The city of Sou­fli in north­ern Greece once lay along the Silk Road. It was an im­por­tant Eu­ro­pean cen­tre for silk pro­duc­tion in the 19^th cen­tury and still main­tain this in­dus­try, from lar­vae to fin­ished fab­ric, al­beit on a smaller scale. In this unique en­vi­ron­ment, the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens brings to­gether stu­dents from Kon­st­fack, the Stock­holm Uni­ver­sity of Arts, Craft and De­sign, and stu­dents from the cor­re­spond­ing Athens in­sti­tu­tion Athens School of Fine Arts.

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, the Em­bassy of Spain in Greece and the In­sti­tuto Cer­vantes in­vite you to the book pre­sen­ta­tion

Mediter­ranean Con­nec­tions: Pre­sent and Fu­ture of Span­ish Ar­chae­o­log­i­cal Re­search in Con­ti­nen­tal Greece and the Aegean.

The book pre­sen­ta­tion will take place on Tues­day, April 8, 2025, at 18:00 at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens (Mit­seon 9). 

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens and the Swedish Lan­guage As­so­ci­a­tion in­vite you to an evening in the com­pany of the au­thor Erik Mag­n­torn and the il­lus­tra­tor Mar­tine Cas­to­ri­ano, who will talk about their new book Sagan om Pireusle­jonet.

The event will be in Swedish and take place on Mon­day, March 17, 2025 at 19h at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens (Mit­seon 9).

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens and "Vlas­sis Bros" Pub­li­ca­tions wel­come you to a lit­er­ary evening on the oc­ca­sion of the re­cently trans­lated chil­dren’s book (ju­nior fic­tion) The Run­aways by Ulf Stark, which will take place on Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 5, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at the Swedish In­sti­tute (Mit­seon 9, Athens).

Wel­come to a lit­er­ary evening in the com­pany of Gi­an­nis Palavos, the au­thor of the short story col­lec­tion Bar­net, and Jan Hen­rik Swahn, who trans­lated it into Swedish.

Swedish In­sti­tute in Athens, Mit­seon 9, on De­cem­ber 12, 2024, at 7 p.m.

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens in­vites you to a talk in greek by Νίκοs Μ. Geor­giadis en­ti­tled The hero­ines in Swedish crime fic­tion. The talk is to take place at the Swedish In­sti­tute (Mit­seon 9, Athens) on Wednes­day, De­cem­ber 11 at 7.00 p.m.

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens and the Finnish In­sti­tute at Athens are very pleased to in­vite you to an evening pre­sent­ing the po­etry of and pay­ing trib­ute to the Swedish-speak­ing Finn Edith Söder­gran.

Wednes­day 6 No­vem­ber 2024, at 7 p.m. at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens (Mit­seon 9)

Wel­come to the re­lease of the chil­dren’s book about the Pi­raeus lion, a copy of whose statue stands in the en­trance hall of the His­tor­i­cal Mu­seum in Stock­holm.

Lis­ten to the au­thor Erik Mag­n­torn read from the book and paint to­gether with the il­lus­tra­tor Mar­tine Cas­to­ri­ano.

Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 26, 2024, 12.15 – 13.15