Events Calendar for Hydra Island Greece

Festivals and holidays, theatrical performances, concerts, exhibitions, openings, parties, and other events on Hydra Island Greece.

May 4 – Jun 26 all-day
KALLOS Group Exhibition HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - MUSEUM OF HYDRA May 4 - June 26, 2016 Daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m Curator: Iris[...]
Jun 17 – Jun 25 all-day
Hydra is famed for its Miaoulis Festival, or Miaoulia, commemorating Admiral Andreas Miaoulis, an important Hydriot naval commander in the Greek War of[...]
Jun 21 – Sep 30 all-day
‘sEvery year since 2009, the DESTE Foundation’s exhibition space at the Slaughterhouse of Hydra island hosts a series of site-specific[...]
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Jun 24 – Sep 25 all-day
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Miaoulia "Happening" @ Hydra Harbor
The “Happening,” the spectacular reenactment of the sinking by Miaoulis’s men of the Turkish flagship, featuring the siege and burning of[...]
Jul 1 – Aug 31 all-day
Mostly the island is linked to Art. Great painters like Pericles Byzantios, Ghikas, Moralis, Tetsis. Today the island has manny[...]
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Hydrama welcomes twenty performers from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, who will open the 2016 Hydrama theatre festival with an abridged version of[...]
Hydra Series 1 Janáček’s String Quartets & Brahms’ String Quintets Dedicated to the memory of Therese Kontos. String Quartet No. 2,[...]
HYDRA SERIES 2 4 August, 2016 | 21:00 Dedicated to the memory of Therese Kontos. String Quartet in Bb major,[...]
HYDRA SERIES 3 6 August, 2016 | 21:00 Janáček’s String Quartets & Brahms’ String Quintets Dedicated to the memory of[...]
Aug 15 all-day
Dormition of Mary
This great feasting day in the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the “falling asleep,” or death, of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and her bodily resurrection[...]
Oct 28 – Oct 30 all-day
Hydra hosts two annual three-day regattas that mark the beginning and end of the racing season. The first, held on[...]
Oct 28 all-day
Oxi day
Oxi Day commemorates the rejection by Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas (r. August 4, 1936—January 29, 1941) of the ultimatum, made by Italian[...]
Feast of St. Constantine (Agios Konstantinos)
Born in 1770, Constantine the Hydriot, Hydra’s patron saint, was a neo-martyr from the period of the Turkish occupation of[...]
Nov 17 all-day
Polytechneio
The Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1973 was a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.[...]
Dec 25 all-day
Christmas Day
While not quite as prominent as Easter, or Pascha, Christmas is still an important holiday celebrated on Hydra, as witnessed[...]
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Jan 1 all-day
New Year’s Day (Πρωτοχρονιά) is also celebrated ecclesiastically as the feast of St. Basil the Great and the Circumcision of Christ. Read[...]
Jan 6 all-day
Epiphany
Come join the community in celebrating Epiphany on Hydra in Hydra Harbor. Epiphany on Hydra Epiphany (ἐπιφάνεια, meaning “manifestation”) or[...]
Feb 16 all-day
Tsiknopempti, the Greek Orthodox equivalent of the Catholic Fat Thursday, literally means “Thursday of the Smoke of Grilled Meat,” with[...]