Programme of cultural events marking the presentation of the 2022 Princess of Asturias Awards

8:00pm. Flamenco performance: “Paraíso de los negros”.

Featuring María Pagés, joint 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, this production by the María Pagés Choreography Centre comprises a flamenco choreography based on the essence of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York and the novel of the same name by Carl Van Vechten.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Niemeyer Centre Auditorium. Avilés.
• Duration: 75 minutes.

4:00pm. Opening of “LaFPAbrica. Awards Factory”.

Visiting times for the permanent installations are from 11:00am to 2:00pm and from 4:00pm to 9:00pm on Saturdays, Sunday and Friday 28th. On the remaining days, visiting times will be from 4:00pm to 9:00pm. To gain entry, you must first register on the Princess of Asturias Foundation’s website (www.fpa.es).

Art installation and exhibition: “Proteins” and “Neural. Applications of Artificial intelligence”.

This space shows some of the applications of artificial intelligence from an artistic and informative point of view.

• The “Proteins” installation pays tribute to the achievement of AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence program created by DeepMind, the company founded by Demis Hassabis, which has managed to predict the ‘folding’ of the approximate two hundred million proteins known to science.
• “Neural. Applications of Artificial Intelligence” contains several spaces showing different applications of artificial intelligence (AI): an audiovisual explanatory extension of Alphafold’s achievement and a space that delves into the creation of images via AI.
• The installation entitled “Future You”, created by the British studio Universal Everything, allows visitors to experiment with their potential and synthetic “I”. Beginning as a primitive form, the figure learns from the movements of the person who ‘mirrors’ in order to adapt, suggesting an agile and superior version of that person. This interactive motion-capture artwork evolves, creating a new visual response for each visitor, and is capable of generating 47 000 possible variations.
• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Commercial Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

“Architecture for Emergency Situations”.

Shigeru Ban has devoted much of his work to emergency architecture with the aim of offering people affected by a disaster a decent place to take refuge. In this installation, the structure of paper tubes characteristic of Ban’s work serves as a support for an exhibition on his social projects.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Hallway of the Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

“Circular Economy FabLab”.

A space devoted to innovation focussing on progress towards a circular economy promoted by Ellen MacArthur and the foundation that bears her name. Based on the idea of creating systems designed from the start to be sustainable, the space will include information and examples of the creation of new biodegradable materials from waste, the development of bioplastics and the use of Nature as a source of wisdom and inspiration. In addition, the space will also host workshops related to the production of biomaterials.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

“The Mystery of the Mexica Temple”.

An art installation comprising 3D paintings, created by the British studio 3D Joe and Max, which pays homage to the Mexica universe and the archaeological work of laureate Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. On Sunday 23rd October, it will serve as the final station of the event entitled “The Mystery of the Mexica Temple. An archaeo-illogical treasure hunt”.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Arts and Crafts building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

Film cycle.

“Heartbeats of Freedom. Cycle of Polish films”. The figure of Adam Michnik will be one of the main themes of the Awards Week film cycle. Four Polish films, curated by the AVA Arts Foundation, aim to explain the historical and social context of the Central European country in recent decades, a time in which the journalistic and humanistic work of the Laureate has served as an intellectual reference. Failing the confirmation of new additions, the following films will be screened: Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski), Endless (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Adam Michnik. Be realistic, ask for the impossible (Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz) and Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda).

The cycle will be completed with screenings of films focussing on other themes related to the Laureates, such as AI and the situation of refugees. The following films will be screened: Astro Boy (David Bowers), WALL-E (Andrew Stanton), Her (Spike Jonze), The Swimmers (Sally El Hosaini) and 2021: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick).

All the films will be screened in their original version with Spanish subtitles, except for the two animated films, whose screenings will be in Spanish.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99.

Exhibition: "Taking the Floor cultural programme for schools"

A selection of drawings relating to the work of Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann Lecun and Demis Hassabis made by students who participated in the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme for schools in the Principality of Asturias.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Yard. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

8:00pm. Theatrical performance and concert: Concierto fatal de la viuda Kolakowski.

The performance of Concierto fatal de la viuda Kolakowski, one of the short plays included in the book Teatro para minutos [Theatre for a Few Minutes] by Juan Mayorga, will serve as a prologue for a concert in which the Princess of Asturias Foundation Choir will perform pieces whose essence and spirit are linked to the founding values of Europe.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Workshops building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 519. Duration: 60 minutes.

