Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

David Guetta Rocks F1 at Ágora, Valencia
F1 Rocks tour kicks off the Formula 1 season with a lineup led by David Guetta.
The platinum-selling Grammy winner will play Valencia’s Ágora on Friday June 24 ahead of the European Grand Prix on Sunday.
With three albums on his own recording label among other best selling and multi-platinum tracks for artists like Madonna, Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez and Snoop Dogg, the French DJ superstar become one of the most important record producers in the world.
His quirky Electro House vibrant dirty pop has secured his future with many collaborations including the Black Eyed Peas “I’ve Gotta [...]

Sponge Bob and his friends arrive at the Oceanographic aquarium on December 22 to January 9!
Come and see Bikini Bottom in all its seaweed glory. Plus, from December 24 to January 6 you can meet  Sponge Bob himself at the Oceanographic!
The whole area is amazingly constructed under water. This underwater aquarium holds 45,000 aquatic creatures of 500 species. These include invertebrates, reptiles, birds and fish. Visitors can see the deadly sharks swimming inches away from the protective glass panels. Penguins, sea lions, dolphins, beluga whales, walruses and many more aquatic species move freely in this gigantic aquarium. No aquarium would be complete without [...]

Until 10th October, the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia will be hosting Fashion Art, an exhibition that aims to analyse the cultural interaction and aesthetic references between the visual arts and fashion design.
The exhibition brings together a collection of over 40 hand-painted dresses that blend fashion and design with the visual arts. Fashion Art, located in the Calle Mayor section of the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, is arriving in Europe for the first time, having travelled to several Latin American cities such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago de Chile, among others.
Artists from Latin America and Spain have used fabrics [...]

Oktoberfest 2010 – A celebration of beer is inspired by the mythical Oktoberfest that is celebrated every year in Munich (Germany).
The first Oktoberfest was celebrated between the 12th and 17th of October in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of prince Luis I to the princess Teresa de Saxony Altenburg.
After the success of the first celebration it was continued year after year, moving to the end of September to take advantage of better weather. This celebration attracts more than 6 million visitors who come from a large extent from countries like Italy, the USA, Japan, Australia and Spain and as well as Africa and [...]

Teatro de la Electricidad is at the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe in Valencia until the 13-11-2010.
In front of an auditorium with an audience of fifty or so and on a stage that simulates the laboratory of a scientist/inventor, a scientific entertainer is attempting to improve their understanding of concepts related to physical phenomena that produce electricity.
Bells that ring without touching them, candles that go out with a metallic wand without the need to blow, jumping rings, electric arcs that cross space, or neon tubes that light up on touching their ends are some of the experiences that will literally make your [...]

The Parpalló Room in Valencia is currently exhibiting “La Grande Fête #1″ by Han Hoogerbrugge.
In La Grande Fête, an interactive installation, Hoogerbrugge portrays the obsessions of contemporary man. To do so, he assembles several characters who represent a large part of the members of the human race that do not want to face up to a social reality full of uncertainties.
So, running away from the anguish this produces, they decide to create their own reality (their own festival). Characters that find evasion in compulsively consuming food, fetishes, violence, etc. and that are plunging either towards destruction or divine revelation.
La Grande Fête has [...]

Pléyade Kerasmos, dos culturas, dos maestros y su Legado is currently showing at the Museo de Cerámica de Valencia.
The exhibition Pleiad Keramos retakes east the everlasting dialogue of direct form from the contact between two groups of artists who express themselves with the ceramic material with which they own and form a common bond between two consecrated teachers, one in the West with Enric Mestre, another one in East with Yasuno Hayashi, who were friendly for many years.
Dates: 23-07-2010 – 26-09-2010
Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Saturdays: 10h to 14h and 16h to 20h.
Festivals and Sundays: 10h to 14h.
Closed: Mondays
Prices:
3 [...]

The Parpalló Room in Valencia is currently exhibiting Augmented Sculpture de Pablo Valbuena.
Augmented Sculpture is an installation that reflects on the temporary quality of the space and its constant transformation. In this  computer science culpture, Pablo Valbuena raises two levels that explore different aspects from the spatio-temporal reality.
The first level consists of a physical volume that controls the real space and serves as support for the second level, that consists of a virtual layer of projected light to control the transformation and sequencing of the piece. The assembly of both levels brings about the impression of a physical geometry that it can [...]

Company, design and innovation are united this summer at the Cultural Bancaja in Valencia with a proposal that offers the public the lifeline of companies.
Valencia: Design and Innovation, organized by the Bancaja Foundation with the collaboration of the Group of Investigation and Management of Diseño (IGD) of the Polytechnical University of Valencia, shows the visitor the different values from innovation, through design, that have helped 17 company leaders.
Alvento/Zed, Antares, Banak, Bancaja, Boreal, DAS, Emuca, Etra, Fermax, Gamesa, Gandía Blasco, Logopost, Mercadona, Micuna, Porcelanosa, Punt Mobles and Siliken, are the protagonists of this exhibition that allows you to encounter some  of the designs and [...]

The exhibition, organized by the MuVIM and Mediterranean Caja, concentrates on the futuristic movement and its influence on the Italian publicity of the time.
One of the more interesting movements is that of vanguard, that was developed between the first and second decade of century XX in Italy.
There are more than 80 works, among which there is emphasis on posters of great format, sculptures, books, manifestos, publications and other graphical work, collages and drawings of the most representative authors of this movement (Alberto Bianchi, Aldo Mazza, Alfredo Cavadini, Antonio Maraini, Car it Bompiani, Car it Carrà, Federico Seneca, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fortunato Depero, [...]