Announcement
30 October 2024
After hosting the world’s bears and many other sexy creatures in Athens during the last three years for "Bearly Athens: a bear week extravaganza," we have taken the difficult decision to indefinitely suspend the festival due to sponsorship and staffing issues.
We would like to thank all the performers, artists, attendees, venues and organisations that supported us, and shared the Bearly Athens vision with us. We remain one single community and we shall fondly reminisce all the moments of queer joy that we shared together! We hope and dream that we may, sometime in the future, return.
Thank you for 3 years of BEARLY good times. This is truly an UNBEARABLE farewell.
With love,
Matt + Nikolas
Bearly Athens: a bear week extravaganza was an annual summer gathering of bears and all other sexy creatures in Athens, Greece with only one goal in mind: to have fun!
Bearly Athens: a bear week extravaganza was very different bear gathering than most other such events in that it was an all-inclusive social gathering that offered a huge variety of daytime and nighttime activities and events around our city - with lots of food, drinks and events included in the ticket.
We launched in 2022 and since then we hosted guests from 27 countries and experienced Athens like never before.
After offering "Bearly Athens: a bear week extravaganza" for three years, we decided in October 2024 to permanently suspend the festival in order to better address sponsorship and staffing issues.
We dream and hope that sometime in the future, we will be able to return.