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| 9 | 10 - Donna and the Dynamos live! Concert | 11 - Opening event of the Murakami on the Shore programme. | 12 - Dance Dance Dance. Concert. | 13 - Permanent installations of the Murakami on the Shore programme | 14 - A Philosophical Dialogue on the Concept of Usefulness. Dialogues on Uselessness | 15 - The Need for Poetry. Dialogues on Uselessness |
| 16 - Arrival of Haruki Murakami | 17 - Press conference by Bonnie L. Bassler and Peter Greenberg | 18 - Press conference on behalf of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative | 19 - The official reception for Mary's Meals | 20 - Eliud Kipchoge meets with teachers and students | 21 - The presentation of the 2023 Exemplary Town of Asturias Award | 22 |
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Opening of the permanent installations of the FPABRICA
Date and time: Thursday, 12 October 2023. 11:00AM h.
Place: La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
Visiting times to the permanent installations will be from 11:00am to 2:00pm and 4:00pm to 9:00pm on Thursday 12th, Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th and Friday 20th October. The remaining days, visiting times will be from 4:00pm to 9:00pm.
Opening of the permanent installations of the FPABRICA.
The La Vega Arms Factory in Oviedo will once again this year be one of the venues for the “Awards Week” activities. From 12th to 20th October, the programme of events that will take place in its streets and buildings includes concerts of various musical genres, science/art installations, film screenings, spoken storytelling and workshops related to the world of acting, among other proposals
Visiting times to the permanent installations will be from 11:00am to 2:00pm and 4:00pm to 9:00pm on Thursday 12th, Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th and Friday 20th October. The remaining days, visiting times will be from 4:00pm to 9:00pm. To enter the factory, you must register in advance on the Princess of Asturias Foundation’s website (http://www.fpa.es/en). Admission to some of the activities may be restricted if there is a clash with other events.
QUORUM. Art installation.
Bonnie L. Bassler and Peter Greenberg, joint 2023 Princess of Asturias Laureates for Technical and Scientific Research, have stood out for their work in the understanding and analysis of ‘quorum sensing’, a type of bacterial communication that allows some species of these microorganisms to come together to develop specific biological capabilities that they do not possess separately. One of these abilities is bioluminescence, observed in the natural world, which has been of great importance in the Laureates’ study of this language.
QUORUM is an artistic installation that, using the bacteria Vibrio harveyi (the same one that Bonnie L. Bassler works with) as a kind of oil painting, offers a symbolic explanation of this bacterial communication system, creating links between science and art.
- Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
- Dates: 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th and 20th October.
- La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
Meryl Streep Spaces.
Through various elements located in different spaces in the Arms Factory, the visitor will be able to review an outstanding part of Meryl Streep’s filmography: a light aircraft like the one with which Karen Blixen flies over the savannah in one of the most memorable scenes of the unforgettable film Out of Africa and a camp where you can tell stories around the fire; a Chevrolet Apache model truck, like the one in The Bridges of Madison County in which Francesca, her character, realizes that certain givens only come around once in a lifetime; and the iconic shoe from the movie poster for The Devil Wears Prada.
- Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
- La Vega Arms Factory. Various spaces. Oviedo.
Run Like Kipchoge.
20.91 km/h was the average speed of Eliud Kipchoge, 2023 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Sports, at the 2022 Berlin Marathon, where he set the world record for this race at 2 hours, 1 minute and 9 seconds. Would you be able to sustain that running speed? For how long? A large treadmill will allow visitors to put their athletic abilities to the test and experience the sporting ability of the 2023 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Sports Award first-hand, in an activity aimed at family audiences.
- Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
- de La Vega Arms Factory. Cannons building. Oviedo.
Jazz Kissa. Art installation and events space.
Recreation of a place inspired by the Japanese jazz kissas format, where jazz classics abound on the shelves. In his youth, Haruki Murakami ran a jazz bar of this kind, the ‘Peter Cat’. According to the author himself, “concerts were scheduled, drinks and simple meals were served.” What’s more, he wrote his first novels there.
- Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
- La Vega Arms Factory. Foundry building. Oviedo.
Mary's Meals Shed. Exhibition space.
Mary’s Meals, organización galardonada con el Premio Princesa de Asturias de la Concordia 2023, the organization granted the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, began its activity in a shed located in the village of Dalmally (Scotland), which continues to be its base of operations today. A recreation of that emblematic place can be visited at the Oviedo Arms Factory and will serve as an exhibition space to inform visitors of the organization’s history and achievements.
- Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
- La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
School of Arts without Crafts. A “useless” space in tribute to Nuccio Ordine.
Both in his profession as a teacher and his writings and talks, 2023 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities Nuccio Ordine defended the value of education as a necessary means to form free, ethical citizens with the capacity for critical thinking. Counter to the utilitarian conception of education, Ordine instead advocated curiositas as a principle that should guide the desire to know, as well as the need to abandon haste and dedicate unhurried time to reflection.
In this space, visitors will be invited to abandon hyperconnection for a while, forget their mobile phone and listen carefully and calmly to some of Nuccio Ordine’s own reflections on the topics to which he –as he himself put it–dedicated his life: “education, literature, art and love of the common good”.
- Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
- From 12th to 20th October.
- La Vega Arms Factory. Arts and Crafts Building. Oviedo.
Exhibition: “Taking the Floor” cultural programme for schools.
An exhibition of projects by primary school children who have participated in “The Secret Life of Microbes”, an activity forming part of the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme for schools in the Principality of Asturias aimed at making better known to the public the contributions to the knowledge of the human microbiota (the set of microorganisms that live in our body) and their essential role in health, in whose study Jeffrey Gordon has been a pioneer, and the communication mechanisms between bacteria, revealed by Peter Greenberg and Bonnie L. Bassler. The pupils have interpreted the information on these topics, adapted for them in an educational support, through illustrative drawings.
- Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
- La Vega Arms Factory. Yard. Oviedo.
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