Past Greek events in London.
Occasions already passed — kept for the record.
2026 season.
January 2026
February 2026
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Pyx Lax - Live in London
Electric Ballroom, Camden
Greek rock's most commercially successful band, Pyx Lax returned to Camden's Electric Ballroom for a sold-out night thirty-seven years into their career.
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Fuelling Stability: Energy, Policy and Financial Sectors in Transition
DLA Piper Auditorium, Barbican
The Hellenic Bankers Association UK examined Greece's energy transition and its bearing on European financial stability, in a fireside conversation in a City auditorium.
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Alkistis Protopsalti — Best Of
Union Chapel, Islington
Alkistis Protopsalti, one of Greek song's most enduring voices across five decades, gave a career-spanning performance at Islington's candlelit Union Chapel.
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George Seferis: The Man, the Poet, the Diplomat
Hellenic Residence, Mayfair
The Hellenic Residence in Mayfair opened the Seferis Study, where Greece’s first Nobel laureate in literature worked as Ambassador, for a curated exhibition on his life and career.
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Antonis Remos — Live in Concert
The London Palladium, West End
Antonis Remos, one of Greek laïko-pop's most consistently platinum-selling voices, gave his first concert at the London Palladium, backed by a full orchestra.
March 2026
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Maria Farantouri: 100 Years of Mikis Theodorakis
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Maria Farantouri, the contralto who carried Mikis Theodorakis's music through exile and dictatorship, returned to the Royal Festival Hall to mark his centenary.
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On Being Greek in the UK: Bridging Two Worlds
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
Four speakers from four different decades of arriving discussed what Greek identity is actually like to live in modern Britain, from migration to growing up between two languages.
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Alkinoos Ioannidis — Live in London
Electric Ballroom, Camden
Alkinoos Ioannidis, the Cypriot composer whose literate entehno songwriting has shaped a generation, gave a rare London recital with his ensemble at the Electric Ballroom.
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Luben Calling: Greek Party in London
Dingwalls, Camden
The Greek satire platform LUBEN, known for skewering Greek politics and public figures, took its party to Dingwalls at Camden Lock for a night of Greek and electronic records.
April 2026
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Holy Week and Pascha at St Sophia's Cathedral
St Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Bayswater
The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain kept the Paschal triduum at its historic Bayswater cathedral, from the Epitaphios lamentations to the midnight Resurrection.
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George Dalaras - Rembetiko
indigo at The O2, North Greenwich
George Dalaras, who sparked the rebetiko revival in Greek music in 1975, played rebetiko and laïko at indigo at The O2 in North Greenwich.
May 2026
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Reporting Britain, Reporting Greece: Journalistic Experiences
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
Five correspondents based in Athens and London joined an Anglo-Hellenic League panel at the Hellenic Centre on reporting one country from within another.
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Natassa Bofiliou — Live in London
O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shepherd's Bush
One of contemporary Greek song's most distinctive voices, Natassa Bofiliou brought two decades of work with Themis Karamouratidis to the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire.
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Guilty Greek Pleasures by Trashformers
O2 Academy Islington, Islington
The Athens party collective Trashformers brought Guilty Greek Pleasures, a night of 90s and 00s Greek pop, to O2 Academy Islington on the eve of the Eurovision final.
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Cyprus as a Crossroads of Art: From Antiquity to the Medieval Period
Cyprus House, St James's
Alexis Kyriacou and Dr Mark Merrony read Cyprus as a meeting point of Greek, Phoenician and Egyptian traditions at Cyprus House, from Archaic sculpture to Byzantine mosaic.
June 2026
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George Pol. Georghiou – Timeless Cyprus
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
A landmark survey of Cypriot modernist George Pol. Georghiou at the Hellenic Centre, with major 1940s and 1950s works including pieces recovered from Famagusta.
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In Transit: Greek Artists Abroad
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
Nine Greek artists working abroad showed together at the Hellenic Centre in a sculptural dialogue on displacement, memory and the state of standing between places.
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Flagship Concert for the Cyprus EU Presidency — Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra: Beethoven's Ninth
Cadogan Hall, Chelsea
Beethoven's Ninth, whose finale became the anthem of the European Union, opened Cadogan Hall for a concert marking Cyprus's EU presidency under the conductor Marios Papadopoulos.
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31st Hellenic Bankers Association UK Gala Dinner
Drapers' Hall, City of London
The Hellenic Bankers Association UK's 31st dinner moved to Drapers' Hall, seat of a City guild founded in 1361, six centuries older than the association it hosted.
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Odyssey: Imaginary Cartographies by Markos Kampanis
The Hellenic Residence, Mayfair
Markos Kampanis brought his painterly voyage through Homer’s Odyssey, worked over a facsimile of a fifteenth-century British Library manuscript, to the Greek Ambassador’s residence in Mayfair.
July 2026
August 2026
September 2026
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BLOODSPORT: After Helen of Troy
Theatre Royal Stratford East, Stratford
Ava Pickett's new play opens on Helen's first night home from a war fought in her name, with Michelle Dockery as Helen and Laura Aikman as the friend she left behind.
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Stella
The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden
Michael Cacoyannis's Stella (1955) opened The Garden Cinema's autumn Greek Salad strand on Thursday 10 September 2026, introduced by the former judge and human rights advocate Betty Iliadou.
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Aphrodite and the Greek Art of Love
V&A South Kensington, South Kensington
The classicist Dr Steve Kershaw traced Aphrodite through Greek art in a free V&A Academy taster lecture, the museum putting its own collection to work as evidence.
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Pericles: Statesman, Demagogue, Eccentric
Senate House, Bloomsbury
Paul Cartledge gave the British School at Athens's Friends' lecture on Pericles, the man behind the adjective, read as statesman, demagogue and eccentric.
