Athens Concert Hall

On the day when Leonard Cohen would have turned 84, three young singers will come together in the Athens Concert Hall's gardens to perform songs the late singer-songwriter branded with his low-toned, distinctive style. Nalyssa Green, Sugahspank and Lou Is promise to take listeners on a journey through the dreamy and melancholy universe of this unique artist who passed two years ago.

Renowned Italian actress Isabella Rossellini brings "Link Link Circus," a one-woman show in which she's joined by her dog, Pan, to the Athens Concert Hall on October 20. In this lecture-performance, the award-winning actress explores the thoughts and behaviors of different animals. The show is in English with Greek subtitles. Tickets cost 24-60 euros and are already on sale.

Greek-Canadian singer Katerine Duska returns to the Athens Concert Hall garden with her new band and a special guest, Swedish songwriter Albin Lee Meldau. The ensemble will perform extracts from Duska's first album, "Embodiment," covers of popular Greek and foreign songs, and compositions from her new album, which is about to be released. The show starts at 8.30 p.m.

Respected jazz musicians Takis Paterelis (tenor sax), Costis Christodoulou (piano), Periklis Trivolis (double bass) and Dimitris Klonis (drums) present pieces from John Coltrane's 1964 album "A Love Supreme," which made new inroads for the genre. The quartet will perform in the gardens of the Athens Concert Hall on Thursday, September 13, starting at 8.30 p.m.

The Athens Concert Hall will be hosting the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the foremost ensembles in the United States, founded by the late great choreographer in 1958 and responsible for shaping the country's contemporary dance scene, from September 11 to 15.

Greek-American conductor Peter Tiboris presents a grand musical evening with Warsaw's Pan-European Philharmonia and an international group of singers and musicians in great opera highlights on Monday, July 23. The soloists are Finnish-Canadian soprano Eilana Lappalainen, Italian tenor Gian Luca Pasolini and Swedish bass-baritone Carry Persson.

Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor of McGill University gives a lecture at Athens Concert Hall on Wednesday, June 20, on "Democratic Degeneration." Taylor's lecture is held in cooperation with the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities and will be in English with simultaneous translation into Greek. Admission is free of charge with priority coupons being distribited as of 5.30 p.m.

Momix, an American troupe that bridges dance, acrobatics, theater, film and special effects, celebrates its 35th anniversary with a new spectacular titled "Viva Momix" and will be appearing at the Athens Concert Hall.

The Bobos Arts Festival is an annual cultural festival especially for children aged 3 to 12 which is being hosted for the first time by the Athens Concert Hall in its beautiful garden on Sunday, June 10. Highlights at the all-day event, which takes place from 11 a.m.

Young French director Julien Gosselin is back at the Greek Festival with "1993," a play by emerging French writer Aurelien Bellanger, which draws parallels between CERN's particle accelerator and the Channel Tunnel and asks what happened between 1993 and 2007 for the will to build a continent of gentleness and welcome end up as that of an exploding world.