8:00pm. “Heartbeats of Freedom. Cycle of Polish films”. Cold War.

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, this Polish film presents a passionate love story between two people of different origins and incompatible temperaments. It was nominated for Best Director, Cinematography and Foreign Film at the 2018 Academy Awards.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99.

9:00pm Concert: “Freestyle with the Algorithm”.

Some of the best rappers on the international scene (Gazir, Sara Socas, Mnak and DJ Verse) will take the stage to participate in an improvisation battle against a computer via different applications that employ AI.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 700. Duration: 60 minutes.

Teatro para minutes.

The performance of a selection of short plays written by Juan Mayorga, from his book entitled Teatro para minutos [Theatre for a Few Minutes]. The audience will be invited to tour the Arms Factory in search of some unusual places where these plays will be performed, on an evening packed with theatre to discover. The following plays will be performed: BRGS, La mano izquierda, Método Le Brun para la felicidad, Entre los árboles and Herencia.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Building M-1, Shooting Gallery, Workshop building, basement of the Workshop building and Cannons building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Several sessions: 9:15pm, 9:30pm, 9:45pm and two groups at 10:00pm.
• Maximum audience: 250 (50 per group). Duration: 2 hours in all.

Several sessions “This is How I Make Packaging Disappear. Circular Economy FabLab”.

Notpla, the company that manufactures packaging with biomaterials made from seaweed, will teach participants how to face the challenge of making different types of packaging disappear and will explain how it is innovating in the creation of biodegradable materials precisely for this use.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Several sessions: 11:30am and 5:30pm.
• Maximum no. of participants: 35. Duration: 45 minutes.

Several sessions. Workshop: “Shelters, Basic Architectures”.

A model building workshop for children and families using recycled materials and imparted by Chiquitectos. The most basic architectures are those that serve as protection and shelter. Shigeru Ban’s constructions and his imaginative, sustainable, low-cost solutions for emergency situations will be taken as a starting point.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Hallway of the Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Several sessions: 11:00am, 12 noon and 1:00pm.
• Maximum no. of participants: 40. Duration: 30 minutes.

12 noon. Talk/Workshop: “Flamenco: From Roots to Palos”.

Flamenco guitarist Emilio Ribera and flamenco singer David Hernández will offer a journey through the history and the most representative palos or styles of flamenco, performing some pieces live.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Workshops building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum no. of participants: 200. Duration: 60 minutes.

12 noon. Film: Astro Boy.

Osamu Tezuka is one of the great names in Japanese manga. He created the character of Astro Boy, a powerful boy-like android, in the early 1950s. Brimming with action and fun, this film adaptation is capable of captivating audiences of all ages.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99.

1:00pm. Concert by the Ecoembes Recycling Music Orchestra.

The Ecoembes Recycling Music Orchestra is a social project that aims to help minors at risk of social exclusion and raise awareness of the need to move towards sustainable development. Conducted by Víctor Gil, a group made up of more than twenty performers will play a repertoire for a family audience. Common instruments in symphony orchestras come together with others built from recycled elements.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 514. Duration: 60 minutes.

7:00pm “Heartbeats of Freedom. Cycle of Polish films”. Endless.

General Wojciech Jaruzelski, supreme leader of the Communist Party, governs Poland under martial law in the midst of the Cold War, with Solidarity, the illegal trade union founded in the Gdansk shipyards, being especially subjected to repression.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99. Duration: 109 minutes.

8:00pm. Theatre: El chico de la última fila.

A performance of one of Juan Mayorga’s most celebrated plays. In the author’s own words, “El chico de la última fila [The Boy in the Last Row] is a play about teachers and pupils; about parents and children; about people who have already seen too much and people who are learning to watch. A play about the pleasure of stealing a look into the lives of others and about the risks of confusing life and literature.” The theatre company Redrum Teatro will stage the play.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Workshops building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 519. Duration: 100 minutes.

9:00pm Concert: “pAIno”.

Artificial intelligence is mixed with the live coding (music generated via algorithms) by the artist Iván Paz and the sounds of the analogue piano by César Latorre to create a sound experience that transcends the definition of a concert and becomes a kind of conversation between different musical languages. The show will also feature live visuals by Mexican scientist Julia Múgica and illustrator and musician Roger Pibernat.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 514. Duration: 60 minutes.

Several sessions. Teatro para minutes.

