The Gil Vicente Theatre, currently known as Associação de Socorros Mútuos Artística Vimaranense (Mutual Aid and Artistic Association of Guimarães, or ASMAV), is a historic building at the Gil Vicente Street, in Guimarães, Portugal.

[3] The legal dispute between the tenants and owners over who owned the rights to the use of the Gil Vicente Theatre, on 25 July 1935, led to the temporary closure of the only cinema/theatre in the city (at the time), a situation that lasted for the next 18 months.

[4] Meanwhile, the cinemaphiles of Guimarães had to satiate their love for cinema in other places, outside the city.

In the early 2000s the ASMAV, after a decline in membership and notability between the 1960s and 1990s that resulted in a shortage of funds and the deterioration of the building, finally restored the asset.

[3] It currently functions both as a retail space and an event venue, hosting activities such as concerts,[5] theatrical pieces,[6] movie screenings,[7] political rallies and debates,[8][9] and the annual Rhetoric Tournament of the Martins Sarmento High School.