the Asturias, Serrat and Gabilondo medal and the Magnum photographic exhibition

Final sprint for Oviedo. Leonor faces her big date with the Princess of Asturias Awards, which this year she will present for the first time as an adult. It is the tenth edition as honorary president of the foundation that bears her name. A position he assumed when his father, Felipe VI, was proclaimed King. These axes form the backbone of this year’s ceremony, which will be held at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo on Friday, October 25. Among the winners, Joan Manuel Serrat, in the Arts; Carolina Marín, in Sports; and the poet, narrator and essayist Ana Blandiana, in Letters. These are the news.

As we saw in Zaragoza, Princess Leonor will be named honorary mayor of Oviedo and will receive the Asturias medal. There will be two distinctions that he will receive in the capital of the Principality on Thursday the 24th within the framework of the awards that bear his name. A week later, on the 31st, midshipman Borbón Ortiz will turn 19 years old. He will blow out candles with his colleagues from the Marín Naval Military School.

Following the aforementioned script, the Princess of Asturias Foundation has promoted an edition, this 44th, that wants to bring the awards closer to citizens. Instead of organizing the traditional Awards Week, a great cultural and educational program has been established, which starts on October 12. The singer Carmen Linares and the dancer and choreographer María Pagés, both award-winning, will be in charge of opening the events with the screening of the documentary Carmen and Maria. Two paths and one lookproduced by the foundation. The piece has been shown at the I Granada Flamenco Film Festival, the Seville Flamenco Biennial and the Mediterranean Flamenco Festival.

The winners are scheduled to begin arriving in Oviedo on Monday, October 21. The most anticipated appointment, Joan Manuel Serrat. The Catalan singer-songwriter, author of immortal songs like Mediterranean y Your name tastes like grass to me, will talk with the journalist Iñaki Gabilondo about his life and professional career in a meeting titled Supporter of living. It will be on Wednesday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m., at the Jovellanos Theater in Gijón. They have already warned us, there will be no Serrat concert. The musician, who when he received the jury’s decision, thanked “for having so generously valued” his merits and thanked “all those who on this occasion and on previous occasions proposed adding my name to the list of winners for this award.” His award has come to him, and unanimously by the jury, at the proposal of Antonio Gutiérrez, former general secretary of the Workers’ Commissions.

Another very notable event, the photographic exhibition Spain x Magnumin collaboration with the agency Magnum Photos, Princess of Asturias Award for Concord. An unprecedented exhibition that offers a vision of Spain throughout the 20th century. 112 works printed on various media and in different sizes by 46 of the agency’s photographers, including two of its founding partners, Robert Capa and David Seymour. It can be visited between October 14 and 26 at the La Vega Weapons Factory, in Oviedo.

The Campoamor, whose stage was recently remodeled, offers 1,300 seats. Among the guests are the highest powers of the State, including the autonomous Government of the Principality.