The Celsius232 is a festival about fantasy, horror and science fiction in literature, film, TV series, video games and comics. For this seventh edition, AC/E supports the participation of Mariana Enríquez (Argentina), from Página / 12, and Keith Stuart (United Kingdom), from The Guardian.
The Celsius 232 ( = Fahrenheit 451) Festival is Spain’s main SF & Fantasy festival, happening each July in the centre of the lovely town of Avilés half way along the north coast of Spain. The dates for 2018 are Wednesday 11th July to Saturday 14th July. People go home on the Sunday—or alternatively stay on in Spain for tourism!
The centre of Avilés boasts arcaded stone streets from the 17th Century, a big square where an inflatable screen shows SF-related movies after dark, and numerous cafés and restaurants spilling on to the street where fans gather to gossip over beers, brilliant wines, ciders poured from a height, and giant gins. A circle of cabins houses book dealers, more of whom are in a marquee where smaller programme items happen, big items being in the adjacent cultural centre backed by a lovely park where sword fighters display. The Saturday afternoon sees an open air lunch at long tables for 300 people or so, tucking in to Asturian Bean Feast, otherwise known as the famous Fabada Asturiana, featuring pork and sausages amidst saucy beans. Indeed, Celsius is a convention which happens as much outside as inside, to encourage the local public to join in. Thus no memberships nor membership list nor tickets exist; all is open to everyone.
The Celsius 232 ( = Fahrenheit 451) Festival is Spain’s main SF & Fantasy festival, happening each July in the centre of the lovely town of Avilés half way along the north coast of Spain. The dates for 2018 are Wednesday 11th July to Saturday 14th July. People go home on the Sunday—or alternatively stay on in Spain for tourism!
The centre of Avilés boasts arcaded stone streets from the 17th Century, a big square where an inflatable screen shows SF-related movies after dark, and numerous cafés and restaurants spilling on to the street where fans gather to gossip over beers, brilliant wines, ciders poured from a height, and giant gins. A circle of cabins houses book dealers, more of whom are in a marquee where smaller programme items happen, big items being in the adjacent cultural centre backed by a lovely park where sword fighters display. The Saturday afternoon sees an open air lunch at long tables for 300 people or so, tucking in to Asturian Bean Feast, otherwise known as the famous Fabada Asturiana, featuring pork and sausages amidst saucy beans. Indeed, Celsius is a convention which happens as much outside as inside, to encourage the local public to join in. Thus no memberships nor membership list nor tickets exist; all is open to everyone.