The City of Athens is organizing once again the festival “Summer in Athens 2025,” featuring a rich program of 58 free cultural events. The festival is curated by the Organization of Culture, Sports, and Youth of the Municipality of Athens (OPANDA). For 29 days, until July 20, 2025, 41 locations across the city and its 7 Municipal Communities—squares, parks, open courts, and courtyards of cultural venues—will be filled with music, dance, children’s theater, transforming into spaces of creativity and gathering throughout the city.

The “Rendezvous in Our Neighborhood” in the coming days includes a series of concerts, dance performances, and theater for children. From Friday, June 27 to Thursday, July 3, 2025, both young and old will have the opportunity to enjoy children’s shows such as “Mowgli – The Jungle Book,” “Turn Off the Light,” and “After the Rain,” as well as musical evenings featuring traditional, folk, and Mediterranean repertoire with choirs, rebetiko trios, and well-known performers including Pantelis Ambazis, Vasilis Skoutas, Dimitris Mitarakis, Giannis Zarias, and Katerina Makavou. Particularly noteworthy are the dance performances “Matter of Choice,” “Delosη,” “Behind the Door,” and “Cambio(a),” which explore themes of identity, memory, and inner transformation. The program culminates with the musical gathering “Mediteranneo” featuring Iro Saia and Zacharias Karounis, taking the audience on a journey through the Mediterranean with diverse sounds and songs from different places and cultures.

The events:

Friday 27 June 2025

8:30 PM | Dimitris Beis Mayor’s Park, Neos Kosmos
Children’s Theater Performance |Mowgli – The Jungle Book. Mowgli returns to the stage in a spectacular performance full of music, dance, and impressive scenery, directed by Athanasia Kalogianni. Based on Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the play speaks about friendship, diversity, and respect for nature.

Saturday 28 June 2025

20:00 | Courtyard of the Digital Museum of Plato’s Academy
Concert | Choir “Exo Kardia”: the songs of our heart
A musical meeting dedicated to old and traditional songs that bring alive memories, images and emotions. The concert features 18 amateur choirs and 6 dancers from the Creative Learning Centres of the Municipality of Athens.
Choir direction: Mary Kotzakari

20:30 | Messolonghi Square, Pagrati
Children’s theatre performance | Turn off the light
With the signature of the Copernicus group, directed by Phoebus Simeonidis, a host of fictional characters come to life on stage and, with plenty of humour, conjure up everything that scares us. Another magical journey to the land of the fantastic, where anything can happen!

Sunday 29 June 2025

20:30 | Park for Children and Culture (formerly KAPAPS), Lampsa and Trifyllias, Ampelokipi
Interactive theatrical performance | After the rain
A performance for the whole family by the theatrical group “On Stage”, directed by Anargyros Dimitropoulos, based on the book of the same name by Hara. With sensitivity and imagination, it approaches issues such as bullying, diversity and the value of self-esteem, sending a strong message of acceptance and strength.

21:00 | Fokionos Negri Square, Kypseli
Concert | Pantelis Abazis: περιΩπής
The bohemian singer-songwriter with his guitar and the band “Anotati Zambetiki” in light songs and heavy folk with jazz mood and rock point of view!

Monday 30 June 2025

20:30 | Agios Dimitrios Square, Panormou
Shadow Theatre Performance | Karangiozis and the giant
A traditional clown performance by the Shadow Theatre of Konstantinos Dimitrakopoulos, with a beloved repertoire that promises laughter and plenty of adventure for young and old alike.

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Dance | Courtyard of the Goulandris Foundation, 13 Eratosthenous St., Pangkrati
20:00 | Matter of Choice
A reflection on our choices, with the stool as a symbol of the constant search for meaning. But as I go on, I wonder: is “meaning” itself just a trap of the mind?
Choreography – Performance.

21:00 | Delosη
An original contemporary dance performance by choreographer Yannis Antoniou and the group KUNST STOFF Productions. Through intense physicality and poetic movement, the dancers seek the point of contact between the past and the present, with their bodies becoming carriers of memory, creation and the search for a personal homeland.

21:00 | Agios Pavlos Square, Metaxourgeio
Concert | Vassilis Skoutas, Dimitris Mitarakis and Yannis Zarias: That’s why I’m wandering around Athens
One of the most beloved trio of rebetiko and traditional music of the Athenian scene, travels us in space and time, transmitting the authentic aesthetics of urban folk singing, with a sound inspired by gramophone records and early recordings.

Wednesday 2 July 2025

20:30 | Agia Aikaterini Square, Petralona
Concert | Greek Music Workshop of the Municipality of Athens
Favorite melodies inspired by great Greek composers, such as Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Stavros Xarchakos etc.

Voice: Dora Loizou, Manolis Skoulas
Conductor: Angelos Elias

Dance | Koumoundourou Square
20:00 | Behind the door
The performance of the Duende group draws inspiration from the Tarantism of Southern Italy and focuses on the deeper layers of female psychology. Through a dynamic vocabulary of contemporary movement, two dancers search for the unspoken “behind our doors” and transform it into physical expression, illuminating stories of loss, tension and transformation.
Choreography: Daphne Stathatu, Anastasia Drouga

20:30 | Cambio(a)
Formation, assimilation, identification, immobilization, deconstruction, deconstruction, fluidization, trust, change, transformation, freedom. Cambio(a) is a dance performance, created out of the need to talk about the process of change. The acrobat Nikos Garozis testifies on stage a personal journey towards liberation.
Choreography – Dramaturgy: Olga Spyraki

Thursday 3 July 2025

21:00 | Hellenoroson Stadium, Vlachou & Eftalioti
Concert | Iro Saia and Zacharias Karounis: Mediteranneo
A magical journey from Corsica to Crete and from Portugal to Egypt and Lebanon. A variety of sounds and favourite Mediterranean songs make up a colourful programme full of emotion and intensity.

21:00 | Plyta Square, Pagrati
Concert | Katerina Makavou trio
Katerina Makavou, Lambrini Grigoriadou (electric guitar, loops) and Semeli Kostourou (cello) present a unique concert full of variations, where sensitivity meets intensity, creating an exciting sonic journey.

* Entrance to all events is free.
** The programme is subject to change.