Promoted by Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV) and the Institució Cívica i de Pensament Joan Fuster (IJF), in 2006 it opened in the heart of Valencia The Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània (OCCC), a firm commitment to the revival of culture and society throughout our country from a national perspective and progress. Located in the emblematic building known as “The Siglo“, of former department stores, the initiative faced a double objective: to become a living element of culture, as a headquarters for entities and as a center of activities, while recovering for citizens a building with recognized historical, artistic and social relevance. It is an ambitious project, but it is these types of proposals that, after all, mark an era, and it depends on all of them to make them possible.
Valencia had several theaters or houses of farces since the sixteenth century, but the Teatro Principal was the first built according to the modern conception of the term. It was designed by the Italian architect Fontana in 1775, although its construction did not begin until the early nineteenth century, leaving the works paralyzed due to the French invasion, to finally be inaugurated in 1831. The building was then three stories high, and later a fourth floor was added by raising the roof by cats, without disarming it. The current façade dates from 1854 and is the work of José Camaña. The interior, decorated in the Rococo style, was frescoed by Camarón.
Interior of the theatre
In the nineteenth century the theater was one of the favorite shows of the Valencian society, which came to the Principal to see and be seen, especially the wealthy families, comfortably installed in their boxes. In the late nineteenth century the annual line-up included theater performances, music concerts, opera, operettas and zarzuelas, and the popular masquerade ball at carnival.
Capacity: 1.226 seats.
The Rialto theater-cinema located in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento of the city of Valencia was built in 1939 on the initiative of the González Galindo family, with a project by the architect Cayetano Borso di Carminati. The project responds to the rationalist style, although with “Art-deco” influences.
In the subsequent rehabilitation, a room was enabled for the film projections of the Filmoteca de la Generalitat, a small room for theatrical performances, a Music-hall in the basement and the Rialto Theater that gives its name to the building.
The institution was created on March 23, 1879 to “meet the cultural needs and training, in their profession, of trade employees”. In its 139 years of life, it has established itself as one of the reference institutions of Valencian civil society, in cultural, commercial and leisure matters.
As a result of the intense activity it has carried out throughout its history, it has always shown its commitment to well-being and solidarity with people. The proximity to his surroundings allowed him to receive the Gold Medal of the city of the Excmo. Valencia City Council in 1960. In addition, it was declared an Entity of Public Utility by the Council of Ministers of Spain in 1970 and the Municipal Board of the Ciutat Vella granted it its maximum recognition for the social work carried out with citizens in 2014, as well as the Gold Medal for Merit in Work.
It has two rooms located in the city of Valencia, both the Petxina Room and the Cabanyal Room.
They are small theatres converted into Puppet Museums. Over time, we have covered the shelves and runners with our craftsmanship and the characters of our productions, so that the experience of going to a real theater is even more captivating.
This is the most central room, the proximity to the bed of the Turia River makes it special, public transport offers a multitude of possibilities to get here, but remember, it is not an easy parking area, so we recommend that you take it into account when coming.
The Olympia Theatre It was inaugurated on November 10, 1915, it was built on the site of the old Convent of San Gregorio, by the architect Vicente Rodríguez Martín (1875-1933), with The Barber of Seville performing the best companies of the moment (María Guerrero, Enrique Borrás and Catalina Bárcena, Enrique Rambal, the pianist Arthur Rubinstein).
After more than fifty years dedicated to cinema, in 1984 he recovered for the stage. Olympia Metropolitana S.A. is the owner of the Teatro Olympia de Valencia.
Since its beginnings in 1993 in the Benimaclet neighborhood, where they consolidated themselves as a theatrical group, today continue to grow as an exciting project, wanting to continue offering a quality artistic work, where authors such as Beckett, Ionesco, Chejov, Pinter, Pessoa, Passolini, Valle-Inclan, Angelica Lidell… who have accompanied us during these years, continue to guide them in this new adventure, leaving space and time to new languages that understand art beyond the spectacular.
They aim to reach a young but at the same time mature spectator, a neighborhood committed to culture and an individual sensitive to art. The social as prevalence and the spiritual as you hold.
Las Naves is a public entity that depends on the Valencia City Council and that promotes urban innovation with a clear commitment to people, putting it at the center of innovative action.
One of her areas of work is culture, through the Connecta Cultura network, supporting the Creative and Cultural Industries (video games, animation, illustration, publishing, design, etc.), and with the priority of working for inclusive culture from innovation.
The emblematic Flumen was opened in 1958 as a continuous session movie theater. Later it became an Art and Rehearsal Room, and its last stage was as a popular summer terrace.
In 2007 it ceased its activity definitively, until it was recovered and renovated in 2010. A fine-tuning with a reform of the theater and the introduction of varied contents in which any stage proposal of small and large format is covered, from monologues to musicals, family shows, concerts …
OFF Performing Arts has extensive experience in training professionals and in the production and exhibition of theatrical and audiovisual works, committed to the culture and society of its environment. OFF has an equipped theater, its own professional theater company and audiovisual production company.
Sala Russafa was born in 2011, in the heart of the Ruzafa neighborhood, a neighborhood of deep-rooted cultural habits that had not had a theater for more than thirty years, of the more than 10 that it housed until the decade of the ’70s of the last century. After three years of works, a new Performing Arts Hall was built where years ago there was a company of spare parts of industrial machinery parts, returning to this area of Valencia the opportunity to see and enjoy again the theatrical scene.
The Theater of our Cultural Center in its current layout has a capacity for 178 people (175 seats and three spaces for functional diversity), in which pieces aimed at family, adult or school audiences are programmed within different cycles, accommodating classical and contemporary theater.
It has two rooms located in the city of Valencia, both the Petxina Room and the Cabanyal Room.
They are small theatres converted into Puppet Museums. Over time, we have covered the shelves and runners with our craftsmanship and the characters of our productions, so that the experience of going to a real theater is even more captivating.
-Capacity: 150 spectators.
-It has a small puppet museum in the hall of the theater.
-Bathrooms adapted for people with disabilities.