The performance of a selection of short plays written by Juan Mayorga, from his book entitled Teatro para minutos [Theatre for a Few Minutes]. The audience will be invited to tour the Arms Factory in search of some unusual places where these plays will be performed, on an evening packed with theatre to discover. The following plays are to be performed: Concierto fatal de la viuda Kolakowski, La mujer de mi vida, Una carta de Sarajevo, Tres anillos and Quiero ser enjambre.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Building M-1, Shooting Gallery, Workshop building, basement of the Workshop building and Cannons building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Several sessions: 9:15pm, 9:30pm, 9:45pm, 10:00pm and 10:25pm.
• Maximum audience: 250 (50 per group). Duration: 2 hours in all.

“The Mystery of the Mexica Temple. An archaeo-illogical treasure hunt”.

This treasure hunt comprises several tests based on a series of strange, historically-misplaced objects that begin to appear in different archaeological digs in Oviedo. A veteran archaeologist has a very outlandish theory that no one wants to believe. You will require the help and audacity of the participants to reveal the secret hidden in the bowels of the city.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Starting point: Fine Arts Museum of Asturias, in the Palacio de Velarde.
• Various sections: 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm and 1:30pm.
• Maximum no. of participants: 120 per section. Duration: 60 minutes per section.

12 noon Social activity: “Traditional Olympic Games”.

Sport as a way of understanding and knowledge of local tradition, fundamental in the integration of displaced people, come together in a day of rapprochement of cultures. Asturian Olympic athletes will lead the Olympic Teams made up of minors, some of whom are refugees residing in Asturias, who will compete in a friendly way on a circuit made up of four traditional Asturian games: skittles, la llave, rope tug of war and stick tug of war.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Yard. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo. If it rains, the competition will take place in the Cannons building.
• Maximum no. of participants: 60 (a total of 100 invited students will take part). Duration: 90 minutes.

12 noon Film: WALL-E.

A wonderful adventure that takes us to a devastated Planet Earth on which a small robot conscientiously carries out cleaning and recycling tasks. A chance encounter with a modern explorer robot will radically change its existence. One of the best films of the century to date, poetic, universal and beautiful.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum no. of participants: 99.

7:00pm “Heartbeats of Freedom. Cycle of Polish films”. Man of Marble.

Set in 1976, a young film student in Krakow investigates the life of a worker named Birkut, a proletarian figure from the 1950s.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99.

8:00pm. Theatre: La lengua en pedazos.

Juan Mayorga won Spain’s National Prize for Dramatic Literature in 2013 with this play that reflects the dialectical and moral battle between Saint Teresa of Jesus and the inquisitor Salazar in the kitchens of the Convent of San José. The theatre company Redrum Teatro will stage the play.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Workshops building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 519. Duration: 80 minutes.

7:30pm. “Occupied by Words”: Juan Mayorga meets with book clubs linked to public libraries.

A meeting between the 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature and book clubs linked to public libraries in Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria and Castile and León. These clubs have read the following books by the author, among others: La lengua en pedazos, El chico de la última fila, Silencio and El Golem. The participants have held various work meetings in which they have come up with a number of reflections that will be transferred to the Laureate during his conversation with Professor Emilio Peral from the Complutense University, Madrid.

• Admission by invitation only.

• Accessible event: sign language and audio induction loop system.

• Laboral Theatre. Gijón.

• Maximum audience: 1200.
• Duration: 75 minutes.

8:00pm. Film: Her.

The original script for this film won an Oscar. A lonely man undergoing both a personal and professional crisis begins a peculiar relationship with the artificial intelligence of a sophisticated operating system, captivated by the device’s beautiful female voice.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99.
• Duration: 126 minutes.

11:30am. Taking the Floor: “Full Stop with Juan Mayorga”.

The Laureate will meet with 3rd- and 4th-year secondary and pre-university students who participated in the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme activity. The event includes the representation by a group of actors of a selection of plays created by the students as a result of some first lines provided by Mayorga himself.

• Admission by invitation only.
• Workshops building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Duration: 75 minutes.

11:30am. Taking the Floor: “Archaeologists of the Present”, with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.

The Laureate will meet secondary students who participated in the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme activity. The students had to respond to a challenge posed by the Laureate: in the supposed event that they form part of an archaeological team in the year 7022 that finds traces of contemporary culture, they had to imagine what pieces they would find and what information the findings could shed on our current way of life, among other questions. Subsequently, the participants had to transform a space in their school into a museum which, in that imagined future, would exhibit the most representative objects of our civilization. Among other features, the museum had to have a minimum of four sections of the same name as those of the Museum of the Templo Mayor.

