Cultural activity is very wide, with particular emphasis on public education. Since 1981 there is a Volkshochschule with workshops and courses, as well as a network of community centers and libraries in every neighborhood. Of particular importance is the Ateneo Obrero de Gij n, a cultural entity with more than one hundred years of life, and the Old Instituto Jovellanos, in addition to the Ateneo de La Calzada.
Cultural activities are held throughout the year, increasing considerably during the summer months, especially in August for the festival of Begona (August 15), with festivals, music and theater, which complement the ongoing programming of the Teatro Municipal Jovellanos. Consolidated between events in the city are:
– Fair-FETEN European theater for children in February. – Salone del Libro Iberoamericano in May. – La Semana Negra, in July. – International Folk Festival, late July. – The International Film Festival of Gijon in late November.
Moreover, the city hosts a jazz festival, IWOSP Montana Salon del comic, Gospel Festival and the Christmas program in the country of Gijon puppets “to the public about child and adult world of puppets .
Centro Cultural Palacio de Revillagigedo for its part program during the fall and spring theater program (Thursday), music of the s. XX (Friday) and children’s theater (Saturday)
Besides, the port authority has for several years the program under the title “To see the Whale” street of the physical space around the marina.
Education at the University of Gijon is located within the multicultural space Laboral, City of Culture, the Center for Contemporary Art. Education in Univarsidad also located the Conservatorio Profesional de Musica de Gijon from the 2007-2008 academic year, previously was in the neighborhood of the game in the old headquarters of the Box. In this study conservatory 18 specialties, including the bagpipes from the academic year 2006/2007. The conservatory has a symphony orchestra, band, string orchestra, and the LittleBand Bigband, plus about 60 teachers and 600 students. In addition the premises has a drama in which classes of interpretation and dance and theater.
The program centers in their offices all types of shows, highlighting the appointment with the Jazz to be held at least once a month at the Old Institute “under the name” Jazz at the Center. ” Since 2007, the Center for Integrated Municipal Gij n-Sur Pumar n houses in spring, summer and winter, the performance of the newly founded Escolania of Gijon, a vocal promises.
The art program at the street filled the streets of the summer shows as diverse as classical music, folklore, theater, circus and cinema.
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Gijon is included in the international tours of the most diverse singers and groups, have passed by the village: Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Backstreet Boys, Ana Belen, Jane Birkin, Ruben Blades, Maria del Mar Bonet, David Bowie, Montserrat Caballe, Celia Cruz, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Cesaria Evora, Paco Ibanez, BB King, The Kinks, Alfredo Kraus, Lluis Llach, Les Luthiers, Mano Negra, Manu Chao, Paul McCartney, Georges Moustaki, Luciano Pavarotti, Prince, Quilapayun, The Rolling Stones, Joaquin Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat, Shakira, Mercedes Sosa, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Tina Turner, Chavela Vargas, Victor Manuel and Atahualpa Yupanqui, among many others.
The city also has Symphony Orchestra Gijon / OSGi and band music.
In recent years, Gijon city begins to be stopping for the Cirque du Soleil. Despite the small size of Gijon in comparison with the cities that normally stop the Circus, Gijon has earned its place among the great. The performances of Cirque du Soleil have been very successful in the city. In July 2004, Saltimbanco and arrived in the summer of 2007, presented at Gijon Alegria, the first time this tour, to the north of Spain. He earned great success, to bend tuviendo passes. The scheduled opening in 2009, Cirque du Soleil, Gijon again, this time with the show Varekai.
Jose Luis Garci tape at the beginning of the 1980s most of the footage back to start, then get a movie that Oscar from the Academy for Best Foreign Film. rich archaeological worth of ISrael At the beginning of the 1990s there was a rise of indie bands in the town was known as the Xixona Sound. Also comedy Mortadelo and Filemon has been recorded partly in the City of Culture Gijon, known as the University Education in the neighborhood of Cabue es. More recently, in 2006, the city hosting the filming of the movie in full Ulloa brothers, “modesty”.