Princess of Asturias Awards 2024

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General programme for the visit of TM the King and Queen of Spain, TRH the Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía, on the occasion of the 2024 Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony

THURSDAY 24TH OCTOBER

12 noon. Appointment of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias as Honorary Mayor of Oviedo.

Place: Oviedo City Hall.

1:00pm. Bestowal of the Medal of Asturias on Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias.

Place: Library, University of Oviedo Historic Building.


7:30pm. The 32nd Princess of Asturias Awards Concert, presided over by Their Majesties The King and Queen of Spain, with the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía.

Organized by the Princess of Asturias Foundation in collaboration with the Cajastur Liberbank Foundation, the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra (OSPA) will perform the concert titled “Soundscapes of the Americas” together with the Foundation Choir. Conducted by Alondra de la Parra, the two ensembles will interpret the following programme with the participation of soloist Thomas Enhco: Three Dance Episodes (On the Town), by Leonard Bernstein (USA); Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin (USA); Chôros No. 10 “Rasga o Coração”, by Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil) and Maracatu de Chico-Rei, by Francisco Mignone (Brazil).


FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER

General audiences

“Salón de Consejos” reception room at the Reconquista Hotel

11:20am. University of Oviedo 2023 Extraordinary Degree Award Winners.

11:40am. 2024 Medal of Asturias holders, 2024 Favourite Son and Adopted Sons.
Princess of Asturias Awards Audience

“Salón Covadonga” reception room at the Reconquista Hotel

12:30pm. Audience of the chairs of the Juries, members of the Princess of Asturias and Foundation Boards of Trustees, Trustees Emeritus and the 2024 Princess of Asturias Laureates with Their Majesties The King and Queen of Spain and Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía.

6:30pm. The 2024 Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony, presided over by Their Majesties The King and Queen of Spain, with the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía of Spain.

Address by Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias.

Address by His Majesty The King.


SATURDAY 26TH OCTOBER

11:30am. Visit to Sotres (Cabrales) by Their Majesties The King and Queen of Spain and Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía for the bestowal of the 2024 Exemplary Town of Asturias Award.

Address by Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias.
Address by His Majesty The King.


https://www.fpa.es/en/are...asturias-awards-ceremony/

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Ana Blandiana, Michael Ignatieff and Joan Manuel Serrat are to give speeches at the 2024 Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony

Writer Ana Blandiana, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature, academic and essayist Michael Ignatieff, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences, and composer and singer Joan Manuel Serrat, Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, will be giving speeches at the forty-fourth Awards Ceremony.
To be held on 25th October at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony will be presided over by Their Majesties The King and Queen of Spain, with the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía of Spain. 
Simultaneous translation will be available throughout the entire theatre during the ceremony in four languages: English, French, Romanian and Spanish. The ceremony will be accessible to persons with hearing impairment by means of sign language interpretation at the Campoamor Theatre itself, as well as via the Foundation website. The theatre will also be provided with a hearing induction loop system.


LAUREATES

Joan Manuel Serrat, Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts; Carolina Marín, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Sports; Michael Ignatieff, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences; Ana Blandiana, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature; and Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Jens Juul Holst and Svetlana Mojsov, joint Princess of Asturias Laureates for Technical and Scientific Research, have already confirmed their attendance at the ceremony. Joel F. Habener, joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research, and Marjane Satrapi, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities, will not be attending the Awards Ceremony.

Magnum Photos, Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, will be represented at the ceremony by its current president, Cristina de Middel, accompanied by photographers and former presidents of the agency Thomas Dworzak (2017-2020) and Olivia Arthur (2020-2022).
On behalf of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, the ceremony will be attended by its Secretary General, Mariano Jabonero Blanco; Alexander Chaverri Carvajal (Costa Rica), first scholarship holder of the Paulo Freire academic mobility programme to obtain a PhD; María Isabel Pires Gomes Guerra (Portugal), head of the Bilingual and Intercultural Border Schools project; and Martín Lorenzo Demilio (Argentina), head of the OEI in Colombia.

https://www.fpa.es/en/are...d-michael-ignatieff-2024/

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Asturias honours its Princess today

Leonor will receive the Gold Medal of the Principality and will be named Honorary Mayor of Oviedo, in her first solo acts in the region

12:00 hours. Oviedo. Princess Leonor de Borbón receives the title of honorary mayor of Oviedo. City hall (Pza. de la Constitución).

13:00 hours. Oviedo. Leonor de Borbón is awarded the Gold Medal of Asturias. Historic Building of the University of Oviedo

13:35 hours. Oviedo. Signature of the Heiress in the Golden Book of the Principality of Asturias. Rectorate of the University of Oviedo.

19:30 hours. Oviedo. The King and Queen of Spain attend the 32nd Princess of Asturias Awards concert 'Soundscapes of America', accompanied by their daughters Doña Leonor and Infanta Sofía.

https://www.elcomercio.es...os-20241024213534-nt.html

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Live at 12.00

https://www.rtpa.es/tpa-television

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGWdYBZ8JIo

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Ana Blandiana is a poet very dear to me!

“We should be born old.
To come wise.
To be able to decide our destiny in the world.
To know what roads start from the primary crossroad.
And iresponsible to be only the longing for the journey.
And then to become younger and younger.
Marching, mature and strong, to get to the gate of creation.
To pass through it and, steping into love as teenagers,
To become children at the birth of our sons.
Anyway, they would be older than us by that time,
They would teach us how to talk,
They would rock us to sleep.
We would disappear more and more,
Becoming smaller and smaller.
As small as a grape, as small as a pea,
As small as a grain of wheat.”

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[Diogenes]

She has a very heavy and very visible security presence on this trip.  Any special reason or is this just the way it will be from now on?

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She has a very heavy and very visible security presence on this trip.  Any special reason or is this just the way it will be from now on?

It is normal for people to have a lot of security at mass events, especially if they have as much impact as the Awards.

Video

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The 32nd Princess of Asturias Awards Concert

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