• Admission by invitation only.

• CEl Pilar Colegio de la Sacrada Familia school. Pola de Lena.

• Duration: 60 minutes.

11:30am. Taking the Floor: “Linares and Pagés in Tempo”.

A meeting with 4th-, 5th- and 6th-year primary and 1st- and 2nd-year secondary students who participated in the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme activity. In the case of primary schoolchildren, the activity consisted in practising different flamenco palos or styles and their subsequent capture on video. For the groups of secondary pupils, the proposal was to design the front and back covers of an album by Carmen Linares and the poster for one of María Pagés’ flamenco dance shows.

• Admission by invitation only.

• School pending confirmation.

• Duration: 60 minutes.

12:00 noon. "Workshop with Future Journalists", with Adam Michnik.

The Laureate will meet with secondary and pre-university students from a selection of schools that have a school radio or newspaper. Those students who form part of the editorial teams at their school will prepare questions to pass on to Michnik during an event which will have the format of a press conference.

• Admission by invitation only.
• IES Roces secondary school. Gijón.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

6:00pm. “How to Be Juan Mayorga”: Juan Mayorga meets with students of the Principality of Asturias School of Dramatic Art.

The Asturias School of Dramatic Art will host an event in which its students and the Laureate will take part in a dynamic meeting, divided into various acts, with teaching, the transmission of knowledge and love of theatre as the backdrop. The event will be structured around theatrical quotes taken from interviews with Juan Mayorga alongside questions and answers about his plays and his biography.

• Admission by invitation only.

• Asturias School of Dramatic Art. Gijón.

• Maximum audience: 100.
• Duration: 45 minutes.

7:00pm. “Word”: Carmen Linares and María Pagés meet with the public.

The two joint Laureates will hold a meeting with the public, chaired by journalist Antonio Lucas, member of the Jury for the Award, in which they will review their careers and their vision of the art of flamenco.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Accessible event: Spanish sign language.
• Jovellanos Theatre. Gijón.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

7:30pm. “Archaeological Stories”, with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.

A meeting with the public, chaired by María Antonia Pedregal, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Asturias. The Laureate will give a twenty-minute presentation on the findings of the Templo Mayor and other archaeological discoveries, followed by a brief tour of the museum.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Accessible event: sign language.

• Archaeological Museum of Asturias. Oviedo.

• Maximum audience: 80.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

8:00pm. Theatrical performance and concert: Concierto fatal de la viuda Kolakowski.

The performance of Concierto fatal de la viuda Kolakowski, one of the short plays included in the book Teatro para minutos [Theatre for Minutes] by Juan Mayorga, will serve as a prologue for a concert in which the Princess of Asturias Foundation Choir will perform pieces whose essence and spirit are connected with the founding values of Europe.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Workshops building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 519.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

8:00pm. “Heartbeats of Freedom. Cycle of Polish films”: Adam Michnik. Be realistic, ask for the impossible.

A documentary on Adam Michnik. An opposition legend during his political career and founder of the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, Michnik was one of those responsible for Poland’s political transformation. Particularly interesting motifs for the Spanish public appear on this film about the Laureate, such as his visit to the Prado Museum and his reflections on the democratic transition in Spain.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es

• Pendiente de clasificación por edades.

• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99.
• Duration: 96 minutes.

12:00 noon. Taking the Floor: “Machines that Think and Learn”, with Yann Lecun and Demis Hassabis.

A meeting with primary schoolchildren who participated in the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme activity. Via illustrative drawings, the pupils interpreted the underlying concepts of AI, which imitates human thought and its learning processes, as well as its applications in everyday life in techniques such as image and voice recognition, and assistance in medical diagnosis, among others. In the exercise, they were also asked to imagine a possible use of AI that contributes to achieving one of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• Admission by invitation only.

• Yard. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

• Duration: 60 minutes.

12:00 noon. “Journey to Tenochtitlan. A meeting with Humanities students”.

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma meets with Humanities students and will give a talk reviewing the history of his main discoveries and the characteristics of his archaeological work. Following the event, a working lunch will be held with the participation of the Laureate and different lecturers and archaeologists from the university in the Fuentes en Asturias Cafeteria, in Oviedo.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es

• Faculty of Humanities. University of Oviedo.

• Duration: 75 minutes.

12:00 noon. “The New Frontiers of Global Journalism”: a round table and meeting between Adam Michnik and journalists.

