City guideAthens · Sat 24 – Sun 25 October
Athens this weekend: Bob Moses at Gagarin 205, Olympiacos at home
Bob Moses at Gagarin 205, Olympiacos v Kalamata at the Karaiskakis, TETTTIX at the National Opera’s Alternative Stage, the Agora Flavors Festival in Kypseli, Takis Tloupas’s Europe and the reopened Casa Kiku.
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Saturday · 24 October
Sunday · 25 October
All weekend · Saturday and Sunday
Saturday
24 October
Sat€31–36
Concert · Gagarin 205, Liosion
Bob Moses at Gagarin 205
Bob Moses are Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance, the Canadian duo whose Tearing Me Up brought them a Grammy. Their songs sit between deep house and guitar music, and on Saturday they play a club set in Athens.
It’s at Gagarin 205, the 1,200-capacity hall at Liosion 205 near Attiki metro. Tickets are €31 to €36 from more.com; no start time had been published when we checked, so look at the ticket page.
Sat 10:00–14:00Free
Exhibition · Kolonaki
Takis Tloupas at the Hellenic American Union
Takis Tloupas photographed Thessaly for decades. A Different Europe shows his trips from 1953, on a Vespa and later a Citroën 2CV, through Italy, France, Austria and Germany, many shown for the first time, with the Vespa in the gallery. His daughter Vania curated it.
The Hellenic American Union gallery, at Massalias 22 by Kolonaki, is free. It opens on Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00, with no Sunday hours listed, and runs until 4 November.
Sunday
25 October
Sun 16:00From €15
Sport · Neo Faliro
Olympiacos v Kalamata at the Karaiskakis Stadium
Olympiacos host Kalamata on matchday 8 of the Super League, three days after a Europa League night against Sparta Prague. The Karaiskakis, rebuilt for the 2004 Olympics, holds about 32,000 by the water in Neo Faliro.
Kick-off is at 16:00. Tickets, from €15, are sold only online at olympiacos.org and need a fan card and the Gov.gr Wallet app at the gate. Neo Faliro station, on metro line 1, is beside the stadium.
Sun 19:30€12–15, €10 students
Concert · SNFCC, Kallithea
TETTTIX at the Greek National Opera’s Alternative Stage
The Greek National Opera’s Contemporary Music Days open on Sunday with TETTTIX, the Athens ensemble founded in 2017, under Kornilios Selamsis. Five Paths is five works about real and imagined places, from the musicians of 1950s Dourgouti to songs on poems by T. S. Eliot.
It’s at 19:30 on the Alternative Stage inside the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Syngrou 364. Tickets are €12 and €15, €10 for students and children, from ticketservices.gr.
All weekend
Saturday and Sunday
Sat and Sun, 10:00–21:00Free
Festival · Kypseli
Agora Flavors Festival at the Kypseli market
The Agora Flavors Festival fills the courtyard of the 1937 Kypseli Municipal Market with small producers from across Greece: olive oil, cheeses, pasta, herbs, wine, spirits, honey and sweets, with tastings and live cooking. Sunday is World Pasta Day, and the programme is built around it.
It runs from Thursday to Sunday, 10:00 to 21:00, at Fokionos Negri 42, and entry is free. Afterwards walk Fokionos Negri itself, the long pedestrian street lined with cafés.
Sat and Sun, 10:00–00:00
Restaurant · Kolonaki
Casa Kiku, the reopened Kiku in Kolonaki
Kiku has been a Kolonaki fixture since 1993. On Friday 23 October it reopens as Casa Kiku: two lounges, two bars and three dining rooms, a Japanese menu of sushi, sashimi, wagyu and black cod with Italian turns such as pizza and ravioli, and a morning café.
It’s at Xenokratous 21, open on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to midnight. It reopens the day before the weekend, so book on 210 3647033.
Saturday
Sat
Bob Moses at Gagarin 205
Bob Moses are Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance, the Canadian duo whose Tearing Me Up brought them a Grammy. Their songs sit between deep house and guitar music, and on Saturday they play a club set in Athens.
It’s at Gagarin 205, the 1,200-capacity hall at Liosion 205 near Attiki metro. Tickets are €31 to €36 from more.com; no start time had been published when we checked, so look at the ticket page.
Gagarin 205 Sat 10:00–14:00
Takis Tloupas at the Hellenic American Union
Takis Tloupas photographed Thessaly for decades. A Different Europe shows his trips from 1953, on a Vespa and later a Citroën 2CV, through Italy, France, Austria and Germany, many shown for the first time, with the Vespa in the gallery. His daughter Vania curated it.
The Hellenic American Union gallery, at Massalias 22 by Kolonaki, is free. It opens on Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00, with no Sunday hours listed, and runs until 4 November.
Hellenic American Union Sunday
Sun 16:00
Olympiacos v Kalamata at the Karaiskakis Stadium
Olympiacos host Kalamata on matchday 8 of the Super League, three days after a Europa League night against Sparta Prague. The Karaiskakis, rebuilt for the 2004 Olympics, holds about 32,000 by the water in Neo Faliro.
Kick-off is at 16:00. Tickets, from €15, are sold only online at olympiacos.org and need a fan card and the Gov.gr Wallet app at the gate. Neo Faliro station, on metro line 1, is beside the stadium.
Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium Sun 19:30
TETTTIX at the Greek National Opera’s Alternative Stage
The Greek National Opera’s Contemporary Music Days open on Sunday with TETTTIX, the Athens ensemble founded in 2017, under Kornilios Selamsis. Five Paths is five works about real and imagined places, from the musicians of 1950s Dourgouti to songs on poems by T. S. Eliot.
It’s at 19:30 on the Alternative Stage inside the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Syngrou 364. Tickets are €12 and €15, €10 for students and children, from ticketservices.gr.
Greek National Opera All weekend
Sat and Sun, 10:00–21:00
Agora Flavors Festival at the Kypseli market
The Agora Flavors Festival fills the courtyard of the 1937 Kypseli Municipal Market with small producers from across Greece: olive oil, cheeses, pasta, herbs, wine, spirits, honey and sweets, with tastings and live cooking. Sunday is World Pasta Day, and the programme is built around it.
It runs from Thursday to Sunday, 10:00 to 21:00, at Fokionos Negri 42, and entry is free. Afterwards walk Fokionos Negri itself, the long pedestrian street lined with cafés.
Kypseli City Market Sat and Sun, 10:00–00:00
Casa Kiku, the reopened Kiku in Kolonaki
Kiku has been a Kolonaki fixture since 1993. On Friday 23 October it reopens as Casa Kiku: two lounges, two bars and three dining rooms, a Japanese menu of sushi, sashimi, wagyu and black cod with Italian turns such as pizza and ravioli, and a morning café.
It’s at Xenokratous 21, open on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to midnight. It reopens the day before the weekend, so book on 210 3647033.
Casa Kiku Athens