Festivals & Events Halkidiki 2023
Festivals and Events
Polygyros, Cultural August
Period: August 1-30
Festival of traditional dances and songs. Concerts of bands and artists
Siviri, Kassandra Festival
Period: July – August
Throughout the summer season, theatrical performances and concerts are held in the amphitheater.
The Kassandra Festival, lasting from the beginning of July until almost the end of August, is a summer oasis combining for its thousands of visitors vacations and rest with Art and Culture.
All the major events will take place in the Amphitheater of Siviri, while dozens of other parallel actions (visual interventions, happenings, artistic events, etc.) will unfold in all the local apartments of the municipality of Kassandra so that they can be watched and participated for free, as every year, by thousands residents and visitors of Halkidiki.
Fourka, Agia Marina Festival
Period: July 17
Feast in the village square with traditional music and dance. An organization of the Fourkas Cultural Association.
Sani, Sani Festival
Period: July – August
The artistic events started in 1991 simply out of passion and love for Art with a group painting exhibition, while in 1992 the events were enriched with the organization of the 1st ‘Jazz on the Hill’, a three-day event dedicated to jazz music.
Since 1993, all the events that take place in the area of Sani Beach Holiday Resort in Kassandra, Halkidiki, have taken the name “Sani Festival”. This is how the course of this festival began, which year after year expanded the program by including more and more types of Art, always with the criteria of high quality and innovation in the field. The starting point of all these actions is the perception of the organizers that Tourism must be combined with culture, giving foreign visitors the opportunity to get to know the various types of authentic Greek art as well as alternative entertainment solutions for Greeks and non-Greeks.
In recent years, top Greek and foreign artists have charmed an audience, often exceeding 3,500 people, in concerts and exhibitions that left an era. Part of these events – mainly the musicians and dancers – take place on the Hill of Sani. It is a verdant promontory at the top of which dominates the Tower of Sani, a medieval watchtower between the 14th and 15th centuries. In such an environment where the sea, the sky and the greenery coexist harmoniously, all those conditions are created that are able to stimulate the senses, to give strength to the listening of art, to the visual enjoyment, leaving both the artists and viewers traces of “mystagogy” that allows them to rise above the ordinary and trivial.
The rest of the events, mostly visual, take place at Sani Art Gallery, an elegant space in Sani’s Marina mall.
Today the Sani Festival takes place from the beginning of July and ends by the middle of September.
Nea Moudania, Sea Festival
Period: July – August
The top cultural event of the Municipality is the “SEA FESTIVAL”, which monopolizes the nights of locals and visitors as there is the possibility to watch high-level theatrical performances and indulge in the musical evenings that flood the space, a space of 2000 seats , a breath away from the sea. The theater is embraced to the east by the peninsula of Kassandra, while in front of it unfolds the immensity of the Aegean Sea. On its western side, the unique sunset with Mount Olympus in the background. A space that justifiably holds the title of “FESTIVAL OF THE SEA”
Aphytos, Aphytos of Athytos
Period: July – August
It is a series of events that include visual arts, street art, traditional music and dance groups as well as classical and contemporary music
Vavdos, Ai-Lia Festival
Period: July 19-20
It takes place at an altitude of 1050 m. After the church service, the <economy> committee cooks a goat with barley in cauldrons which is distributed to the pilgrims with wine. There is a folk festival all day long with traditional music
Vrastama, Festival of Saints Anargyro
Period: July 1st
Distribution of traditional food and wine to the campers
Ormylia, Saint Apostles’ Festival
Period: June 28-30
Religious-traditional festival. Pilgrims are offered a traditional “qurbani”. There is a feast with traditional music
Arnea, Ten Days of Cultural Events
Period: last week of July
Display of traditional bands, music and dance. The festival of St. is included. Friday, where free food and wine are distributed
Nea Fokaia, Byzantine Tower
Period: July – August