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Find Me Falling: A Special Screening with Stelana Kliris and Agni Scott
Cyprus House, St James's
The Cultural Section closed the UK Cyprus Film Festival at Cyprus House with Stelana Kliris's Find Me Falling, the director and Agni Scott present for the questions afterwards.
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Power Politics: Thucydides to Trump
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
A Hellenic Society panel asked whether the Melian Dialogue still describes how power works, with Paul Cartledge among the speakers and Margaret Mountford in the chair.
October 2026
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Sofia Mitsola in Conversation with Alyce Mahon
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
The London-based painter Sofia Mitsola spoke with the Cambridge art historian Alyce Mahon to mark the launch of her monograph Sisterly Affections.
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Angelo Tsarouchas: The Diaspora Tour
Leicester Square Theatre, West End
Angelo Tsarouchas, the Montreal-born comedian of the Greek diaspora, brought The Diaspora Tour and its stories of growing up Greek abroad to the Leicester Square Theatre.
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The Hellenic Initiative 10th Annual London Gala
The Chancery Rosewood, Mayfair
London's flagship Greek philanthropic gala marked a decade of supporting Greece's recovery, with an evening of patrons, diplomacy and quiet glamour at Mayfair's newest grande dame.
2025 season.
January 2025
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Oedipus (Sophocles) starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma
The Old Vic, Waterloo / Lambeth
Sophocles' Oedipus, the tragedy Aristotle used to define the form, reached the Old Vic in a new adaptation led by Rami Malek and Indira Varma.
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The Baltic Exchange Lunch with the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee
Wax Chandlers' Hall, The City
The Baltic Exchange, dating to 1744, opened its hall to the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee, London's Greek owners' voice since 1935, for their January lunch.
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Special Tour of the British Museum's Cypriot Reserves
British Museum, Bloomsbury
Anglo-Hellenic League members toured the British Museum's Cypriot reserves, among limestone sanctuary sculpture that the public galleries never show.
April 2025
May 2025
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Sakis Rouvas Live in London
Troxy, Limehouse
Before three decades at the centre of Greek pop, Sakis Rouvas made his first London concert at the Troxy in Limehouse, a landmark night for the city's Hellenic diaspora.
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30th Anniversary Hellenic Bankers Association UK Gala Dinner
The Langham, Marylebone
The Hellenic Bankers Association UK, founded in 1994 as the network for Greek and Cypriot financiers in the City, marked thirty years with a gala at The Langham.
June 2025
September 2025
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Bacchae
National Theatre, South Bank
Euripides' Bacchae, unseen by its own author and a posthumous prize-winner in 405 BC, opened the National Theatre's Olivier under Indhu Rubasingham's incoming direction.
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Marina Satti — P.O.P. / EU Tour 2025 Live in London
O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shepherd's Bush, West London
Marina Satti, whose Eurovision entry “Zari” became the first Greek-language song on Spotify's Global Top 50, played her P.O.P. tour at Shepherd's Bush Empire.
October 2025
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Melisses — Live at the Roundhouse
Roundhouse, Camden
One of Greece's most decorated pop bands, Melisses gave their first major London concert at the landmark Roundhouse, drawing a sell-out crowd from the diaspora.
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The Rise of the Far Right in Greece: More than a Crisis Response?
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
Professor Sofia Vasilopoulou traced Greece's far right from the margins to prominence, and asked whether reading it as a crisis reaction explains anything at all.
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The Hellenic Initiative 9th Annual London Gala
The Dorchester, Mayfair
Konstantinos Argiros headlined the Hellenic Initiative's ninth London Gala, which raised a record $512,000 for its economic development work in Greece and Cyprus.
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Michalis Hatzigiannis — Live in London
Troxy, Limehouse
Cyprus's most commercially successful pop export of the 2000s, Michalis Hatzigiannis brought his full band and three decades of hits to the Troxy in Limehouse.
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BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK
The Hellenic Centre, Marylebone
An interactive exhibition of artists’ books and book-art objects by forty-four Greek and British artists explored experimental approaches to the book form at the Hellenic Centre.
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The Voice of Greece — Mikis Theodorakis Centenary with Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Cadogan Hall, Chelsea / Sloane Square
The Oxford Philharmonic marked the centenary of Mikis Theodorakis, the composer imprisoned for his music under Greece's dictatorship, with a new work and songs sung by Alkistis Protopsalti.
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Eleni Foureira Live in London — European Tour 2025
O2 Forum Kentish Town, Kentish Town
Eleni Foureira, who took Cyprus to its best-ever Eurovision result with “Fuego”, brought her European tour behind Hybrid to the O2 Forum Kentish Town.
November 2025
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Ioulia Karapataki Live in London 2025
Electric Ballroom, Camden
Ioulia Karapataki, a voice of Greece's current rebetiko generation, made her first London appearance at Camden's Electric Ballroom.
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Greece's Economic and Digital Transformation: Kyriakos Pierrakakis in Conversation
LSE Campus, Holborn
Greece's Minister for the National Economy and Finance took questions from the Hellenic Bankers Association and the LSE Hellenic Observatory on debt, growth and digital governance.
December 2025
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HBA UK Christmas Soirée and Book Presentation
L'Oscar London, Bloomsbury
Alex Patelis, chief economic adviser through Greece's recovery and a Princeton-trained economist, took his memoir fireside at the Hellenic Bankers Association's Christmas soirée.
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Eleonora Zouganeli — Live in London
EartH, Dalston
Eleonora Zouganeli, daughter of two established Greek performers and a familiar voice on Greek radio, closed 2025 with an all-seated show at Dalston's EartH.
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