The online edition of the annual international Summer Nostos Festival 2020 kicked off yesterday and runs through to 28 June.
The event brings a week of art, avant-garde to electronic music and dance performances for visitors of all ages at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) park south of Athens.
The Nostos Festival includes the SNF Conference, to be held online on June 22-23. This year’s theme focuses on broad discussions of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions about lessons learnt from past crises and how societies can bounce back to a more inclusive and sustainable future. Other subjects examined at the conference are the roles of philanthropy and the arts in responding to the global health crisis, and how technology and artificial intelligence can serve humanity.
Another part of the festival includes the SNF Dialogues-SNF Agora Conversations, to held only on June 24, where the foundation and the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University will examine through an online webcast discussion how the pandemic has influenced the role of technology in society, democracy, and the collective future.
Held under the title “RetroFuture Edition”, this year’s Nostos festival can be watched online in English at https://www.snfestival.org/en/watch-live/
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For a full lineup of the festival’s events, visit https://www.snfestival.org/en/2020/ and for information in English about the SNF Conference, visit https://www.snfestival.org/en/snf-conference-2020/
The festival, the conference and the SNF Dialogues discussions are all free and live online.
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Those lucky enough to be in Athens can head to the park at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Culture Centre which reopens today. Social distancing rules will be implemented however prebookings to enjoy the parklands are not necessary.