The Laureate will converse with journalist Carlos Franganillo about the current state of journalism and the challenges facing information in our society. The event will feature the participation of media professionals and journalism students from various faculties in Spain. After the meeting, there will be a lunch with journalists.

• Admission by invitation only.

• Principality of Asturias Regional Parliament.

• Maximum audience: 50.
• Duration: 75 minutes.

6:30pm. The Olympic Refuge Foundation and Refugee Olympic Team meet with the public.

Several athletes who are members of the Refugee Olympic Team will hold a meeting with the public in which they will talk about the institutions granted the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports. The athletes will share their personal stories and experiences. This will be followed by a short Q&A session with the public. Patricia García, former captain of the Spanish rugby team and member of the Jury that conferred the Award, will act as chair for the meeting.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es

• Las Mestas Sports Complex. Gijón.

• Maximum audience: 150.
• Duration: 75 minutes.

7:30pm. Industry meeting with Ellen MacArthur.

A conversation between the Laureate and representatives of companies, institutions and public bodies committed to the paradigm shift in the production model towards a circular economy, mainly focused on reducing the use of plastics in order to help care for the environment and sustainable development.

• Admission by invitation only.

• EDP headquarters. Oviedo.

• Duration: 60 minutes.

7:30pm. “Do Machines Dream of Intelligent Humans?”.

Yann Lecun and Demis Hassabis will present their ground-breaking work and advances in AI to the public. Irene Díaz, head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oviedo, will act as chair for the meeting.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 584.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

8:00pm. “Unpublished Mayorga”.

Juan Mayorga will give an annotated reading on an unpublished text, with explanations about writing and dramatic representation.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Palacio Valdés Theater. Avilés.
• Duration: 120 minutes.

8:00pm. Film. The Swimmers.

This powerful film, which portrays a true story, follows the journey of two refugee women fleeing the war in Syria. They seek out a new life in Europe and fight to fulfil their dream of being able to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es

• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

• Maximum audience: 99.
• Duration: 134 minutes.

11:30am. Taking the Floor: “Embraced by Sport”, with the Olympic Refuge Foundation and Refugee Olympic Team.

Representatives of the Foundation and athletes from the Refugee Olympic Team will meet with secondary students who participated in the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme activity for schools. The proposal included two tasks with the aim of making the harsh reality of refugees more visible. Under the heading “My Story”, students were asked to prepare a storyboard based on the life and professional career of one of the scholarship athletes opting to be selected for the team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. As part of the activity called “My Suitcase”, participants were invited to pack the symbolic luggage of a chosen athlete for the trip that he or she will undertake from their host country to Paris. The suitcase was to be made from recycled materials. The activity could be carried out in Spanish or English.

• Admission by invitation only.

• IES Victor Garcia de la Concha secondary school. Villaviciosa.

• Duration: 60 minutes.

11:30am. Taking the Floor: “Make It Circular”, with Ellen MacArthur.

A meeting between the Laureate and secondary and pre-university students who participated in this “Taking the Floor” cultural programme activity for schools. The proposal to the students was based on finding alternative solutions to plastic packaging, as well as for the distribution of products and their transformation into circular economy goods. The activity could be carried out in Spanish or English.

• Admission by invitation only.

• Waste Treatment Centre for Asturias. COGERSA Road, Serin. Gijón.

• Duration: 60 minutes.

12:00 noon. “¡Europe, Europe!”: Adam Michnik meets with Humanities students.

Adam Michnik will meet with students from various university disciplines, mainly Philosophy and History, to discuss humanism and Europe in a time of crisis. The meeting will be chaired by Armando Menéndez Viso, PhD and senior lecturer at the University of Oviedo.

• Admission by invitation only.

• Faculty of Humanities. University of Oviedo. Oviedo.

• Duration: 75 minutes.

12:30pm. Yann Lecun and Demis Hassabis meet with students.

The joint 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureates for Technical and Scientific Research will meet with students from the University of Oviedo’s School of Computer Engineering.

• Admission by invitation only.

• School of Computer Engineering, University of Oviedo. Los Catalanes Campus. Oviedo.

• Duration: 75 minutes.

1:30pm. Ellen MacArthur visits the Circular Economy FabLab.

The Laureate will visit a space devoted to innovation focussing on progress towards a circular economy.

• Not open to the public.

• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

7:30pm. 30th Princess of Asturias Awards Concert: A flamenco performance by Carmen Linares and María Pagés “Carmen and María. Two paths, but one gaze”.

