serious illness, with a goal of improving quality of life for patients and their families. The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) works to make palliative care more broadly available to patients across the United States by improving the skills and knowledge of clinicians who serve seriously ill patients and their families.
• 04 March 2020 / Applications Οpen for 2020 SNF Bioethics Academy in Athens
  Advances in biology and medicine might expand the range of our scientific capabilities, but shed no light on what we should do, how those capabilities should be used.
• 04 March 2020 / From Tunisian Pop to Druze Politics, a Diversity of New Commissions by Mophradat
  Mophradat, a Brussels-based nonprofit, seeks to create opportunities for artists from the diverse Arab world to create and share new work.
• 03 March 2020 / Advanced Illustration at iMEdD Draws on Leading Professionals
  The incubator for Media Education and Development, iMEdD, will present an advanced editorial illustration workshop by leading industry professionals, award-winning artist, designer, educator at the School of Visual Arts and longtime collaborator of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Viktor Koen and former New York Times Opinion art director Alexandra Zsigmond.
• 26 February 2020 / Parliamentarians for a Day
  One hundred young people, ages 22 to 30, will become Members of Parliament for a day as part of the Young Citizens and the Constitution educational program implemented by the Center for European Constitutional Law with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
• 26 February 2020 / Columbia Global Reports Peer through the Tear Gas to Take Stock of Global Democracy
  For Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the “death of Hong Kong as we know it” is only the beginning of the story.
• 26 February 2020 / Go Fly a Kite in Prespes
  The sight of colorful kites in the sky in Greece means that it’s Clean Monday, the beginning of Lent. Prespes in Northern Greece will celebrate the national holiday in style on Monday with kites, a Carnival parade, costumes, traditional Lenten food, and local brass band Presband on the shores of Lake Prespa in the village of Psarades.
• 26 February 2020 / March at the SNFCC
  If you don’t have this weekend—or the whole month of March—completely planned out, don’t worry! The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) has plenty planned for you.