Latest Activities
Year 2010
The Tempest success in Aviles
From 26 to 28 of August 2010
The Bridge Project, directed by Sam Mendes, closed a successful world tour in Avilés. More than 2000 people attended the first theatrical production of the Niemeyer Center, which swept down from its first performance and repeated full house the other two days.
The Tempest, performed in English with supertitles, did not leave indifferent to an audience that enjoyedenjoyed the world of intrigue, fascination and mystery that only William Shakespeare knows how to transmit.
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Concert of Paco de Lucía
27 July 2010
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Meeting Sam Mendes
26 July 2010
The English film director Sam Mendes took part in an event open to the public introduced by Inocencio Arias, former Spanish consul in Los Angeles and a great cinema expert.
During one and a half hours, Sam Mendes reviewed his professional career and assured to “feel more comfortable doing theatre than films” and also pointed that “people think that after being awarded an Oscar, one does not feel like shooting low-budget films, just big productions, and this is not completely true”.
By the end of the event, the public could ask questions to the guest.
This meeting with Sam Mendes, who manages The Bridge Project, the company which will be in Aviles on 26th , 27th y 28th of August to perform The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, is part of the...
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12 July 2010
On July 12th Hicham El Guerrouj, the Olympic champion and world record holder, took part in the first sports event to be organised by the Niemeyer Centre.
The athlete opened the act in Plaza de España, and greeted and talked to those young sportsmen who were present. After stretching, he began to run a race across Aviles, across Galiana, Parque de Ferrera and Rivero.
Once the race was over, El Guerrouj participated in an event open to the public, and he was interviewed by the journalist Carmen Menéndez and the athletics coach Juanjo Azpeitia. During the last part of the event, the young sportsmen could ask questions to the athlete.
El Guerrouj recalled how important sports were for society as well as the power of its values. He asked parents to enco...
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María Pagés, flamenco and poetry at the Niemeyer Center
23 April 2010
María Pagés, flamenco and poetry at the Niemeyer Center
The flamenco dancer María Pagés perfomerd on April 23 at the Palacio Valdés Theater.
The Niemeyer Center continues to develop its pre-inaugural program. The flamenco singer and choreographer María Pagés offered her show “Flamenco y poesía” (Flamenco and Poetry). This was the first activity related to dance organized by the Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Center and it took place a week after the visit of Kevin Spacey.
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Theatre
Meeting with Kevin Spacey at Palacio Valdés Theatre
15 April 2010
Kevin Spacey returned to Avilés a year after his first visit, and he came to do what he likes most: talking about theatre and explaining to those starting in this world where the secret of its magic is. The actor appeared on the stage of Palacio Valdés Theatre to share some time with young theatre students from all Asturias. During over an hour, Kevin Spacey answered various questions.
In a contagious good mood, he confessed that he keeps the Oscar received in 1996 next to the mixer, that Jack Lemonn predicted a promising future for him as an actor and that his preferences regarding actors and actresses have changed over the years. There was time for imitations (Morgan Freeman, Jack Lemonn and Michael Caine) and also to show his commitment with the youngest theatre...
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Year 2009
Exhibition
Niemeyer Centre celebrated the architect’s 102nd birthday with a photography exhibition by Gorka Lejarcegi
From 15 to 23 of December 2009
The exhibition was opened from December 15th to 23rd at Palacio de Valdecarzana. It displayed pictures taken by the photographer while visiting in 2008.
The 15th December, the Niemeyer Center opened the Oscar Niemeyer photography exhibition by Gorka Lejarcegi. It displayed 26 pictures selected by the author. It summarized the photographer’s stay in Rio de Janeiro in October 2008 while working on an article about Oscar Niemeyer. In total, nearly 1,000 people came to the exhibition.
The photographies displayed a day in the life of Oscar Niemeyer, as well ...
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Alejandro Amenábar, master class at the Niemeyer Center
29 September 2009
Cinema director Alejandro Amenábar offered last Tuesday September 29 a cinema master class at Palacio Valdés Theater of Avilés. This event, organized by Niemeyer Center and Canal +, was opened to the public and recorded and broadcasted later on Taller Canal +. Antonio Muñoz de Mesa lead the meeting, allowing the public the opportunity to ask questions to the interviewee. Furthermore, they talked about the director career and his new production Ágora.
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Joan Manuel Serrat, at the Niemeyer Center
14 June 2009
Joan Manuel Serrat acted, as a guest of the Niemeyer Center, at the Palacio Valdés Theatre in Avilés. The concert took place on Sunday, the 14th June, from 20.15 pm onwards and it's providing a setting for the 100 x 100 Serrat Tour.
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Omar Sharif, at Niemeyer Center
From 12 to 16 of June 2009
Avilés will hosted the full première of his latest film
Omar Sharif, on screen protagonist of major cinema classics such as Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, and one of the great legends of the golden age of Hollywood, was in Avilés on June 16th as the focus of an intense cultural day at the Niemeyer Center.
The actor participated in a public event, ...
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Barbara Hendricks, musical matinée at the Niemeyer Center
22 March 2009
After the visit of Wim Wenders and Carlos Saura to Avilés, the US singer Barbara Hendricks was at the Niemeyer Center for the first classical music concert, following the Enrique Morente and Amancio Prada concerts. Classical music will be one of the referents, once the center is inaugurated.
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Saura and Wim Wenders, two geniuses in front of the screen
From 05 to 08 of March 2009
While Carlos Saura valued "the virtues of watching a film in solitude, with few people around", Wim Wenders, obliged by experience, said not to feel comfortable with solitude: "once, I went to San Francisco where they were continuously showing three of my films. There were many people for the first one, nearly half for the second and I was completely alone for the third. I went up...
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Year 2008
Amancio Prada in concert
28 November 2008
Just over a year after its inauguration, the Niemeyer Center continued to schedule activities with the objective of attracting talent to Asturias. On this occasion, it was a musical affair starring a exceptional guest: the singer-songwriter, Amancio Prada.
The singer-songwriter from León, Amancio Prada, offered a concert on 28th November. Under the title "The Life of an Artist" and with songs by Léo Ferré, Prada covered the works of one of the most important figures of French music. Prada presented his album in Avilés two days prior to releasing it in Paris.
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Conference
Fatema Mernissi gives a conference on Love, Islam and New Technologies
27 June 2008
Fatema Mernissi, historian, writer, doctor in sociology and professor in the Mohammed V University of Rabat, is one of the most renowned intellects of Morocco and is especially known for defending women’s rights in addition to being a world authority on Koranic studies. She is currently studying the influence of new communication technologies on the birth of civil society in the Arabic world. "Love in the Islam of the Digital Era" was the topic of her conference in Avilés.
Fatema Mernissi, 2003 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.
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Literature
Paulo Coelho celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Alchemist
From 29 to 30 of May 2008
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Theatre
Kevin Spacey opens the doors of his Old Vic to the Niemeyer Center
From 01 to 30 of April 2008
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Year 2007
Music
Enrique Morente, the Niemeyer Center’s First Christmas Concert
09 December 2007
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Cinema
World Premiere Woody Allen’s of Cassandra’s Dream
18 May 2007
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Exposition
100x100 Niemeyer
From 01 to 30 of April 2007
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Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer
Teatro Palacio Valdés, Calle Armando Palacio Valdés 3
33402 Avilés (Principado de Asturias) Spain
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