Andros continues to light up our nights.

Eleven summers. Eleven years at the Open-Air Theatre of Chora, in the same light, with the same emotion. Each time like the first one, but with greater maturity.

Andros has a way of keeping you close. Making you feel like a local even if you’re just a passer-by. Here, among the rocks and creeks, courtyards and dry-stone walls, life meets art.

Andros Festival became an occasion to look deeper at ourselves. It became a meeting place; with others, with our ideas, with time and our times.

Gratitude. To those who believed, worked, participated, shared. To what we have lived and what is yet to come. And, above all, to Andros itself, every year awaiting us like an old friend, as if not a day has passed.

Until we meet again. At the theatre; in the light; at August’s evening hang-out spot.

Pantelis Voulgaris
Artistic Director

It is with great joy and pride that I invite you to experience together a cultural summer in Andros. In summer 2025 Andros is transformed into a cultural open stage. Theatre, music, dance, visual art and traditional products breathe life into every corner of the island.

For the 11th year, Andros Festival is the highlight of this cultural summer; an institution that was established thanks to the work and dedication of its people.

The catalyst for this journey was the creation of Andros Open-air Theatre; a modern space that opened up new horizons for our island, giving us the opportunity to host distinguished artists and exceptional performances.

We are profoundly grateful to our compatriot Alkiviades Tattos, the inspirer of the Festival, for his vision and contribution. It is our great honour that renowned artist Pantelis Voulgaris serves as the Festival’s artistic director, every year raising the bar and confirming the close relationship of Andros with Art and Culture.

The Municipality of Andros contributes to this effort, wholeheartedly supporting the emergence of Andros as an island of culture.

Andros once more becomes an art hub for residents and visitors alike, thanks to the Festival from 26 th July to 23 rd August and a multitude of events around the island throughout
the summer.

We await you in Andros with great joy!

Theodosis I. Sousoudis
Mayor of Andros

The International Festival of Andros began in July 2015 and it has been successfully held every summer since then. The performances start in the last week of July and draw to a close toward the end of August.

Over the past four years, the festival has hosted great theatrical plays, Greek music concerts and classical concerts,while ithas also presented local groups, such as the Philharmonic Orchestra and theatrical and dance groups from Andros.

The Festival aims to present high-quality theatrical and dance performances, as well as great classical and jazz concerts. Every year, the theatrical plays constitute the main part of the Festival performances.

The open-air theatre of Andros is located in Chora, between the neoclassical City Hall (Voulgaris building) and the Lyceum. Its construction was inspired and mainly funded by Alkiviades Tattos, who comes from Andros.The theatre is built on an idyllic hillside which is protected from the wind and gives panoramic view of the south.

‘A theatre that looks like it has been there forever’; this was the original idea of the architects Kiriaki Kondylatou and Konstantinos Loukos, who undertook the implementation of this ambitious idea.

The open stage of the theatre reminds of the architecture of classical stages and is one of the most daring interventions in the public space of Andros.The construction works began in July 2014 in a plot of land ownedbythemunicipalityofAndros. The theatre has a seating capacity of 870 seats.

The International Festival of Andros is organised by the Non-profit Company ‘Friends of the Festival of Andros’ under the auspices of the municipality of Andros.

Artistic director: Pantelis Voulgaris

Production director: Anastasia Kavallari

Lighting designer & supervisor: Yiannis Vollelis

Sound system designer &audio supervisor: Thodoris Papanikolaou

Assistant sound engineer: Zisis Tona

Media relations manager: Anzelika Kapsabeli

Photography: Maria Lambriadou

Social Media: Anna Voulgari

Graphic designer: kiss my art

Production: KAΡΤ

Editing of the english text: Niki Karagianni

Program layout: John Stamatopoulos

Anniversary logo design: Dimitris Tzikopoulos

Video promo: Vangelis Loukisas

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