The joint Laureates will share the stage again twenty-five years after their last performance together to honour some of the most representative voices of Spanish poetry through a dialogue between cante and baile (flamenco singing and dance). Carmen Linares and María Pagés will interpret various flamenco subgenres such as tonás, bulerías, fandangos and tangos, among others. Through this art form, they will integrate popular songs and poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Miguel Hernández, Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Jaime Gil de Biedma and El Arbi El Harti.

• Admission by invitation only.

• Prince Felipe Auditorium. Oviedo.

• Maximum audience: 1500.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

8:00pm. Film/concert: “Metrópolis (featuring. AI)”.

Almost one hundred years after its premiere, the machines of the world imagined in Fritz Lang’s classic return in the form of AI to create their own soundtrack with the help of pianist and composer César Latorre and pianist Verónica R. Galán. Both have used artificial intelligence as a support tool for the composition of the music that will accompany the film and will also use it to perform it live.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Duration: 153 minutes.

Several sessions. Teatro para minutes.

The performance of a selection of short plays written by Juan Mayorga, from his book entitled Teatro para minutos [Theatre for a Few Minutes]. The audience will be invited to tour the Arms Factory in search of some unusual places where these plays will be performed, on an evening packed with theatre to discover, with an almost clandestine air, that will mean they will even have to use a flashlight. The following plays will be performed: BRGS, La mano izquierda, Método Le Brun para la felicidad, Entre los árboles and Herencia.

Puesta en escena: Luis Alija. Intérpretes: César Alonso, Katia Borlado, Enrique Dueñas, Mayra Fernández, Sergio Gayol, Diego Lombardia, Hugo Manso, Xana del Mar, Paula Mata, Ángel Héctor Sánchez y Fran Sariego.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es

• Building M-1, Shooting Gallery, Workshop building, basement of the Workshop building and Cannons building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.

• Several sessions: 9:15pm, 9:30pm, 9:45pm and two groups at 10:00pm.
• Maximum audience: 250 (50 per group).
• Duration: 90 minutes.

09:30am. “An Exemplary Team”, with the Olympic Refuge Foundation and Refugee Olympic Team.

Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, and athletes who are members of the Refugee Olympic Team will meet with the Asturian educational community.

• Admission by invitation only.
• IES La Ería. Oviedo.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

09:30am. Taking the Floor: “Paper Fortresses”, with Shigeru Ban.

The 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Concord will meet with 3rd- and 4th-year secondary and pre-university students who participated in the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme activity. Based on the sustainable materials used by Ban in his constructions, the students had to conceive a building, space, element or useful object for the community and set out the description of their idea in the form of a report. This consisted of a physical or virtual model accompanied by a text with the details of the project, which had to be sustainable in terms of waste generation, energy consumption or recycling. The activity could be carried out in Spanish or English.

• Admission by invitation only.
• Auseva School. Oviedo.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

11:30am. Visit to hórreos (Asturian granaries). Shigeru Ban.

The Laureate will make a visit to learn about these typical Asturian constructions accompanied by a number of experts in the field.

• Admission by invitation only.
• Güeñu/Bueño (2012 Exemplary Town of Asturias Award). Ribera de Arriba. Time pending confirmation.

1:00pm. “The Role of the Architect”: Shigeru Ban meets with the public.

Shigeru Ban will converse with Martha Thorne, Dean of the IE School of Architecture and Design, in which they will review the architect’s main interventions to provide emergency shelters and temporary housing in extreme and devastating situations mainly caused by natural disasters.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Duration: 60 minutes.

7:00pm. Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Visually overwhelming, with an outstanding design and photography, this Kubrick film broke new ground in the science fiction genre, marking a before and after in film history. More than 40 years after its premiere, the viewing of this adventure continues to be absorbing, enigmatic and revealing in equal parts.

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Foundry building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 99.
• Duration: 149 minutes.

8:00pm. “Carmen Linares. 40 years of flamenco”.

This concert includes a repertoire that has raised Linares to the status of a legend of the art of flamenco, including her anthology of cantes sung by women, Federico García Lorca’s songbook and her tributes to Enrique Morente, Mercedes Sosa and Paco de Lucía (2004 Prince of Asturias Laureate for the Arts).

• Prior registration at: www.fpa.es
• Warehouse building. La Vega Arms Factory. Oviedo.
• Maximum audience: 514.
• Duration: 60 minutes.