Over the past few weeks, the world has experienced extraordinary and rapidly evolving developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each day we face a new and different reality. With the health and safety of everyone involved as our absolute priority, it is with great sadness that we announce the cancelation of the 2020 Summer Nostos Festival and SNF Conference.

In line with many other institutions, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is monitoring the situation with COVID-19 very closely, particularly as it relates to the public events the Foundation organizes. The safety and wellbeing of participants is our highest priority at these events.

Caribou returns with his new album Suddenly, which was released in Greece on Friday and is coming to Summer Nostos Festival audiences on June 24, as part of a dazzling audiovisual show complete with video screenings.

A week for us all to look forward to! Eight captivating, creative, and carefree days in June to feed our minds, bodies, and souls.

What can bring more than 280,000 people together in one place over a span of only a few days? People of all ages—from infants and young children, to the elderly—people who speak the same or different languages, disabled and non-disabled, people who all love the arts, sports, collaboration and dialogue, with many common but also different interests? 

Two days from the SNFestival, we have some last minute news for you. 

At a time when East Africa’s underground club scene is becoming a matrix for new dance music movements and a top destination for major festivals, the Summer Nostos Festival, imagined by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), is bringing the East African dance scene to Athens and to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.