The Alpha Bank has always shown its interest in Art and Culture in practice, participating actively in our country's cultural life. In 2006 it sponsored the "Great Orchestras-Great Conductors" Cycle (organised by the Athens Concert Hall, January-April 2006), and the opera "Cozi Fan Tutte" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall (November 2006). In addition, the Bank sponsored the theatre "Topos Allou" for the October 2005-May 2006 season (with the side-benefit of free entry to the shows for Bank personnel)
Alpha Bank, Alpha Bank Ltd. and the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation sponsored the exhibition "The Theft of History" in the context of the European Union's Culture 2000 programme, which aims at preserving and disseminating the European Culture Heritage. The exhibition was organised in collaboration with the Ministy of Culture, the Cypriot Department of Antiquities, Cambridge University, and the University of the Aegean, and was displayed in Nicosia (Archaelogical Museum of Cyprus), in Athens (Benakis Museum), and in Nemea (Archaelogical Museum of Nemea).
We also participated in the "Business Panorama of Central Greece" exhibition (Larissa, May 11-16, and in the "2nd Business Panorama of Thessaloniki's West Quarter" exhibition (Thessaloniki, April 1-9) as sponsors.
Exhibitions
In the context of its activities in the field of culture and art, and desiring to bring the public closer to its collections of works of art and coins, Alpha Bank decided to establish permanent exhibition premises. Thus, after the renovation and the regular operation of the Banknote Museum in Corfu, the Bank obtained similar premises in Nafplio. The inauguration of the Bank's building in Nafplio was also the occasion for opening an exhibition of engravings by artists from the Peloponnesus, and an exhibition from the Bank's Numismatic Collection, entitled "Coins of the Peloponnesus"
During 2006 the Numismatics Collection also organised the exhibitions "History of Coins-Cyprus" in Nicosia and "History of Coins-Thessaly" in Volos.
In Thessaloniki a plastic arts exhibition, "The Alpha Bank Collection-Greek Art from 1920 to today", was organised in collaboration with the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, and presented 180 important works.
On the occasion of the "Poseidonia 2006", the exhibition "New and Modern Works from the Alpha Bank Collection" opened on May 31, 2006 at the Goulandris Museum of Natural History.
