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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Presents Online Events, Concerts and Discussions

NEW YORK – The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is presenting events online including fascinating discussions and cultural events to enjoy from the comfort and safety of home.

Among them, the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD on Friday, May 8, 12-12:45 PM, holds its weekly discussion online. This week’s theme, Climate, Food Insecurity, and COVID-19. The discussion is part of the webcast series, SNF Agora Conversations: The Politics and Policy of COVID-19. More information is available online: https://snfagora.jhu.edu/event/climate-food-insecurity-and-covid-19/.

The Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center (SNFCC) #snfccAtHome concert series continues from Athens, Greece with a live broadcast of Greek singer Dimitra Galani from the SNFCC on Saturday, May 9, 9 PM Athens local time, 2 PM New York time. Galani will be accompanied by two of the best musicians of Greek music’s new generation, the virtuoso of outi and traditional instruments Thomas Konstantinou and the superb jazz pianist Spyros Manesis.

More information is available online: https://www.snfcc.org/en/events/snfccathome-musicdimitra-galani-live-snfcc-lighthouse/7009.

The Challenge to the Economy, an SNF DIALOGUES live webcast takes place on Wednesday, May 13 at 6:30 PM Athens time, 11:30 AM New York time, the next installment in the series of live webcasts, discussing the unprecedented socioeconomic upheaval caused by COVID-19 and an economic future that hangs in the balance. Read more and register at dialogues.snf.org.

Also available online through Thursday, May 7, from The National Theatre Collection in London, UK, watch Benedict Cumberbatch in the National Theatre’s adaptation of Frankenstein. More information is available online: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/ntlin4-frankenstein.

The SNFestival: RetroFuture Edition, held online, June 21-28, will introduce brand new performances and activities, rewind to revisit favorite shows from years past, and look into the future to offer tantalizing previews of what’s to come at the 2021 SNFestival and SNF Conference. Details coming soon: https://www.snfestival.org/en/.

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