News 2004

The City of Arts and Sciences presents its offer of cultural and scientific activities at Expojove

From the 26th of December at Expojove, the City of Arts and Sciences is presenting its offer of cultural and scientific leisure activities as well as the various educational activities and workshops designed to teach children about the marine environment whilst having fun.

Exhibition of the secrets of 3D animation at the Science Museum

From today and until the 27th of February, the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum is hosting the interactive exhibition "ONIRIA: Dare to Dream", which reveals the secrets behind the animation of the second 3D film made by the Galician film company Dygra Films, "Sueño de una noche de San Juan".

"Los Martes de L´Oceanogràfic" aborda la biodiversidad mediterránea

La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias continúa mañana el ciclo "Los Martes de L´Oceanogràfic" con la conferencia "Los puntos calientes de la biodiversidad mediterránea" impartida por Daniel Cebrián, del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente y que se celebrará a partir de las 18.00 horas en el Auditorio del Mar Rojo. Las zonas de especial importancia biológica del Mediterráneo centrará la jornada mañana que incluye además la proyección previa de un documental.

El Museo de las Ciencias acoge una exposición de automóviles clásicos y antiguos

El director general de la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, José Manuel Aguilar, el presidente de la Asociación Valenciana de Caridad, Antonio Casanova Safont, el presidente del Club de Automóviles Antiguos de Valencia, Miguel Antequera y el director de la Fundación Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Rafael González, han presentado hoy en la Casa de Caridad la Exposición de Automóviles Antiguos y Clásicos que acogerá el Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe a partir de mañana 17 de diciembre y hasta el 2 de enero de 2005.

CAC holds its 4th Christmas Festival this weekend

On Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19th of December, the City of Arts and Sciences will be holding, for the fourth year running, its Christmas Festival, which includes a wide range of leisure activities from theatre, music and animation workshops to games, demonstrations of model shipbuilding, contests, street parades, storytelling and even an ice-skating rink. Four major shows will also be on: the ONCE blind association’s play “Eloísa is under an almond tree”, “Toy Opera” performed by the soloists of the Grupo Operístico de Madrid, “Change of plan” with the clowns Hula and Piojo, and “The Sea in your pocket”.

Winners of the 7th City of Arts and Sciences Christmas Drawing Competition

The drawing by 12 year old Meritxell Ahicart Centelles, a 1st year ESO student at Penyagolosa de Castellón secondary schools, won the 7th City of Arts and Sciences Christmas Drawing Competition. The contest received almost 1,400 entries from primary and secondary pupils from all over the Valencia region. The winning drawing will be used for the City of Arts and Sciences Christmas card.

Over 120,000 people visit the City of Arts and Sciences over the long holiday weekend

The City of Arts and Sciences received 122,775 visitors over the Immaculate Conception holiday, with Monday the 6th of December being the most popular day to visit, with 40,848 visitors, of which 23,866 went to the Museum, 13,063 to L’Oceanogràfic and 3,919 to L’Hemisfèric.

L´Oceanogràfic takes part in the 6th International Aquarium Congress

L´Oceanogràfic at the City of Arts and Sciences is taking part in the 6th International Aquarium Congress, which is being held from the 5th to the 10th of December at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, California. The congress brings together around 500 experts from the USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Kuwait, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, the UK, Holland, Japan, Australia and Switzerland, among others.

CAC devotes a lecture series to the sea, Tuesdays at L´Oceanogràfic

For 2004/2005, the City of Arts and Sciences has organised a series of lectures, “Tuesdays at L´Oceanogràfic" which will cover topics such as awareness-raising of the problems facing marine ecosystems and threats to the conservation of biological diversity.

The Science Museum offers a new interactive exhibition on memory

From today, the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum is holding an exhibition on “Memory”. It has been developed in collaboration with the San Francisco Exploratorium, the world’s leading interactive museum and an international landmark in museum content development. The Science Museum thus becomes the first European museum to co-produce exhibitions with the Exploratorium to be exchanged with other European museums. It is, then, the European branch of the most important interactive museum in the world.

A second dolphin is born at L\'Oceanogràfic in the City of Arts and Sciences

L´Oceanogràfic at the City of Arts and Sciences has a new bottlenose dolphin, born at the Dolphin House, specifically the pool specially designated for breeding and nursing, located next to the exhibition.

CAC presenta su oferta turística en Londres

The Príncipe Felipe Science Museum hosts an observation of the Moon

The Science Museum commemorates 50 years of CERN with a day of lectures and an exhibition

Manuel Toharia wins the Prisma Jury¿s Special Prize for Knowledge Dissemination

Over 90,000 people visited the CAC over the long weekend

The City of Arts and Sciences holds the 5th Graphic Design Competition for Young People

The Príncipe Felipe Science Museum hosts Observatori 2004

Now in its fifth year, Observatori 2004 brings together the work of over 200 international artists and theoreticians from different creative fields, including Tortoise, Maurice Fulton, Toño Merinero, Tarwater, Francisco López, Brooks, Avelino Sala, Eugenio Ampudia, John Cage, Mona Hatoum, Organic Audio, Coco Fusco, Jordi Mollá and Toshiya Tsunoda. They will be meeting from the 8th to the 10th of October at the Príncipe Felipe Science Museu. Observatori 2004 is a forum for music, net-art, design, the plastic arts, performance arts, installation and video art. This year the theme of the event is “Cultures in migration”. It targets audiences, artists and creators and aims to provide a place for meeting and thinking. Observatori 2004 is, then, a platform for action which, under the name Art in Projects includes a total of 10 separate projects conceived and organised by artists who in turn invite other artists to take part in the development and realisation of their own projects. In this way Observatori 2004 acts as a generator of independent proposals based on collective intervention. In this 5th edition, Observatori will be looking into the archives of the Colectivo OVNI (Observatory of Unidentified Video), to rescue the best visual pieces by Yasmine Kassari, Luis Valdovino, Alex Muñoz, Zhor Riel, etc; and the most powerful installations of CoolCreation (Frank Planet, Barbara Held, Iñigo Bilbao, Marchesi, and Joseph Bofill among others) Delegates will also look at the best video performances in history (John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Coco Fusco, Mona Hatoum, etc); take an in-depth look at graphic design with the exhibition Renewed Energies by exhibition organisers Javier and Pablo Iglesias (AXT, Kanardo, OnClick, Nacho Gallego, Aníbal de la Fuente, Cubemen, Doma, Inocuo,...); explore its attraction to the hand-made and computer-generated net-art of the Area 3 group; without forgetting the electronic music which will again have a strong presence in this festival: Tortoise, Francisco López, Mattin & Taku Unami, Organic Audio, Ready Made, Charles Webster, Pepe Bradock,.. One of the most significant proposals this year is the MIGRA section with the collaboration of "Valencia Acoge". MIGRA presents a range of work on the subject of emigration: a whole variety of values, interests and views that define it as one of the key elements in contemporary culture. Notions such as the other, collective identities, acculturation, borders, economic exploitation, external paradise, the journey, etc., are concentrated here and take on human and symbolic dimensions. . Observatori Nocturn has moved to LeClub, and with its two stages, once again becomes the musical catalyst that brings the latest dance sounds up to the surface. From the highly personal sound of Maurice Fulton to the urban dub of F-On, via the dark bleep of Charles Webster.

CAC becomes one big open classroom for the school community

CAC participates in Barcelona Meeting Point 200427/09/2004